Introduction. The problem of the research is connected with the constant change of the life rhythm caused by technocratic innovations. The neeed for new skills is today an integral component of a multifaceted life in a rapidly changing society. In this regard, the issues of continuous education carry a deep meaning of the objective variability of human life in the context of a dynamically changing reality.Materials and methods. The research methodology is based on the use of a set of methods of scientific knowledge: analysis, classification, systematization, comparison, generalization. Dissertation studies on Pedagogy, the title of which contains the category «continuous education», coducted in the period from 2000 to 2022, served as an empirical base.The Research results. Based on the data obtained through scientometric analysis of dissertation studies, the specified semantic units of the studied scientific and pedagogical content have been recorded; thematic clusters containing in the title significant areas of scientific and practice-oriented topics on the problem of continuous education have been determined.Discussion and conclusion. The evolution of the scientific direction «continuous education» has been revealed, quantitative indicators of its state, the degree of development and demand for pedagogical practice have been determined. An objective picture of the development of this scientific direction has been obtained and its prospects as a subject of scientific and pedagogical discourse ahave been determined.
Zahra Intan Paradita, Maulaya Arinil Haq, Muhammad Fikri Assyamil
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The media significantly shapes public opinion and influences societal perceptions of diverse local and worldwide issues. Consequently, news coverage has the potential to shape public discourse significantly. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach to analyze patterns in the reporting of Yahya Sinwar's death by CNN and Al Jazeera, utilizing Theo Van Leeuwen's (2008) framework for critical discourse analysis.Through the application of Van Leeuwen's theory, the study examines how Western and Middle Eastern media providers frame Sinwar's death and represent the social actors involved in his assassination. Van Leeuwen's framework categorizes the representation of social actors into two primary strategies: exclusion, encompassing suppression and backgrounding, and inclusion, which includes Activation/Passivation, Genericization/Specification, Assimilation, Association, Indetermination, Functionalization/Identification, and Personalization/Impersonalization. The analysis highlights distinct differences in the framing strategies of the two media providers. CNN and Jazeera differ in their framing strategies, with CNN emphasizing individual actions and a direct narrative style, while Jazeera uses a context-driven approach, emphasizing collective experiences and connecting individual events to larger systemic issues
ABSTRACT Aim To understand Lead Tissue Viability Nurses' agency, autonomy and authority to perform their role. Background Lead Tissue Viability Nurses need both clinical autonomy and organisational authority to improve wound care, patient safety, and cost‐effectiveness. Their role goes beyond bedside care to include strategic decisions shaping policy, resources, and quality initiatives. Despite this, the role is often misunderstood and under‐recognised. This study, based on the four pillars of advanced nursing practice—clinical practice, education, research, and leadership—examines the challenges they face. Design A qualitative study. Methods Interviews with six Lead Tissue Viability Nurses working in large tertiary care organisations. A thematic analysis was undertaken. Results The results aligned with the four pillars of advanced nursing practice. Six sub‐themes emerged, reflecting the skills, knowledge, and influences involved, and critically, the challenges faced in meeting role expectations: Clinical Practice—working with clinical specialties (a); Education—supporting generalist nurses (b); Leadership—collaborating with dressing companies (c) and national bodies (d); Research—partnering with clinicians (e) to implement national guidance (f). Conclusion Our study highlights the restricted agency that constrains their capacity to meet the complex demands of the role. Their specialised knowledge frequently remains unacknowledged and underutilised, while their contributions are often marginalised within organisational discourse. To attain the level of recognition commensurate with this senior nursing position, their distinct professional and organisational identity should be clearly articulated. Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care Lead Tissue Viability Nurses should be acknowledged for their advanced practice role, reflecting the specialist expertise and leadership they bring to patient care. Additionally, they must be granted the agency, autonomy and authority necessary to implement best practice. Impact Ensuring that Lead Tissue Viability Nurses can execute their duties effectively and achieve high‐quality outcomes will directly influence patient care. Patient or Public Contribution No patient or public contribution at this stage, as this study was about exploring the nurses' organisational role from their perspective.
