This study investigates some the reading passages in terms of hortatory messages. To this end amethodology based on Critical Discourse Analysis was adopted. The reading texts from ELTtextbooks were examined through a model which drew on Fairclough's approach to CDA,specifically (Fairclough, 2003) in which three characteristic features of hortatory texts areintroduced. The analysis reveals that ...

The initial stage of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been slow-moving and marred by supply disruptions in EU. These problems have triggered severe criticism toward institutions highlighted a stark contrast compared to Britain’s vaccination campaign, which, at beginning 2021, was one fastest continent. In ensuing debate between EU UK on their uneven rates, Brexit argument repeatedly invoked: So...

Abstract A growing literature has examined how international organizations (IOs) use narratives for self-legitimation—legitimation aimed not at external audiences but IO staff themselves. However, little work examines why some self-legitimation ‘stick’ and others fade away or are challenged by counter-narratives. I address this question focusing on the content of narratives. First, describe lif...

This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, similarities women professors’ career experiences these countries. We use Acker’s inequality regime framework, focusing gender, to explore our data, argue that lived are related an image of ideal academic. type is produced interplay university other regimes, reproduced through process struc...

The article investigates political debates about royal succession and noble participation in fifteenth-century Hungary. language of that time was often marked by strong references to ‘own’ (seemingly ‘national’) identities aspects ‘foreignness’ were regarded as (or at least argumentatively as) unwelcome. While like this have been interpreted supposed proof a pre-modern form xenophobia, suggests...

We respond to Ron Weber’s commentaries regarding the necessity of a theoretical core in achieving academic legitimacy for the IS field. We examine the practical problems in identifying a theoretical core, clarify the ontological connection between identity and legitimacy, acknowledge mistakes in our earlier formulation criticizing the necessity of theory in legitimation, and attempt a synthesis...

In this study, we argue that media-provided information affects investors’ impressions of newly public firms. In 225 initial public offerings (IPOs), the volume of mediaprovided information had a negative, diminishing relationship with underpricing and a positive, diminishing relationship with stock turnover on the first day of trading. The relationship between the tenor of media-provided infor...