An Evaluation of Environmental Governance in Urban China Based on a Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Analytic Network Process [PDF]
The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of urban environmental governance by developing hesitant fuzzy linguistic analytic network process (HFL-ANP). The study bridges the gaps in current knowledge in the following ways: the study methodically develops the HFL-ANP method to evaluate and pick the optimal environmental governance strategy ...
Gao, Xing, Shi, Cheng, Zhai, Keyu
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Security, population and governmentality : UK counter-terrorism discourse (2007-2011) [PDF]
Over the past decade, governments worldwide have taken initiatives both at a national and supra-national level in order to prevent terrorist attacks from militant groups.
Hunter, Duncan, MacDonald, Malcolm
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Bridging cultures through explicitation: a corpus-based analysis of bilingual literary translations
This study examines explicitation strategies in translated literary texts to determine their impact on the text’s clarity, style, and cultural representation.
Muhammad Asim Mahmood+3 more
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Foregrounding through Lexical Deviation: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Yousafi’s Aab-e-Gum
This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of lexical deviation as a foregrounding technique in Yousafi’s prose fiction Aab-e-Gum. The use of unusual and uncommon language imparts a strong impression on the readers’ minds.
Muhammad Javed Iqbal+2 more
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Linguistic diversity and accessibility in Mexican government web sites: executive branch
Comparative Cultural Studies - European and Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016)
Cynthia Nallely Mata-Martínez+2 more
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A Broad-Coverage Challenge Corpus for Sentence Understanding through Inference
This paper introduces the Multi-Genre Natural Language Inference (MultiNLI) corpus, a dataset designed for use in the development and evaluation of machine learning models for sentence understanding.
Bowman, Samuel R.+2 more
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The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising [PDF]
Chomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory.
A. Kertész+35 more
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The paper investigates the extent to which policy-makers, academics private sector representatives and citizens in different European countries are likely to have different understandings of what the increasingly popular term ‘collaborative governance’ means and implies.
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Accessibility hierarchy and acquisition of English relative clauses by Urdu EFL learners
This study aims to examine the errors committed by Urdu EFL learners in acquiring English Relative Clauses (henceforth RCs) by putting to test the predictions of hypothesis proposed by Keenan and Comrie’s (1977) Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH).
Maria Niaz+3 more
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WILL JAVANESE LANGUAGE BECOME EXTINCT? [PDF]
Indonesia has so many ethnic groups whose languages are different from each other. There are some big ethnic groups; Javanese, Sundanese, and etc. Here, in this case, the writer only focuses on one of Indonesia’s ethnics and languages that is Javanese.
Permanasari, Pradnya
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