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Permeable landscapes and multiaccentual discourses – the Protective Order Interview
No full textsettings, dialogistic exchanges, CDA, Appraisal, CAT.
In the multiethnic landscape of socio-legal care in the USA, the protective order application
interview (POI) can be defined as a mediatory genre. POI is what victim-survivors of domestic
violence have to pass through when asking for assistance: in institutional contexts professional
interviewers evaluate the help-seeking lay interviewees’ credibility and identities – i.e., facethreatening
speech events based on power asymmetries between interactants. This paper will
report the results of the analysis of battered Latina women’s narratives produced in the course of
such interviews. The organizational/ institutional sites where POI take place were also
considered, since the focus of the present study is on ‘situated’ meanings – ‘the meanings made
in such sites and through such texts, involving all participants’ (Candlin 2009). In those hybrid
and permeable settings, the paralegal professionals act in the twofold role of both advocates for
the victims and legal gate-keepers, thus shifting from complementary to non-reciprocal status
relationship with the applicants. In the sequences of heteroglossic and multiaccentual exchanges
that take place during POI, the interviewers’ declared advocacy alternates with the need for legal
sustainability of the cases, and, on the other hand, the applicants’ need for protections from
violent mates co-exist with the c/overt needs for economic and affective support.
A broad CDA perspective was adopted for the analysis, with a major focus within the Appraisal
of the emotion-tinged language used in those contexts.
The marked attitudinal positioning of all participants that emerged from the study was
interpreted both in terms of Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles 1987, 2001; Gnisci
& Bakeman 2007) and in the light of the new insights into the category of Affect prospected in
Bednarek’s works (2008, 2010). Interacting frameworks were utilized to achieve a deeper
understanding of the issues at stake in POI dialogistic exchanges, both in SFL discourseanalytical
and in socio-legal perspective/s.
REFERENCES:
Bednarek, M. (2008) Emotion Talk across Corpora. Houndmills/New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Bednarek, M. (2010) ‘Corpus linguistics and systemic functional linguistics: Interpersonal
meaning, identity and bonding in popular culture.’ In M. Bednarek & J. R. Martin (eds)
New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and
Affiliation. London/New York: Continuum, p. 237-266.
Candlin, C.N. (2009) ‘Introduction.’ In Bhatia, V. K, Cheng, W., Du-Babcock, B. & Lung, J.
(eds.) Language for Professional Communication: Research, Practice & Training. The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University/Asia-Pacific LSP and Professional Communication
Association: Hong Kong SAR China.
Giles, H., Mulac, A., Bradac, J. J., & Johnson, P. (1987) ‘Speech accommodation theory: The
next decade and beyond.’ In M.McLaughlin (ed.) Communication yearbook. Newbury
Park, CA: Sage, p. 13-48. Gnisci, A., & Bakeman, R. (2007) ‘Sequential accommodation of turn taking and turn length: A
study of courtroom interaction.’ Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26, p. 134-
259.
Shepard, C.A., Giles, H. & Le Poire, B. (2001) ‘Communication Accommodation Theory.’ In
W.P. Robinson & H. Giles (eds.) The New Handbook of Language and Social psychology.
