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  • 30 Jan 2023
    Daniel Altshuler

    Linguistics meets Philosophy

    All scientific fields were born from philosophy. And most were born a long time ago. So long ago that conversations between the philosophic ‘parent’ and the scientific ‘child’ are currently non-existent. For example, it’s rare to see collaborative research that involves a physicist and a metaphysician, and you won’t find a philosopher at a chemistry or […]

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  • 17 Jun 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House

    Interactional Rituals: Covidiotism

    Before we venture into a detailed analysis of interactional rituals and distance keeping, an interesting phenomenon worth considering is ‘covidiotism’ and its relationship with interactional rituals. People react in different ways to social distancing, with some even creating their own interactional rituals to substitute those removed by social distancing. Many of these people have been […]

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  • 10 Jun 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House

    Interactional Rituals: The typology of interactional rituals

    When we examine the relationship between interactional rituals and social distancing, we need to ask ourselves what type of ritual we are dealing with. Dániel Kádár (2013) distinguished 4 types of ritual in his book Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups, namely: Social rituals In-group rituals Personal rituals Clinical (covert) rituals Obviously, many […]

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  • 10 Jun 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House

    Interactional Rituals: COVID-19 – The Historical Aspect of Social Distancing and Interactional Rituals

    Why are interactional rituals such an integral part of our daily lives? This is a particularly interesting question and one which is worth investigating. Rituals have existed since the dawn of humanity and, according to many historians, human societies have undergone a major ‘deritualisation’ process. ‘Deritualisation’ refers to how, following the industrialisation of many societies, […]

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  • 3 Jun 2020
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House

    Introduction: What are Rituals?

    Successful social distancing is, in our view, of equal importance in the fight against the coronavirus as the development of a vaccine. It raises difficulties from both an academic and a practical point of view because social distancing runs counter to our most basic social interactional instincts. It is well known that humans are social […]

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