Text/Work

by Stephen Linstead
Text/Work
Author: Stephen Linstead
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134407505
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The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts of these experiences. This way of using language to shape our knowledge and guide social action, it is urged, makes social action and organization a 'text'. Text/Work is an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life, and considers the consequences of textual nature for organization studies. How can organizations be profitably written into textual forms? This is a bold investigation into a challenging and exciting area of study.

Sex Work, Text Work

by Jessica Tanner
Sex Work, Text Work
Author: Jessica Tanner
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2023-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810145855
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Though male French authors plotted prostitution to make their names—mimicking the surveillance of municipal authorities—the sex workers in their books manage to evade efforts to contain them While prostitutes in nineteenth-century Paris were subject to municipal laws that policed their bodies and movements, writers of the era enlisted them to stake their own claims on both the city and the novel as literary territory. Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel explores how prostitutes depicted by Émile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Adolphe Tabarant, and Charles-Louis Philippe “write back,” confounding civil and literary efforts to contain them in space and in narrative. In city-regulated brothels, brasseries à femmes, Haussmannian boulevards, and the novel itself, working-class prostitutes served to reinforce the boundaries of social inclusion and exclusion. And yet, Jessica Tanner contends, even the novels that most explicitly aligned with the disciplinary logic of regulated prostitution make space for a distinctly literary form of resistance: these women elude or disrupt the mapping that would claim them as literary territory, revealing their authors’ failure to secure their narratives as property. Tanner pushes back against the critical tendency to attribute agency only to courtesans who became published authors and forwards a new framework for understanding the political work novels engage in as they circulate. Observing that debates about the regulation of prostitution surfaced in tandem with racialized anxieties about the boundaries of the French nation, Tanner ultimately expands that framework to the history of French colonialism and the politics of immigration in the current day. This book shows that while sex workers have been recruited to mark the borders of civic and moral life, prostitution can also make space for more inclusive forms of community, both in the novel and in the world beyond its bounds.

The Shape of Text to Come

by Jon Callow
The Shape of Text to Come
Author: Jon Callow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013
Genre: Language arts
ISBN: 9781875622870
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The shape of text to come is designed to engage educators with both image and word both effectively and intellectually. It seeks to provide a way for teachers yo understand how images work in their own right, as well as in relation to written text. By presenting key concepts around multimodal texts and the role of visual language this book will guide readers through a framework that will enhance their understanding of visual grammar as well as build on concepts of written grammar.

Exploring How Texts Work

by Beverly Derewianka
Exploring How Texts Work
Author: Beverly Derewianka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781925132557
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This book investigates how texts work to achieve their purposes. Venturing into structure and language features of various genres, the book aims to find useful ways of talking about language in the classroom and to use these shared understandings in the construction of effective texts.This book investigates how texts work to achieve their purposes. Venturing into structure and language features of various genres, the book aims to find useful ways of talking about language in the classroom and to use these shared understandings in the construction of effective texts.

Learning Deep Textwork

by René-Marcel Kruse
Learning Deep Textwork
Author: René-Marcel Kruse
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 3863955013
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Artificial intelligence is considered to be one of the most decisive topics in the 21st century. Deep learning algorithms, which are the basis of many artificial intelligence applications, are of central interest for researchers but also for students that strive to build up academic knowledge and practical competencies in this field. The Deep Learning Seminar at the University of Göttingen follows the central notion of the Humboldtian model of higher education and offers graduate students of applied statistics the opportunity to conduct their own research. The quality of the results motivated us to publish the most promising seminar papers in this volume. For the selected papers a review process was conducted by the lecturers. The presented contributions focus on applications of deep learning algorithms for text data. Natural language processing methods are for example applied to analyse data from Twitter, Telegram and Newspapers. The research applications allow the reader to gain deep insights into some of the latest developments in the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing from the perspective of students of whom many will take part in shaping the future research in this field.

FileMaker Pro 7 Bible

by Steven A. Schwartz
FileMaker Pro 7 Bible
Author: Steven A. Schwartz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 936
Release: 2004-09-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 076457888X
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Updated to cover the latest program version, this comprehensive guide helps users make the most of FileMaker Pro, the sophisticated workgroup database application with nine million registered users Offers complete step-by-step guidance on FileMaker Pro features and tasks, covering both the Mac and Windows versions Features expanded coverage of ODBC, JDBC, and XML connectivity and includes a new chapter on the developer tools used to create more complex databases Other topics covered include calculations and computations, data exchange, creating and using templates, linking databases, using FileMaker in workgroups, Web publishing, plug-ins, and advanced database connectivity

Is There a Single Right Interpretation?

by Michael Krausz
Is There a Single Right Interpretation?
Author: Michael Krausz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2007-08-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780271046983
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Is there a single right interpretation for such cultural phenomena as works of literature, visual artworks, works of music, the self, and legal and sacred texts? In these essays, almost all written especially for this volume, twenty leading philosophers pursue different answers to this question by examining the nature of interpretation and its objects and ideals. The fundamental conflict between positions that universally require the ideal of a single admissible interpretation (singularism) and those that allow a multiplicity of some admissible interpretations (multiplism) leads to a host of engrossing questions explored in these essays: Does multiplism invite interpretive anarchy? Can opposing interpretations be jointly defended? Should competition between contending interpretations be understood in terms of (bivalent) truth or (multivalent) reasonableness, appropriateness, aptness, or the like? Is interpretation itself an essentially contested concept? Does interpretive activity seek truth or aim at something else as well? Should one focus on interpretive acts rather than interpretations? Should admissible interpretations be fixed by locating intentions of a historical or hypothetical creator, or neither? What bearing does the fact of the historical situatedness of cultural entities have on their identities? The contributors are Annette Barnes, Noël Carroll, Stephen Davies, Susan Feagin, Alan Goldman, Charles Guignon, Chhanda Gupta, Garry Hagberg, Michael Krausz, Peter Lamarque, Jerrold Levinson, Joseph Margolis, Rex Martin, Jitendra Mohanty, David Novitz, Philip Percival, Torsten Pettersson, Robert Stecker, Laurent Stern, and Paul Thom.

Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals

by Pat Thomson
Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals
Author: Pat Thomson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113622095X
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It’s not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider’s perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is theorised and practical. It offers a set of moves for writing a journal article that is structured and doable but also attends to the identity issues that manifest on the page and in the politics of academic life. The book comprehensively assists anyone concerned about getting published; whether they are early in their career or moving from a practice base into higher education, or more experienced but still feeling in need of further information. Avoiding a ‘tips and tricks’ approach, which tends to oversimplify what is at stake in getting published, the authors emphasise the production, nurture and sustainability of scholarship through writing – a focus on both the scholar and the text or what they call text work/identity work. The chapters are ordered to develop a systematic approach to the process, including such topics as: The writer The reader What’s the contribution? Beginning work Refining the argument Engaging with reviewers and editors Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals uses a wide range of multi-disciplinary examples from the writing workshops the authors have run in universities around the world: including the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the United States. This international approach coupled with theoretically grounded strategies to guide the authoring process ensure that people at all stages of their career are addressed. This lively book uses a combination of personal stories, student texts, published journal abstracts and excerpts from interviews with journal editors and publishers. Written in an accessible style, one which does not use the patronising ‘you’ of advice books, it offers a collegial approach to a task which is difficult for most scholars, regardless of their years of experience.