The paper discusses stylistic techniques and means of creating a language game on the example novel “I am not Pan Jinlian” (2012) by Liu Zhenyun. emphasis is search for new orderings in within framework artistic universe. Studies Zhenyun’s discourse today are included various linguistic, literaryand cultural landscapes, but they fragmentary nature presented, as rule, local material. language, f...

RÉSUMÉ. Nous proposons D-STAG, un nouveau formalisme pour l’analyse automatique de la structure discursive des textes. Les analyses produites par D-STAG sont des structures de discours hiérarchiques annotées de relations de discours, qui sont compatibles avec les structures de discours produites en SDRT. L’analyse discursive prolonge l’analyse phrastique, sans modifier celle-ci, ce qui rend env...

This paper is concerned with the phenomenological repercussions of being positioned within widely available discursive constructions of cancer. One of the many challenges of being diagnosed with cancer is that it requires the person to make sense of the diagnosis and to find meaning in their changed circumstances. From a social constructionist point of view, such meaning is made out of discursi...

An intensive care unit (ICU) is a demanding environment, defined by significant complexity, in which physicians must make decisions in situations characterized by high levels of uncertainty. This study used a phenomenological approach to investigate the decision-making (DM) processes among ICU physicians' team with the aim of understanding what happens when ICU physicians must reach a decision ...

In May 2013 and March 2015, actress Angelina Jolie wrote in the New York Times about her choice to undergo preventive surgery. In her two op-eds, she explained that - as a carrier of the BRCA1 gene mutation - preventive surgery was the best way to lower her heightened risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. By applying a digital methods approach to BRCA-related tweets from 2013 and 2015, ...

Why do firms fail in the face of radical technological change? Answering this question requires addressing how customers develop their interpretations and evaluation criteria of the new technology. This interpretive process occurs through discussions with other market participants. Firms can influence customers’ interpretations through the use of language and visual images what we call “discurs...

This article describes the background and premises of the AHRCfunded project, ‘The Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought’. We offer an empirical, encyclopaedic approach to historical semantics regarding ‘conceptual history’, i.e. the history of concepts that shape thought, culture and society in a particular period. We relate the project to traditional work in conceptual and semantic history...

Discourse analysis has come to represent something of a ‘growth industry’ in both research and critical psychology. Despite the apparent indebtedness of many such methods of discourse analysis to Foucault, there exists no strictly Foucauldian method of analysing discourse. Through a close reading of Foucault's ‘The order of discourse’ (1981), this paper re-characterizes the concept of discourse...

Bliss is one of Katherine Mansfield’s masterpieces, which a short story containing large number discourses, i.e. speeches. Previous scholars analyzed this classical novel from many perspectives, among them the discursive power less mentioned and worth discussing. This paper applying critical discourse analysis theory on interrelation between power, discusses non-equivalence identity heroine, Be...