the history of vegetable oil based diesel fuels

... impact of the spill The examination of BP’s role and responsibility in the disaster The US government’s actions and responses during the crisis—with much of the focus on the Obama administration The ... scope of the current study This thesis aims to examine the following aspects of metaphorical framings pertaining to the oil spill: • What conceptual metaphors occur in the discourse of the BP Oil ... the press focused on BP’s culpability in the spill as well as the way its executives responded to the aftermath BP’s lack of transparency in its estimates of the damage, the attitude of its then-CEO,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... conventional and novel The main claim is that the Career of Metaphor Theory offers a sophisticated description of the relation between the cognitive and linguistic forms of metaphor On the other hand, Fauconnier ... hierarchical snapshot of the metaphorical complex as a result of the discourse The hierarchical aspect of the 41 diagram is encapsulated by the size of the circles that essentially captures the relative ... enhance the empirical reliability of the resulting inferences The key contribution of the MIP is that the explicit set of procedures actually allows metaphor scholars to “pinpoint the locus of their...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... that the overarching categorisation of the oil as a THREAT (WAR/ HEALTH & SICKNESS) intertwines largely with the PERSONIFICATION of the various entities in the discourse e.g BP, the oil, the oil ... different aspect of the Ontological Metaphors i.e the heart” of the industry’s plan, the “heart” of the response and the “heart” of the engineering problem A separate search for the lemma “heart” ... ORGANISM as well as the portrayal of the environment as a LIVING “poisoned” and afflicted by the “plague” of oil, gives an insight into the roles and agencies of the relevant parties These ontological...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... overcoming the pressure of the oil spewing out of the well/ the experimental procedure will help stem the flow of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico/ the picture of an uncontrolled gusher of oil ... relations of the significant collocates are based on the definitions of the two contemporary corpus -based dictionaries and the informed intuitions of the researcher with the aid of the co-text ... counteract the pressure of the gushing oil/ /the pressure of the oil rising from the well could be overwhelming, and the well could gush oil at a far higher rate/that is still gushing oil /succeeding...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... CAPTURED THE OIL IS AN ESCAPING PRISONER THE ENVIRONMENT IS THE VICTIM THE ECONOMY IS THE VICTIM BP’S REPUTATION IS A VICTIM THE OIL WELL IS THE ENEMY THE OIL IS A NATURAL DISASTER THE OIL IS A ... with the political aspect of the spill i.e in avoiding the “mistakes made by President George W Bush” instead of focusing on the core issue of alleviating the suffering of the true victims of the ... Birnaum, the head of the MMS was made to step down and attribute the cause of the disaster to the “flaws in the current system (Birnaum) inherited”, in a thinly veiled reference to the practices of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... WAR/CRIME/CONFLICT of the pre-eminence of the conceptual keys in the TT & G-Corpus ( Oil_ Modifies”) 200 5.3 The foregrounding of nationalistic interests: The sympathetic portrayal of BP in the British ... VICTIM OF UNFAIR POLICIES, THE US GOVERNMENT IS A INCOMPETENT LAW ENFORCER, THE OIL IS THE ENEMY, THE ENVIRONMENT IS A PATIENT etc For both corpora, the personification of the entities in the BP Oil ... of VICTORY In the context of this discourse, a strong parallel is drawn between the BP Oil Spill as the Piper Alpha Oil spill in 1988 This is embodied by the analogy -based metaphor - THE BP OIL...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... recipients of editorial ideological input Furthermore, it has also been established that the pattern of evaluative stances identified in this thesis generalisable only to the scope of these corpora ... perceive are fashioned by the discourses that we are socialized into Hence, it is important to temper the strengths of the claims in this thesis pertaining to the influence of metaphor in discourse, ... manipulation of the readers’ perceptions of “us” vs “them” Thus, this thesis highlights the dangers inherent in the use of metaphors as a deliberate strategy for the influencing aggregate perceptions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... perceptions Thus, the range of analogy -based metaphors identified in the IICM will be the springboard for a cross-cultural evaluation of the metaphors framing the BP oil spill The choice of these metaphor ... conveys the full extent of the moral accounting metaphor It is clear that the victims of the oil spill claim “justice” and “rationality” as guarantees of full compensation and the castigation of the ... The use of the term “poison” in the context of politics often denotes the agency of a COWARDLY AGGRESSOR and evokes strong emotions of indignation for the VICTIM Hence, this TTreference has the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... bias For example, the findings in the British broadsheets show the tendency of the relevant editors to adopt mitigating strategies in order to downplay the agency of the cause of the entire catastrophe ... key aspects of the BP disaster For example, some widgets enable the direct monitoring of the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf through a visual video feed, whilst the NYT website offered a video ... from the previous practice of merely examining the ‘arbitrary window of text around the headword’ for the first pre-designated number of lines (Kilgarriff et al., 2004, p.3) The formulation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... Fig 6.10 A representation of the metaphorical compound - Oil (WP) 292 Fig 6.11 A representation of the metaphorical compound - Oil (G) THE OIL IS AN ADVANCING ENEMY THE BP BLOWOUT IS A COLLISION ... CLOTH)/ THE) OIL) SPILL)IS)A)THREAT)(WAR/CRIME)) THE CENTRE IS THE CORE (LOCATION) THE+ SPREADING OF CONTROVERSIAL NEWS IS + CLEANING THE STARTING A FIRE/RIVAL OIL COMPANIES POLITICS IS WAR OIL SPILL ... CLEANING THE OIL SPILL FINANCIAL STATUS IS A SHIP THE OIL SPILL IS A JOURNEY (PROGRESS) REPUBLICAN+TERITORY+IS+ENEMY+TERRITORY+ IS A NATURAL THE OIL INTERNATIONAL+RELATIONS+IS+A+FRAGILE+ENTITY+ THE+ US+...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:23

