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This study explores the perspectives and experiences of Canadian secondary school teachers around violent extremism through semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with 30 (n=30) teachers from Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. The findings reveal unanimous eagerness among participants to engage with controversial subjects, yet almost all of them exhibit discomfort in addressing violent extremism, primarily due to perceived deficiencies in their expertise and training in this area. Some teachers show reluctance to address these topics to avoid excluding or marginalizing specific student groups, notably Muslims. Interestingly, a minority of teachers suggest that white students are immune to radicalization. They also expose unconscious biases concerning radicalization among religious minority students, especially Muslims, reflecting dominant discourses around radicalization and Islam. Moreover, there exists dissent regarding the necessity of addressing radicalization in schools that seemingly lack youth radicalization, mirroring a reactive discourse in preventing/countering violent extremism (P/CVE). Alarmingly, some participants report Islamophobia among their colleagues, highlighting an urgent issue that needs attention. Drawing from these insights, the study advocates for comprehensive teacher training on violent extremism and emphasizes the importance of collaboration between schools, parents, and local education ministries. It also criticizes Canada’s National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence for its shortcomings and calls for a more robust and inclusive approach to P/CVE. Ultimately, the study underscores the need to integrate an ethic of care into educational practices, fostering an inclusive environment where all students feel valued and supported.

The article reveals the foundations of the theme of suffering in M. Foucault's concept. This topic unfolds at the level of Foucault’s discursive analysis and references to the concept of biopolitics. Knowledge becomes the unifying link for such contradictory phenomena. At the same time, the key thesis in the thinker’s approach is as follows: any knowledge about the world and a person’s place in it is transmitted through symbolic exchange, affects the subject's attitude to the surrounding reality. Suffering appears as a result of the rupture of symbolic exchange under the influence of biopolitics. The gap releases sacred knowledge about the world based on the value-semantic structures of human individual and collective existence. Biopolitics and government aim to gain access to this knowledge. The article examines this approach and evaluates the tools of biopolitics’ impact on the individual in comparison with the psychiatric power that complements such influence. Foucault traces the history of insanity to substantiate the idea of increasing suffering of subjects, extrapolates this idea to the modern social world to demonstrate its socio-political and socio-economic vulnerability. The article shows what grounds Foucault offers for conceptualizing suffering in the context of the powerful influence of biopolitics on a social subject. It is revealed that the government, according to Foucault’s approach, launches the flywheel of biopolitics, which sets, among other things, the goal of seizing this knowledge. A continuation of biopolitics is the psychiatric power, which is also interested in obtaining knowledge.

The article describes the interpretative potential of abstract and concrete common nouns. In interpretational linguistics, any word may become part of dialogue, which means that its semantics is not static. The research objective was to identify differences between abstract and concrete common nouns in interpretational discourse. The linguistic experiment consisted of two stages; its goal was to identify the effect of the word type (abstract / concrete) on its interpretative potential. The respondents were first- and second-year students of the Polzunov Altai State Technical University aged 18–22 y.o. The first stage (109 people) involved modeling the associative field of common nouns while the second one (270 people) featured their use in dialogue speech. The surveys yielded 5,248 associations and 218 dialogues. The interpretative orientation of a word was determined by association, and words that formed an associative chain could be considered as key lexemes used by the recipient to build their own discourse. The semantic components of the associative field of abstract and concrete common nouns generated both synonymous and antonymous reactions. However, the associative field of lexemes with a concrete semantics proved to be more diverse. The analysis of key associates made it possible to identify the referential areas of nouns of abstract and concrete nouns, which were not directly linked to the dictionary lexical meaning as most of them did not correspond with the dictionary definition. Dialogues with abstract nouns seldom included areas associated with their direct (dictionary) definition. Dialogues with concrete nouns hardly involved areas connected with interpretative and figurative meaning.

