Given this ambiguity, it is no wonder that one comes across all kinds of definitions of Arendt’s political stance. One of these is characterizations is “radical conservative”, the title of a recent book by the late Irving Horowitz. And indeed, there are interesting and significant overlaps in Arendt’s thought with conservative thinking. As Margaret Canovan has also argued, despite Arendt’s prev...

This paper reports research on Spanish temporal expressions. The analyzed phrases include a common temporal expression for a period of years reinforced by an adverb of time. We found that some of those phrases are agerelated expressions. We analyzed a sample obtained from the Internet to determine the local context where the age-related meaning is unmistakable. We present the results for 21 sel...

One of the most important features of health care is to be able to follow a patient’s progress over time and identify events in a temporal order. We describe initial steps in creating resources for automatic temporal reasoning of Swedish medical text. As a first step, we focus on the identification of temporal expressions by exploiting existing resources and systems available for English. We ad...

In the context of multicultural and postmodern rhetoric contemporary art festivals, we examine a case study in which Hungarian choreographer Eszter Salamon appropriates Mapuche practices—the kawell tayil choike purrún—in her piece Monument 0.6: Landing (A Ritual Empathy) (2017). We analyze discursive embodied dimensions this borrowing its harmful consequences for indigenous communities. show ho...

Interactional positioning has to do with how people express their attitudes and dispositions others (stance) signal they wish relate other participants in the discourse (engagement). These are closely connected extent which impoliteness is expressed resources strategies employed. This study investigates interactional two Nigerian political discussion sites, Nairaland Forum Gistmania. The findin...