Cultural Imperialism in English Medium Schools: A Critical Insight

Revising brain death: cultural imperialism?

a critical discourse analysis on gender representation in the iranian english books 2, 3 and top notch 2a, 2b a critical discourse analysis perspective

هدف از انجام تحقیق حاضر، مطالعه و بررسی نقش زنان و مردان در دو مجموعه از کتابهای درسی انگلیسی در قالب تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی و همچنین، بررسی و آشکار ساختن اصول ایدوئولوژیکی مربوط به نقش زنان و مردان در این کتابها است. این دو مجموعه کتاب عبارتنداز: کتابهای انگلیسی سال دوم و سوم دبیرستانی ایران و کتابهای تاپ ناچ 2آ و 2ب. برای انجام این منظور، مدل تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی فرکلاف مورد استفاده قرار گرفته ...

A Critical Study of Selected Political Elites' Discourse in English

This study explored how political elites can contribute to power enactment through using language. It started with a theoretical overview of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and then presented a corpus consisting of speeches of eight political elites, namely, Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Winston Churchill, J.F. Kennedy and Adolph Hitler. This stud...

‘Early interactions’ in Australian English, American English, and English English: Cultural differences and cultural scripts

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...