Social media and online communities provide organizations with new opportunities to support their business-related functions. Despite their various benefits, social media technologies present two important challenges for sense-making. First, online discourse is plagued by incoherent, intertwined conversations that are often difficult to comprehend. Moreover, organizations are increasingly inter...

Disciplinary variation in language use is one of the focal topics academic discourse research. This paper critically reviews extant literature studies on close relationship between and disciplinarity, an attempt to clarify different perspectives, both theoretical methodological, exploring discipline-specific nature discourses. points out that previous mainly adopted a form-first approach analyz...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure. But this does not allow for discourse features that express ezpectations about what is to come in the subsequent discourse. After characterizing these expectations and their distribution in text, we show h...

providing analytical and social tools, critical discourse analysis (henceforthcda) can be used to unravel the hidden ideologiesas well as biases in the websof discursive practices involved in texts. in this paper, the van leeuwen’s (1996)cda framework is used to analyze an article from a british broadsheet newspaper,the guardian. to have a more detailed analysis, eleven elements are chosen from...

The way in which discourse features express connections back to the previous discourse has been described in the literature in terms of adjoining at the right frontier of discourse structure. But this does not allow for discourse features that express ezpectations about what is to come in the subsequent discourse. After characterizing these expectations and their distribution in text, we show h...

after 50 years of  hegemony of  the  mubarak authoritarian discourse in egypt, the people of this country were able to challenge the hegemony of authoritarian discourse. with the fall of the mubarak regime, the muslim brotherhood seized power. a year after  that muslim brotherhood coming to power, the group, due  to the  incompetence in accordance with the political and economic conditions, lac...