THE FEATURES OF THE SEMANTICS OF NEGATION IN DIPLOMATIC TEXT by D. A. Golovanova

“…Being a universal category, negation is reflected in all types of discourse, and the article concentrates on diplomatic discourse as the least studied one regarding its peculiarities from the linguistic perspective. …”
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Challenging power through social media by Rodwell Makombe, Grace Temiloluwa Agbede

“…Internet memes present an alternative discourse that counters the official narrative promoted by the regime. …”
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War by Laïli Dor

“…Yet this common experience resulted in opposite visions and discourse: Churchill presented the Boers as loyal enemies, to be fought but respected. …”
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Quoting the Academe in Writing Conference Explanations by Kelly Katherine Frantz

“…A main institutional goal of writing conferences is to help students improve their academic writing; therefore, at various points in the conferences, consultants explain the norms, language, and expectations of the target academic discourse community. While this intertextual nature of writing conferences has not yet been explored, we can expect that in order to help writers learn the target “speech genre” (Bakhtin, 1981) of the academe, consultants must inevitably connect their current explanations to prior discourse. …”
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« Ce n’est pas très beau ce que vous avez dit ! » The activation of resonance in French parliamentary debates by Elisabeth Zima, Geert Brône, Kurt Feyaerts, Paul Sambre

“…The present paper focuses on resonance activation in one particular discourse genre: dialogic sequences evolving around interruptive comments in French parliamentary debates. …”
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New Conflicts, New Orientalists: How Military Theorists Reproduced Orientalism in Twenty-First Century by Hasan Deniz Pekşen

“…Based on this argument, the study questions whether the orientalist discourse used in these works maintains continuity with the classical orientalist discourse or creates a new one specific to the twenty-first century. …”
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Persuasive strategies in grant recommendation letters written by senior faculty in a Ghanaian university by Afful Joseph Benjamin Archibald, Hesse Eugene Kwesi, Agbaglo Ebenezer, Bonsu Emmanuel Mensah

“…The genre system of grant application has gained attention from researchers in Applied Linguistics, Discourse Studies, and Higher Education. However, the grant recommendation letter (GRL), also known as the “letter of support”, has been understudied in this system. …”
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Les jeux de la spectature : paratextes cinématographiques des années vingt et archéologie du virtuel by Fabrice Lyczba

“…As early as the 1920s, the Classical Hollywood fiction film was described through two discursive formations: the discourse of entertainment and dreams on the one hand, the discourse of realism on the other hand. …”
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Mužnost jako ctnost uvědomělého homosexuála ve třicátých letech by Jan Seidl

“… In this contribution, I approach the question of how and why the homosexuals in Czechoslovakia reflected, in the 30s of the 20th century, the way they were seen by the majority society, focusing on the polarity manliness-femininity. The medical discourse on homosexuality was, from its beginnings in the last third of the 19th century, very marked by references to this polarity: the effeminacy in homosexuals constituted a favourite topic of this discourse. …”
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« Agriculture, and Commerce as its Handmaid » by Pierre Gervais

“…By carefully analyzing the use and wording of one particular kind of thematic toast, called « economic toast, » it can be shown that, within the discourse of local political actors, there were traces of the same differential view of merchant activity which structured national political discourse.…”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SPHERE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: RESTRICTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS DURING PANDEMIC THREATS by V. S. Blikhar, I. M. Zharovska

“…The article is aimed to study the anthropological, socio-philosophical and philosophical-legal dimensions of the ontological sphere of human life within the discourse of restricting human rights during pandemic threats. …”
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From a dictionary to an atlas: segmental mapping of the linguistic picture of the world by S. N. Gagarin

“…In keeping with the aforesaid approach, one segment at a time is selected, and the discourse that reflects it is analysed with a view to identifying transcendental notions contained therein. …”
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Dyskurs podręcznikowy a dyskurs dziecięcy – odmienne postrzeganie rzeczywistości by Aleksandra Szyller

“…As resulting from the study, the textbook discourse is not a children’s discourse. Authors of these textbooks tend to forget about the real needs and capabilities of children. …”
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The Galungan Holiday in Postmodern Historical Studies by I Nyoman Wijaya

“…The research question is, what knowledge is subjugated, so that a single discourse emerges that Galungan is a celebration of the victory of dharma over adharma? …”
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THE AXIS OF EVIL: THE ALLIANCE OF NEO-CONSERVATISM AND NEO-ORIENTALISM IN RUSHDIE’S SHALIMAR THE CLOWN / ŞEYTAN ÜÇGENİ: SALMAN RUSHDİE’NİN SOYTARI ŞALİMAR ROMANINDA AŞIRI SAĞCI NEO... by Beyazıt AKMAN

“…<p>In this article, the Orientalist discourse in Salman Rushdie’s <em>Shalimar the Clown</em> (2005), one of the author’s most problematic Works and his first novel after 9/11, is analyzed. …”
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Les Enjeux ekphrastiques de la montagne à l’époque romantique by Michel Morel

“…The notion of Ekphrasis is here enlarged to include the reciprocal creation of text by image and image by text, a discourse that both states what it sees, and makes us see; in itself a transhistoric process necessarily assuming historical contents, in the present case Romantic ones. …”
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Towards a Holistic Approach to Sustainable Development: Inner Development as a Missing Link for Sustainability Transformation by Julia Blanc, Annekatrin Meißner

“…The discourse on understanding and implementing sustainable development has so far focused primarily on the external aspects, neglecting the internal dimension of people. …”
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TINJAUAN SEMIOTIKA ATAS PEMAHAMAN HADITH DALAM KITAB FATH ALBARI KARYA IBN HAJAR ALASQALANI by Benny Afwadzi

“…In semiotic communication, the understanding model of the second hadith is seen more systematic because it elaborates reasoning continuously, and shows the important contribution of semiotics in the hadith understanding discourse, like eliminating truth claims and being media for developing textual and contextual understanding.…”
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Design Through Landscape Architecture for Residential Common Spaces in Japan by sherko Karim Kader, Shava Shirwan Ibrahim Agha, Sham Mustafa Qadir, Banaz N. Muhealdeen

“…Notwithstanding the preceding, the discourse on what qualifies as landscape architecture and what does not is yet to be settled. …”
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Resisting Material Binaries: Unpacking persisting dichotomies of building materials in Central Africa by Robby Fivez

“…The current discourse on African architecture is strongly influenced by social design—a practice for which architecture holds an important role in addressing complex societal questions and problems. …”
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