I show that the semantic structure for discourses, understood as a dependency representation, can be mathematically characterized as DAGs, but these DAGs present heavy structural constraints. The argumentation is based on a simple case, i.e. discourses with three clauses and two discourse connectives. I show that only four types of DAGs are needed for these discourses.

The dispersed character of terrorism as a practice became more coherent to the Western realm through the operationalisation of counter terrorist discourses. The media played a major role in that in the sense that they provided public ‘visibility’ upon the potentiality of terrorist threat. What this essay would like to discuss is the way such representations of threat negotiate a number of issue...

During the first decade of this century, various discourses within the Brazilian context, celebrated the image of savvy children consuming “like adults” and providing adults with technological know-how. This is the starting point to investigate the recent creation of tweens, boys and girls between childhood and adolescence, by undermining this supposed phase of life and having a genesis of this...

Event coreference is largely ignored in works on coreference as well as in works on temporal order in discourses, in which temporal relations between two eventualities e1 and e2 always suppose that e1 6= e2. However, event coreference is not an uncommon phenomenon. We show that it is is the keystone on which at least four types of discourses are based: on the one hand, particularizing and gener...

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In the midst of the proliferation of post-discourses, this essay investigates how Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child (2015) offers a timely exploration of the hurting Black female body that calls into question, if not outright refutes, whether Americans have entered a post-racial, post-Black, and post-feminist era. This essay opens with a critical context section that situates God Help the Chil...

Hukum Tahun Yobel (Im. 25:8-55) merupakan hukum dalam Perjanjian Lama (PL) yang cukup populer di kalangan umat Kristen karena isinya berbicara tentang merestorasi kehidupan rakyat miskin dan tertindas sehingga lepas dari kemiskinan dengan cara mengembalikan kembali tanah properti kepada mereka pada Yobel. Akan tetapi, untuk dimiliki oleh orang Israel non-Lewi berada kota berpagar tembok 25:29-3...

The candidate connrms that the work submitted is his own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. 2 1 Abstract The last two decades have witnessed the development of theories dealing with discourse. Contributions from Linguistics, Philosophy, and Logics have helped to expand the knowledge of the eld. But, independently of the researchers' v...

BACKGROUND This article considers how health services access and equity documents represent the problem of access to health services and what the effects of that representation might be for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. We conducted a critical discourse analysis on selected access and equity documents using a gender-based diversity framework as determined by two obj...