This paper presents the results of a survey of English Academic Style Manuals conducted between 2004 and 2007, designed to establish whether English Academic Discourse is sufficiently well-defined as a concept to be useful for translation research. Although, with the current emphasis on genre and disciplinary differences, it is fashionable today to speak of Academic Discourses in the plural, th...

INTRODUCTION Approaches to clinical education are highly diverse and becoming increasingly complex to sustain in complex milieu OBJECTIVE To identify the influences and challenges of providing nurse clinical education in the undergraduate setting and to illustrate emerging solutions. METHOD A discursive exploration into the broad and varied body of evidence including peer reviewed and grey ...

This review applauds the initiative to bring together Information Systems Strategy and Strategy-as-Practice research, as in this Special Issue. It highlights especially promising features of each of the empirical articles and develops an agenda for taking some of the themes further. In particular, the review points to opportunities for the intimate comparative investigation of episodes of Infor...

1 Editorializing as a discursive practice has received some attention in the linguistic literature. One study that looked at newspaper editorials was Reynolds (1993), which investigated the speech acts performed in three languages, namely, American English, Egyptian Arabic, and Egyptian English. Using Searle’s (1979) Speech Act Theory, the study found pragmatic features unique to each language ...

Low utilization of palliative care services by Māori remains despite increases in services designed to meet Māori needs. The purpose of this study is to explore palliative care information brochures in the context of Māori principles of well-being and communication protocols, and health literacy. We examined 99 brochures from palliative care services in New Zealand and held two focus groups wit...