Towards a performative theory of solidarity discourse

Towards a Formal Theory of Explanatory Biases in Discourse

Such preferences are commonly elicited in production experiments where participants are prompted to continue sequences such as “John congratulated Mary because . . . ”. The proportion between continuations mentioning the subject or object argument first is referred to as IC bias. Referring to the linear order of arguments, anaphoric reference to the subject argument contributes to NP1 bias, whe...

Intrinsic Value: Towards A Pragmatic Theory

Intrinsic value is a concept central to the environmentalist movement. Whether one believes that natural objects have intrinsic value is supposed to determine whether one takes a ecocentric or homocentric approach to environmentalism, whether we practice deep or (merely) shallow ecology.  Yet this concept is also a center of controversy and confusion.  Just what does it mean for something to ha...

Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly , Cambridge : Harvard

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly is perhaps Butler’s most relevant work for geographers, urbanists, and scholars of social movements. Drawing from contemporary popular uprisings, assemblies and occupations–including Occupy Wall Street, Tahrir Square, Gezi Park, Black Lives Matter and the Indignados–Butler engages with political philosophers ranging from Arendt to Agamben to Adorno...

Integration and Multiculturalism: Ways towards Social Solidarity

Linguistic Devices of Identity Representation in English Political Discourse with a Focus on Personal Pronouns: Power and Solidarity

The present study was aimed at exploring the use of pronominal reference for identity representation in terms of power and solidarity in English political discourse. The investigation was based on a corpus of four political interviews and debates amounting 26,500 words. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a discourse-analytic approach was used to fin...