Discourse on Colonialism - Group Work Connections with Things Fall Apart: In “Discourse on Colonialism” mentioned on page two‚ paragraph three‚ the author makes a connection with the misinterpretation of how the Europeans thought that those who did not practice Christianity were savages. “...is Christian pedantry‚ which laid down the dishonest equations Christianity=civilization‚ paganism=savagery‚ from which there could not but ensue abominable colonialist and racist consequences‚ whose victims
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The Analysis of the Characteristics of Discourse Marker WELL 话语标记语WELL特征分析 摘 要 言语交际中的话语标记语虽在句子中不占据句子成分‚却是在交际中很常见的现象。本文以言语交际中的话语标记语WELL为研究对象，分析和判断它在交际中的特征，为正确理解话语交际意图，准确对其进行翻译提供参考。 关键词 话语标记语；WELL；交际意图；翻译 Abstract It is very common in English to use the expression form like “well”‚ “oh”‚ “you know”‚ “you see”‚ “I mean”‚ “that is to say”‚ “in other words”‚ “as I said”‚ which are all discourse markers. They are small words which do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance which
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at the idea of the saying: “if at first you don’t succeed‚ try try again.” Learning to me has always been upon the idea of problem solving‚ that we must attempt to figure out the truth while stumbling upon questions and false answers. In Meno’s dialogue with Socrates‚ Meno attempts to ask Socrates if virtue can be acquired. Expecting a bold and grand statement as heard upon by his sophist peers from Thessaly‚ Meno was amazed to hear that Socrates had no clue to his question‚ even going further
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Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka. Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation depicts a conversation between a white lady and an African American man which casts a harsh light on the racism and prejudice which grips society. The title reveals the fact that two people are talking on the phone‚ so the beginning of the poem is on a positive note: The man is searching for a house and the land lady has named a considerable price‚ and the area where it is located is an impartial and not racially prejudiced
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English Grammar in Conversation Geoffrey Leech DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS AND MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LANCASTER UNIVERSITY‚ LANCASTER LA1 4YT‚ UK A thorough description of spoken English grammar is felt to be overdue. After all‚ spoken language has largely been neglected by grammatical tradition; the word grammar itself descends from the classical Greek word for writing. The grammarian ’s bias towards the written language remains strong today‚ and is reflected in such terminology as ’left
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Conversation Starter Krista Hanna HCS/490 September 08‚ 2014 Makala Pollard How might advances in technology and medicine enable consumers to make healthy or unhealthy choices? Provide examples Technology has made huge advances in the health care field and truly enables people on a daily basis. Most people are unable to afford to go to the doctor so when they need answers they can simply go online to any search engine such as Google‚ MSN‚ or Bing and allow people to
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Discourse markers (words like ’however’‚ ’although’ and ’Nevertheless’) are referred to more commonly as ’linking words’ and ’linking phrases’‚ or ’sentence connectors’. They may be described as the ’glue’ that binds together a piece of writing‚ making the different parts of the text ’stick together’. They are used less frequently in speech‚ unless the speech is very formal. Without sufficient discourse markers in a piece of writing‚ a text would not seem logically constructed and the connections
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Author and Professor of the Social Studies Studies of Science and Technology at MIT‚ Sherry Turkle‚ in her essay “The Flight from Conversation”‚ published in the New York Times on April 22‚ 2012‚ addresses the topic of technology use in society and argues that constant use of technology is degrading the quality of human connections. Through her use of the rhetorical appeals of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos‚ Turkle presents a sound argument to effectively persuade her audience to reduce their use of technology
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best interests of the prince are gaining‚ maintaining‚ and expanding his political powers or views. Since the prince is the sole authority‚ he has the power over everything and everyone. Machiavelli speaks about this in his books The Prince and The Discourses. In The Prince‚ Machiavelli concerned about the principality of the state and the Prince’s role within the sovereign state. “Men worry less about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself feared. The bond of
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Academic Conversation of Racism Similarities in anti-racist and racist discourse: Dutch Local Residents Talking about Ethnic Minorities” is an article written by Maykel Verkuyten‚ Wiebe de Jong‚ and Kees Masson. These author participates in an academic conversation focusing on similarities of Anti-Racist and racist‚ more specifically on trying to teach us that we must understand Racist in an objective manner in order to find a solution for the ongoing issue of racism. This conversation involve
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