If you have been driving in Europe recently, you must have had that strange feeling. You see a sign that says 'Deutschland', or 'France', or 'España', and just drive through. No customs barrier, no passport control—just a sign. You say 'Ah!' and carry on; the sign could be a hundred yards further out and it would make no difference. Yet by crossing that line you enter a different world-district...

Social knowledge in health is now being considered a scientific, political and proactive field in Brazil. Studying the texts of the Congresses of Social and Human Sciences in Health at Abrasco involves conducting a partial genealogical study of the area, learning how the constitution of this subfield emerged and developed, and also to map the current "state of the art" in this knowledge area. T...

In order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the Persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of Iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. Metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

Abstract According to intentionalism, the semantic reference of uses demonstratives is fixed, at least partly, by speaker’s referential intention. In this paper, I argue against possibility existence a convention sort. My argument placed in Lewisian framework signaling games and consists several steps that correspond four anti-intentionalist arguments, already present literature, have proven in...