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    A Discourse Community

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    People may think that being in a band is boring‚ uncool‚ and just not for them. This might be true‚ but in a band you must be a leader as well as a follower. In a band there are also different ranks. You also have to communicate in various ways. You have to be able to follow hand commands‚ voice commands‚ and whistle commands. These commands are used to communicate with the band to better performances and enforce discipline. For those who might not know‚ the band consists of a very important thing

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    Communicative Competence

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    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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    Encoding Decoding

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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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    communicative competence

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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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    Purple Discourse

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    Effective Communication Purple Purse had utilized great source credibility. In a news release that was released September of 2014 they had Vicky Dinges‚ the senior vice president of corporate responsibility at Allstate support their recent celebrity ambassador. (“Allstate News Release‚” 2014). Which brings up Kerry Washington as a great credibility source due to her involvement with V-day (“Kerry Washington‚” 2014). The 200 bloggers that had shared their previous experiences with domestic violence

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    themselves as described in the different texts that they wrote. For example‚ the political thinker/philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli‚ described two radically different views of government in his two works Prince and Discourses. In the Prince he argues that a monarchy is the ideal rule where as in Discourses he believes that a republic is the most appropriate form. They differ in argument based on how they analyze the ideal state‚ either through its ruler as the head of its people or through a realistic overall

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    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 at the society. • Language

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    The Gift and the Magi

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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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    The humanistic subject Rhetoric as techne-ways of seeing Todays goals: understand these concepts Meta- communication in context of class readings The humanistic subject (in Michael franti’s words‚ what it means to be a human bein ya’ll) Rhetoric as techne Different way of seeing or of pating attention How this class fits into your education Meta0communication in context of class readings D.I.E Distinguishing between observing and concluding Using textual evidence to get us on the same

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    Culture Representation

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    2008 by Phaisit Boriboon All rights reserved. To My Parents‚ ปอบุญมา แมคําปน 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‚ multi-case study for data collection: 1) the

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