Neste artigo, analiso recursos metadiscursivos no texto “A loucura epidêmica de Canudos” (1897), Raimundo Nina Rodrigues (1867-1906). Partindo dos estudos letramento acadêmico (LEA; STREET, 2006), trabalho com a distinção proposta por Ken Hyland entre interativos e interacionais. Elementos dizem respeito como o autor manipula informação para estabelecimento suas interpretações em interação uma ...

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

The reliability of five commercially produced immunological pregnancy diagnosis methods has been investigated. The tests used were Pregnosticon (a tube test) and four slide tests, Hyland, Pregslide, Gravindex, and Planotest. In the series described, Planotest gave 0.5% false positives, Gravindex had 2.1%, Pregnosticon 2.6%, and Pregslide 4.7%, Hyland A (sensitivity 4,500 iu/l.) gave 3.6% and Hy...

We build a cartesian closed category, called Cho, based on event structures. It allows an interpretation of higher-order stateful concurrent programs that is refined and precise: on the one hand it is conservative with respect to standard Hyland-Ong games when interpreting purely functional programs as innocent strategies, while on the other hand it is much more expressive. The interpretation o...

This study investigates the relative power and characteristics of a set of social and epistemic terms to distinguish among disciplines of research article abstracts, using a corpus of 928,572 abstracts from 13 disciplines indexed by Web of Science in 2011. Applying the machine-learning approach to discourse epistemetrics using a sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm, and a feature set...

Ken Cheng was born in Hong Kong. His family emigrated to Toronto, Canada while he was still young, and he attended high school in Toronto, and then the University of Toronto. He has a M.Ed. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA in 1984. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Sussex and at the University of Western Ontario before beco...

Ken attended St Aloysius’ College, an independent Jesuit school in Glasgow, and he was proud of both his faith and his West of Scotland origins. From the day he entered Glasgow Medical School, it was evident that Ken had a fierce intellect and that he was an academic clinician to watch in the future. He achieved numerous distinctions in medical school, and in his final examinations, he was awar...