This paper proposes to critically review Judith Butler's conceptualization of performativity from 1990-2015. In these years Butler proposes to extend the scope of J. L Austin’s concept towards gender theory, replacing Austin's speech act analytic with a post-structural analytic of power. Butler critically uses the reference to poststructuralism and French feminism to reinterpret the Aristotelian conception of the intelligibility of power as the materialization of a discursive form, subordinating to it the scope of performativity. Noting that this influence is absent in Austin's theoretical and analytical grounding of the concept, we will finally contrast the scope and limitations of Butler facing Austin.

This paper focuses on the rhetorical effects of a particular type of tweet, the retweet including a quoted tweet. It involves a double "enunciative augmentation" (Paveau 2017a, 2017b) that often has an argumentative function. The study of the discursive and linguistic features characterizing this technodiscursive practice is carried out on a thematic corpus related to the French public debate on end-of-life issues. After resuming the specificities of digital discourses and showing the distinctive aspects of retweets including a quoted tweet, the analysis of the corpus shows the rhetorical features of two constructions which are recurrent in this type of tweet: the use of connectors introducing an argumentative sequence and the use of dialogic strategies. The rhetorical effects of the enunciative augmentation of retweets including a quoted tweet are finally put in relation with what we propose to consider as a "function of technodiscursive attestation". It also emerges that this quotational practice often entails the hierarchical sharing of the speaker's enunciative responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we explore the rhetorical dimension of Pierre de Coubertin's discourse, and analyze the implicit traces and mentions-reprisals of the Olympic ideal conceived by this author, within official digital publications in connection with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. We focus our attention on the persuasive strategies deployed within promotional tools, particularly educational ones such as the PEVO (Programme d'éducation aux valeurs olympiques), but also through labels, and guides (such as the Guide opérationnel du Design actif). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will compare selected examples of writers' digital libraries, from the Renaissance to contemporary times, to study the different rhetorical strategies that preside over their digital discourse. Second, we will analyze how the rhetoric of digital discourse on digital libraries can influence the "author's posture" (Meizoz 2007), both at the institutional and individual level. We will discuss three different cases: the first is that of virtual, even "mental", "memory" (Ferrer 2001) libraries of authors of the past, reconstructed by specialists from the books these writers read or owned, as in the case of the MONLOE project-dedicated to Michel de Montaigne. The second is that of virtual libraries of "amphibious" authors, working in both media (print and digital), following the example of the forerunner François Bon. The third is that of "collective" librariesplatforms, such as Wattpad and Panodyssey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much research has been dedicated in recent years to the rhetoric and poetics of digital discourse. These have tried to grasp the techno-structure of "screen writing", examining with precision the links between the coded dimension and its visible manifestations, or studying closely the role of the "architext", the technical, industrial and ideological guidance of writing and reading practices by software tools and platforms. I myself have actively participated in this field of research, being interested on the one hand in the role of code and algorithms, and on the other hand in the role of software that facilitates the process of digital writing and at the same time constrains it, models it, normalizes it; The question of knowing which visions of the world are encoded in software tools and platforms has been central to my research on digital discourse, since it seems obvious that social networks such as Facebook, for example, have not only popularized digital writing by providing authors with a theoretically unlimited number of receivers, but also by encoding in the device visions of what friendship, community, popularity, life in society, and the contemporary subject mean. Fewer are the analyses that place at the center of their methodology the "interpretative filters" mobilized by the subject, faced with the digital discourse. In this article, I will try to circumscribe the rhetoric of digital discourse by relying on two complementary methodological frameworks: the theories of intermediality, which will allow me to grasp some of its techno-semiotic specificities through the prism of production and reception, and social semiotics, which places at the center of the analysis the action of the "interpretive filters" mobilized by the subject in dealing with signs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows that analyzing how incoherence is resolved in discourse makes it possible to identify clues revealing the “conspiracy” nature of a specific discourse and to distinguish it from a “non-conspiracy” one. It examines some of the main defining features of “conspiracism” in the scientific literature and, based on the analysis of three case studies drawn from interviews with people opposed to the French health policy during the Covid-19 crisis, shows how these features can be echoed in certain forms of resolution of incoherence in discourse. The study reveals that some elements of conspiracy rhetoric can function more as an occasional, or even opportunistic, strategy, than a total and systematic worldview.

