SPEAKING THE PART IS BLACK ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE A DETRIMENTTO CLIMBING THE CORPORATE LADDER? A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDYREGARDING BLACK ENGLISH IN THE WORKPLACE

the absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical english has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

Note: This document has been prepared for the purpose of inviting comments and suggestions on the proposals contained therein, which will then be considered by the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (ECBS). Comments MUST be received by 01 October 2012 and should be addressed to the World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, attention: Quality Safety and Standards (QSS)....

We discuss paraphrasing controlled English texts, by defining two fragments of Attempto Controlled English (ACE): Core ACE and NP ACE. We show that these fragments have features that one would usually expect from paraphrases. We also describe a tool that paraphrases ACE sentences into these fragments.

K-SEC(Korean-Spoken English Corpus) is a kind of speech database that is under construction by the authors of this paper. This article discusses the needs of the K-SEC from various academic disciplines and industrial circles, and it introduces the characteristics of the K-SEC design, its catalogues and contents of the recorded database, exemplifying what are being considered from both Korean an...

J. Tímár1, R. Bazaz2, V. Kimler3, M. Haddad3, D. G. Tang2, D. Robertson4, J. Tovari1, J. D. Taylor3 and K. V. Honn2,5,* 11st Institute of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, The Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary Departments of 2Radiation Oncology, Chemistry and Pathology, and 3Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202, USA 4Institute of Cancer Research...

What are the factors that influence everyday attributions of cause and blame? The current studies focus on sequences of events that lead to adverse outcomes, and examine people's cause and blame ratings for key events in these sequences. Experiment 1 manipulated the intentional status of candidate causes and their location in a causal chain. Participants rated intentional actions as more causal...