The cultural and discursive underpinning of industries and markets has received growing attention in recent years. I use Ann Swidler’s conceptualization of culture as toolkit, and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus as the starting point to further this enterprise. The article illustrates a strategy for measuring and comparing the cultural toolkits in use by different actors in a larger field....

Nurses' patient education is important for building patients' knowledge, understanding, and preparedness for self-management. The aim of this study was to explore the conditions for nurses' patient education work by focusing on managers' discourses about patient education provided by nurses. In 2012, data were derived from three focus group interviews with primary care managers. Critical discou...

This paper develops a theoretical framework that situates institutional entrepreneurship by drawing from Gramsci’s concept of hegemony to understand the contingent stabilization of organizational fields, and by employing his discussion of the Modern Prince as the collective agent who organizes and strategizes counter-hegemonic challenges. Our framework makes three contributions. First, we chara...

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness in which disorders of thought content are a prominent feature. The disruption of normal flow of thought, or "Formal Thought Disorder" (FTD), has been traditionally assessed through the content and form of patients' speech, and speech abnormalities in schizophrenia were considered as a by-product of the disruption in conceptual structures and associative pr...

Works on temporality in the field of language acquisition have progressed considerably over the past few years, moving on from descriptions of the linguistic structure of learner varieties towards a more general concern for their dynamic nature, i.e. their developmental structure and factors relating to their restructuring. As far as the study of temporality is concerned, it has not only been a...

In audiovisual composition, coupling montage moving images with music is common practice. Interpretation of the effect on an audioviewer's consequent interpretation of the composition is discursive and unquantified. Methodology for evaluating the audiovisual multimodal interactivity is proposed, developing an analysis procedure via the study of modality interdependent transient structures, expl...

This article analyzes the contemporary construction of male menopause as a clinical disorder. While medical interest in a male climacteric has waxed and waned over the past century, the past decade has witnessed a surge of both scientific and commercial interest in its diagnosis and treatment. In explaining why this is the case, the author suggests that shifting cultural narratives of aging and...

This paper deals with indexation of multi-modal geographic documents by the mean of two constructs: geographic entities, and their semantic relations. These relations concern more specifically contrast or similarity between the entities with regard to the described phenomenon. Geographic entities are retrieved in both text and maps using proper analysis techniques. Contrast or similarity relati...

Nous proposons un formalisme lexical pour des architectures de transfert co-descriptives dirigées par le lexique qui définissent le niveau analytique des structures superficielles sous-specifiées de la représentation discursive (FUDRS) comme le niveau de transfert. Nous examinerons quelques exemples de non-concordance structurelle entre source et cible dont on sait que la représentation est ext...

BACKGROUND Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very littl...