A qualitative method‚ the focus of discourse analysis (DA) is any form of written or spoken language‚ such as a conversation or a newspaper article. The main topic of interest is the underlying social structures‚ which may be assumed or played out within the conversation or text. It concerns the sorts of tools and strategies people use when engaged in communication (also known as linguistic repertoires)‚ such as slowing one’s speech for emphasis‚ use of metaphors‚ choice of particular words to display
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The psycholinguistics of metaphor Glucksberg’s article was about how humans could understand metaphors. To determine how humans are capable of comprehending metaphors‚ Glucksberg draws a comparison between metaphorical and literal phrases to find their similarities and discover any distinct differences in their processing. To do this‚ he examines two hypothesized ways of processing metaphors and uses the evidence in his arsenal to find the most accurate hypothesis. To understand how the
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1253–1269 Metaphor and translation: some implications of a cognitive approach ¨ Christina Schaffner* School of Languages and European Studies‚ Aston University‚ Aston Triangle‚ Birmingham B4 7ET‚ UK Received 5 June 2003; received in revised form 12 September 2003; accepted 8 October 2003 Abstract Metaphor has been widely discussed within the discipline of Translation Studies‚ predominantly with respect to translatability and transfer methods. It has been argued that metaphors can become a
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 13 (2000): 67-88 Text World Creation in Advertising Discourse Laura Hidalgo Downing Universidad Autónoma‚ Madrid lhidalgo@bosque.sdi.uam.es ABSTRACT This article explores the way in which text worlds are created in advertising discourse by analysing linguistic choices and features of context which are crucial in the determination of specific relations between sender(s) and target audience(s)‚ in particular‚ deixis and frame knowledge. The argument
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the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics‚ classroom discourse‚ the “purposeful exchange of ideas through classroom discussion‚ as well as through other forms of verbal‚ visual‚ and written communications” (NCTM‚ 2014‚ p. 29)‚ is a core practice of effective‚ high quality mathematics instruction. While it is a teacher’s responsibility to create a learning environment that encourages productive or meaningful discourse‚ that is discourse that promotes mathematical understanding (Anthony & Walshaw
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BAÜ FBE Dergisi Cilt:9‚ Sayı:1‚ 3-18 Temmuz 2007 Type and typology in architectural discourse Yasemin Đ. GÜNEY* Balıkesir University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering‚ Department of Architecture Çağış BALIKESĐR Abstract Typology is the comparative study of physical or other characteristics of the built environment into distinct types. In this paper‚ the historical transformation of type and typology concepts since the Enlightenment has been examined in three developing stages based
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Learners February 2012 Introduction The acquisition and appropriate use of grammatical constructions have always been one of the significant dimensions of foreign language teaching. They have always been at the center of attention in any approach or method focusing on teaching and learning a foreign language. Researchers are always concerned with finding a new way to help foreign language learners learn the rules of the second language better. "Existential sentences" or existential constructions (ECs)
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1.Discourse Studies in Modern Linguistics 1.1Discourse .Discourse has been defined by different linguists ‚and each one gives specific definition to it ‚and we will go through all of them . In other words discourse is a buzzword and used in many different ways. The term discourse refers “both to what a text producer meant by a text and what a text means to the receiver” (Widdowson 2007: 7). As Widdowson claims‚ “people produce texts to get a message across‚ to express ideas and beliefs‚ to explain
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Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was a brilliant man. His works on philosophy‚ physics and mathematics are still heavily influenced much to all of these studies today in our modern world. Descartes was born in March 31‚ 1596 in La Haye‚ France; he was named after one of his godfathers‚ Rene Bruchard des Funtaines. Descartes parents were Joachim and Jeanne Descartes‚ he also had one brother and one sister and two half siblings. Growing up Descartes had health issues “infirmity of the lungs‚ (Rene
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Organizational metaphor. People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals‚ needs‚ and motives (Thomas Mann quotes). What is a metaphor? Metaphor (met-uh-fawr‚ -fer) a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. In organizational behaviour‚ the metaphors help people understand all we need to know about an organization. Gareth Morgan proposed near in 80´s‚ the eight
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