Sentence examples for accounts of discourse from inspiring English sources

One drawback of poststructuralist accounts of discourse, according to some feminists, is that it rules out the possibility that claims can be validated outside of particular communities and their languages.

Support for this more inclusive conception can be provided by Habermas's account of discourse ethics (see sect.

The key to understanding the GSDL account of discourse anaphora lies in understanding the semantic accounts it offers of the existential quantifier and conjunction.

Habermas's influential account of discourse ethics (Habermas 1990; Habermas 1996) has been presented by some as grounding a conception of public reason in this way.

Optimality-Theory pragmatics (OT pragmatics, Blutner 2000; Blutner and Zeevat 2004) is another attempt at a computational modelling of discourse but unlike SDRT it makes use of a post-Gricean, intention-based account of discourse interpretation.

The CDQ account of discourse anaphora was originally motivated by a felt analogy between the semantics of discourse anaphora and the semantics of "instantial terms" that figure in quantificational reasoning in natural languages and in derivations of systems of natural deduction for first order predicate logic.

Although Habermas's account of discourse ethics has been influential amongst those who favor some version of discursive or deliberative democracy (Bohman 1996; Dryzek 1990; Dryzek 2000), its capacity to serve as the basis for public reason is the subject of a number of criticisms.

Much of the literature on this subject focuses on the question of whether the Internet encourages or hampers the free exercise of deliberative public reason, in a manner informed by Jürgen Habermas's (1992/1998) account of discourse ethics and deliberative democracy in the public sphere (Ess 1996 and 2005b; Dahlberg 2001; Bohman 2008).

We start with his account of moral discourse.

The paper proposes a dynamic account of Functional Discourse Grammar.

Ultimately, what is needed to solve properly the ontological problem is a suitable account of modal discourse.