Weblogs: The Screen as a Discursive and Representational Territory

Weblogs: The Screen as a Discursive and Representational Territory

This article intends to be constituted as a reflection about weblogs, while a space in the screen territory for the production of educators’ speech and scenario of the representations constructed by them. Weblogs are understood not only as cyber diaries, but as an extension of the individual identity of the subjects in the cyberspace and publicizing the representations of self and the world the...

Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs

An Apparent Paradox Weblogs ('blogs'), frequently modified web pages containing individual entries displayed in reverse chronological sequence, are the latest mode of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to attain widespread popularity. As with other new CMC technologies, blogs have been hailed as democratizing—any literate person can self-publish content in a blog, and reach an audience of po...

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...

Weblogs as a bridging genre

The Discursive Dilemma as a Lottery Paradox

List and Pettit have stated an impossibility theorem about the aggregation of individual opinion states. Building on recent work on the lottery paradox, this paper offers a variation on that result. The present result places different constraints on the voting agenda and the domain of profiles, but it covers a larger class of voting rules, which need not satisfy the proposition-wise independence