How To Ask A Professor Politeness In Czech Academic Culture

Author : Chejnová, Pavla
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788024630908

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How to ask a professor: Politeness in Czech academic culture by Chejnová, Pavla Pdf

The publication addresses politeness strategies used by Czech University students when they contact faculties. Politeness in Czech society is also introduced: diglossia (contexts in which both, Standard and Common Czech tend to be used), nominal and pronominal addressing in the Czech society and in the Czech academic sphere, prototypical requests in Czech and their comparison to English and other languages. The book consists of two studies focusing on students’ communication with faculties; the data include e-mail requests for information sent to the lecturer by students and requests for information posted on the students’ information forum. The focus was on expressing politeness in the form of an address, opening and closing formulas, degrees of directness and amounts of syntactic, lexical/phrasal and external modification used in requests for information.

Author : Chaoqun Xie,Ying Tong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030992170

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Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts by Chaoqun Xie,Ying Tong Pdf

This book explores the extent to which self-praise is acceptable in both offline and online contexts, across different genres, platforms, and cultural backgrounds. The data analyzed encompass both naturally occurring (daily conversation as well as institutional talk) and elicited (experiments and interviews) types, and are explored at both quantitative and qualitative levels to offer a relatively systematic and comprehensive inquiry into self-praise as social (inter)action. Contributors to this book not only draw on traditional politeness theories but are also informed by social psychology, interactional sociolinguistics, CMC, and (multimodal) discourse analysis. They are inspired by pragmatics but also go beyond to ground their studies within locally situated cultural contexts, most of which are under-presented in the current academic world. Their efforts substantiate the fact that self-praise is most worthy of intensive analytic attention. This book appeals to students and researchers in the field and contributes to the way communication is facilitated through different ways of deploying linguistic and interactional resources.

Author : Petra Ivenz,Eva Reid
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527576803

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Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics by Petra Ivenz,Eva Reid Pdf

Language is an essential feature of societies, and there are five distinctive language styles which are commonly used in conversations. It is only natural that people switch between these styles, and, as a result, they speak in different styles in different situations. Furthermore, based on distinctive factors influencing people’s speech, we tend to employ different degrees of politeness and directness in different situations. This work identifies, analyses, and compares the language styles and degrees of directness and politeness used in the English and Slovak languages by presenters of a number of live television shows. The chosen shows for this book are broadcast live, which means the presenters do not follow a script, and their language is more natural. Moreover, these live shows are broadcast on non-commercial national television networks, which are known for their objectivity and use of standard language. The results of this analysis contribute to sociolinguistic and pragmalinguistic research, not only in Slovakia, but also worldwide.

Author : Bettina Kluge,María Irene Moyna
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262097

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It’s not all about you by Bettina Kluge,María Irene Moyna Pdf

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume includes an overview, followed by seventeen chapters organized in five sections covering new methodological and theoretical approaches, variation and change, address in digital and audiovisual media, nominal address, and self- and third-person reference. This collection includes work on Cameroonian French, Czech, Dutch, English (from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada), Finnish, Italian, Mongolian, Palenquero Creole, Portuguese, Slovak, and Spanish (in its Peninsular and American varieties). By presenting the work in English, the book offers a bridge among researchers in different language families. It will be of interest to pragmatists, sociolinguists, typologists, and anyone focused on the emergence and evolution of this central aspect of verbal communication.

Author : Ivona Barešová
Publisher : Ivona Baresova
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Commercial correspondence
ISBN : 9788024420769

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Politeness Strategies in Cross-cultural Perspective by Ivona Barešová Pdf

Author : Tafazoli, Dara,Gomez Parra, M. Elena,Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522554646

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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning by Tafazoli, Dara,Gomez Parra, M. Elena,Huertas-Abril, Cristina A. Pdf

The ability to effectively communicate with individuals from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds is an invaluable asset. Learning a second language proves useful as students navigate the culturally diverse world; however, studying a second language can be difficult for learners who are not immersed in the real and natural environment of the foreign language. Also, changes in education and advancements in information and communication technologies pose a number of challenges for implementing and maintaining sound practices within technology-enhanced language learning (TELL). Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning provides information on educational technologies that enable language learners to have access to authentic and useful language resources. Readers will explore themes such as language pedagogy, how specific and universal cultural contexts influence audio-visual media used in technology-enhanced language learning (TELL), and the use of English video games to promote foreign language learning. This book is a valuable resource for academicians, education practitioners, advanced-level students, and school administrators seeking to improve language learning through technology-based resources.

Author : group of authors
Publisher : Czech Institute of Academic Education z.s.
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788088203025

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Proceedings of IAC 2017 in Budapest by group of authors Pdf

International Academic Conference on Teaching, Learning and E-learning and International Academic Conference on Management, Economics and Marketing, Budapest, Hungary 2017 (IAC-MEM 2017 + IAC-TLEl 2017), Wednesday - Thursday, July 5 - 6, 2017

Author : Justin Quinn,Gabriela Kleckova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000363067

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Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education by Justin Quinn,Gabriela Kleckova Pdf

Anglophone Literature in Second Language Teacher Education proposes new ways that literature, and more generally culture, can be used to educate future teachers of English as a second language. Arguing that the way literature is used in language teacher education can be transformed, the book foregrounds transnational approaches and shows how these can be applied in literature and cultural instruction to encourage intercultural awareness in future language educators. It draws on theoretical discussions from literary and cultural studies as well as applied linguistics and is an example how these cross-discipline conversations can take place, and thus help make Second-language teacher education (SLTE) programs more responsive to the challenges faced by future English-language teachers. Written in the idiom of literary scholarship, the book uses ideas of intercultural studies that have gained widespread support at research level, yet have not affected literature–cultural curricula in SLTE. As the first interdisciplinary study to suggest how SLTE programs can respond with curricula, this book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, L2 and foreign language education, teacher education and post-graduate TESOL. It has universal appeal, addressing teaching faculty in any third-level institution that prepares language teachers and includes literary studies in their curriculum, as well as administrators in such organizations.

