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Communicative Justice in Later Life: A Critical Discourse Study and Bioethics-of-Vulnerability Analysis of Older Adults' Primary Care in Spain. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Older adults' experiences of primary care are shaped not only by service capacity but by the language and routines through which access and care are organised. Using a qualitative Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) approach informed by the bioethics of vulnerability, we analysed interviews and focus groups with 12 community‐dwelling older adults
Martínez-Angulo P, Millán-Eslava MJ.
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‘Good’ Is ‘Possible’: A Case Study of the Modal Uses of ‘Good’ in Shaoxing
This paper sets out to investigate the modal uses of the lexeme hɒ3 ‘good’ in the Jidong Shaoxing variety of Wu and to reconstruct its grammaticalization pathway. Modal meanings of hɒ3 include circumstantial possibility, deontic possibility and necessity,
Shanshan Lü, Xiao Huang
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Speaker as a Deontic Agent in Political Speech (on the Material of German and Russian Languages)
This work is devoted to the problem of semantic and functional variability of deontic constructions, where the speaker himself is deontic agent, in the nuclear genre of political discourse - political speech - in German and Russian linguistic cultures ...
Anna W. Sytko
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This paper deals with the three types of modality – epistemic, deontic and dynamic. It examines the relation between the synchronic uses of the modal auxiliary must and the semi-modals have to and have got to as well as their Lithuanian translation ...
Audronė Šolienė
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A Corpus-Based Study of Deontic Modality in Legal Discourse
This article contributes to the study of English deontic modal means as a key linguistic phenomenon. It responds to the need of a systematic analysis of English deontic modal auxiliaries used in international legal documents of various genres.
Olga Boginskaya
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This paper presents and discusses Henri Poincaré’s view on the logical non-derivability of imperatives from indicatives. Firstly, his point of view is compared with David Hume’s.
Jan Woleński
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Normative capabilities in multi-agent systems (MAS)canberepresentedwithinagents,separately asinstitutions,orablendofthetwo. Thispaperaddresses how to extend the principles of open MAS to the provision of normative reasoning capabilities, which are currently either embedded in existing MAS platforms – tightly coupled and inaccessible – or not present ...
Padget, Julian +2 more
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Utilitarian Moral Judgment Exclusively Coheres with Inference from Is to Ought
Faced with moral choice, people either judge according to pre-existing obligations (deontological judgment), or by taking into account the consequences of their actions (utilitarian judgment).
Shira Elqayam +4 more
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Regimes of Expectations: An Active Inference Model of Social Conformity and Human Decision Making
How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this question.
Axel Constant +10 more
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A PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION OF DEONTIC MODALITY IN THE POLISH AND SPANISH CIVIL CODES
The article presents a parameter-based method of description of deontic modality in the Polish and Spanish civil codes. The described units are clauses conveying deontic meanings: obligativity, prohibitivity, permissivity and immunitivity.
Joanna NOWAK-MICHALSKA
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