the widely shocking attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon on september 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from america's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for bush administration to pursue g. h. w. bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

This study tries to critically unravel the way Islam is represented in western discourse through establishing the relationship between language and ideology, the forms it takes and its potential effect. To that end, headlines from widely circulated print media of the west including the Independent, the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, and The Times from January 1, 2008 to December 30, 2012 w...

Every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. Given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. In this study a comparis...

Every discourse, written or oral, is the conveyer of some hidden agenda of the producer, most importantly in such genres of speech as journalism, politics, propaganda, and advertisements. Given the role of translation in discourse, a difference exists between when the translator carries the ideological values of the elite in contrast with one with patriotic preferences. In this study a comparis...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. The methods include discourse analysis in order to uncover the ideological ba...

Résumé meaning. Offering a case study from the South African art music repertoire, the example chosen for this purpose is ‘Die Meisie’ (‘The Girl’), the first of five songs from Hubert du Plessis’s cycle Die Vrou (‘The Woman’). This text allows for an exceptionally productive exploration of the role of ideology in the figurative construction of musical meaning, uncovering contested points of di...

BACKGROUND Telenursing is an expanding service in most Western societies. Sweden is a front-line country, with all of its 21 counties connected to Swedish Healthcare Direct (SHD) 1177. The intention of the service is twofold: to make health care more efficient, while also making it more accessible and safe for patients. Previous research has shown, however, that the service is not used equitabl...