“Goodbye, Americana, Hello Real Time”: The Death of Idealism in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral is a textbook illustration of failed cultural transmission: the transference and transformation of values, idea(l)s and information in the lives of Seymour Levov, his family, his community prove to be governed by loss, misrepresentation and gradual decline into disorder. Far from delivering the romanticized version of life in the Jewish neighborhood that the title implies, the novel captures a disenchanted Americana, wherein idealism and radicalism clash against the background of the ideologically fractured 1960s. While ‘the Swede’ apparently initially embodies the (super)hero, middle-class American Dream, American Pastoral chronicles America’s evolution after World War II, which is captured as a mixture of convention and rebellion, both stemming from clashing political ideologies. This paper examines the book’s polarizing discourses, keeping an emblematic passage in mind: “Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.” “Goodbye, Americana, Hello Real Time”: moartea idealismului în Pastorala americană de Philip Roth. Pastorala americană a lui Philip Roth (1997) constituie un exemplu tipic de transmitere culturală eșuată. Transferul și transformarea valorilor, ide(alur)ilor și informației în viețile lui Seymour Levov, familiei și comunității sale se dovedesc guvernate de pierderi, reprezentări eronate și, în cele din urmă, entropie. Departe de a oferi o versiune romanțată asupra vieții în vecinătatea evreiască, așa cum sugerează titlul, romanul surprinde o imagine dezvrăjită a Americii, unde idealismul și radicalismul se ciocnesc pe fundalul unor ani 1960 scindați ideologic. În timp ce „Suedezul” pare că întruchipează inițial (super)eroul Visului American al clasei de mijloc, Pastorala americană înregistrează evoluția Americii după cel de Al Doilea Război Mondial, redată drept un amestec de convenționalism și rebeliune, ambele rezultate din diferite tipuri de îndoctrinare. Lucrarea examinează discursurile polarizante ale cărții, luând în considerare un pasaj emblematic: „Poate cel mai bine ar fi să uităm de a avea sau nu dreptate despre oameni și să ne bucurăm doar de călătorie”. Cuvinte-cheie: Americana, comunitate, discurs, ideologie, identitate, mit, traumă Article history: Received 15 March 2024; Revised 27 August 2024; Accepted 01 September 2024; Available online 30 September 2024; Available print 30 September 2024.

Against the backdrop of Instagram’s transforming platform culture, this contribution proposes a framework for analyzing text posts as form of discursive communication. Text posts on the formerly mainly visual platform are understood as both a new social media genre and an emerging social practice. First, the genre is contextualized and grounded by recent evidence of a modal expansion, as well as through the reconstruction of transforming platform affordances. Secondly, based on long-term online ethnographic involvement and data collection, recurring categories and properties are identified within the emerging genre and differentiated in four discursive dimensions: text types, forms of (re)mediation, stance, and tonality. Variations within the dimensions are further distinguished and illustrated and their relevance scrutinized. These discursive dimensions are designed to be used as heuristics and / or analytical categories in combination with various methodological approaches from in-depth qualitative explorations to large-scale automated analyses. Finally, possible broader sociocultural implications of the emerging genre are discussed.

The study attempted to look beyond the pre-Islamic discourse in the Mu’allaqat of Zuhair bin Abi Salma and Tarfa bin Al-Abd, aiming to reveal the rhetorical political system which leads to obtain the appropriate societal acceptance or rejection, and the effect on the life of the discourse producer or the poet. The study chose two poets who are different in terms of their styles, and their social and political status. It focuses on this difference’s impact on the systematic discourse, the tribal response, in addition to the political end of both of their lives, based on their systemic awareness in their Mu’allaqat. The study included a theorization concerned with the cultural system, its nature, characteristics, and the conditions of the systemic function. It focuses on criticism and its relationship to politics and the task of the critic, in addition to an execution for this analogy on the two Mu’allaqat, on the technical level of the introduction to the poem and the relationship of this level to the discourse for which it was produced.

