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The characteristic properties of the non-imitative polyphony are compared with the imitative one in the aspect of musical logic. It is established that imitative polyphony in its main historical genre-compositional manifestations as a whole tends to reproduce the principles of dialogue (polylogue), with the linear narrative logic of prose inherent in it. In non-imitative polyphony, the logic of poetry with its methods has the leading role as well as the logic of song syntax.

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- Dialogue, Polyphony, Polylogue, non-imitative polyphony

What constitutes a polylogue? What, in our pandemic times, makes for a meaningful gathering? Of the many and varied things affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, religiosity is one that has certainly garnered attention. How are individuals and communities adapting spiritual practice amidst our truly postnormal times? What challenges and opportunities face spiritual sojourners during a time of global upheaval? Bringing together a diverse array of voices to reflect on some of the many issues related to "postnormal religiosity," this is not an article or essay but rather a polylogue in both approach and form. Authors, some of whom are unknown to the conveners, were asked to answer some questions and reflect on postnormal religiosity. The product, as such, is as much process as it is polylogue, which offers some insights on this under-theorized concept within postnormal times theory.

- by Amjad Mohamed-Saleem
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- Religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Spirituality

Though, in recent years, impoliteness research has embraced a view of impoliteness as dynamically co-constructed in interaction, the role of impoliteness in polylogal discourse is still in need of further examination. Drawing from a corpus of naturally occurring classroom discourse, this paper uses a genre approach (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, 2010) to examine the role of face-threat witnesses in small-group discussion practices among adolescents. Our research shows that face-threat witnesses respond to impoliteness in complex and dynamic ways that are integral to the co-construction of impoliteness, and that would have been missed entirely if the focus of our analysis had been purely dyadic. In view of our findings, we propose a refinement of extant models of response options (Culpeper et al., 2003; Bousfield, 2007, 2008) that incorporates the response options available to face-threat witnesses, thus moving beyond the dyad. Accounting for the multifunctionality of impoliteness in polylogal interaction allows for an understanding of impoliteness as constitutive, not just disruptive, of social life. With further application, our proposed refinement of extant models can help expand research that examines manifestations of impoliteness in a wide range of (non)institutional, polylogal discourse.

- by Abby Dobs
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- Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Pragmatics, Linguistics

What constitutes a polylogue? What, in our pandemic times, makes for a meaningful gathering? Of the many and varied things affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, religiosity is one that has certainly garnered attention. How are individuals and communities adapting spiritual practice amidst our truly postnormal times? What challenges and opportunities face spiritual sojourners during a time of global upheaval? Bringing together a diverse array of voices to reflect on some of the many issues related to “postnormal religiosity,” this is not an article or essay but rather a polylogue in both approach and form. Authors, some of whom are unknown to the conveners, were asked to answer some questions and reflect on postnormal religiosity. The product, as such, is as much process as it is polylogue, which offers some insights on this under-theorized concept within postnormal times theory.

- by Amjad Mohamed-Saleem
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- Religion, Christianity, Buddhism, Spirituality

Though, in recent years, impoliteness research has embraced a view of impoliteness as dynamically co-constructed in interaction, the role of impoliteness in polylogal discourse is still in need of further examination. Drawing from a corpus of naturally occurring classroom discourse, this paper uses a genre approach (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, 2010) to examine the role of face-threat witnesses in small-group discussion practices among adolescents. Our research shows that face-threat witnesses respond in complex and dynamic ways that are integral to the co-construction of impoliteness, and that would have been missed entirely if the focus of our analysis had been purely dyadic. In view of our finding, we propose a refinement of extant models of response options (Culpeper, Bousfield and Wichmann, 2003; Bousfield 2007, 2008) that incorporates the response options available to face-threat witnesses, thus moving beyond the dyad. Accounting for the multifunctionality of impoliteness in polylogal interaction allows for an understanding of impoliteness as constitutive, not just disruptive, of social life. With further application, our proposed refinement of extant models can help expand research that examines manifestations of impoliteness in a wide range of (non)institutional, polylogal discourse.

- by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
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- Impoliteness, Polylogue

In his essay titled: Are Mental States a Useful Concept? Neurophilosophical Influences on Phenomenology and Psychopathology, Paul Harrison (1991) considers whether the recently emerging field of neurophilosophy, and in particular its "eliminative materialist" branch, will eventually undermine the clinical psychiatric disciplines of descriptive psychopathology and phenomenology. Eliminative materialists classify common sense assumptions and explanations concerning mental life as "folk psychology"; additionally, they consider phenomenological descriptions of normal mental life as a merely more complex version of folk psychology. Moreover, "the eliminative materialists not only see [folk psychology] theories as largely false, but believe the whole level of explanation to be unnecessary and a hindrance to progress in understanding the basis of mental processes" (Harrison, 1991). Harrison goes on to clarify that descriptive psychopathology and abnormal phenomenology also qualify as folk psychology. As a result, if eliminative materialists are correct, psychiatrists and psychopathologists must at the very least "reconfigure" (radically alter?) their approaches to abnormal mental events.

- by Michael A Schwartz
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- Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Philosophy of Psychology