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Journal articles on the topic "Discursive Theory"

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Marcolino Leal, José Luciano, Wilder Kleber Fernandes De Santana, and Pedro Farias Francelino. "OLHARES EPISTÊMICOS E(M) RELAÇÕES DIALÓGICAS: O GÊNERO DISCURSIVO CAPA DE REVISTA." Revista DisSoL - Discurso, Sociedade e Linguagem, no. 9 (July 9, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.35501/dissol.v0i9.548.

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Resumo: Este trabalho delimitou como categorias para o estudo o dialogismo e o discurso, constitutivas do pensamento de Bakhtin, Volóchinov e Medviédev. Para tanto, selecionou-se como corpus a uma dascapas da revista IstoÉ, Nº 2548, publicada em 24 de outubro de 2018, no intuito de averiguar a incidência das relações dialógico-discursivas para concretização dos enunciados verbo-visuais. Embasada na teoria dosgêneros discursivos proposta e desenvolvida por Bakhtin (2006 [1979], esta pesquisa procurou discursivizar os elementos presentes na capa da revista IstoÉ, a qual trouxe, como tema central, a candidatura do presidenciável petista Fernando Haddad.Palavras-chave: Dialogismo; Discurso; Gênero discursivo; Capa de revista; IstoÉ EPISTEMIC GLANCES IN DIALOGICAL RELATIONS: THE DISCURSIVE GENRE MAGAZINE COVERAbstract: This paper delimited delimited as categories for the study the dialogism and the discourse, constitutive of the thought of Bakhtin, Volóchinov and Medviédev. For this purpose, it was selected as a corpus for one of the covers of IstoÉ magazine, Nº 2548, published on October 24, 2018, in order to investigate the incidence of dialogical-discursive relations for the concretization of verb-visual statements. Based on the theory of discursive genres proposed and developed by Bakhtin (2006 [1979]), this research sought to discoursing the elements present in the cover of IstoÉ magazine, which brought, as central theme, the candidacy of the presidential candidate Fernando Haddad.Keywords: Dialogism; Speech; Discursive genre; Magazine cover; IstoÉ
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Hong, Seongmin. "The Social Emphathy and Discursive State : Cultural Theory about State Theory in Korea." Criticism and Theory Society of Korea 26, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 143–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.19116/theory.2021.26.2.143.

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Garric, Nathalie. "La définition : construction d’une catégorie (linguistique ? discursive ?) dans différents espaces de discours." Semiotica 2018, no. 223 (July 26, 2018): 111–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0027.

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RésuméLes linguistes adoptant des objets transphrastiques travaillent avec des unités qui coïncident rarement avec les catégories traditionnelles. Ces unités ne sont pas une donnée déjà là, elles le deviennent a posteriori par le travail analytique. Il en va ainsi de la définition à laquelle nous nous intéressons en termes de catégorie discursive dans trois contextes discursifs, – le roman épistolaire, le slogan publicitaire et l’article de journal – pour observer comment elle contribue à l’analyse des discours. L’objectif vise à la contextualiser dans différents univers discursifs, qui lui affectent une pertinence singulière, déterminée par les effets de généricité à l’œuvre dans le corpus et par les autres catégories construites par la textualité. Il s’agit de montrer quels sont les indices qui concourent à son identification, en nous attachant au caractère hétérogène de ces unités, et que ces catégories ne deviennent discursives que dans le mouvement de l’interprétation. Ce dernier consiste à les situer par rapport à une finalité inscrite dans la compétence générique des interactants et dans leurs représentations socio-idéologiques. Nous découvrirons que la définition n’a d’existence que dans son interaction avec d’autres unités, mais également que cette interaction nécessaire à l’identification du procédé discursif résultant participe à la construction de nouveaux indices.
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Matus, Pablo. "Discursive representation: Semiotics, theory, and method." Semiotica 2018, no. 225 (November 6, 2018): 103–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0019.

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AbstractAlthough representation may be a recurrent theme in research on journalism and advertising, as well as in studies of other social discourses, there may be less clarity regarding its epistemological and methodological aspects. One example is the frequent use of Social Representations Theory (Moscovici), despite its research object is a cognitive phenomenon. Beginning with a literature review in which I examine several sources (for example, sign theory, the philosophy of language, and rhetoric), the following article presents a theory of discursive representation, as well as associated semiotic, epistemological, and methodological theories. My aim is to provide a conceptual framework to help guide and prompt further research in this area.
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Dryzek, John S. "Discursive Designs: Critical Theory and Political Institutions." American Journal of Political Science 31, no. 3 (August 1987): 656. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2111287.

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Pozdnyakova, E. U. "ON THE QUESTION OF DISCURSIVE THEORY OF ONOMASTICS." Culture and Text, no. 44 (2021): 245–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.37386/2305-4077-2021-1-245-261.

