W ojciech Cellary's remarks on decision making and intelligence in Com-puter's September 2003 issue (" The Profession's Role in the Global Information Society , " pp. 124, 122-123) brought to mind Bob Colwell's " Engineering Decisions " column (Computer, Aug. 2003, pp. 9-11) and my disappointment with Adrian Hopgood's article, " Artificial Intelligence: Hype or Real-ity? " (Computer, May 2003, ...

it is near seventy years that the question of palestine and its occupation by the zionists has drawn attentions in iran. since the establishment of the zionist regime in palestine, many iranian politicians, intellectuals and even common people with various political backgrounds have paid attention to this question and have shaped several discourses in this regard. supporting the palestinian cau...

This article contrasts Mark Bevir’s approach to the history of ideas with a neoGramscian theory of discourse. Bevir puts the case for an ‘anti-foundationalist’ approach to understanding ideas, yet he defends a weak rationalism centred on individual intentions as the original source of all meanings. Discourse theorists specifically Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe also adopt an anti-foundationa...

a r t i c l e i n f o We posit that pride and arrogance are tolerated for high-status group members but are repudiated for low-status group members. Thus, we predict that Blacks, but not Whites, who behave arrogantly will be penalized. Specifically , we investigated the context of penalties against football players for " celebrating " after touchdowns. We propose that such celebrations reflect ...

Critical discourse analysis has focussed extensively on argumentation in anti-immigration discourse where a specific suite of argumentation strategies has been identified as constitutive of the discourse. The successful perlocutionary effects of these arguments are analysed as products of pragmatic processes based on ‘common-sense’ reasoning schemes known as topoi. In this paper, I offer an alt...