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double-bind

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double-bind,
n a hypnotic technique in which conflicting messages are communicated to the patient at the same time.


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Scholars of English literature, most of them German, consider such aspects as issues of literary and postcolonial translation in the Caribbean, translating Australian, translation African traditions and identities in black poetry in contemporary Britain, the double-bind of cultural translation in diasporic representations of Southeast Asia, and mapping contact zones between literary and scientific practice.
Communication: A Double-Bind Escape Route Indeed, hearing and framing organizational tensions as double binds is not inevitable.
Contributors of the nine articles point out the persistence of racism and sexism and the opportunities that exist for successful education, including nonschool programs that develop the academic potential of African American males, white teachers and the black-white test score gap, the influence of early schooling, African American males' needs in terms of structural conditions, achievement patterns, and normative needs, and the double-bind of athletics.
 
 
 
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