Natalia D. Galskova, Elena A. Komochkina, Nataliia V. Poliakova
The article adopts a cross-disciplinary perspective on foreign language instruction for non-linguistic students, with particular emphasis on the axiological aspects of developing their professional speaking and writing skills in a foreign language. The theoretical framework of the study integrates contemporary achievements in axiology, cognitive psychology, social studies, and language education into a coherent teaching methodology, designed to reflect the lifestyles, modes of thinking, preferences, values, and cultural practices of today’s youth. The study is aimed at identifying the correlation between professional values and foreign language communicational skills and prove its positive effect on the formation of student’s professional speech culture through a foreign language course titled ‘Professional Speech Culture in the Native and Foreign Language’ for undergraduate science students. The course is tailored to the learners’ specific linguistic, cultural, and professional needs, focusing on oral and written communication in both L1 and L2 to support their future academic and professional success. The course incorporates authentic academic materials in both languages, collaborative activities, and grammar and vocabulary practice, with special attention given to the analysis and categorisation of specialised discourse units and markers within a cross-cultural professional context. The methodology was implemented and tested through a three-stage pedagogical experiment conducted among Physics and Mathematics students at the State University of Education during the 2024–2025 academic year. The results of current and final assessment procedures confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed methodology: students in the experimental group demonstrated greater fluency, fewer grammatical and lexical errors, and more substantial progress in both oral and written communication compared to the control group. Thus, we can state that the proposed methodology makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of foreign language instruction.
The analysis of problematic mathematical texts, particularly from India, has required the introduction of a new category of rigorous discourse, apodictic discourse. We briefly recall why this introduction was necessary. We then show that this form of discourse is widespread among scholars, even in contemporary Mathematics, in India and elsewhere. It is in India a natural outgrowth of the emphasis on non-written communication, combined with the need for freedom of thought. New results in this first part include the following: (i) {Ā}ryabha___a proposed a geometric derivation of a basic algebraic identity; (ii) Brahmagupta proposed an original argument for the irrationality of quadratic surds on the basis of his results on the varga-prak___ti problem, thereby justifying his change in the definition of the word kara___{ī}.
We introduce BeDiscovER (Benchmark of Discourse Understanding in the Era of Reasoning Language Models), an up-to-date, comprehensive suite for evaluating the discourse-level knowledge of modern LLMs. BeDiscovER compiles 5 publicly available discourse tasks across discourse lexicon, (multi-)sentential, and documental levels, with in total 52 individual datasets. It covers both extensively studied tasks such as discourse parsing and temporal relation extraction, as well as some novel challenges such as discourse particle disambiguation (e.g., ``just''), and also aggregates a shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking for multilingual and multi-framework discourse relation classification. We evaluate open-source LLMs: Qwen3 series, DeepSeek-R1, and frontier model such as GPT-5-mini on BeDiscovER, and find that state-of-the-art models exhibit strong performance in arithmetic aspect of temporal reasoning, but they struggle with full document reasoning and some subtle semantic and discourse phenomena, such as rhetorical relation recognition.
The spoken action of prophets ʿalahim al-ṣalātu wal-salām among Qur'anic discourses has a high frequency in the application of stylistic techniques to represent moral teachings. The syntactic stage among the phonetic, lexical, syntactical and rhetorical styles refers to hidden meanings by reading frequent relationships of grammatical sign systems, which provides a methodical model in tafsīr (Arabic: تفسیر, Quranic Exegesis) and translation of Quranic discourses. The present research emphasizes on the descriptive-analytical method and seeks to answer the question of how the syntactic highlighting techniques highlight the moral angles of the Prophet’s discourse in different situations. The resulting approaches are the analysis of stylistic choices in the form of directional structures such as “omitting the grammatical voice,” “increasing the capacity of the sentence,” “priority and non- priority,” “pronoun referring,” “sentence type,” moral teachings such as “maintaining the sanctity of the Divine sanctuary,” “perfect acquiescence before truth,” “decency and chastity of behavior,” “humbleness and humility” and “strong resorting to the Religion of God” have been depicted, which, in addition to clarifying the life and sīrah of the prophets and providing a model of Quranic behavior helps in methodizing the analysis of the Quran and this also, shows aspects of the linguistic inimitability of the Quran (Arabic: إعجاز, ʾiʿjāz) in giving birth to semantic subtleties.
