Showing papers on "Connotation published in 1984"
TL;DR: It is argued that only the holistic connotation should be retained, as it properly conveys the contemporary viewpoint and has merit as it is short, simple, and derived from the Greek.
Abstract: Semantics and history of psychosomatic medicine are not popular topics nowadays, if they ever were; yet both of them constitute indispensable facets of any discipline that lays claim to a separate identity, as psychosomatics does. The latter, being an inchoate and inherently complex field of study, is especially in need of repeated efforts to clarify the meaning of its key terms, to delineate its scope, and to chart its development over time. Such efforts should pay off in improved teaching of this subject and in more effective communication with workers in other disciplines and with the general public. I have tried in this paper to sketch the historic development of psychosomatic conceptions and address some relevant semantic issues. It appears that early in this century, the convergence of two ancient conceptions, the holistic and the psychogenic, prepared the ground for the emergence in the 1930s of psychosomatic medicine as an organized scientific discipline and a counterreformation against the mechanistic view of man and medicine. Those two conceptions came to be subsumed by the word "psychosomatic" and thus contributed its two distinct connotations. The latter have not usually been clearly distinguished; hence, the ambiguity of the term. I have argued that only the holistic connotation should be retained, as it properly conveys the contemporary viewpoint. It is unfortunate that the word "holistic" has been appropriated recently by an anti-scientific and antiintellectual so-called "holistic health movement" (67), with resulting increment in semantic confusion and, in the eyes of many, loss of credibility for the misappropriated term. However, to retain it has merit as it is short, simple, and derived from the Greek - as were the very conceptions it has come to connote. Moreover, "holistic" has been part of the basic vocabulary of psychosomatic medicine from the beginning and conveys its core premises and purpose faithfully. As a historian aptly put it, the historic function of the psychosomatic movement has been to "vitalize the whole of medicine, psychiatry no less . . . with the holistic and ecologic viewpoint" (59, p. 9).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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TL;DR: In her often-quoted essay on the craft of fiction, "The Novel Demeuble," Willa Cather asks her readers to consider the importance of an unnamed, absent presence in the literary text.
Abstract: In her often-quoted essay on the craft of fiction, "The Novel Demeuble,"' Willa Cather asks her readers to consider the importance of an unnamed, absent presence in the literary text. Whereas phrases like "overtone," "verbal mood," and "emotional aura" suggest ineffable realms of experience and feeling-complex or barely sensed signifieds for which there exists no precise verbal signifier-Cather's startling phrase "the thing not named" has another connotation: an aspect of experience possessing a name that the writer does not, or cannot, employ. A sophisticated novelist well read in fin de siecle literature, Cather must have been aware of the
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TL;DR: For example, Monteverdi, writing in 1607, declared that according to the principles of the new Seconda Prattica of musical composition followed by his brother Claudio, the Oratio was now the mistress of the Harmonia and not its servant as formerly, articulated what was to be the central premise of baroque musical aesthetics as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: VW hen Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, writing in 1607, declared that according to the principles of the new Seconda Prattica of musical composition followed by his brother Claudio, the Oratio was now the mistress of the Harmonia and not its servant as formerly, he articulated what was to be the central premise of baroque musical aesthetics' For, while the immediate connotation of Oratio and Harmonia was text-music rela-
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1 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of whether a text has only one legitimate meaning, or no meaning at all, is dealt with, when the contexts of sender and receiver are different.
Abstract: The problem being dealt with in this paper is whether a text has only one legitimate meaning, or no meaning at all. The question becomes even more acute when the contexts of sender and receiver are different. Polysemy and ambiguity are well-known obstacles to communication on the level of the word. The necessity of a general semiotic theory is stressed, and explains the difference between denotation and connotation. The functionality of metaphor in biblical language points to the interpretive value of polyvalency. The impression of unlimited indeterminacy created by the recent emphasis on the active role of the reader, is in a sense misleading since author and reader function as a textual strategy. On the other hand, the actualization of the textual expression as the content of the text by applying the various codes and subcodes. implies a continuous interaction between intentional and extensional approaches. In this respect topics., thematics. Ideological and world structures are operative. Since interpretation and application are not to be separated in a pragmatic context. As is the case with the text of the Bible, there inevitably remains the possibility of multiple interpretations due to the interpreting and applying of the text of the Bible in a concrete situation. Yet this interpretation and appropriation should always be done as comprehension of the text and in continuity with the tradition.
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TL;DR: An attempt to form a conceptual framework for OR/MS methodology consists of seven components addressing specific methodological aspects: each component has specific properties which distinguish it from the others; all of them together form a consistent hierarchy suitable to aid the successful development and implementation of OR/ MS methods.
Abstract: Many authors deal, explicitly or implicitly, with OR/MS methodology and the term ‘methodology’ has gained such an inclusive connotation that it comes to denote nothing in particular This has diluted the analytical precision of OR/MS ‘methodology’ as well as its practicability Therefore an attempt to form a conceptual framework for OR/MS methodology will be presented This framework consists of seven components addressing specific methodological aspects: each component has specific properties which distinguish it from the others; all of them together form a consistent hierarchy suitable to aid the successful development and implementation of OR/MS methods
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1 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this paper, the nature of theory development in economics cast light on the philosophical problem of reduction, which has a rather technical connotation, referring to ever more complicated definitions of this concept that arose in the logical-philosophical reduction programme largely triggered off by Chapter 11 of Nagel's famous Structure of Science.
Abstract: To what extent can the nature of theory development in economics cast light on the philosophical problem of reduction? Nowadays, “reduction” has a rather technical connotation, referring to ever more complicated definitions of this concept that arose in the logical-philosophical reduction programme largely triggered off by Chapter 11 of Nagel’s famous “Structure of Science” (Nagel (1961)). This programme developed its successive specifications of the concept of reduction partly inspired by problems in comparing different physical and biological theories, partly by analysis of the logical nature of the concept of reduction itself.
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