This study aimed to gain an insight into whether computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the form of a digital forum can reflect gendered discursive practices. A great deal of research has now established that computer-mediated interactions embody gendered differences in the use of emoticons, but few studies have examined the potential effect of the gender of the emoticon-receiver on the frequ...

According to the traditional way of thinking of the communication process (more generally: of the discoursive dynamic), actors exchange ready-made meanings. In other words, communication entails pre-defined semiotic devices, resulting from previous stipulation. Therefore, intersubjectivity is based on a repertoire of shared meanings, pre-existent to the social exchange. To underline the quality...

Assessing scholarly influence is critical for understanding the collective system of scholarship and the history of academic inquiry. Influence is multifaceted, and citations reveal only part of it. Citation counts exhibit preferential attachment and follow a rigid "news cycle" that can miss sustained and indirect forms of influence. Building on dynamic topic models that track distributional sh...

This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regi...

Collective decisions are ubiquitous in complex democratic societies. Elections, referenda, decisions in legislatures, committees, multimember courts, expert panels, and boards of companies or other organizations are all examples. In such decisions, disagreement is equally ubiquitous. People disagree with each other on many levels. They disagree not only on what choices should be made but also o...

In this thesis I have addressed the problem of text summarization from a linguistic perspective. After reviewing some work in the area, I have found that many satisfactory approaches to text summarization rely on general properties of language that are reflected in the surface realization of texts. The main claim of this thesis is that some general properties of the discursive organization of t...

Investigating the discursive construction of EFL learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. Hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. This study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) Iranian EFL learners’ motivation in Shiraz University, Iran by examining t...

Understanding the policy cycle, as well as scrutinizing the text of hidden and obvious policies and rules, requires a model of discourse analysis based on which discursive ap-proaches of policy makers are understood and estimated. However, when it comes to presenting a policy model, we have to use the views of policy theorists to see how a problem as a "public goods" can be found in the policy ...

Abstract This paper focuses on the centrality of media practices to discuss in a transdisciplinary way how Covid-19 crisis has been framed and communicated Brazil across different spaces, whereas country became second world with most deaths due spread infection. discussion mobilises Foucauldian genealogical critical discursive perspectives (Foucault, [1970]1981, p. 73) create intelligibility ab...