... of Maryland in terms of transparency The Guardian was awarded the National Newspaper of the Year in 1999, 2006 and 2011 by the British Press Awards in addition to garnering the accolade as the ... more analysis than manual analysis” and that it is “no more time-consuming than a purely manual analysis” (p.11) Finally, this thesis also aims to add toa growing body of research on metaphor in ... metaphorical patterns in large datasets through the use of a new framework for metaphorical analysis This can be seen as an attempt to potentially extend and triangulate intuition-based manual analysis...
... language where the social and cognitive aspects are integral to formulation of theory andthe analysis of data Such an approach foregrounds the salience of temporal and contextual factors inthe process ... (2007) have adopted the integrated corpus linguistic tool, WMatrix, ina systematic analytical approach that examines and fosters a greater awareness of the “creative acts” in Internet discourse among ... this approach has the propensity to reveal interesting semantic and pragmatic aspects of the formulated conceptual metaphors In using the lexical unit as the starting point of the analysis, the...
... for an in- depth critical analysis that takes the historical, social and contextual details into account Hence, by marrying qualitative analysis with quantitative salience, we are able to analyse ... THREAT systematically and coherently into the WAR, CRIME WAR andthe HEALTH & DISEASE subsets This can be seen inthe way theand CRIME scenarios overlap with the JOURNEY scenario of capping the ... approach lies inthe way the analyst has to take into account the holistic socio-political and cultural contexts in order to account for the resultant metaphorical entailments This avoids the interpretative...
... comparison and analogical structures of the available socio-political and situational contextual details linked tothe node word This means that the source and target domains associated with each node ... Utilising the USAS semantic domains within WMatrix as the starting point of the analysis, an analysis of the semantic tagset was carried out, with the initial focus being the frequency counts of the ... enables the analyst to have an immediate overview of the range of collocations associated with a particular lemma e.g all lemmatical variations of “Leak” found inthe corpus are showcased in the...
... empirically suggested USAS domains for further analysis are shown inthe list below The corpus andthe accompanying rank within the semantic domain are captured inthe accompanying brackets after the ... These systematic and pervasive conceptual frames serve to evoke the notion of WAR and SURVIVAL, galvanising the people into unified action, serving to maintain the interests of the Obama Administration ... critical stance towards the Obama administration’s efforts in containing the oil spill as well as inthe settling of moral and financial accounts on behalf of the aggrieved victims The conflation...
... Chapter As is the convention for this thesis, the corpus andthe accompanying rank within the semantic domain are captured inthe accompanying brackets after the semantic domains The empirically ... indicate otherwise In fact, President’s Obama’s rhetoric aimed at galvanising the masses against an external perpetrator of violence (BP andthe oil industry) was in turn portrayed as an act of insensitivity ... Government’s establishment of the state of affairs pertaining tothe BP oil spill The overt parallel reference to BP/Britain inthe same vein as Afghanistan/Iraq/al-Qaeda indicates the US media’s offensive...
... perceptions and behaviour, advocating a critical approach tothestudy of metaphors in discourse Finally, it is also important to note that modern consumers of news texts are assailed by a gamut of alternative ... complexities inherent in real data These complexities include editorial ideological concord, attribution to key figures, positional salience on the actual broadsheet/ webpage andthe aggregate effect ... fashioned by the discourses that we are socialized into Hence, it is important to temper the strengths of the claims in this thesis pertaining tothe influence of metaphor in discourse, as media consumers...
... respect tothe Obama administration’s handling of the BP oil spill andthe Bush administration’s handling of Hurricane Katrina (THE BP OIL SPILL IS OBAMA’S KATRINA) As is the convention in this thesis, ... limitations in any corpus andinthe scope of the study, all the statements and claims made in this thesis are generalisable only to this dataset, and are not extendable to each broadsheet’s overarching ... national declaration of war against a foreign aggressor This metaphor serves to strengthen the moral legitimacy of the Obama administration while galvanizing the electorate against the “other”,...
... sociocultural and intuitive responses to language However, the main aim of this thesis is the formulation of a repeatable method that strikes an adequate balance between semi-automated and manual analysis ... significant lexical items as the researcher can theoretically adopt an exhaustive approach tothe analysis tothe full range of semantic domains and lexical items generated by WMatrix and Sketch Engine ... perspective There is an emerging need for discourse analysis to include the examination of the accompanying photos and positional strategies that appear in tandem with the corresponding printed pages...
