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National Face and Facework in China’s Foreign Policy: a corpus assisted study of Chinese foreign affairs press conferences.
No full textThe Goffman (1967) and Brown and Levinson (1987) socio-pragmatic theory of face was first devised through speculating on and observing the interaction of individuals. Later research has looked at the phenomenon of group-face (e.g. Spencer-Oatey 2007). In this research we examine how face and facework theory can also be applied to communications made by state actors to the outside world, in other words, whether facework theories could also be applied to national face. To this end we compiled a corpus of all press conferences held by the Ministry of Chinese Foreign Affairs in 2016 and subjected it to quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as comparative analysis with US White House press briefings. Chinese government statements were felt to be a promising genre partly because of the particularly intricate relations China has with its geographically close partners and neighbours and partly because of the supposed special importance accorded to face in Chinese culture (Kádár et al 2013; Chen and Hwang 2016). The techniques we employ in the analyses derive from the field of corpus-assisted discourse studies (Partington, Duguid and Taylor 2013)
Intimations of “Spring”? What got said and what didn’t get said about the start of the Middle Eastern/North African uprisings: a corpus-assisted discourse study of a historical event
No full textIn this paper I wish to examine a particular form of presence and absence, namely, that of the mention and failure to mention in political and media news reporting of messages relating to a particular historical event, namely, the outbreak of protest in the Arab Middle East and North Africa in 2011. The analyses will take a sort of ‘before and after’ contrastive approach, comparing how particular political and media sources talked about events and people involved in the period before the start of the protests and the period following the outbreak of the protests.
The overarching preliminary research aim is to discover if the discussions changed, if so, how, and in particular what messages were present or absent, appeared or disappeared, completely or in relative terms, between the two periods of time. Various sets of data are examined in order to examine three subsidiary research aims (listed in the Introduction) contributing to this main one
Europhobes and Europhiles,Eurospats and Eurojibes. Revisiting Britain’s EU debate, 2000–2016
No full textThis paper is an examination in three parts of the UK’s debate on membership
of the European Union, before and immediately after the so-called ‘Brexit’
Referendum. The first part takes its cue from an article by Wolfgang Teubert
which has exercised considerable influence in the field of corpus-assisted
discourse studies (CADS), namely, his examination of the language of EUscepticism
in the UK (Teubert 2001). The aim of the CADS approach is the
uncovering, in the discourse type under study, of non-obvious meanings and
patterns of meanings, that is, meanings which might not be readily available
to naked-eye perusal. Teubert’s paper was an inspiring example of these
procedures.1 In the second part, a para-replication of Teubert’s work, we revisit
attitudes to the EU as represented in sections of the UK press in 2013 (the year
the British Prime Minister announced an “in-out” referendum on EU membership).
The third section examines the themes debated immediately before and
immediately after the referendum vote in June 2016. We also reflect on how the
much-invoked notion of negative representation needs to be employed with care,
particularly with regard to media discourses
Pancreatico-jejunal anastomosis according to Partington-Rochelle
No full textPersonal experience of Partington-Rochell pancreatico-jejunal anastomosis is reported. Tweleve patients, of which 11 are currently being followed up, were operated on from 1983 to 1988. The indication for operation was a pain recalcitrant to medical therapy and a Wirsung duct that presented dilatation greater than 8 mm. Pancreatico-jejunal anastomosis was carried out in a double layer via the mucosae. This operation was associated with transdueodenal papillosphincterostomy in 2 cases, choledochoduodenostomy in 5 cases and retropancreatic detachment in 4. No operative mortality was recorded. Two years after operation, 6 patients recorded complete remission of pain, 4 presented slight painful episodes, 1 patient died
Performance assessment and improvement of recursive digital baseflow filters for catchments with different physical characteristics and hydrological inputs
No full textAbstract not availableLi Li, Holger R. Maier, Daniel Partington, Martin F. Lambert, Craig T. Simmon
Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS).
No full textAn introduction to the nascent discipline of Modern Diachronic Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS
Assessment of the internal dynamics of the Australian Water Balance Model under different calibration regimes
No full textAbstract not availableLi Li, Martin F. Lambert, Holger R. Maier, Daniel Partington, Craig T. Simmon
1024C>T (R342X) is a recurrent RHF6 mutation also found in the original Borjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome family
No full textKaren M Lower, Göran Solders, Marie-Louise Bondeson, John Nelson, Arne Brun, Joanna Crawford, Gunilla Malm, Mats Börjeson, Gillian Turner, Michael Partington and Jozef Géc
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
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