It is generally accepted that a discourse connective expresses a semantic and/or pragmatic relation between its matrix sentence or clause and something in the previous discourse. Usually the sense of this relation is expressed as a label, often within a hierarchy of sense labels. But the meaning of these labels may vary from system to system, and the same connective may be assigned different la...

This paper explores the contradictions inherent in what has become the buzzword of the 1990’s: sustainable development. I argue that despite claims of a paradigm shift, the sustainable development paradigm is based on an economistic, not ecological rationality. Discourses of sustainable development embody a view of nature specified by modern economic thought. One consequence of this discourse i...

Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally ‘becoming of the East’) is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual ...

Ethical dilemma arise in pursing conservation of environment at different levels. In this paper, we review various ethical philosophies and identify the determinants of responsibility. Boundary of pain, responsibility arising out of greater human purpose, eco centrism or deep ecological ethics, and socio-psychological roots of ethical consciousness are some of the guiding forces generating this...

With the rise of weblogs and the increasing tendency of online publications to turn to message-board style reader feedback venues, informal political discourse is becoming an important feature of the intellectual landscape of the Internet, creating a challenging and worthwhile area for experimentation in techniques for sentiment analysis. We describe preliminary statistical tests on a new datas...

Over the past several years, we have seen an explosion in the number of tools and services that enable scholars to improve their personal productivity whether it is socially enabled reference managers or cloud-hosted experimental environments. However, we have yet to see a step-change in the productivity of the system of scholarship as a whole. While there are certainly broader social reasons f...

the two discourses with a focus on reza davari ardekani and abdolkarim soroush, were formed in iran’s society. soroush’s discourse, with religious interests influenced by islamic sources, poper’s philosophy of science, logic and epistemological accuracies of analytical philosophy and consciously liberalism, is looking for compatibility with modernity. the second discourse on reza davari ardakan...

As the twentieth century turned into twenty-first century, counter discourses emerged to challenge orientalism, colonialism, postcolonialism, capitalism, and globalization in cultural studies. Frequently bound up with culture politics, Arab “intellectual” effectively criticizes issues important world. Drawing on this viewpoint, paper examines intellectual’s social political role Ghassan Kanafan...

Many of Africa's challenges have scientific solutions, but there are fewer individuals engaged in scientific activity per capita on this continent than on any other. Only a handful of African scientists use their skills to capacity or are leaders in their disciplines. Underrepresentation of Africans in scientific practice, discourse, and decision making reduces the richness of intellectual cont...