This article deals with discourses of littering prohibition signs found in various places Indonesia, focusing on three main issues, i.e., discourse structures, pragmatic strategies, and sociocultural factors which might influence that structure strategy. Using data collected from websites those Yogyakarta Special Regency, a socio-pragmatics approach, the research finds are constructed by kinds ...

BACKGROUND Conversation and discourse analytic research has yielded important evidence about skills needed for effective, sensitive communication with patients about illness progression and end of life. OBJECTIVES To: ▸ Locate and synthesise observational evidence about how people communicate about sensitive future matters; ▸ Inform practice and policy on how to provide opportunities for talk...

In using language, people not only exchange information, but also navigate their social world - for example, they can express themselves indirectly to avoid losing face. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we investigated the neural correlates of interpreting face-saving indirect replies, in a situation where participants only overheard the replies as part of a conversation bet...

Group signatures, introduced by Chaum and van Heijst, allow members of a group to sign messages anonymously on behalf of the group. In this paper we show, how any digital signature scheme can be converted into a group signature scheme. This solves an open problem posed by Chaum and van Heijst. To obtain this result, the encrypted identity of the signer is signed together with the message. The c...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of tobacco use among individuals with mental illness remains a serious public health concern. Tobacco control has received little attention in community mental health despite the fact that many individuals with mental illness are heavy smokers and experience undue tobacco-related health consequences. METHODS This qualitative study used methods of discourse analysis t...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

This is an accepted version of a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination. "Catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase and other enzymes arises from electrostatic preorganization, not conformational motions" Access to the publish...

We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their formal equivalents. Specifically, we proposed a bootstrapping procedure to identify a list of candidate informal phrases in web corpora. Given an informal phrase, we retrieve contextual instances from the web using a search...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

This open access book identifies security logics in the EU policy discourse by investigating migration and border control at level. Read for free.