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The goal of this paper is twofold: first, to provide an analysis of the potential of Information Visualization as a tool in discourse analysis research, and second, to express the need for greater integration within other approaches to language and knowledge comprehension. It is illustrated in this paper how the integration of content analysis techniques, Network Theory, Information Visualization and Corpus Linguistics contribute to detect certain patterns in the discursive configuration and interaction network of the characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The visualizations (e.g., graphs and word clouds) not only prove to be an excellent (and necessary) tool for testing previous theoretical hypotheses made by Dostoevsky scholars, but they also demonstrate the extensive possibilities to reveal patterns and singular textual phenomena that serve to be the base for future empirical approaches to the study of linguistic data and literary text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Rhetoric and discursive practices of local and institutional journalism. Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona, Spain) in the democratic transition (1979-1987)". The article analyzes municipal press published by he city council of Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona). The period studied is the transition to democracy between 1979 and 1987. The paper provides Recol ReCol (1949-2010), a documentary source of local news repertoire. The article analyzes the rhetorical devices of publishing: the arguments about the journalistic project, its characteristics and purposes. These observations are useful to know the quality of discursive practices, their veracity and institutional loyalty by the editor. By linguistic and legal criteria, the study concludes that the consistorial journalism of that time has been irregular and controversial. On a positive note, research can assess the importance of local news corpus. It also recommends a demanding precise regulation on good discursive practices of public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]