in this study, one basic question will be answered: why were women officially considered being the subject of policy making decisions in reza khan era? the answer should be found in the particular logic of the discourse of that time which was “archeological nationalism”. the discourse is based on racist theory and understands social and cultural issues on the same basis. during the gap emerged ...

It is not difficult to make claims for the academic success of Critical Discourse Analysis. Chouliaraki and Fairclough begin their new book Discourse in Late Modernity with the statement: ‘Critical discourse analysis ... has established itself internationally over the past twenty years or so as a field of crossdisciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sci...

ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to study interaction patterns among the members of a community of practice within the Dutch police organization and the way they share and construct knowledge together. The online discourse between 46 members, using First Class, formed the basis for this study. Social Network Analysis and content analysis were used to analyze the data. The results show that the...

The present study aims to get to know the philosophical, conceptual and methodological aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis, as a theoretical-methodological framework for research in the mental health area. Initially, the study presents a reflection on psychiatric discourse in history and at present, with the goal of introducing concepts and presuppositions that would guide the analysis of di...

We present an operable definition of focus which is argued to be of a cognito-pragmatic nature and explore how it is determined in discourse in a formalized manner. For this purpose, a file card model of discourse model and knowledge store is introduced enabling the decomposition and formal representation of its determination process as a programmable algorithm (FDA). Interdisciplinary evidence...

Many metrics exist to provide heuristics for quality of scientific literature, some of which are determined before publication, such as impact factor of journal, or a liations of authors. Others, like citation count, are not. None of these metrics take into account the amount of scientific discourse generated by an article. I aim to create a classifier that does. In particular, in the wake of t...