Legislation that applies to UK SRE currently advocates inclusive provision. Given the nonstatutory status of SRE, however, it is unclear how teachers incorporate sexual inclusivity, especially as research has shown that teachers' discursive practices can promote a heteronormative SRE climate (Renn, 2010). Using a discursive psychological approach to analyze interview data, this study examined h...

The information expressed in humanistic datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication”, which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal r...

In this paper we introduce RHeSumaRST, a heuristics based system that aims at pruning an RST tree in order to yield its corresponding summary. Those heuristics focus especially on identifying when a discursive segment that embed an anaphoric term is chosen to compose the summary, in which case the discursive segment that embed its antecedent must also be chosen. To both address referentiality a...

The purpose of this research is to rescue from the 1950s onwards, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, both the discursive and non-discursive practices, on how the nursing teaching went on being redesigned, in search of a profession that would be more scientific, less technicistic, and how the nursing theories had had a participation in such process of transformations and contradictions. The surv...

This article uses a media industries studies perspective to investigate the current state of transmedia production in the United Kingdom. Analyzing the discursive statements of a range of industry participants from both U.K. television and games industries, the authors reveal a series of contradictions and misunderstandings that may be limiting the effectiveness of multi-platform projects. By c...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics Journal Article How to cite: Allington, Daniel (2005). Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics. Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and D...

According to one important proposal, the difference between perception and cognition consists in the representational formats used in the two systems (Carey, 2009; Burge, 2010; Block, 2014). In particular, it is claimed that perceptual representations are iconic, or image-like, while cognitive representations are discursive, or language-like. Taking object perception as a test case, this paper ...

This article compares and contrasts the way a set of fundamental issues are treated in social representations theory and discursive psychology. These are: action, representation, communication, cognition, construction, epistemology and method. In each case we indicate arguments for the discursive psychological treatment. These arguments are then developed and illustrated through a discussion of...