Sentence examples for discourse theory from inspiring English sources

This "discourse theory" led to his major work The Theory of Communicative Action (1981) in which he asks how the first generation were able to step outside of the totality of repressive relations in order to be able to criticise those relations.

Habermas's discourse theory of law and politics.

Unlike Kant, however, Habermas takes a dialogical approach to practical reason, as his discourse theory requires.

Discourse theory thus calls for a pragmatic analysis of argumentation as a social practice.

Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory is employed to frame the analysis and interpret the findings.

Habermas' discourse theory and Bryson's strategy change cycle are used as informing kernel theories.

Research on visual narrative processing using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) has supported interactions between retrieval and integration/updating mechanisms, as in discourse theories (Van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998).

This updating process is consistent with discourse theories positing that readers incur a cost for updating discontinuities of referential, spatial, and/or event information in constructing a situation model of a discourse (Van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983), as in the event-indexing model (Radvansky & Zacks, 2014; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998).

Our study contributes to accounting, psychology, and writing and discourse theories with new evidence of the effects of an argument structure (holding the underlying information constant) on users' judgments, and how those effects depend on the likability of the source of information.

These theories, which include Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) are also motivated by considerations about the proper treatment of indefinite descriptions, so we will discuss them in more detail in the next section.

So, in a sense, van Benthem's result explains the possibility of Discourse Representation Theory.