scholarly journals DISCOURSE INVESTIGATION OF TEXTS OF ENGLISH TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS TO UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Pryma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Tourist Guides ◽  
Selection Of

The research has been done within the framework of modern communicatively oriented linguistic paradigm. The article is devoted to the brief review of the texts of English-language tourist guides to Ukraine in terms of discursive research. The material of the analysis was electronic English-language tourist guides to Ukraine. The subject of the research is a discursive analysis of texts published on the pages of electronic guidebooks and the selection of separate examples. The study of the general principles of discourse, in particular tourism discourse, found out that some of its characteristics coincide with advertising discourse, and are targeted at attracting attention, encouraging interest, the emergence of unbridled desire and, finally, encourage action (in this case – tourist travel). The use of certain linguistic structures awakens in the readers’ imagination specific images - "schemata" - meaning "scheme", "template", "schematics". While conducting the study, we noticed that the information in the tourist guides appears as an additional for travelers, transmitted by modal verbs, in particular. Since tourism involves travelling in space and time, many online travel guides present cultural heritage as the primary means of attracting tourists to a particular country or region. Modern researchers believe that among the motives, which are necessarily recorded in tourist texts, there are the following ones: authenticity; search for new, unfamiliar and contrasting worlds. Verbal and non-verbal units of the English-language tourist texts are aimed at forming a complex attractive image of the country-place of rest. The results of the study will be useful in the further study of tourism discourse during lectures and practical classes.

Contested Encounters

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262
Author(s):  
Karen L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Literature Overview ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Contact ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This article focuses on China’s initial encounter with the African continent from the perspective of a select literature overview. It reflects on the very earliest contacts between dynastic China and ancient Africa and shows that the current contestation in the Western media as well as literature over this more recent contact is not new. Given the dearth and disparate nature of the information on these first encounters, it does this through the lens of what has been written on the subject of the speculated first contact in a selection of secondary English-language literature. It does so by considering the prevalence of such literature in three distinct periods: prior to 1949; from 1950 to 1990; and a selection of research published thereafter. It shows that China’s encounter with Africa reaches far back into the history of the continent, but more importantly so does the volatile contestation surrounding the contemporary contact.

Tracing ‘the living/the dead/the ancestors’ in London and Paris Guidebooks (2009)

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Celeste-Marie Bernier ◽  
Alan Rice ◽  
Lubaina Himid ◽  
Hannah Durkin
Keyword(s):  
Random Selection ◽  
Operating Theatre ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Media Work ◽  
Tourist Guides ◽  
Selection Of

‘What are monuments for? Possible landmarks on the urban map: Paris and London’ is the title of a performance script that Himid wrote to accompany London and Paris Guidebooks, a mixed-media work she created in 2009 and which is the subject of this chapter. ‘When I was in Paris a few months ago, I came across a delightful little guide book about London’, her imaginary narrative begins. ‘It lists nearly 300 places of interest. These, it claims, range from the National Gallery to “gruesome” Old St Thomas’s operating theatre and from ancient Charterhouse to modern Canary wharf’. Losing no time in communicating her subversive and satirical message, she relies on biting irony to declare that ‘I was glad to see the publishers had included most of the important landmarks, signalling the contribution made by Africans of the Black diaspora to this great and crazy city’. Clearly, this ‘delightful little guide book’ has succeeded in mapping ‘nearly 300 places of interest’ only to fail to memorialise the ‘contributions made by Africans of the Black diaspora’: a failure Himid takes to task by creating her own radically revisionist and Black-centric tourist guides. As works of social, moral and political reparation, Himid deliberately borrows from jingoistic nationalist language in her newly conceptualised London and Paris Guidebooks in order to decode and destabilise the ideological, political and cultural stranglehold exerted by celebratory narratives that trade only in white supremacist ‘landmarks’. Working across pictorial and textual modes, she endorses strategies of editing, collaging, insertion and juxtaposition to re-present as well as represent the missing ‘contribution made by Africans of the Black diaspora’. With Himid rather than nationalist apologists as our guide, we experience a very different London and Paris. Here she equips her audiences with a radical and revolutionary ‘narrative’ in which these ‘guide books’ texts’ and ‘a random selection of some of the monuments’ visibilise rather than invisi- bilise ‘The living/ The dead/ The ancestors/ The descendants’.

An evaluation of information sources for current awareness on occupational diseases

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Price ◽  
Rosemary A. Burley
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
English Language ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

An evaluative study of a selection of primary and sec ondary information sources of potential use for current aware ness in the field of occupational diseases is presented. This study identifies the more important English language primary sources of occupational diseases research information. Re search studies in the field of occupational diseases, however, are scattered widely in the medical literature. This study com pares the usefulness of a variety of secondary sources as current awareness tools for bringing together this widely scattered information. Several secondary sources are useful but, despite considerable overlap between these sources, no single source provides comprehensive coverage of the subject field. Scanning of a number of primary sources together with several secondary sources is recommended as the best means of keeping abreast of the latest research information in this subject area.

scholarly journals Reconstructing Democracy: Current Thinking and New Directions

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Saward
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
English Language ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Deliberative Politics ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Direct Models ◽  
Selection Of

