This doctoral dissertation critically investigates how the concept of metaphor is used with regard to games in game studies. The goal is to provide the field with a self-understanding of its metaphor discourse which has not been researched so far. The thesis departs from the observation that the notion of metaphor has been present in the discourse of game studies since it emerged as an academic...

Natural language dialogue systems require con-textual information for a variety of processing functions, including reference resolution, speech act recognition, and dialogue management. While much has been written about individual contextual problems, many of the proposed representations are mutually incompatible , unusable by the agents involved in a conversation , or both. We present a model ...

"Lie Down" is a "temporary" psychological adjustment mechanism and "tactical" behavior strategy for some youth groups to cope with the dilemma of non-creative labor. As subcultural phenomenon, characterized by series unique representations, value contexts, discourse narratives image positioning. The formation has deep interest motivations reasons times, it group portrait reflection plight times...

Introduction In Scandinavian Political Studies (1994,83-88), Professors Peter Nannestad and Martin Paldam (hereafter “NF”’) reviewed my little monograph -just an extended essay really titled Solidarity or Egoism? The Economics of Sociotropic and Egocentric Influences on Political Behaviour: Denmark in International and Theoretical Perspective (Aarhus University Press for the Rockwool Foundation...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine smoking motivation and motivation to quit, and determinants of these motivations among HIV-infected cigarette smokers. METHODS We conducted a 1-day cross-sectional survey on cigarette smoking in a representative sample of HIV-infected outpatients of French hospitals. A cluster analysis was used to characterize respondents' smoking motivation. A ...

The perception of activities that may harm whales and their coexistence with whale tourism can be problematic for a destination's attractiveness its potential role in setting good standards the sector educating tourists. This research note investigates online debate about legitimacy project on wild Norway. In particular, it local actors' engagement such debate, how two sides argue different log...

This paper addresses the historical geography of British child migration to New Zealand between 1949 and 1954; a period that marked ‘beginning end’ centuries state-sanctioned emigration unaccompanied, poor, children. particular programme was executed under dual motivations boosting economy through population increase, whilst ‘rescuing’ children living in poverty. seeks explore concept commodifi...

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...