Suggestions are welcome. Please do not quote or distribute. Abstract Waves of fashionable ideas shape the practice and research of information technology (IT). What drives idea waves in IT? In this research, IT idea waves are examined through the lens of organizing visions. Introduced by Swanson and Ramiller (1997), an organizing vision is a focal community idea for applying IT in organizations...

Discourse structure and coherence relations are one of the main inferential challenges addressed by computational pragmatics. The present study focuses on discourse markers as key elements in guiding the inferences of the statements in natural language. Through a rule-based approach for the automatic identification, classification and annotation of the discourse markers in a multilingual parall...

Discourse-annotated corpora are an important resource for the community, but they are often annotated according to different frameworks. This makes comparison of the annotations difficult, thereby also preventing researchers from searching the corpora in a unified way, or using all annotated data jointly to train computational systems. Several theoretical proposals have recently been made for m...

<p>Political communication often aims at establishing a community. By participating in discourse, the discourse actors position themselves not only on given topic, but also with other participants discourse; they are and/or representatives of specific <em>communities practice</em> (cf. Eckert & McConnel-Ginet 1992). Based these considerations, contribution examines lin...

It is a true pleasure to introduce this issue. It is simply interesting and insightful. In a previous editorial, we discussed ways of promoting circles of discourse within the community in general and within the journal in particular (Te'eni, 2012). The articles in this issue demonstrate the kind of interesting and surprising discourse we look for in our circles. Wouldn't it be nice to be able ...

The growth of distance education warrants a closer look at how virtual communities of practice form in asynchronous online classrooms. Prior studies have sought to identify a process to virtual community formation, which may vary depending upon the media used for collaboration. This microstudy examines how one student group in a distance writing course used the popular social media site Faceboo...