Unruly intonation

Unruly Subjects : Misbehaviour in the Workplace

There is little that more graphically indicates the normative character of much social science than its handling of misbehaviour. There is a great deal of evidence, particularly gathered from ethnographic research, indicating that misbehaviour at work is prevalent at all levels and amongst all types of employment (Fleming and Spicer, 2007). Research has revealed tendencies to misbehave – and es...

Intonation segments and segmental intonation

An acoustic analysis of a German dialogue corpus showed that the sound qualities and durations of fricatives, vocoids, and diphthongs at the ends of question and statement utterances varied systematically with the utterance-final intonation segments, which were high-rising in the questions and terminal-falling in the statements. The ways in which the variations relate to phenomena like sibilant...

Opening the Production Pipeline: Unruly Creators

This paper explores the implications and uptakes of game developers’ increasing reliance on the creative labour of fan content creators. It draws on an ethnographic account of Australian game developer Auran’s increasing reliance on train and rail fans in the process of developing Trainz: a train and railroad simulation. I argue that this is not simply a case of the exploitation of unknowing fa...

Reconstructing Unruly Ecological Complexity: Science, Interpretation, and Critical, Reflective Practice

Involvement in environmental issues in the 1970s led me, as it did many fellow activists, to study the science of ecology. Having a mathematical disposition, I chose to focus less on field studies and more on quantitative analysis and theoretical modeling. I soon developed an interest that continues to this day in the challenge that ecological complexity poses to conventional scientific ways of...

Opened Up in UNRULY COMPLEXITY ECOLOGY , INTERPRETATION , ENGAGEMENT