Sustainability as a Moral Discourse: Its Shifting Meanings, Exclusions, and Anxieties

Editing logically complex discourse meanings

WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Meant) is a new methodology for editing knowledge representations by interacting with a generated NL feedback text which presents both the knowledge already deened and the options for extending and modifying it. This paper concerns novel problems that arise when this methodology is extended to deal with certain familiar and supposedly well-understood semantic p...

Governing Sustainability: A Discourse-Institutional Approach

The paper considers problems and possibilities connected with governing and realising the ―transition to sustainability‖—or at least to a more deeply resilient energy system. Conceptually its focus is on neo-institutional analysis and critical discourse analysis and the development of a discourse-institutional perspective. The first strand of the paper outlines the limitations of and potential ...

Moral discourse, bioethics, and the law.

A Methodology for Mapping Meanings in Text-Based Sustainability Communication

In moving society towards more sustainable forms of consumption and production, social learning must play an important role. Making the assumption that it occurs as a consequence of changes in understanding, this article presents a methodology for mapping meanings in sustainability communication texts. The methodology uses techniques from corpus linguistics and framing theory. Two large databas...

Hatred as a Moral and Ethical Conception in Russian Society

The present paper deals with the national specifics of the assessment aspect in the meaning of the words. A modern scientific paradigm considers the language as a cognitive tool of understanding the world and keeping and representing people’s experience and values which reflect the people’s vision of the world (“the world picture). Usually linguistics understands the language ...