Purpose Underpinned by the consumer-based model of authenticity (CBA), this study aims to investigate whether leisure involvement, object-based and existential authenticity, host sincerity engagement stimulate positive memorable visitor experiences in a distinctive commercial hospitality setting: living history site. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative data were gathered from site visitors...

Xenophobia is on the rise in Europe; and the ten million Muslims living there are often its targets. This paper contends that the fear and anxiety Westerners exhibit toward Muslims stem ultimately from a fear and anxiety regarding ourselves and our beliefs. I argue that the perceived standoff with Muslims causes us to doubt the sincerity and superiority of our own convictions. The latter are pr...

logist. By Charles Berg, M.D.(Lond.j, u.f.M. Macaulay Press. 8s. 6d. The practice of psychotherapy depends not only on knowledge. Its success, like that of the surgeon, depends on an experienced and practised technique. It is an artistic as well as a scientific procedure. Its various technical methods, whether analysis, persuasion, suggestion, abreaction, free association, and the like depend o...

Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) has existed for thousands of years; however, it was not medically utilized until investigations into its therapeutic use began in sincerity during the late 1970s and 1980s. This, coupled with the reclassification of spasmodic dysphonia as a focal dystonia, led to the use of chemodenervation for this disorder, which has since become a refined technique. Indeed, due to...

We examine links between factual recall, emotion and constructions of normativity in narrative accounts, using as an empirical case President Clinton's descriptions of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. We analyse those accounts in the sequences of talk in which they occurred, under Grand Jury cross-examination. Clinton's accounts of Lewinsky were part of how he attended to issues alive in ...

Intuitively, attitude markers like alas encode not-at-issue information about the speaker’s attitude towards the content of the sentence it occurs in (Frege, 1956; Vanderveken, 1990). Using attitude markers as a case study, I argue that there is in fact a difference between this type of content and canonical not-at-issue content, like that encoded in utterance modifiers like frankly or evidenti...