AIM The aim of the paper is (1) to offer an overview of different theoretical approaches to discourse analysis and (2) to review papers published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing from 1996-2004 in which discourse analysis is identified as a method of data analysis. BACKGROUND Discourse analysis offers rigorous approaches to analysing naturally occurring talk and texts. Forms of discourse an...

Aiming at configuration design for mass customization, this paper develops a fuzzy ranking methodology for concept evaluation. The fuzzy preference relation is applied to modeling the fuzziness on the level of a single criterion as well as on a global level. The ranking approach integrates linguistic terms and fuzzy numbers into the fuzzy preference model so as to characterize both intangible a...

Purpose: A primary goal of aphasia intervention is to improve everyday communication. Although a large body of research focuses on treatment generalization, transfer of learning to real-world interactions involving discourse does not always occur. The goal of an integrated discourse treatment for aphasia (IDTA) approach is to facilitate such generalization. This article reviews generalization d...

This paper discusses seven propositions: • climate change and poverty are linked by the issue of vulnerability, • the hardest equity issues arise because of qualitative differences in the nature of climate change and policy impacts on the poor and those who are better off, • poverty cannot be understood in terms of lack of goods or income, or even basic needs, but must rather be understood in t...

A proposed methodology for the study of image-enabled discourse is introduced, focusing on a conceptual framework that builds on theoretical contributions of related research and provides working definitions for key concepts,and a brief description of future empirical research. The goal of this methodology is to produce an analytic model of image-enabled conversations that could be applied to a...

Let X be a compact connected subset of Rd with non-empty interior, and T : X → X a real analytic full branch expanding map with countably many branches. Elements of a thermodynamic formalism for such systems are developed, including criteria for compactness of transfer operators acting on spaces of bounded holomorphic functions. In particular a new sufficient condition for the existence of a T ...

Although Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has been developing rapidly, it faces strong criticism from scholars due to its lack of attention to the cognitive aspects of discourse. As a fundamental cognitive tool to conceptualize the world, metaphor plays a vital role in constructing social reality. Providing a particular perspective of viewing the reality, metaphor forms an important part of id...

This paper brings a discourse analytic perspective to an examination of the experiences of women managers working in the high tech sector. A detailed examination of the discursive descriptions of strategies, experiences, and advice reveals a tension between the use of unequivocal language for providing advice for managing everyday gender challenges encountered in the high tech workplace and the...