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The article deals with the relevance of a new discursive approach to onomastic vocabulary. The onym is considered as a unit that represents a compressed text, which can be expanded under certain conditions. In addition, reverse processes are possible - the compression of discourse to a minimum set of lexical units (a single word or a phrase). There are four important components in the discursive field of an onym: the nominator (the author of the name - N), an onym (the name of the object - O), the recipient (the perceiving subject - P) and the discourse-text (D) connected with an onym. We explain the discursive nature of the onym through the concept of the discursive field, which is a combination of all texts, existing in discours, included in the nominative situation both initially (in the process of nominating an object) and involved in communication during the functioning of the onym in the discursive practices of native speakers.
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Stemplewska-Żakowicz, Katarzyna, Bartosz Zalewski, Hubert Suszek, Dorota Kobylińska, and Bartosz Szymczyk. "The Discursive Mind Model." Psychology of Language and Communication 18, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0001.

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AbstractThe paper proposes the model of discursive mind and describes the cognitive architecture of the dialogically structured mind. The model draws on Hermans’ (1999) theory of the dialogical self (DS) and Wertsch’s (1991) vision of mind as a “tool kit” with socio-cultural instruments, and also on the socio-cognitive approach to personality in experimental psychology. An I-position is understood here as an active totality of experience, shaped in a particular social context and represented in a separate representation module. Th ere are many modules in the mind because in the course of socialization, the individual comes across many different social contexts. Th e described model and its preliminary empirical verification not only gives support to the DS theory, but can also be a leverage of its contribution to general theories of mind stemming from other theoretical traditions
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Frow, J. "Discursive Justice." South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 2 (April 1, 2001): 331–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-2-331.

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McCutcheon, Russell T. ""My theory of the brontosaurus": Postmodernism and "theory" of religion." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 26, no. 1 (March 1997): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842989702600101.

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Given the way in which some scholars of religion now attempt to re-authorize theology by means of postmodern relativity, this article tackles issues of definition and discursive boundary maintenance by examining such scholars' suspect usage of the terms "postmodern" and "theory." Specifically, this critique focusses on a recent article proposing that Karl Barth's "theory" of religion ought to be included in the religious studies canon. The reasoning behind this proposal is an example of the suspect nature of some postmodern appropriations made by scholars of religion, appropriations that entail larger theoretical, discursive and institutional implications that should be brought to the attention of members of the field of religious studies.
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Robyns, Clem. "Translation and Discursive Identity." Poetics Today 15, no. 3 (1994): 405. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1773316.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Discursive Theory"

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Faust, Juergen. "Discursive designing theory : towards a theory of designing design." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3210.

