In recent years, there has been much debate about the consequences of internet and social media for activism movements. According to Lance W Bennett Alexandra Segerberg, digital involves a logic ‘connective action’, in which collective action identity lose importance. To assess validity this theory, I focus on personal testimony campaigns that have by now become familiar tactic, especially onli...

Abstract Middle voice constructions are generally understood as syntactically detransitivizing and semantically characterized by a “low degree of event elaboration” (in Kemmer’s terms) involving relatively affected subject. thus have been identified in several Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages, particular LaPolla. In Macro-Tani we find seemingly cognate construction with similar distribu...

Abstract Among varied syntactic and semantic functions of the dative case in Latvian, attitude or dativus ethicus is a less studied one. As an optional pronominal clitic, it serves two broad functions: first, expresses speaker’s authority affectedness speaker addressee speech-act situation, second, stance towards contents utterance. In terms register, normally occurs informal interaction. The c...

Abstract The paper provides evidence against the claim that perceptual access is commonly encoded in direct evidentials. While visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory perception are conveyed by evidentials contexts where such interpretations appropriate, others it speaker’s involvement, affectedness established beliefs which conveyed. These may be exclusive to speaker or shared addressee. Inste...

How do speakers predict the syntax of a verb from its meaning? Traditional theories posit that syntactically relevant information about semantic arguments consists of a list of thematic roles like "agent", "theme", and "goal", which are linked onto a hierarchy of grammatical positions like subject, object and oblique object. For verbs involving motion, the entity caused to move is defined as th...

Heidegger's 1927 call to provide "a special hermeneutic of empathy" is linked with his later commitment at the Zollikon Seminars to engage explicitly with issues in psychodynamic therapy with psychiatrists. The task of providing a special hermeneutic of empathy is one that Heidegger assigns in Being and Time, but on which he does not deliver. Inspired by the assignment, this article applies the...