Due to the significance of multiculturalism in politics, and the central role linguistic devices play in organizing the political discourse, this text-based qualitative study was carried out to compare political interviews in the Iranian and English contexts to find out the probable similarities and differences in the use of discourse markers (DMs) between the two cultures. To this end, three s...

The paper considers problems and possibilities connected with governing and realising the ―transition to sustainability‖—or at least to a more deeply resilient energy system. Conceptually its focus is on neo-institutional analysis and critical discourse analysis and the development of a discourse-institutional perspective. The first strand of the paper outlines the limitations of and potential ...

Therapeutic discourse is the talk in interaction between clinician and client that aims to improve themental health of a client.Therapeutic discourse can be conducted in a wide range of institutional settings, varying from primary-care medicine, to rehabilitation and social work. In psychotherapy, therapeutic discourse is the key activity, as the sole business of the psychotherapeutic encounter...

The following paper conceptualizes how the dominant institutional logic of the multinational corporation (MNC) is influenced by the local institutional logic of its wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries. It is argued that when both the density and institutional distance of the subsidiaries are high and resource interdependency exists, deinstitutionalization will occur. Institutional behaviours will...

First, a suggested definition of discourse: at its most general, discourse can be understood as any system of signs, whether spoken, written, or otherwise. I say 'otherwise', because it is possible to 'read' town planning or architecture, for example, as systems that reflect and enact political values and practices. Some use the term a little more specifically; so, for example a phrase such as ...

A growing body of discourse-analytic studies demonstrates that within the legal system, spoken language that undergoes entextualization is transformed in a variety of sociopolitically consequential ways. Through the analysis of a legal case involving the institutional entextualization of incriminating language—an FBI summary log of wiretapped telephone calls between suspected drug dealers—the a...