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Communication in a Globalized World: advanced English and its assessment in the 21st Century
No full textIn a world where walls are increasingly becoming the norm English is in a very special position, which is one of being a global language, used not for integration into native speaker communities necessarily but to communicate globally using the language as a global lingua franca. This poses a whole range of questions for teachers and testers such as: what does it mean to be an advanced user of a global language? How should we redefine advanced levels if the traditional practice of respecting native speaker norms is to be overturned? How should we assess this advanced level? This paper explores these questions with reference to learner needs in the local context of the University of Verona, at the heart of Kachru’s “expanding circle” and asks how our oral test proficiency assessment criteria might be adapted to cater for those needs
From the IBPP Research Associates. Venezuela: Sharon Reimel de Carrasquel
No full textThe author, Sharon Reimel de Carrasquel, discusses the recently held presidential election in Venezuela
Dr. Sharon Feldman – Faculty Author Interview
No full textSharon Feldman, Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies discusses her new book, In the Eye of the Storm: Contemporary Theater in Barcelona. Barcelona is presently experiencing the most dynamic period in its modern theater history. This book describes some of the crucial moments and back stories, as well as some of the theatre companies and playwrights, that have shaped the theatrical life of the city of Barcelona in the aftermath of the Franco dictatorship
Letter from Sharon M. Tanihara, September 1990
No full textCorrespondence from Sharon Tanihara to Senator Daniel Inouye, Representative Norman Mineta, and Representative Robert Matsui regarding Tanihara's advocacy for amendments to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and her opinions on restitution payments for individuals previously excluded from that bill.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Peter Jaeger, The Shadow Line
No full textPeter Jaeger’s The Shadow Line literally and figuratively shadows Joseph Conrad’s 1917 novella The Shadow Line by reading the original and re-writing its non-identical twin.
Peter Jaeger has produced poetry, criticism, hybrid creative-critical research, and artists’ books. His most recent publications are John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics and A Field Guide to Lost Things. He is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University.
Robert Hampson is Chair of the UK Joseph Conrad Society, the author of three monographs on Conrad, including Conrad’s Secrets, and the editor of a number of Conrad’s works. He has written several books of poetry and is Director of the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE was established by artist and writer Sharon Kivland in 2013. The publications are modestly yet attractively produced, usually printed in small editions, and include the seriesThe Good Reader, to which Kivland invites others to reflect on reading (forthcoming are works by Vanessa Place, Kate Briggs, Sarah Wood, and Annabel Frearson). Afterword by Robert Hampso
Sharon Patricia Holland, 41st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textSharon Patricia Holland is a scholar and associate professor of English, African and African American studies, and women’s studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, and a co-editor of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Sharon Bridgforth, 29th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textSharon Bridgforth is the Lambda Award winning author of the bull-jean and the Lambda nominated performance/novel, loveconjure/blues (both from RedBone Press). Bridgforth has been anthologized and produced widely and has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts Commissioning Program; The National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence Program; National Performance Network; Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Award; and Funding Exchange/The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media. Bridgforth is the Anchor Artist for The Austin Project, sponsored by The Center for African and African American Studies (U.T. Austin) where she teaches a course on Black Empowerment and Community Internship
Letter from Sharon M. Tanihara to Valerie O'Brian, July 12, 1989
No full textCorrespondence from Sharon Tanihara to Valerie O'Brian regarding Tanihara's eligibility for redress payments.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Justificational narratives : what is the role of fear in Israeli narratives of war?
No full textBibliography: leaves 90-92.The body of this thesis contains two main parts. The first (section 3) is a critical linguistic analysis of a selection of political speeches (which I have called 'policy narratives') delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the period February 2002 - October 2003. I have sought, with reference to Aristotle and other writers on persuasion, to delineate the rhetorical devices employed by Sharon and his speechwriters, and to demonstrate that one of their most important functions is to contribute to and enhance the overall climate of fear among the Israeli people, for the furtherance of Sharon's own political goals. I focus primarily on the speeches surrounding and leading up to the March 2002 announcement of 'Operation Defensive Shield', which was described by Palestinians and international aid workers as the harshest military assault on the WBGS since the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. After examining the policy narratives I provide another representation of the 'reality on the ground' experienced by the Palestinian population at the receiving end of Sharon's 'operations'. The second (section 4) is a linguistic analysis of the 'narrative of personal experience' of a civilian reservist - Moshe Nissim - who was recruited in April 2002, at the height of 'Defensive Shield', to drive a D-9 bulldozer through the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp. Nissim, who seems motivated by his own personal fears and failures, apparently sees in Jenin the long-awaited opportunity to redeem himself. Although he does not appear to have been inspired by the arguments and themes of Sharon's narratives, the overall atmosphere of fear and hatred that is legitimised and given weight by Sharon in his speeches, sets the stage for Nissim to act on his darkest urges and later to be considered by himself and others as a hero for having done so. I contend that Israeli right wing hegemony both feeds and is fed by fear
Letter from Sharon M. Tanihara to D. Nakamura, July 6, 1991
No full textCorrespondence from Sharon Tanihara to D. Nakamura regarding a letter written by Nakamura published in the Pacific Citizen. Tanihara discusses her activism regarding payment to "voluntarily" incarcerated non-Japanese spouses and Japanese-American children born outside of camps.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
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