In this theoretical article, I have expressed sympathy for the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Lesotho over their worries about the marginalisation and prejudice of the Islamic faith in public settings. The article also takes into account the fact that the worry highlighted in respect to Islam religion comes at a time when demands for inclusive social, political, cultural and educational systems are being considered on a global scale. Education, which is considered a public enterprise, is rife with religious exclusionary practices in Lesotho. Only Christian education is taught in public schools; other religious traditions are not, most notably Basotho traditional religion. I employed cultural approach discourse (CAD) analysis and philosophical theory of pluriversality to argue that discrimination, particularly in education and religion, is against Basotho culture as enshrined in the SeMoshoeshoe values. I advocated utilising ‘sekoele’ – or returning to SeMoshoeshoe – principles of religious border pedagogy and religious public pedagogy to counteract the teaching of religion that is biased and marginalises other religious traditions.
Contribution: The general contribution of this article is to advocate for interreligious education, which plays a crucial role in creating a tolerant, empathetic and inclusive society. It emphasises the significance of people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds living and collaborating harmoniously. The article encourages empowerment to participate in constructive dialogues, embrace diversity and actively contribute to a more peaceful and unified global community.
The British government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant wide-ranging restrictions imposed on people living in the UK with minimal parliamentary oversight. Thus, human rights and civil liberties were affected, as far as both individual freedoms and constitutional guarantees are concerned. However, given the urgency created by the health crisis and the controversial nature of human rights speech in the UK, using it to criticize the government’s measures was bound to be a politically charged choice. Through an analysis of parliamentary discourse in the main Covid-related debates both in the British Parliament and in the devolved legislatures, this article argues that human rights were not used as an expression of common values in a time of national crisis, but as a divisive rhetorical tool. Focusing thus on political discourse rather than on the effective effects of Covid restrictions on human rights allows us to identify ideological fault lines. Indeed, the analysis shows a highly differentiated definition of human rights between political parties on the one hand and between the different nations on the other.
Discourse relations play a pivotal role in establishing coherence within textual content, uniting sentences and clauses into a cohesive narrative. The Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) stands as one of the most extensively utilized datasets in this domain. In PDTB-3, the annotators can assign multiple labels to an example, when they believe that multiple relations are present. Prior research in discourse relation recognition has treated these instances as separate examples during training, and only one example needs to have its label predicted correctly for the instance to be judged as correct. However, this approach is inadequate, as it fails to account for the interdependence of labels in real-world contexts and to distinguish between cases where only one sense relation holds and cases where multiple relations hold simultaneously. In our work, we address this challenge by exploring various multi-label classification frameworks to handle implicit discourse relation recognition. We show that multi-label classification methods don't depress performance for single-label prediction. Additionally, we give comprehensive analysis of results and data. Our work contributes to advancing the understanding and application of discourse relations and provide a foundation for the future study
The relevance of the study is determined by the practical necessity of a systematic research of linguistic and pragmatic aspects of communicative tactics and discursive means actualization in forming the media image of V. V. Putin, the president of Russia, in the political media discourse during the period of aggravation of the information-psychological warfare of the collective West in regard to the Russian Federation and, in particular, to the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin, in the context of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. The authors aim to determine the communicative tactics and discursive means of forming the media image of the President of Russia, as well as to identify his media portrait in the current political situation in Germany. The present study offers a theoretical review of modern Russian and foreign studies, devoted to the definition of media image. The material of the present study is the documentary film “Putin – Der gefährliche Despot” (ZDF). The research is based on N. B. Ruzhentseva and O. L. Mikhaleva’s classification of communicative tactics and is carried out with the help of the methods of continuous sampling, discourse analysis, contextual analysis, as well as the method of quantitative calculation. The authors identify 17 main communicative tactics and discursive means of forming the media image of the President of Russia used in 80 contexts. The obtained findings allow to demonstrate the linguistic manifestation of the critical, distrustful and wary position of Germany towards Russia and V. Putin; the presence, to a greater extent, of predominantly negative judgments about the personality of the President of Russia and his activities in the political arena; Germany’s desire to discredit Russia and its President at the federal level in the eyes of its population through the use of a diverse array of communicative tactics and discursive means of speech influence.
