Semantic fields of problem in business English: Malaysian and British journalistic business texts

Corpora ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afida Mohamad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solution ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Business English ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Text Corpus ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Business And Management

This paper reports on an LSP-based research project dealing with a contrastive analysis of business and management texts taken from the Malaysian business magazine Malaysian Business (MB) and its British counterpart, Management Today (MT). The objective of the research was to study the semantic fields and linguistic signals of Problem patterns in order to determine whether they display specific differences which can be ascribed to their linguistic and cultural contexts. The study adopted a corpus-based approach based on a corpus containing fifty feature-articles from each magazine. The text corpus was analysed according to Hoey's Problem-Solution textual patterns and the corpus tool, Wmatrix, was used to identify the semantic fields in the Problem patterns. Key semantic fields were found for Problem in MB and MT compared with a normative corpus (the BNC Written Informative Sampler).

scholarly journals PÅ FELTARBEJDE BLANDT FOLK

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisanne Wilken
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Innate Capacity ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork

Lisanne Wilken: Fieldwork among People Personal relationships between the anthropologist and the informants in a given field plays a crucial role for anthropological fieldwork and for the information the anthropologist gets. With reference to personal experiences from fieldwork in Northern and Central Italy, the author argues that methods of establishing and maintaining personal field relations ought to play a much more prominent role in the discussions of anthropological field methods than is usually the case. In today’s discussions of anthropological methodology one can easily get the impression that field relations are coincidentially automatically, established, or that anthropologists have an innate capacity for the creation of social relationships in a variety of social and cultural contexts. The article discusses how dependence on a few close informants may block the collection of data and suggests ways to establish a broad range of informants. One solution is to establish field relations prior to the commencement of fieldwork. This method not only ensures that informants are available when fieldwork is started but also facilitates the cross-cutting of social boundaries which may otherwise be difficult to crosscut.The article also suggests that questionnaires may be used as a method to attract attention to the research project in the field and to broaden the circle of informants. The focus of the article is not the nature of the data collected during fieldwork, but rather the circumstances for the collection of data.  

Dance Britannia: The Impact of Global Shifts on Dance in Britain

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Christy Adair ◽  
Ramsay Burt
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Black British ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

The music and dance of African Diasporan artists has impacted current dance practice in Britain, and their legacies are testament to the global circulation of artistic ideas. This paper discusses the British Dance and the African Diaspora research project which seeks to write Black British dance artists and their legacies back into history. It aims to understand the nexus of aesthetic, institutional, and conceptual problems that have rendered these dancers invisible.Since the 1970s, a number of black British-based dancers has been teaching and producing performance work in a variety of dance styles. It was influenced by the context of anti-colonialism and the struggle for independence, which has been the motivation for the post-war generation of Caribbean and Asian artists who migrated to Britain. These historical and cultural contexts form the basis for our argument for new approaches to frameworks for analysis of the work of black British dance artists.

THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOMATIC PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH КЬИЛ / ГОЛОВА / HEAD IN THE LEZGIN, RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
FATIMA B. VERDIKHANOVA ◽  
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GULNARA SH. PAVLOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Core Component ◽  
The Core ◽  
Semantic Fields

The object of the contrastive analysis in this article is the group of Lezgin, Russian and English phraseological (somatic) units with the component кьил/голова/head. The analysis aims at identifying the universal and specific issues in their contentits characteristic semantic fields, correlation of the general phraseological value with the core component, structural and grammatical features. In the process of the study we have used the method of comparative analysis of Lezgin, Russian and English phraseological units selected by us from foreign and domestic lexicographic sources. As the result of the analysis we have found that there was a similarity in structure, imagery and stylistic coloration of phraseological units. The peculiar characteristics of the studied languages in phraseological units were carried out. This work can serve as a material for further research in the field of phraseology whether the question of education plays an important role in the life of society.

Encountering Space, Places and Memories in Australian Landscapes

2007 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Francesca Veronesi ◽  
Petra Gemeinboeck
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Sound Installation ◽  
Spatial Exploration ◽  
Spontaneous Exploration ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
Location Sensing ◽  
Opening Up

Mapping Footprints: Lost Geographies in Australian Landscapes is a research project in development that explores the relational qualities of places and contemporary perceptions of geography. It reflects on new mapping technologies that have the capacity to reinstate relations between subjects and places via a spatial exploration that engages with inventive and specific uses of location sensing technologies informed by physical and cultural contexts. The Elvina rock engravings in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park are the site of a location-sensitive sound installation in which we integrate the specificities of landscape with a navigational medium. A sonic map is overlayed over the physical terrain, opening up the site as a place embedded with memories, creating the potential for spontaneous exploration and new understandings of place. The ‘map’ in Mapping Footprints is composed from the geographical narration of the cartographers’ exploration across Indigenous mediascapes.

