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- Publications received between 2 May 2005 and 1 June 2006
- The following list includes recent books potentially relevant to the traditional and/or allied disciplines of linguistics. An effort is made to see that all books of interest to the readers of Linguistics are reviewed. Publishers receive two copies of reviews accepted for publication. We regret that it is not possible...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Publications received between 2 May 2003 and 1 June 2004
- The following list includes recent books potentially relevant to the traditional and/or allied disciplines of linguistics. An effort is made to see that all books of interest to the readers of Linguistics are reviewed. Publishers receive two copies of reviews accepted for publication. We regret that it is not possible...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Publications received between 2 June 2001 and 1 June 2002
- The following list includes recent books potentially relevant to the traditional and/or allied disciplines of linguistics. An effort is made to see that all books of interest to the readers of Linguistics are reviewed. Publishers receive two copies of reviews accepted for publication. We regret that it is not possible...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Secondary topic as a relation in information structure
- Abstract Information structure may be understood as the pragmatic structuring of a proposition in terms of the speaker's assumptions concerning the addressee's state of mind at the time of the utterance. The commonly assumed binominal partition of the information structure into topic-focus, theme-rheme, topic-comment, focus-open proposition, or focus-presupposition is...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Mary Astell (1666-1731), critic of Locke. (John Locke)
- High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell was both shunned and respected by her peers for being one of the early systematic critics of John Locke's 'Two Treatises.' A review of Astell's analyses and rebuttals on a number of major arguments introduced by Locke is presented. How Locke appears in Astell's...
- Research articles 1995-09-01
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- Beyond Workflow: Discourse Flows for Knowledge Conversion
- Discourse flows are interactive instruments for stimulating electronic discourses. For specified problems, they suggest a flow of a computer-mediated discourse with goals, participants, time frame and the communication tools to be used. Discourse flows potentially reduce the effort of planning and executing electronic conversations for knowledge conversation between distributed participants....
- White papers 2003-07-02
- UCLA community college review: community college scholarship and discourse
- This review discusses the concept of the two-year college as a separate discourse community within the larger discourse community of higher education. The article offers a complete definition and description of discourse communities and discusses a new understanding of scholarship in terms of the scholarship of teaching. The review argues...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- Privacy, Identity, Databases: Toward A New Conception Of The Consumer Privacy Discourse
- This article argues that the current discourse on privacy has failed to articulate a compelling rationale for protecting consumer information. Moreover, most legal scholars rely on models of informational privacy that poorly fit the context of consumer information collection. It also proposes a new model for protecting consumer information, which...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Modelling Social Discourse as a Route to Internal Brand Building
- The study of internal brand building is eclectic and characterized by undefined competing vocabularies and perspectives. Taking a specific and traditional focus on communication the paper argues for a more unified theoretical and methodological analysis to understand internal brand building. It breaks with the typical concept of communication as the...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Communication, Change and Conflict: Discourse in an ERP Implementation
- This paper discusses an implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system in a local government setting in New Zealand. While the ERP body of literature is growing, micro level studies of the implementation experience are still rare. Organisational agendas are formed at the interactional level. Managers accompany change with...
- White papers 2006-01-10
- Leadership Discourse in Action: A Textual Study of Organizational Change in a Government of Canada Department.(MANAGEMENT)
- Leadership Discourse in Action: A Textual Study of Organizational Change in a Government of Canada Department Leadership Discourse in Action: A Textual Study of Organizational Change in a Government of Canada Department
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Patrick Brantlinger. Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930.(Book Review)
- Patrick Brantlinger. Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2003. x + 248 pp. Patrick Brantlinger's Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (2003) offers an excellent new historical analysis on a...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America
- The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America. By CARLOS J. ALONSO. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998. x+ 227 pp. $45. ISBN 0-19-511863-4. This book has one key central argument: that while Spanish American cultural discourse has been characterized by an apparent...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- A Discourse on the Method
- A Discourse on the Method. By Rene Descartes. Trans. by Ian Maclean. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. lxxvi + 84 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-282514-8. This is a new translation of Descartes's well-known 1637 essay introducing the three treatises Meteors, Dioptrics, and Geometry. While few...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Branding: A New Performance Discourse for HR?
- This paper explores the potential for HR professionals to draw on the branding literature as a new performance discourse, which increasingly is believed by organizations such as the UK-based Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development CIPD to be a key area of interest for their members. The authors believes that...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics, and the Feminist Movement.(Review)
- Young, Stacey Changing the World: Discourse, Politics, and the Feminist Movement New York: Routledge 249 pp., $65.00 cloth; $17.95 paper ISBN 0-415-91376-4 cloth ISBN 0-415-91377-2 paper Publication Date: October 1997 Stacey Young...
- Research articles 1998-09-22
- Landscaping the field of discourse: Political slant and poetic slope in Sir John Denham's "Cooper's Hill"
- If Alexander Pope or Samuel Johnson, both admirers of "Cooper's Hill," had traveled back in time to the scene of the poem's composition, they would have noticed a strong contrast between the pacific topography of the poem itself and the bellicose mental landscape of the poem's original audience. They would...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Cultural thinking and discourse organizational patterns influencing writing skills in a Chinese English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learner
- Abstract Writing patterns of a Chinese English-as-a-foreign-language EFL learner were analyzed as a case study from linguistic, pragmatic, and psycholinguistic perspectives. Alternative assessments were used by American pre-service teachers and a Taiwanese EFL instructor for rating linguistic developmental problems referring to format, style, syntax, and grammar. In addition, researchers conducted...
- Research articles 2001-10-01
- Risk society and actuarial criminology: Prospects for a critical discourse.
- Risk society has much to offer in terms of criticism of social institutions, including the criminal justice system, but is hindered by both conceptual and political limitations. Actuarial criminology is one part of this school of thought and consists of the experts and systems they create to help enforcing the...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- Mears, Natalie: Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms.(Book review)
- Mears, Natalie Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 311 pp., $85.00. ISBN 0-521-819922-9 Publication Date: December 2005 In recent years books that range from Carole Levin's The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
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