UA68/13/5 The Fourth Estate, Vol. 9, No. 1

Newsletter created by the Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalists regarding members, activities and alumni

The Register, 1989-03-13

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Teaching EFL on the radio: a genre-based study of language use in English teaching radio programmes in Taiwan

This thesis provides a genre-based study of the ways in which language is used in English teaching radio programmes (ETRPs) in Taiwan. Drawing upon the frameworks of genre analysis, pragmatics, systemic linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, the ethnography of communication, and variation analysis, and research on classroom discourse and media discourse, ETRPs are studied as a genre by examining the relationship between context, communicative purposes, discourse structure and lexical-grammatical use. Nineteen days of ETRPs of different broadcasts, which were on air in 1998-2001 and which served senior high school students in Taiwan, were recorded, transcribed and coded for linguistic analyses. The pedagogical purposes of ETRPs are identified by investigating the educational needs of the listeners and the stated aims of the broadcasters. They are then studied in more detail by considering the communicative needs generated in the situational context. The purposes of ETRPs provide frameworks for the description and explanation - quantitative and qualitative - of the prominent genre features, above and below the level of sentence, of ETRPs. The accounts of the discourse structure of ETRPs include not only the generic structure (the macrostructure) but also the interaction structure of the genre; i.e. the interaction between the presenters in the generic structure of a monologue. This thesis also makes comparisons between various broadcasts of ETRPs and interprets listeners' perceptions of ETRPs in terms oftheir genre features. It concludes by considering applications ofthe findings to the fields of genre analysis and language teaching

Current, February 19, 2001

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The dream catcher

The dissertation is about an ambitious, rural young woman who aspires to be a great performing artist. Rabeka Maru-a-pula, spurns a marriage proposal, from an eligible bachelor attending her church because she feels that marriage will be an impediment to her unrealised dreams. Her parents are very upset by her decision. She meets her former teacher, TM who, appreciative of her amateur acting experience, invites her to join his project, 'Realise Your Dream.' This step initiates a lasting friendship from which she will draw support and encouragement when she encounters trials in the future

Fag Rag Summer 1975

Issue 13 of Fag Rag, a gay liberation newspaper published in Boston, MA in the summer of 1975.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fagrag/1011/thumbnail.jp

Myths and rituals surrounding delinquent gangs in Edinburgh and Dundee

At the time of this research (1971-73) the 'problem' of group violence had become an area of public concern in Edinburgh and Dundee. The Media and the Courts, as well as those agencies involved in working with young people, tended to put forward an interpretation based on the 'gang' as a structured phenomenon. However, work in the field suggested that this explanation over-simplified the issues involved and that 'ganging' could only be adequately described if it were placed in a social context rather wider than that suggested by any of the contemporary areas of deviancy theory. In short, a brief outline of the 'development' of theories of deviance suggests the need for a 'cultural' explanation rather than a more limited view based variously on infraction, a 'search for differences', the phenomenon, social reaction or a class analysis. Having suggested the need for a 'cultural* explanation, a discussion of some of the major views of 'culture' (especially Marxist and Structural-Functionalist) reveals a tendency towards mutual exclusion, with an emphasis in the former on 'conflict* and in the latter on 'consensus'. Neither seems adequately to approach the central issues of unity and diversity in contemporary British Society. A heuristic and exploratory approach to 'culture' is required which allows for man's ability to adapt to, and sometimes transcend, inequality and 'repression', while at the same time remaining in some way a 'member' of the total society. Briefly, the suggestion is that this problematic can only be resolved, albeit in a tentative fashion, by the 'rediscovery' of the centrality of the symbol in 'cultural' studies. A greater emphasis is required on the ways in which symbolic adaptations 'defuse' and adapt 'contradictions' in the material circumstance and also on the complex ways in which 'key' values disseminate a symbolic 'togetherness'. Again, although these concepts are exploratory, requiring refinement and validation in the field, a discussion of 'ganging' takes place in terms of a contemporary view of adolescence and the primacy of symbolic structures in that 'liminal' period. It is suggested that such a view of 'ganging' as symbolic structure is more informative than an interpretation based on a 'myopic' view of infraction and deviancy without reference to a 'cultural' context