... 2007 15:15 The frontiersmen of mankind the liberation of their continent made the second half of the twentieth century a triumphant period for the peoples of Africa, but at the end of the century ... of the world on behalf of the entire human race That has been their chief contribution to history It is why they deserve admiration, support, and careful study The central themes of African history ... components of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... renewed interest in the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals In 1978, the first of a series of conferences on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals A View of The History of Biochemical Engineering ... gallons per day of ethanol, utilizing Saccharomyces for the process (Harris 1946) This yield of 50 gallons per ton of wood was approximately 50% of the theoretical yield The indicated loss of sugars ... because of the concerns of future exhaustion of non-renewable fossil fuels One of the authors of this article, Raphael Katzen, had his first personal experience in wood hydrolysis 60 years ago in the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 17:20

... project -based organization is the nature of the organization’s offering In a B2C context, the offering is typically either a product or service and thus the CSM typically focuses on measuring the ... dependent of each of these customer accounts, when in B2C context the customer base is often large and the dependence on one account is low This has implications for measuring the satisfaction of these ... linked to past experiences between them, and one component of these experiences is the satisfaction towards the behaviour of the other person Following this line of reasoning, one can argue that...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 15:59

... but rather a vital part of the war effort; they turned lipstick into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger, a symbol that would boost the morale of both the women wearing the lipstick ... (explaining that: “often the public toilette was a carefully staged replay of the dressing of the hair and applying of make-up to a woman who had already been through the expert hands of her maids ... from, the additive and of any substance formed in or on food, drugs or devices, or cosmetics because of the use of the additive, (ii) the cumulative effect of such additive in the diet of man...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 22:20

... was the readiest way of converting them to the principles of the Christian religion These, then, were the first forerunners in the great cause of the abolition of the Slave Trade: nor have their ... held the reigns of the government of Spain till Charles the Fifth came to the throne, for the establishment of a regular system of commerce in the persons of the native Africans The object of Bartholomew ... but of many bodies of men It was interwoven again into the system of the commerce and of the revenue of nations Hence the merchant the planter the mortgagee the manufacturer the politician—the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20

... were the duties of these officers There were also the deacons, who appear to have had the care of the poor of the community The first Christians looked for the speedy coming of Christ before their ... influx of barbarians smoothed the way for the break-up of the western part of the Empire Although they had a great respect for the Roman state, they must have kept some of their German love of individual ... the officers of the Church, who were called theclergy, and the people, or laity To the clergy was committed the government of the Church as well as the instruction of its members In each of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 23:20

... THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND Volume One of Three FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF JAMES THE SECOND, BY DAVID HUME, ESQ 1688 In Three Volumes: VOLUME ONE: The History Of ... to the majority of the house of commons, and suited their religious principles But as the impatience of the people, the danger of delay, the general disgust towards faction, and the authority of ... I, Part VI their eye the malignity of the sectaries; they should have carried their attention further, to the chief cause of that malignity, the restraint under which they labored The commons...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... the liberties of their country Their enemies were the enemies of the king The men who had sworn to extirpate them from their native soil were the same who sought to deprive him of his crown They ... to the maintenance of the true Protestant religion, with due consideration to the just ease of tender consciences, to the settling of the rights of the crown and of parliament, the laws of the ... as in the case of the earl of Strafford The commons had not been present at the trial of Laud; they had not heard the evidence, they had not even read the depositions of the witnesses; they pronounced...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... interest, these documents, The History of "Punch", by M H Spielmann taken together, establish the facts of such very vexed questions as the origin and the early editorships of Punch This is the more ... letters, the essence of all wit, the concentration of all wisdom, the soul of honour, the fountain of goodness, and the paragon of every virtue FOOTNOTES: [1] An example of these amusing and confusing ... authority; the voice was the voice of the printers, but the tone was the tone of proprietors And that was the passing of Punch Earlier in the year Landells had made an effort to save the paper...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20