Search for dissertations about: "Tom Burns"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Tom Burns.
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1. Creating spaces for action. ANC-women politicians' views on bridewealth and gender-related power
Abstract : The first aim of this work has been to analyse and understand the ways in which a group of ANC-women politicians reason about bridewealth/lobola – an institution about which they express differing views, in particular about whether or not it is oppressive to women. The main body of the empirical material is based on 27 interviews conducted in South Africa in the period 1996-1998. READ MORE
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2. Dialogue and Shared Knowledge : How Verbal Interaction Renders Mental States Socially Observable
Abstract : This dissertation presents a new theoretical solution to the sociological problem of observability: the question of the extent to which and by what means individuals "observe" or infer mental states of other individuals, thereby sharing knowledge with them. The answer offered here states that the social situation of dialogue permits a speaker to use utterances to compel a hearer to generate specific and expectable assumptions about some of the speaker's intentions and beliefs. READ MORE