Communication is not as smooth a process as current pragmatic theories depict it. In Rapaport’s words “We almost always fail [...]. Yet we almost always nearly succeed: This is the paradox of communication” (Rapaport 2003: 402). This paper claims that there is a need for an approach that is able to explain this “bumpy road” by analyzing both the positive and negative features of the communicati...

Abstract This article adopts an ecolinguistic approach to study the thematic choices in General Debate statements by US and China at United Nations Assembly (2017–2020) reveal eco-characteristics of two countries’ their impacts on constructions international relations. Findings suggest that, from perspective ecosophy, a significant proportion US’s are destructive relations, while China’s mostly...

The article offers a version of understanding values as elements culture. As fundamental idea, Adam Smith accepted the classical theory labor value, but with significant generalization this idea from economic context special case to general theoretical level social philosophy, in which are understood products both practical and intellectual activity. principle egocentrism interpretation main ca...

principles relevant in different applications,” mattered to Piaget (Garner, 2008, p. 32). He believed in operative knowledge, which implies that change and transformation produce knowledge. While working at Alfred Binet’s laboratory, he became interested in studying students’ wrong responses. Piaget wanted to study the errors children made, and the possibility that the errors were not random. H...

Two laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate success/failure attributions within competing groups. In both studies, attributions to the own team or to opponents were egocentric in that members of winning teams assigned responsibility for success primarily to their own team whereas members of losing teams assigned responsibility for the loss primarily to the opponents. Within-team at...

Aim. To identify the causes of modern civilizational crisis between East and West, to determine a strategy for overcoming it. Methodology . achieve this goal, work uses wide range general scientific methods political science approaches: dialectical, axiological, structural-functional, historicism, analysis synthesis. Results. The author comes conclusion that in conditions aggravation global pro...

The article focuses on the novel Atoms of God by Gejza Vámoš. study looks at work through motif infection, which has three dimensions in novel: organic life as an egocentrism infection and a health disorder. As result, first two levels represent phenomenon figurative sense word, only last level captures it its primary meaning. However, all overlap, correspond complement each other. Their backgr...

In this article, the author discusses the limitations of the egocentric view of self in which self serves as an automatic filter, inhibiting access to alternative representations of others' thoughts and feelings. The author then outlines a protocentric model, the self-as-distinct (SAD) model, in which generic representations of prototypic others serve as the default; representations of self, sp...