Abstract Interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of international law (IL) and International Relations (IR) has illuminated roles politics in law, politics, shifting boundary between two various areas affairs. The itself, however, proven resilient. While critical approaches investigating have come to insist on lasting significance legality proper, IR legalization returned politics. Al...

Investigation of baroclinic tides in the northern South China Sea

article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjec...

Languages convey information using several methods, and rely to different extents on different methods. The amount of reliance of a language on a method is termed the ’functional load’ of the method in the language. The term goes back to early Prague School days (Mathesius, 1929; Jakobson, 1931; Trubetzkoy, 1939), though then it was usually taken to refer only to the importance of phonemic cont...

The Aristotelian square of oppositions is a well-known diagram in logic and linguistics. In recent years, several extensions of the square have been discovered. However, these extensions have failed to become as widely known as the square. In this paper we argue that there is indeed a fundamental difference between the square and its extensions, viz., a difference in informativity. To do this, ...

In this paper we use a series of examples to show how oppositions and dichotomies are fundamental in legal argumentation, and vitally important to be aware of, because of their twofold nature. On the one hand, they are argument structures underlying various kinds of rational argumentation commonly used in law as a means of getting to the truth in a conflict of opinion under critical discussion ...

The history of Greek attitudes to illness is characterised throughout by two oppositions. One concerns aetiology (divine intervention or the operation of fully explicable natural forces) and treatment (by science or by magic). The other opposition concerns the role of the sick or disabled individual in the community : a liability, to be rejected as such, or a fellow-human deserving compassion. ...

The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of “zeroing out” a tone in the above sense: When is an opposition properly analyzed as the presence vs. absence of a tone, rather than two different indications of tone, e.g. a + vs. of a tone feature?1 Although phonetic pitch (Fo) is scalar in nature, phonological (categorical) tone frequently has a privative character. The most frequent situat...

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