discursive function » discourse function (توسيع البحث), discursive formation (توسيع البحث), discursive position (توسيع البحث)
four discursive » four discourse (توسيع البحث), non discursive (توسيع البحث), voice discursive (توسيع البحث)
function within » action within (توسيع البحث), conception within (توسيع البحث)
Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse : determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity /
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Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation to discursively shape social identity. Building on the increasing recognition of ethical and communal concerns reflected in the Nag Hammadi sources, this book advances the discussion by elucidating the social rhetoric within, especially, the Gospel of Truth and the Interpretation of Knowledge . The social function of paraenesis is to persuade an audience through social re-presentation. The authors of these texts discursively position their readers, and themselves, within engaging moments of narrativity. It is hoped that this study will encourage greater integration of research between those working on the Nag Hammadi material and those studying early Christian paraenetic discourse.
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McGill University, 2005. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047428527 :
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Interference in Sovereign Affairs and the Discursive Economy of International Law /
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Interference in sovereign affairs is seemingly everywhere but nowhere at the same time. Whether it is pressure on or corruption of public officials, conditionality in development assistance, criticism of one's human rights record, psychological or propaganda operations, instrumentalization of diasporas, international organization supervision or meddling diplomats, the phenomenon is as amorphous as it is diffuse. But what if it was the lens that we use to capture interference that was the problem? How do the tools we use in international law blind us to the reality of certain phenomena? The urgency of understanding interference on its terms has never been greater, and it requires nothing less than a reimagining of the sort of discursive investments on which international law rests.
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1 online resource (606 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004532731