This paper presents a discursive approach to the critical examination of information and describes its implementation options. The approach provides a set of concepts to ensure that examination dialogs on information objects take place in a systematic way. For this purpose, this paper takes a critical perspective on information, considers structural characteristics of examination dialog, and ar...

According to the traditional way of thinking of the communication process (more generally: of the discoursive dynamic), actors exchange ready-made meanings. In other words, communication entails pre-defined semiotic devices, resulting from previous stipulation. Therefore, intersubjectivity is based on a repertoire of shared meanings, pre-existent to the social exchange. To underline the quality...

Assessing scholarly influence is critical for understanding the collective system of scholarship and the history of academic inquiry. Influence is multifaceted, and citations reveal only part of it. Citation counts exhibit preferential attachment and follow a rigid "news cycle" that can miss sustained and indirect forms of influence. Building on dynamic topic models that track distributional sh...

This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regi...

Collective decisions are ubiquitous in complex democratic societies. Elections, referenda, decisions in legislatures, committees, multimember courts, expert panels, and boards of companies or other organizations are all examples. In such decisions, disagreement is equally ubiquitous. People disagree with each other on many levels. They disagree not only on what choices should be made but also o...

Investigating the discursive construction of EFL learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. Hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. This study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) Iranian EFL learners’ motivation in Shiraz University, Iran by examining t...

Understanding the policy cycle, as well as scrutinizing the text of hidden and obvious policies and rules, requires a model of discourse analysis based on which discursive ap-proaches of policy makers are understood and estimated. However, when it comes to presenting a policy model, we have to use the views of policy theorists to see how a problem as a "public goods" can be found in the policy ...

The cognitive and speech activity of the linguistic personality a politician in discursive position “after power” has number significant differences comparison with stages “before “in power”. Its general communicative-pragmatic character that can be described as accumulative-syncretic, adaptive agonal, is due, firstly, to seamless combination substantive-thematic signals personal political past...

We describe an exploratory empirical study to investigate whether some linguistic markers can improve the assessment of students when they answer questions in their own words. This work is part of a multidisciplinary project, the Pépite project, that aims to give math teachers software support to assess their students in elementary algebra. We first set this study within the context of the proj...