Tag: Discourse

Free Download Henning Borm, "Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 351511095X | 2015 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB
When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of the – real or merely anticipated – criticism against the background of which monarchic legitimization was expressed: what conditions, what elements, and what strategies were characteristic of a critical discussion of monocracy in antiquity, and to what extent was the relationship between ruler ideology and antimonarchic sentiment marked by mutual dependence? What significance did the eternal background noise possess which as a "contre-discourse" compelled rulers in Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece and Rome to justify themselves again and again?

Free Download The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School By Torei Enji, Daibi of Unkan, Yoko Okuda
1996 | 564 Pages | ISBN: 0804830878 | PDF | 42 MB
Based on the teachings of the great Zen Master Hakuin Zenji, The Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School is an essential guide to Rinzai Zen training. It was written by Torei Enji Zenji (1720-1792), Hakuin’s dharma successor. In this book, Master Torei begins by providing a concise history of the Rinzai school and lineage. He then details all the important aspects of Zen practice, most notably great faith, great doubt, and great determination. He also provides explanations of koan study and zazen (meditation) as a means of attaining true satori (enlightenment). This edition includes extensive commentary by Master Daibi, providing both essential background information and clarification of several Buddhist concepts unfamiliar to the general reader. The result is an invaluable record of traditional Zen training.

Free Download Elin McCready, "Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I: East Asia "
English | ISBN: 1138482439 | 2023 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Free Download Boris Kagarlitsky, "Between Class and Discourse: Left Intellectuals in Defence of Capitalism "
English | ISBN: 0367478080 | 2020 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries.

Free Download Hong Zicheng, Daniel W.Y. Kwok, "Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living"
English | 2007 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 1593761201, 1593760914 | PDF | 19,1 mb
Written 400 years ago by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred years after Columbus and around the time Shakespeare completed Henry VI, accomplished scholar and philosopher Hong Zicheng retired from public life and settled down to write an informal compilation of his thoughts on the essence of life, human nature, and heaven and earth. Though he wrote other books as well, only this one has survived-thanks largely to its continuous popularity, first in China and later in Japan and Korea. Entitled Caigentan (Vegetable Roots Discourse), this book has been studied and cherished for four hundred years.

Free Download Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, "Sedaqa and Torah in Postexilic Discourse "
English | ISBN: 0567673553 | 2017 | 176 pages | PDF | 1459 KB
The chapters in this volume clarify crucial aspects of Torah by exploring its relationship to sedaqa (righteousness). Observing the Torah is often considered to be the main identity-marker of Israel in the post-exilic period. However, sedaqa is also widely used as a force of group cohesion and as a resource for ethics without references to torah. The contributors to this volume explore these crucial themes for the post-exilic period, and show how they are related in the key texts that feature them.

Free Download Mariza Georgalou, "Discourse and Identity on Facebook: How we use language and multimodal texts to present identity online "
English | ISBN: 1474289126 | 2017 | 336 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Social network sites are dynamic online socio-cultural arenas which give users ample and unprecedented opportunities for self-presentation through the meshing of language with other semiotic modes. With a focus on Facebook, one of the most widely-used online social network sites, this book brings together ideas and concepts related to language online, multimodality, and identity through five topical issues. These include place, time, profession and education, stance-taking, and privacy.

Free Download War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032455357 | 131 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.4 MB
This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism’s tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine―with his division of the world into "civilized us" versus "barbarian them"―the book argues that such a one-dimensional representation of complex social reality leaves no space for understanding the conflict and has little, if any, potential to bring about peace.

Free Download Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis
by Baker, Paul;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350083747 | 281 pages | True PDF | 14.36 MB

Free Download Language, Discourse and Anxiety
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009250086 | 277 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety. It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety, as well as how aspects of identity like age, sex and cultural background can impact on understandings of anxiety and how it ought to be managed. It tracks the changing identities of posters, from their first posts to their last, and incorporates a range of corpus-based techniques to examine the language data, enabling consideration of interaction between participants and features associated with online forms of communication like emoji. It ultimately provides a step towards a better understanding of different responses to anxiety and aims to promote further engagement with this topic in the field of applied linguistics.