Danger Of Words Research Articles

『韓非子』「內儲說上·七術」의 서사 구조 분석을 통한 설득커뮤니케이션 전략 검토

This paper examined the Legalist School's (fa jia 法家) use of allegory in 「Inner Congeries of Sayings, The Upper Series: Seven Tacts」 (內儲說上·七術), 『Han Feizi』 (韓非子). The 「Inner Congeries of Sayings, The Upper Series: Seven Tacts」 took the forms ‘經傳’ and the forms and structures of it interconnected one another. First, the sentence structure of jing (經) used the allegory and fable for effective persuasion. Han Feizi drove readers to understand meanings of the texts rather than directly revealing the meanings. Second, the sentences in Jing connected Jing and Zhuan (傳), which intrigued readers' curiosity. The sentences showed an effective persuasive strategy by attracting readers' and listeners' attention. Third, all quotations in Jing gathered key sentences under sub-theme categories, making readers guess their meanings by context. For the readers familiar with the Zhuan, the quotations made them successfully understand Han Feizi. Fourth, <Canguan> (參觀), the first chapter of 「Inner Congeries of Sayings, The Upper Series: Seven Tacts」 opened its chapter with the sentence of “If not A~.” The sentence was a strategy to express delicate issues of 'officials’ sayings.‘ Fifth, the sentences adopted interesting subjects, including dwarfs, to indirectly express writers’ ideas. The sentences were an expression of Han Feizi, who prioritizes human reason than myths. Han Feizi expressed that the danger of words and the difficulties of arguing against artful words. The analysis of <Canguan> revealed that Han Feizi used secret and elaborate tactics to a king. This study examined the allegorical features of 「Inner Congeries of Sayings, The Upper Series: Seven Tacts」 as Han Feizi’s way of persuading his king effectively using its unique literary styles. This study is also leading research of persuasive communication skills and types in 『Han Feizi』 overall.

The danger of words: major challenges facing Myanmar journalists on reporting the Rohingya conflict

Due to the fighting between the Myanmar Army and the Rohingya militant group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in August 2017, hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh. The Myanmar Army was accused of committing torture, atrocities, arson and gang-rapes against the Rohingya Muslims during its operations to wipe out the ARSA. When covering this conflict, Myanmar journalists faced criticism from international media and monitoring groups that most of their stories were one-sided and lacked multiple voices. To discover which barriers have impeded Myanmar journalists in their reporting, I conducted in-depth interviews with 17 reporters and editors from 10 media outlets and also drew from my own experiences during 14 years as a Myanmar journalist. The analysis of interviews showed that journalists faced restricted access to the conflict area, limited cooperation from the government and the army, pressures from local Rakhine people, difficulty accessing Rohingya Muslims, barriers in the verification processes, personal safety concerns, and ethical dilemmas. The results suggested that as long as freedom of press is restrained and safety of messengers is threatened, journalists will find it hard to practice peace journalism or conflict sensitive journalism to the fullest. In addition, as previous studies on conflict reporting suggest, this study also revealed that some journalists favored what they believed to be in the national interest whenever they found themselves in an ethical dilemma.

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage

Con Drury: philosopher and psychiatrist.

Maurice O'Connor Drury (1907-76), an Irish psychiatrist, is best known for his accounts of his close friendship with the eminent twentieth-century philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. His only book, The Danger of Words (1973), was well received by those who had an interest in the relationship between psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. This article concentrates on Drury's experiences, studies and writings in these fields.

Danger of words: risk and (mis)comprehension in consultations with the spirits of the povo da rua

Abstract Mediators between different realms, the spiritual entities known as the people of the streets can be taken as the very materialization of the principle of indeterminacy, being considered to be at once dangerous and powerful. Such indeterminacy acts upon processes of objectification and subjectification that unfold at the very heart of ritual. I turn my attention to the sessions of consultation, taking that encounter between clients and entities as a moment of instability, where the vulnerability of language - the danger of words - is at the center of ritual efficacy. If all human encounters involve a risk of un-understanding, such risk is certainly intensified in the session of consultations with the people of the streets, where instability is an implicit quality of the type of knowledge one seeks in such encounters, which are centered on issues of love, disaffections, betrayals and lived violences, all domains inherently unstable.

Proverbs and Irony: Their Literary Role in Thomas More’s History of Richard III

In his History of King Richard III, Thomas More uses proverbs to demonstrate to the reader how to evaluate characters, events, and ideas in the narrative. Identifying and examining the proverbs reveals subtle irony and wisdom. For example, when Richard chooses “a sure foundation” for his plans, a proverb is the starting point from which the reader evaluates Richard’s actions, compares them to Edward’s, and raises perennial questions of how to govern rightly. Similarly, proverbs in the queen’s argument for keeping her son show the error of her decision. Finally, the bishop of Ely’s proverbs and fable demonstrate the power and danger of words in the government and highlight qualities of a good leader which are otherwise lacking in the History.

The danger of words: a Wittgensteinian lesson for developmentalists

Borrowing from Wittgenstein's and Drury's ideas, this article shows that, by overlooking Wittgenstein's message about the danger of words and the importance of the grammar and clarification of concepts, some developmentalists sometimes fall prey to the fallacy of the alchemists, the fallacy of Molière's doctor, the fallacy of the “missing hippopotamus”, the fallacy of Van Helmont, and the fallacy of “Pickwickian senses”. As a result of these fallacies, the field of development (and psychology) is paved with ungrounded concepts, circular explanations, untenable reifications, misleading and nonsensical conclusions, and a mix-up of language-games. We suggest that to remedy such state of affairs psychologists should not ignore or overlook Wittgenstein's message about the danger of words to bewitch our thought, and should take his conceptual or grammatical investigations, not suspiciously, but as a preliminary and indispensable step to set the stage for appropriate factual and functional investigations, and for intelligible, coherent, and meaningful theoretical presumptions.

The danger of words, and writings on Wittgenstein, M O'Connor Drury, edited by D Berman, M Fitzgerald and J Hayes. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. (Wittgenstein Studies 6 volumes), 1996. (price not stated).

The danger of words, and writings on Wittgenstein, M O'Connor Drury, edited by D Berman, M Fitzgerald and J Hayes. Bristol: Thoemmes Press. (Wittgenstein Studies 6 volumes), 1996. (price not stated).

The Danger of Words

The Danger of Words

The Danger of Words.

The Danger of Words.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language.

The Danger of Words and Writings on Wittgenstein by M. O'C. Drury (278pp) An Introduction to 'Tractatus' by G.E.M. Anscombe (1971 ed., 180pp) Souces and Perspectives ed. by C.G. Luckhardt (1979 ed., 169pp) Discussions of Wittgenstein by Rush Rhees (1970 ed., 169pp) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language ed. by Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz (1972 ed., 325pp) Wittgenstein's 'Tractacus': A Critical Exposition of the Main Lines of Thought by Erik Stenius (1964 ed., 252pp)

Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Critical Exposition of its Main Lines of Thought.

The Danger of Words and Writings on Wittgenstein by M. O'C. Drury (278pp) An Introduction to 'Tractatus' by G.E.M. Anscombe (1971 ed., 180pp) Souces and Perspectives ed. by C.G. Luckhardt (1979 ed., 169pp) Discussions of Wittgenstein by Rush Rhees (1970 ed., 169pp) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy and Language ed. by Alice Ambrose and Morris Lazerowitz (1972 ed., 325pp) Wittgenstein's 'Tractacus': A Critical Exposition of the Main Lines of Thought by Erik Stenius (1964 ed., 252pp)