In this paper we use the word in its economic sense (Bevelander & Petersson, 2014), and also as a discursive device which echoes through some, but actually surprisingly not so many, of the interview narratives.
More particularly, we propose rhetorical ambivalence as a discursive device used by knowledgeable and reflective managers to monitor their behaviour and others' in order to initiate/sustain the adoption of a new IT in highly ambiguous institutional contexts.
Sven's failure to acquire 'local' English friends is justified by two discursive devices.
Through the entire task performances except for the beginning phase, learners used more discursive devices and conversation management techniques such as cohesive devices and clarification request to repair their negotiation.
It is demonstrated that participants draw on specific discursive devices to (1) define vegan meals as ordinary and easy to prepare and (2) construct methods of preventing vitamin deficiency, such as taking supplements, as routine procedures.
In this sense, and along with Whittle et al. [ 50], we also think that "the subtle, reflexive, and situationally competent use of discursive devices in rhetoric plays an important role in the process of organizational change".
In addition, they examined the stories for the inclusion of discursive and rhetorical devices [ 56].
This method directly implements the idea of adaptation from actors who have similar belief systems and is thus a device of discursive coalition formation.
As he wrote, "The Theater of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought," and it does so through "a poetry that is to emerge from the concrete and objectified images of the stage itself".
This would explain, of course, why we find so little in Nietzsche by way of argumentative or discursive support for his evaluative judgments: such intellectual devices are precisely the ones that would appeal to our conscious faculties, and thus would be idle with respect to the desired outcomes.
Mobile learning research has provided evidence that it can enhance, extend and enrich the concept and activity of learning itself (Traxler 2011), as mobile devices can 'support every pedagogic option, including the didactic and the discursive, the individual and the social' (Traxler 2010).
