This study explores the importance of different motivations to visit three types of recreational settings--farms, private forests, and state or national parks. Data were collected via a mail-back questionnaire administered to a stratified random sample of households in Missouri (USA). Descriptive and inferential statistics reveal both similarities and discontinuities in motivations for visiting...

The topic of youth civic engagement is increasingly popular in social science research; however, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not well understood. This article addresses the following questions: What motivations and barriers do youth report for civic involvement? How do motivations and barriers differ across school contexts? A qualitative study u...

Not much is known about the linguistic resources other than discourse connectors for signalling coherence relations. We present here non discourse connector resources for marking coherence relations, namely “discourse verbs” and “discourse prepositions”. “Discourse verbs” are verbs such as precede or cause which take as arguments eventualities or facts. They enter into competition with discours...

This paper proposes a new approach to discourse directionality, a phenomenon which, as is well known, is neither well defined nor adequately accounted for. Directionality is the property of (a part of) a discourse to be directed towards a 'goal', usually implying asymmetric functional relations between the discourse units involved. The direction of such an asymmetric discourse relation depends ...

How do different types of motivation influence the politics collective action? We study a model endogenous rebellion and repression to understand how individual affect participation, state repression, mechanisms by which violence affects political contention. Unlike psychological rewards, material rewards are divided among successful rebels. Thus, in settings, that decreases mobilization chance...