This paper shows how changes in terminology, shifts in notions of income and the popularity of market valuations (fair value accounting) work to normalise the speculative characteristics of financial markets.
Reformulation of the question, involving a shift from disease to non-disease terminology, could elicit normalised accounts of symptoms as in these examples where a change in terminology shifting from 'pain' to 'aches' and 'discomfort', and shifting from 'breathlessness' to 'not being able to get your breath' leads to elicitation of the symptoms: Excerpt 1: LR: Have you had any pain anywhere?
What is the nature of the biophysical transformation of Sup35 in 30C cells compared to those exposed to 40C beyond that rather vague terminology of shift from SDS-resistant to SDS-sensitive?
It felt like the moment a crisis defined by abstract debates over ideology, statistics and terminology suddenly shifted to one about people.
Chomsky's preferred terminology has shifted over the years but his underlying concern with what speakers unconsciously know (or 'believe', or 'cognize' or 'represent') rather than with how they put that knowledge to use has remained.
And while an article last week in the Washington Post argued that the terminology has shifted from "nation-building" to "stabilization and reconstruction," which includes initiatives to "improve governance and the economy as well as security and stability," what exactly does all of this mean in terms of the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan?
(We also shifted terminology from 'prevention' to 'control' on the grounds that not all the actions against reconnaissance would be preventive in the sense of preceding the criminal event.
Simpson constructed his theory of quantum evolution around geneticist Sewall Wright's (1932) "adaptive landscape" imagery (see Eldredge 2008b, for a discussion of adaptive landscapes and their use in evolutionary theory; Simpson 1944, sometimes shifted to his own terminology, talking about interzonal shifts on an "adaptive grid," but the essence of the imagery is the same as Wright's).
The current design of this study allows us only to infer the existence of a causal relationship – the differential treatment of medical and lay terminology suggests that the shift in language is creating a shift in perception.
That shift in terminology was telling.
