What are the moments and movements in recent history that have led theorists to revise their understanding of rhetoric in its aims and techniques? These questions...[show more] Keywords | Audience Psychology, Cognitive Theory, Cultural Difference, (Burkean) Division, Embodiment, Empathy, Ethos, (...
Calling on a wide range of theories in English and French in an effort to bring the highly theoretical, 'disembodied' discourse that surrounds subjectivity 'down to earth,' I consider the ways in which several contemporary writers and theorists work to create new subjectivities by reconfiguring ...
It has been suggested by other theorists that language does not have this determining function and that language itself is in fact largely determined by experience. A further growing field of investigation is the relationship between gender and language. Writers such as D. Spender (1980) have ...
We can further remove two essential sources of representational power–Kleene star, which allows arbitrarily long-range dependencies, and phonological features, which allow analogizing and generalizing across phonemes. Removing these renders only the simplest problems solvable (-representation in Fig. 5a,...
aEnglish now is also spoken as a foreign or second language in South Asia.For example,India has a very large number of fluent English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. 英语也现在讲了话作为外国或第二种语言在南亚。例如,印度有流利讲英语者的非常大数,因为英国统治了印度从176...
In Entities and Indices, M. J. Cresswell argued that a first-order modal language can reach the expressive power of natural-language modal discourse only i
Calling on a wide range of theories in English and French in an effort to bring the highly theoretical, 'disembodied' discourse that surrounds subjectivity 'down to 8 earth,' I consider the ways in which several contemporary writers and theorists work to create new sUbjectivities by reconfiguring...
Drawing on the work of critical theorists who have pointed out the close relationship between language and power, the paper will strive to show how the global spread of English is not only a product of globalization, but also the most potent instrument of cultural control and cultural construct...
The advent of communicative and competency-based language teaching further emphasizes the incorporation of culture into language learning (Brown, 2001) [11]. To them, learning a target language is also learning the culture of the target language. While, none of those theorists discuss the role of...
However, it cannot be assumed that the linguistic expression of power and status has been completely diminished in favour of the variable of solidarity in western Europe. Some theorists argue that power has been somewhat redistributed and diffused,...