‘A Fresh Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences’ from French-speaking Africa

Exchange ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Klaas Bom
Keyword(s):  
Science And Religion ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
The Us ◽  
French Speaking

Abstract Although US Pentecostalism has traditionally been characterized by unease towards science, due to socio-economic positioning and theological stances, Pentecostals like James Smith and others have recently launched a ‘fresh engagement with the sciences’. The feasibility of his proposal is discussed in this article. Based on the contributions of four Pentecostal participants in the research project “Science and Religion in French-speaking Africa,” the author argues that their perspectives are not coloured by naturalism, which according to Smith is one of the main limiting factors to traditional US Pentecostal engagement with science. Consequently certain expressions of African Pentecostalism would be open to Smith’s proposal. Nevertheless, the author argues that both the African and the US cultural contexts need to be taken into account more seriously. Such an approach reveals that in both contexts the possibilities for a fresh Pentecostal engagement with the sciences are more limited than Smith suggests.

scholarly journals An overview of the Open Scene of the Village and the World

Philologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 98-107
Author(s):  
Iulian Filip ◽  
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◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Folk Theater ◽  
The World ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Village

What should a book about theater look like? How about the one about a category of theatrical performances in the ethnological dimension? Research project of the Institute of Romanian Philology B. P. Hasdeu stimulates research into socio-cultural contexts and European connections, and Eugeniu Coseriu urges us to open up universally - each with his own field of research. In the sub-theme National Folklore Corpus, the popular (folkloric) theater is my area of expertise and the Latin phrase Theatrum mundi = The spectacle of the world. The world seen as a spectacle it is the universal concept of theatricality. The definite sign of the theater is the character. In illo tempore, man invented an incredible, saving theater, modeling fictional characters from the most abundant matter - from what he did not know, out of ignorance. For phenomena that man could not explain in the beginning, he shaped ... spirits, supernatural beings, elves. The nebula of imaginary characters fell into two broad categories – the good and the evil ones. In order to understand the diversity of masks and clothing of modern times, it is imperative to accept a scaffolding of archetypal dichotomies, resulting from this modeling of beginnings: life - death, good - evil, beauty - ugly, God - Satan, love - hate , wealth - poverty, Christ - Herod, the wise – the stupid ... All the characters - not just from the theater of any kind - are derived from these archetypal dichotomies, and the triggering axial motives, in which it manifests itself in tension, are love, fertility, fecundity, disease, healing, death, resurrection. The Romanian folk theater is part of the same spectacle of the world, and the eternal scene is on the doorstep of the house with a spinster to be married. More important deduction - this is also the engine that sets the characters and the scene in motion: the love that moves the sky and ... the scene.

scholarly journals Uniwersytet i pracodawcy w Polsce i Hiszpanii. Konfrontacje, oczekiwania, perspektywy

2017 ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Ewa Kurantowicz ◽  
Adrianna Nizińska ◽  
Teresa Padilla-Carmona ◽  
José González-Monteagudo
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Spanish Research ◽  
Empirical Analyses

This paper is based on the partial results of EMPLOY research project. We present the Polish and Spanish employers’ perspectives, experiences and needs when it comes to the HE graduates. Before the empirical analyses we compare the political and cultural contexts of employability in both countries as also provide the review of the main Polish and Spanish research reports in this field.

scholarly journals Correlative Analysis of TOEFL iBT Scores of Listening Skill Versus Scores of Business English Speaking Skill among Binus University Sophomores

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Almodad Biduk Asmani
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Data ◽  
Business English ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Correlative Analysis ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Toefl Ibt ◽  
Statistical Results ◽  
Research Analysis

Article found out whether BINUS university sophomore’s TOEFL iBT scores of Listening skill are correlated with those of speaking skill. The research project was expected to result in the best teaching technique of delivering conversational tasks at BINUS University by using alternative approaches of integrated, isolated, or mixed skills. The research project applied the descriptive approach of quantitative method, and thus depends on numerical data. The research project examined the set of data under two skills of the same class groups, which were to compare the listening scores with the speaking ones. Then, the degree of correlation of the two skills was tested so as to find its significance. Interpretation and explanation of data was made based on the statistical results by using correlation research analysis. Based on the statistical results, the listening scores significantly correlated with those of the speaking skill, and there is a moderately linear relationship between these paired scores.

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