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Analyse d’un genre de discours spécialisé : les lettres annuelles de Warren Buffett aux actionnaires de Berkshire Hathaway et leur spécificité

E-REA, 2010
The paper focuses on a particular genre which is characteristic of the corporate world. Warren Buffett’s letters to the shareholders seem to arouse unprecedented interest among readers who greatly outnumber his shareholders. The letters’ form and content
Catherine RESCHE
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Making moral selves through comparison: Narratives of moral decline and the modern virtuous self among middle‐class older adults in Nepal

Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2025.
Abstract During fieldwork among older adults in middle‐class families in the city of Bhaktapur (2018–2019), I recurrently came across comparative narratives of moral decline, depicting a stark contrast between the present time and a mythical past where ageing parents were treated “as gods.” In this paper, I analyze how, through acts of comparisons ...
Paola Tinè
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Hauntings at the Margins of China

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 237-249, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines emotional and material traces lingering in the aftermath of forced linguistic landscape transformations in Inner Mongolia following the implementation of a new assimilationist national language policy in 2022. Drawing on ethnographic and linguistic landscape data, the study specifically examines how the multilingual signs ...
Gegentuul Baioud
wiley   +1 more source

Polysemy and interdiscursivity in Bruno Drummond’s cartoons: a linguistic-discoursive approach

Gragoatá, 2020
The study presented here makes a linguistic-discursive approach to Bruno Drummond's cartoons. It establishes, initially, a distinction, in the field of graphic humor, between charge, cartoon and caricature.
André Crim Valente
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Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities around Year, Hare, Affair (YHA)—a state‐aligned Chinese animation—I explore how different metadiscourses evaluate this register by entextualizing ...
Jiarui Sun
wiley   +1 more source

Public deaths and negotiation opportunities: Cats, dogs and people in COVID China

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 376-389, August 2025.
Abstract Under the extraordinary circumstances of COVID, some health workers in China ruthlessly killed pet dogs and cats, which were thought to be dangerous virus vectors. Heart‐wrenching images circulated widely on social media, where some social media commentators used them as a basis to make accusations about generalised Chinese brutality towards ...
Chenyu Zong
wiley   +1 more source

Future‐Making Power: A Study of Competing Imagined Futures in Healthcare

British Journal of Management, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 1111-1131, July 2025.
Abstract This paper presents a conceptual model of strategies of power in future‐making, informed by a case study in the healthcare sector. In zooming out from investigating the future‐making activities of an organizational innovation project team and tracing competing imagined futures enacted by medical professionals and strategic management, this ...
Tonje Hungnes, Thomas Hoholm, Stewart Clegg   +2 more
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Polycode as display if interdiscoursivity in Spanish scientific discourse

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2011
The article deals with polycode as display of interdiscoursivity in scientific and technical texts on material of Spanish language.
E A Dolzhich
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The Oslo Museum Puzzle. Reflections on the relation between culture and economy

FORMakademisk, 2011
The decision has been made to relocate several cultural institutions in Oslo, without any existing plans for the old premises. In this article, the supportive arguments are analysed against the backdrop of the critical voices.
Joar Skrede
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 2025.
Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
wiley   +1 more source