In the 19th century, when belief in racial discrimination and superiority could find a response at social even moral levels, claims about humanity as biological species turned into number of pseudoscientific assumptions. This inevitably constituted legitimate ground for Orientalist stereotypes such barbarism, despotism, ignorance, fanaticism backwardness directed towards Eastern societies. Orie...

An analogy is presented between music and linguistic discourse in terms of lexical cohesion. Linguistic discourse and music are two different manifestations of human communication. They are both meaningful and coherent, and both are processes inherently temporal. Lexical cohesion is a semantic relation manifested in the lexical level of language. A short sample of discourse is analysed and comp...

Discourse analysis, or text-linguistics, is an approach to interpreting Scripture that seeks to understand a discourse’s use of language and that examines the structure of the entire discourse. This method will be applied to Hebrews 10:19–25 in order to understand its basic meaning and function in the book of Hebrews. However, discourse analysis is not a long-standing, well defined, methodologi...

Discourse plays an important role in innovation and the diffusion of technology. Various types of actors act as knowledge entrepreneurs to collectively build this discourse. This paper examines the emergence of a new type of actor, tech bloggers, within technology discourse communities. Tech bloggers are authors of web logs focused on developments with new technologies. We examine tech bloggers...

While it has been established that transitions between discourse relations are important for coherence, such information has not so far been used to aid in language generation. We introduce an approach to discourse planning for conceptto-text generation systems which simultaneously determines the order of messages and the discourse relations between them. This approach makes it straightforward ...

judgement about friedrich nietzsche as a criticizer of modern culture and a new establisher in culture and thought of the new world, is a very difficult task. but criticizing of morality, philosophy and culture during the last ages is an effort that nietzsche has done it and in this way he notified the effects of corruption on human will and life. nietzsche in his new establishing in reaction t...

This article is a response to calls for more reflexivity in media scholarship. It argues that despite various attempts towards challenging the ‘Western-centrism’ of field (notable among them ‘de-Westernisation’ project), studies has remained highly captive distinctions between ‘West’ and ‘non-West’ as principal starting point analysis. Building on Edward Said’s concept Orientalism, employing id...