New York: Wiley, p. 33-56
Outsourcing and Skill Imports: Foreign High-Skilled Workers on H-1B and L-1 Visas in the United States
No full textThis working paper looks in detail at the H-1B and L-1 visa programs for temporary employment in the United States. Based on official data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the US Department of State, H-1B and L-1 visa issuance rapidly increased in the late 1990s, followed by a marked slowdown after 2001. This points to the highly cyclical nature of both visa programs. Indian nationals and immigrants working in computer-related occupations dominate the H1-B and L-1 population in the United States, but these two groups are also found to be the most cyclical segment, with very large declines in inflows after 2001. The total population of H-1B visaholders in 2003 is estimated to range between 387,000 and 746,000, of which 160,000 to 306,000 were Indian nationals. As all data on H-1B/L-1 visaholders are gross numbers and gross jobs data for comparable categories are absent, the extent of the impact of these visa programs on the US labor market cannot be gauged precisely. A broad range of US industries and educational institutions are found to be employing H-1B recipients, with the IT industry being the dominant sector. Evidence of aggressive wage-cost cutting, including paying H-1B recipients only the legally mandated 95 percent of the prevailing US wage, is found among some H-1B employers, although no systematic abuse of the system is present.Outsourcing, offshoring, high-skilled labor, immigration, H1B/L-1 visas
Letter from H. L. Russell to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from H. L. Russell to Carl Hayden regarding fines in the park
Letter from Carl Hayden to L. H. Mcellherren
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to L. H. McEllherren detailing the funeral of Hon. M. P. Kinkaid, Chairman of the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands as well as Hayden's travel plans for the summer
Forecast of July 2015—New Jersey: prospects for the long term
No full textThe July 2015 R/ECON forecast shows more rapid growth for the state in 2015 than in 2014. Nonagricultural employment rose by 0.7 percent—or 27,700 jobs in 2014—after growth of 1.2 percent or 45,100 jobs in 2013. Growth will improve to 1.1 percent in 2015 and 2016 and then average 0.8 percent over the rest of the forecast period, which goes through 2045. At these rates the job base will return to the peak level reached in the first quarter of 2008 in mid-2017. By the end of the forecast period in 2045 the employment base will be nearly a million jobs, and 23 percent, greater than its level at the peak.1 These projections assume no specific recession/recovery cycle disrupts the state’s or nation’s growth. Although this seems rather far-fetched given that the average business cycle (peak to peak) in the U.S. since World War II has lasted about 24 quarters and the current cycle is now in its seventh year, a caveat to keep in mind is that this is a long term TREND forecast; it does not purport to indicate at what point(s) CYCLES may occur.Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON) quarterly repor
Deep dyspareunia and sex life after laparoscopic excision of endometriosis
No full textBACKGROUND: Among subjects with endometriosis and deep dyspareunia (DD), those with endometriosis of the uterosacral ligament (USLE) have the most severe impairment of sexual function. This study examines the effect of laparoscopic excision of endometriosis on DD and quality of sex life. METHODS: This observational cohort prospective study included 68 women with endometriosis suffering DD (intensity of pain ≥ 6 on a 10-cm visual analogue scale). Patients underwent laparoscopic full excision of endometriosis. Following surgery, they were asked to use nonhormonal contraception devices. Before surgery, at 6- and at 12-month follow-up, patients answered a self-administered questionnaire based on the Sexual Satisfaction Subscale of the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory. RESULTS: At 6- and 12-month follow-up, women with and without USLE had significant improvement in DD. Subjects with USLE reported increased variety in sex life, increased frequency of intercourse, more satisfying orgasms with sex, relaxing more easily during sex and being more relaxed and fulfilled after sex. Similar improvements were observed among women without USLE; however, for some variables statistical significance was not reached. CONCLUSIONS: Surgical excision of endometriosis improves not only DD but also the quality of sex life. © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved
Future perspectives in the medical treatment of endometriosis
No full textIn the last few years, our understanding of the pathogenesis of endometriosis at the cellular and molecular levels has improved significantly. This may give us the opportunity to use new, specific agents for the treatment of this disorder. Despite the effectiveness of the available treatments, novel therapeutic strategies may improve our ability to eliminate endometriotic lesions when present and to prevent the recurrence of endometriosis after surgical treatment. This review focuses on the new, experimental approaches to the medical treatment of endometriosis and its symptoms. The blockage of aromatase activity in endometriotic lesions with an aromatase inhibitor may represent a new step in the medical treatment of endometriosis. Preliminary clinical studies have demonstrated the efficacy of third-generation nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitors (ie, anastrozole and letrozole) in reducing the intensity of pain symptoms associated with the presence of endometriosis. The new selective progesterone receptor modulators may represent a valid hormonal treatment option. Therapeutic manipulation of the immune system through TNFa inhibitors may be beneficial in women with endometriosis. New pharmaceutical agents affecting inflammation, angiogenesis, and matrix metalloproteinase activity may prevent or inhibit the development of endometriosis. Further clinical trials may determine if these new therapies are superior to current medical treatment strategies for endometriosis. Target Audience: Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Family Physicians Learning Objectives: After completion of this article, the reader should be able to describe the new experimental medical treatments of endometriosis, state that the clinical use of nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitors for endometriosis appears to be efficacious but is based on preliminary clinical data, and recall that the drugs used for endometriosis in the future may include manipulation of the immune system. Copyright © 2005 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
What’s in a wor(l)d? A comparative corpus-based study of environmental lexicon
No full textIn recent decades, the prominence granted to discourses regarding the environment, ecology and
climate change has progressed from a soft breeze to a howling gale. This is due, in the main, to the
escalation of cataclysmic, environmentally related events and to the consequent social and political
interest that has given rise to the mobilization of novel organisations, bodies and, of course, words.
