Mediated Massacre: Digital Nationalism and History Discourse on China's Web

Mining Public Discourse for Emerging Dutch Nationalism

Historians have often argued that nationalism spread from elite groups to larger populations through public media, yet this has never been empirically proven. In this paper, we propose to study discourse in Dutch public media around events that have been associated with the rise of Dutch nationalism in the current academic discussion. We will use both traditional methods and data mining techniq...

The Roots of African Nationalism: A Conceptual and Historiographical Discourse

The literature on African nationalism is replete with conceptual categories that describe the various stages and types of African nationalism and the resistance to colonial rule. Among the foremost scholars on African nationalism are J. Ade Ajayi and Terrence Ranger. The works of these scholars appear to have created a conceptual disagreement on the roots of African nationalism. The article ana...

Romantic Pedigree of Pahlavi the First’ Nationalism Discourse and National Identity Education in Primary Textbooks

As a modern autocracy, Reza Shah's government adopted a romantic authoritarian nationalist discourse that was rooted in the ideas of German thinkers such as Fichte and Herder as its paradigm for establishing Iranian national identity. This discourse insisted on the "national characteristics" and imagined the nation based on "romanticism" as an eternal phenomenon and national history was conside...

History and the sagas: the effect of nationalism

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...