This article offers a critique of the self-observation social sciences practiced in philosophy and epistemological orientations. kind reflection involves curious construction wholes under labels, which are result process “distillation” or “abstraction” “position” somewhat removed from actual research practices concrete claims findings that researchers produce, share, debate. In this context, I ...

This paper examines the interaction of semantic factors of reflexivity in the availability of result type te-ir and te-ar constructions in Japanese. The semantic factors of reflexivity have been examined in a number of studies, and they are known to be of relevance to the te-ir construction of result interpretation as well as to the availability of the te-ar construction. It has not been made e...