Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Digital Aestetics & Communication, IT-University of Copenhagen, Rued Langgaards 7, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, [email protected] Contrasts like explicit versus tacit are often brought to the fore by boundary encounters. Any practice – even the most verbal – will have tacit aspects that are revealed by demands outside its regime of competence...

This article examines one aspect of interplay between grammar and social interaction: how speakers of different languages explicate referents that had been referred to tacitly, i.e., without using an explicit referential expression. The focus is on situations when speakers go on to explicate the referent in the transition space, after bringing the turn constructional unit to a possible completi...

Introduction: Developments in information technology have made it possible to create massive repositories of data, information, and knowledge that can be retrieved and applied as required. Such developments enable the capture, management, and sharing of knowledge to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of work processes. No longer do we need to 'reinvent the wheel.' This paper addresses th...

I propose an analysis of either in either… or … sentences that relates to a broader generalization about the syntax all focus-sensitive operators. argue originates inside disjunction phrase, c-commanding leftmost contrastive focus. Then it is internally merged as sister phrase. Either copy may be pronounced. When appears higher than bare argument ellipsis has occurred second disjunct. This cons...

williams, watts, macleod and mathews' (1988) model of anxiety and depression leads to the prediction that anxious patients will show mood – congreuent implicit memory bias, while depressed patients will show mood-congruent explicit memory bias.although this prediction has been supported by some researchers (denny & hunt, 1992 mathews, moog, et al , 1989 watkins, et al, 1992), the reliabili...

Knowledge based on personal experience (tacit knowledge) acquired in problem solving actions and maintenance is the fundamental basis for technicians companies with great physical assets. Generally, there no proper policy managing strategic knowledge its capture. In this article, through qualitative studies (grounded theory) surveys conducted technicians, aim was to obtain perception of technic...

Numerous contradictions are apparent in the knowledge management literature. For instance, tacit knowledge is regarded as an organization’s primary source of competitive advantage. Knowledge management and organizational learning theories instruct organizations how to make this tacit unarticulatable knowledge, which is typically embedded in individuals, explicit and part of the organization’s k...