Mobilizing master narratives through categorical narratives and categorical statements when default identities are at stake

What Are Analytic Narratives?

The recently born expression “analytic narratives” refers to studies that have appeared at the boundaries of history, political science and economics. These studies purport to explain specific historical events by combining the usual narrative way of historians with the analytic tools that economists and political scientists find in rational choice theory. Game theory is prominent among these t...

constructing gender identity through narratives based on hallidays metafunctions

هویت, شکل دادن و بازنمایی آن در گفتمان, توجه بسیاری از محققان این رشته را به خود جلب کرده است. تحقیق حاضر بر شکل دادن به هویت جنسیتی هشت تن از دانشجویان ایرانی مشغول به تحصیل در دوره کارشناسی ارشد از طریق بررسی روایات آنان از تجربیات شخصی, متمرکز شده است. تحلیل داده ها در این تحقیق مشتمل بر سه بخش است: بخش اول شامل کدگذاری موضوعی روایات است که بر اساس آن هویت جنسیتی شرکت کنندگان در تحقیق بر اسا...

Categorical Logic Categorical Logic

When injustice is at stake, moral judgements are not parochial.

Transnational Identities in Diaspora Writing : The Narratives of Vasily Yanovsky

The study of Russian émigré writing has been a vibrant academic fi eld for almost three decades, yet the dominant critical reception of these texts remains today suff used with the glasnost-era rhetoric of a “grand return”: the diaspora is described in terms of a “branch” or “tributary” destined to merge with twentieth-century Russian literature of the homeland.1 Émigré writers are routinely co...