Discourse marker

Firstly, Leder draws upon Bourdieu’s definition of taste in the introduction to her study. She notes that “tastes function as markers of “class”’ and “” (Bourdieu). As Leder has chosen subjects from one particular class structure, she limits her ability to comment on Bourdieu’s relationship between taste and class and thus this becomes partially irrelevant to her discussion. However…

Video #1 The first video is of an 8 year old boy, AA. Though this video does not provide background on AA’s speech and language history in order to make any concrete judgment, we may observe for potential therapy. This video also does not give a long enough language sample to fully conclude any assessment, although it gives the opportunity to begin comprehension of AA’s language abilities. Viewing auditory comprehension as a child’s difficulty with multi-step instructions, listening, and having…

possible that his lie detection results are invalid because he has rehearsed his story through various police and court retellings; whether he is telling the truth about prescribing Cure Infect or not, it is difficult to isolate potential deception markers from the demands that retrieval of his story makes on memory regions of the…

Gendered children’s clothing reinforces the ideology of gender binaries. As we participate in social systems, we are shaped by socialization and by paths of least resistance. Social systems are inherently learnt and taught, and this includes the idea of gendered clothing. The discussion of heteronormative culture by the general public is often viewed through the fixed lens of adults. The right to transition and same-sex marriage is defended, and we reject gendered clothing, but the issue is that…

Regarding the existence of blurred frontiers which discredit the idea of sharply drawn lines between nations and societies in Ondaatje’s fiction, Marinkova argues that “Ondaatje’s works contest the violence of both dominant and oppositional monologic discourses” (27). Thus, “spaces” in his writings are revealed as diversity and manifold proceedings, and come into existence as tracks of remaining in existence with “Others”, rather than as acknowledged entities or immutable grounding against which…

During the Reagan-Bush era, discourse on crime had been so racialized that the use of “racial markers” was not necessary (Davis 27). Essentially, police did not need to be told who to target because of the social development of the criminal as black and Latino men. The laws created on drugs are “race neutral”, but…

One of the main differences that sign language presents to an audience is the mode in which the language makes itself perceived. Bochner et al. (2011), noted that the only true difference that sign language has opposing an oral language is the fact that the signed languages transmit ideas and linguistic concepts through the visual channel of the brain as opposed to the more commonly used auditory channel of the brain. There is an assumption that people do not use sign language in the same manner…

Alan Bialostozky Comm 100C Professor McMurria Spring 2015 Take home exam #3 Leo Chavez article “The Latino Treat Narrative” proposes a well-supported narrative to the nation’s anti-immigration discourse displayed by the media mostly in the USA. In this article, Chavez gives a critical overview and discussion about the images, stereotypes and falsified truths reproduced in society using and crafting recycled myths created by media experts, corrupt politicians, and people who openly hate…

Harald Welzer identifies the divergence between official, public cultures of remembrance in Germany (the history of the Third Reich taught in schools, the establishing of Holocaust memorials, etc.) and private cultures of remembrance in Germany (multigenerational histories situated within family storytelling), evolving from his study of Western and Eastern German families through interviews, individually and collectively, regarding contextual, historical knowledge of the Third Reich and their…

case, or it can be singular or plural, etc.) but it is phonetically empty. According to Rizzi, pro is subject to the following conditions: 1. pro must be licensed (via the [+strong] feature of INFL); 2. pro must be identified (via the agreement markers - the subject bound morphemes). Pro must be licensed means that the inflection must be present for pro to exist (for instance, English has a [-strong] feature of INFL since English has impoverished agreement inflections). Pro must be identified…