Relevance and irrelevance : theories, factors and challenges / / edited by Jan Strassheim and Hisashi Nasu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819811203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Saur, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 3-11-047048-9; 3-11-047250-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Age of access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft, , 2195-0210 ; ; Volume 9
• Disciplina: 401.45
• Soggetti: Relevance; Pragmatics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Relevance And Irrelevance / Strassheim, Jan -- Theories -- New Reflections On The Problem(S) Of Relevance(S). The Return Of The Phenomena / Sonesson, Göran -- Finite Provinces Of Meaning: The Expansive Context Of Relevance / Barber, Michael -- Bridging Rhetoric And Pragmatics With Relevance Theory / Larson, Brian N. -- The Body Relevant / Butnaru, Denisa -- Factors -- Relevance From And Beyond Propositions. The Case Of Online Identity / Yus, Francisco -- Relevance Before, During, And After Discourse Experiences / Rapp, David N. / McCrudden, Matthew T. -- Social Distribution Of Knowledge In Action: The Practical Management Of Classification / Ikeya, Nozomi / Sharrock, Wes -- On Cooling The Relevance Out / Horta, Ana / Gross, Matthias -- Challenges -- The Relevance Of The Irrelevant / Srubar, Ilja -- Many Ways Of Being Relevant. Information Support For Problem Solving And Decision Making / Soergel, Dagobert -- Alterity And Biographical Experience: Relevance In Mediated Interaction / Santos, Hermílio -- Lady Justice Turns A Blind Eye: (Ir-)Relevance, Legal Thought And Social Order / Strassheim, Jan -- Notes On Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Relevance drives our actions and channels our attention; it shapes how we make sense of the world and communicate with each other. ; Irrelevance spreads a twilight which blurs the line between information we do not want to access and information we cannot access. In disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, the information sciences and linguistics, "relevance" has been proposed as a key concept. This book is the first to bring together the often unrelated traditions. Researchers from different fields discuss relevance and relate it to the challenges of "irrelevance", which have so far been neglected despite their significance for our chances of making well-informed decisions and understanding others. The contributions focus on theoretical and conceptual questions, on specific factors and fields, and on practical and political implications of relevance and irrelevance as forces which are even stronger when they remain in the background.

Honest John

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157584503321
• Autore: Mahurin Walker M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waipu : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Soggetti: Fighter pilots - United States; Military history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: HONEST JOHN is the dramatic unvarnished autobiography of Walker "Bud" Mahurin, an American fighter ace who performed extraordinary feats of skill and bravery in shooting down more than twenty enemy planes in two wars, only to be called a traitor by many after he was forced to sign a germ-warfare confession by the Chinese Communists.In his own words, Col. Mahurin recalls the youth from Fort Wayne, Indiana, who was the leading American ace in Europe until his ; Thunderbolt was shot down over France, who escaped to fight again in the Pacific and returned in 1945 a much decorated war hero. When hostilities broke out in Korea in 1950, Col. Mahurin wangled his way out of his Pentagon desk job and soon, under the code name of "Honest John," was flying against the MIGs over Communist skies. Then one fateful day in May, 1952, while perfecting the F-86 dive-bombing technique he himself had pioneered, his Sabre jet was hit by ground fire and crashed in a North Korean rice paddy.Thus began Col. Mahurin's ordeal, an experience which few Americans have encountered and fewer still have survived. For over a year he was kept in solitary confinement by his captors, interrogated almost constantly and subjected to a veritable arsenal of mental pressures and "invisible tortures" as the Communists sought their elusive confession. In harrowing detail he relates his attempt at suicide and his devices for resisting while still maintaining sanity...