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[in Japanese]2008 Volume 2008 Issue 47 Pages 1-15
Published: September 01, 2008
Released on J-STAGE: November 13, 2012
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSCritical Discourse Analysis (CDA) attempts to deal with social problems such as prejudice, inequality, and discrimination by critically analyzing how the mass media can exercise its power to produce ideological discourses. However, CDA done solely from the perspective of 'discourse' can prove to be too limiting. Not only is the term represented differently in social and linguistic theory, even among CDA analysts there is not complete agreement about the definition of the term. Therefore, explicitly describing 'discourse' itself and presenting it as a unified concept is rather challenging. The purpose of this study is to reconsider the concept of 'discourse' as discussed in the realm of CDA through a new approach of inserting a factor of 'agent' or 'subject' into the CDA theoretical frame. While CDA tends to concentrate on linguistic aspects, the material aspect of how the human agent occupying the subject position is involved in the process of encoding and decoding often goes ignored. In this study, N. Fairclough's frame of CDA is examined. Following this, the relationship between the process of text production and the way in which the existence of an agent is articulated in the discourse practice is discussed.View full abstractDownload PDF (1419K) -
[in Japanese]2008 Volume 2008 Issue 47 Pages 17-34
Published: September 01, 2008
Released on J-STAGE: November 13, 2012
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn American journalism, the lead is often played up. This is often the case in feature articles where piquing the interests of readers is considered crucial. This thesis reveals and analyzes this often-used technique in American journalism to make the lead eye-catching by exaggerating or simplifying the facts or by employing humorous or rhetorical expressions. Such technique is not found in Japanese language journalism.View full abstractDownload PDF (1396K) -
Kazuko UNOSAWA2008 Volume 2008 Issue 47 Pages 35-54
Published: September 01, 2008
Released on J-STAGE: November 13, 2012
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper aims to contrast British and American situational comedies, analyzing the BBC. original of the smash-hit TV series “The Office” and its American version. The analysis focuses on dialogue, plot and characterization from a sociolinguistic perspective. The conclusion is as follows : An important feature to consider is the use of sexual and racial expressions in the British and American versions; the analysis showed that what is accepted in Britain can be problematic to the American audience. British humor is “hard” in comparison to the “soft humor” characteristic of the American version.View full abstractDownload PDF (1532K) -
[in Japanese], [in Japanese]2008 Volume 2008 Issue 47 Pages 55-69
Published: September 01, 2008
Released on J-STAGE: November 13, 2012
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSDespite the surge of interest in vocabulary acquisition research, practical teaching materials and approaches have not been sufficiently reported. This article addresses recent second language vocabulary acquisition theories so that educators can adapt the principles to vocabulary teaching in classrooms. Additionally, a design for vocabulary materials and its pilot study for Japanese EFL learners are presented. The materials were developed from the theoretical underpinnings of word-association, incidental vocabulary learning, and systematic vocabulary learning. Through an idea-bubble task and illustrations in each unit, learners can construct visual images of target words from English newspapers. Vocabulary teaching material with word-association and Media English can contribute to building opinions and presenting perspectives in English for Japanese EFL learners.View full abstractDownload PDF (1403K)
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