speakers and addressees(1987:58).Both speakers and addressees are rational agents who have something that Brown and Levenson call ‘face’. The term ‘face’ could be translated as a public self -image. The concept of face derives from earlier work by Goffman (1967) and from the English folk term used for example in the idiom of ‘losing face’ (Brown and Levenson 1987:61) Politeness theory on hedges relies heavily on linguistic analysis but the emphasis is on the fact that hedges are used to “disarm routine
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Dear Mr. Mayor‚ Crime over the course of 10 years has risen and dropped due to the change in culture in your city. LA has numerous unsolved murder cases‚ stemming from the disconnected youth population. From the broken tethers at the home the community looks for comfort within each other. This drives up the numbers of gangs and local crimes. Teens and young adults get labeled as criminals because of actions they commit out of boredom. These same crimes committed by teens of a higher class standing
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PERSON CENTRED SOCIAL CHANGE Introduction The objectives of the role play exercise was to explore ourselves‚ and more so explore myself as a person and as a practitioner (Community development worker) as well as a therapeutic activist. It was to highlight identity work and the different masks that we put on when working with communities and the challenges that this poses to practitioners and clients. It also highlighted power relations and prejudice that are involved when working with people
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against Larry Bird and Indiana State. This was the beginning of a huge rivalry in the 1980s. Towards the end of the 1970s and in the beginning of the 1980s the Philadelphia 76ers were a very good team in the NBA. With the help of Moses Malone and Julius Erving the 76ers made it to the NBA Finals in 1977‚ 1980‚ 1982 but lost. Finally they won the NBA Championship in 1983 and Moses Malone was Finals MVP. In the 1984 NBA Draft there were a number of players that were drafted that were later to become stars
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Classifying Power-Wareing 1999 • Classified power in 3 ways: personal‚ political and social. • Personal- those who hold power as a result of their occupation or role‚ such as teacher’s and employers. • Political- that held by politicians‚ the police and those working in the law courts. • Social- those who hold power as a result of class‚ gender and age. Influential Power • E.g. advertisements‚ politics‚ media and culture • These are not laws and rules which force us to respond to this
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intersection of the personal and the political circa late 1960’s/early 1970’s. It is the agenda of the political environment of the day‚ Radicalesbians argue‚ that the former is policed in part by weaponizing the latter as a stigmatizing ‘spoiled’ identity (Goffman 1963). And‚ as will Wittig years later‚ “Woman-Identified Woman” notes that this shaming can only be as effective as it is as a social control mechanism from within the tightly-framed‚ highly regulated framework of
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One of the greatest sports in the world is goes by the name of basketball. This great game was invented by James Naismith December of 1891. James Naismith was a physician from Canada and attended McGill’s University in Montreal‚ Canada. After working as McGill’s Athletic director he went to Springfield‚ Massachusetts. He introduced the game when he was an instructor at the Young Men Christian Association Training School in Springfield. He created the game because he needed to think of something the
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Reflection Journal Week Three (10-7-16): My peers and I have been in trouble for showing up to class late or not showing up to school at all. Occasionally students will get in trouble for talking in class as well as not turning in their homework on time. People have also been in trouble for bullying‚ drinking‚ and smoking marijuana under age. When I attended high school in Chelan I felt that skin color made no difference when it came to disciplinary actions for students who had committed wrongdoings
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ancient rituals and seasonal festivities of the country. Bharata’s Natya Shastra (2000 BC to 4th Century AD) was the earliest and most elaborate treatise on dramaturgy written anywhere in the world. The traditional account in Bharata’s Natya Shastra gives a divine origin to Indian Theatre‚ attributing it to the Natyaveda‚ the holy book of dramaturgy created by Lord Brahma. Theatre in India started as a narrative form‚ with recitation‚ singing and dancing becoming integral elements of the theatre. This
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Reader. Stanford‚ California: Stanford University Press: 179-82 Fehr‚ E Freud‚ S. 1930. ‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ M. Hechter and C. Horne (eds) 2003. Theories of Social Order: A Reader. Stanford‚ California: Stanford University Press: 101-11 Goffman‚ E Hechter‚ M. and Horne‚ C. 2003. Theories of Social Order: A Reader. Stanford‚ California: Stanford University Press. Henrich‚ J.‚ Boyd‚ R.‚ Bowles‚ S.‚ Camerer‚ C. Fehr‚ E.and Gintis‚ H. 2004. Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments
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