This paper possesses two related objectives. The first is to unite the bid-rent model of von Thünen and urban theorists with historical analysis in the interest of providing a theoretical approach to the comprehension of regional land-cover and land-use change. The second objective is to deploy the theoretical approach in an attempt to account for a specific change process, namely loss of wetla...

Purpose This paper presents research that sought to understand how the National Library of Australia engages with soft power in its Annual Report 2019–20. Driving analysis was question: How is discourse reproduced and enacted Australia's 2019–20? The recognises significance power, cultural diplomacy, regional relationships national interest context a library's contributions these areas. Design/...

emphasizing collective memory and based on bakhtin's idea of the dialogical principle and multi-voice novelistic discourse, as well as considering the idea of the perspectival truth of historical fact, the present paper deals with the capacity of the history-oriented novel genre in introducing multiple perspectives of history. such an emphasize and description can be connected to analyzing...

due to structural characteristics and spiritual concepts which are latent inside iranian gardens, it has always drawn attention of domestic and foreign researchers and one of the objectives of these researchers was an attempt to achieve historical garden model in iran which have been modified or subjected to decline. the studies, which have been carried out concerning to iranian historical gard...

The history of the colonial world is interpreted differently by western historians and “nativist” historians and ethnologists. The colonialist perspective of history often disregards an entire phase of history before the colonial period, exalting the colonialist enterprise. On the other hand, ethnologists and native historians stress indigenous sources of history, including oral accounts. The p...

The development a standard-based curriculum in History can be related to the school reforms where ‘performance’ are crucial principles. The aim is to analyse pupils’ perspectives on the relation between their views on historical knowledge and the national test in History and grading. When the pupils in this study – directly after taking a national test in History – were asked to reason about wh...

this study tries to show how gender as a discourse construction has been formed since decades before the islamic revolution in imam khomeini’s words differently from then language system capacity, power and residence relations embodied in the traditional discourses, pre-revolution modernization period, in a context of political and social events and how it has stabilized or transformed the cust...

Discourse analysis plays an important role in natural language understanding. Mandarin Chinese discourse, which has many different properties compared with English discourse, is still far behind in the construction of a basic computational model. In this paper, we propose an event model to elucidate anaphora and ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese. An event-based approach (EBA) based on the model is d...

This paper presents a quantitative approach to multimodal discourse analysis for analyzing online collaborative learning. The coding framework draws together the fields of systemic functional linguistics and Activity Theory to analyze interactions between collaborative-, contentand technology-related discourse. The approach is used to examine how the task subject matter, the activity design, an...