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Motivated by the immature theoretical framework of design, this thesis employs transdisciplinary discourse to provide a contemporary and forward-looking model of design and design theory, as well as the linkages between the two, along with the necessary methodology. The discourse involves research into the current understanding of design, its principles, its practice and conceptual framework. The methodology developed and employed in this thesis can be outlined in five steps: 0. Design briefing 1. Developing a conceptual model based on the writings of Michel Foucault and Helmut Krippendorff. 2. Presenting the model in a written form. 3. Using accounts of conferences as tools for Designing Design and building monuments. 4. Interrogating the theory through an expert system. 5. Summarising and evaluating the findings. Design Briefing The present study delves into design, and into the design of theory. In Chapter A.1.6, a summary of Chapter A.0−A.1.5 is given, highlighting the underlying discourse. As shown, the theory behind this work is based on a hypothesis, which cannot be proved experimentally, or deduced from experimental data, at least at the time of its construction. Therefore, it needs to be understood that the case studies (A.3.2−A.3.5) in this thesis are not intended to serve as experiments that were conducted in order to prove the theory; rather, these case studies are design cases—products and artefacts—and should be viewed as discourse frameworks that can be adopted to design design. As described in Chapter 3.1, these are elements of monuments—in reference to Raichman (1988)—that have resulted from the discursive strategies and were designed within a community of designers, allowing the design understanding to be shaped. Methodologically, the theory is created through an indication of differences. These differences were elaborated on in the literature review, and can be explained using either logic-based or hermeneutical metaphors. As the latter approach is more flexible, it might be more applicable to the design environment. The generated knowledge can be located in three areas—design knowledge, epistemology, methodology (the process to get there), and phenomenology (the composition of the artefacts). While the main focus of this thesis has been on theory design, it was also important to delineate how to get there, as well as analyse the questionable differences between theory and practice, since they are ideal types that mark the extreme ends of a continuum (Jonsen and Toulmin 1988, p.36). The work presented in this thesis was conducted in a circular manner, like a design process, in order to encapsulate the instance. Therefore, essential topics reappear, allowing them to be reframed and newly contextualised. Chapter 0.0 to 0.7 reperesent the introductory part of this work. Thus, the content presented could be referred to as ‘the briefing’—as a parallel to a design case—to provide the background. It shows the motivation, a first hypothesis, some methodological considerations, and the research design and decisions. The aim is to provide insight into the phenomenon of interest and discuss some preconceptions. Thus, these introductory chapters provide orientation through locating some statements of the provided (design) discourse. Developing a conceptual model based on the writings of Michel Foucault and Helmut Krippendorff. As a follow up, Section A consists of several key components, and encompasses the research methodology specificity, its theoretical underpinning, and its connection to design, a reframing and contextualisation. This section also provides the means to overcome the discrepancy between researching and designing. Therefore, in Chapter A1−A1.6, a more substantial discourse of design is provided, along with the theory and the essential knowledge. Here, we can see the method in operation, as a patching of discursive statements—akin to an additive process of designing. Clearly, the attempt made here belongs to the constructivist epistemology, as the idea of design is a mental construct. Nonetheless, the aim is to provide a broad perspective of what can be presently observed in the design field. The employed methodology strategically aims to overcome the divide between designing and researching—between acting and reflecting—in order to provide a conceptual model. Still, it also makes the designing practice a conscious process, whereby theory is designed through discourse. Such discourse is revealed within the discovery of textual statements based on an extensive literature review, as well as through the discovery of textual statements from organised interactive conferences. The theory developed here is, in fact, a theory derived from theory, and is shaped through finding patterns and the simplification of the overall structure they form. In A.2, the concept of discourse and its designing quality is revealed. It shows how discourse, as the guiding method, is ‘excavated’ from the writings of Michel Foucault and Helmut Krippendorff. Methodologically, Michel Foucault’s ‘Archeology of Knowledge’ was analysed against and parallel to Helmut Krippendorff’s ‘Semantic Turn’, as these sources are complementary to each other. The goal of this process is a comparison of statements, yielding reasoning towards discourse and design discourse. In sum, this analysis helped reveal that it is a matter of design how the discourse is provided. The outcome of the aforementioned comparison is very interesting and satisfying. The findings revealed a difference in discourse, because engineering and design discourses are informed by rhetoric of design, rhetoric of deliberation, in opposite to humanistic discourse, which consumes textual objects (Perelman 1999). The discursive designing process within these chapters reveals some important elements, such as the conceptual frame of politics, referred to in Foucault’s discourse explorations. According to the author, power is a generating force in shaping discourse (Faucault 1980, p.119). In contrast, Krippendorff (1995b) sees power as emanating from language, which can be overcome through avoiding the construction of certain language. In the research presented, the designing practice that took place during the conferences, as well as the aforementioned notions, play a role, as was shown in Chapter 3. Power, as it was experienced, is unavoidable. Yet, rather than seeing it as a problem, it should be viewed as a generating force. A second more substantial question arises around the notion of discontinuity (A.2.3), which is essential in Foucault’s concept. According to Krippendorff, knowledge is not partitioned; it rather provides continuity through the various disciplines. As this research shows, this view should not be seen as an opposite to Foucault’s concept of discontinuity, because statements can refer to the same object, but coming from a discontinuous field, from various disciplines. In other words, as design discourse can be viewed as a discourse hosted by various disciplines, it is discontinuous! With respect to Foucault’s concern of grasping of statements, the main goal of this thesis is to provide support for this perspective. As the author noted, the grasping of the statements needs to follow the exact specificity of their occurrence (Foucault 1972). The prudence and success of dissociating statements from their original context to place them in a new context is questionable, since no discontinuity can be ignored (Foucault 1972). Often, rather than paraphrasing the text so that it reflects one’s own understanding of it, the result is a mere citation of the original texts and con-texts. The awareness of discontinuity does not allow for this thesis to be presented according to the positivistic paradigm.
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Rechner, Christopher D. "Discursive infections, a critical theory of virus." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq21139.pdf.

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Mokrovich, Jason Theodore. "On a discursive conversation between queer theory and sociology." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2493/.

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Dominated by a number of humanities-based disciplines and influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis and French post-structuralism, queer theory emerged in the early 1990s as a critical project that problematised the theorisation of sexuality and its relation to lesbian and gay politics. The purpose of the thesis is to have a discursive conversation between queer theory and sociology. I want to consider the current unproductive relationship between the two. From both a queer and sociological perspective, I will examine, problematise and rework sociology’s uncritical reading of queer theory and queer theory’s general failure to acknowledge and engage with sociology, with the intent to move them towards disciplinary cross-fertilisation. I will argue that disciplinary cross-fertilisation can only happen if sociology reads queer theory carefully and critically and queer theory and sociology facilitate and promote discursive spaces that are theoretically and methodologically integrated. In considering their relationship, I will draw upon a number of diverse theoretical perspectives, for example: social-historical constructionism, symbolic interactionism, post structuralism, and feminist theory. I will also draw upon my ethnographic work on gay male male-to-female drag that took place in the United States between September 1995 and June 1997, with a brief revisit in February 1999. I will finally conclude by proposing that an ‘outsider-within perspective’ serve as a basis for future engagement between queer theory and sociology. It is my opinion that the facilitation and promotion of queer and sociological perspectives that are neither full outsiders nor full insiders to their disciplinary domain would generate the conditions for disciplinary cross-fertilisation.
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Harris, Rose M. "Signifying race and gender : discursive strategies in feminist theory and politics." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Rooks_Diss_01.

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Chen, Li-Ning. "A feminist politics of discursive embodiment : rethinking Iris M. Young's gender seriality." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16792/.

