In-between discourses

The human body as field of conflict between discourses.

The approach to AIDS as a disease and a threat for social discrimination is used as an example to illustrate a conceptual thesis. This thesis is a claim that concerns what we call a medical issue or not, what is medicalised or needs to be demedicalised. In the friction between medicalisation and demedicalisation as discursive strategies the latter approach can only be effected through the emplo...

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

Predicting Persuasiveness in Political Discourses

In political speeches, the audience tends to react or resonate to signals of persuasive communication, including an expected theme, a name or an expression. Automatically predicting the impact of such discourses is a challenging task. In fact nowadays, with the huge amount of textual material that flows on the Web (news, discourses, blogs, etc.), it can be useful to have a measure for testing t...

The Discourses of Concern

To clarify concerns that the public has with genetic technologies, the article presents the results of focus group interviews conducted in Denmark in 2000. The concerns of the public are divided into three ideal-typical categories: social (dealing with environmental and health risks), economic (dealing with both the threats and opportunities of the new technologies), and cultural (taking up eth...

Competition of Discourses in Journalistic Translation: Diplomatic Negotiations in Focus

We sought to understand  whether,  how, and  why the translated journalistic texts  related  to  the  Iranian  nuclear  negotiations  were manipulated. To this end,  we  monitored  a news agency’s Webpage in a time span of 46 days that began 3 days before Almaty I nuclear talks and ended  3  days  after  Almaty  II  talks.  Monitoring  resulted  in  a  corpus  made  up  of  36  target  texts  p...