... Corot, and in the other some bales of Persian and Syrian rugs and embroideries, Japanese bronzes and porcelain With this she declared Europe to be exhausted, and she frankly avowed that she was American ... York and Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, American life in general and all life in particular? What did she want? Not social position, for she herself was an eminently respectable Philadelphian ... give her all that money can give by way of pleasure to a sensible woman in anAmerican city; she had her house and her carriage; she dressed well; her table was good, and her furniture was never...
... Code: 60 22 15 Cohort: MA 15 Supervisor: Dr Le Van An or Do The ky, MA Hanoi, 2009 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE ... 15 Hanoi, 2009 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN VĂN A M.A MINOR THESIS SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTICO-PRAGMATIC ... VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN VĂN A M.A MINOR THESIS SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTICO - PRAGMATIC FEATURES...
... transferred through many channels For the common consideration, it includes: paralanguage, body language, object language and environment language, of which object language and environment language ... of expressiveness in American and Vietnamese cultures Table 3: Amount of expressiveness in American and Vietnamese cultures It can be seen from the table that most American and Vietnamese people ... significant improvement in the Vietnamese informants’ perception of American amount of expressiveness In the eyes of informants living or working with the American less than year, 36.8% of American...
... many of my friends and colleagues, for their valuable sharing and encouragements I wish to acknowledge the important contribution of both Vietnamese and American informants, whose names I cannot ... America /American v List of tables Table 1: Informants’ parameters Table 2: American and Vietnamese common expressions of disappointment Table 3: Amount of expressiveness in American and Vietnamese ... American people 21 3.1.2 Amount of expressiveness in American and Vietnamese cultures .23 3.1.3 Amount of expressiveness in Vietnamese and American cultures as seen from informants’...
... can see this picture, knows at a glance why England misunderstands Germany and Germany misunderstands England For White’s is White’s and Weimar is Weimar, and one is British and one is German ... of any nation in the world Austria has 26,000,000 inhabitants, of whom 9,000,000 are Germans, 1,000,000 Italians and Rumanians, 6,000,000 Bohemians and Slovacs, 8,000,000 Poles and Ruthenians, ... Indians in the west, and Indians in the east This virile stock that had been hammered and hewn was now to be polished; and in Italy, France, England, and Germany grew up a passion for translating...
... Veterans Affairs, and private organizations, particularly the American Cancer Society, and others involved in cancer care should increase support for survivorship research and expand mechanisms to conduct ... today, Dr Sandra Horning and Dr Fitzhugh Mullan Both of them are cancer survivors Dr Sandra Horning is Professor of Medicine, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, at Stanford University She ... cancer’s late effects and their management Cancer treatments are constantly evolving and, consequently, what is known about today’s cancer survivors may not be relevant to future patients I want...
... want to send it out to forty papers in advance, and I can't get only a dozen proofs And it's got to go off to-night Can you make me some copies? You can use onion-skin paper and carbon 'em and ... café, and Mr Sessions astounded them by the urbanity with which he hurried captains and waiters and 'bus-boys, and ordered lobster and coffee, and pretended that he was going to be wicked and have ... his pitiful, home-cleaned, black sack-suit, and home-shined, expansive, black boots and ready-made tie, while he talked easily, and was merely rude about dances and clothes and the weather In the...
... plus a stout rope and a tree, in an afternoon's time we dug and pulled and hauled and yanked Chocolada up and out onto dry land, more nearly dead than ever by that time The ancient senile had ... thesis anyway, and he didn't want any one to see it, and he would write another brand-new one when peace was declared and it could get safely to its destination So he told the printer-man to away ... pay, and America stopped building a merchant marine because it was cheaper to hire England to transport American goods, so the American Trust, as soon as it had power, abolished the American trade-union...
... can see this picture, knows at a glance why England misunderstands Germany and Germany misunderstands England For White’s is White’s and Weimar is Weimar, and one is British and one is German ... propagandism in short, is irritating, not helpful I not go to Germany to discover how American is Germany, nor to England to discover how American is England; but to Germany to discover how German ... Germany, to England to see how English is England I much prefer Americans to either Germans or Englishmen, and they prefer Germans or Englishmen, as the case may be, to Americans What spurious and...
... representations and by thousands of Americans within and outside the southern mountains to both uphold and challenge the dominant trends of twentieth-century American life—urbanization, the growing ... Asheville and in subsequent conversations, Sean for his many hours of computer advice and assistance, Sue and Tom for their assistance in acquiring Mountain Dew materials, and Michael and Barbara ... part of my life I especially thank Janet Davis and Jeff Osborne, Steve Hoelscher and Kristin Nilsson, and Mark and Paula Van Ells and their children for their many kindnesses, including last-minute...
... cure, he recommended that San Angelo’s children avoid crowds, wash their hands regularly, get plenty of rest, and stay out of pools and swimming holes “You can’t wave a wand and clear up polio,” he ... ranged from anonymous children to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Americans were primed to see polio as an indigenous plague with an indigenous solution—a problem to be solved, like so many ... naturally, nor did it come early Americans are fond of quoting John Wesley and Benjamin Franklin about cleanliness being next to godliness In truth, the words American and “cleanliness” rarely graced...
... involved fleeing persecution and pursuing freedom And like most romantic American myths, it also glosses over some significant realities For many other Puritan migrants, as for many in subsequent waves, ... And Grace and Coleman funded Franklin when he broke with Meredith The tone Franklin set for Junto meetings was earnest Initiates were required to stand, lay their hand on their breast, and answer ... primarily an economic quest But to set up such a sharp dichotomy is to misunderstand the Puritans—and America For most Puritans, ranging from rich John Winthrop to poor Josiah Franklin, their errand...
... Glavin, Steve Wurtzler, and Lalitha Gopalan I thank Jane McAuli≠e, Dean of Georgetown College, and my colleagues in the Dean’s O∞ce for their interest in the project and for their support of ... both an exaggerated version of female “sexiness,” in answer to male fantasy of female submissiveness and availability, and an exaggerated version of female potency, perhaps in answer to other fantasies ... trailers, and a music video The most important print advertisement for Thelma & Louise was the one-sheet lobby poster, an organization of the film’s meanings through the graphic arrangement of image and...
... drink He stood nearby and watched them He began to think about his life and about how lonely he was Yet he was stronger than his three companions He could have left them there and set off alone But ... could They sat together by their own open-air fire And Tom Simson pulled a small accordion from his pack Piney Woods played the instrument They all sang songs The music took on a defiant quality, ... running low Everything around them was white and cold One week later they still had not moved The snow had continued to fall and was deeper than ever And it continued to fall It formed a prison...
... column called American Album.” The conceit was simple Go across the country and find regular Americans and make stories and videos about them using their language and point of view and post it ... rich man I’d be a rich man and I could take my mother and brothers and sister away and we’d never have to come back here again But my sister, she ran away young First at fourteen and permanently ... loved the man and I hated him He read voraciously and he gave me an affection for books Without that, who can tell? But he also bred in me an antipathy to authority He possessed a volcanic temper...
... NOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES NGUYỄN THỊ MẾN THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF ANAMERICAN SHORT STORY: A SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS (CẤU TRÚC ... CHAPTER 2: THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT “WITCHES’S LOAVES” 12 2.1 The Chosen Text 12 2.2 Clauses and Clause Complex Analysis 132 2.3 The Analysis of the ... study, an attempt is made to explore the grammar and meaning of the short story “Witches’ Loaves” by O’Henry as a text which is taken from “O’Henry’s short stories online” The procedures and conventions...