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‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain
E-REA, 2018 Most introductory textbooks on linguistics make a point of highlighting the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive approaches to the study of language: ‘linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive” has long been a mantra.
Joan C. BEAL
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Language, Power and Gendered Silence through Hegemonic Euphemism in Gul’s A Pathan Daughter
NUML Journal of Critical InquiryLanguage shapes and is shaped by society. It is rarely neutral as it affects norms, perception, and veils power asymmetries. Euphemistic language often masks hegemony and inequalities particularly in patriarchal societies.
TARIQ MEHMOOD KHALID +2 more
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A comparative discourse analysis: of the ex-head of government & the present one in Morocco
Geopolitic and Geostrategic Intelligence, 2018 The aim of this paper is to study the political discourse of ex-head of government and the present one in Morocco, who belong to the same party “political justice and development” « PJD », based on Toulmin’s functional linguistics.
I. Elimadi, A. Bouziane
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Evaluating oral reading fluency in English as a Second Language: A quantitative analysis
Reading & WritingBackground: There is a dearth of research on second language oral reading fluency (ORF) globally, particularly in Pakistan, both in theory and practice. No ORF scores are reported in any schools in Pakistan.
Maria F. Dogar +3 more
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CEU CPS Working paper series, 2019 The paper investigates the extent to which policy-makers, academics private sector representatives and citizens in different European countries are likely to have different understandings of what the increasingly popular term ‘collaborative governance’ means and implies.
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Reading & WritingBackground: This study investigates the relationship where common linguistic errors may act as constraints on the attainment of syntactic complexity and explores the resulting pedagogical implications in advanced writing.
Muhammad A.N. Mahmood +3 more
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Journal of Language and LiteratureThe discourses of Monkeypox relating to linguistics segments may contain a person's emotional tone and authenticity discourse from psychology. This article presents a psycholinguistic analysis of the discourse used by world governments during the ...
Jessica Yunanda Bahtiar +1 more
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Public Sector CSR Communication: A Dialogical Approach
Hermes, 2007 Public sector organisations have different communication needs from private sector organisations. For example, they quite often have programmes aimed at behaviour changes, challenging their ability to choose the strategy which best suit their purpose ...
Christa Thomsen
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Problems of Information Society, 2023 The advancing of information and communication technologies has contributed to their introduction into almost all areas of human activity, as well as the field of demography. The advent of such a field as electronic demography has become a precondition for the improvement of an electronic demographic system on the e-government platform. Demography is a
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Data as performance – Showcasing cities through open data maps
Big Data & Society, 2020 This article describes how the City of Los Angeles is showcasing data-driven services to the public through dynamic visualisations of open data. I frame an analysis of this aspect of datafication in local government through linguistics and cultural ...
Morgan Currie
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