I trace Klein's character, in part, to a legacy of French Romanticism: the positing of some Absolute, by which ideas that gratify the mind are presumed to construe reality.
Thus, how speakers/writers use language to "construe reality and enact social relationships" (Webster 2009: 1) may actually have more significance than what structural forms they use.
What some of the speakers or writers attempt to do by uttering discourse in the context of this asymmetrical power relationship, is to influence or alter the recipients' view of reality by construing a reality that fits in well with their own vision for New Caledonia's future.
They are, where they are construed as realities rather than as heuristically useful conceptual fictions, thought to be part of the actual furniture of the universe.
Plato's concept of the demiurge thus isn't a counter example to the thesis that religious consciousness tends to construe ultimate reality as maximally perfect.
Are limited deities counter examples to this entry's claim that religious consciousness tends to construe ultimate reality as maximally perfect?
Also by looking at the data through the systemic features of speech functions, mood, modality and terms of address, the analysis of the data avoids a deficit approach and instead allows a full description of that variety of English used in Vietnam for business – representing and construing the reality in which the particular users live (Mahboob and Szenes 2010).
Now is when pollsters and opinionistas seem able to construe any demographic reality you can conceive, calibrating the political nomenclature at will: Anti-war peaceniks and eco-activists are springing up in the swamps and rururbs; evangelicals are preaching green; lefties in Whole Foods aren't so sold on a woman's right to choose anymore.
Contingent beings require a divine necessary being (cosmological); cosmic order implies a divine cosmic ordering power (design); reality should be construed as the actual content of divine knowledge (epistemic); the supreme aim in life is to contribute to the divine life (moral); and there is a beauty of the world as a whole that only God can enjoy (aesthetic).
The fictitious Western representations and negative assumptions are constituted by the ongoing conflict situation and, in their turn, construe the reality of a newly emerging national identity, which is highly contested in a dialogical exchange of multiple discourses that are closely intertwined with the power structures that constrain and mould them.
