Scientific discourses are rhetorical constructs for interpreting, articulating, and coordinating the bits of information and knowledge produced by science. Discourses also help scientific communities promote and advocate particular strategies for action. A review of the literature on ecological integrity has led us to identify four scientific discourses: (1) Wilderness-Normative, (2) Systemic-N...

This paper presents a theoretical research based approach to ellipsis resolution in machine translation. The formula of discourse is applied in order to resolve ellipses. The validity of the discourse formula is analyzed by applying it to the real world text, i.e., newspaper fragments. The source text is converted into mono-sentential discourses where complex discourses require further dissecti...

With an increasing focus on lone-wolf operations, al-Qaeda is becoming increasingly focussed on its internet discourses and propaganda. One of its most significant discourses is the importance of jihad and martyrdom in carrying out a terrorist attack. This study looks at Facebook pages and profiles and examines the discourses presented in relation to jihad and martyrdom. Three important concept...

Event coreference is largely ignored in works on coreference as well as in works on temporal order in discourses, in which temporal relations between two eventualities e1 and e2 always suppose that e1 6= e2. However, event coreference is not an uncommon phenomenon. We show that it is is the keystone on which at least four types of discourses are based: on the one hand, particularizing and gener...

I show that the semantic structure for discourses, understood as a dependency representation, can be mathematically characterized as DAGs, but these DAGs present heavy structural constraints. The argumentation is based on a simple case, i.e. discourses with three clauses and two discourse connectives. I show that only four types of DAGs are needed for these discourses.

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...

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...

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...

~ S T R A C T THESTUDY OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES is dominated by philosophies and sociologists. These disciplines naturalIy take different approaches to the subject, the one epistemological and the other sociological. While recognizing the role of society in shaping science, this article emphasizes the way that the epistemology of science influences scientific society. The epistemol...