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Divergent forms of female embodiment have prompted contemporary feminist theorists to depart from gender essentialism and draw attention to the heterogeneity of gender performances in the (re)conceptualisation of 'women'. I argue feminist politics may become ossified and repressive if the public arena fails to reflect the plurality of women and their diverse political claims. Exploring the theorisation of 'women' in the context of the politics of difference, this thesis analyses the reciprocal relationship between the construction of 'women' and the pluralisation of feminist politics, by articulating a 'feminist politics of discursive embodiment'. The thesis is divided into two parts. I begin with Iris M. Young's conception of 'gender seriality' that categorises 'women' as a social series constructed through a practico-inert reality of gender and characterised by a passive member relationship, rather than as a social group with common objectives and essential attributes. I then draw on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological concept of 'the lived body', to deepen this account and to sketch out how the female body is the material locus of gender imperatives and, hence, the primary site of politicisation. The second part of the thesis articulates a feminist politics of discursive embodiment concentrating on how the politicisation of different experiences of female embodiment pluralises feminist politics. I argue that the combination of a reworked understanding of female authority and an agonistic ethos as a political practice can facilitate democratic deliberation and can inaugurate a progressive feminist politics. The Milan Women's Bookstore Collective's depiction of 'the symbolic mother' is specifically used to demonstrate how politicising womanhood can recuperate the historically absent female relationship against patriarchy. I conclude with an exploration of agonist ethos that recognises the constitutive tension between different political claims and encourages openness and the (re)signification of each asserted 'womanhood', so ensuring the responsiveness of a democratic feminist politics.
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Morison, Tracy, and Catriona Macleod. "A performative-performance analytical approach: infusing Butlerian theory into the narrative-discursive method." Sage Publications, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003065.

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Judith Butler’s theory of performativity provides gender theorists with a rich theoretical language for thinking about gender. Despite this, Butlerian theory is difficult to apply, as Butler does not provide guidance on actual analysis of language use in context. In order to address this limitation, we suggest carefully supplementing performativity with the notion of performance in a manner that allows for the inclusion of relational specificities and the mechanisms through which gender, and gender trouble, occur. To do this, we turn to current developments within discursive psychology and narrative theory. We extend the narrative-discursive method proposed by Taylor and colleagues, infusing it with Butlerian theory in order to fashion a dual analytical lens, which we call the performativity-performance approach. We provide a brief example of how the proposed analytical process may be implemented.
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van, der Bom Isabelle. "Text World Theory and stories of self : a cognitive discursive approach to identity." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10110/.

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This thesis offers a text-worlds-approach to the study of linguistic identity in discursive interaction. It focuses on how settled Chinese migrants in Sheffield, who migrated predominantly from Hong Kong and the New Territories, construct their identities linguistically. To this extent, linguistic interview data is analysed with the use of the conceptual framework Text World Theory (e.g. Gavins 2007a; Werth 1999). As such, this thesis has three central aims: to extend the use of Text World Theory by applying it to spoken discourse; to examine the ways in which people linguistically represent themselves and talk about their life experiences; and to provide insight into the narratives of Chinese migrants and their families in Sheffield in particular. The linguistic data used in this thesis has been collected through 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork at a Chinese complementary school in Sheffield, UK. Based on the outcome of the analytical investigations of linguistic interview data, I aim to offer several original contributions. Firstly, I hope to provide a better understanding of migrant lives, by investigating the narrated experiences of Chinese migrants and their families. Secondly, I offer Text World Theory as a suitable framework for the study of linguistic identity. I extend the framework to the relatively unexplored domain of spoken discourse, synthesising a discursive approach to identity (e.g. Bucholtz and Hall 2005) with a Text World Theory approach (e.g. Gavins 2007a; Werth 1999). I demonstrate that Text World Theory can explain the complex and multi-layered nature of identity through the scope it provides for tracing linguistic self-representation across multiple worlds. Finally, I show that the framework is particularly adept at synthesising macro-level analysis of discursive interaction with detailed micro-level analysis of linguistic choices and their conceptual consequences.
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Robertson, David George. "Metaphysical conspiracism : UFOs as discursive object between popular millennial and conspiracist fields." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10586.

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This thesis argues that narratives about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) act as the central point of contact between conspiracist and popular millennial fields. Their confluence has come to form a field here termed ‘metaphysical conspiracism’, combining teleological narratives, the promise of soteriological knowledge and the threat of occluded malevolent agencies. I argue that metaphysical conspiracism offers a unique perspective on the interplay of knowledge, power and the construction of the other in contemporary popular discourse. Narratives about UFOs (and their extra-terrestrial occupants) have their roots in the Cold War period, but from the 1980s were increasingly constructed within a supernatural framework. Discourse analysis of popular literature from this period reveals a process of discursive transfer as the UFO narrative is contested and negotiated between conspiracist discourses concerning powerful, hidden agencies and popular millennial discourses of personal and planetary transformation, including ‘New Age’, 'Ascension' and '2012'. Using historical discourse analysis, supported by small-scale ethnographic sampling, I examine this discursive transfer in the work of three popular writers who together offer a broad overview of the field. Whitley Strieber was a central figure in the 'alien abduction' narrative in the 1980s, but his speculations on its meaning led him increasingly towards millennial and conspiratorial narratives. David Icke's well-known theory that a conspiracy of reptilian extraterrestrials has secretly seized control of the planet is demonstrated to have developed in the 1990s from a post-Theosophical narrative of benevolent UFOs as harbingers of the 'New Age'. Although less well-known, David Wilcock's work demonstrates that UFOs were also instrumental in the incorporation of conspiracist material into the recent '2012' millennial narrative. I seek to answer two questions with this thesis. Firstly, what is the common mechanism which facilitates the hybridisation I uncover between conspiracy narratives and popular millennialism? Secondly, how do the resulting metaphysical conspiracist narratives serve their subscribers? Despite a number of structural similarities, I argue that the common mechanism is the mobilisation of counter-epistemic strategies; that is, those predicated upon access to non-falsifiable sources of knowledge. The UFO narrative is particularly well-suited to suggesting sociological uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific and other strategies for the legitimisation of knowledge, encouraging its adoption by both conspiracist and millennial discourses. Secondly, metaphysical conspiracism reconciles the utopian vision of popular millennial discourse with the apocalyptic critique of modern global society announced by conspiracists. I therefore argue that metaphysical conspiracism supplies an effective popular theodicy with a Gnostic flavour in which these millennial prophecies did not ‘fail’, but were prevented from arriving by hidden malevolent others.
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Zacharias, Sally. "The linguistic representation of abstract concepts in learning science : a cognitive discursive approach." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55599/.

