Abstract Williams’ discussion of dilemmas in his classic paper “Ethical consistency” famously focuses on an example that has not bothered commentators and respondents to Williams as much it should have them: the Agamemnon Aeschylus’ play. In this I try pick apart what wants say from is really going text he unfortunately chooses for example. compare with four other crucial passage play: Plato, S...

The substantial incorporation of people of color into government and quasi-government employment raises previously unexplored questions about the significance of race, class, and gender in street-level bureaucracies. Relying on interview data collected from black and Latino supervisors and caseworkers implementing welfare reform, I look at whether and how race and other social group memberships...

a salient organizational phenomenon in the Chinese bureaucracy is collusion among local governments in response to policies and directives from higher authorities; local governments often form alliances to compromise the original intention behind state policies. There are thus significant and persistent deviations and goal displacement in policy implementation. This article develops an organiza...

This study examined academic articles and journalistic reports in 5 disciplinary areas to explore how similar contents might attitudinally be realized in two different genres. To this end, 25 research articles and 210 news reports were carefully selected and underwent detailed discourse semantic and grammatical analyses with the purpose of identifying the evaluative linguistic patterns....

Abstract. Progress in the field of technical means information exchange, increasing speed and accessibility technologies naturally led to development methods for analyzing results communication. One most popular this kind has become content analysis — a quantitative qualitative approach based on calculation key elements text. This method is successfully used many industries research areas. Reli...

extended abstract 1. introduction the diversity of impersonal constructions and the different approaches used in studying them have caused different and sometimes contradictory positions about their classification and the explanation of grammatical and semantic roles of their components. this article reveals the necessity of studying them with a new approach which pursues a common basis coverin...

The paper discusses the questions of judicialization politics and politicization law having as background institutional social consolidation a fascist perspective characterized anti-systemic, anti-institutional, anti-juridical infralegal juridical-political personalism, which is streamlined by implosion judiciary from inside to outside exactly law, with its direct link fratricide political-part...

undermine line authority; and (5) the fact that aspirants to higher staff offices could gain promotion only through approval of influential line executives. If further esearch should prove that staffline behavior of the character presented here is widespread in industry, and if top management should realize how such behavior affects its cost and production goals-and be concerned to improve the ...

Impersonal constructions are interesting from a typological perspective. Siewierska (2008: 3–4) finds that “[t]he semantic characterizations of impersonality centre on two notions”, either “the lack of a human agent controlling the depicted situation or event” or “situations or events which may be brought about by a human agent but crucially one which is not specified.” The present article focu...