In a quantified expression, the possibility of referring to the set-theoretical difference of restrictor and scope is known as complement anaphora (CA). Existing literature suggests two ways of analyzing this phenomenon either as confusion with reference to the maximal set, or as genuine complement reference. This paper will show that resolving an anaphor to the complement set is never a viable...

The UK National Health Service is undergoing a tremendous IS -led change, the purpose of which is to create a service capable of meeting the demands of the 21 century. The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which persuasive discourse, or rhetoric, influences and affects the adoption of information systems within the health sector. It seeks to explore the ways in which various actors ...

We would like to acknowledge financial support of INSEAD and the University of Texas and the comments of Frank Dobbin and other members of the working group on the International Diffusion of Democracy and Markets. Andrew Spicer has been an important inspiration for many of the ideas in this paper. 2 Abstract The diffusion of economic ideas is often attributed to a homogenization of world cultur...

The concept of an “innovation system” has become used increasingly in current science policy discourse as a metaphor to indicate the need for a much wider perspective on relevant decision-making procedures than has been the case in the past. This paper explores its use from the standpoint of the behaviour of an international agricultural research institute located in Africa and focused on two v...

Open source enterprise resource planning (OS-ERP) systems have been gaining recognition in the last few years. However while the research has focused on the implementation phase of OS-ERP systems, there is scant research done on the adoption process of such systems. This paper looks at an early paper on an OS-ERP system, targeting both practitioners and researchers, to identify the repertoires ...

This paper looks at the three main information processing models from the point of view of researchers in confidential human factors databases. It explores conceptual problems with two of these information processing models, and goes on to explore possible advantages of adopting a ‘connectionist’ paradigm. Links between connectionism and ‘situated cognition’ are demonstrated. Practical work car...

DURING THE PAST DECADE, A RIGHTS-BASED approach (RBA) to development has proliferated and blurred the distinction between human rights advocacy and development work. As Ellen Dorsey wrote in her October 2008 Monday Developments article, RBA is attractive because it shifts “the tenor of the discourse from charity to entitlement” and elevates development goals to “recognized standards and princip...

abstract through the interpretation of texts, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated representations are often seen to be presented within the certain of ideological discourses that reflect the existing power structures. the main objective of this paper is to analyze television commercials with an emphasis on gender roles to decode the main elements of a dominant discourse (preferr...

this study tries to show that how viewpoint functions in discourse. as it will be clarified, it is highly related to the intention of the speaker/writer, and as a result, the orientation (s)he adopts in the discourse. deictic markers function as discourse markers to fix and anchor time, place, agent, and other discursive elements. in this way, the viewpoint adopted by the enunciator/utterer is ...