This paper used the three-dimensional discursive analysis of Fairclough as a premise on political and power ideologies involved in images visual grammar Kress Leeuwen to unveil representational, interactive, compositional choices undertaken disseminate notion resistance against racial inequality injustice through interaction multimodality resemiotization. It sought identify meta-functions sub-m...

Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

In this paper I first aim to identify, from a perspective mindful of both analytic and Continental traditions, the central normative issues at stake in the various debates concerning commodification in law. Although there now exists a wealth of thoughtful literature in this area, I often find myself disoriented within the webs of moral criteria used to analyze the increasingly ubiquitous practi...

Three possibilities can occur when religion enters a society already having its own culture and traditions: acceptance, rejection, adjustment. This study analyzed the socio-religiosity of Kalang people, minority ethnic group in Kendal, following arrival Islam into their lives. Highlighting how they practiced worship presented identity majority Muslim society, research was focused on socio-relig...