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Although Michel Foucault is not considered a television critic, his social theory can be applied in the theory of television. The authoress attempts to show relations between such terms as Panopticon, discourse, episteme, power/knowledge or political technology of the body with selected television analyses. The article draws a lot of attention to the issue of the viewer, his relations with television as a viewing machine and to the influence of TV texts on reality and to the creating process of the cognitive representation of the world of its users.
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The author maintains that the status of theory of discourse in sociological analysis is one of the major problems, which the researchers have to face. He postulates the inclusion of discourse analysis in the methodological and theoretical area of interest of sociologists because the reality in which social processes take place is discursive reality. Thus, the study of discourse is no longer a choice for a sociologist but a necessity. The author points to the fact that the mediated nature of our times stimulates and influences the change of social representations and that should be studied by virtue of discourse analysis.
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The article aims at showing the nature of sociological discourse analysis and establishing its specificity in view of other kinds of research regarding it. The text opens with the presentation of the multiplicity of discourse definitions, which stem from various scholarly disciplines. That leads the authoress to the conclusion that discourse analysis is by no means a cohesive theoretical and methodological perspective, nor a self-sufficient or integrated discipline, but rather a collection of various areas of inquiry with a dominating position of linguistics. Despite the above-mentioned shortcoming, it is possible to distinguish a sociological approach to discourse analysis and this type of research remains largely unused by the sociologists. The article points to various ways of further development of sociological discourse analysis as well as potential integration of social theory with discourse analysis.
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The tradition of the studies of discourse derives from the famous de Saussure's distinction discerning two levels of linguistic description: 'langue' where language is treated as a system of signs and 'parole' in which language is the subject of study as the speech-act, performance, the socio-cultural event. The concept of discourse has defined the subject of interest for linguists (e.g. Barth), philosophers (e.g. Ricoeur), historians (Foucault) and sociologists (e.g. Hymes). In ethnology the first attempts to study speech-acts ( parole) reach back as far as Bronislaw Malinowski who was interested in the cultural function of incantations as well as the problem of constructing social relationships through speech-making. Currently the most popular meaning of the concept of discourse applied in ethnology is that suggested by Rapport who defines it as 'ways of speaking which are commonly practiced and specifically situated in a social environment' . This dictionary definition can be supplemented by the statement of Mohl pointing out the social functions of discourse: 'discourse in the broad sense of the term, not only reflects society, it creates and encompasses society. There is no society, no social outside discourse'. The local discourse on politics, which is the authoress' research subject, consists of everyday conversations about authority and persons in power. According to the assumptions of discursive analysis, notions and concepts should be distinguished, those around which conversations are organized as well as typical terms, phrases and frequently used comparisons. Strategies and lines of reasoning should be described. As the next step particular terms, phrases and expressions should be related to the historical, political economic and socio-cultural context within which they function and within which they have been coined.. As a result of such analysis the mental model of authority will be constructed, the one which emerges in the local discourse on politics.
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Some types of doctor's speak activity as an autocommunication are analysed. On the basis of the 'doctor - patient' dialogs the lexiko-grammatical features of the professional medical discourses are considered
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The article offers a comparison of the development of institutions of care for children under three in France and in the Czech Republic. It explains the differences in the forms of institutions, policies and the level of state support with the use of comparative analysis of discourses of childcare, existing since the end of the Second World War in the two countries under study. Especially expert discourses were found to have important role in the development of the institutions and policies: psychological discursive framings had strong influence on the public discourse, on political decisions as well as on the resulting form of institutions. While in France, mainly empirically-oriented psychologists and pedagogues entered the debate, in the Czechoslovakia /Czech Republic the discursive arena was dominated by clinical psychologists and paediatricians. Also other influential factors were identified, such as economic situation, political actors, social movements; and sequencing of events; but the expert discourse was proved to be crucial for the understanding of the divergent development of childcare institutions in the two countries.
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The article deals with the idea that the most adequate understanding of the nature of term furthers the analysis of discourse as the most: important category of communication. In the discourse, on the confluence of the cognition and communication, the new and explanatory potentials of the term are opened.
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The necessity of collective decision-making preceded by group discussions in democratic state institutions prompts a reflection upon the quality of this process and its outcomes. The article presents briefly two theoretical models of a debate: Amy Gutman and Denis Thompson's concept of deliberation (based on the works of John Rawls) and Jurgen Habermas' theory of discourse. The authoress analyses the implementation of the principles of those models, taking as an example an ordinary Sejm debate. Then, she attempts to answer the question: why many debates in the real world often fail to lead to a consensus or to an innovatory solution (that would involve a change of the participants' initial convictions and preferences). She suggests a few organizational improvements conducive to a more constructive discussion that would better implement the recommendations of the theoretical models.
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The aim of this article is to present a variety of Spanish from Buenos Aires, stemming from various factors: historical, linguistic and cultural. Obviously, as these factors undergo ongoing changes, so does the linguistic form. This is an attempt at signaling possible characteristics rather than to provide a thorough analysis, altogether with the intent of their interpretation as the final construct of the negotiation of meanings and forms.
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The objective of the article is to analyse examples of use of personal deixis in the Spanish press. This phenomenon seems to be interesting because of specific situation of enunciation in case of written press text. This allows creating discourse strategy based on deictic elements.
