this study is an attempt to adapt a post-structural approach for the analysis of ‘trans-relational’ episodes prevalent in the study of workplace discourse analysis. to do this, the talk between three employees working at the same office was recorded and analyzed based on a discourse analytic framework. the results of data analysis revealed that five type of relational episodes are frequent in t...

This essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a Nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. To analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

We model government takings of private property, embedding prominent theories of their economic consequences. Random assignment of U.S. judges and the fact that judges make takings precedent in a manner correlated with their race, political party, and prior government advocacy facilitate causal estimates of allowing government takings. Novel data on judicial biographies and takings decisions si...

this essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. to analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s latest regulatory takings decision, Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, is significant for its rejection of what I term the positive notice rule. It also confirms the narrow scope of the categorical rule, developed in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, for government actions that work complete takings of property. Beyond that, Palazzolo evokes the potential for the enhance...

Takings, one of the important roles of governments, in order to increase social benefits by forcing individuals to sell their properties. Several questions are discussed in this article, mainly the followings. What are the differences between takings through eminent domain and private liabilities?1 How much should we compensate the original owners, or say, how would be fair? Could we achieve an...

Kaplow and Shavell have recently claimed that property rules tend to protect tangible entitlements more efficiently than do liability rules. They argue that while liability rules tend to efficiently harness the defendant’s private information when courts are imperfectly informed as to litigants’ valuations of intangible entitlements, this harnessing effect does not apply to tangible entitlement...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s property rights jurisprudence always has had a Delphic quality. During this century, its seminal expressions have been Justice Holmes’ enigmatic “too far” language in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon and Justice Brennan’s reliance on the amorphous conception of “investment-backed expectations” in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York. The Court’s 1999 decisi...

The present study examines the variables of gender and relationship status as a function of one component of Facebook activity, viz., the percentage of birthday greetings a Facebook user received. Information regarding birth date, relationship status (single or in a relationship) number of friends, and number of birthday wishes received were obtained from the profiles of 200 Facebook users, 100...