The article aims at a revision of such terms as sentence, utterance, speech act, or communication event in view new research needs and broader understanding language involved complex process and, thus, considered tool for not only generating meanings but also conveying them interpersonal collaboration. From perspective, appears to be system one the tools symbolising intentional acts which serve...

Many standard definitions of ‘argument’ that recognise an ambiguity between its active and objective senses seek to subsume these in various ways into a single, composite whole. This, it is argued, glosses over the distinction instead exploiting elucidatory potential. Whilst optimistic about prospects theory integration, paper recommends methodology differentiation as first necessary step towar...

In this article, I outline findings from a photo-elicitation study of bisexual community event in the United Kingdom. Participants describe as taking place ‘a separate world’, ‘portable bubble’ reached by symbolic journey away everyday, within which they can recognise themselves present-tense subjects. These framings support theorisation BiCon heterotopic place-event where paradox subjectivity ...

recent developments and newly-discovered methods for infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization and third party reproduction raise many questions and challenges with different ethical, legal, sociological and psychological dimensions. in islamic countries, despite great developments in using this technology, the questions concerned with recognition of ivf methods and third party rep...

traditional social science often fails when deployed to explain complex human action. in each specific social field of human endeavour, including planning, experienced actors draw on a range of conscious and unconscious performative knowledges to act with effect: the experts simply ‘know’ what to do. some thinkers, suggests that to understand these complex human dispositions framing practice re...