Anders Nygren’s and Hannah Arendt’s critical reading of Augustine’s concept love had its point departure in a fundamental skepticism towards the possibility knowing oneself. Nygren defended need to give up search for ego order enter fellowship with God, whereas turn toward world necessitated evaluation self-love inner motivations action unified self. solution particular suggests that fate tradi...

This paper presents a novel two-level scheme for coding discourse structure in dialogue, which was created by the authors for the discourse structure subgroup of the 1998 DR/meet ing on dialogue tagging. We discuss the theoretical motivations and framework for the coding proposal, and then review the results of coding exercises performed by the 1998 DR/ discourse structure subgroup using the ne...

Are politicians motivated by policy outcomes or by the perks of office? The answer to this question is central to understanding the behavior of office holders and the policies they produce. Despite the question’s importance, however, the existing literature is not well suited to provide an answer. To shed light on the issue of political motivations I exploit a basic fact: to hold office, one mu...

The feminist bell hooks is a staunch critic of sexist, racist, and classist media representations. Despite this, has been called out for being unscholarly disorganized in her cultural criticism. Through close reading hooks’ works, this paper attempts to make sense organize criticism frameworks toward possible system critical discourse analysis. Hooks’ works are taken apart examine how the parts...

This essay explores the persistent scholarly desires and motivations that structure historical study of conversion in religious studies. Most “conversion studies” take a phenomenological approach, which acknowledges diverse processes, contexts, meanings but nonetheless sees phenomenon as way to access contours global religion. Phenomenology reveals desire for bounded religions arranged comparab...

Digital diplomacy is an efficient tool for building close relationships between countries, especially when it comes to people-to-people (P2P). This article aims explore how the Iranian embassy in Beijing uses Chinese social media and reveals motivations changes its behaviour. The main finding was that 2019 a turning point; before 2019, messages were more informative without targeting specifical...

This article seeks to explore the question of why and how autocrats update their diaspora policy. Building on scholarship that deals with states’ motivations engage ‘their’ diasporas, alongside has focused authoritarian regimes’ durability, demonstrates a regime’s legitimation process takes place in transnational sphere illuminates consolidation strategies maintain constant interaction are fed ...