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    The Analysis of the Characteristics of Discourse Marker WELL 话语标记语WELL特征分析 摘 要 言语交际中的话语标记语虽在句子中不占据句子成分‚却是在交际中很常见的现象。本文以言语交际中的话语标记语WELL为研究对象,分析和判断它在交际中的特征,为正确理解话语交际意图,准确对其进行翻译提供参考。 关键词 话语标记语;WELL;交际意图;翻译 Abstract It is very common in English to use the expression form like “well”‚ “oh”‚ “you know”‚ “you see”‚ “I mean”‚ “that is to say”‚ “in other words”‚ “as I said”‚ which are all discourse markers. They are small words which do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance which

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    mperialism Extra Credit DBQ Task:Evaluate the following statement regarding new imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries:Imperialism is a progressive force for both the oppressors and the oppressed” The colonial rule of the Great Britain’s had a mix of negative effects and positive effects for the people being enslaved or taken over by the Great Britain’s ‚and the imperialists themselves.The business interests of the British imperialists had a mixed outcome.Great Britain expanded

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    Foundations of empire * Motives of imperialism * Modern imperialism * Refers to domination of industrialized countries over subject lands * Domination achieved through trade‚ investment‚ and business activities * Two types of modern colonialism * Colonies ruled and populated by migrants * Colonies controlled by imperial powers without significant settlement * Economic motives of imperialism * European merchants and entrepreneurs made personal fortunes * Overseas expansion

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    Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began when Portuguese interests in Africa moved away from the legendary deposits of gold to a much more readily available commodity – slaves‚ around the mid-fifteenth century. The plantation economies of the New World were built on slave labour. Seventy percent of the slaves brought to the new world were used to produce sugar‚ the most labour-intensive crop. The rest were employed harvesting coffee‚ cotton‚ and tobacco‚ and

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    Throughout both of these works his opinion of using violence when needed has never changed. In the Discourses he states that if you need to resort to violence in order to seize power so you can reconstruct the constitution of a city so that it fosters political liberty‚ go for it. (Machiavelli 1994‚129). Likewise‚ in The Prince Machiavelli justifies the

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    of the Sermon on the Mount discourse‚ which is one of the five discourses of the Gospel of Matthew (5-7‚ 10‚ 13‚ 18‚ and 23-25). This passage locates relatively earlier in the Sermon. Professor Dallas Willard (1998)‚ in his book The Divine Conspiracy‚ claims that “The later parts of the Discourse presuppose the earlier parts and simply cannot be understood unless their dependence upon the earlier parts is clearly seen” (p. 138). If the sequential order in the discourse is important‚ then the earlier

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    Slavery‚ Colonialism‚ and the Catholic Church Slavery in the New World and the Spanish and Portuguese Catholic priesthood are directly tied correlated in the history of Latin America. The enslavement and atrocious treatment of the Indigenous peoples and Africans by the Spanish and Portuguese nobility were both similar and different. By examining “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” by social reformer and Dominican friar‚ Bartolomé de Las Casas‚ and excerpts from Robert Conrad’s

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    History of the Modern World Midterm Essay 1/08/13 Colonialism and Latin America Eduardo Galeano is a passionate journalist and writer‚ a man that has put this passion into writing about the lost or often overlooked histories of Latin and South Americas. In one of his acclaimed books‚ Las venas abiertas de América Latina/Open Veins of Latin America‚ he looks at the history of exploitation in this place from early European explorers to current United States and European endeavors. In this paper

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    Reading Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language

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