We describe the structure, operation, and experience of the Massachusetts General Hospital ethics committee, formally called the Edwin H. Cassem Optimum Care Committee, from January 2007 through December 2013. Founded in 1974 as one of the nation's first hospital ethics committees, this committee has primarily focused on the optimum use of life-sustaining treatments. We outline specific sociode...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the institutional behaviour of incarcerated sex offenders. AIM To study the relationships between juvenile sex offending, thought psychopathology and institutional misconduct. METHOD We applied negative binomial regression and Area Under Curve Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUC-ROC) analyses to self-report and records data from institutionalised delinque...

The paper explores a phenomenon often observed in transition economies, when newly established institutions are misused, i.e., applied or resorted to for reasons which have little in common with their intended or anticipated purpose. In such incidences institutions become sources of private gains and lose their value-creation role and capacity. We offer a typology of institutional misuse (illus...

The notion of ‘culture’ as an essential attribute of individuals and groups, owed to national or ethnic background, is critiqued in this paper as unhelpful to the project of understanding how diverse participants in virtual learning environments (VLEs) individually and jointly construct a culture of interaction. An alternative conceptualisation of culture in VLEs is proposed, which views online...

The article is devoted to distinguishing a new discourse - the educational network, which completely unit that has not been studied before, from traditional scientific and pedagogical discourses its characteristics according classical established scheme of structuring discourses. In modern world digitization automation various processes, science education do stand aside, teacher at forefront ch...

Media discourse exhibits a variety of features which are similar to everyday conversations, on one hand, and more institutional forms of verbal interaction on the other. In investigating media interaction, we can observe how media communication affects the attitudes and opinions of society through the way it presents people and issues. Therefore, there is a need to look at why certain utterance...

The overall aim of this article is to investigate Swedish preschool teachers’ perceptions of the interaction between home and institution in relation to children’s introduction to preschool. The focus of this article is on their talk about how they manage the gap between home and preschool in the introduction process. A discourse analysis is carried out, based on focus group interviews with sev...

Целью настоящей работы является диахронический анализ языковых средств, маркирующих авторское присутствие в жанрах юридического дискурса. Осуществлен факторов, способствовавших обезличиванию юридических жанров. В ходе анализа были выявлены три типа авторского присутствия дискурса: элиминация авторских следов; имплицитное автора; эксплицитное автора, несущего персональную ответственность за прод...

Context is a central concept in the analysis of discourse and interaction in all the major research traditions in applied and sociolinguistics. Early linguistics did not display much sensitivity to it (Scollon, 1998, p. 80) and tended to study utterances in isolation and without reference to context. Today, however, there seems to be a general consensus around the idea that we understand uttera...

Current diagnoses of a crisis democracy in the Global North go hand with disparaging “look downwards.” Already nineteenth century, liberal thinkers formulated institutional precautions against “rabble.” What is striking about current devaluation discourse that return this downwards” not limited to libertarian or liberal-conservative concepts but also present progressive approaches. We demonstra...