Digital writings, like writings in general, are presented visually to the reader through different forms depending on the discourse of circulation and the distribution devices. These visual forms typical of certain discourses and appropriate to certain devices are generally identified as formats. The concept of format has long escaped attempts at definition in semiotics and linguistics. However, it is a key concept for the analysis of texts, because it is closely linked, on the one hand, to the writing medium and, on the other, to the genre of discourse. We then propose to analyze the format by observing newspapers on paper and digital media.

Black queer feminist literature remains under-researched. This reflects the societal marginalisation of black queer authors in South Africa. Our article offers a comparative analysis of the representation of black queer women by black queer and cisgender authors in selected isiXhosa and English poetry. The poems selected are from Unam Wena (2021) by Mthunzikazi Mbungwana and red cotton (2018) by vangile gantsho. Firstly, we explore how queer feminism is captured from a Xhosa perspective. Secondly, we explore how English is used to expose readers to black queerness, and, thirdly, we question how literary scholarship influences or limits black queer feminist literature and the functionality of queer feminist poetry as representations of black women. Discourse theory is used to examine how authors of the selected poetry construct knowledge about black queerness from a feminist perspective and shape how people understand it. In this article we adopt a narrative enquiry within the constructionism paradigm with qualitative textual analysis. Our analysis of the poetry reveals that, although the selected poets use two different languages, the same protest voice is foregrounded, with observable differences being primarily technical—namely how form, sound, and structure are employed to set the tone and mood in the issues addressed.

Este trabajo aborda la cuestión del carácter utópico del libro, de la acción y del proyecto político y cultural de Alfonso X. Para tratar de establecer si cabe considerar que las obras del Rey Sabio pueden considerarse utópicas, se analizarán tres aspectos: la propia realización de los códices, como plasmación de un proyecto de reforma; el carácter inconcluso de este proyecto que parece adscribir lo utópico a lo irrealizable; el desplazamiento de la utopía de la obra en sí a su hacedor, el rey. This paper addresses the question of the utopian character of the book, of Alfonso X’s action and of his political and cultural project. To try to establish whether the works of this king can be considered utopian, three aspects will be analysed: the actual creation of the codices, as the embodiment of a reform project; the unfinished nature of this project, which seems to ascribe the utopian to the unrealisable; and the shift of the utopia from the work itself to its maker, the king.

Abstract In this paper we analyse how populist leaders in UK and Italy – namely Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, Giorgia Meloni, and Matteo Salvini – reacted to the first and second lockdowns on their Twitter accounts, communicating directly to their people. The analysis was carried out following a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to discourse. The qualitative analysis focused on comparing populist leaders’ rhetorical and semiotic choices, while the quantitative analysis observed the response by the community of common Twitter users. This work aims on the one hand at unveiling the strategic use of social media by populist leaders and on the other at investigating conflictual interactional dynamics, especially in times of crisis.