A significant share of political discourse occurs online on social media platforms. Policymakers and researchers try to understand the role of social media design in shaping the quality of political discourse around the globe. In the past decades, scholarship on political discourse theory has produced distinct characteristics of different types of prominent political rhetoric such as deliberative, civic, or demagogic discourse. This study investigates the relationship between social media reaction mechanisms (i.e., upvotes, downvotes) and political rhetoric in user discussions by engaging in an in-depth conceptual analysis of political discourse theory. First, we analyze 155 million user comments in 55 political subforums on Reddit between 2010 and 2018 to explore whether users' style of political discussion aligns with the essential components of deliberative, civic, and demagogic discourse. Second, we perform a quantitative study that combines confirmatory factor analysis with difference in differences models to explore whether different reaction mechanism schemes (e.g., upvotes only, upvotes and downvotes, no reaction mechanisms) correspond with political user discussion that is more or less characteristic of deliberative, civic, or demagogic discourse. We produce three main takeaways. First, despite being "ideal constructs of political rhetoric," we find that political discourse theories describe political discussions on Reddit to a large extent. Second, we find that discussions in subforums with only upvotes, or both up- and downvotes are associated with user discourse that is more deliberate and civic. Third, social media discussions are most demagogic in subreddits with no reaction mechanisms at all. These findings offer valuable contributions for ongoing policy discussions on the relationship between social media interface design and respectful political discussion among users.
Gil Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Jonas Belouadi
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Available corpora for Argument Mining differ along several axes, and one of the key differences is the presence (or absence) of discourse markers to signal argumentative content. Exploring effective ways to use discourse markers has received wide attention in various discourse parsing tasks, from which it is well-known that discourse markers are strong indicators of discourse relations. To improve the robustness of Argument Mining systems across different genres, we propose to automatically augment a given text with discourse markers such that all relations are explicitly signaled. Our analysis unveils that popular language models taken out-of-the-box fail on this task; however, when fine-tuned on a new heterogeneous dataset that we construct (including synthetic and real examples), they perform considerably better. We demonstrate the impact of our approach on an Argument Mining downstream task, evaluated on different corpora, showing that language models can be trained to automatically fill in discourse markers across different corpora, improving the performance of a downstream model in some, but not all, cases. Our proposed approach can further be employed as an assistive tool for better discourse understanding.
Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies has been applied in the study of news discourse for more than 30 years. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of the research in this field, this article uses the Web of Science core database to investigate their evolution and envision of the application of CDA/CDS in news discourse. Moreover, CiteSpace is employed to draw visualization maps of scientific knowledge of this field, hoping to provide the meaningful guidance for the later research. The results are as follows: (1) The diversification and multi-dimension of theoretical approaches and analytical methods is a highlight of CDA applied in news discourse; (2) Various theories of other disciplines combined with CDA have been embraced by news discourse such as journalism, ecology, politics, sociology, and cognitive psychology, which shows the advancement and diversification of interdisciplinary trends in news discourse; (3) The application of CDA in news discourse covers various research domains from people’s livelihood issues to national strategic issues; (4) The availability of emerging corpus analysis tools has helped the application of CDA in news discourse to spur on further (critical) discourse excursions with corpora, promoting the comprehensiveness and accuracy of the research advances in this field.