Blackness was and is en vogue[2] in the beginning of the 21st century, not only in popular culture[3] but also in the arts. This article aims to explore the difficulties and intricacies of the idea of post-black[4] art and its curatorial legacy, which was introduced as a curatorial concept in 2001. Additionally, …

After decades of being deemed the idealistic hobby of a niche group of fanatics, Green has finally entered the mainstream of the architectural service industry. However, most architects and urban planners are not yet adequately equipped to translate the challenges of climate change and resource and energy …

We examine the ways in which a hidden crisis can be exposed from a communication point of view. In which way can organisations create general awareness of a crisis and try to understand the dynamic nature of interactions? With the help of discourse analysis, we have examined the interactional achievements …

Bureau Wbtv (Wet beëdigde tolken en vertalers), onderdeel van de Raad voor Rechtsbijstand in Utrecht, liet in april 2011 door het onderzoeksbureau Intomart een klanttevredenheidsonderzoek uitvoeren onder tolken en vertalers. Hieruit is gebleken dat de doelgroep (de tolken en vertalers) de voorwaarden …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how resistance to change might be a consequence of differences in professional discourse of professional groups working together in a change program.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how strategic vision of change is communicated by managers and how this affects the discourse behavior of service engineers. The case study describes the consequence of variations in professional discourse of managers and employees (mostly engineers) working …

A model for programmatic assessment in action is proposed that optimizes assessment for learning as well as decision making on learner progress. It is based on a set of assessment principles that are interpreted from empirical research. The model specifies cycles of training, assessment and learner support …

Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de rol van taal en tekst in de vorm- en betekenisgeving van onze maatschappij is dit boek een aanrader. Het geeft een inleiding op de kritische discoursanalyse (KDA), een discipline die in de jaren negentig is ontwikkeld en taalkunde en sociologie met elkaar combineert. …

In this article, the author will question the seemingly obvious boundary between civil disobedience, as conceptualised by Rawls and Arendt, and several examples of criminal, or simply annoying, activities which don't meet their criteria, such as the case of the ‘Top 50'. The ‘Top 50' are multi-problem …

This article describes the process of organizational change due to technological evolutions, suggesting that community-specific differences in discourse may have a considerable influence on its success. The questions for this study focus on: 1) how do we define a technically oriented employee who has …