... from the Edinburghian; the Shetlander from the Orcadian; the inhabitants of one Shetland island from those of another; the members of one township of a Shetland island from the members of another ... skippers themselves organized their own performance of their skipperhood in the light of their assumed public personae andofthe history of their wider social relations with the members of their ... expression ofthe integrity ofthe community It is the presentation to the outside world ofthe common interests ofthe members ofthe community As such, it bears the characteristic hallmark of communication...
... discussion ofthe rise ofthe concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion ofthe social constructionof maternity and paternity, I analyse the ... diVerence generated by the politics of fetal risks, andthe problematic nature ofthe idea of individual causality in discussions of fetal harm Social constructions of maternity and paternity In Western ... baby’, ‘pregnant addict’ and ‘absent father’ emerged at the center of debate over fetal hazards (A more detailed analysis ofthe social and political constructionof these concepts can be found...
... cultural constructionof gender and representations of identity The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity Music videos predicate on the ... interrogate theconstructionof gender andthe representation of identity They not seem to cross any boundaries People watch soaps to relax and somehow relate, so if they were to experiment with the theatre ... dominating; the other is chained to a bed "It is evident in this video that she interrogates the cultural constructionof gender and representations of identity."Justify My Love" is the same The banned...
... onl y the cultural el em ents of thems elves and migrants from di fferent p arts of China, but als o the el em ents of modern and traditi o nal, West ern and t he col onial local cultures The ... iss ues in the formation of th e cultu ral id ent it y ofthe Nan yang or Sout heast Asi an Chines e throu gh anal yzi n g cultural space ofand in the Nan yang First of all, t his thesis est ... ercepti on ofthe Nan yang C hinese as the “Other”, const ru cted befo re t he y arriving the place, was tested, reconstructed and mix ed with th e knowl edge and experi ence derived from thei r...
... structure, andthe culminating moral theory can be read as the resolution of an apparent counter-example to his theory of concepts, or as the payoff for those who take the time to understand how the ... pang of disgust when they hear either the word ‘‘take’’ or the word ‘‘often.’’ They are then asked to evaluate morally the protagonist of various stories containing one of these two words For example, ... Understanding’’, ‘ Ofthe Passions’’, and ‘ Of Morals’’ One might wonder how these disparate topics are related, other than by virtue ofthe fact that they have something to with the mind But the...
... to the complexity of meaning construction within the particular genre of advertising texts That leads to the reinterpretation ofthe notion “code-mixing” andthe complexity of identity in the ... examining theconstructionof identity and answering the research questions listed above The subject of Chapter 5, then, is concerned with data and research methodology It addresses the sources ofthe ... takes up the question about whether the use 14 of English has led to the production of new images for Chinese men and women, andthe transformation and change of gender relations between these two...
... a majority ofthe population in the context of Switzerland has at least some knowledge of English, the simplicity of English words and syntactic structure in most cases of their sample does not ... English-mixed examples he examined show strong evidence that theconstructionof identity is not necessarily the consequence of English usage but often that ofthe local language Chinese Andthe use of English ... (2) the country’s open-door policy starting at the end of 1979; and (3) China’s accession to WTO at the end of 2001 and Beijing’s hosting ofthe 2008 Olympics The last two phases of social and...
... constructive in setting up the connection, on the one hand, with advertisers’ mental representation of information encoded in and through the use of English, and on the other, with that of its persuasive ... support substantially the setting-up ofthe equivalent ofthe cognitive anticipation on the part of advertisers to the mental representation hypothetically to be formed in the heads of target audiences ... But the discussion is concerned not so much with the extent to which the commonalities the dual discourses share, but with the recognition of their divergent aspects and their varying degree of...
... people find their modern identity in the society In exploring theconstructionof national identity, the study takes again the categories of technology and real estate as the source ofthe advertisements ... cases of intrasentential mixing are found in the headlines, there is only one of such identified in the latter The findings of structural features of English-mixed headlines and slogans and their ... print and typically nonsalient” (Cheong 2004: 174) missed in the text body andthe emblem Table 5.6 shows the overall distribution of English occurrence in the domains ofthe data The use of English...
... (SUV) by the Suzuki Auto Corporation of Japan The persuasive power of this advertisement is in its describing the theme ofthe Suzuki life as exciting and passionate, andthe possession of Word(s) ... stated, the Jimny in the local blend II can be linked to the YE space It becomes inferable for the Jimny to be a specific example of ye andthe Jimny stands for this kind of life In other words, the ... space The 141 theme ofthe Suzuki life emerged from the blend represents a facet ofthe HIGH space that is the present focus of attention It is from this point that the conceptualization of the...
