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Overdetermination
About: Overdetermination is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 355 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6354 citations. The topic is also known as: over-determination.
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1 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The author examines the role of language in the recontextualization of social practice and the role that language plays in the development of values and identity in a post-modern world.
Abstract: Preface Chapter 1: Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice 1. The supersedure of meaning by function 2. Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice 3. Social practices Chapter 2: Representing social actors 1. A sociosemantic inventory 2. Our Race Odyssey 3. Exclusion 4. Role Allocation 5. Genericisation and specification 6. Assimilation 7. Association and dissociation 8. Indetermination and differentiation 9. Nomination and categorization 10. Functionalisation and identification 11. Personalisation and impersonalisation 12. Overdetermination 13. Conclusion Chapter 3: Representing social action 1. Introduction 2. Reactions 3. Material and semiotic action 4. Objectivation and descriptivization 5. De-agenitalization 6. Generalization and abstraction 7. Overdetermination 8. Conclusion Chapter 4: Time in discourse 1. Introduction 2. The socio-semantics of location and extent 2.1. Time summons 2.2. Synchronisation 2.3. Punctuality 2.4. Exact and inexact timing 2.5. Unique and recurring timing 3. Experiencing Duration 4. Managing Time 5. Two examples Chapter 5: Space in discourse 1. Introduction 2. Locating action 3. Arranging and interpreting space 4. Description and legitimation 5. Subjective and objective space 6. Word and image Chapter 6: The discursive construction of legitimation 1. Introduction 2. Authorization 3. Moral evaluation 4. Rationalization 5. Mythopoesis 6. Multimodal legitimation 7. Legitimation and context Chapter 7: The discursive construction of purpose 1. Introduction 2. Purpose and Legitimation 3. The grammar of purpose Chapter 8: The visual representation of social actors 1. Word and image 2. The image and the viewer 3. Depicting people Chapter 9: Representing social actors with toys 1. Introduction 2. Roles, identities, meanings 3. Preschool Playmobil 4. Playing with Playmobil
1,768 citations
TL;DR: The concept of reduction, which lies at the heart of the emergence idea is explicated, and it is shown how the thesis that emergent properties are irreducible gives a unified account of emergence.
Abstract: This paper explores the fundamental ideas that have motivated the idea of emergence and the movement of emergentism. The concept of reduction, which lies at the heart of the emergence idea is explicated, and it is shown how the thesis that emergent properties are irreducible gives a unified account of emergence. The paper goes on to discuss two fundamental unresolved issues for emergentism. The first is that of giving a "positive" characterization of emergence; the second is to give a coherent explanation of how "downward" causation, a central component of emergentism, is able to avoid the problem of overdetermination.
346 citations
TL;DR: The authors present a framework for describing the representation of social action in English discourse, attempting to relate sociologically relevant categories of action to their grammatical and rhetorical realization in discourse, and demonstrate the utility of the framework for critical discourse analysis is demonstrated through the analysis of an Australian newspaper feature critiquing the Australian Government's open door policy towards immigration from developing countries in a way which, the paper argues, is strongly tinged with racist attitudes.
Abstract: The paper presents a framework for describing the representation of social action in English discourse, attempting to relate sociologically relevant categories of action to their grammatical and rhetorical realization in discourse. Departing from Halliday's theory of transitivity, it begins by describing 15 types of action and their typical grammatical realizations. It then describes the transformations which social actions can undergo in discourse—transformations such as objectivation, deagentialization, generalization, abstraction and overdetermination. The utility of the framework for critical discourse analysis is demonstrated through the analysis of an Australian newspaper feature critiquing the Australian Government's open door policy towards immigration from developing countries in a way which, the paper argues, is strongly tinged with racist attitudes.
284 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-disciplinary model of analysis of political discourse is proposed, which integrates a variety of linguistic and non-linguistic accounts to describe the legitimization of actions sought by politicians in front of their audiences.
256 citations
TL;DR: There has been a lively philosophical tradition of trying to analyze token causation in terms of counterfactual dependencies as mentioned in this paper, and many attempts to deal with the problems of preemption and overdetermination, none entirely satisfactory.
Abstract: [Introduction] One event, e, counterfactually depends upon another event, c, just in
case e would not have occurred had c not occurred. Beginning with the
seminal paper of David Lewis in 1973, there has been a lively philosophical
tradition of trying to analyze token causation in terms of counterfactual
dependence. The simplest possible counterfactual theory of token
causation—henceforth the simple theory—would identify token causation
with counterfactual dependence: c is a token cause of e just in case e
counterfactually depends upon c. This simple account is threatened by
counterexamples on both sides. Some authors, but by no means all, take
cases of prevention and omission to show that there can be counterfactual
dependence without token causation. Cases of preemption have
been widely taken to show that there can be token causation without counterfactual dependence; many authors (but not Lewis himself) also
consider cases of overdetermination to be counterexamples to the necessity
of counterfactual dependence for token causation. There have been
many attempts to deal with the problems of preemption and overdetermination, none entirely satisfactory. We will examine the shortcomings
of some of these theories in sections 11–13.
244 citations
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