Razzprava izpostavi epistemološka vprašanja, ki zastavljajo, če skušamo artikulirati bahtinovsko problematiko tujega govora v znanostih o jeziku. Osredotoči se na vidikih, ki problematizirajo ...neopozitivistično formulacijo razmerja med semantiko in pragmatiko.
The author examines the last 20 years of Slovenian economic history. He argues that export-led economic model based on depreciated domestic currency and capital controls enabled stabilization and ...convergence with developed EU economies until 2004. The period of debt-led growth characterized by instability and recurrent recession after 2008 is explained by dissolution of the earlier economic model after Slovenia's accession to EU. A brief comparison is then made that reveals a striking resemblance with the case of Portugal which joined ERM about a decade earlier. From this it is inferred that the crisis is structural and that no simple return to earlier economic models could secure further convergence.
This article outlines the scientific object of the sociology of culture. The starting points are two intuitive objects of this discipline the cultural sphere as it presents itself to naïve ...observation, and the methodologically motivated notion that culture/consciousness is the constitutive aspect of all social phenomena. The article attempts to produce a dialectical synthesis of these opposing positions. It starts with Marcel Mauss’s “total social fact,” the notion that every social fact is a unity of structure and representation. However, to explain the “cultural” phenomena, the sociology of culture must be able to grasp the specificity of those total social facts that also function as representations in relation to other, “non-cultural” social facts. Such ideological practices or forms of consciousness are its true object. The article goes on to establish the criteria for classifying the ideological and the material social facts as parts of the Marxian base or superstructure. It argues that the formal criterion - type of social relations - is necessary and sufficient for determining to which mode of production a certain material practice belongs. The formal criterion, though, is not sufficient when it comes to ideological practices from the formal viewpoint, many ideological practices belong to the base of the capitalist mode of production. However, because of their function, they must also be analysed as parts of its superstructure.
The author attempts to define the criteria upon the basis of which we can talk of a transition between modes of production. Contrary to classical approaches that locate such criteria at the level of ...the forces of production and relations of exchange, the position adopted in this article is that of relations of production, defined as those social connections linking units of production. Following classical sociology, the author first distinguishes between organised and commodity forms of relations of production, then outlines the conditions under which the production of commodities becomes capitalist. These conditions are fulfilled whenever the commodity form of production encompasses the reproduction and allocation of the conditions of production. From this viewpoint the author then discusses whether it is pertinent to understand changes in the West and in China as a transition. Adapted from the source document.
The article points out epistemological questions arising when one attempts to articulate the Bakhtinian conception off reported speech within the scholarly disciplines dealing with language. It ...focuses on the aspects that question the neo-positivist formulation of the relationship between semantics and pragmatics. Adapted from the source document
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