This paper aims to analyse the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in scientific writing through use stance adverbs perhaps possibly. These act as markers authors’ presence expressing their views, a covert relationship between these authors corresponding readership. The material used for this study includes four sub-corpora Coruña Corpus English Scientific Writing: CETA (Corpus Texts...

Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as "world-involving," indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment is frequently left ill-described, however, and provides a challenge for such approaches, particularly, it is noted here, for the enactive approach which emphasizes this co...

This dissertation will elaborate on the understanding of intersubjective meaning making by analyzing the traces of collaborative knowledge construction users leave behind in socio-technical systems. Therefore, it will draw upon more theoretical and more formal models of cognitive psychology to describe and explain the underlying process in detail. This is done with the goal to support intersubj...

This paper compares a writer’s and a prosecutor’s description of a murder, both involving the integration of the discourse content with the communicative context. I suggest that this content-context blend is essential to the meaning and communicative effect of these discourses. This blend also seems fundamental to intersubjectivity skills such as empathy, ordinary understanding, and the use of ...

Working in the long historical shadow of what has been taken to be debates between quantitative and qualitative methods, Osatuke and Stiles (2011), Westerman (2011), and Yanchar (2011) seek to move beyond those debates and even the various détentes posed in mixed-methods research. Their projects can be assessed in terms of this seemingly permanent shadow and also within a broader framing of the...

Meme replication is described as a 4-stage process, consisting of assimilation, retention, expression and transmission. The effect of different objective, subjective, intersubjective and meme-centered selection criteria on these different stages is discussed.

This paper develops a vision of knowledge distinctively rooted in communication theory. We propose a conception of knowledge that, built on a view of communication as constitutive of organizational reality, transcends the opposition between cognitive and performative models of knowledge. We argue that meanings both emerge from interactions involving actors in context and shape those contexts in...

Intuitively, it seems that both sentences are of the form: it’s likely that x, where, in the first case, x = Georgia will join the E.U. and, in the second case, x = if Russia needs foreign aid, Georgia will join the E.U.. Understanding how these sentences get their meaning as a function of the meaning of both the embedding construction, it’s likely that . . . , and the embedded sentence, x, wou...

The principle challenge for information semantics lies in the degrees of freedom to interpret symbols in terms of thoughts and experiences which leads to incompatible views on the world. Consequently, incompatible information ontologies and interpretations of the described data will remain. Even though there is usually a common experiential ground, it stays often unknown to users of semanticall...