... for the use of English instead of Chinese for the presentation of these masculine values in the headlines and slogans Of equal significance, the invisibility or absence ofthe Chinese male andthe ... With the indication ofthe country of origin and history, the Oris worldwide slogan, then, evokes the cognitive model ofthe Oris featuring long history and super quality In the ORIS frame, the ... explicitly to the blend; it works to build the connection over two separate spaces: there are the run ofthe football players in the FOOTBALL space andthe speedy movement ofthe Sline in the SLINE...
... with the headline by focusing on its English part In the nominal compound Chinese villa, the mapping takes place between the mental spaces of CHINESE and VILLA, and, thereby the attribute ofthe ... expression of a discursive hegemony” (Hall 1997: 4) is crucially important to the genesis and reproduction of national identity in the eyes of Spencer and Wollman (2002) As the centre ofthe world in the ... andthe imaginary leader ofthe third world, China feels justified in dreaming this wondrous vision The demand to be a powerful nation andthe demand for a higher position and more voice on the...
... for the situation why the use of English in the Chinese context does not bring much threat to or undermine cultural authenticity and national identity of contemporary China Theconstructionof ... different strands of current research of identity including discourse, cognition and emotion, the study provides new framings and directions for the study of bilingualism in general andof identity ... and an intersection is identified ofthe use of English to theconstructionof modern identity This supports the overall argument that the language practice of English mixing is an effective...
... theconstructionofthe new patriarchy” reflects the imposition by the Bengali nationalists ofthe domestic role for women and their social responsibility as mother ... (Sacrifice, the heart ofthe warrior andthe heart of a young man) (Bangkok: Silapabannakan, 1972) 197 Although the Burmese andthe Cambodians were the enemies of ... doing so, the thesis follows Tamora Fishel’s argument on theconstructionof Thai identity through the relationship with “others”; the Chineseness andthe West...
... Equity Balanced Total Equity & Balanced Funds of funds (4) Other Total (excl Ireland & Netherlands) of w hich guaranteed funds Total (incl Ireland & Netherlands) 36,733 in No in % (3) in No (1 No full ... Quarter of 2011) Trends in theEuropean Investment Fund Industry Net Assets by Country of Domiciliation The combined assets ofthe investment fund market in Europe, i.e the market for UCITS and nonUCITS, ... billion during the first half of 2011, slightly behind the EUR 55 billion recorded in the first half of 2010 Long-term UCITS attracted EUR 87 billion during the first half ofthe year, down from...
... Funds of funds (4) Other Total (excl Ireland & Netherlands) of w hich guaranteed funds Total (incl Ireland & Netherlands) 35,766 (1 No full data breakdo wn is available fo r Ireland andthe Netherlands; ... Quarter of 2012) Trends in theEuropean Investment Fund Industry Net Assets by Country of Domiciliation The combined assets ofthe investment fund market in Europe, i.e the market for UCITS and nonUCITS, ... UCITS, this segment ofthe business accounted for almost 71 percent ofthe fund market at end June 2012, with the remaining 29 percent composed of non-UCITS Table Net Assets oftheEuropean Investm...
... Ernst & Young (2) Analysis ofthe profitability ofthe biggest pulp and paper companies ofthe world andthe main participants ofthe paper value chain of selected pulp and paper firms This is intended ... analysis and in-depth interviews The aim of this is to verify the conclusions and add to the robustness ofthe results – for instance, crosschecking ofthe results ofthe interviews with the quantitative ... each theory andthe applicability of each theory depends on the context andthe business in question However, it seems that for this study andthe pulp and paper industry the positioning school and...
... preference of living in the UK (7.4%) andthe presence of family and friends in the UK (7.1%) (Figure 4) All respondents were asked to report their 'main' and 'other' reasons of immigration to the UK ... along with the increased resource investment in the NHS at the end ofthe last century resulted in an influx of doctors to the UK [6] Places available for the final part of Professional and Linguistics ... thousand [4] and sixteen thousand [5] It is in this context that we undertook the study Our objective was to provide a self-reported training and employment profile of non -European doctors in the...
... differences in the composition ofthe biochemical parameters investigated, neither in the sun nor in the shade crown By contrast, in the sun crown the leaf-area based concentrations of antioxidants and ... or uptake of air pollutants, the leaf surface is the interface between the tree andthe environment Consequently, area based values of antioxidants and photoprotective pigments are of potential ... significantly higher amounts of total ascorbate and a-tocopherol (figure 1) and lower concentrations of photosynthetic pigments (figure 2) than leaves in the shade crown Only the contents of total glutathione...