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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Discourse Strategies"”.
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Discourse Strategies in Technical-support Interactions
… study responds to the lack of research on the discourse of technical-support interactions. Researchers have explored successful practices for recruiting technical-support personnel, constructs for determining user satisfaction in survey instruments, and discourse moments of miscommunication and …
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Linguistic Creativity and Professional Discourse Strategies: An Intercultural Perspective
The discourse strategies of teams attempting the same task are compared and contrasted in this study. While a linguistic analysis of business student team meetings cannot provide a business assessment of a team's solution, teams can be comparatively assessed by how they reach their objectives in …
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Learning optimal discourse strategies in a spoken dialogue system
… goals in multiple ways by employing different discourse strategies. For example, one can usually present requested information in various ways; different presentation methods are preferred and most effective in varying contexts. One can also manage conversations, or assume initiative, to …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… to understanding both student and teacher discourse strategies in the urban classroom. Citation reproduced with permission of ProQuest LLC. Abridged abstract reproduced with permission of ProQuest LLC. Full text available at URL below.<p></p>
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African American English in urban education: a multimethodological approach to understanding classroom discourse strategies
… to understanding both student and teacher discourse strategies in the urban classroom. This study presents the linguistic situation in one Chicago high school. An ethnographic assessment situates language use among students and teachers in the classroom. A written translation task assesses …
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Constructing, Construing, and Communicating: Intercultural Communication in La Paz, Bolivia
… officials and representatives will use different discourse cues to signal social meaning and that these differences will sometimes result in miscommunication. Although I find instances where differences in the discourse cues could have led to misunderstanding, it is not always that clear-cut …
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Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime: A post-Marxist discourse analysis
… Theoretically it is inspired by a post-Marxist discourse analytical approach that focuses on discourses as political strategies. This approach has made it possible, through an analysis of changing citizenship discourses, to understand how the neoliberalisation of New Zealand's citizenship regime …
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Verb syntax and the creation of a new verbal environment: Mechanisms of change from Latin to early and modern Romance
… alternate casing schemes, agreements, and discourse strategies) and such ambiguity virtually never occurs.
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A Systemic-Functional Approach to Communicative course Design in English Language Teaching
… little attention is paid to social factors and discourse structure constraints - and states its aim: to construct a linguistic model that can generate a communicative course sensitive to such factors and constraints.<br/><br/>After the models of four systemic linguists have been examined, the …
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
… major factors contributing to her/his choices of discourse strategies in the L2. Data suggested that contact with a second language and community also influences the speaker's attitude and linguistic choices in interactions in his/her own L1. Findings from the present study question the current …
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A corpus-driven discourse analysis of transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme ‘Aló Presidente’
… from corpus linguistics with theory from the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The methodology is demonstrated using a corpus comprising transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme, Aló Presidente, broadcast between January 2002 and June 2007. In …
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
… by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary theoretical concern of this project is to describe how the population crisis emerged as a particular ""governmental technology"" dedicated to policing reproductive behaviors. As a …
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Representation of China's Image on The Globe and Mail: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of van Dijk’s Ideology Square
… methodology and with the guideline of Critical Discourse Analysis, especially van Dijk’s ideology square. In order to discern and identify the image of China as portrayed by the Globe and Mail, the underlying discourse strategies are analyzed. Findings show that “China”, “Chinese government”, …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman�s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis reveals that participants use a variety of …
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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
… from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Discourse Analysis. In particular, the SFL theory of modality(Halliday 1994) and Engagement (Martin and White 2005) and Goffman�s (1999[1967]) notion of face were used as tools of analysis.The analysis reveals that participants use a variety of …
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“The Majority They Don't Like Answering”: Classroom Discourse In Kenyan Primary Schools
This research addresses the role of classroom discourse in supporting children’s learning in Kenyan primary schools. Using a triangulated research approach, I explored the teachers’ practice and perceptions of their discourse strategies. This study involved the development of a classroom …
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Speaking The Subject: A Discourse Analysis Of Undergraduate Seminar Practice
… using a functional systemic linguistics and discourse analysis approach. Analysis identified structural and linguistic elements of seminar talk and links between language, identity, power and status was explored through an analysis of the discursive processes at work in the seminar events.An …
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THREE TRAVELING WOMEN WRITERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, AND THE U.S., 1859-79
… to the forefront the elaborate rhetoric and discourse strategies married women travel writers used in their narrative to transcend their husband's shadow. The British Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), the Argentine Eduarda Mansilla de García (1834-1892), and the American Elizabeth Cabot …
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Multiple literacies in a multicultural setting: Contextualizing nontraditional students' appropriation of virtuality and reality
… I look at the acquisition of academic discourse(s) in a basic writing class and at the strategies students bring to the task. I problematize research that takes an undifferentiated approach to gender discourse and to discourse strategies used by basic writers. Instead, I foreground the …
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Humour as Negotiation: Digital Cultures of Friendly Political Humour on the Chinese Internet
… among the online public. With its creative discourse strategies to repurpose political language for entertainment, non-contentious humour has much less critical or subversive implications and wider impacts on everyday life. I argue that these much-neglected cases of humour are highly …
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