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... canals, or the English language having a nice cup of tea, or the German language racing madly along the autobahn You only find discourse.” Robert de Beaugrande (1997: 36) It is unimaginable of ... waves and orthographic forms to which we assign meaning on the basis of our past experience with them and on the basis ofthe situations in which these waves and forms are used Discourse analysis ... TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration i Acknowledgements ii Abstract iii Table of content iv CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 Rationale 1.2 Aims and objectives 1.3 Scopes ofthe study 1.4 Methodology CHAPTER...
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