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Integrating a Nexus: the history of political discourse and language policy research

2019

Historians of political discourse and language policy researchers should join forces to develop methods of textual analysis that help to integrate political and intellectual history. They could do so by focusing their analysis on interconnections between material realities, human physical action, practices and structures, as well as institutions and ideologies as discursive constructs. Such a version of soft constructivism underscoring the discursive nature of much of politics encourages historians to analyse past political discourses more systematically. Concepts such as nexus, historical body, mobility and discursive transfers borrowed from language research deepen our analytical understa…

Divers aspects de la fertilité de la vigne après une grêle

1981

<p style="text-align: justify;">Following a hail storm, the question normally posed is first to what extent a repruning is beneficial, and then to evaluate the hail's effect on the following year's fertility. A careful study of the influence of hail, using numerous measurements of fertility taken during winter has allowed to determine the parameters that should be taken into account in choosing the course of action to follow.</p>

Revealing financial accounting in Finland under five historical themes

2009

This article deals with the historical development of financial accounting in Finland from 1862 to 2005. The period starts with the publication of the first Finnish accounting textbook by August Lilius in 1862. The year 2005 marks another milestone: this was when all listed companies were obligated to prepare consolidated accounts according to IAS/ IFRS standards. The study applies a discourse analysis approach and presents Finnish financial accounting history under five discourses or themes, namely: entrepreneurship, academic, governance control, professional and financial market themes. Some of these have assumed more dominance over time while others have lost much of their former signifi…

Å leve et menneskeverdig liv - Martha Nussbaums globale helseetikk

2015

Nylig igangsatte FN Post-2015, sin nye utviklingsagenda. Sentralt er en global kamp for bedret helse, hvor det å leve et menneskeverdig liv står i sentrum. Imidlertid er forståelsen av selve helsebegrepet omstridt. Noen mener at det bør knyttes an til jus og menneskerettigheter, mens andre foreslår etikk og menneskeverd. Dette hviler i sin tur på motstridende menneskesyn i den globale helseetiske diskursen, nemlig mennesket som enten autonomt eller avhengig. I artikkelen analyserer jeg denne debatten ut fra det jeg hevder er Martha Nussbaums globale helseetikk, som baseres på hennes kapabilitetstilnærming så vel som begrep om ‘helse som livskvalitet’. Min konklusjon er at Nussbaums normativ…

« Discourse analysis in French communication research »

2014

International audience; According to the conference call, discourse analysis is considered as a qualitative approach, but is it unquestionable? Discourse analysis is born at the same time as computers, is contemporary with the expansion of mathematical and quantitative methods in all sorts of scientific fields, even human sciences. Our main preoccupation will then be : how do practices and theorizations in discourse analysis open ways to reflect the difference between qualitative and quantitative approaches? We propose firstly a presentation of the emerging notion of discourse analysis in France in the 70s, crossing different schools in linguistics, sociology and philosophy of language. We …

Time course of central and peripheral fatigue differs when maintaining a constant-EMG task vs. a constant-torque task

2005

Quantitative image analysis of the chromatolysis in rat facial and hypoglossal motoneurons following axotomy with and without reinnervation.

1996

Image analysis was used to quantify the time course of chromatolysis in regenerating and degenerating motoneurons. Following facial-facial, hypoglossal-hypoglossal nerve suture, or resection of facial and hypoglossal nerves with postoperative survival times of 4 h to 112 days, the texture of the Nissl substance of facial and hypoglossal motoneurons was analyzed on both sides of the brainstem in paraffin serial sections with a VIDASplus image analyzer. In this quantitative study of 149 Wistar rats, alterations of the Nissl substance were measured that were statistically significant but not yet visible to the human eye. Chromatolysis started significantly as early as 8 h and was not fully rev…

The use of texture analysis to study the time course of chromatolysis

1998

Image analysis of the textural feature entropy of the Nissl substance was used to monitor the time course of chromatolysis in regenerating hypoglossal motoneurons and degenerating facial motoneurons 4-112 days after hypoglossal-facial anastomosis in rats. Changes in the Nissl substance were detected that were not obvious on the basis of subjective judgement of the light-microscopical appearance of the neurons. Chromatolysis started 4 days post operation (dpo) and was not reversed at 112 dpo in both nuclei. The increase of chromatolysis was 14-28 dpo faster in the regenerating hypoglossal neurons than in degenerating facial neurons. Maximal chromatolysis was measured at 56-70 dpo in both nuc…

Retoriskie līdzekļi IKEA satura mārketinga tekstos

2018

Mūsdienu patērētāji dod priekšroku zīmoliem, kuru vērtību sistēma ir tāda pat kā šo patērētāju. Viņi atzīst par labāku individualizētu pieeju sev, izklaidējošu saturu, kurā dalīties ar saviem kontaktiem, daudz vizuālās informācijas un emocionālus stāstus. Tāpēc bakalaura darba mērķis bija izpētīt, cik plaši IKEA izmanto retoriskos līdzekļus satura mārketinga tekstos IKEA tīmekļa lapā Apvienotajā Karalistē, lai izraisītu pozitīvu klientu atbildes reakciju. Tā kā IKEA tiek uzskatīts par satura mārketinga gigantu no IKEA Apvienotās Karalistes mājaslapas tika izvēlēti 20 raksti, kuri tika analizēti. Pētījuma rezultāti parādīja to, ka retoriskie līdzekļi tika izmantoti 83 reizes. Visizplatītākās…

A Civilization of Death: Argumentative and Rhetorical Strategies in the Catholic Church's Position on Biotechnology

2017

Although political deliberation rarely proceeds fairly and effectively (Habermas 1984, 1989), the author of this paper assumes the fundamentally deliberative nature of the democratic public sphere, in which different religious institutions may take a stance and argue either for or against certain legal solutions. The study examines argumentation behind the Catholic Church’s negative stance on biotechnologies such as, for example, in vitro fertilization (IVF). Drawing on the theoretical and descriptive work on normative assumptions, knowledge bases and argumentative patterns involved in practical reasoning (Perelman, Olbrechts- Tyteca 1969; Walton 1990; Fairclough, Fairclough 2010, 2012), as…