Ruth Wodak‚ Professor in Discourse Studies Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University r.wodak@lancaster.ac.uk http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/staff http://www.univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity FEMINIST CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY GENDER STUDIES Outline of Lecture: 1. Introducing FCDA 2. Implications for interdisciplinary Gender Studies 3. Two examples: “Voices from ‘below’ and ‘above’ – Identity
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aéroplane‚ which comes from the Greek ἀήρ (aēr)‚ "air"[1] and either Latin planus‚ "level"‚[2] or Greek πλάνος (planos)‚ "wandering".[3][4] "Aéroplane" originally referred just to the wing‚ as it is a plane moving through the air.[5] In an example of synecdoche‚ the word for the wing came to refer to the entire aircraft. In the United States and Canada‚ the term "airplane" is used for powered fixed-wing aircraft. In the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth‚ the term "aeroplane" is usually applied
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Mardari Tatiana Romanian-English‚ II group‚ third year A secret for two by Quentin Reynolds Text Analysis The text is included in belle-letters as it doesn’t follow a rigid structure‚ terminological lexemes or other norms imposed by functional styles. It belongs to emotive prose as the author uses the language of fiction and directs his work to the achievement of aesthetic and cognitive function. So‚ the narrative code is present here and the work itself is a short story: •Short - Can usually be
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Harvard College Writing Center WRITING CENTER BRIEF GUIDE SERIES A Brief Guide to Writing the English Paper The Challenges of Writing About English Literature Writing begins with the act of reading. While this statement is true for most college papers‚ strong English papers tend to be the product of highly attentive reading (and rereading). When your instructors ask you to do a “close reading‚” they are asking you to read not only for content‚ but also for structures and patterns. When you perform
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TERM DEFINITION EXAMPLE Abstract Exists in thought and is not physical or concrete Love or beauty Aesthetic Concerned with beauty or the application of beauty Art Allegory a literary device in which characters or events in a literary‚ visual‚ or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others. Alliteration the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables
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LEXICOLOGY 1. Principles of general linguistics 2. The structure of English words 3. Derivation as a major word-building pattern 4. Compounding. Classification of compounding 5. Shortening and abbreviation 6. Conversion. Types of conversion 7. Minor types (доп. способы) of word-building 8. The problem of meaning 9. Types of meaning 10. Change of meaning 11. Transfer of meaning (metaphor‚ metonymy) 12. Polysemy or plurality of meaning 13. Homonyms
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What is the importance of English Language in Education? Here‚ in this article‚ an attempt has been made to turn the attention of the readers to the most crucial thing that is the importance of the English language in education or the advantages of learning English language (here‚ focus is not on any one of the particular countries where language is seen as a second language for communication or the language of the education etc‚ the topic here is described in a generalized manner). Education
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Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Goffman dissects the meaning and practice of direct interaction‚ using “dramaturgical” tools and claims that “The entire world is a stage‚ and we but merely players". Introduction Goffman lays out the basic elements of the argument. In micro-interactions‚ every person sends two signals: those they "give" and those they "give off" "The expressiveness of the individual appears to involve two radically different kinds of sign activity: the
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Glass Ceiling In economics‚ the term glass ceiling refers to "the seen‚ yet unreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder‚ regardless of their qualifications or achievements. Initially‚ the metaphor applied to barriers in the careers of women but was quickly extended to refer to obstacles hindering the advancement of minority men‚ as well as women. While the phrase glass ceiling is metaphorical‚ many women who find themselves bumping
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International Journal of Women‟s Research (2011) 1: 107- 122 Critical Analysis of Women’s Representation in TV Advertisements from a Cultural Studies Perspective Ali HajiMohammadi1 Abstract Through the interpretation of texts‚ and subsequent creation of social reality‚ mediated representations are often seen to be presented within the certain of ideological discourses that reflect the existing power structures. The main objective of this paper is to analyze television commercials with an emphasis
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