TAMING OUR WILD DATA

Taming our Wild Data

Many research questions in the field of applied linguistics are answered by manually analyzing data collections or corpora: collections of spoken, written and/or visual communicative messages.In this kind of quantitative content analysis, the coding of subjective language data often leads to disagreement among raters.In this paper, we discuss cause

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Human Rights and Religion: Islam in Perspective

Though human rights exist in every religion as a concept, contemporary human rights movements blame religions for their resistance.Meanwhile, religious narratives are needed to ground normative foundations of human rights.Islam is one of the religions that give a prominent place for human rights.It recognized the dignity and the sanctity of human l

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