INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 429 I. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CAPACITY BUILDING ...................................................... 433 II. A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO CAPACITY BUILDING .............................................. 439 III. BUILDING THE RULE OF LAW ....................................

In this paper I argue that Bakhtin’s dialogic theory of identity (Bakhtin, 1981, 1984, 1986), Barth’s anthropological theory of identity (Barth, 1969, 1981; Triandafyllidou, 2002) and Socioconstructionist theory of identity (Giddens, 1991; Burr, 1995; Shotter and Gergen’s edited series on text and identity) provide a remarkably coherent and complementary theoretical foundations for an explorato...

This research examines the relationship between media and individuals after assassination of Benazir Bhutto. It accounts for mechanism set by which took one simple step to induce sympathy among people way framing incident in favour deceased. ultimately resulted into an immense driving force ‘sympathetic voting’, eventually bringing about Pakistan People’s Party emerge on top 2008’s general elec...

The greatest challenges in building sophisticated open-domain conversational agents arise directly from the potential for ongoing mixed-initiative multi-turn dialogues, which do not follow a particular plan or pursue a particular fixed information need. In order to make coherent conversational contributions in this context, a conversational agent must be able to track the types and attributes o...

This essay focuses on how video games both highlight our traditional assumptions about reading and writing and suggest alternative paradigms that combine the new and the traditional: • Play. Video games reveal how pleasure and desire are inherent to the reading and writing process. This dimension of gaming helps explain why video games can produce resistance in terms of approaches to writing in...

The paper studies the genre of answering machine messages (AMMs) in English and Greek from a comparative linguistic perspective. analysis extensive data both languages shows that length most AMMs is restricted (25 to 30 words) related gender caller rather than language used. It also found follow same generic pattern, consisting three main phases (opening, body closing) their sub-parts. Messages...

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A body of research has recently emerged in the UK which adopts an ‘academic literacies’ stance towards student writing. An ‘academic literacies’ stance conceptualises student writing as a socially situated discourse practice which is ideologically inscribed (Jones et al., 1999; Lea & Street, 1998). Whilst powerful as an oppositional frame, that is as a critique of current conceptualisations and...

This paper looks at the role of prosody and intonation in the negotiation of social identities on talk-radio. Analysis of tape-recorded interactions between hosts and callers on sports-talk radio call-in shows demonstrates the use of variation in linguistic form to negotiate social identities, while showing how the interactional achievement of identity mediates public discourses of race, class,...