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The current study aimed to reaffirm the framing of Occidentalism as an academic discipline that has a more constructive value, rather than placing it solely form euphoric criticism and resistance Orientalism West. decline been caused by which narrows its intellectual activities allows function only critique Orientalism. Previous studies concluded is anti-thesis Orientalism, although how – scien...

Eastern music always attracted Russian composers, as Russia, which settled between the West and East from geographical point of view, remained at distinction these two cultures. Glinka, who laid foundations opera, pioneering composers eastern motifs Aliabyev Dargomozhsky, are ethnographically striking. Then, in 19th century, The Five formed a school by movement Orientalism works national compos...

Abstract Socially constructed and globally propagated East-West binaries have influenced language ideologies about English in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but they are not hegemonic. This essay explores how reformed mergers with Mandarin-minority ideologies. It discusses two separate similar recent studies minority speakers PRC, respectively by Grey Baioud. Each study reveals aspects M...

In this qualitative research, we use one year of participant observation and 12 in-depth interviews of the men on a highly-ranked university rugby team in England in order to nuance the theoretical understandings of the re-production of homosexually-themed discourse in organised sport. Data collected through this ethnographic investigation is used to inductively theorise the complex relationshi...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...