The aim of the article was to study the specifics of the interfaces of the U.S. university websites as multimodal heterogeneous texts that synthesize elements of educational, scientific and advertising discourses. The overall objectives to achieve the established goal were as follows: to identify and distinguish the types of multimodal means on the U.S. university website, which contribute to its genre mixing and genre embedding; to establish the nature of the interaction of verbal, non-verbal and para-verbal components of the U.S. university websites, and to determine their pragmatic features. The methodological basis of the research was a complex of the following methods: analysis (to study multimodal components of the university website as a specific multimodal text), synthesis (to identify the features of the integration of multimodal means of the websites of American universities), observation (for the selection of fragments with verbal means that actualize the visual content and the selection of visual fragments to actualize the verbal content), the method of discourse analysis (to highlight specific fragments of websites that arouse the interest of the authors of this articleб and have a meaningful content), structural method (to analyze the university website as a whole structure, which is provided by separate means of cohesion), functional method (to clarify the pragmatic potential of multimodal elements of the university website, which are means of communication between the university and the reader of its website). It also employed the system functional (drawing on the provisions of linguistic metafunctions, and focusing on the categories of the grammar of visual design) and the socio-semiotic (grounding on the interrelationship of modes, their compatibility and social needs for which they serve, making meanings) approaches. The chosen methodology made it possible to conduct a study of the multimodality of the websites of the U.S. universities, realized as a symbiosis of verbal, non-verbal and paraverbal resources. The multimedia corpus of the research consists of the websites of five American universities (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University and Рrinceton University). The main conclusion that can be drawn is that the complex discursive nature of the websites under study is determined by the features inherent in advertising (the benefits of services to influence the choice of the recipient), educational (the talk about the educational process and educational services) and scientific (information of a scientific nature is provided) discourses. All universities under study employ semiotic landscapes at their disposal to portray attractive brands on their websites. Being the most important way to ensure fast and effective communication of educational institutions with their target audience, the discourse of university websites has a pronounced pragmatic orientation. The purpose of the analyzed type of heterogeneous discourse is to create an image of an “ideal” educational institution, attract potential students, researchers, sponsors, and disseminate the latest achievements in the field of science and education. The concept of multimodality of the websites of the analyzed U.S. universities as specific multimodal texts is manifested in visual content through a number of paragraphemic and infographic elements, the synthesis of which is due to the combination of language tools, visual content and web technologies of modern website construction. The most common visual content exploited on the U.S. university websites embraces: unique photographs and “color” mode (photos of the university and its students, classrooms, laboratories, events, etc.), which helps to clearly illustrate the educational services offered, and give the desired emotional mood; infographics and data visualization, which is an effective way to combine text, pictures and design to present complex information (infographics do not always completely replace the text, more often it is its addition or retelling); video interviews with students, graduates, videos about studying at a university are one of the means to convince potential students to make an admission decision. Using video is a fairly popular form of visual content. With the help of video, the universities can not only diversify the content of their websites, but also satisfy the needs of those users who prefer visual content. Placing various videos on website pages allows solving the problems of reinforcing textual content, strengthening the arguments “for” admission and attracting applicants to university educational programs. In such a way, on the basis of the interaction of different discourses (advertising, educational and scientific) and various semiotic systems, a single visual-structural and functionally complete image of an attractive and popular university is achieved among readers of its website.

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By questioning the notion of ethos in utterance from an attested production of Vietnamese speeches, we make the postulate of the instruction of a collective ethos at the level of kinship terms. Moreover, dynamic discursive traces reveal the implicit encoding of this collective ethos. We rely on a concept of Vietnamese collective ethos: họ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a discursive and semiological analysis of some examples of gestural and proxemic manifestations of the faithful engendered by pragmatic ambiguity in certain statements of the Orthodox Liturgy, in the Romanian language. On a diachronic level, the translation of Christian Orthodox liturgical texts, mostly from Slavonic in Romanian culture, has also had to take into account the management of ambiguity, particularly lexical ambiguity. While the vast majority of the words used in these texts are well interpreted today, at the pole of their reception, some statements still retain an ambiguity related to a diachronic translation, an ambiguity that can be qualified as pragmatic in the immediate synchronicity. In the discursive and ritual context of the Eucharistic Liturgy, they trigger certain gestures by the faithful, who interpret them as speech acts or "first-degree" illocutionary and perlocutionary statements. Because of the consequences of their ambiguity on the gestural actualization of the speech acts they carry, we will call this type of ambiguity pragmatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to analyse the role of biblical references in Al Berto's (Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares') last poetry volume, Horto de Incêndio, published in 1997. Previous research on this poetry has identified intertextuality, an interest in corporeality and the problem of the relationship between experience and text as dominant features of this work. Building upon these insights, I demonstrate that the numerous allusions to the Bible, especially evocations of the Apocalypse, in Horto de Incêndio are related to the author's attempt to textualise the experience of illness and allow us to partially reconstruct his view of the ontology of the literary text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the functioning of two discourse operators, one, c'est le cas de le dire 'it is worth saying', formed on the French verb dire 'to say' and the other, j'avoue, on the performative verb avouer 'to confess'. We provide a syntactic/semantic description and examine the possible reasons for blocking the appearance of one in place of the other, based on the following constraints: weakening of the act of confession, requirement of a negative polarity, a high degree and/or an exemplary situation. Taking these elements into account, we highlight the specific features of the two operators under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The impact of Covid-19 on Western societies has definitely and consistently affected the education field. During the early waves, school-age children and university students alike were forced to stay home, and lessons were delivered online. The academic and administrative staff were also thus heavily affected in their daily routines, teaching activities and methods and communicative styles. This reflective piece explores the measures put into place by a small sample of large, world-renowned universities in the US and the UK, to boost the well-being of their employees. In particular, the sections of these Universities’ websites dedicated to these issues are analysed, concentrating on staff resources and on mental well-being, to check whether focus on the latter emerges in the discourse and, if so, in what ways. The method is based on domain-specific languages, Critical Discourse Studies, Critical Genre Analysis and sentiment analysis. The results suggest that attention was being paid to psychological well-being even before the pandemic, it then increased during the emergency and was maintained in the aftermath. The communication of the Covid-19 support measures emerges as carefully constructed linguistically, especially in lexical terms, as it intersects discourses pertaining to health / well-being, labour law and education, with an eye to the affective and emotional aspects. The study may hopefully contribute to reporting the discursive representations of the pandemic from the perspective of specialised discourse within the professional setting of the academia.

