Language and Power in English Texts Susana Murcia Bielsa‚ Mick O’Donnell Course overview: The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of how English language works to express power-relations and ideology in different kinds of text (both written and spoken). Through the study of different kinds of discourse‚ we will be looking at how particular linguistic features are used to persuade and manipulate‚ and convey social‚ racial or sexist ideologies. Chapter 1 Notions of Power ‘Power’ refers
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The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom 1/14/10 11:34 PM Radical Pedagogy (2001) ISSN: 1524-6345 The Importance Of Teaching Culture In The Foreign Language Classroom Dimitrios Thanasoulas Member of TESOL Greece and the AILA Scientific Commission on Learner Autonomy akasa74@hotmail.com I would like to express my gratitude to my supervisor‚ Dr. Doreen Du Boulay for her assistance and insightful ideas‚ and record my thanks to my friends Joshua Jackson and Eleni
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The Abstract Communication is an important aspect in our lives and an even more important aspect in the lives of people who play the roles of leaders. We often see articles or books expounding on leadership traits or skills that a leader should possess. Among these traits and qualities‚ communication is almost always one of the most commonly listed ones. This comes as no surprise since we now know that researchers and professors in the leadership field have come to recognize being able to communicate
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Qualitative Health Research http://qhr.sagepub.com/ ’ ’I am not a robot! ’ ’ Interpreters ’ Views of Their Roles in Health Care Settings Elaine Hsieh Qual Health Res 2008 18: 1367 DOI: 10.1177/1049732308323840 The online version of this article can be found at: http://qhr.sagepub.com/content/18/10/1367 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Qualitative Health Research can be found at: Email Alerts: http://qhr.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions:
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Journal of International Business Studies (2006) 37‚ 525–543 & 2006 Academy of International Business All rights reserved 0047-2506 $30.00 www.jibs.net Cross-cultural competence in international business: toward a definition and a model James P. Johnson1‚ Tomasz Lenartowicz2 and Salvador Apud3 1 Crummer Graduate School of Business‚ Rollins College‚ Winter Park‚ USA; 2Deparment of Management‚ International Business and Entrepreneurship‚ College of Business‚ Florida Atlantic University
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Wednesday 31st January 2007 I approached the first session with a degree of trepidation; a considerable time has elapsed since achieving Stage 1‚ during the autumn term of 2003. So when the first part which drew out peoples experiences from the most recent stage 1 I felt initially would not include mine. However‚ upon listening to the negative and positive experiences and feeling of others‚ I did recall some commonality with my experiences several years ago. It was good opportunity for people
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Contents Introduction 03 Purpose of the Assignment 04 How the Assignment was Planned‚ Organized‚ Researched‚ Monitored‚ and Carried out 04 Problems Encountered Due to Do this Assignments 05 Supervisors Hand Book 06 Stimulated Interview Activity 47 References 51 Introduction Supervision is very essential factor in the hospitality industry. The effectiveness of any organisation depends on its workforce. Supervision is important
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Journal of Economic Psychology 21 (2000) 109±142 www.elsevier.com/locate/joep Self-image ± is it in the bag? A qualitative comparison between ``ordinary ’ ’ and ``excessive ’ ’ consumers Helga Dittmar *‚ John Drury Sociology and Social Psychology Subject Group‚ Arts Building E‚ University of Sussex‚ Falmer‚ Brighton BNI 9SN‚ East Sussex‚ UK Received 25 July 1998; accepted 10 September 1999 Abstract An in-depth thematic analysis is presented of 32 interviews‚ which examined commonsense
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A TERM PAPER OF COMMUNICATION The word communication comes from the Latin comunicare meaning “to transmit‚”1 and this describes the purpose of communication‚ which is to place with all people a common knowledge and feelings with respect to a certain detail or group of details. We have no precise data on when and how the first act of communication occurred only suppositions and conjectures that cannot be proven. Remember that our planet is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old‚ and for 3 billion
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1. Functional Styles in Modern English The Notion of Functional Style. Functional style as “having social relevance‚ functionally determined‚ displaying inner coherence combination of ways of usage‚ choice and combination of means of speech communication in the domain of a certain national language‚ correlated with other ways of expression of the same type‚ which attain other aims and fulfill other functions in the social communicative experience of the people”\V.V.Vinogradov\. Functional
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