... different way of defining business goals, perceiving the world, expressing thinking and feeling, and showing or hiding motivation and interests (Ghauri, 2003) That‘s why many potential problems often ... complex and uncertain The complexity and uncertainty of cross -cultural negotiations are mainly resulted from the differences in the understanding and recognition of the ways of thinking and behaviors ... connotation and essence of gains and losses, kindness and evil, beauty and ugliness, pros and cons in every field of daily life Values are related to the norms of a culture, but they are more global and...
... only 45% of the total ofAmerican The majority of Americans (55%) think that it’s not necessary Similarities and differences between Vietnamese andAmericanin business negotiation and the cultural ... more interesting findings in this research The time constraints, the shortage of available materials and the limited knowledge and experience in doing research of the researcher has resulted in ... the “making use of the smart of many brains” (55% Vietnamese and 64% American) and also care for the confidence of negotiators The difference here is that no American thinks about “expressing the...
... speaking (iii) reading (iv) writing The inclusion of literature in the cuiriculum helps to train students in the skill of reading, and perhaps a little in listening, speaking and writing A student ... the line (see the third lines in the first and the last stanza) makes the lone of the lines natural and meditating The combination of the SDs of enjambment and anadiplosis (the repetition of the ... end of the line and at the beginning of the next line) in the last stanza produces the impression of a kind of afterthought uttered quite naturally after a pause: Two roads diverged in a wood, and...
... Vietnamese and only 45% of the total ofAmerican The majority of Americans (55%) think that it’s not necessary 2 Similarities and differences between Vietnamese andAmericanin business negotiation and ... more interesting findings in this research The time constraints, the shortage of available materials and the limited knowledge and experience in doing research of the researcher has resulted in ... the “making use of the smart of many brains” (55% Vietnamese and 64% American) and also care for the confidence of negotiators The difference here is that no American thinks about “expressing the...
... frequency of occurrence ofBritishculturalelementsinNewHeadwaytextbooks Table 2: The frequency of occurrence ofAmericanculturalelementsinNewHeadwaytextbooks Table 3: The comparison of frequency ... question: What are the culturalelements that can be found inNewHeadway Textbooks? Scope of the study - Pointing out BritishandAmericanculturalelements revealed in the NewHeadwayTextbooks such ... of occurrence ofBritishculturalelementsinNewHeadwaytextbooks The table above shows the summary of the occurrence ofBritishculturalelementsin the set of course books NewHeadway These...
... contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 The integration ofcultural factors into the teaching and learning of speaking skill in classrooms 1.3.1 The components of culture in the language ... position of speaking skill in ELT ………………………… 1.3 The integration ofculturalelements into the teaching and learning of speaking skill in classrooms………………………………………… 1.3.1 The components of culture…………………………………… ... difficulties in speaking skill are presented The attitudes towards the importance of culture in the teaching and learning of speaking skill and the cultural obstacles to gaining speaking skill in classrooms...
... eliminated if the key words within them were incidental and peripheral instead of being central to the topic itself Newspaper Headlines, the Deck (secondary headline containing additional information ... one story in the mainstream news agenda in nine of those fourteen weeks and it never fell out of the top three (PEJ, 2010) According to PEJ (2010), the coverage of the key storylines examined the ... measures included a 50% loss in value of BP shares, the initiation of possible criminal and civil charges against BP pertaining to the spill, the resignation of Tony Hayward as BP’s chief executive and...
... understanding and social insight in explaining the use of metaphors Charteris-Black’s belief is that metaphors have three distinct yet integrated functions - a “semantic role in creating new meanings ... would include the intertwining of the WAR and ILLNESS scenarios – where Louisiana coastline is often personified either as a patient or as a victim under siege in the process of containing the ... Hunston’s (2007) and Lindquist’s (2010) concerns into account where the identification of attitudinal meaning in a set of concordance lines must be taken in tandem with the extended context of the discourse...
... demonstration of the IICM in identifying and formulating the metaphors embodied inBritishandAmerican media discourse arising from the BP fallout in the Gulf of Mexico This will be done by applying the ... computational capacities of WMatrix and Sketch Engine with the IICM for the systematic mining and inductive cross -cultural comparison of metaphors The incorporation of the diagrammatic representations ... rise up and bring BP the CRIMINAL to justice in order to provide recompense to the victims However, a closer reading of the expanded contexts in Texts 3.1 and 3.2 show a double-edged quality in the...
... of becoming fit or healthy again after an illness or injury OR the act of getting something again that was lost ‘Contain’/ ‘Killing’/ ‘Fouling’/ ‘Poison’/ ‘Untainted by’ Millions of gallons of ... fully contain the oil spilled within weeks/ include efforts to contain the spilling crude oil/ they should be in charge of containing the oil and addressing the long-term aftermath /And if efforts ... Obj of) Span (Occurrences) succeeds in capturing most of the leaking oil/ effort to contain the leaking oil continued/ use a containment dome to capture the leaking oil/unsuccessful engineering...
... extract in Text 4.4 claims that in the process of justifying an allout war against BP in an effort to exonerate his administration’s failings, Obama is in fact on the brink of threatening the interests ... at “dramatizing events and polarizing contrasts in order to emphasise the newsworthiness of the contents of the article” (Semino, 2008, p.31) The repeated casting of BP into the role of the UNSCRUPULOUS ... achieved by avoiding the subjectivity involved in the business of proving culpability, focusing instead on the associated political and 175 economic costs involved in the blind castigation of BP While...