Two Subject Positions in Lango

Personality disorders: illegitimate subject positions.

The diagnosis of personality disorder is common in mental health nurse settings and is a term often used without critical consideration. In clinical practice, the term personality disorder has pejorative connotations, which arise out of the way in which these behaviours are constructed as behavioural rather than psychiatric. The discursive construction of categories of personality disorder are ...

Discourse Effects on Subject Positions

Shifting Subject Positions Experts and Lay People in Public Dialogue

Public dialogue about science, technology and medicine is an established part of the activities of a range of charities, private corporations, governmental departments and scientific institutions. However, the extent to which these activities challenge or bridge the lay–expert divide is questionable. Expertise is contested, by the public and the community of scholars who study and/or facilitate...

From Subject to Non-Subject: Semiotic Analysis of the Process of Subject Collapse in Contemporary Iranian Realist Paintings in the Last Two Decades

Following the political and social developments in Iran in the mid-1370s, young artists created critical works in the new social and cultural demands. In such an area, the subject of the works moved towards more realism, and social realist painting was re-formed in Iranian contemporary art. These paintings show that the human subject has been indoctrinated with the opinion and rethinking of soc...

The Nature of Iterativity: Evidence from Lango