background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

Since 2010, the international health community has placed a greater focus on reducing incidence and mortality rates due to non-communicable diseases, including cancer. Among women, breast cancer is the most common worldwide and therefore of great concern. While efforts to reduce and treat breast cancer are prevalent in Western countries, it is in developing countries where more than two-thirds ...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

The article examines the changing relationship of present to future from a narratological perspective. It argues that three dominant narrative schemas structure contemporary experiences temporality in Western social imaginary: modern crisis narrative, apocalyptic and chronic narrative. In its first part, shows how sense crisis, which emerged late eighteenth century, sedimented into powerful tem...

This paper, taking the medical practice of Khorchin Mongolian bone-setting as an example, examines conflict and connection between religious healing modern (or Western) medicine well transformation shamanisms in discourse nation-state building China, argues that relationship shamanic is not a binary opposition. product interaction alternative syncretistic local knowledge.

R ecent years have witnessed a rapid proliferation of radical Islamist activity in western Europe, from MI5’s claim in 2006 of 30 incipient “terror plots” and 1,600 individuals under surveillance, to actual terrorist atrocities in European cities, the most infamous and deadly of which included the transport network bombings in Madrid in 2003 and in London in 2005. Concomitantly, both the media ...

Since the one-child policy was introduced by the Chinese state almost thirty years ago, it has commonly been seen by Western observers as a disturbing paradox. Just as China was “freeing up” in other ways, following the death of Mao Zedong and the demise of the Gang of Four, it embarked on the most “draconian birth control campaign in history”—a state-led attempt at social engineering as intrus...

Law enforcement is a challenging and necessary social undertaking. Moreover, the political language of the western world has become increasingly polarized. As “us against them” becomes prevalent in public discourse, it reintroduces the west to phrases such as; ‘the war on...’ President Richard Nixon used war language in June 1971 when he introduced the ‘war on drugs’ [1]. Nevertheless, policing...

Traditional medicine (especially ayurvedic medicine) was taken by Indian nationalismas a synecdoche for traditional culture. In the face of European claims for scientific andtechnologic pre-eminence, Indian thinkers such as Aurobindo, Vivekananda,Radakrishnan, accepted European representations of Indian thinking as mystic andintuitive, to define it as distinctive of Indian ident...