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Promoting Inclusion, Equity and Deliberation in a National Dialogue on Mental Health

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2016
The struggle to find adequate mental health care is complicated by underlying factors of discrimination, cultural barriers, lack of early recognition, and inadequate resources.
Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer   +3 more
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Interview as Social Practice: How Can Nexus Analysis Enhance Reflexivity?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
This article suggests that the understanding of an interview as a social practice can be enhanced by the notion of social action mediated by language and material tools as proposed in nexus analysis methodology.
Amos Dangbie Dordah, Anders Horsbøl
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation of the use of the IMRAD format for Biology students' laboratory reports [PDF]

open access: yesNastava i Vaspitanje
Academic discourse serves as a platform for the systematic communication of scientific findings, with laboratory reports being a primary type employed by researchers and students.
Brahmi Manel, Nesba Asma
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Everyday Epistemologies: What People Say About Knowledge and What It Means for Public Deliberation

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019
Public knowledge presents a persistent problem for democratic deliberation. While especially salient for public participation in technical decision-making, scholars agree that all deliberations are best informed by quality, shared information.
Colene J. Lind
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HLA Hart, Lon Fuller and the Ghosts of Legal Interpretation

open access: yesThe Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2010
Henry James’ short novel The Turn of the Screw appeared in 1898. It is a ghost story, uncanny both in content and in form. It relates such uneventful events that the reader is left turning from interpretation to interpretation, trying to determine just ...
Desmond Manderson
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From Risk and Responsibility to Risk Discourse

open access: yes, 2023
Risk communication is widely researched in the social sciences, but in linguistics the study of how risk is communicated has not yet formed a coherent field of its own. In this chapter, we approach risk from a discourse perspective, aiming to promote the
Nyström, Catharina,   +2 more
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Close-recurrence analysis: a mixed-methods tool for studying joint attention in mobile interaction

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
A foundational aspect of social interaction is the phenomenon of joint attention, typically defined as a shared focus between two or more interlocutors on a particular subject, object or event.
Julie Janssens   +3 more
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Annotating discourse connectives by looking at their translation: The translation-spotting technique [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The various meanings of discourse connectives like while and however are difficult to identify and annotate, even for trained human annotators. This problem is all the more important that connectives are salient textual markers of cohesion and need to be
Cartoni, Bruno   +2 more
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Relationship between gamer profiles, gaming behavior, sociodemographic characteristics, and big five personality traits among French law students

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2023
Background Over the past 10 years, gamer profiles have been developed to understand the reason underlying players’ intrinsic motivation. While the research undertaken has led to the creation of distinct models (e.g., BrainHex and Hexad typologies), there
Germano Vera Cruz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technical issues and engagement processes: support for citizen and expert deliberation regarding the management of nuclear waste

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
Deliberative forums have been increasingly used to involve citizens in policymaking, but it is unclear whether people trust their fellow citizens to make decisions in highly technical areas like nuclear policy relative to more commonly used expert bodies.
Justin Reedy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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