Today's Democratic Theory Offers Sketches Of Tomorrow's democratic polity. How innovative, and how compelling, are the visions it offers us? This article explores possible democratic futures by scanning a selection of today's key democratic innovations – cosmopolitan, deliberative, ‘politics of presence’, ecological, associative and party-based direct models – in the light of a set of six central issues useful for examining the core aspects of democratic theories. It concludes by suggesting a way forward in which insights from diverse innovations might helpfully be accommodated within an overarching framework. Overall, it represents a deliberate attempt at a bird's eye view of the subject; the aim is to be suggestive rather than definitive. The scope of the analysis is broad but quite strictly qualified in the following ways: the six innovative ideas scrutinized arise from, and largely address, countries of the rich North rather than the developing South; they do not exhaust the range of current innovations in democratic theory; and they are based largely on English-language sources.

scholarly journals english teacher's work in relation to the prescriptions of the official documents and the work conditions in the public school

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Renata Pucci
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

This paper presents an enunciative analysis of the discourses of a group of teachers aiming to understand the ways in which the teachers elaborate the English teaching in the public school in relation to the prescriptions of the official documents and the work conditions. The theoretical basis for the enunciative-discursive analysis is based on Bakhtin and Volochínov, authors who theorize the social, dialogic and ideological language in the discursive formation of the individual. The text develops a brief contextualization of the scenary in which the teaching of English is established in public schools, including the trajectory of the insertion of the English language in the curriculum of the schools and the presentation of official documents that support the offer of the subject. The analyzes indicate that the official documents discourses organize the teachers’ view of English language teaching practices in the public school, guide the evaluation of the teaching methods and the appreciation of the work itself in the classroom.

scholarly journals Biomedical and Health Informatics Education – the IMIA Years

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S92-S102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mantas
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Origin Time ◽  
Manual Selection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Selection Of

Summary Objective: This paper presents the development of medical informatics education during the years from the establishment of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) until today. Method: A search in the literature was performed using search engines and appropriate keywords as well as a manual selection of papers. The search covered English language papers and was limited to search on papers title and abstract only. Results: The aggregated papers were analyzed on the basis of the subject area, origin, time span, and curriculum development, and conclusions were drawn. Conclusions: From the results, it is evident that IMIA has played a major role in comparing and integrating the Biomedical and Health Informatics educational efforts across the different levels of education and the regional distribution of educators and institutions. A large selection of references is presented facilitating future work on the field of education in biomedical and health informatics.

An investigation of English pronunciation teaching in Ireland

English Today ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Murphy
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
The World ◽  
English Pronunciation ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

The global expansion of the use of English throughout the last decade has had significant implications for its instruction around the world. Among the issues that have arisen as a result of this expansion has been the selection of appropriate phonological models in the English language classroom. Specifically this particular issue has hinged on the question of whether it is more appropriate to encourage English language learners to strive towards the goal of a particular native variety of English pronunciation, or to promote an alternative target. This question has provoked much discussion, and has been the subject of occasionally heated debate (e.g. Jenkins, 1998, 2000; Scheuer, 2005, 2008; Seidlhofer & Jenkins, 2003).

Tauchnitz for Translators. The Circulation of English-language Literature in Finland

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 161-179
Author(s):  
Outi Paloposki
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book History ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Book Production ◽  
German Publisher ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Selection Of

The article looks at book production and circulation from the point of view of translators, who, as purchasers and readers of foreign-language books, are an important mediating force in the selection of literature for translation. Taking the German publisher Tauchnitz's series ‘Collection of British Authors’ and its circulation in Finland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a case in point, the article argues that the increased availability of English-language books facilitated the acquiring and honing of translators' language skills and gradually diminished the need for indirect translating. Book history and translation studies meet here in an examination of the role of the Collection in Finnish translators' work.

Thomas More’s Correspondence in a Spanish Ambiance

Moreana ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (Number 149) (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Olivares Merino
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

The recent reprinting of Álvaro de Silva’s 1998 edition of a selection of More’s letters prompts the author to examine the subject of Spanish translations of More, and of de Silva’s general commentary on More’s correspondence and on his relationship to other humanists. The author reflects on aspects of More’s personality as exposed in his letters and uses what he finds as a corrective to several biographical misconceptions. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of de Silva’s work and compares it with that of other translators, particularly Elizabeth Rogers, and notes the particularly Spanish quality of de Silva’s edition.

ON LITERATURE AND GRAMMAR: A Selection of Annotated Medieval and Renaissance English Texts for (Spanish) University Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Chocano Díaz ◽  
Noelia Hernando Real
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
University Students ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Christopher Marlowe ◽  
Sir Philip Sidney ◽  
William Langland ◽  
Sir Thomas Wyatt ◽  
Selection Of

On Literature and Grammar gives students and instructors a carefully thought experience to combine their learning of Middle and Early Modern English and Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. The selection of texts, which include the most commonly taught works in university curricula, allows readers to understand and enjoy the evolution of the English language and the main writers and works of these periods, from William Langland to Geoffrey Chaucer, from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and from Christopher Marlowe to William Shakespeare. Fully annotated and written to answer the real needs of current Spanish university students, these teachable texts include word-by-word translations into Present Day English and precise introductions to their linguistic and literary contexts.

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