The notion of expectancy grammar as a key to understanding the nature of psychologically real processes that underlie language use is introduced by Oller (1979). A central issue in this notion is that expectancy generating systems are constructed and modified in the course of language acquisition. Thus, one of the characteristics of language proficiency is that it consists of such an expectancy...

This paper suggests a critical, poststructuralist approach to information technology (IT) research and utilizes it in the analysis of user involvement in the IT artifact product development context. Central concepts of the approach are outlined. Textuality of IT artifacts is emphasized. Afterwards, user involvement literature addressing the product development context is critically reviewed. In...

The aim of this paper is to show how different the production of a translated text is from the one of other texts produced under the constraints of a single context, especially at the pragmatic level. In the textualizing process of translation, the translator is bound to manage the pragmatic divergencies between both source and target context, i.e., he must eventually recreate textuality in all...

SThis paper will analyse an introduction to a research article using three approaches to discourseanalysis: Swales’ (1990) Genre Analysis, Hoey’s (1991) bonding theory and Mann and Thompson’s(1986) rhetorical structure theory. Swales looks for writer strategies; Hoey focuses on collocation,while Mann and Thompson look for relations among propositions. However, all three produce<...