Background: In a science classroom, students do not simply learn scientific ways of doing, knowing, and reasoning unless they find ways of appropriating scientific discourse. In the Next Generation Science Standards, major forms of scientific discourse are emphasized as a main part of the Science and Engineering Practices. To enhance student engagement in scientific discourse, teachers need to ...

We report on an exploratory analysis of the 2014 PoliInformatics congressional hearing corpus using CUBISM, a system for the analysis and deep understanding of multi-participant dialogues. CUBISM brings together two typically separate forms of discourse analysis: semantic analysis and sociolinguistic analysis. In the paper proper, we describe CUBISM and illustrate some of the major analytical c...

Suggesting cultural analysis of the phenomenon of globalization needs to take into account more than studies of subjectivity and communications technology, the author suggests a deconstructive methodology that seeks reconciliation of postmodernism with structuralism and idealism with materialism. Demonstrating points of contact between various social actors in the globalization arena, a sketch ...

The topic of knowledge creation (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) will be analysed from a philosophical perspective. To begin with, the key motivations behind the discourse of knowledge creation and management are briefly discussed. The contemporary distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge is then explored. Following this, the work of Lyotard on knowledge in a (post)modern economy will be sum...

Early studies of gender differences in discourse (e.g., Johnson, 1994; Jones, 1980) have drawn attention to the depreciation of women’s discourse, which has often been associated with gossip, i.e., casual, idle chat about intimate or domestic topics. Recent efforts have been made, however, to overcome this normative approach and to investigate the goals and functions that gossip may serve among...