Look up: reflexivity

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   reflexivity
   a term used to refer to foregrounding by a text of its own made-ness or constructed-ness. For those of you who study drama, this will be familiar as Brecht's 'alienation effect'. Brecht was concerned to avoid the 'swindle' involved in naturalistic theatre's pretence that the play 'happened' rather than 'was made'. It may be seen as a method of undermining the pretensions of bourgeois theatre, whose realism, by concealing its own workings, draws the spectator into the bourgeois ideology which is inscribed in its claims to represent common-sense reality itself. It is no doubt because of its anti-bourgeois intentions that we find it being frequently used in, for example, Godard's cinema. But it's no longer as simple as that (if it ever was): what do you make of Wayne and Garth talking to the camera in Wayne's World; or of the fact that every news interview or documentary foregrounds the cuts, no longer masking them with 'noddies'. -
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   Reflexivity
   This describes the connections between knowledge and social life. The knowledge we gain about society can affect the way in which we act in it. For instance, reading a survey about the high level of support for a political party might lead an individual to express support for that party too.
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   reflexivity
   [n] - the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
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   Reflexivity
   in its broad meaning this is used to refer to the capacity of researchers to reflect upon their actions and values during research, whether in producing data or writing accounts. More narrowly, ethnomethodologists use the term to describe a property of language, which reflects upon actions to make them appear orderly.
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   reflexivity
   reflexiveness noun the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
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   reflexivity
   (from the article `formal logic`) A relation that always holds between any object and itself is said to be reflexive; i.e., is reflexive if()(example: `is identical with`). If ... ...or .` Since preference constitutes a relationship, its three types can be classed in terms of certain distinctions commonly drawn in th...
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   Reflexivity
   A dyadic relation R is called reflexive if xRx holds for all x within a certain previously fixed domain which must include the field of R (cf. logic, formal, § 8). In the propositional calculus, the laws of reflexivity of material implication and material equivalence (the conditional and biconditional) are the theorems, p ? p, p = p...
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