This paper reports on an experiment implementing a data-intensive approach to discourse organisation. Its focus is on enumerative structures envisaged as a type of textual pattern in a sequentiality-oriented approach to discourse. On the basis of a large-scale annotation exercise calling upon automatic feature mark-up alongside manual annotation, we explore a method to identify complex discours...

Across South Asia and the world, new authoritarianisms in last two decades have reignited old fault lines around sexuality. This introduction examines how different states, laws communities engaged with queer rights discourse a range of outcomes. It argues that despite spate recent progressive legislations, there is no direct correlation between LGBTQI+ liberal governance Asia. Framing contribu...

Post-foundational Discourse Theory (PFDT), initially developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, provides a systematic discursive perspective on political phenomena, the economy included. However, ever since Mouffe rejected economism in their Hegemony Social Strategy: Towards Radical Democratic Politics (HSS), as an object of study has failed to receive attention it deserves within this str...

Abstract This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership – so who owns a story, tellership has right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse narrative analyses, investigates specifically how negotiation meaning visible in often incomplete fragmented but naturally-occurring points discursive struggle over...

This thesis describes the result of several years of research focusing on a small part of natural language processing: with an overall goal of languageindependence, a robust approach to dialogue modeling and discourse processing. The main context in which the approach has been developed is VerbMobil—a project for a speech-to-speech translation system for spontaneously spoken negotiation dialogu...