Women's work, artisanal discourse, and community: a response to Sheila Blackburn

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Discourse Community Collocations and L2 Writing Content

Taking the position that writing can be an important skill to foster knowledge building pedagogy, this article explores vocabulary as a supportive tool for this purpose. Having this in mind, a compilation of conceptually loaded vocabularies pertaining to seven discourse communities was developed, two of which were given to a group of L2 writers to investigate the implications of phraseology for...

'The Denialists Are Coming!' Well, Not Exactly: A Response to Russell and Blackburn.

Russell and Blackburn’s [1] call to action against ‘invasive species denialism’ appears tobe invasionbiology’sdesperate last stand. Invasion biologists’ insistence that species introductions constitute a unified ecological crisis is losing support from both the scientific community and the informed public. It is being replaced by a more equivocal notion of ecological novelty, which can accommod...

Trump’s Zero-tolerance Policy: Would a Political Response to a Humanitarian Crisis Work?

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...