دور الصحافة الالكترونية في نشر قضايا الهجرة (دراسة تحليلية لصحيفة الانتباهة الالكترونية السودانية )

This study aimed at answering the research questions on the ways of this newspaper participation in the transmission of the information which is presented in all types of newspaper writing, reviewing the issues which concern the visitors. Some 110 editing stuffs were on the immigration and Sudanese who work abroad, representing the study sample in the context of the study duration. The study used the historical and descriptive methodologies, selecting a sample of the study society, because it is difficult to represent all the society in the study. It also used the content analysis for the sample of the study representing types of editing which transmitted in (Al-Intibahah) electronic newspaper during the first five months of 2013. The important results of the analysis are: most of the writing types are the reports, most of the samples concentrated on the social field, most of them are on negative attitudes on the Sudanese immigrants and their immigration for working abroad and most of the writing types had negative stance towards the immigration and immigrants' issues.

The Norm Orientation of English in the Caribbean

This study examines newspaper writing from ten Caribbean countries as a window on the norm orientation of English in the region. English in the former British colonies of the Caribbean has been assumed to be especially prone to postcolonial linguistic Americanization, on account of not just recent global phenomena such as mass tourism and media exposure but also long-standing personal and sociocultural links. We present a quantitative investigation of variable features comparing our Caribbean results not just to American and British reference corpora but also to newspaper collections from India and Nigeria as representatives of non-Caribbean New Englishes. The amount of American features employed varies by type of feature and country. In all Caribbean corpora, they are more prevalent in the lexicon than in spelling. With regard to grammar, an orientation toward a singular norm cannot be deduced from the data. While Caribbean journalists do partake in worldwide American-led changes such as colloquialization, as evident in the occurrence of contractions or the tendency to prefer that over which, the frequencies with which they do so align neither with American English nor with British English but often resemble those found in the Indian and Nigerian corpora. Contemporary Caribbean newspaper writing, thus, neither follows traditional British norms, nor is it characterized by massive linguistic Americanization; rather, there appears to be a certain conservatism common to New Englishes generally. We discuss these results in light of new considerations on normativity in English in the 21st century.

Universalists and Jacobins in Judith Sargent Murray’s The Gleaner

This chapter describes a perceived conflict between Judith Sargent Murray’s liberal religious Universalism and her identity as a Federalist. It argues that she attempted to address and resolve this perceived conflict in her writing. Drawing on legal discourse, newspaper writing, sermons, and letters, the chapter shows Murray situating her ideas in two related contexts. The first context is the debate around Massachusetts religious establishment, in which Universalists challenged orthodox ideas of divine justice and legally pursued religious equality, and the second is the transatlantic reaction to Jacobin de-Christianization during French Revolution. Responding to both conflicts in The Gleaner: A Miscellaneous Production, Murray seeks to differentiate Universalists from Jacobins, using the form of the miscellany to argue that privatized liberal Christianity can serve the public purpose that Federalists assigned to religion in a republic.

I connettivi perché e weil come introduttori di enunciati autonomi nei giornali di oggi

The aim of this paper is, first of all, to outline the contemporary uses of causal structures in Italian writing, focusing on some less canonical syntactic and textual manifestations. These non-prototypical constructs will be, then, compared with the corresponding ones in German. The analysis that will be presented are based on qualitative and quantitative data derived from corpora of Italian and German newspaper writing. As far as the Italian language, the paper will focus on the causal connective perché: after presenting its frequency of use compared to the other causal connectives, we will discuss some of its most common syntactic and informative-textual configurations, with particular reference to the case in which perché introduces an independent utterance, preceded by a strong punctuation mark. Right this last use will be observed also in German newspapers, thanks to a preliminary survey that will focus on the causal connective weil. For both languages we will consider the frequency of this peculiar use, as well as its possible forms and textual functions, in order to highlight analogies and differences between German and Italian.

Progressive or simple? A corpus-based study of aspect in World Englishes

Previous corpus-based research on the progressive (be +v- ing) investigated it from a diachronic point of view or from the angle of World Englishes (WEs). However, factors such as its propensity to occur with animate subjects or its preference for dynamic verbs have not been studied in relation to the choice between progressive and simple aspect. As the progressive has been extended to stative verbs, we argue that a variationist study of the construction in WEs needs to take simple vps into account systematically, too, and investigate whether there is interaction between predictor variables underlying the progressive:simple choice. We use a probabilistic grammar approach to study progressives in newspaper writing across a broad range of WEs. We apply a tree and forest analysis to gauge the relative strength of the predictor variables variety, animacy, tense/modality, verb type and voice. Our results show that the core grammar for the progressive:simple choice is shared across all Englishes. The extension of progressives to stative verbs, in particular, does not result in statistically detectable effects. We argue that they nevertheless serve to give a very ‘local’ flavour to contact varieties as they are salient against the backdrop of the core grammar.

Striving for More

Camp’s writing career grows in the 1890s, with book writing (three coauthored books in the later 1890s and revisions of his 1891 book), syndicated newspaper writing, and magazine writing, culminating in 1898 with a weekly column in Collier’s Weekly. Although Camp continues as a sales executive at NHCC, he asks for more work at Collier’s and becomes responsible for Collier’s new Young Person’s Library. He is reportedly one of America’s most highly paid nonfiction writers. He also develops a significant smoking habit, usually seen in public pictures with a cigarette or cigar.