Current trends in online social interaction have led to an increase in personalization and a decrease in anonymity owing to both technological advances and changing social norms (for a review, see Bargh & McKenna, 2004; McKenna & Bargh, 2000). At the forefront of these changing trends are blogs (short for weblogs), which are personal websites updated regularly by their creator where journal-lik...

BACKGROUND Wild plant gathering becomes again a popular and fashionable activity in Europe after gathering practices have been increasingly abandoned over the last decades. Recent ethnobotanical research documented a diversity of gathering practices from people of diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds who gather in urban and rural areas. Few efforts were though made to study the motiv...

In recent proposals for the crucial internal structure of the framing Contextual Component within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2006, 2008) — for example by Rijkhoff (2008:88-97) and Connolly (2007) —, what is here called text is considered as equivalent to discourse within an account of the NP (Rijkhoff) or of context (Connolly). The article purports to show that this con...

Institutional work as a concept has evolved and diffused beyond roots in management organizational studies since it was first defined by Lawrence Suddaby (2006). A diverse literature recent criticism call for an extensive review of the field. We conducted systematic 452 peer-reviewed articles 185 different journals published from March 2006 to December 2019. Semantic analysis revealed changes t...

This study advances the discourse on factors behind conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). Focusing terrorism-affected north-eastern Nigeria, it argues that terrorism creates poor economic conditions compel women and girls to engage in transactional sex exchange for money, food, shelter, protection, marriage, despite risks of socio-legal persecutions. further intensifies vulnerability violati...

BACKGROUND Home births in high risk pregnancies and unassisted childbirth seem to be increasing in the Netherlands. Until now there were no qualitative data on women's motivations for these choices in the Dutch maternity care system where integrated midwifery care and home birth are regular options in low risk pregnancies. We aimed to examine women's motivations for birthing outside the system ...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

Keywords: language interpretationlanguage generationdiscourse segmentationdiscourse relations Contents list: Theories of discourse structure; Interpretation of discourse; Generation of discourse; Empirical approaches to discourse Discourse Processing concerns the computational processes underlying the interpretation and production of text encompassing more than one sentence, i.e., discourse. Di...

Translation of discourse relations is one of the recent efforts of incorporating discourse information to statistical machine translation (SMT). While existing works focus on disambiguation of ambiguous discourse connectives, or transformation of discourse trees, only explicit discourse relations are tackled. A greater challenge exists in machine translation of Chinese, since implicit discourse...

The article explores grassroots artistic practices as stances of vital urbanism, intended the urban dynamics activated from below and outside established institutions that make a city lively thanks to heterogenous, adaptive, ultimately transformative initiatives its citizens, especially when aggregated in form organised associations. Specifically, it focuses on how why cultural organisation con...