Mailing lists, newsgroups, and weblogs are just three examples of a large set of new discussion forums that are sited on the Internet. In these forums citizens across the world conduct a new form of many-to-many, cross-border relations. New forms of governance and collective action are taking place on the Internet and national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations pr...

Microaggressions are behaviors that stem from implicit bias and occur at an interpersonal level. In medicine, microaggressions may be encountered both in training clinical practice. Although often unintentional or unconscious by the offender, harmful to health safety of women underrepresented minority (URM) medical students, residents, physicians, other providers, patients. This article aims de...

This presentation addresses the question: how and why can a pair of teacher-student interactants co-create a story? In analyzing the discourse data taken while interactants try to achieve the task of making a coherent story by arranging cards, the ‘ba (filed)’ theory is employed. ‘Ba’ based approach is an innovating frame of thinking device that assumes 1) inside perspective of the subject, 2) ...

This descriptive research discusses the use of discourse markers in a diplomatic setting between governments Indonesia and Australia during Joint Press Conference Indonesia-Australia Foreign Defence Ministers. The particular aims this are to identify analyze forms employed by representatives each government describe most frequent used these representatives. data were collected from transcript M...

Academic writing is not just about presenting a set of ideas, but through the act of writing, the authors position themselves as individuals having particular identities which mostly reflect the dominant sociocultural values and practices of the discourse communities in which they are living and performing. The present study, using a mixed method approach, attempted to explore the evidences of ...

This research employs free model that uses only sentential features without paragraph context to extract topic sentences of a paragraph. For finding optimal combination of features, corpus-based classification is used for constructing a sentence classifier as the model. The sentence classifier is trained by using Support Vector Machine (SVM). The experiment shows that position and meta-discours...

A translation of abductive language interpretation problems into a deductive form is proposed and shown to be correct. No meta-level overhead is involved in the resulting formulas that can be evaluated by bottom-up deduction, e.g., by considering them as Constraint Handling Rules. The problem statement may involve background theories with integrity constraints, and minimal contexts are produced...

The meta-universe is a future full of infinite possibilities, and disembodiment the main relationship between human virtual body. In this context, social robots have developed rapidly, bringing unique emotional experiences to humans in current form text, become disposable ‘close friends’ that will not betray. fact, emotions based on illusion cannot completely replace real interpersonal communic...