European Journal of Information Systems (2010) 19, 251–256. doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.22 Information systems (IS) is often seen as a pragmatic discipline with an emphasis on applied research and practical implications (in addition to theoretical implications, of course). When EJIS editor Ray Paul (2002, p. 174) described himself as ‘a pragmatist, in a pragmatic rather than philosophical way’ I thin...

Current knowledge acquisition practices place undue restrictions on the issues placed under consideration when they are applied in an organisational context. This paper reviews a number of such techniques and explores their limitations for many `real world' business problems. Managerial and administrative problem solving, in particular, predicate a less obtrusive and more interpretive methodolo...

In the early 1930s, Julian Huxley, the prominent English evolutionary biologist, embarked on a visit across many British science laboratories to understand in which way the scientific knowledge they were producing was socially relevant. His account of this journey, published in 1934 (Huxley, 1934), is a compendium of applied scientific research in engineering, medicine, agriculture and so forth...

The study of the Spanish address forms constitutes one greatest challenges in domain empirical research, due to their great variability level form and use language pan-hispanic context. In this work we focus, specifically, on evolution registered presentation academic tradition. For that, have examined pronouns grammars published by Royal Academy during XX XXI centuries, or those sponsored inst...

In this paper, the semantic and pragmatic modules of a spoken dialogue system development platform are presented and evaluated. The main goal of this research is to create spoken dialogue system modules that are portable across applications domains and interaction modalities. We propose a hierarchical semantic representation that encodes all information supplied by the user over multiple dialog...

Abstract Acknowledging the critical nature of EMI lecturers as bi- or multilinguals, this Chapter continues investigation into cross-linguistic influence now turning attention to its pragmatic features. It focuses on Chinese lecturers’ metalinguistic skills, particularly L1 (Chinese) L2 (English) transfer in their use markers (PMs). The is informed by current studies arguing that highly profici...

the purpose of the present study was to explore the effectiveness of raising iranian learners’ pragmatic awareness of intercultural rhetoric in enhancing their l2 writing ability, as well as their written complexity and accuracy. to this end, two 25-member groups of efl learners who were taking basic writing course at islamic azad university, roudehen branch, were selected based on their perfor...

this paper reports the findings of a study designed to investigate english e-requestsof iranian efl postgraduate students (i.e., nonnative speakers of english) made totheir professors during their education at islamic azad university, najaf abadbranch, isfahan, iran, to find out types of politeness features employed in the students’e-mails and the extent to which these features might influence ...