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Learning scientific concepts can be challenging for many pupils and consequently much research has been carried out to locate and explain the social and cognitive processes involved in bringing about changes to learners' abstract conceptual understandings. This thesis contributes to this field by offering a text-world account (Werth 1999, Gavins 2007a) of how scientific concepts are constructed and linguistically represented in classroom discourse. More specifically, its first aim is to explore how a group of twenty, first year secondary pupils and their teacher construct and linguistically represent the abstract scientific concept of heat energy (and related concepts) in discourse. In so doing, it examines how the concept emerges and develops during a series of classroom activities, including a teacher-led demonstration, a simulated role-play and a group discussion/writing task, in addition to teacher and pupil interviews. By using the Text World Theory framework (see Gavins 2007a; Werth 1999) to focus on the linguistic choices and their corresponding cognitive effects, it becomes possible to explore the cognitive architecture of the pupils during the learning events and interviews. Thus, it is hoped that this study makes an innovative contribution to the field of cognitive linguistics and science education by explaining and exemplifying how learners' scientific concepts develop in naturalistic settings (Amin 2015). As a text-world approach to investigating classroom discourse is a relatively new area of exploration, the thesis also aims to examine the effectiveness of the text-world framework to explore multimodal, interactive classroom environments. The class involved in this study belonged to a state secondary school in a large urban city in Scotland. There was a broad ability range amongst its pupils, many of whom spoke languages other than English at home. The data generated was the result of a four-month prolonged investigation with the class, which resulted in the video and audio recordings of 15 lessons, 8 pupil interviews and 5 teacher interviews. Part of this data was later transcribed and analysed using the text-world framework. This framework proves to be well-suited to the task of investigating the conceptual structure of the classroom participants, due to its ability to track and explore multiple conceptual worlds established through spatial and temporal shifts, as well as modality and metaphor. By applying the framework to the relatively unexplored context of the classroom, extensions to the framework are made that show how the classroom discourse, the knowledge frames of the pupils as well as the social and concrete world of the classroom, play a key role in the development of abstract thought in a classroom setting.
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Ferns, Jan George. "Organizing nature as business : discursive struggles, the global ecological crisis, and a social-symbolic deadlock." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25847.

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Despite looming ecological disaster, a persistent state of insufficient action seems commonplace amongst most organizations. This thesis critically explores how this impasse is constituted by discursive struggles surrounding the global ecological crisis. These struggles are situated within the context of global environmental governance – a power arena that has, over the past 25 years, become a defining battleground regarding environmental sustainability. Here, discourses of the ecological crisis are constituted by political contests amongst, most notably, multinational corporations, civil society organizations, and (trans)national policy actors. This thesis draws mainly from post-structural discourse theory, coupled with critical perspectives on organizations and the natural environment, to explore both the discursive practices that fix meanings surrounding the global ecological crisis, and the power effects thereof. The primary source of data is text – this study is explicitly interested in how discourses of the global ecological crisis evolve as the natural environment is (mis)represented in organizational disclosures. Despite recognition by management and organization scholars that the natural environment is indeed constructed, a functional separation between business and nature persists, the relationship of which is mostly examined from a firm-centric perspective. However, sustainability issues such as climate change transcend the confines of firm activity and operate across spatial and temporal dimensions. Hence, there is an urgent need to reconsider the business-nature dualism. To do so, this study adopts a multi-level, multi-method approach that permits a necessary degree of analytical and theoretical flexibility. The four individual articles that encompass this work, whilst drawing from different theoretical approaches, along with focusing on different levels of analysis, are underpinned by the contentious intersection between discourse, organizations and the natural environment. The first article concerns ‘macro talk’ and, operating on the field level, explores how a dominant understanding of business’ role in sustainable development is constituted during the UN Earth Summits in 1992, 2002, and 2012. The second article regards ‘corporate talk’ and, this time on an organizational level, examines how tensions between economic growth and environmental protection are avoided by the European oil and gas supermajors—BP, Shell and Total—through the practice of mythmaking. The third article takes a longitudinal approach and, also concerning ‘corporate talk’, examines how BP rearticulated a hegemonic discourse of fossil fuels, which, when enacted, reproduces corporate inaction on climate change. Finally, the fourth article emphasizes ‘resistance talk’, focusing on how climate activists, as part of the global fossil fuel divestment movement, engage in certain micro-level practices as they attempt to stigmatize the fossil fuel industry. In all, the findings from these articles suggest that organizations both represent nature as something to be conquered, dominated, and valued economically and as a pristine wilderness to be preserved for the enjoyment of future generations. In pursuing these two extremes concurrently, organizations self-perpetuate a social-symbolic deadlock that hinders finding sustainable ways for human systems to coexist with natural systems. This thesis contributes mainly to literature on organizations and the natural environment by illustrating how certain practices, mechanisms, and processes continuously redefine the business-nature relationship by facilitating a discursive struggle across multiple spatial and temporal dimensions. In doing so, there are implications both for policy and business organizations, which are discussed in the concluding chapter of this work.
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Morality and social criticism: The force of reasons in discursive practice. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Making religion: Theory and practice in the discursive study of religion. Boston: Brill, 2016.

