Search results for "Public discourse"
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Religious toleration and the limits of liberal secularism: The case of India
2019
In recent years there has been a resurgence of public discourse about the role of tolerance as one of the key elements of the Western philosophical heritage. The fact that Western societies remain ...
What Do Latvian “Peaceful Peasants” Do? A Peace System in A Rural Parish of Latvia
2013
There is no shortage of violent references in contemporary public discourse in Latvia, where ancient and more recent military exploits are often invoked to conjure up the nation. For example, the F...
‘Female genital mutilation’ in Europe: Public discourse versus empirical evidence
2017
Media often report about circumcision of girls, or ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM), in ways that present this practice as a burning social problem, albeit secretively performed among African immi ...
On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video
2011
Abstract The overall aim of this paper is to investigate impoliteness in a particular on-line polylogal setting – YouTube postings (c. 13,000 words) triggered by the ‘Obama Reggaeton’ video, which was released during the 2008 US democratic primaries. This is done through integration of quantitative/qualitative analytic tools and of (im)politeness1 and (im)politeness 2 approaches. A two-prong experimental study is used in order to examine impoliteness realisation and interpretation in the corpus. Findings reveal clear patterns in the realisation of impoliteness strategies, including a preference for on-record impoliteness saliently oriented towards attacking the positive face needs of one's …
Understanding functional ability: Perspectives of nurses and older people living in long-term care
2017
The functional ability of older people has come to play a significant role in their care. Policies and public debate promote active aging and the need to maintain functioning in old age, including among older people living in long-term care. This study explores the meanings given to functional ability in the interview talk of long-term care nurses (n=24) and older people living in long-term care (n=16). The study is based on discourse analysis and positioning theory. In this study, accounts of functioning differed between nurses and older residents. For the nurses, functional ability was about the basic functions of everyday life, and they often used formal and theoretical language, whereas…
Intellectual Power in Europe
2018
In this chapter, the author argues that the increasing complexity of European societies accentuates the need for a discourse that unites specialists—mathematicians, engineers, humanists—and the public. European societies are constantly haunted by the fragmentation of knowledge relating to political and social life. This can be seen in the decline in political participation as well as the discontent with globalization and resistance to social reforms. These phenomena are related to the status of intellectuals as producers of public discourse. The author concentrates on two socio-cultural aspects that influence the transformation of the role of intellectuals, a substantial aspect, the questio…
Sanzione religiosa, procedimenti giuridici e disincanto in Tucidide. Il dramma di Platea
2016
Il racconto tucidideo sul dramma di Platea, oltre ad essere di eccezionale intensità, è anche e soprattutto una riflessione sottile sui confini incerti e precari tra politica e morale, e sull’ambiguità e i rischi delle parole e del discorso pubblico: fuori dal logos, fuori dalla parola, che è sempre parola pubblica, non c’è politica, e dove non c’è politica ogni confine si dissolve e tutto diviene possibile. In questo terreno, su cui lo storico ateniese ci riporta continuamente, le sanzioni religiose e i procedimenti giudiziari invocati di volta in volta dai diversi protagonisti della narrazione sono di fatto sottoposti ad una riflessione corrosiva che ne smaschera la natura dissimulatrice.…
Media’s portrayal of CAM: Exploring 40 years of narratives and meanings in public discourse
2021
The media are a key element in being able to assess how the climate of public opinion regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) has evolved over the years. The aim of this study is to explore the variation of the media representations along 40 years (1979–2018) in Spanish newspapers to assess if the press has contributed to legitimise, delegitimise or maintain the status quo of these therapies. From quantitative and qualitative approaches, we evaluate the media attention, the narratives, linguistic terms and tone used, and the relations between them. Results indicate the media reporting on CAM has remained relatively stable during the first 37 years (1979–2015) of the study, …
Medialne formy komunikowania obywateli z władzą
2017
The purpose of this paper is to characterize the media forms of the communication of citizens with the authorities. The discourse types with high occurrence in the public sphere of communication with the authorities are: open letter, petition, appeal, resolution of opinion, and comments in the social media (e.g. on Facebook). It can be said that these genres are a form of direct participation of citizens in the process of exercising power. They are the Citizen s weapon, a tool to exert influence on the fin a ł decisions of the authorities in matters of public life. The themes of public magazines are varied, most often „ hot cases ” referring to decisions currently taken by the authorities. …
Polityczność feminatywów
2022
The article takes a diachronic look at feminatives in the Polish language from the sixteenth century to the present day. The authors recall the history of female forms in the language. Referring to pre-war journalism, discussions in the journal Poradnik Językowy [The Linguistic Guide] and the propaganda lexis of communist Poland, they prove that female forms are not foreign to the Polish language. They create a comprehensive list of reasons why feminatives have disappeared from Polish, taking account of both intra-linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The authors refer to examples from contemporary media and public discourse to show gender asymmetry in the language and the mechanisms of …