Explanations are important to users in a number of situations. They provide knowledge about how the system works, what the system knows and does, and why its actions and recommendations are appropriate. Most of the previous approaches to explanations are designed for those types of knowledge-based systems that attempt to capture the knowledge of a narrow application domain. The current tendency...

Prior research indicates that just 4.5 percent of mainland China’s higher educational institution leaders are female. This article extends theory and research by drawing attention to identity and Discourse as an important, yet under-researched, aspect of the problem of women’s underrepresentation in higher education leadership. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with nine female academi...

The benefits of family planning for those who desire it, and the possibilities of coercion against those who do not, are well-known aspects of international population policies. Family planning technologies, more than simply a means for preventing conception, are involved as identity artefacts in the construction of bodies and in the reproduction of power relations. As such, modern contraceptiv...

This paper presents a method for automatic summarization by deleting intra-sentence discourse segments. First, each sentence is divided into elementary discourse units and, then, less informative segments are deleted. To analyze the results, we have set up an annotation campaign, thanks to which we have found interesting aspects regarding the elimination of discourse segments as an alternative ...

If one wants to research media and its language, one has to bear in mind that every type of discourse is biased and – even more importantly in our case – the product of a certain ideology. In this paper, I will try to answer the question, how discourse is involved in the reproduction of ideology in contemporary Croatian society. In other words I will ask, which sort of ideology is mainly repres...

This article employs participant definitional analysis, sensitized with feminist poststructuralism and critical ethnography, to understand three identity construction processes that members of childfree LiveJournal communities participate in: (a) naming childfreedom, (b) negotiating childfreedom, and (c) enacting childfreedom. I argue that childfree identities are contested and sometimes activi...

This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology, and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how ...

Lectio praecursoria viestinnän väitöskirjaksi tarkoitetun tutkimuksen Multiple Identities at Work – Discursive Construction of Identity Young Business Professionals -tarkastustilaisuudessa Jyväskylän yliopistossa 6.2.2021. Vastaväittäjänä toimi apulaisprofessori Heidi Hirsto (Vaasan yliopisto) ja kustoksena professori Anu Sivunen (Jyväskylän yliopisto). Työn pääohjaajana Leena Mikkola (Tampereen

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to outline the contribution of two strands of discursive research, glossed as 'macro' and 'micro,' to the field of health psychology. A further goal is to highlight some contemporary debates in methodology associated with the use of interview data versus more naturalistic data in qualitative health research. METHOD Discursive approaches provide a way of anal...