This article examines the discursive strategies at play in style guide negotiation on GitHub. Looking three popular guides for JavaScript language—Standard, Airbnb, Prettier—, we highlight how source code, executable networks of communities and platform affordances are used as arguments their own adoption modification theoretically immutable documents. Through discourse analysis, show programme...

This paper will describe a process of ‘pragmatic annotation’ (c.f. Simpson-Vlach and Leicher 2006) which systematically identifies pragmatic meaning in spoken text. The annotation of stretches of text that perform particular pragmatic functions allows conclusions to be drawn across data sets at a different level than that of the individual lexical item, or structural content. The annotation of ...

Most document structures define layout structures which implicitly define semantic relationships between content elements. While document structures for text are well established (books, reports, papers etc.), models for time based documents such as multimedia and hypermedia are relatively new and lack established document structures. Traditional document description languages convey domain-dep...

A slriking difference between the interactions that students have with human tutors and those they have with computer-based instruction systems is that human tutors frequently refer to their own previous explanations. Based on a study of human-human instructional interactions, we are categorizing the uses of previous discourse and are developing a computational model of this behavior. In this p...

negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching a joint agreement about differing needs or ideas. for successful negotiations, both parties should come to the negotiating table with having done some serious thinking about the barriers to and complexities of cross- cultural communications. there are four phases in negotiations: relationship building, inform...

Delattre (1966) proposed a classification of French basic melodic contours. He defined in particular ‘major continuatives’ as melodic rises that mark the frontier between higher constituents in a hierarchy of clausal and sentential constituents. Although Delattre’s empirical basis for his classification has been discussed, there is a strong intuition that some sort of melodic rise can be used i...

Delattre (1966) proposed a classification of French basic melodic contours. He defined in particular ‘major continuatives’ as melodic rises that mark the frontier between higher constituents in a hierarchy of clausal and sentential constituents. Although Delattre’s empirical basis for his classification has been discussed, there is a strong intuition that some sort of melodic rise can be used i...

This study examines gendered characteristics in four female Japanese language learners’ discourse practices in a communicative setting, where they interact with native Japanese speaking friends in a JFL context. Focusing on the relationship between gender ideologies and discourse practices, I explore the extent to which learners are aware of gender ideologies in the Japanese community and how t...

This essay presents a reflective narrative on an innovative approach taken to create open,“free” space in which share ideas and discuss the theme “Spaces of Affectivity” across disciplines arts, humanities, geography with focus exploration negotiation socio-spatial cultural productions identity. These reflections are based planning two symposia held 2014 2015 under title Spaces Affectivity at L...

If public policy making is viewed as a negotiation process, the complexity of this process will increase roughly in proportion with the number of stakeholders involved, the variety of their interests, the variety of available options, and the time frame within which decisions are to be made. The complexity of the negotiation process also depends on the extent to which information on each of the...