Abstract As an implication of the ethnically and nationally diverse nature Mediterranean polities, identification-driven boundary-making strategies bear considerable relevance for their political processes, both in contemporary context historical past. By utilizing a Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), this study provides interpretative exploration Greek-Cypriot elite discursive framing regard...

The COLLATE system (collaboratory for annotation, indexing and retrieval of digitized historical archive material) provides film researchers with a collaborative environment in which historic documents about European films can be analysed, interpreted and discussed, using nested annotations and discourse structure relations among them. Annotations are metadata, and annotation threads form a hyp...

This article focuses on home-based citizenship classes for Bhutanese-Nepali elders in Central Ohio in the United States. As part of a larger longitudinal study centered in the ethnographic, language socialization, and discourse analytic traditions, the article focuses on data, particularly regular audiovideo recordings, gathered over a five-month period and tracks one student’s progress towards...

Web user forums are a valuable means for users to resolve specific information needs, both interactively for the participants and statically for users who search/browse over historical thread data. However, the complex structure of forum threads can make it difficult for users to extract relevant information. Information retrieval (IR) over forum threads is one important way to obtain useful in...

Throughout his career, Michel Foucault sustained a trenchant critique of Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accused of arguing that the subject “dispenses (all) significations”. In contrast to existentialism’s interests in subjective consciousness, Foucault pursues an archaeological method which he later develops into a genealogical approach to discourse that emphasizes the institutional practices and f...