Author : Jirí Levý,Ji?í Levý
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224453

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The Art of Translation by Jirí Levý,Ji?í Levý Pdf

Jirí Levý's seminal work, The Art of Translation, considered a timeless classic in Translation Studies, is now available in English. Having drawn on adjacent disciplines, the methodology of Czech functional sociosemiotic structuralism and the state-of-the art in the West, Levý synthesized his findings and experience in the field presenting them in a reader-friendly book, which combines the approaches of a theoretician, systemic analyst, historian, critic, teacher, practitioner and populariser. Although focused on literary translation from theoretical, descriptive and historical perspectives, it presents a conceptualization of a general theory, addressing a number of issues discussed today. The 'practical' mission of the book as a theory extending to practice is based on the same historical-dialectic affinity of methods, norms, functions and values, accounting for the translator's agency and other contextual agents involved in the communication process. The book will be useful to translators, researchers, students and teachers in Translation and Literary Studies.

Author : Tomáš Kačer,Don Sparling,Renata Kamenická
Publisher : Masarykova univerzita
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9788021086333

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Outside In by Tomáš Kačer,Don Sparling,Renata Kamenická Pdf

Publikace vypráví o historii Katedry anglistiky a amerikanistiky FF MU. Vyprávění je strukturované a je založeno na metodě orální historie. Vypravěčem je Don Sparling, osobnost dlouhodobě spjatá s životem katedry a její bývalý vedoucí. První kapitola líčí vznik Anglického semináře v roce 1920 pod vedením profesora Františka Chudoby a pokračuje popisem meziválečných událostí. Další kapitoly se věnují poválečnému období až do roku 1977 (příchod Dona Sparlinga na katedru), následně osmdesátým létům a době porevoluční do roku 2000. Poslední kapitola shrnuje dějiny významné součásti života katedry, divadelního spolku The Gypsywood Players.

Author : Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Czech Americans
ISBN : IND:30000108255427

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SVU Bulletin by Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences Pdf

Author : Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Lorenzo Verderame
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646020874

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Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies by Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Lorenzo Verderame Pdf

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.

Author : Libor Štěpánek,Kateřina Sedláčková,Nick Byrne
Publisher : Masarykova univerzita
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9788021090088

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Videoconferencing in University Language Education by Libor Štěpánek,Kateřina Sedláčková,Nick Byrne Pdf

Publikace Videoconferencing in University Language Education (Videokonference v prostředí vysokoškolského jazykového vzdělávání) se zaměřuje na sdílení osvědčených postupů a inovativních myšlenek, které jsou úspěšně uplatňovány v oblasti videokonferencí při výuce jazyků v kontextu vysokoškolského vzdělávání. Kniha přináší teorie a výsledky výzkumů, nabízí praktické nápady a metody a současně čtenářům vysvětluje, jakým způsobem mohou aplikovat nové přístupy ve svém vlastním kontextu. Cílem publikace, jež mimo jiné poskytuje přehled o dopadech užití videokonferencí na studenty a procesy učení, je pomáhat vyučujícím jazyků, školitelům i akademikům rozvíjet vlastní dovednosti v oblasti vzdělávání a povzbudit je k reflektování a diskusi o vlastních výukových postupech.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015079655455

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Czech sociological review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 1952 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474601719

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The Complete Michael Palin Diaries by Michael Palin Pdf

Volume I: THE PYTHON YEARS (1969-1979) Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner . . . Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways, later to re-form for stage shows and the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL and LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week and the miners strike, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive and funny diaries. Volume II: HALFWAY TO HOLLYWOOD (1980-1988) After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A FISH CALLED WANDA (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor), and the first of his seven celebrated television journeys for the BBC. He co-produced, wrote and played the lead in THE MISSIONARY opposite Maggie Smith, who also appeared with him in A PRIVATE FUNCTION, written by Alan Bennett. Such was his fame in the US, he was enticed into once again hosting the enormously popular show Saturday Night Live, in one edition of which his mother makes a highly successful surprise guest appearance. He filmed several journeys for television and became chairman of the pressure group, Transport 2000. His family remains a constant as his and Helen's children enter their teens. Volume III: Travelling to Work (1988-1998) TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, but after its success, the public naturally wanted more. Palin, however, had other plans. There was his film AMERICAN FRIENDS, a role in Alan Bleasdale's award-winning drama GBH, the staging of his West End play THE WEEKEND, a first novel, HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR, and a lead role in FIERCE CREATURES. He did find time for two more travel series, POLE TO POLE in 1991 and FULL CIRCLE in 1996, and wrote two bestselling books to accompany them. These ten years in different directions offer riches on every page.