... IS A NATURAL THE OIL INTERNATIONAL+RELATIONS+IS +A+ FRAGILE+ENTITY+ THE+ US+ GOOD IS FORWARD DISASTER INDUSTRY IS A POLITICS+IS +A+ GAME+OF+STRATEGY+ GOVERNMENT/+ WAR ZONE OBAMA+ ADMINISTRATION++ THE+ OBAMA+ADMINISTRATION+IS +A+ WEAK+WAR+ ... WITH AN ADVANCING VEHICLE ANALOGY-BASED METAPHORS ORIENTATIONAL/SPATIAL METAPHORS THE SHARE PRICE IS A STRUCTURE/ MEDIA CRITICISM BAD IS BIG (SCALE) STRUCTURAL METAPHORS (X IS Y) IS A TIDAL WAVE ... THE+ OBAMA+ADMINISTRATION+IS +A+ WEAK+WAR+ THE GULF IS +A/ AN:++ GENERAL/+POLITICAL+STRATEGIST+ THE OIL IS THE ENEMY COMMUNITY INCOMPETENT+ + THE OIL SPILL IS A IS AVICTIM THE BRITISH ARE LAW+ENFORCER/+...
... between macro- and microchromosomes varies according to authors, the actual standard karyotype description by GTG- and RBG-banding for the chicken, established by the International Committee for the ... disappear completely in mammals [68] According to Rodionov [68], it might be tempting to consider them as ancestral chromosomes although they are very rare in fish and batracians Indeed, they ... chromatin compaction possible to obtain characteristic banding patterns for each pair (68], it is im- However, by using DAPI or chromomycin A3 staining, it has been suggested that most of the...
... increasing international travel andthe trend toward globalization, an international perspective on the outcome following sepsis is becoming increasingly important The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ... sepsis and septic shock is commonly used in clinical trials andin practice [20], which helps to improve accuracy when evaluating new therapies and refining indications By facilitating comparison ... the outcome of severe sepsis and septic shock using standardized definitions ina non-Western country Materials and method King Fahad National Guard Hospital is a 550-bed tertiary care teaching...
... acquisition of data: Márcio Soares, Flávia Nardes, Flávia Fontes, Daniela Gadelha, César Amorim, Joana Dantas, Paloma Cariello and Luisa Toscano; analysis and interpretation of data: Márcio Soares and José ... Daniela Gadelha, César Amorim, Joana Dantas, Paloma Cariello and Luisa Toscano; administrative, technical or material support: Flávia Nardes, Flávia Fontes, Daniela Gadelha, César Amorim, Joana Dantas, ... mortality was the main endpoint of interest Data management and statistical analysis Data were entered into a computer database by a single author (MS) In order to ensure data consistency, another single...
... each plant investigated was run as a profit centre and was normally measured (by corporate headquarters) on operating margin and/ or return on operating capital, there was substantial leeway and ... programme management was that, at the least, plants should make yearly plans for each machine, outlining performance targets, and monitor and feedback progress both tothe central programme administration ... and solutions Successful machine teams are awarded annually, on the basis of their improvements, at an award ceremony attended by top management and runner-up machine teams The programme is administered...
... tightly and extend their acyl chains to maintain the integrity of the membrane The substantial tilt (and resulting disorder) of the top leaflet lipids andthe slight increase in packing (and thus ... synaptic plasma membranes has shown that monomeric Ab can intercalate into the bilayer interior and lead to decreased bilayer thickness [7] The same study also concluded that Ab40 increased the ... phenomenon A greater knowledge of the most basic interactions between Ab anda model membrane can lead toa more complete understanding of the membrane-aided assembly of Ab andthe resulting damage to...
... by the way I was reading the gospels and by the portrait of Jesus and his kingdom-bringing work that I was advancing Steve then (together with Alan Mann) produced a short, sharp, clear and challenging ... from sin and its effects The point of election always was that humans were sinful, that the world was lapsing back into chaos, and that God was going to mount a rescue operation That is what the ... chosen Israel at all—namely, finally to deal with sin andto set the whole world right The covenant was there inthe first place to deal with the sin of the world.” What Saint Paul Really Said, 33...