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Contingency

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The thought of contingency in modern times means to reflect on a series of other concepts, such as chance, accident, rupture, indetermination, and freedom and to dialectically confront them with as many others, such as necessity, fate, order and determination. A study recounts some of the uses of the term contingency and the conceptual context in which it is encountered, and analyzes the question of contingency on the basis of a few ideas of Walter Benjamin.

Author: Seligmann-Silva, Marcio
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
Context (Linguistics)

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Knowing space

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The concept of space is intrinsic to the intellectual ordering of people's lives and their everyday notions of causality, playing an important role in knowledge and in knowing the world. However, it is necessary to know space as not just about relations and distance between elements, but as a social produced order of difference that can be heterogeneous in and of itself.

Author: Shields, Rob
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
Space and time, Space

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Language and nation

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The nation often defines, delimits or chooses what its language should be, by going for what is the most appropriate dialect of a language. An examination of the trajectories of language and literature in relation to the nation reveals several views of what they mean.

Author: Talib, Ismail S.
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
Rhetoric, Ancient, Linguistic geography, Ancient rhetoric

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Subjects list: Analysis, Discourse analysis, Dialectology
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