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Powermatics: A discursive critique of new communications technology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

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N'Goran, David K. Les illusions de l'africanité: Une analyse socio-discursive du champ littéraire. Paris: Publibook, 2012.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of "sex". New York: Routledge, 1993.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of "sex". New York: Routledge, 1993.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “sex”. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011.

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Keyman, Emin Fuat. Mapping the concept of modern: Three discursive positions on epistemology and the uniqueness of Western capitalism. Ottawa: Dept. of Political Science, Carleton University, 1988.

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Ladeur, Karl-Heinz. Can Habermas' discursive ethics support a theory of the constitution?: Towards a critique of the attempt to replace the unity of substantive universal reason by a procedural rationality of argumentation. Badia Fiesolana, San Domenica (FI): European University Institute, 1999.

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Sabry, Randa. Stratégies discursives: Digression, transition, suspens. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1992.

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Denham, Tim. "Opening discursive space." In Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in TheoryArchaeological perspectives, 217–33. Names: Thomas, Tim, 1971– editor. Title: Theory in the Pacific, the Pacific in theory : archaeological perspectives / edited by Tim Thomas. Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203730973-10.

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Sharrock, Wes. "Closet Cartesianism in Discursive Psychology." In Against Theory of Mind, 191–208. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230234383_10.

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Ellis, Don. "A Discourse Theory of Ethnic Identity." In Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics, 25–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230591301_2.

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Venkov, Nikola A. "On the Retreat of Liberal Values and Access to Discourse: Extending Post-Foundational Discourse Theory." In Discursive Approaches to Populism Across Disciplines, 199–223. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55038-7_8.

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Squire, Vicki. "Challenging Managerial Operations: Developing a Discursive Theory of Securitisation." In The Exclusionary Politics of Asylum, 21–42. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230233614_2.

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Hansen, Allan Dreyer, and Eva Sørensen. "Polity as Politics: Studying the Shaping and Effects of Discursive Polities." In Discourse Theory in European Politics, 93–116. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230523364_4.

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Sivesind, Kirsten, and Ninni Wahlström. "Curriculum and Leadership in Transnational Reform Policy: A Discursive-Institutionalist Approach." In Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik, 439–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58650-2_14.

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Uljens, Michael, and Helena Rajakaltio. "National Curriculum Development as Educational Leadership: A Discursive and Non-affirmative Approach." In Bridging Educational Leadership, Curriculum Theory and Didaktik, 411–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58650-2_13.

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Block, David. "Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance." In Identity Revisited and Reimagined, 25–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58056-2_2.

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Van De Mieroop, Dorien. "Social Identity Theory and the Discursive Analysis of Collective Identities in Narratives." In The Handbook of Narrative Analysis, 408–28. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118458204.ch21.

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Khmelkova, Natalya, Alexander Agenosov, Anastasia Rudanina, and Maria Vekhova. "Co-Branding as Assemblage: Assemblage Theory, and Brand Alliances in the Digital Era." In The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-64.

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The article outlines the contours of a new methodology in the study of co-branding, based on M. DeLanda’s theory of assemblages, developed in line with the cutting edge of modern philosophical thought: object-oriented ontology. It is demonstrated that the relevance of its development is linked to the changes in brand alliance practices occurring under the influence of globalisation and digitalisation processes. Transformations characteristic to merging brands, and related to both their rise in number and diversification were proven to be part of a more global tendency towards the complication of social reality, and cannot be explained within the ‘perceived conformity’ paradigm that dominates co-branding. The author’s approach is conceptualised using comparative and discursive analysis methods, the essence of which lies in deconstructing the established notions of brand alliances as internally consistent alliances with an intelligible logic. Real co-branding cases were provided to demonstrate a tendency towards forming alliances evaluated as ‘irrational’, ‘sudden’, and ‘unpredictable’. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, it has been suggested that co-branding should be seen as an assembly process and that alliances themselves should be seen as systems of an assemblage nature. It is stressed that the representation of brands through the lens of the assemblage theory allows us to demonstrate their heterogeneity, plasticity and openness to change and interactions, which contributes to the formation of brand alliances. The conclusion outlines the prospects of applying the author’s approach to the field of co-branding, highlighting that the proposed optics of the theory of assemblage contribute to achieving the necessary flexibility in forming brand alliances relevant to the complexity and diversity of the modern digital era.
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Baranov, A. N., and D. O. Dobrovol’skij. "STYLE DYNAMICS OF THE RUSSIAN WRITTEN SPEECH OF THE 19TH CENTURY: A CORPUS STUDY." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-48-61.

