Sociocultural rules * Understanding social context 4 Verbal/nonverbal strategies to compensate for breakdowns due to performance variables or insufficient competence * Ability of connecting sentences * Intersentential Relationships Discourse Competence Bachman (1990) REMEMBER Locutionaryact: Performance of an utterance “It’s cold in here.” Illocutionary act: Intended meaning [The windows is open. So I should close it.] Perlocutionary act: Consequences of the utterance (whether
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competence 3. strategic competence 4. discourse competence 1. Grammatical competence Knowledge that is responsible for producing a structurally comprehensible utterance (related to formal aspects of language) Including grammar‚ vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ spelling‚ morphology‚ syntax and semantics Comparable with Chomsky’s linguistic competence 2. Sociolinguistic competence Knowledge that enables us to use the sociocultural rules of language use and (discourse) Using socially-determined cultural
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A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SHORT STORY OF O. HENRY’S “THE GIFT OF THE MAGI” RESEARCH PAPER Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education in English Department by: MULYATI A 320 040 336 SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2008 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Story book is one of reading media which most people are interested in. They prefer to read story book other kind of book such
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foreign political linguists to evaluate and criticize political discourse. In the recent years‚ with the establishment of the selected English newspaper reading course in many Chinese colleges‚ English political euphemism began to attract people’s attention. However‚ it is mainly confined to its disguising function (Pan‚ 2004‚ p85)‚ leaving its influences on people’s thoughts and ideology untouched. This paper begins with an analysis on the features of political euphemism and explores its two main
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addresses the discourse of education (linguistic retraining in particular) and its interrelationship with other discourses‚ such as class‚ and the transformation of individual and social self. It also deals with the dynamics of teacher-student power relationship in the context of education discourse. Believing that education should produce humane and responsible citizens instead of docile slaves‚ Shaw displays the evils of an incompetent education system. This article explores the discourse of education
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University of Edinburgh July 2008 Copyright 2008 by Phaisit Boriboon All rights reserved. To My Parents‚ ปอบุญมา แมคําปน บริบูรณ‚ in Heaven Abstract This study presents a multi-faceted analysis of EFL learners’ voices in a Thai context‚ aimed at testing a hypothesis that the discourse of foreign‚ western-compiled textbooks project identities disconnected from EFL learners’ lived experiences‚ adversely affecting their meaning-making during discursive practices. I employ a multi-modal
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organisation we are a part of and exert instrumental power due to hierarchy. In many‚ but not all‚ if we resist instrumental power we are punished. Fairclough- 2001 (part of a critical linguistic group) • Power in discourse- the ways in which power us manifested in situations through language • Power behind discourse- the focus on social and ideological reasons behind the enactment of power. (Gender‚ class etc.) • You cannot look at how power is communicated through language without looking
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10 Encoding/decoding* Stuart Hall Traditionally‚ masscommunications research has conceptualized the process of communication in terms of a circulation circuit or loop. This model has been criticized for its linearity - sender/message/receiver for its concentration on the level of message exchange and for the absence of a structured conception of the different moments as a complex structure of relations. But it is also possible (and useful) t o think of this process in terms of a structure produced
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Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez indicted on murder‚ weapons charges By Graham Winch‚ HLNtv.com‚ and Susan Candiotti and Laura Dolan‚ CNN updated 8:04 AM EDT‚ Fri August 23‚ 2013 (HLNtv.com) -- A Bristol County‚ Massachusetts‚ grand jury indicted former NFL player Aaron Hernandez on a first-degree murder charge and five weapons charges Thursday. Hernandez‚ a former New England Patriots tight end‚ is charged in connection with the slaying of his friend‚ Odin Lloyd‚ 27. Prosecutors say Hernandez‚ 23
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discuss the extent to which theory and research on families have been successful in transcending the individual-society dualism‚ with particular attention given to discursive psychology and the social psychoanalytic perspective‚ while providing a critical evaluation of past and contemporary theory and research. It has been claimed that much of the traditional psychological theory and research into families views these entities as both culturally and historically static in that families are
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