This paper examines a range of new penal trends and attempts to assess their significance, in the context of the growing debate on modernist and postmodernist penality. It argues that they can be seen as early indicators of an emerging postmodern penality, even if its contours may still be unclear and unmarked. The paper then goes on to discuss the empirical and theoretical significance of this...

Motivated by an intention to remedy current complications with Dutch terminology concerning informatics, the term informaticology is positioned to denote an academic counterpart of informatics where informatics is conceived of as a container for a coherent family of practical disciplines ranging from computer engineering and software engineering to network technology, data center management, in...

In this paper, I want to consider the possibility of applying feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine gender in children’s fantasy fiction. There are two major aspects in claiming that a critical linguistic, feminist approach to children’s fantasy might be needed. Firstly, considering the earlier applications of feminist CDA and CDA, one should note that these approaches have rare...