In this paper, I argue that businesses bear a pro tanto, negative, moral obligation to refuse engage in economic relationships with representatives of intolerable ideologies. For example, restaurants should serve those displaying Nazi symbols. The crux argument is the claim normal activity not morally neutral but rather an exercise political power. When business refuses someone because their me...

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

This study, based on the BCC (Beijing Language and Culture University Corpus Center) corpus, systematically analyzed metaphorical reasoning of Reform Opening-up in China. It finds a tendency concentration for sources. The top four sources (Journey: 83.14%; Nature: 8.16%; War: 6.31%; Building (1.15%) contributed 98.76% resonance among all 16 source domains. These highlight two important aspects:...

since long time ago, mobile metaphor and simile are most important mean for poetic images creation. the present paper studies bayati works according to the important role of the colors in poetic images creation in. we came to conclusion that the poet has used the colors in order to express his feelings, his unsatisfactory as well goals, aims and ideologies. the colors application or secret sema...