In the logical literature, Discursive (or Discussive) Logic introduced by Stanis law Jaśkowski is seen as one of the earliest examples of the so-called paraconsistent logic. There is some confusion over what is actually discursive logic nevertheless. One of the possible sources of the confusion is easy to discern; it comes from the fact that Jaśkowski published his two papers in Polish and thei...

This article examines the British media's construction of forced marriage (FM) as an urgent social problem in a context where other forms of violence against women are not similarly problematized. A detailed analysis of four British newspapers over a 10-year period demonstrates that media reporting of FM constitutes a moral panic in that it is constructed as a cultural problem that threatens Br...

This article analyses the Pombaline legislation regarding language teaching with aim of highlighting how discursive construction notion a polished and civilized Europe, by opposing alleged delay in temporal pedagogical administration Jesuits, articulates mythology that presents itself as lexical-discursive arsenal composed few capitalized keywords support «modern», resorting to myth Golden Age ...

This paper describes how discursive knowledge, given by the discursive theories RST (Rhetorical Structure Theory) and CST (Crossdocument Structure Theory), may improve the automatic evaluation of local coherence in multi-document summaries. Two of the main coherence models from literature were incremented with discursive information and obtained 91.3% of accuracy, with a gain of 53% in relation...

This article investigates the securitisation of higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction. Non-discursive are framed habitus inherited from different social fields, whereas Afghanistan, securitising actors converge (e.g., institutions, professions, backgrounds) bar ‘other’ ethnic or groups resources a...

Recent poststructuralist theories of identity posit identities as being discursively constructed in interactions with society, institutions, and individuals. This study used a Linguistic Ethnographic framework to investigate the discursive identity construction of two English teachers, one ‘non-native’ English speaker, and one ‘native’ English speaker, teaching English in a tertiary institution...

This essay argues that the semi-biographical film 8 Mile represents Eminem as being both racially distinctive and as possessing universal commercial appeal. 8 Mile accomplishes this paradoxical construction by portraying ‘‘Rabbit’’ as ‘‘white trash,’’ a discursively ‘‘dark’’ (white) object, and as an American mythological white subject. The film makes whiteness hyper-visible by subjecting it to...