By questioning the notion of ethos in utterance from an attested production of Vietnamese speeches, we make the postulate of the instruction of a collective ethos at the level of kinship terms. Moreover, dynamic discursive traces reveal the implicit encoding of this collective ethos. We rely on a concept of Vietnamese collective ethos: họ.

This perspective explores the role of the bioethicist in shaping public discourse through the media, while accounting for the power of narratives and voice.

In The Return of the Author Eugen Simion addresses the means by which an author can be present in his or her works without the actual involvement of their biographical person/persona – their real-life identity. If, as Roland Barthes states, during the reading process the reader craves / desires the author’s figure, an essential way this presence is going to appear is the author’s voice – it is style. But the critical text itself is not devoid of style. Eugen Simion points out the essential part that language and form play in Roland Barthes’ theoretical discourse. and concludes that there are "fictions of ideas" that are literature in their own right. This article aims to explore the presence of the author within the critical text and the "pleasure of reading" the critical text, /such a text, seeing that, as Roland Barthes point out, only a „texte de jouissance” can speak of another „texte de jouissance”. When describing Roland Barthes’s discourse Eugen Simion speaks of its, but tenderness is also the term Ion Bogdan Lefter uses to describe Simion’s own critical approach. This article explores the author’s presence in Eugen Simion’s critical discourse in his work The Return of the author and the particularities of his voice as a writer.

خطاب المناظرة من الخطابات ذات الطابع الخاص؛ إذ تتوافر فيه مظاهر لغوية وسمات خطابية متعددة، منها: عنصر الاتصال، وعنصر الحوار، وعنصر الأدلة والحجج والبراهين، وعنصر الغلبة والظفر، وعنصر التأثير والإقناع، بالإضافة إلى ما له من سمات بلاغية وجمالية خاصة. وتقوم المناظرة على أساس رأيين أو اتجاهين متعارضين حول موضوع أو مشكلة عامة، وتأخذ شكل مناقشة بين جانبين يمثل كل منهما رأيًا يختلف عن رأي الطرف الآخر في القضية موضوع النقاش، ويسعى كل منهما إلى إثبات وجهة نظره والدفاع عنها بشتى الوسائل العلمية والمنطقية واستخدام الأدلة والبراهين وقد استمد البحث مادته لدراسة خطاب المناظرة من كتاب "أجمل المحاورات والمناظرات"، الذي جمع فيه منصور العواجي مناظرات ومحاورات دارت بين علماء وأمراء وسواد من الناس، اختلفت مستوياتهم وتنوعت مشاربهم، في مجالات مختلفة ومناسبات متنوع. واتساع عينة البحث وتنوعها كان الدافع وراء إجراء هذا البحث؛ من أجل الكشف عن الآليات الحجاجية المستخدمة في خطاب المناظرة المتنوع للتأثير في الآخرين ومحاولة إقناعهم بشتى السبل اللغوية والعقلية والمنطقية. The debate discourse is known to be of specific nature; it has multiple linguistic manifestations and various rhetorical features, including: the elements of communication, dialogue, evidence and arguments, victory, influence as well as persuasion. It also has special rhetorical and aesthetic characteristics. The debate is based on two conflicting opinions or approaches over a general topic or problem. It takes the form of a discussion between two parties with two opposing opinions over the discussed topic. Both parties seek to prove and defend their point of view by various scientific and logical means and by the use of evidence and proof. The research studies "The Most Beautiful Dialogues and Debates", in which Mansour Al-Awaji collected debates and dialogues conducted between scholars, princes, and the public, who belong to different levels and backgrounds in different fields and various occasions. The vastness and the diversity of the research sample was the motive behind conducting it in order to reveal the argumentative mechanisms used in the various debate discourses to influence others and try to persuade them by various linguistic, mental and logical means.

