1 Tumblr: An Online Community "Tumblr is life and culture and that total antithesis of the modern day pop culture which is the ingrained in today’s children. There is no possible way to explain such a phenomenon to others. You either get it‚ or you don’t‚" Urban Dictionary description number four. Though Tumblr is a little complicated to explain‚ it is not impossible. Tumblr is a blogging website that has become a huge web phenomenon and a unique kind of social networking site. You can make
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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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Framing Obesity: Perspectives on Discourse Over the years‚ my perspective on obesity has been informed by education in the fields of public health‚ family therapy‚ and feminist theory. While obesity may appear to have a clear definition‚ BMI of 30 or greater‚ speak this word in any of the three aforementioned disciplines and you will receive some opposing views. My goal for this report is to outline some key terms surrounding obesity based on field and argue for a more inclusive‚ interdisciplinary
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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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discourse analysis Discourse Analysis A discourse is behavioral unit. It is a set of utterances which constitute a recognizable speech event e.g. a conversation‚ a joke‚ a sermon‚ an interview etc. In its historical and etymological perspective the term is used in different perspectives e.g. Verbal communication. All this fine talk. Direct / indirect speech. To chat. In order to narrow down the range of possible meanings‚ the
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Topic: Investigating the Language of Tourism Discourse in Thailand Travel Brochure Literature Review 1. Background Theory Tourism has become one of the most important businesses throughout the world and tourism discourse has become one of the most common public discourses‚ with millions of people taking part in its structure when entering a numerous of communicative situations. People‚ culture‚ landscape‚ history‚ traditions‚ and other social and natural entities have been offered and
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Every discourse is made up of a given number of components and presents its own characteristic. A discourse can only by serious and constructive if these components and these characteristics come together. The Islamic discourse is therefore the most genuine and truthful expression and translations of the characteristics of the Islamic society‚ and the civilizational identity of the Islamic world. A discourse cannot be Islamic unless it reflected the Islamic Ummah’s identity‚ defended its interests
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Spoken Discourse Assignment Introduction In this paper‚ the aim is to apply different methods of discourse analysis to a selected extract of transcribed language to establish who holds the power during the interaction. In a normal interview situation‚ the interviewer will control the topic change of the interaction and ask the questions and the interviewee will respond. One of the aims is to establish whether this is the case‚ and to see if this remains constant throughout the extract. The initial
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Discourse markers: a teachers’ guide and toolkit A ‘discourse marker’ is a word or phrase that helps to link written ideas. These words are generally more formal lexical items that find little use in speech – which is perhaps why they do not always come naturally to students. Discourse markers can be used‚ for example‚ to link ideas that are similar (e.g. the adverbs‚ also and similarly); and they can be used to link ideas that are dissimilar (e.g. however‚ alternately). As such‚ this useful
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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