The article discusses the role of public intellectuals, with particular emphasis on scholars specializing in study religions. While various functions and aims intellectuals are taken into account, focuses primarily risks related to scholars’ engagement discourse. history academic religion shows that many its representatives were involved ideological endeavors, including political ideologies. It...

competition is against monopoly and intellectual property creates monopoly for intellectual property owner. this article had been paid cooperation between apparently contradictory policies. exhaustion, parallel imports, compulsory license, intellectual property exploitation contract that coincide with competition are methods of cooperation between intellectual property and competition law. comp...

Abstract This article examines children's literature written by African American teachers during the first part of twentieth century. Drawing on theories racialization, I analyze books two teachers: Helen Adele Whiting (1885-1959) and Jane Dabney Shackelford (1895-1979). argue that their represented more than an effort toward greater Black representation in schools; they also served as a contri...

Sentences form coherent relations in a discourse without discourse connectives more frequently than with connectives. Senses of these implicit discourse relations that hold between a sentence pair, however, are challenging to infer. Here, we employ Brown cluster pairs to represent discourse relation and incorporate coreference patterns to identify senses of implicit discourse relations in natur...

Previous experimental studies on concessive connectives have only looked at their local facilitating or predictive effect on discourse relation comprehension and have often viewed them as a class of discourse markers with similar effects. We look into the effect of two connectives, but and although, for inferring contrastive vs. concessive discourse relations to complement previous experimental...

Nigeria is among the major countries contending with social problem of street begging. The pervasiveness has continually placed it at front burner scholarly engagements and intellectual discourse. However, despite existence abundant literature on phenomenon begging, epistemological methodological issues typically embedded in process data elicitation from beggars are yet to command adequate atte...

The late 1960s and early 1970s development of liberation discourses (postcolonial, racial, ethnic, gender, environmental, etc.) resulted in them turning not only so much into an intellectual strategy, but instead, their entering culture as social practices, becoming the main patterns behavior models thinking. 1 In this context, feminist discourse, 2 which initially developed a political legal n...

In recent years, supporting intellectual property right has gained more significance. Intellectual property rights could be considered as legal rights resulting from intellectual activities in industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields. Today, many countries are seeking practical information about using intellectual property to improve economic growth. Intellectual property rights hav...

Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few well-defined syntactic classes. In this paper, we describe how the lexicalized discourse relation annotations of the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) led to the discovery of a wide range of additional expressions, annota...