This paper develops a threshold-based semantics for the Turkish indirect evidential marker, then shows that this marker’s behavior in interrogatives, so-called interrogative flip, follows from the structure of discourse as formulated by models that incorporate speaker commitment. I first establish that the indirect evidential marks information for which a speaker’s evidence is at best second-be...

WHILST the public debate over the ‘idea of Portuguese identity’ within the European context has taken place during this last decade in the media,1 I have not encountered (linguistic) studies on discourses of national identity construction and representation. Another omission is in-depth analyses of the media’s contribution to the reshaping of discourse(s) hence social practice(s) in relation to...

The contribution outlines a research programme which I have coined the “sociology of knowledge approach to discourse” (Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse). This approach to discourse integrates important insights of FOUCAULT’s theory of discourse into the interpretative paradigm in the social sciences, especially the “German” approach of hermeneutic sociology of knowledge (Hermeneutische Wisse...

The history of public library buildings in Finland from 1945 to the present is analyzed by examining the Finnish architectural and librarianship discourses on library planning and design. Two Finnish journals were chosen as the main research material: Arkkitehti, the main national publication for Finnish architects, and Kirjastolehti, the major publication for Finnish librarians. The key histor...

The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. The Coruña Corpus Tool is an information retrieval system that allows the extraction of knowledge from the corpus.

In this paper we will discuss the application of (Segmented) Discourse Representation Theory and the Generative Lexicon to the analysis of a historical French corpus of itineraries in the Pyrénées. Our research will focus in particular on how type coercion (Pustejovsky, 1995) can help us give a correct analysis of cases of so-called “fictive motion” (Talmy, 1999), which is evident is phrases like.

The initial aim of this essay is to sketch out the historical passage from the ideal of salvation to the ideal of cure in the West, indicating the effects of the process of medicalization of society attained through biopolitics. In second place, it is intended to describe the different ramifications of biopolitics in the origins of psychoanalysis discourse.