Analysing analytical minds. An interpersonal pragmatics approach to literary discourse

Literary Pragmatics JACOB L . MEY

An Analytical Approach to Persian Gulf Architecture

Rehabiliating Bushehr historic fabric and paying to it as an important urban fabric through increasing capabilities and facilities is main concern. Bushehr historical fabric can be the consequence of several factors the most important of which is the Persian Gulf and its past history as a national one. This fabric, is organic, dense, compact, having its own characteristics. One of its main prio...

Analysing Discourse. An Approach From the Sociology of Knowledge

The contribution outlines a research programme which I have coined the “sociology of knowledge approach to discourse” (Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse). This approach to discourse integrates important insights of FOUCAULT’s theory of discourse into the interpretative paradigm in the social sciences, especially the “German” approach of hermeneutic sociology of knowledge (Hermeneutische Wisse...

Analysing virtual organisation risk sources: an analytical network process approach

SMEs have to collaborate with other enterprises in a virtual organisation (VO) forms to cope with an increasingly dynamic and competitive environment. Despite the increased interest in the area of collaboration information is still lacking about the risk sources of VO. This paper aims to reinforce the proposal for an integrated methodology to classify, manage and assess network level risk sourc...

Reading minds: mentalization, irony and literary engagement.

The concept of 'mentalization' has recently provided a fertile resource for thinking about various issues in psychoanalysis, including attachment, children's play, personality disorders and the work of interpretation within the analytic setting. Mentalization also provides fruitful ways of thinking about how we read. This paper will suggest that book reading is akin to mind reading: engaging wi...