As a way of comparing qualitative and quantitative approaches to critical discourse analysis (CDA), two analysts independently examined similar datasets of newspaper articles in order to address the research question ‘How are different types of men represented in the British press?’. One analyst used a 41.5 million word corpus of articles, while the other focused on a down-sampled set of 51 art...

Abstract In order to better compete in an increasing neoliberalised education system, many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have developed internationalisation strategy that aims at incorporating intercultural and global dimension into curricula learning environments for all. This agenda raises important language policy issues are often side-lined the UK other Anglophone countries where Eng...

This study attempted a literary discourse analysis of Unnikrishnan’s debut book Temporary People (Unnikrishnan,2017) diasporic text that presents socio-cultural patterns immigrants in the Gulf region, with language emerging as strong tool. The aim this was to attempt an inter-sectional Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Diaspora suggest new paradigm shift research studies both genres. themat...

As a result of social and linguistic change, the use swearing taboo language has become commonplace in Anglophone societies with varying responses to its use. This is also apparent educational institutions. Commentary from educators suggests they are frequently confronted verbally abusive students school settings. Data available Queensland, Australia, illustrate large percentage suspended exclu...

BACKGROUND The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) constrains the HL7 Reference Information model (RIM) to specify the format of HL7-compliant clinical documents, dubbed CDA documents. The use of clinical terminologies such as SNOMED CT® further improves interoperability as they provide a shared understanding of concepts used in clinical documents. However, despite the use of the RIM and o...

BACKGROUND Telenursing is an expanding service in most Western societies. Sweden is a front-line country, with all of its 21 counties connected to Swedish Healthcare Direct (SHD) 1177. The intention of the service is twofold: to make health care more efficient, while also making it more accessible and safe for patients. Previous research has shown, however, that the service is not used equitabl...

BACKGROUND Many countries are developing or reviewing national adaptation policy for climate change but the extent to which these meet the health needs of vulnerable groups has not been assessed. This study examines the adequacy of such policies for nine known climate-vulnerable groups: people with mental health conditions, Aboriginal people, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, aged p...

Critical pedagogy (CP) empowers L2 learners to have a voice in the classroom and in the society. This study was an attempt to investigate whether the current classroom discourse  in  Iran  can  endow  the  L2  learners with  a  critical  awareness  to  actively transform their learning processes and creatively engage in collaborative dialogues to construct new knowledge. To this end, the discou...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015). The corpus of the study consisted of thirty-thousand words chosen as a textual sample to see which source conceptual domains are used and what generic/discursive attributes emerge ...

this commentary on the editorial ‘the politics and analytics of health policy’ by professor calum paton focuses on two issues. first, it points to the unclear links between ideas, ideology, values, and discourse and policy, and warns that discourse is often a poor guide to enacted policy. second, it suggests that realism, particularly ‘programme theory’ are useful tools for health policy analys...