principles and methods of social education on habermas’s communicative action theory

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

Communicative versus Strategic Rationality: Habermas Theory of Communicative Action and the Social Brain

In the philosophical theory of communicative action, rationality refers to interpersonal communication rather than to a knowing subject. Thus, a social view of rationality is suggested. The theory differentiates between two kinds of rationality, the emancipative communicative and the strategic or instrumental reasoning. Using experimental designs in an fMRI setting, recent studies explored simi...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action and the Theory of Social Capital

Interprofessional Education Conference: Grounding Action in Theory

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Communicative Action as Bargaining: Utility, Relevance, Elementary Social Acts 1. Some Problems of Communicative Action Theories

I outline an approach to communicative action (CA). Its bases are (i) a bargaining game approach to Elementary Social Acts (ESAs) and (ii) a Decision-Theoretic Semantics (DTS) in which utility and, as a special case, evidential relevance play a central role. The act analysis is extended to a variety of act types. Examples of various kinds of`conventional' and`conversational' impli-cature illust...