The present study was aimed at exploring the use of pronominal reference for identity representation in terms of power and solidarity in English political discourse. The investigation was based on a corpus of four political interviews and debates amounting 26,500 words. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a discourse-analytic approach was used to fin...

This paper develops an analysis of creativity that is informed by the social identity approach. Two studies are reported that support this analysis. Study 1 (N=73) manipulated social identity salience and the content of group norms. The group norm was either conservative (i.e. promoted no change) or progressive (i.e. promoted change). When social identity was salient and the group norm was cons...

today, identity as the most important aspect of human nature has seen its meaning transformed under the influence of postmodernist relativism, and hence, has affected women status and their identity. television, also, shapes our thought on fundamental social issues at various degrees. employing postmodernist signs, the pres

This article describes China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a quasi-natural experiment based on samples from Bank database, China Customs and Industrial Enterprise Database 2000 to 2007 uses difference-in-difference (DID) method investigate effect of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) agricultural exports. The study found that, first, decline in TPU significantly increases expor...