strong biographical evidence that suggests that the author worked on The Prince and The Discourses at the same time‚ writing the former’s first draft in 1513 and starting to write the latter during the same year. It is obvious then that in order to understand the essence of The Prince we cannot restrict ourselves only to its lines‚ but we must look beyond into Machiavelli’s other writings‚ such as The Discourses‚ to achieve a general understanding of his philosophy‚ and to better appreciate the full
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MASTERS Communication and Advertising Mass Media effects on individuals and society The omnipotence of mass media 2 Media influence of society and individuals 3 Empirical studies on campaigns 4 Uses and Gratifications Theory 5 Broadcasting studies (the adaptation theory) 6 Studies on socialization 6 Studies on reception 7 Studies on the ideological effects 8 Theories of technological determinism 8 Spiral of silence theory 9 Studies
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The Gospel of Matthew is divided into five discourses‚ chapter 18 is the fourth discourse and according to Faith Stewart (2015) its purpose is to set down a guideline for communal living. Stewart says that according to Hagner (Hagner 514) it is about Christian community. Its common theme is about humility and forgiveness and it outlines principles of conduct that are suitable for those who claim to be subjects of Christ the King. Matthew is telling us that Jesus wants us to change from our present
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This speech includes three different types of discourses‚ which are deliberative‚ epidictic‚ and forensics. In particular‚ the most prominent discourse is deliberative discourse. Here‚ I am going to analyze this speech in chronological order. At first‚ this speech is the response against the action of the Soviet Union that they located its armament in Cuba. At the beginning‚ Kennedy strongly accused the Soviet Union. In this speech‚ Kennedy (1962) addressed “that statement was false” and “that statement
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Chun Kit Dixon Wong U0907754 Writing 1010 – 006 10 February 2015 In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: introduction” James P Gee presents his analysis of discourse. Gee discussed Discourse and discourse. With the capital “D which included saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ believing and so forth. The other discourse with the little “d”‚ it only means connected stretches of language that make sense (Gee‚ 1989:Page 5) Using the right grammar to talk to people it doesn’t workout every single
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Models in Discourse Processing Teun A. van DIN INTRODUCTION In this chapter it is shown that models play an important role in both oral and written discourse processing. Although the term model has several other meanings‚ it will here exclusively be used to denote a specific kind of knowledge structure in memory. 1 In particular‚ the notion of model is intended here to account for the role of personal knowledge people have about real or imagined situations in the process of discourse production
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the discourse analysis of the former U.S. President Obama’s speech in Tokyo‚ Japan. The speech was held on November 2009‚ during his first official visit as new U.S. president. According to our analysis‚ Obama’s speech stands as a commendation of the 50 years-long U.S. and Japan partnership in the context of global dominance as well as‚ more specifically‚ the control of the Pacific area. In order to support this conclusion‚ our team will investigate three different aspects of the discourse: first
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Course: BaMMC 2nd Semester Exam title: Multimodal Discourse Analysis May 25‚ 2011 Character (excluding spaces): 22682 Page 1 of 14 OBLIGATORISK FORSIDE Prescribed front page 12-TIMERS PRØVER U. MUNDTLIGT FORSVAR 12-hour take-home papers without oral defence INSTITUT FOR ERHVERVSKOMMUNIKATION Department of Business Communication EKSAMENSNR. (PÅ STUDERENDE): Student Exam No.: (6 digits at the top left corner of you Student ID-card) HOLD NR.: Class No. Ex.: U02 FAGETS NAVN: Course/Exam
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any aspects such as the fashion style‚ hobby‚ and the language style. The later aspect is the interesting one that we want to analyze in our mini research. The influence of figure public language style toward society is could studied in Critical Discourse Analysis (commonly abbreviated to CDA). Fairclough‚ the founder of CDA‚ explains that CDA is a theory of language in relation to power and ideology (1995:1). This is a theory enabling us to discover how a ruling class rules the society through their
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The Field of Foucaultian Discourse Analysis: Structures‚ Developments and Perspectives Rainer Diaz-Bone‚ Andrea D. Bührmann‚ Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez‚ Werner Schneider‚ Gavin Kendall & Francisco Tirado Abstract: The article outlines the field of FOUCAULTian discourse analysis. The FOUCAULTian concept of discourse is introduced‚ and methodological positions and methodological developments are sketched. Compared to other qualitative social research approaches‚ the different researchers and
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