PURPOSE Paid work is seen as a key outcome in rehabilitation. However, research demonstrates that because of normative expectations in the job market and workplace, experiences of disability can be intensified in a work context. We sought to explore this issue in more depth by analysing the effects of societal constructions of worker 'value' within individual case studies of people with acquire...

Résumé We show that the semantic level for discourses, understood as a dependency representation, can be mathematically characterized as DAGs. Our argumentation is based on discourses with three clauses and two discourse connectives. This simple case allows us to state that DAGs for discourses are not arbitrary: they present structural constraints. Nous montrons que les représentations sémantiq...

The problematisation of the professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector tends to focus on the discourses that the standards embody: discourses that are posited as being based on a restricted or technicist model of professionalism, that fail sufficiently to recognise the lived experiences of teachers within the sector both in terms of professional knowledge and compete...

Recently there have been a number of works that model the zero pronoun resolution with the concept called `center.' However, the usefulness of the previous centering frameworks has not fully evaluated with naturally occurring discourses. Furthermore, the previous centering theory has handled only the phenomena in successive simple sentences and has not adequately addressed the way to handle com...

Di tengah umat beriman, yang menerima martabat imamat umum, eksistensi kaum tertahbis merupakan unsur sangat hakiki. Kaum mengemban ministerial, karena dipanggil untuk melayani seperti Kristus datang menjadi hamba dan melayani. melanjutkan pelayanan keselamatan seluruh manusia. Spiritualitas mereka bersumber berpusat pada kehidupan sendiri. Cara hidup motif modalitas tertahbis. Kendati ditinggi...

The diffusion of mobile telephones in Taiwan has demonstrated astonishing growth since its telecommunications market was open for competition in early 1990s, following government deregulations in Taiwan’s telecommunications sectors. Although scholars have attributed the success of mobile telephone diffusion to aggressive marketing activities, few have explored advertising discourses promoting m...

It may legitimately be asked, “What is a psychiatrist doing delving into the longstanding philosophical question about the nature of evil?” As we know, finding meaning and redefining reality to incorporate the experience of trauma is a fundamental task for the survivor of overwhelming life experiences (Herman, 1992; McCann and Pearlman, 1990; Janoff-Bulman, 1992). So too, is it one of the funda...

This paper provides an analysis of developmental discourses underpinning preschool physical education in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. Implementing a poststructural perspective, I examine the preschool experiences and outcomes related to physical education, as presented in the Curriculum for Excellence ‘health and wellbeing’ documentation. I interrogate the ways in which developmental d...

In this article, we describe the major findings of an ethnographic study undertaken to investigate nurses' experiences of managing nurses and being managed by nurses in an Australian critical care unit. Our purpose was to valorize and make space for nurses to speak of their experiences and investigate the cultural practices and knowledges that comprised nursing management discourses. Subjugated...