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In this paper we approach the idea that, the ease or fluency of information processing being subjectively experienced as feeling of familiarity with a positive affective tone, interfere with evaluative processing. The close association of familiarity and positive affect is here addressed within a affective priming paradigm. Participants were asked to evaluate a set of target stimuli previously tested for their valence. These targets were immediately preceded either by a familiar or a unfamiliar stimuli. Congruently with the familiarity-positive affect association, familiar stimuli facilitated evaluations (generate faster responses) of affective consistent targets (positive targets). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of language variation and change in a socially stratified corpus of Glaswegian collected in 1997. Eight consonantal variables in read and spontaneous speech from 32 speakers were analysed separately and then together using multivariate analysis. Our results show that middle-class speakers, with weaker network ties and more opportunities for mobility and contact with English English speakers, are maintaining traditional Scottish features. Working-class adolescents, with more limited mobility and belonging to close-knit networks, are changing their vernacular by using ‘non-local’ features such as TH-fronting and reducing expected Scottish features such as postvocalic /r/. We argue that local context is the key to understanding the findings. Mobility and network structures are involved, but must be taken in conjunction with the recent history of structural changes to Glasgow and the resulting construction of local class-based language ideologies which continue to be relevant in the city today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

James Conroy's Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Imagination, Education and Democracy implies three main aims: first, to celebrate aspects of imagination in education and politics; second, to challenge defensive closure in varieties of discourse, especially in the language of economic and monetary management in education and politics; and third, to open up, for reciprocal enrichment, situations and discourses pertaining to consideration of state funding for religiously affiliated schools. Liminality, characteristic of thresholds and borders, calls for interpretation and mediation, as well as appreciation of uncertainties. Liminality of imagination is explored in contexts associated with this third aim, but also in other kinds of context associated with the first two aims. As well as offering critical assessment of the book, this review article indicates some scope for interpretation and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on a poetics of memory which literalizes a post-retrieval idea of memory. It characterizes writing as a technology of memory, and memory as tekhne, writing. It offers a definition of a poetics of memory that acknowledges the reversibility of memory, simultaneously enacting a poetics of forgetting, and one which is a performative writing which breaks down the action/speech binary. It is the author's aim to rethink the relationality, or the mutual articulation, of the concepts of memory and writing.

For centuries, philosophy and psychology in one way or another identified thought with logic, or logic with thought. Only in recent decades has it become clear that there is more to thought than logic. Evolutionary psychology has stressed the adaptive function of thought, as of other processes often identified as psychological. Gigerenzer et al. have worked for some years now on a program of research in which thinking is approached as an adaptive process. According to them, it is misleading to use the complexities of logic, mathematics or statistics as the standards for correct thinking or as a model for thought. On the contrary, thinking is the effective use of simple heuristics. The four volumes discussed in this review essay demonstrate that the approach can be very fruitful in many domains of human reasoning, and can be effective in practical problem solving as well, without having to fall back on the intricacies of logic, statistics, mathematics and other tools of the trade of scientific decision making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argues that equivocation described as a fallacy is not a logical concept but an epistemic one. Claim that the arguments of one who equivocates is not logically flawed but is unpersuasive; Assertion that only arguments which are unpersuasive in a certain way involve equivocations.

Logic ought to guide our thinking. It is better, more rational, more intelligent to think logically than to think illogically. Illogical thought leads to bad judgment and error. In any case, if logic had no role to play as a guide to thought, why should we bother with it?The somewhat naïve opinions of the previous paragraph are subject to attack from many sides. It may be objected that an activity does not count as thinking at all unless it is at least minimally logical, so logic is constitutive of thought rather than a guide to it. Or it may be objected that whereas logic describes a system of timeless relations between propositions, thinking is a dynamic process involving revisions, and so could not use a merely static guide. Or again the objection may be that there is no such thing as logic, only a whole variety of different logics, not all of which could possibly be good guides. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article the author presents his thoughts about life. He says that if someone is tired or bored he needs not to look out on across ideas he was just thinking about. Even as we employ the familiar symbols which call forth recognition of our most familiar ambiguous states it is our acceptance of what is that most promises to bring on the changes we want. He refers to a manuscript send by him to someone close to him and asked him to take it apart. He is experiencing a peculiar loss of physical wilfulness. The words are almost impossible to write .Also the feeling is, "of partial or no interest to others." He sees his own penguin they seem to be telling him it goes on itself, itself. He answers. Imperial lampshades. Conjoint of the factual other. Communicating to inner objects, a broad spectrum of multiple projections. Slipping out across the or on across the what If is what the others to others Measured out as value a Idle a split apart He got a little momentum like that or out, at an add.

This article presents extracts from the author's one of the previous articles. He wants educated oxen, this is art must be a pituitary case, backstabbing, for those with potbellies, stability does have no meaning anymore. Business brass, disgusting creep--instantly but that was same-race violence! I am sick and tired of a society that penalizes those like me who are crazed assailants. Magic ideology turns material problems into spiritual ones--that is to say, psychology; drafting the eagle into apoplexy which are low-brown appointments. At another place he writes that boys either fight with girls or else they trash their own cock rings a his life as a middle class suppository storage unit, then referring to someone he says that she spoils all those creeps she picks up, If she gets his cruder meaning. He then asks her to hold her head down to keep her nipples pointed outward; rehearse such facts, fleece missing. He doesn't want to think about those possibilities--he loves the Illusion of humanity.

This article relates an author's opinion on an article by Jennifer Johnson-Hanks discussing rational-action theory. Actors in present-day Cameroon see the world as highly random, thus suspending any possible presumption of orderly means-end causal claims. The author of this article relates Johnson-Hank's impulse to break down the sequences and the human logics into smaller units and subject each, statement, and finding to searching critique. The author pushes the argument in two ways: (1) to abandon the rational-actor model altogether and incorporate both tight means-ends thinking and judicious optimistic improvisation into a single category of reasoning about complex trajectories over time, and; (2) to suggest that moving even farther away from conventionalization of the variables at play may bring new aspects of ordering out of apparent randomness.