The article explores the essence of the cognate oppositions “fabula — syuzhet” and “story — discourse” through the prism of the semiotic triangle concept. The “corners” of the semiotic triangle (thing, thought, symbol) are not aspects of one and the same phenomenon, but independent types of phenomena, and each of them has its own temporality. The author proves that the substance of the plot / discourse is a thought (sense), and not a text as a unity of sense and its acoustic-graphic expression. The time of the syuzhet / discourse (the time of thinking about the object) can not only differ from the time of the fabula / story, but fundamentally does not need it, since it has a different ontological basis; as a consequence, its counterpart exists in any kind of text, not just in narrative. If the text presents events to the reader in the mode of sensual “pseudo-living,” the time of the syuzhet / discourse tends to coincide with the time of the fabula / story. But the rational grasp, based on abstraction, allows thinking to use for its movement not only temporal, but also other “dimensions” of the described material.

ABSTRACT: This article examines the visions that has the contemporary Algerian novel on the current socio-political realities in Algeria, through the study of two very recently published novels: Le Fils du Caïd (2019) by Saad Khiari and Déflagration de sens (2020) by Karim Akouche. In these two works, the writers portray a society in the grip of loss of values, historical disfigurements and an oppressive Power. Each in his own way, they exploit the devices of language and rhetoric to denounce the distress of the new generation experiencing a new disenchantment and call for a revolt against the status quo. The analysis of the discourse produced in the two stories allows us to describe the esthetics strategies used by the two writers to expose their ideological positions towards the Algerian actuality and to interpret the role of their writing in contributing to an awareness of the ills that riddle society. RÉSUMÉ : Cet article examine les visions que porte le roman algérien contemporain sur les réalités socio-politiques actuelles en Algérie, à travers l’étude de deux romans publiés très récemment : « Le Fils du Caïd » (2019) de Saad Khiari et « Déflagration de sens » (2020) de Karim Akouche. Dans ces deux œuvres, les écrivains dressent le portrait d’une société en proie à la perte des valeurs, aux défigurations historiques et soumise à l’emprise d’un Pouvoir oppresseur. Chacun à sa manière, ils exploitent les artifices de la langue et de la rhétorique pour dénoncer la détresse de la nouvelle génération qui vit un nouveau désenchantement et appellent à une révolte contre le statu quo. L’analyse du discours produit dans les deux récits permet de décrire les stratégies esthétiques exploitées par les deux écrivains afin d’exposer leurs positions idéologiques vis-à-vis de l’actualité algérienne et d’interpréter le rôle de leur écriture dans la contribution à une prise de conscience vis-à-vis des maux qui rongent la société.