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The starting point of the present paper is the hypothesis that the distribution of discursive words characterizes the trends in the development of the writing style of the 19th century. The paper presents and discusses the results of an experiment based on the data of the Russian National Corpus on the frequency of using discursive words with the semantics of epistemic modality, such as konechno, razumeetsya (both roughly meaning ‘of course’), po-vidimomu ‘apparently’, kak kazhetsya, kazalos’ by (both ≈ ‘it would seem’), naverno ≈ ‘as it were’, veroyatno ‘probably’, pozhaluy ≈ ‘maybe’, deystvitel’no ‘really’, etc. We show that the frequency of this group of expressions increases in the second half of the 19th century. A similar trend is also observed for some syntactic constructions with the same semantics: (ya) dumayu, chto… ‘(I) think that...’; (ya) schitayu, chto… ‘(I) believe that...’; (mne) kazhetsya, chto… ‘it seems to me that’. The revealed regularity is considered as a discursive practice in changing the style of fiction, which consisted in expanding the modus part of the utterance as compared to the earlier period. The discursive practice of expanding the modus was inherent only to a group of innovative writers (first of all, F. M. Dostoevsky, M. E. SaltykovShchedrin, L. N. Tolstoy, I. A. Goncharov, A. F. Pisemsky, P. I. MelnikovPechersky, N. S. Leskov, and I. S. Turgenev), who, however, due to their talent, social significance, and the number of published texts, had a significant impact on the language of fiction. The task of studying the dynamics of artistic style is to identify and describe a set of discursive practices that establish written discourse as such.
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Martínez Carrasco, Robert. "Using Wikipedia as a classroom tool — a translation experience." In Fourth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head18.2018.8112.

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This paper presents a classroom experience regarding the use of Wikipedia in a teaching innovation project carried out between Jaume I University and Wikimedia Spain. Framed in the current post-postivist climate within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), Wikipedia will be presented as an inter-disciplinary tool with a relevant number of classroom applications, reflecting how meaningful learning experiences based on collaborative work and authentic project-based tasks lead to better understanding and higher levels of motivation among the students. In the particular case of translation education, it will be argued that using Wikipedia in the course of the reverse translation modules allows the students to gain a deeper insight of its linguistic and discursive structures, as well as the critical/exegetic skills they need in order to assess the kind of texts with which they are commissioned, and the special discursive techniques associated to the translation task.
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Lohse, Manja, Katharina J. Rohlfing, Britta Wrede, and Gerhard Sagerer. "“Try something else!” — When users change their discursive behavior in human-robot interaction." In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/robot.2008.4543743.

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Melo, Lafayette B. "Social Web Memes: Self Images and the Circulation of Stereotypes on Google and Facebook." In Workshop sobre Aspectos da Interação Humano-Computador na Web Social. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/waihcws.2018.3892.

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This article describes the working of memes in the Social Web that build stereotypes and images that people make of themselves. The theoretical-methodological approach of French Speech Analysis is used. Memes are collected in search results from Google, Google Images and Facebook to build the search corpus. It is concluded that memes have discursive peculiarities in their internal structure and in their ensemble for a social group, that people can increasingly read messages that are not intended for them and that humor acts for the intense circulation of this communication format.
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Ravshanovna, Ashirbaeva Dilorom. "APPEALS TO MEN AND WOMEN IN KOREAN AND UZBEK FAMILY DISCURSE." In UZBEKISTAN-KOREA: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS OF COOPERATION. OrientalConferences LTD, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ocl-01-33.

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This article is devoted to speech appealing units in the Korean and Uzbek family discourse. It displays the area of use, similar and distinctive aspects of translating in two languages. Korean and Uzbek are languages that belong to the same family. Therefore, in both languages, you can learn and interpret the structure of sentences and addresses. This article will review and analyze Korean and Uzbek discursive references to men and women in the family. In particular, similar and different differences in appeal are highlighted using the examples provided in the translation. In Korean, there are special speech units that are used separately for boys and girls to indicate to brother and sister, or special speech units when referring to grandparents. On the one hand, these special speech units, may seem simple, but in other they can lead to some translation difficulties.
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Galhardi, Lucas, Rodrigo C. Thom De Souza, and Jacques Brancher. "Automatic Grading of Portuguese Short Answers Using a Machine Learning Approach." In Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbsi.2020.13133.

