feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

To elucidate the time course and processes underlying pre-movement modiWcation of planned actions, participants prepared to make an action at a time of their own choosing within a speciWed temporal window. In some conditions, participants prepared to make a single right index Wnger key press, whereas in others, they prepared to make a sequence of two key presses consisting of a right index Wnge...

The theory of Planned Behaviour is one of the models most frequently used in the literature to explore pro-environmental behaviour including recycling, travel mode choice, energy consumption, water conservation, food choice, and ethical investment (Stern, 2000; Staats, 2003). Armitage and Conner (2001) identified its application in 154 different contexts. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen,...

Keywords: language interpretationlanguage generationdiscourse segmentationdiscourse relations Contents list: Theories of discourse structure; Interpretation of discourse; Generation of discourse; Empirical approaches to discourse Discourse Processing concerns the computational processes underlying the interpretation and production of text encompassing more than one sentence, i.e., discourse. Di...

Multi-person action recognition requires models of structured interaction between people and objects in the world. This paper demonstrates how highly structured, multi-person action can be recognized from noisy perceptual data using visually grounded goal-based primitives and low-order temporal relationships that are integrated in a probabilistic framework. The representation, which is motivate...

The millions of deaths that occurred during China’s great famine of 1959-1961 represent one of the world’s greatest civil demographic disasters. Two primary hypotheses have been advanced to explain the famine. One is that China experienced three consecutive years of bad weather while the other is that national policies were wrong in that they reduced and misallocated agricultural production. Th...

Translation of discourse relations is one of the recent efforts of incorporating discourse information to statistical machine translation (SMT). While existing works focus on disambiguation of ambiguous discourse connectives, or transformation of discourse trees, only explicit discourse relations are tackled. A greater challenge exists in machine translation of Chinese, since implicit discourse...

Discourse audiences are susceptible to fall victims of the concealed ideological representations in discourses at the expanse of changing and modifying their mental models through which they act on the world. Translators as readers and at the same time intercultural mediators need to be equipped with the knowledge of how ideology is accommodated in discourse both not to fall victim to it and to...