Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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In/Visibility in the Internet’s Third Age [PDF]
Current research (see, for example, Cheong, Martin and Macfadyen, 2012) on patterns of global and intercultural new media penetration and use nevertheless reveal the thinness of earlier utopian hopes for a technologically mediated “global village ...
Green, Leila +4 more
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International postgraduate students have been found to face numerous difficulties in writing academic discourse. As intervention strategy via genre analysis in an earlier study (UKM-PTS-058-2010) has been found to be inadequate, this paper will report on
Noraini Ibrahim, Radha Nambiar
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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The rhetoric of “science diplomacy": Innovation for the EU's scientific cooperation? EL-CSID Working Paper Issue 2018/16 • April 2018 [PDF]
In the recent years, the EU policy discourse has endorsed the notion of “science diplomacy” that points to the interaction between scientific research and foreign policy as instrumental in the societal and political progress.
Penca, Jerneja
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Bridges between people: nonverbal mediation in an intercultural perspective and training proposals [PDF]
Starting from the meaning of terms prejudices and mediation, the paper will deal with the theme of “intercultural mediation”, discussing aspects that characterize it, focusing on the non-verbal and creative elements.
Mignosi Elena
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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Intercultural Rhetoric as Instructional Technique for Improving Iranian EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension: Effectiveness & Challenges [PDF]
Framed in schema theory, the present mixed method study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of two instructional techniques-L1 and Ethnography-in promoting knowledge of IRs and to improve Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ reading ...
Maria Pir +2 more
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Le metafore concettuali in un approccio comunicativo nell’apprendimento delle lingue straniere
Metaphors are figures of the speech where a word or phrase denoting a thing or a concept is used in place of another thing or concept. They have been used for millennia in literature and rhetorical speech.
Dalla Libera, Cristina
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La raison interculturelle et les conditions préliminaires de l’argumentation
Early in The New Rhetoric, Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca raise the spectre of the fanatic who “adheres to a disputed thesis for which no unquestionable proof can be furnished,” refuses to submit it for free discussion, and thereby “rejects the ...
Christopher W. Tindale
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