Observing visualisations  Paul Kussmaul Contributed on June 8, 2005 Visualisations can occur at certain stages in the comprehension process, and they may lead to creative translations. Creative translations can for our present purposes be defined as translations that show changes when compared with the source text, thereby bringing in something that is novel. In interpreting, […]
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Description – Some examples from empirical TS Gyde Hansen, June 2, 2005 – Copenhagen Business School  What is it that makes descriptions reflective, precise, careful, consequent, honest and complemenÂtary, when we try to aspire to a certain degree of objectivity? Some examples:           Being reflective means keeping under control the complex relationship between knowÂledge production, the context of the research process
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Citations and references talk Daniel Gile, May 5, 2006 To some young scholars, the obligation to include bibliographical references in their publications is basically a nuisance, especially when they feel they have a contribution to make in the form of new ideas or new data. They wish they could focus on their input instead of having
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Description Gyde Hansen, April 26, 2005 – Copenhagen Business School Description of an observed phenomenon in empirical research is a kind of communication process. There is always an object of description and an activity consisting in describing it for a receiver. What is needed in order to get closer to objectivity is an unambiguous exchange of experience. Other researchers
Contracts with publishers – Fundamentals D.Gile, April 2, 2005 As authors of papers and monographs and editors of collective volumes, we are required to sign contracts with publishers. Such contracts are necessary not only to set out the precise duties and rights of all parties to the agreement, but also to protect them. Actually, since academic
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Qualitative research in TS – interdisciplinarity + intermethodology Gyde Hansen, March 2, 2005 – Copenhagen Business School Qualitative research is based on subjective reports, explanations and interpretations. In TS, we need qualitative methods, but we cannot make do with only specific, private findings that cannot be generalized. According to Gile (this website), “our perception of both ‘reality’ around us and other people’s
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