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    Coherence and Cohesion

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    === Abstract This paper discusses that a meaningful English text is always coherent. Also‚ the role of cohesion in a coherent English text is discussed in the light of literature. In order to further understand the significance of cohesion in discourse‚ we have analysed two English texts; a poem‚ ’Daffodils ’ by William Wordsworth and an advertisement from a UK website gumtree.co.uk. A report is then developed on the textual analysis‚ which discusses that different genres have different elements

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    exactly how I treated those subjects‚ with the utmost disobedience. Being born into a Discourse‚ as John Paul Gee puts‚ “…involve a set of values and viewpoints in terms of which one must speak and act” (Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚ 538). Being born into an Asian-American household‚ I was pressured heavily to achieve academic success. However‚ I didn’t care much to squeeze myself into this supposed Discourse of a perfect Asian. Nobody seemed to offer me a solid reason why I should apply myself

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    Discourse Community Essay

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    the world; however‚ today our focus is to take a look at the discourse community of biology and analyze what components of language do they value more and the reasoning behind it. Before we learn more about the discourse community of biology‚ we need to know something about the discourse community. What is discourse community and who is in discourse community and are you part of discourse community. According to the article “Discourse Community”‚ by

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    Essay Mahly J. Martinez (2008) SPEECH ACT THEORY AND APPLICATION IN THE EFL CLASSROOM. • Introduction ( Recent interest in teaching speech act theory (beyond the form) (Garcia‚ M‚ 2000) • Communicative competence Theory (Sassan‚ B 2007) • Speech Act Theory (Overview) (Austin 1962 – Searle‚ 1965‚ Yule 1991) • Indirect and Direct Acts (Sassan‚ B. 2007) • Practical Activities for Applying the speech act theory in the EFL Classroom (Fujimori‚ 2004) • Pedagogical implications (Garcia‚ M. 2000‚ Vez

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    background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ and believing. All the words use to describe social gatherings covered by the author James Paul Gee in his Article “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction.” Discourse is capitalized because the lowercase means connected stretches of language that make sense. The Discourse I use and

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    The first aspect that been discussed by Irina Rudyk in “Power Relations in President Bush’s State of the Union speech based on Critical Discourse Analysis is meaning. From this context‚ Rudyk analyse the choices of vocabulary employed by the speaker which is President Bush. Besides‚ meaning is also the presupposition on how the listener or the reader interprete the speaker’s speech based on their ideology on a particular matter such as in Bush’s speech‚ he talked about the enemy and the peacefulness

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    Ideology through Translation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chomsky’s “Media Control” and its Persian Translations Zahra Khajeh Islamic Azad University‚ Bandar Abbas Branch roshanak82kh@yahoo.com Hajar Khanmohammad Islamic Azad University‚ Central Tehran Fer987295kia@yahoo.com Abstract Among factors that might manipulate translators’ mind while producing a text is the notion of ideology transmission through text or talk. Adopting Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with particular emphasis

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    The social discourse of motherhood is a topic that has been controversial for some time. It has been analyzed from many different perspectives and known to be bad and good in some circumstances. Socially‚ motherhood has not always been accepted. A working and single mother is not given the same status in society as a married‚ financially stable mother‚ even if they both followed the same path of motherhood. There are many discrepancies in society which make it difficult to weigh the implications

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    Hobbes and Machiavelli

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    with the first two papers‚ craft a well-structured discussion‚ with a clear thesis statement and with effective use of textual quotations and references. For the Machiavelli portion of your essay‚ you must cite passages from both The Prince and The Discourses on

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    Labovian Theory

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    Sociolinguist Dell Hymes developed the following model to promote the analysis of discourse as a series of speech events and speech acts within a cultural context. It uses the first letters of terms for speech components; the categories are so productive and powerful in analysis that you can use this model to analyze many different kinds of discourse. Mr. McGowan patricularly enjoys applying this model to storytelling. The SPEAKING Model Setting and Scene "Setting refers to the time and place

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