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    Ethics instructs us to love. It is a theory concerned with humans (one of the four Ps is Personalism). Therefore situationists would be more than happy to use animals to grow organs or pharmaceuticals. The real question with these therapies is: is it Pragmatic‚ does genetic ’pharming’ work? There is good evidence to suggest they do work very successfully‚ so Situation Ethics would support them. What about human genetic engineering? Gene therapies that are somatic (in one person’s body [soma]) would doubtless

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    Uncertainty avoidance  - The extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by ambiguous or unknown situations and have created beliefs and institutions that try to avoid these 
 5. Long term orientation- the extent to which a society shows a pragmatic future-oriented perspective rather than a conventional historical short-term point of view.

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 Thailand scores 64 on PDI index‚ slightly lower than the average Asian countries (71). It is a society in which inequalities

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    which made her retreat. The only beliefs the children grew up on were the horrible stories of the outside world‚ and the strong morals from the bible. Nell used three very prominent verbal communication codes in her life: semantic‚ syntactic‚ and pragmatic. Jerry and Paula had to "decode" these codes in order to understand what she was saying. The book says that Semantics refer to the meaning behind a word‚ and their primary and connotative meanings. One great example from the movie was how Nell called

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    Linguistics 1. Genealogic Classification and typology of languages. 2. Language as a Social Phenomenon. Definition of Language. Functions of the Language. 3. Languages as a Systemic System . Language Levels and Components. The History of the English Language 1. Theories of Language Evolution. Periodization of English and Main Events in the History of English 2. Common LinguisticFeatures of Ancient and Modern Germanic Languages 3. Grammatical andLexical Peculiarities

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    government of 1945-51. Principle is the complete opposite of pragmatism and is more ideological sticking to a certain view of how society should be and pursuing this. It is a political idea that changes with the times Conservatives have often favoured pragmatic approaches to situations an example being Benjamin Disraeli and his one nation toryism. Prior to this the general consensus about the poor made by early conservatives was that the poor were due to their own mistakes and that it was not the place

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    monarch Charles VI issued the Pragmatic Sanction (1713 which persuaded Europe’s rulers to accept a female monarch and to never divide the Habsburg land) Maria Theresa became queen of Austria. She took local control away from the regional diets made German the language of the empire‚ created a large bureaucracy taxed the nobility and the clergy took control of the Roman Catholic Church. Limitations 1740 Frederick II became king of Prussia rejected the Pragmatic Sanction and invaded the Austrian

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    compliments and observed some dissimilarity between them while accepting‚ rejecting and evading a compliment. This study also indicates whether Persian learners of English produce target- like compliments and compliment responses in English and whether pragmatic transfer can occur. Discourse completion tests (DCTs) were used to study the strategies employed when complimenting and responding to compliments by Intermediate learners of English. Findings suggest that Persian (L1) expressions and strategies were

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    Robert Kelley wrote an essay called “In Praise of Followers” and in this essay‚ he came up with a two-dimensional model that would entail five roles for followership. These five roles are sheep‚ yes people or conformist‚ alienated followers‚ pragmatic followers and star or exemplary followers (Mumby‚2013.). Robert explains that the roles are not supposed to be personality traits‚ therefore someone may inherit different roles. The first role is sheep‚ which is a person that takes no responsibility

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    politeness theories. Manchester‚ UK: St. Jerome Publishing. Eelen‚ G. (1999). Politeness and ideology: A critical review. Pragmatics‚ 9(1)‚ 163-173. Fisher‚ B Fraser‚ B. (1975). Hedged performatives. In P. Cole & J. Morgan (Eds.)‚ Syntax and semantics 3. Speech acts (pp. 187-210). New York: Academic Press. Fraser‚ B. (1990). Perspectives on politeness. Journal of Pragmatics‚ 14‚ 219-236. Fraser‚ B.‚ & Nolen‚ W. (1981). The association of difference in linguistic form. International Journal of Sociology

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    Cross-Cultural Communication Vol. 8‚ No. 6‚ 2012‚ pp. 66-70 DOI:10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020120806.1356 ISSN 1712-8358[Print] ISSN 1923-6700[Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org Cross-Cultural Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Euphemisms WANG Xiaoling[a]; ZHANG Meng[a]‚*; DONG Hailin[a] [a] College of Foreign Languages‚ Hebei United University‚ West Xinhua Road‚ Tangshan‚ China. * Corresponding author. Supported by Study on Application of Cross-Cultural Teaching Concept in

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