Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse—spaces where disagreement was not only ...

Susan C. Herring is professor of information science and linguistics and director of the Center for Computer-Mediated Communication at Indiana University, Bloomington. Trained in linguistics at the ...

This article adopts a constructivist grounded theory approach based on the principle of intersubjective relations and the co-construction of interpretations. Reflecting on the author's experiences as ...

Abstract: Qualitative research and data analysis (QDA) is a vital cornerstone of discourse analysis methods regularly applied to the genre of professional communication. This extended abstract ...

ABSTRACT: Pragmatics, especially speech act theory, is crucial for analyzing political discourse. It goes beyond simple information exchange to reveal the strategic use of language for influence, ...

ABSTRACT: This study critically examines how Columbia University, Oxford University, and Trinity College Dublin responded to the 2024 Student Gaza Encampments through their official statements. While ...

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An intelligent inversion framework for soil parameters in deep excavations is established by using BIM technology, finite difference method (FDM), and nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II ...

With illegal immigration remaining a contentious issue in the United States, understanding public perception—particularly as expressed on social media—is vital for informed policymaking and advocacy.

Public policy professor Stephen Buckley on the media's role in polarization, public conversation It would be incomplete these days to teach about democracy, ideology and the polarization gripping the ...

The classic example of chutzpah is that of the child who murders his parents and then pleads for mercy as an orphan. With the 2024 presidential election, we have a new way to illustrate the point: the ...