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• Interpretation and Indeterminacy
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• Abstract: Abney's Memory Requirements and Lexical Ambiguities of Parsing Strategies
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• An Analysis of Kellner's Theory of Media Culture
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• Chroma-Cinema: The Use of Color in Color and Black-and-White Films
• Foucault: A Lover's Discourse about Madness and the Media
• How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy At Risk
• Image over Substance: An Example of Postmodern Politics
• Live Show: The Connotations of Visual Signs
• Masculine Identity in the Service Class: An Analysis of Fight Club
• Motivations for News Language Style: Audience Perception or Cultural Orientation
• Relation Between Civic Society and Newspapers in the Writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Robert Putnam
• Saussure's Sign
• The Future of American Newspapers: A Forecast Written in 1991
• The Mythological Language Of American Newspapers
• The Truman Show: Media as Metaphor
• Until the End Of the World: Fin de Siecle Fears in History and Popular Culture
• Why Can't We Stop Watching TV?

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• A Scientific Analysis of Desire?
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• Habermas' Theory of Discourse Ethics
• Hermogenes Was Right, Socrates Wrong
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• The Relation Between Civic Society and Newspapers in the Writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Robert Putnam
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• Image over Substance: An Example of Postmodern Politics
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• An Introduction to XML
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• Using Data Structure Standards to Foster Efficiency and Opportunity
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• DITA and DocBook: An Overview and Demonstration
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Media Criticism

• Book Review of Read All About It: The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers:
• Image over Substance: An Example of Postmodern Politics
• Foucault: A Lover's Discourse About Madness and the Media
• An Analysis of Kellner's Theory of Media Culture
• The Truman Show: Media as Metaphor
• Why Can't We Stop Watching TV?
• Using French Social Thought for Media Criticism

Philosophy

• Weber's View of Objectivity in Social Science
• The Myth of Psychoanalysis: Wittgenstein Contra Freud
• Philosophy of Language: Questions and Answers
• A Wittgensteinian Approach to Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis

• Interpretation and Indeterminacy
• A Wittgensteinian Approach to Discourse Analysis
• Abstract: Topical Structure Analysis of Accomplished English Prose

Linguistics

• Discourse Analysis
• Computational Linguistics
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• Sociolinguistics
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