Democratic deliberation is thus not a special case of moral judgment with all of its idealizing assumptions, but a complex discursive network with various sorts of argumentation, bargaining, and compromise (Habermas 1996, 286).
The full array of network-analytic methods can be used to describe the discourse in a precise way, e.g., the degree of polarization between groups of actors, the number of components or clusters as instances of discourse coalitions or advocacy coalitions, or the change of the discursive network structure over time (and thus discursive equilibria).
"Africana philosophy" is the name for an emergent and still developing field of ideas and idea-spaces, intellectual endeavors, discourses, and discursive networks within and beyond academic philosophy that was recognized as such by national and international organizations of professional philosophers, including the American Philosophical Association, starting in the 1980s.
More precisely, the method assesses dynamic discursive shifts in complex semantic networks, highlighting the crucial distinction between connective and popular concepts.
The same is true for the needs, motivations, objectives, and many of the principal intellectual resources that motivated and oriented those instances of articulation and creative expression and the formation of the networks of idea-spaces and discursive communities that nurtured them.
In adopting a cultural economic perspective on marginal regions, the paper illustrates the significance of symbolic forms of value, the potentially flexible nature of marginality as a discursive category, and the importance of the networks which connect regions to national and international flows of capital and tourists.
Each of these analytical strands constitutes a discursive relay through which one might deduce wider networks of social power or in the case of Dainfern or security-parks more generally, historical structures of the race- and class-structuring of privilege and poverty.
The resulting network provides a cross-sectional map of the discursive landscape of political actors.
Based on this analysis of global and local networks four conditions are identified that enable and stimulate ecosystem based design of marine infrastructures: a shared (discursive) goal connecting global and local actors; brokers that connect different networks; the availability of adequate resources; and an environmental discourse that is materialized in standards and legislation.
She was more discursive in the interviews she taped during the day with the network anchors, using a question about why some voters dislike the Clintons as a way of hitting the issues with which she has sought to distinguish herself from Mr. Lazio.
Examining the semantic networks of organizational text documents, we find that our analytic approach reveals important discursive shifts, which would not have been discovered under traditional text-analytic approaches.
