This study explores the interaction of veiled students, perceptions students and lecturers towards them, influence negative stereotypes that circulate on students. The phenomenological approach used in this research is part qualitative research. Participants are from State Islamic Institute Curup Bengkulu. Data analysed, using semantic reduction carried out by identifying important statements r...

This article examines the normative structure of certain distinctive types of arguments that use techniques of plausible deniablility to evade fulfillment of legitimate requirements of burden of proof. Understanding how such techniques are used in everyday argumentation is shown to be crucial to gaining insight into how informal fallacies work as effective tactics of deception when two parties ...

Approaches to performance assessment have been described as 'performance regimes', but there has been little analysis of what is meant by this concept and whether it has any real value. We draw on four perspectives on regimes - 'institutions and instruments', 'risk regulation regimes', 'internal logics and effects' and 'analytics of government' - to explore how the concept of a multi-dimensiona...

What does it mean to communicate and how “best” can this action be accomplished? Perhaps the second part of this question, rather than the first, describes the history of approaches to ideas of communication and their practices. The first “official” textbook providing a window on this history reveals a remarkable consensus on what “communication” and related terms should mean, if not directly i...