This work seeks to introduce and examine different historically relevant theories and propose certain frameworks that allow for the development of a Latin American theoretical approach based in a new discourse regarding childhood and adolescence. In order to undertake the creation of this Latin American approach, understanding the category of childhood as a social and historical construction, t...

The subject of the article concerns issue constructing and reconstructing national identity. object interest here is a sociological case study Serbian It includes reconstruction interpretation in-depth interviews conducted in Serbia with representatives symbolic elites. concept elites approached discussed research from Teun van Dijk’s perspective. Thus, they are individuals groups directly invo...

reformism discourse was organized according to a set of non- homogeneous theories and because it was a combination of traditional teachings of islam and teachings of modern liberalism simultaneously, it didn’t have any theoretical integrity. immediate integration of reformers during the election was dues to a historical necessity of opposition against conservatisms, candidate who considered him...

This paper proposes to analyse the discursive construction of Portuguese national identity in the semi-public (media) discourse, namely how two apparently competing discourses on national identity (that of the elite and that of laypeople) represent and reframe the country’s national identity. I am interested in how these different types of participants coconstruct and negotiate (national) ident...

adopting a discourse-pragmatic approach, this study examines the synchronic multifunctionality of the discourse marker hâlâ from the perspective of (inter)subjectification. the findings obtained from the synchronic corpus of colloquial persian indicates that hâlâ has proceeded along the (inter)subjectification cline identified by traugott and dasher (2002), der (2010), and degand and vandenberg...