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Fatherhood has experienced many transformations in the past years, as well as the institution of family and relationships between partners, parents and children. The social science discourse reflects those changes, but quite often through a prism of values and ideologies, and only rarely is gender neutral. This article presents today's discourses of fatherhood, their paradoxes and one way streets in which they sometimes end. Fathers today and especially those living in some of the 'new' family arrangement (divorced fathers, step fathers, lone fathers...) find themselves in a situation where no clear cultural models or scenarios of behaviour exist. Public and scientific discourses of fatherhood are divided between the image of a 'new' involved father on one side and of the 'feckless' father on the other. Both images are often used and misused to political purposes, but don't really reflect the reality of contemporary fatherhood.
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The subject of analysis in the article is a relation between irony and satire understood as discursive practice. Putting under scrutiny the concept of the satirical text proposed by Paul Simpson in his work On the Discourse of Satire, the author argues that irony understood as a form of expression is not a constructive element of satire.
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Corporate mission statement is a genre used globally by managers to motivate the employees and to create a good image of the firm. The objective of the research is to analyse, from the linguistic point of view, how Polish companies adapt the genre. In particular, the analysis focuses on how the managerial objectives influence register choices and whether the genre has developed any permanent, or recursive, structural features. The study focuses on statements of missions and vision of 81 companies Polish companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine how a secondary English teacher considered her body a personal and political matter within her professional settings. Discourse analysis of the participant’s narrative evidences that women teachers are pressured to present certain feminine and heterosexual bodies and present a similar personal life within their pedagogy. The risk in not following suit is being pushed out of the profession, a matter that can be problematic especially when a teacher undergoes personal changes counter to professional expectations. Teacher education responsibility in preparing teacher candidates for a variable professional trajectory is noted.
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Folkloristics has traditionally focused on artistic expressions, which fulfil primarily aesthetic functions. The following paper, however, will be devoted to the genre of conspiracy theories, which I do not consider a folklore genre in the proper sense of the word but rather a narrative genre belonging to the category of rumours. The basic function of conspiracy theories is to mediate and to give a foundation of argument to a certain world-view model based on the motif of a group conspiracy. For the purposes of their genre analysis I have not consider the methods of ´´traditional“ folkloristics as a useful tool, and therefore I have tried to seek other methods proceeding from the distinctive qualities of these communication. As my research field I chose internet discussions, which meant concentrating on the written form of communication. The argumentative character and ideological anchoring of the texts being examined ultimately conditioned the selection of an appropriate research method in the framework of discursive analysis. The paper seeks to represent and offer for discussion the results of this experiment: a genre characterisation of conspiracy theories based on their typical argumentative strategies. My choice of theme in intended at the same time to evoke debate: to what extent is such a thematic and methodological purview acceptable within the bounds of folkloristic? Or if folkloristic paradigms are thus extended, what consequences may follow for Slovak folkloristics in the future?
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This article deals with the perception of historical memory and national identity in the era of posterity, as well as their impact on the formation of Russian national unity; determines the role of the latter in the emergence of a new identity of the Russian nation. The initial methodological position for this study is the idea that, even in post-truth conditions, historical memory and national identity retain their true value. The authors use polls of the Russian Public Opinion Research Center. The survey method is a telephone interview. According to the polls, 92% believe that it is important to know the history of Russia, while at the same time only 42% know it well. The results of the study can be used in various state programs, which are based on historical memory and aimed at the development of Russian national identity.
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The article constitutes an analysis of the concept of satire as a discursive practice proposed by Paul Simpson. What the author considers the main forte of Simpson's model is its definition of the nature of satire without references to the categories of “satirical intent” and the “ideology” of the satirist. The author claims that such an approach allows a new perspective on the way literary satire is perceived.
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The article is a retrospective of the development of sociolinguistics on the pages of the Slovenská reč journal. Although sociolinguistics began to establish itself in Slovak studies only in the 1980s, the author traces social motives from the very beginning of the journal. The author identifies three developmental stages of sociolinguistics in Slovenská reč: (1) the pre-sociolinguistic stage from 1932 to 1955, (2) the implicit leitmotif-like stage from 1955 to 1979, and (3) the modern stage, characterized as its own sociolinguistic stage – from 1979 to the present day. In each period, the author introduces important social aspects resonating in the journal, recalling published works, authors, and contemporary contexts that framed the reflection on social themes in linguistic work. The third part reflects on modern sociolinguistic thinking in Slovak studies and the internal differentiation of the discipline within the Slovak language. It captures the diversity of themes and approaches in individual conceptual domains.
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This article strives to provide an original conceptual framework that should open a way to clarification of general philosophical debates on rules and norms. It makes a clear distinction between rules (and norms) understood as social facts grounded on specific relationships between social subjects and rules (norms) understood as linguistic entities. Norms are taken as specific social rules and divided into three different types: social constitutive norms, particular constitutive norms, and institutional norms. Attention is also devoted to relation between normality and normativity, to the role of permissions and to specific features of technological ‘rules’. In the last part of the article the outlined conceptual apparatus is employed for analysis of two passages from Wittgenstein’s Investigations.
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In the article the dramatic art of gestures in V. Vinnichenko’s plays is considered as an original author’s rhetoric, a discourse of a ritualized body, which becomes a sign of genre and stylistic codes and also a powerful method of estimation.
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