As digital techonology advances, geographically distant learners have been engaging in cross-cultural communication and negotiation via telecollaborative projects. Research has shown that of meaning is crucial for effective these scenarios, nonetheless, more studies are needed to investigate other types negotiation, given its importance establishing cooperation. This paper aims at exploring the...

This paper playfully appropriates the metaphor of delusional states to frame a discussion hyperreal documents present in Disney theme parks and resorts. A brief overview literature on delusion individuals transitions into collective formation positive illusions introduce concept play. The conceptual framework play culture, or ludics, is presented understand cultural production meaning, which fu...

Background: One of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. Cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. The aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in Iran.Materials and Methods: This study was a conventional content analysis. Participants were consisted of 25 nurses and 9 parents selected through purposive sampling f...

In our work a new approach, the Distributed Knowledge Management (DKM) approach, is used and organizations are seen as constellations of communities, which “own” local knowledge and exchange it through meaning negotiation coordination processes. In order to reify communities within a DKM system, the concept of Knowledge Node (KN) is used and then applied in a case study: a complex Italian natio...

In this study, it is attempted to survey some intervening factors leading L2 Iranian learners’ not to be successful as well, and then seeks some of the features that might be applicable to open new windows into L2 learners in Iran. Also it concerns some aspects of language learning, which have received poor attention from both pedagogical and non-pedagogical areas. This article examined some so...

Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse d...