This paper has the goal of investigating the nature of membership within the category ‘passive’ and cross-linguistic comparison of constructions, ‘passive’ and otherwise. Topicality measures were collected from the Uppsala Corpus of Russian for passive and active uses of the Russian verbs pisat’/napisat’ ‘to write,’ davat’/dat’ ‘to give,’ and zabyvat’/zabyt’ ‘to forget.’ Croft’s (2001) notion o...

We propose an architecture for integrating discourse processing and speech recognition (SR) in spoken dialogue systems. It was first developed for computer-mediated bilingual dialogue in voiceto-voice machine translation applications and we apply it here to a distributed battlefield simulation system used for military training. According to this architecture discourse functions previously distr...

This study relies on an interactional, conversational–analytic approach to elucidate what meanings Chilean Spanish speakers convey via creaky voice quality in informal conversations. Highly utterances produced by 18 were derived from a larger corpus of sociolinguistic interview speech Santiago, Chile, and examined interactional that accounted for how figured the process meaning-making meaning n...

Drawing from the resource complementarity perspective of the resource-based view of a firm; this study examines the complementary role of governance dimensions namely, voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption on the relationship between telecommunication infrastructure in a country and its e-government de...

In this essay I want to address two question marks which arose during my reading of Michael Burawoy's inspiring piece. First, sharing his spirit of recreating the sociological enlightenment by differentiating between different types of public sociologies, I do not share his optimism that sociology can easily become an integral part of public discourse and practice. Second, I don't think that ma...

This paper has the goal of investigating the nature of membership within the category ‘passive’ and cross-linguistic comparison of constructions, ‘passive’ and otherwise. Topicality measures were collected from the Uppsala Corpus of Russian for passive and active uses of the Russian verbs pisat’/napisat’ ‘to write,’ davat’/dat’ ‘to give,’ and zabyvat’/zabyt’ ‘to forget.’ Croft’s (2001) notion o...

Speech and prosody-voice profiles for 15 male speakers with High-Functioning Autism (HFA) and 15 male speakers with Asperger syndrome (AS) were compared to one another and to profiles for 53 typically developing male speakers in the same 10- to 50-years age range. Compared to the typically developing speakers, significantly more participants in both the HFA and AS groups had residual articulati...

Drawing from the resource complementarity perspective of the resource-based view of a firm, this study examines the complementary role of governance dimensions— namely, voice and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption—on the relationship between information infrastructure in a country and its egovernment developm...

In response to the frequent occurrence of global traditional and non-traditional security issues, as well growing complexity interconnectedness China has proposed “Global Security Initiative” address deficit. Strategic communication, an essential national strategic tool, primary mission explaining strategies policies, disseminating values concept, shaping image discourse. To build a communicati...