I think Twitter has a responsibility to explain why they allow Poltiwoops to record deleted tweets from accounts that that organization deems worthy, but won't entertain the option for anyone else – especially given the massive power to influence discourse held by Twitter accounts with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers.
What holds good for the interpretation of discourse holds as well for the interpretation of action.
Ordinary mentalistic discourse, he held, is comparable to the medieval discourse about epileptics as being "possessed by the devil".
Ordinary mentalistic discourse, he held, is comparable to the medieval discourse about epileptics as being "possessed by the devil". If one now "identified" demon possession with a certain medical condition of the brain, this would really be an assertion that there is no such thing as a demon-possessed state: the medieval way of looking at the matter is thus rejected.
The print media, which in many ways was the natural product of the printing revolution, has given way to the electronic media with websites providing the new "town squares" in which the public discourse is held on political, economic and social issues among others.
Most hermeneutic fictionalists about some particular discourse hold that although we normally utter sentences within the discourse in a fictional spirit, we could, and perhaps sometimes do, use these sentences literally.
Such discourses are usually held during the appraisal stage.
To a degree Aristotle's distinction between the three voices of discourse still holds.
Indeed, 'a disembodied, depoliticised gender discourse hardly holds out the hope for transformation and women's empowerment' (ibid, p. 369; see also Hyndman and de Alwis 2003).
Within scientific discourse, different views held about PP/PE can be linked to ongoing epistemological debates between positivist approaches (based on empirically-informed models of inquiry) and post-positivist approaches to research (emphasising social systems and subjective values within science) [ 13].
