Retrospective accounts of materials development in the applied linguistics literature speak to the relationship between creativity and textbook writing, but this study forges another path by ...examining how an expert ELT (English language teaching) textbook writer deploys creativity during ongoing coursebook production. Qualitative content analysis of data collected via concurrent verbalization, during which the author thought aloud while producing textbook chapters, pre- and post-concurrent verbalization interviews, field notes, and a diary record revealed the creativity that characterized her work at both the process and product levels. Creativity ultimately helped her navigate the publishing constraints in place for her project, including appropriateness controls (e.g. taboo topics), and maintain her focus on learning, teaching, product usability, and publication goals. This study reveals how creativity impacts textbook production during unfolding writing sessions, making an empirical contribution to the research field of materials development. It also provides a view of the constraints associated with commercial publishing, showcases the operations of a skilled author, and demonstrates the usefulness of concurrent verbalization to materials development research: contributions relevant to ELT practitioners interested in textbook production.
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Research on information control in interpersonal contexts has grown in the last 30 years. Scholars have considered multiple manifestations of information control, including taboo topics, ...topic avoidance, privacy, and secrecy, as ways individuals withhold information. This paper reviews and presents limitations of the extant literature, including conflating different manifestations, privileging explicit acts, and presuming agency. The paper then addresses these limitations by proposing a new framework that articulates a process and typology of information control in relationships. The typology departs from existing research to categorize information control based on the perspectives of the sender and receiver. In so doing, the framework organizes several strands of research to offer a comprehensive approach to the study of information control in interpersonal contexts.
Статья рассказывает о наиболее заметных трендах в современной дет- ской поэзии Венгрии. Развиваясь в русле европейских и мировых тен- денций, венгерская детская поэзия является неотъемлемой частью ...на- циональной литературы, особенности развития которой естественным образом сказывались и на выборе тем или отказе от них в разные пе- риоды. Изменение отношения к детской поэзии в Венгрии, выделение ее в самостоятельный жанр в ХХ в. связаны с процессами, происхо- дившими в обществе и в фиксировавшей эти процессы литературе. По- вышение ценности детского опыта, восприятие ребенка как самостоя- тельной личности, а не как «недовзрослого» сказалось и на увеличении количества текстов, где авторы делились переживаниями собственного детства, и на появлении целого корпуса детской литературы. Опреде- ляющим для венгерской детской поэзии стало творчество Шандора Вё- реша. Предложенные им новые принципы легли в основу поэтических текстов, создававшихся и продолжающих создаваться на протяжении последних семидесяти лет. Следуя заветам Вёреша и других авторов его поколения, современные венгерские поэты сочетают ритмическое и фонетическое богатство родного языка с актуальными для совре- менных детей темами и расширяют жанровые возможности детской поэзии, обогащая национальный и общеевропейский детский поэтиче- ский канон. Ключевые слова: Литература Венгрии, детская поэзия, табуированные темы, жанровое разнообразие, поэтический канон, литературная парадигма
The article is devoted to the study of communicative restrictions (taboo) in the academic space of the People’s Republic of China. Taboo in Chinese linguistic culture is based on the dominant ...principle of Chinese ideology – the principle of “saving of face” (face-saving), which allows people to effectively build harmonious relations in the academic community. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of communicative restrictions in formal and informal academic communication within the framework of asymmetric, unequal, relations (“teacher – student”, “research supervisor – student”) and symmetrical, equal, relations (“teacher – teacher”, “student – student”). With the help of ethnographic, descriptive, and contextual analysis methods, the authors identify and present seven most relevant topics of taboo functioning in the process of formal and informal academic interaction. The results of the study can be used in theoretical and practical courses on communicative linguistics, discursive linguistics and discourse analysis, pragmalinguistics and intercultural communication. In addition, the work may be useful in developing cross-cultural trainings in the framework of interaction with China on academic mobility programs
We examined how taboo conversation topics, such as being arrested, religion, and one's body weight, affect impression formation and task performance. In an experiment with 109 women, each participant ...and a female research confederate, whom the participant believed to be another participant,
had a conversation and were asked to complete a task. We manipulated the conversation topics and actual task performance of the confederate, and measured participants' communication satisfaction; perception of the confederate's social, physical, and task attractiveness; and task performance.
