Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse—spaces where disagreement was not only ...

Susan C. Herring is professor of information science and linguistics and director of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University, Bloomington. Trained in linguistics at the ...

This article adopts a constructivist grounded theory approach based on the principle of intersubjective relations and the co-construction of interpretations. Reflecting on the author's experiences as ...

Abstract: Qualitative research and data analysis (QDA) is a vital cornerstone of discourse analysis methods regularly applied to the genre of professional communication. This extended abstract ...

ABSTRACT: Pragmatics, especially speech act theory, is crucial for analyzing political discourse. It goes beyond simple information exchange to reveal the strategic use of language for influence, ...

Interested in fantasy literature? Love rare books? Curious about digital humanities and creating museum exhibits? Wonder how fairy tales, legends, and myths spread or critique scientific knowledge?

An intelligent inversion framework for soil parameters in deep excavations is established by using BIM technology, finite difference method (FDM), and nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II ...

With illegal immigration remaining a contentious issue in the United States, understanding public perception—particularly as expressed on social media—is vital for informed policymaking and advocacy.

Post-colonial literary studies, as a significant academic field, have recently garnered widespread attention from scholars due to their integration with critical discourse analysis. This study ...

The classic example of chutzpah is that of the child who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy as an orphan. With the 2024 presidential election, we have a new way to illustrate the point: the ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...