In this article we examine the cosmopolitanization of national memory cultures as a matter of reflexive particularism, referring to negotiations over ‘the national’ driven by the endogenization of European norms and discourses. Reflexive particularism emerges from a historically specific memory imperative that issues two demands – first, that national polities reckon with the Other, and second,...

This study aimed to shed light on the meanings ascribed to chronic pain in medical discourse and clinical practice in two Pain Clinics located in University hospitals in Salvador (Bahia) and São Paulo, Brazil. An ethnographic approach used participant observation and semi-structuralized interviews with attending and managing physicians. Data analysis drew on the clinical models developed by Byr...

Enterprise delegates Agents’ Negotiation is a simpler task if the enterprises involved in the transaction have homogeneous representation structures as well as the same domain of discourse, thus the use of a common ontology eases semantic problems. However, in real-life situations, real problems involve heterogeneity and different ontologies often developed by several persons and tools. Moreove...

This article examines the use of regulation negotiation as an alternative to traditional rule making processes in state level bureaucracies. Direct observation Special Protection Water Program negotiations at Pennsylvania Department Environmental from January, 1995 through August, 1996, shows that can only be applied issues with clearly defined policy alternatives, a limited number affected par...

Starting from a child rights-based approach to sustainable development, this contribution underlines and compares the discourses in selected Spanish Swedish migration education policies on rights of unaccompanied minors discusses their impact enactment 2030 Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals both countries. Based critical discourse analysis, research shows co-existence two different discour...

Innovative uses of global and local networks of linked computers make new ways of collaborative working, learning, and acting possible. In Group Cognition Gerry Stahl explores the technological and social reconfigurations that are needed to achieve computer-supported collaborative knowledge building—group cognition that transcends the limits of individual cognition. Computers can provide active...

Title of Dissertation: SIMPLE REGRETS: COUNTERFACTUALS AND THE DIALOGIC MIND Jennifer Riddle Harding, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Mark Turner Department of English Counterfactuals, or unrealized scenarios, have been a focus of research in an array of disciplines, though their rhetorical implications have gone largely unexplored. This interdisciplinary study us...

The exportation of modern novel from European languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of World Literature. The introduction of modern novel into the Persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. The genre was unprecedented in Persian and the concept of adabiyat wa...