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Download full textBabapi, Nasrin; Parvaneh, Farid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The present article is an attempt to read Nadin Gordimer's "The Pickup" from the lens of Foucault. It starts with Foucault's assumption that power is everything and any kind of relation in the world is defined through the discourses of power. It discusses the techniques through which the power dominates its authority over the subjects…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Novels, Social Status, Social Differences
AlAfnan, Mohammad Awad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study explored the influences of relational elements and the background of communicators on the framing structure of email messages that were exchanged in an educational Institute in Malaysia. The investigation revealed that social distance played a more significant role than power relations as Malaysian respondents are, generally, more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asynchronous Communication, Social Distance, Power Structure
Jamal, Inna Malissa bte Che; Singh, Hardev Kaur A/P Jujar; Mani, Manimangai – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
"Wide Sargasso Sea," by Jean Rhys, is a novel filled with tragedy; two characters in conflict meet in circumstances not in their best interests but rather for other people. This novel is an illustration of the mad woman in the novel "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte, as the story of her life before madness is told in the novel…
Descriptors: Novels, Twentieth Century Literature, English Literature, Foreign Policy
Alsulayyi, Marzouq Nasser – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study examines the apology strategies used by 30 Saudi EFL teachers in Najran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), paying special attention to variables such as social distance and power and offence severity. The study also delineates gender differences in the respondents' speech as opposed to studies that only examined speech act output by…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Rajabi, Shima; Azizifar, Akbar; Gowhary, Habib – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Learning a foreign language requires students to acquire both grammatical knowledge and socio-pragmatic rules of a language. Pragmatic competence as one of the most difficult aspects of language provides several challenges to L2 learners in the process of learning a foreign language. To overcome this problem, EFL teachers should find the most…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
