The following handout is an abridged version of John Dryden’s A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire (1693). You must read this document carefully. There has been a long dispute among the modem critics‚ whether the Romans derived their satire from the Grecians‚ or first invented it themselves. Julius Scaliger‚ and Heinsius‚ are of the first opinion; Casaubon‚ Rigaltius‚ Dacier‚ and the publisher of the Dauphin∗s Juvenal‚ maintain the latter. If we take satire in the general
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places worldwide‚ and Hong Kong is one of these places. With a majority of the population being able to master a number of languages‚ code-switching‚ which is the alternate use of (more than) two languages by a bilingual (or multilingual) within a discourse‚ is undoubtedly a common and frequently occurring linguistic phenomenon in Hong Kong. 1.1 Significance of the case study Much previous research on code-switching in Hong Kong has focused on the two major and official languages – English and
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Paper entitled: Racial discourse in Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring. Ali Ahmed Mused Al-Subari. Ph.D. research student in English. alsubaria@ymail.com Ishmael Reed has been considered one of the most literary writers who devoted most of his time in writing about racial issues that spread in the worldwide. Reed‚ in his literary works‚ stands against the various classifications of societies in America. In Japanese by Spring‚ Reed sheds lights on the problem of racism that leads to social
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James Joyce Discuss Joyce’s use of free indirect discourse in Counterparts and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce utilises free indirect discourse to convey the sense of an individual processing the world around him in an idiosyncratically subjective way. In many of Joyce’s portraits‚ whether of his Dubliners or of his semi-autobiographical Stephen Dedalus‚ the narrative is confined by the limitations of the character’s state of mind; as the individual consciousness pervades
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In the conversational transcript‚ there are many uses of discourse structure. These include adjacency pairs‚ hesitations‚ false starts‚ conversational fillers‚ overlaps‚ interruptions‚ co-operative signals‚ discourse markers and phatic speech. Firstly‚ adjacency pairs are used in the conversational transcript as a way to build the conversation. The extract ‘H: //his mother? C: yeah everyone did// on his side‚’ shows this due to the fact that the hairdresser is using the adjacency pairs to continue
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RESEARCH DESCRIPTION STUDENT NAME : Rahmat Darmawan DEGREE : PhD in Linguistics (The Translation Studies) - Universitas Sumatera Utara Medan – Indonesia‚ 2012. RESEARCH INTEREST : The Study of Tenor of Discourse in The English Translation of Indonesian Film Dialogue (Subtitle) 3Hati‚ Dua Dunia Satu Cinta (3Hearts‚ Two Worlds One Love) RESEARCH DESCRIPTION : My research focuses on the translation of film dialogue or subtitle of Indonesian film entitled 3 Hati Dua Dunia Satu Cinta (3Hearts
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------------------------------------------------- Aditi Angiras The discourses of Columbus‚ Cortes and Las Casas in Tzvetan Todorov’s The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. -- Tzvetan Todorov was born in Stalinist Bulgaria and came to France in the early 1960s. His personal experience of the internal “otherness” which Julia Kristeva describes as “strangers to ourselves”‚ lead him to explore the American encounter which was a “unique event in the history of humanity” in that
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Security Dialogue http://sdi.sagepub.com/ Of ’true professionals ’ and ’ethical hero warriors ’: A gender-discourse analysis of private military and security companies Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker Security Dialogue 2012 43: 495 DOI: 10.1177/0967010612463488 The online version of this article can be found at: http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/43/6/495 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: International Peace Research Institute‚ Oslo Additional services and
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childhood and children-related social issues under the spotlight. Discourses of childhood have been evolving all the time since the development of the concept of “childhood”‚ which demonstrate the increasing importance of children as perceived by the public. This essay aims to discuss the relationship between historical discourses of childhood and people’s perception about childhood and recent child-related issues. It is argued that the discourse of innocence of infancy has great impact on how people think
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND RELATED LITERATURE Introduction Students are observed having difficulty in comprehending a text through listening. For instance in literature class‚ usually‚ the story is presented through retelling the text in front of the class when there is no luxury of time. As noted by one of the professors in literature in this college‚ “Students have hard time focusing if the only thing they do is to listen”. In most cases‚ the students can comprehend the text only after they have
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