Despite the long scholarly discourse in Western theology and philosophy on religion, spirituality, and faith, explanations of what a belief and what believing is are still lacking. Recently, cognitive neuroscience research addressed the human capacity of believing. We present evidence suggesting that believing is a human brain function which results in probabilistic representations with attribu...

It is often argued, both in popular and academic literature, that there are two Israels: one religious, benighted and anti-democratic and the other secular, Western and liberal. The fact that this account dominates public discourse in Israel tells us a great deal, but the account itself tells us little about Israeli society. Actually, the most telling fault line in Israeli society lies between ...

Despite the long scholarly discourse in Western theology and philosophy on religion, spirituality, and faith, explanations of what a belief and what believing is are still lacking. Recently, cognitive neuroscience research addressed the human capacity of believing. We present evidence suggesting that believing is a human brain function which results in probabilistic representations with attribu...

Poland remains one of the success stories among the post-Socialist transitional democracies. Since 1989, the country has made steady progress on a range of issues relating to democratic institutions, civil society, and integration with the established democracies of Western Europe. Nevertheless, some important challenges remain. State regulation of the media is still a concern, as are problems ...

We describe our efforts to apply the Penn Discourse Treebank guidelines on a Tamil corpus to create an annotated corpus of discourse relations in Tamil. After conducting a preliminary exploratory study on Tamil discourse connectives, we show our observations and results of a pilot experiment that we conducted by annotating a small portion of our corpus. Our ultimate goal is to develop a Tamil D...

There are two conceivable readings for (1). Either (a) it refers to the party or (b) Peter only disliked the food. Discourse grammars like Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) offer an explanation for this phenomenon. SDRT an extension ofDRT (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) describes a complex propositional structure of Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) connected via discourse relati...

The article observes the discourse about methodological and theoretical frameworks of sharp power’s concept. Since first publications power in 2017, this concept has already become central issue all researches on public diplomacy world. Sharp observed by western researchers as antipode soft power, which is used «authoritarian regimes» (including Russia, China, Iran a number other states) to des...

Abstract This article explores the strategic use of ‘fake news’ discourses in non-democratic contexts using a mixed-methods approach grounded social network analysis and discourse theory. In such as Russia Iran, where opposition generally does not have unrestricted access to political public sphere, media platforms serve influence discourses. Given prevalence fake news discourses, previous stud...

Is it still possible to speak of an opposition linguistic discourse and art after the notions language, as well discursive have undergone a significant reformulation expansion? To answer this question, I distinguish between discursive. transpose distinction onto level reflection on one signifying practices. show how deconstruction Western discourses is accompanied by recognition discursiveness ...