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4. Discourse Analysis
Meredydd Rix
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Abstract
Having discussed what I consider to constitute evidence of ontological insecurity, and the securitisation of ontology (through overcoding), the purpose of this chapter is to provide evidence to this effect. In the first section I introduce the corpus data and pinpoint areas for closer examination, as well as noting to what extent the discourse has changed. In the second section I focus on the signs of indeterminacy and the ontological insecurity this produces. In the following sections I exp...