why office space is a must watch film is because people can actually relate to the day-to-day agony of a “modern desk job”. I keep mum on this because I have yet to experience the agony of a modern desk job‚ and that is why I am going to offer an analysis on this film on a very academic level. The film cleverly utilizes humour to point out
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Conversation Analysis & Discourse Analysis tive Compara A a odu ritical Intr nd C ction Robin Wooffitt Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis A Comparative and Critical Introduction Robin Wooffitt SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi © Robin Wooffitt 2005 First published 2005 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study‚ or criticism or review‚ as permitted under the Copyright
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It was a regular day at school; I didn’t in the least suspect that my life would have been altered so drastically that Tuesday morning. When I entered my English class we were assigned a task to analyze a speech‚ not my favorite writing exercise. A paper titled‚ Stanford University Commencing Speech 2005 by Steve Jobs was placed on each desk. The name rang a bell‚ I knew of his connections with Apple and squabbles with supposed rival Bill Gates but nothing else. Ignorance always led me to think
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"Tears‚ Idle Tears" Summary The speaker sings of the baseless and inexplicable tears that rise in his heart and pour forth from his eyes when he looks out on the fields in autumn and thinks of the past. This past‚ ("the days that are no more") is described as fresh and strange. It is as fresh as the first beam of sunlight that sparkles on the sail of a boat bringing the dead back from the underworld‚ and it is sad as the last red beam of sunlight that shines on a boat that carries the dead down
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Textual features: language features Alliteration when the poet uses the same consonant letter at the beginning of a number of words placed close together e.g. dark plastic skeleton dangling near my French doors. Apostrophe addressing an inanimate object or a dead person as if they were alive e.g. ‘Death be not proud though some have called thee mighty’(Donne‚ J in Favourite verse (1999) Hurford‚ C (Ed)‚ Parragon‚ Bath. p.450) Assonance when the poet repeats the same vowel sound in a number of words
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Textual interpretations are known to be governed and defined by the writer themselves‚ the very individuals who comprise meanings to be discovered by the readers. In opposition to the formalist approach‚ the Reader Response literary criticism based textual interpretations solely on the reader. The conventional authority placed on the shoulders of the author is stripped and placed within the minds of the reader themselves. Reader Response criticism is innovative‚ as the established preconceived notions
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Intertextual Analysis-Romeo and Juliet The visual arts interpretation by Russian artist Ilyas Phaizulline strikes many similarities with the most well-known version of Romeo and Juliet in the form of a book. The characters portrayed are similar‚ alike in form and attitude. The plot events and motifs put across in both versions of Romeo and Juliet correspond with each other in numerous ways‚ presenting highly similar though slightly differing interpretations of Romeo and Juliet. Firstly‚ it
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Critical Discourse Analysis Social communication is increasingly becoming a subject of scientists’ discussions from different disciplines‚ as well as ordinary language users. In contemporary social sciences‚ especially in linguistics‚ we see a clear shift to discourse. Discourse allows us to talk about use of the language‚ as well as the language as a socio-cultural activity. In this sense‚ discourse‚ on one hand‚ reflects the social reality‚ on the other hand‚ it shapes it‚ therefore participate
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AELS 348 – CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS KIRSTIN CONRADIE 16107306 TASK 3 1. Social practice: Raising children 2. In contemporary society the discourse regarding the raising of children is primarily focused on developmental appropriateness‚ meaning that there exists a general awareness of the developmental sensitivity of children (childhood being a developmentally sensitive period). Contrasting this with the sentiment of “children must be seen and not heard” of a few decades ago‚ it becomes
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ENL 102 Victorian Literature: Textual Analysis Part 2 Chosen extract: The Picture of Dorian Grey‚ Chapter 2 from “Suddenly the painter appeared at the door of the studio” to “I would give my soul for that!” Chapter two of “The Picture of Dorian Grey” is an important chapter as it firmly introduces readers to the title character‚ Dorian Grey and his cohorts. We learn that he exudes physical attractiveness‚ being ‘wonderfully handsome1’ with a ‘bright look in the eyes2’‚ and ‘finely-curved scarlet
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