The results show that when the confederate performed well and appropriate (vs. taboo) conversation topics were discussed, the participants formed a more positive impression of the confederate and evaluated her task performance more positively. Therefore, if social norms for appropriate conversation
topics are not followed, individuals may be less satisfied with their interpersonal communication interaction with the person who has not observed the norms, and may evaluate the task performance of that other person more negatively.
Teaching Taboo Topics Chrisler, Joan C.
Psychology of Women Quarterly,
03/2013, Letnik:
37, Številka:
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Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
The purpose of this article is (a) to consider reasons why women's reproductive processes receive so little attention in psychology courses and (b) to make an argument for why more attention is ...needed. Menstruation, menopause, and other reproductive events are important to the psychology of women. Reproductive processes make possible a social role that all women respect and most women hope to embody: mother. Yet, too many women and girls are ashamed of and embarrassed by these and other aspects of their bodies. Instructors of psychology of women courses are in a position to make a difference in their students' lives by breaking the communication taboo to discuss these topics openly, correcting misinformation, challenging stereotypes, and encouraging students to resist stigmatized messages about women's bodies.
Children ask existential questions, that is, questions about death, the meaning of existence, free will, God, the origin of everything, and kindred questions. P4/wC has the aspiration to give to ...children the occasion to discover and explore their questions in a safe environment, the community of inquiry. Thus, existential questioning should be possible in a community of inquiry. However, it is unclear whether the pedagogy of the community of inquiry can accommodate existential questioning. The chief trouble is that existential questioning might be a cause of suffering: children might be unable to contain the emotional intensity that is experienced when we inquire about topics like death and the meaning of existence. In a community of inquiry, the emphasis over the community and the autonomy that children experience in choosing the questions for their inquiry might create occasions of suffering: some children might not be prepared to discuss existential issues or might be troubled by the candidate answers they explore and eventually end up to endorse. In this paper I highlight some of the main challenges that we need to face if we want to make room for existential questioning in the community of inquiry.
В очерке представлено небольшое исследование отношения современных взрослых читателей детской литературы к таким темам, как изображение жестокости, смерти, физиологических отправлений, секса и ...телесности. Материал публикации позволяет судить о том, насколько неоднородной является сфера «запретного» в детском чтении: тема жестокости, реальных опасностей, с которыми сталкиваются дети и подростки, оказываются в слепой зоне общественного сознания и литературы, а воспринимающиеся зачастую как недопустимые для детского чтения темы смерти и телесного низа, напротив, широко обсуждаются в обществе и не являются табуированными. Автор очерка выделяет четыре сферы табуирования в тематике современной детской литературы, ранжируя их от мнимо табуированных до подлинно запретных, и размышляет о причинах, влияющих на это ранжирование. Материалом исследования послужили книги современных отечественных и зарубежных авторов, вышедшие за последние несколько лет. Это повести, романы, рассказы и книжки-картинки таких авторов, как О. Громова, У. Нильсен и Э. Эриксон, У. Старк, М.-О. Мюрай, А. Фрид и Д. Гляйх, А. Белова и Д. Войцеховский, В. Хольцварт и В. Эрлбрух, А. Кивиряхк и др. Ключевые слова: Табу в детской литературе, запретные темы в детской литературе, современная детская литература, физиология в детской литературе, сексуальность в детской литературе, политические репрессии в детской литературе, смерть в детской литературе
Using the theory of motivated information management (TMIM), this study explored how individuals manage information about romantic partners' past relationships, a typically taboo topic (Baxter & ...Wilmot, 1985). A sample (N = 146) of undergraduate students currently involved in romantic relationships was used to test TMIM's predictions regarding cognitive, emotional, and communicative processes involved in information-management decisions regarding a partner's previous relationships. The hypothesized models were supported for negative emotions (i.e., anger and fear) but not for happiness as a representative positive emotion. Further, efficacy emerged as a significant mediator of the relationships between the negative emotions and information-management strategies and of the associations between outcome assessments and information-management strategies. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
The “real scientist” brings not only investigative ingenuity but also courage and integrity that permit a challenging of the status quo. Here, three issues and their relationship are considered: (a) ...Taboo Topics as per Norman Farberow’s 1963 book, where conscious/unconscious fears and prohibitions can hinder scientific progress, (b) creative qualities catalyzing open-mindedness and pursuit of truth, and (c) factors heightening or lowering resistance to paradigm shift as per Thomas Kuhn—including sudden change when the data become overwhelming. A key illustration involves parapsychology and the work of Stanley Krippner and colleagues—showing long-standing and rigorous research, plus efforts to disseminate findings and to open minds.
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