The ambition of this paper is to analyze the discursive practices of three Danish trade unions for professional and managerial staff as found in their strategy and position papers. Using discourse analytic methods, the paper analyzes, discusses, and compares the strategy papers of the three unions in order to investigate how they problematize their roles and objectives. This investigation clari...

This study scrutinized blogs written by American expatriates in twenty-first-century China. The primary objectives were to explore how China is represented in such blogs and to understand the discursive processes through which the American bloggers utilize the blogging technology to narrate their perceptions of the Chinese realities. Drawing on the postcolonial and discursive perspectives, we h...

Discourse analysis and natural language processing appear to share fundamental priorities: the detailed and systematic examination of text. However, authors have argued that discourse analysis does not have a strong tradition in the field of applied natural language processing, mainly because of the computational challenges associated with the nature and characteristics of discursive resources ...

Received: 27 May 2005 Revised: 16 December 2005 Accepted: 3 January 2006 Abstract The concept of genre represents a meaningful pattern of communication, which has been applied in the information systems field. Genres are socially constructed: they may consequently be socially more or less acceptable or contested. This paper focuses on the concept of communicative genre and addresses the issue o...