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Discriminatory discursive strategies in online comments on YouTube videos on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement by Mainland and Hong Kong Chinese
No full textThis article examines the discriminatory discursive strategies adopted in the online interactions between different power groups from Mainland China and Hong Kong in their response to two YouTube videos about the Hong Kong Umbrella, or Occupy Central, Movement. A corpus of 4329 comments made by 2157 posters from Mainland China and Hong Kong was coded regarding commenters' place of residence and their perceptions of the Umbrella Movement and then tagged based on Flowerdew et al.'s previous taxonomy of discriminatory discursive strategies. The results show that a wide range of discriminatory discursive strategies, used by two power groups from Hong Kong and one from the Mainland, were found in the majority of the comments, including four sub-strategies not identified by Flowerdew et al. While studies to date on the Umbrella Movement have mainly focused on Hong Kong data, our study contributes to the literature by adding the perspective from Mainland China. The findings of this study provide insights into the increasing social and political tensions between Hong Kong and its mother country as well as the current situation in the divided city
John Flowerdew's essential bookshelf : English for research publication purposes (ERPP)
No full textJohn Flowerdew is a Visiting Chair at the University of Lancaster and a Visiting Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He was previously a Professor at City University of Hong Kong and at the University of Leeds, UK. His research is in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Analysis. His books include Academic listening: Research perspectives (CUP); Research perspectives on English for academic purposes (with M. Peacock) (CUP); Second language listening: Theory and practice (with L. Miller) (CUP); Academic discourse (Longman); Discourse in English language education (Routledge); Signalling nouns in discourse: A corpus-based discourse approach (with R. W. Forest) (CUP); Discourse in context (Bloomsbury); The Routledge handbook of critical discourse studies (with J. Richardson); Discipline-specific writing: Theory into practice (with T. Costley) (Routledge), and Introducing English for research publication purposes (with P. Habibie (Routledge)
The modifiable areal unit phenomenon: an investigation into the scale effect using UK census data
No full textThe Modifiable Areal Unit Phenomenon (MAUP) has traditionally been regarded as a problem in the analysis of spatial data organised in areal units. However, the approach adopted here is that the MAUP provides an opportunity to gain information about the data under investigation. Crucially, attempts to remove the MAUP from spatial data are regarded as an attempt to remove the geography. Therefore, the work seeks to provide an insight to the causes of, and information behind, the MAUP.
The data used is from the 1991 Census of Great Britain. This was chosen over 2001 data due to the availability of individual level data. These data are of key importance to the methods employed. The methods seek to provide evidence of the magnitude of the MAUP, and more specifically the scale effect in the GB Census. This evidence is built on using correlation analysis to demonstrate the statistical significance of the MAUP. Having established the relevance of the MAUP in the context of current geographical research, the factors that contribute to the incidence of the MAUP are considered, and it is noted that a wide range of influences are important. These include the population size and density of an area, along with proportion of a variable. This discussion also recognises the importance of homogeneity as an influential factor, something that is referenced throughout the work. Finally, a search is made for spatial processes. This uses spatial autocorrelation and multilevel modelling to investigate the impact spatial processes have in a range of SAR Districts, like Glasgow, Reigate and Huntingdonshire, on the scale effect.
The research is brought together, not to solve the MAUP but to provide an insight into the factors that cause the MAUP, and demonstrate the usefulness of the MAUP as a concept rather than a problem
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
The use of discursive features expressing causal relations in Annual Company Reports
No full textThis chapter presents a study of the expression of causality in Company Reports and in the relative CEOs’ Letters, and its discursive implications. It is part of a research programme exploring the options offered by the integration of micro- and macro-levels of analysis in linguistic investigation.
The expression of causality in Annual Company Reports (ACRs) is an especially critical discursive issue as the main purpose of these documents is to account for a company’s performance and priorities in the relevant year, and this necessarily involves identifying the causal factors that have led to the current state of affairs. So, the identification of the causes of certain situations and events may be crucial not only as a starting point for decisions concerning the future line of conduct, determining whether current policies should be extended, modified or discontinued altogether, but also for the Company’s reputation, contributing to image-building or performing a face-keeping function when the results are poor.
From the perspective of this research, the genre examined here offers a further element of interest as in the texts analysed the official claim of objectivity required by corporate ethics and – in some countries – by statutory obligations is often covertly accompanied by obvious promotional and persuasive purposes. Thus ACRs are particularly suitable to explore the discursive uses – and thus the pragmatic implications – of ‘ordinary’ syntactic constructions.
The study illustrated in this chapter was conducted on a representative corpus of 98 ACRs and the relative Shareholders’ Letters issued between 2001 and 2004, comprising a total of 3,879,174 tokens. From a methodological point of view, the analysis relies primarily on discourse analysis, also using genre analysis as a background, as well as on the literature on causal constructions in English. Wherever useful, recourse is made to data obtained by means of automatic text interrogation routines (Wordsmith Tools 4.0).
The results of the research establish the idea that to a great extent the linguistic expression of causality is an inherently evaluative process, which puts at the writer’s disposal a powerful instrument to foreground certain aspects, while putting others in the background or leaving them in the shadow altogether.
In light of this notion, the analysis of texts in the ACR corpus shows that the choice of the linguistic construction used in each case to encode a causal relation enables the drafter of the Report to control the causal force conferred upon the proposition expressed as well as the prominence of the actions involved, e.g. by giving preference to one specific conjunction over others (e.g. because instead of since) or by choosing a nominal construction rather than a clausal one. Thanks to an accurate choice of the lexico-grammatical features used to express causality, subjective motivation can be presented as an objective fact, situations deliberately enacted by the management as circumstantial and thus unavoidable, and causal relations can be textually postulated between elements or facts which are not actually connected in the real world, etc. It can thus be concluded that causal expression is a powerful discursive tool in a writer’s hands
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
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