on Differences between written and spoken discourse People use the language for communicating through coherent and cohesive stretches of language. In other words‚ they normally use more than a couple of words and sentences; they produce longer stretches of language by putting words and sentences together. These chunks of language must follow each other and be connected in a logical way in order to transmit a specific message. This process is called discourse‚ and its linguistic product is called text
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standards such as validity and reliability are key aspects to keeping the integrity of the subject that is under review. Therefore this essay will firstly explore the meanings of validity and reliability. Secondly discuss the methodology of discourse analysis and discover the attributes‚ limitations and appropriateness it has to offer within the early childhood field. “Reliable adjective able to be relied on; trustworthy. Reliably adverb‚ reliability noun” (Deverson‚ 1998‚ p. 340). Reliability
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Entry on conversation analysis This entry attempts to analyze a conversation between a teacher and two students in the classroom. The key issue will be discussed is turn-taking‚ especially overlap and interruption when speakers take turns. The following episode was chosen from a textbook which is now used for discourse analysis. The conversation was produced by a lecture and two students in a university tutorial. The lecturer asked student Kylie and Tadashi about certain topics which
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Ruth Wodak‚ Professor in Discourse Studies Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University r.wodak@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/staff http://www.univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity FEMINIST CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES Outline of Lecture: 1. Introducing FCDA 2. Implications for interdisciplinary Gender Studies 3. Two examples: “Voices from ‘below’ and ‘above’ – Identity
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Mother and Son Version” to investigate the power relations between the government and the protestors‚ and then analysis the two television announcements with theories in Register Analysis and also Critical Discourse Analysis and discuss how the government persuade the Hong Kong citizens to support the new development plan through television announcements and the limitations on the analysis. Lastly‚ will summarize the main points with conclusion remark. Background Information of the Television
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Discourse Community and Language Choice: Study of language choice in a gay community in particular area in Malang. Hima Luluk Il Jannah English Language and Letters Department‚ Faculty of Humanities and Culture‚ Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University‚ Malang‚ Indonesia terumbukayu@gmail.com June 2013 Abstract Language choice in gay community that has many unique kind of language. Keyword Gay ‚ gay 1. Background of Study Nowadays‚ there are many varieties of community
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effect on all aspects of our lives: our happiness‚ our culture‚ family and interpersonal relations‚ business‚ stereotypes‚ wealth and status‚ individuality‚ and so forth. According to Leiss et al. (1990: 1)‚ advertising is ‘a “privileged form of discourse”’‚ in that it can attract our attention‚ insinuating itself into our thought processes and carving out a niche in our lives. As we shall see‚ advertisements succeed in selling us a lot more than merely products; in fact‚ they contrive to reconstruct
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profession? A discourse analysis of community education/ community learning and development in Scotland Howard Sercombe‚ Gordon Mackie‚ and Anne Ryan All of University of Strathclyde‚ UK Community based informal education‚ like other practices‚ is fundamentally shaped by the discourses under which it is constituted. In Scotland‚ since 1975‚ the practice has been formally established by government policy as an amalgam of youth work‚ adult education and community development under a discourse of informal
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determined by the medium through which speech or language is transmitted. The spoken and the written are the two basic mediums of language. Some examples of medium-spoken discourses are speeches‚ face to face interaction‚ public addresses and news broadcasts. Newspapers‚ books and journals are examples of medium-written discourses. Formality is generally associated with the written mode principally as a result of the impersonal nature of its communication and also on its insistence on the correctness
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ENGLISH IN CONTEXT ANALYSIS OF SPEECH People spend a significant part of their lives listening and talking‚ that is the main reason why conversation is regarded to be the most generalised form of talk that concerns both speakers and listeners and it is contemplated to be the essential ingredient in co-operative undertaking (Wardhaugh‚ 1985). Conversation is informal talk involving two or more people and interviews are a particular type of conversation. Interviews are regarded as meetings at which
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