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Discourse theory

2016
This chapter examines how poststructuralist discourse theory can offer new insights into the critical assessment of the transformation, stabilization and reproduction of the practices of governance networks. It begins by setting out the guiding assumptions of the approach of political discourse theory, before exploring their implications for the study ...
Griggs, S, Howarth, D
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A Theory of Discourse: The Aims of Discourse

College Composition and Communication, 1973
This important and influential study is the first to cover the whole field of rhetoric and discourse theory, bringing together and analyzing such varied approaches as Aristotelian rhetoric, modern logic, linguistics, and literary theory. James Kinneavy explores the many and varied purposes of language, and relates these purposes to four discourse types:
Ronald E. Freeman, James L. Kinneavy
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Belief in discourse representation theory

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1986
I hope I have convinced the reader that DR theory offers at least some exciting potential when applied to the semantics of belief reports. It differs considerably from other approaches, and it makes intuitively acceptable predictions that other theories do not.
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Game theory and discourse anaphora

Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2007
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Robin Clark, Prashant Parikh
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A Theory of Evaluative Discourse: Towards a Graph Theory of Journalistic Texts

European Journal of Communication, 1986
Charles E. Osgood and his colleagues developed a technique for content analysis called `Evaluative Assertion Analysis' (Osgood, 1956). An elaboration of the technique will be presented here. Sentences are split up into nuclear sentences, which are predicating something about the relation between meaning objects.
Van Cuilenburg, Jan J., Kleinnijenhuis, Jan, de Ridder, Jan A.   +2 more
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Theories of Discourse: An Introduction

The Modern Language Review, 1989
This is the first critical introduction to the theories of discourse advanced by Foucault, Althusser, PUcheux and Hindess and Hirst. Discourse theory proposes that in our daily activities the way we speak and write is shaped by the structures of power in our society, and that because our society is defined by struggle and conflict our discourses ...
Michael Kelly, Diane Macdonell
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Economical Discourse Representation Theory

2010
First-order logic (FOL) is undecidable — that is, no algorithm exists that can decide whether a formula of FOL is valid or not. However, there are various fragments of FOL that are known to be decidable. FO2, the two-variable fragment of FOL, is one of such languages [1,2].
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Keystone theories of postcrisis discourse: Communication Theory of Resilience and Discourse of Renewal

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
AbstractTheories of resilience are keystones for understanding how individuals, small groups, organizations, and communities arrive at collective meaning, resolve uncertainty, and respond to crisis events. In response to a crisis, organizations can pursue three goals: Returning to the prior equilibrium, creating a new equilibrium with new processes and
Matthew W. Seeger, William Nowling, Henry S. Seeger   +2 more
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Deploying Discourse Theory. An introduction to Discourse Theory and Discourse Theoretical Analysis

2010
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Discourse Analysis and Discourse Theories

2022
Falk Ostermann, Roxanna Sjöstedt
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