This article looks at the steps taken by people who choose coparenting, which is understood as a parenting project that is disconnected from sexuality, parenthood, and biological descent and focused on the importance of intentionality in bringing a child into the world. By focusing on the coparenting project and coparent matchmaking, the research looks at coparenting sites to examine the technical aspects of how potential coparents are matched and analyze how they talk about their coparenting projects. Our dual research method (in digital spaces and offline interviews with people who are in or planning a coparenting project) allowed us to see the inherent power relationships in social gender relations and how they materialize and to identify how gender is signified—and thereby produced—in these relationships.

The progressing society requires a development in Applied Linguistics areas. The advent of the 21st century has accompanied globalization in scientific, technical, and economic activities on an international scale, which has magnified the role of English language in international communications. The present study is assigned to trace back the development of business discourse as a new area within Applied Linguistics for studying the language of business people. It defines business discourse and shows how it can be analyzed. The study presents previous studies in this field as well to show the progression of such a linguistic area.

Introduction – Individuals must be personally invested in their own recovery journey; however, the neoliberal perspective absolves the state of responsibility of this work and makes promotion of health merely an individual action. Naloxone distribution, as a harm reduction strategy, is presented herein as one practice engaged by nurses that demonstrates philosophical tension between neoliberalism and harm reduction. Background Literature – The research literature supporting the provision of take-home naloxone (THN), non-medically administered, is significant and broad. Discussion – The problem with neoliberal discourses of constrained healthcare resources in this case is that without broad availability of naloxone, drug poisonings will continue unchecked. There is an ethical call to nurses to support broad distribution of naloxone regardless of the costs involved. Conclusion – THN is not only a best practice to reduce the harms of substance use, but it is also a political and philosophical act to hand over the control of public health resources to the public.

Recent studies on language and gender that focus on songs and beer drinking sessions within the context of the Bukusu circumcision ceremony have shown that language is gendered and that it espouses male gender. Against this backdrop, in this study we aim to denaturalise this view by focussing on conversations within the circumcision ceremony. By using theoretical and methodological principles from critical discourse and conversation analysis in particular, we argue that, by using linguistic strategies, traditional gender roles are not only discursively highlighted but they are also negotiated and even resisted. This study falls within recent discussions in critical discourse analysis that have shown that language masks asymmetrical power relations on the one hand, and within postcolonial studies that have shown that gender discourses can reflect collisions between differing points of views on the other hand. The data used in this study is four audio recordings of conversations that took place alongside the main ceremony. This data has been analysed at the level of content and prosodic organisation to identify discursive practices that reveal the negotiation and contestation of gender roles. The study contributes to recent discussions in critical discourse analysis by exposing gender asymmetries and contestations that lie behind ‘taken-for-granted’ realities, with specific examples from the postcolonial context of the Bukusu circumcision ceremony.

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In The Return of the Author Eugen Simion addresses the means by which an author can be present in his or her works without the actual involvement of their biographical person/persona - their real-life identity. If, as Roland Barthes states, during the reading process the reader craves / desires the author's figure, an essential way this presence is going to appear is the author's voice - it is style. But the critical text itself is not devoid of style. Eugen Simion points out the essential part that language and form play in Roland Barthes' theoretical discourse. and concludes that there are "fictions of ideas" that are literature in their own right. This article aims to explore the presence of the author within the critical text and the "pleasure of reading" the critical text/such a text, seeing that, as Roland Barthes point out, only a „texte de jouissance" can speak of another „texte de jouissance". When describing Roland Barthes's discourse Eugen Simion speaks of its, but tenderness is also the term Ion Bogdan Lefter uses to describe Simion's own critical approach. This article explores the author's presence in Eugen Simion's critical discourse in his work The Return of the author and the particularities of his voice as a writer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Morocco is a country with a particular religious diversity. It's a cherifian kingdom that allows its citizens to practice their beliefs in complete freedom, with mosques, churches and synagogue in most moroccan towns. Friday preaching is a ceremony during which a large number of moroccan muslim citizens gather to listen to the divine word via preachers who aim to build a society that respects the order predefined by the creator. At this level, this institutional word certainly had an impact on the public and consequently on the thinking and behavior of the moroccan believer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]