This study focuses on the evolving environmentally related lexicon and the new
meanings/acceptations that have progressively arisen, be they emergent or born of the combination
of pre-existing terms and lemmas.
Investigation will be carried out across two different corpora: the EcoLexicon (an English language
corpus of contemporary environmental texts) present on the Sketch Engine online text analysis tool,
and a collection of texts gathered from the digital version of the weekly magazine the Economist. The
time span exploited for the study stretches from the 1990s to current day, and the texts under analysis
belong to both British and American variants. The quantitative data will be investigated from an
ecolinguistic-discursive perspective (Stibbe 2014, 2015, 2016; Fill 1998; Garrard 2014; Haugen 1972;
Mühlhäusler and Peace 2006; Robbins 2012), supported by the appraisal framework (the attitude
subsystem). By means of reverse engineering across all semantic, grammatical, and syntactic
structures, and with a particular focus on grammatical metaphor, we will attempt to illustrate how
certain terms and clusters of linguistic features can come together to construct specific worldviews
or ‘cultural codes’ (Gavriely-Nuri 2012, 80). Indeed, linguistic research on climate change mainly
pertains to the relatively recent domain of ecolinguistics, whose main aim is to raise awareness of the
role language can play in ecological destruction or protection. Accordingly, the emerging
terminological and lexical issues are considered from an integrated methodological approach that also
takes cultural-pragmatic implications into account.
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Einar Haugen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 325–339.
Mühlhäusler, P. 2000a. Humboldt, Whorf and the roots of ecolinguistics. In: M. Pütz & M. Verspoor
(eds.), Explorations in Linguistic Relativity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 89–99.
Mühlhäusler P. 2000 Language Planning and Language Ecology. Current Issues in Language Planning,
1:3, 306-367, DOI: 10.1080/14664200008668011.
Mühlhäusler, P., & Fill, A. 2001. The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment. London
and New York: Continuum.
Mühlhäusler, P., & Peace, A. 2006. Environmental discourses. Annual Review of Anthropology, 35(1), 457-
479. doi: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123203.
Petit G., Haillet P & Salvador X.L. (eds.) 2017, La dénomination: lexique et discours, Champion, Paris.
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Blackwell.
Stibbe, A. 2014. An Ecolinguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Studies. Critical Discourse Studies 11.1
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Stibbe, A. “Ecolinguistics: The Search for New Stories to Live By.” Paper presented at a seminar in Catania
(Italy), 7 September 2016. http://www.cadaad2016.unict.it/
Stibbe, A. 2015. Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By. London: Routledge.
Talebi-Dastenaei, M. and Poshtvan, H. 2018. A Critical Review of Ecolinguistic Studies in Iran.
International Ecolinguistics Association, 1-10.
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