Documents relating to Language
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Keywords (for automatic selection of documents): language, linguistic, translation, intepretation, prefixes
Documents for years: 2020+ | 2010-19 | 2000-09 | 1990-99 | 1980-89 | 1970-79 | 1962-69 | ALL years
- [2010] Re-Emergence of the Language of the Birds through Twitter? (167k, 103w)
- [2008] Animation of Classical BaGua Arrangements: a dynamic representation of Neti Neti (47k, 32w)
- [2008] In Quest of a Strategic Pattern Language: a new architecture of values (16k, 31w)
- [2008] Polyhedral Pattern Language: Software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of psycho-social organization (218k, 211w)
- [2006] Cognitive Feel for Cognitive Catastrophes: Question Conformality (53k, 46w)
- [2006] Conformality of 7 WH-questions to 7 Elementary Catastrophes: an exploration of potential psychosocial implications (187k, 155w)
- [2006] Council of the Whys: emergent wisdom through configuration of why-question dynamics (162k, 217w)
- [2006] Decorating Pigeon Coops and Animal Farms * (4k, 1w)
- [2006] Ensuring Strategic Resilience through Haiku Patterns: reframing the scope of the "martial arts" in response to strategic threats (140k, 185w)
- [2006] Governance through Pattern Language: creative cognitive engagement contrasted with abdication of responsibility (28k, 49w)
- [2006] Handing Over: Handy metaphors for the communication of intent (68k, 80w)
- [2006] Interrelating Cognitive Catastrophes in a Grail-chalice Proto-model: implications of WH-questions for self-reflexivity and dialogue (45k, 50w)
- [2004] Functional Complementarity of Higher Order Questions: psycho-social sustainability modelled by coordinated movement (75k, 49w)
- [2003] Imaginal education: Game playing, science fiction, language, art and world-making (56k, 61w)
- [2003] New Paradigms via a Renewed Set of Prefixes: Dependence of international policy-making on an array of operational terms (118k, 42w)
- [2003] 12 Complementary Languages for Sustainable Governance (20k, 16w)
- [1998] Four Complementary Languages Required for Global Governance (9k)
- [1995] Be Fruitful and Multiply: the most tragic translation error? (12k, 4w)
- [1995] Cultivating new conceptual languages (Poetry and Policy: Transformative Approaches Project)
- [1995] Language-determined distinctions (Method: Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential)
- [1995] Language (Epistemological challenges: Global Strategies Project)
- [1995] Language games (Global Strategies Project: Global Strategies Project)
- [1995] Language games (Patterning problems: World Problems Project)
- [1995] Language and the reconstruction of reality (Comments: Human Development Project)
- [1995] Metaphor as a language for global governance (Governance: Metaphor Project)
- [1995] Pattern language experiments (Opportunity: Metaphor Project)
- [1994] Developing a Metaphorical Language for the Future (61k, 2w)
- [1993] Cultivating New Conceptual Languages: Poetry-making and Policy-making (Part J) (17k, 1w)
- [1993] Metaphor as a Language for Global Governance (50k, 11w)
- [1993] Towards a Language of Spiritual Concord (8k, 1w)
- [1992] Metaphor and the Language of Futures (57k, 5w)
- [1992] Sustaining Higher Orders of Policy Consensus through Metaphor: towards a new language of governance (9k, 7w)
- [1986] Difficulties in the Transfer of Information between Languages (23k)
- [1986] Review of Frameworks for the Representation of alternative Conceptual Orderings as Determined by Linguistic and Cultural Contexts (143k, 9w)
- [1984] African Language and African Styles of Organization (40k, 2w)
- [1984] Examples of Integrated, Multi-set Concept Schemes: Language and transformational-generative grammars (15k, 2w)
- [1984] Pattern Language for Participants: Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue (Part U) (10k, 2w)
- [1984] 5-fold Pattern Language (23k, 139w)
- [1981] Beyond Edge-bound Comprehension and Modal Impotence: combining q-holes through a pattern language (46k, 3w)
- [1978] Organization and Lifestyle Design: Characteristics of a nonverbal structural language (56k, 12w)
- [1974] Conceptual Gaps And Confused Distinctions: Possible ambiguities in the translation of interrelated concepts between sectors, jargons or languages (18k)
- [1974] Languages, Terminologies, and Mind-Sets (24k)
- [1973] Social science terminology: problems and possibilities arising from use of several languages (11k, 1w)