Table of contents Introduction 2 1. Synonymy 4 1.1. Definition of synonymy 4 1.2. Types of synonyms 6 1.3. Origin of synonyms 9 1.4. Difficulties connected with distinguishing synonyms 12 1.5. Summing up 13 2. Media discourse 14 2.1. What is media? 14 2.2. What is discourse? 17 2.3. What is media discourse? 19 2.4. Topics of media discourses 20 2.5. Summing up 21
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A REPORT ON WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE STUDENTS Prepared by: Ang Kar Yong Updated on: 3rd March 2013 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my supervisor‚ Ms. Sylvia‚ for the valuable advice and support she has given me in the writing of this report. I would also like to thank her for her encouragement and guidance. ABSTRACT This study was to investigate which aspects of written communication should take priority‚ and to provide the appropriate recommendations
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can be defined by the dominant discourses in society‚ such as gender and sexuality. Michael Foucault’s definition of discourse is more than just the ways of thinking and producing meaning through communication. The notion of discourse defined by Foucault have become closely associated with power and knowledge (Miller‚ 1990). Dominant discourse demonstrates how reality has been socially constructed. They can be found in many forms of media and communication. Discourses become dominant because they are
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Critical Discourse Analysis INTRODUCTION Naturism is an alternative discourse‚ as consciously and systematically proposes a vision of reality‚ an order of things and a logic of social relations that diverge from the hegemonic ideology. In this sense‚ this naturalism is political‚ if we understand the political and ethical proposal of interaction and social action. There arises the need for its exponents to adopt discursive strategies that allow them to justify it. Then drove the hypothesis
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notion those effect Choi observe. Actually‚ religion of the old Korea society that had make people think boy is more important than girl. Therefore‚ she was going to attribute it. 2. What specific changes in Korean culture does Choi attribute to the introduction of Confucianism? When downsizing was widespread‚ it means there are more people was layoff. Therefore‚ these people will spend lesser than the time when they had job. Additionally‚ the rest of employee will also spend lesser than normal because
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RESEARCH PAPER: The Analysis-criticizing Method of Written Sources (Through surveying Kautilya’s Arthashastra) BY NGUYEN THI THANH MAI Department of South Asian Studies Faculty of Oriental Studies University of Social Sciences and Humanities Vietnam National University December‚ 2012 Abstract Historians have used different kinds of sources to reconstruct the narratives of the past or to create a complete and accurate picture of what happened in the past on such aspects as politics‚ economy
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Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail
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Savage or Civilized The Second Discourse‚ written by Jean Jaques Rousseau in 1754‚ discusses the human state of nature. This work compares savaged men and civilized men‚ mostly in physical terms. Rousseau aimed to find the source of inequality in the human race‚ by stripping man down to his animalistic nature. He begins by discussing how a natural man uses his instincts for self preservation‚ like an animal. After this‚ he mentions how civilized men tend to compare themselves to each other‚
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of the Sermon on the Mount discourse‚ which is one of the five discourses of the Gospel of Matthew (5-7‚ 10‚ 13‚ 18‚ and 23-25). This passage locates relatively earlier in the Sermon. Professor Dallas Willard (1998)‚ in his book The Divine Conspiracy‚ claims that “The later parts of the Discourse presuppose the earlier parts and simply cannot be understood unless their dependence upon the earlier parts is clearly seen” (p. 138). If the sequential order in the discourse is important‚ then the earlier
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DiCarlos Polanco 12/2/2012 Mini-ethnography Introduction Have you ever turned on the TV and watched UFC or some other cage fight? Most of you are thinking that it is nothing more than a bunch of brutes fighting for money. The fact is there is some skill involved in it. This is known as Mixed Martial Arts or MMA for short. According to Andre Herbert‚ “MMA is using the most effective techniques of various martial arts so that they complement each other perfectly.” Some of these styles use striking
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