Along with the rise in research on globalization, the concept of globalization has become a subject to a more critical scrutiny. While majority agree that it represents a serious challenge to the state-centrist assumptions of most previous social science, doubts about its newness, inevitability and epoch-making qualities are also being raised. Others argue that the globalization literature neg...

Bolivia and Chile live in a culture of rivalry as a consequence of the Nitrate War (1879‐1883). In each country’s case, the construction of the other as a threat, a rival and/or inferior has shaped the discursive articulation of the bilateral relationship. Whereas the culture of ri‐ valry is more evident in Bolivia because of its aspiration to alter the border, Chile’s status‐ quo position, ...

The ambition of this paper is to analyze the discursive practices of three Danish trade unions for professional and managerial staff as found in their strategy and position papers. Using discourse analytic methods, the paper analyzes, discusses, and compares the strategy papers of the three unions in order to investigate how they problematize their roles and objectives. This investigation clari...

This study scrutinized blogs written by American expatriates in twenty-first-century China. The primary objectives were to explore how China is represented in such blogs and to understand the discursive processes through which the American bloggers utilize the blogging technology to narrate their perceptions of the Chinese realities. Drawing on the postcolonial and discursive perspectives, we h...

Discourse analysis and natural language processing appear to share fundamental priorities: the detailed and systematic examination of text. However, authors have argued that discourse analysis does not have a strong tradition in the field of applied natural language processing, mainly because of the computational challenges associated with the nature and characteristics of discursive resources ...