Prior to digital communications media, texts were primarily judged using hidden but assumed institutional practices (e.g., journal peer review processes, editorial mediation). Increasingly, digital communications media can make these previously invisible discursive practices visible in a persistent medium. Doing so transforms these discourses into texts where they are subject to: (1) a reader's...

In treating of so many-sided a subject as the pathology of cerebral disease it is impossible to adopt any definite systematic arrangement, or to adhere to one particular plan of discussing the questions which present themselves to notice. The morbid phenomena of the brain involve so many derangements in other organs and tissues of the body, and, vice versa, the derangements of the latter so oft...

RÉSUMÉ. Nous proposons D-STAG, un nouveau formalisme pour l’analyse automatique de la structure discursive des textes. Les analyses produites par D-STAG sont des structures de discours hiérarchiques annotées de relations de discours, qui sont compatibles avec les structures de discours produites en SDRT. L’analyse discursive prolonge l’analyse phrastique, sans modifier celle-ci, ce qui rend env...

This paper is concerned with the phenomenological repercussions of being positioned within widely available discursive constructions of cancer. One of the many challenges of being diagnosed with cancer is that it requires the person to make sense of the diagnosis and to find meaning in their changed circumstances. From a social constructionist point of view, such meaning is made out of discursi...

Using the example of the Scottish Tourist Board ((STB) now VisitScotland), this paper outlines three spaces of mediation involved in the discursive transformation of material landscapes into brochure images. STB marketing personnel occupy the first space of mediation. Market research provides specialist knowledge of consumer expectations and key icons of Scotland that form the dominant ideologi...

This paper deals with indexation of multi-modal geographic documents by the mean of two constructs: geographic entities, and their semantic relations. These relations concern more specifically contrast or similarity between the entities with regard to the described phenomenon. Geographic entities are retrieved in both text and maps using proper analysis techniques. Contrast or similarity relati...

Th e author claims that analyses of “political discourse” or “political rhetoric” should be grounded in what it is that participants try to do politically with language. Words, actions, and events work together; words interpret events or actions, as well as constitute political facts, while actions in various ways help words gain their political effi cacy. Analyses of political rhetoric (or dis...

Computer systems that are designed explicitly to exhibit intentionality embody a phenomenon of increasing cultural importance. In typical discourse about artificial intelligence (AI) systems, system intentionality is often seen as a technical and ontological property of a program, resulting from its underlying algorithms and knowledge engineering. Influenced by hermeneutic approaches to text an...

An intensive care unit (ICU) is a demanding environment, defined by significant complexity, in which physicians must make decisions in situations characterized by high levels of uncertainty. This study used a phenomenological approach to investigate the decision-making (DM) processes among ICU physicians' team with the aim of understanding what happens when ICU physicians must reach a decision ...

Why do firms fail in the face of radical technological change? Answering this question requires addressing how customers develop their interpretations and evaluation criteria of the new technology. This interpretive process occurs through discussions with other market participants. Firms can influence customers’ interpretations through the use of language and visual images what we call “discurs...