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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"circumlocution"”.
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The Circumlocution Office of Dickens' "Little Dorrit"
… commented on the brilliance of the satire on the Circumlocution Office in Dickens' novel Little Dorrit. no one to my knowledge has made a detailed analysis of the particular techniques which Dickens employs. The need for such a study may be indicated by reviewing the course that criticism has …
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Nonnative speakers' communication strategies in word searches from a conversation analytic perspective
… switch, appeals for assistance, gestures and circumlocution. In particular, the phenomena of language switch and circumlocution, as they occur in naturally occurring talk in combination with other communication strategies, are analyzed in depth in this thesis. The participants of this study …
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The comparison of the effectiveness of the Observe Hypothesise Experiment and the Presentation Practice Production models on teaching procedural language of circumlocution and stalling devices to upper intermediate EFL students
… for two communication strategies (stalling and circumlocution) to twenty upper-intermediate students enrolled on an International Foundation Programme (IFP) in a UK university. The focus of this study was on the following areas: a) the effect of explicit instruction on productive and receptive …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
… of ""Aesopian language,"" that is, the polemical circumlocution of social issues by means of allegory, allusion or satire. This dissertation discusses nine such Shakespearean productions. Their directors used these productions, brilliant artistic creations in their own right, in order to critique …
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Foreign Language Learning in a Non-school Environment: Effects of Simulated Immersion Training on Affective Factors in Learners' Experience
… motivation and attitudes; development of circumlocution strategy regarding anxiety; improved fluency regarding self-confidence; immersion as a life-like environment, a place for output, and a different context from the classroom.</p> <p>While this research assessed the benefits of …
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The effects of teaching communication strategies on Thai learners of English
… devices, approximation, self repair and circumlocution. With respect to the retrospective verbal reports, the findings showed that the students tended to be more aware of the taught communication strategies. They revealed their intention and reasons behind their use of some taught …
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Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit: A Study in Real and Illusonary Parenthood
… responsibility, with the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office directing (or misdirecting) government matters; with Mr. Casby, squeezing rents out of the destitute Bleeding Heart Yard inhabitants; with Blandois, the murderer, who feels that the world owes him his living; we see it in …