Now actually, I happen to agree with Harre's claims here wholeheartedly. As I shall argue, conversation is a kind of ultimate reality for us. We cannot turn it around to understand its nature in terms of any particular models, theories, rules, or conventions, for, unless we can discuss such entities conversationally, we have no way of justifying to each other that we are indeed applying them ar...

i n t ro d u c t i o n Over the past 20 years, so much has been written on genre, so many astute analyses have been undertaken, so many important theoretical observations have been made (see, e., that it is challenging now to say something new that needs to be said, especially in the context of a volume dedicated to genre studies. It has been widely agreed for some time now that genres are not ...

A quick consideration of the recent decade reveals the implosion of sociology. Several sociology departments have been merged with those from other disciplines, and as the number of undergraduate sociology majors has declined, some even have been eliminated. The discipline’s research openly assumes an ideological tone palatable to only the most liberal of scholars or ignorant of laymen. Clearly...

[59] Milman Parry’s work attempted to demonstrate the traditional character of Homeric poetry. Despite a later shift in focus from the concept of “traditional” to “oral” (Finnegan 1991: 120), with at least the implication of a relatively open system as opposed to a relatively closed one, Parry’s early emphasis on tradition was so strong that his theory tended to be read as one discounting, if n...

How do people evaluate the transformation of a local music scene under tourism? Using Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage theory, Manuel Castells’ identity theory and Erik Cohen’s authentication we build framework to judge authenticity Naxi in Lijiang, China, based on interviews, literature analysis performance analysis. The conclusions are as follows. First, there significant differences among three ...

This article applies the work of Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells to contemporary children and families’ social in England. Castells’ suggests that intractability many issues facing profession is result new type society emerged around turn millennium: network society. Within this society, interests values dominant networks are imposed upon those who selectively excluded. Several challenges f...

The paper presents a construction of the crossed product of a C-algebra by a commutative semigroup of bounded positive linear maps generated by partial isometries. In particular, it generalizes Antonevich, Bakhtin, Lebedev’s crossed product by an endomorphism, and is related to Exel’s interactions. One of the main goals is the Isomorphism Theorem established in the case of actions by endomorphi...