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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Text / Context"”.
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Jono Avyžiaus romanas: tekstas ir kontekstas /
… closely connected with these insights, analyzes texts and contexts of the novels of Lithuanian writer Jonas Avyžius, a social realist. Context and text are considered as correlating (equivalent). The context implies appearance of certain figures and works, which lead to specific field of …
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The long and winding road to reflexology: A post-structural narrative inquiry
… 1982, 1978). It concerns poetical notions of text, context and intertextuality as a backdrop to re-explore traditional stories told by five prominent reflexologists accompanied by an autobiographical story. Using narrative inquiry, it explored how narratives allow reflexologists to perform and …
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The Language of Collapsing Power: A Cognitive-Lingusitic Critical Discourse Analysis of the Arab Spring Speeches of Mubarak
… speeches of Mubarak, respectively. Within that context, Chapter Two introduces the new pragmatic concept of Classifying WE, which accounts for the ‘problematic’ behaviour of the political pronoun WE pragmatically, by not considering it a random, contradictory, flat, circular construct, as the …
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Language Policies in the European Union and India: A Comparative Study
… and Indian policies. The study examines policy texts (statutes on language use in these polities), and contexts which concern the historical and socio-political factors underpinning language policies. The thesis makes three important contributions. First, it marks a break from the prevalent …
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Re-thinking Extrinsic Materials in Statutory Interpretation: Revelations from the Legislative Process
The well-established framework of text, context and purpose in statutory interpretation emphasises a statute as a 'speech act' authored by Parliament and so to be construed in terms of conventions about language. But this framework does not sit well with the ability of courts and other interpreters …
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Re-thinking Extrinsic Materials in Statutory Interpretation: Revelations from the Legislative Process
The well-established framework of text, context and purpose in statutory interpretation emphasises a statute as a 'speech act' authored by Parliament and so to be construed in terms of conventions about language. But this framework does not sit well with the ability of courts and other interpreters …
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… that they are enacted messages in socio-cultural context of Basotho. It used a form-meaning approach to interpret Sesotho names in socio-cultural contexts of use (cf. Halliday 1994, 2001, Eggins, 1996, 2004 and Martin & Rose 2007) as an alternative to the current formalist approach to onomastica …