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Short answers are routinely used in learning environments for students’ assessment. Despite its importance, teachers find the task of assessing discursive answers very time-consuming. Aiming at assisting in this problem, this work explores the Automatic Short Answer Grading (ASAG) field using a machine learning approach. The literature was reviewed and 44 papers using different techniques were analyzed considering many aspects. A Portuguese dataset was build with more than 7000 short answers. Different approaches were experimented and a final model was created with their combination. The model’s effectiveness showed to be satisfactory, with kappa scores indicating moderate/substantial agreement between the model and human grading.
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Rojo de Castro, Luis. "METÁFORAS OBSESIVAS: marcas del surrealismo en la construcción del discurso de Le Corbusier." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.591.

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Resumen: El reciente interés académico en el Movimiento surrealista constituye una revisión de largo alcance, habiéndose ampliado el campo de análisis con evidente ambición multidisciplinar. Su estratégica relación con otras disciplinas, la impostación de sus derivas urbanas como prácticas sociales y etnográficas, la profundización en las técnicas de manipulación de la fotografía y la escritura, la naturalización de la fragmentación asociada al montaje y, finalmente, la revisión de la imprecisa naturaleza del objeto surrealista en sus distintas versiones (objet trouvé, objet à réaction poétique, objet-type, ready-made, etc.) y su función seminal en lo contemporáneo, facilitan un escenario de investigación complejo y abierto. Un escenario en el que la obra de Le Corbusier se dibuja en una nueva perspectiva. Le Corbusier adoptó técnicas afines al surrealismo, como la fotografía, el montaje y el caligrama, con el objeto de ampliar el significado de los paradigmas asociados a la racionalidad productiva y tecnológica, en particular los que construyen el espacio doméstico. El uso tales medios discursivos y de divulgación asociados con el surrealismo facilitó la contaminación de su discurso con las estrategias desestabilizadoras y conflictivas características del Movimiento. Abstract: The recent academic interest in the surrealist movement is a far-reaching review, having widened the scope of analysis with evident multidisciplinary ambition. Its strategic relationship with other disciplines, the imposture of their urban drifts as social and ethnographic practices, the deepening on the manipulation techniques of photography and writing, the naturalization of fragmentation associated with montage and, finally, the review of the imprecise nature of the Surrealist object in its different versions (objet trouvé, objet à réaction poétique, objet-type, ready-made, etc.) and its seminal role in the contemporary facilitate an open and complex research scenario. A scenario within which the work of Le Corbusier is perceived in a new perspective. Le Corbusier adopted techniques related to surrealism, such as photography, montage, automatism and the calligram, in order to expand as well as undermine the meaning of canonical paradigms associated to productive and technological rationality, in particular those related to the domestic milieu. The use of such display of discursive instruments facilitated the contamination of his editorial and architectural work with the destabilizing and conflicting strategies that characterize the Movement. Palabras Clave: Surrealismo, metáforas obsesivas, montaje, automatismo, analogía, arbitrariedad. Keywords: Surrealism, obsessive metaphors, montage, automatism, analogy, arbitrariness. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.591
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Mesaroş, Gabriel Florin. "Dimensions Regarding the Communication-Satisfaction-Organizational Performance Relationship in the Knowledge Society." In International Conference Innovative Business Management & Global Entrepreneurship. LUMEN Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumproc/ibmage2020/53.

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A significant problem facing modern society, which directly and immediately affects, but also indirectly, the lives of individuals, groups, and community, in general, is the problem of communication. Today, communication is the primary dimension and value of our existence, becoming omnipresent, so that it is not even perceived as a distinct activity. Its role is to facilitate interaction between people, in the environment in which they evolve, through the content of issued and received messages to achieve certain goals and transmit particular meanings. Performance and satisfaction are interdependent and separate. Performance remains influenced by individual characteristics such as competence and overall perspicacity, organizational support related to technology and resources, and work effort. Good management of internal communication leads to eliminating differences in receiving any change, with positive effects on the efficiency, credibility, and public image of the institution. The degree of vulnerability of the organization is reflected both in the discursive manifestation at the individual level and especially on organizational performance. There is a need for constant review and continuous improvement of the way an organization measures its performance.
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Markova, Anna. "THE TOURIST BLOG: BETWEEN PERSONAL TRAVELOGUE AND COMMUNICATION FOR VALORISING CULTURAL HERITAGE." In TOURISM AND CONNECTIVITY 2020. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/tc2020.65.

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In the context of the specifics of tourism discourse and communication through blogs, the paper presents an analysis of the image of the cultural heritage of the municipality of Kazanlak in 30 publications in French-language tourist blogs from the last ten years. The various discursive strategies and linguistic tools that can be identified in these texts are explored through the prism of their contribution to structuring a presentation that goes beyond the story of personal travel and emphasizes authenticity, identity and axiological charge, aesthetic value and the invitation to discover alterity in the described tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Elements that bring the discourse thus constructed closer to a communication that valorises cultural property. Thus, beyond the possibility of outlining the image of cultural heritage perceived by the foreign tourist, useful with a view to the efforts to promote it, the issue of the foreign tourist blog as a potential interesting component of communication campaigns in the field of cultural tourism deserves attention.
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Echevarría, Mirta-Clara. Media and their world views. The meaning anchored in dialogic discursive strategies. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-66-2011-935-314-325-en.

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