The goal of such repeated interpretation was to unearth the meanings that underlay the literal level of discourse in a given record and that also permeated the larger sample of records.
For it is unclear how they can maintain that regions of discourse D1, …, Dn partially determine the ways in which sentences can be true without a procedure for determining which region of discourse Di a given p belongs to.
The central of this phase is an algorithm for computing verbal relationships in the process of generating the Vietnamese paragraph from the logical expression of discourse representation structure (DRS), which is the first-order logic expressions without explicit quantifiers, and represents the meaning as well as reflects the potential contexts of a given discourse or a sequence of sentences.
While Nietzsche was, to be sure, among the first to recognize the extent to which linguistic and grammatical practices generate metaphysical assumptions and problems, he simply did not view metaphysical questions themselves as best framed as issues about the semantics of a given region of discourse (e.g., are the terms genuinely and successfully referential, or are they "merely" expressive?).
Of course his arguments don't always turn out as projected--witness the recent accounting of Willa Cather's The Professor's House, in which the resurgent discourse of sin gives Ferraro, like the title character, his comeuppance.
A discourse of "giving options and being realistic" used by healthcare providers is contrasted with the experience of a single patient's transitional care from hospital to home after hip fracture.
CDA views discourse as central to the functioning of power in social processes and the reproduction of power in a given situation, and to understand the processes of power and how these processes use discourses to achieve power.
First, according to fictionalism about a given discourse, the discourse is in important respects analogous to paradigmatic cases of fiction.
The reductionist about a given area of discourse ("A-discourse") maintains that its characteristic statements ("A-statements") are reducible to analyzable or translatable without loss of content into statements of some other type ("B-statements"), which are usually thought to be philosophically less problematic.
Unlike moral discourse, in which participants strive to justify norms and courses of action that accord due concern and respect for persons in general, ethical discourses focus on questions of the good life, either for a given individual ("ethical-existential" discourse) or for a particular group or polity ("ethical-political" discourse).
