According to the traditional way of thinking of the communication process (more generally: of the discoursive dynamic), actors exchange ready-made meanings. In other words, communication entails pre-defined semiotic devices, resulting from previous stipulation. Therefore, intersubjectivity is based on a repertoire of shared meanings, pre-existent to the social exchange. To underline the quality...

Assessing scholarly influence is critical for understanding the collective system of scholarship and the history of academic inquiry. Influence is multifaceted, and citations reveal only part of it. Citation counts exhibit preferential attachment and follow a rigid "news cycle" that can miss sustained and indirect forms of influence. Building on dynamic topic models that track distributional sh...

This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regi...

Collective decisions are ubiquitous in complex democratic societies. Elections, referenda, decisions in legislatures, committees, multimember courts, expert panels, and boards of companies or other organizations are all examples. In such decisions, disagreement is equally ubiquitous. People disagree with each other on many levels. They disagree not only on what choices should be made but also o...

Investigating the discursive construction of EFL learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. Hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. This study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) Iranian EFL learners’ motivation in Shiraz University, Iran by examining t...

The subject of this paper is the methodology Michel Foucault used in his work. In we will try to show a continuity work through concept “rules”. We examine how notion rules three methodological approaches found research. first section he archeological method aimed at researching discursive practices. Then genealogical which combined research and non-discursive Lastly third period researched for...

Understanding the policy cycle, as well as scrutinizing the text of hidden and obvious policies and rules, requires a model of discourse analysis based on which discursive ap-proaches of policy makers are understood and estimated. However, when it comes to presenting a policy model, we have to use the views of policy theorists to see how a problem as a "public goods" can be found in the policy ...

The cognitive and speech activity of the linguistic personality a politician in discursive position “after power” has number significant differences comparison with stages “before “in power”. Its general communicative-pragmatic character that can be described as accumulative-syncretic, adaptive agonal, is due, firstly, to seamless combination substantive-thematic signals personal political past...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...