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Aina, Sun; Fang, Ng Chwee; Subramanlam, Vijayaletchumy A/P; Abdul Ghani, Che Ann Binti – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The translation of political discourse differs from the translation of texts in non-political contexts in which political discourse is highly profiled in terms of political sensitivity and policy orientation. It may potentially influence global peace and security. Understanding the features of translating China's political discourse from Chinese…
Descriptors: Translation, Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mehra, Payal – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
Data-driven decision making has now moved beyond its traditional domains--operations research, business economics, computer sciences, and business statistics--to "softer subjects," such as human resource management, organization behavior, and business communication. In this context, teaching with technology encourages students to…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education, Graduate Students
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Hu, Zhenming; Zheng, Binghan; Wang, Xiangling – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of repeated use of a metacognitive self-regulation inventory (MSRI) in translator self-training. Designed by the researchers, the MSRI includes the cognitive management strategies of planning, monitoring and evaluation. A pre-post comparison study was conducted with two groups of students. The…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hu, Chunyu; Tan, Jinlin – English Language Teaching, 2017
As an interactional encounter between a journalist and one or more newsworthy public figures, an interview program is a special type of discourse that is full of evaluative language. This paper sets out to explore evaluation in interview programs from the perspective of appraisal system. The corpus software used in this study is UAM CorpusTool…
Descriptors: Interviews, Journalism, Discourse Analysis, Audience Awareness
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Xiping, Li – English Language Teaching, 2016
It is a heated discussion among researchers of foreign-language teaching on how to enhance the audience awareness through the design, organization and implementation of classroom teaching of EFL writing, which is crucial for effective writing both in mother and in foreign language. And it is widely acknowledged that the cultivation of social…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Zhang, Yuejiao – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2013
This article examines the influential Chinese science book "Brush Talks from Dream Brook," written by Shen Kuo in the 11th century. I suggest that "Brush Talks" reveals a tension between institutionalized science and science in the public, and a gap between the making of scientific knowledge and the communication of such…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Writing Strategies, Scientific and Technical Information, Asian History
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Sisco, Lisa A.; Yu, Na – Business Communication Quarterly, 2010
In this analysis the authors introduce three memos announcing layoffs in Chinese companies. The three memos, translated from Chinese, are from: (1) Hewlett Packard China, an American company doing business in China; (2) UT Starcom, founded in China; and (3) Rizhao Steel, one of China's largest steel manufacturers. Comparing the Chinese and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Layoff, Business Communication, Rhetoric
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1994
The Magazines section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 15 papers: "'National Geographic Magazine' and the Vietnam War: Did We Just Get Pretty Pictures?" (John W. Williams); "Free Speech at All Costs: A Short History of 'The Masses'" (Chris Lamb); "Newspapers Locally Edited Magazines…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Content Analysis, Mass Media Role, Media Research
Ngan, Yuen-Wan; Kong, Wai-ping – 1999
A study investigated the role of audience awareness in translation of lexical items, specifically as it may affect translation from English to Chinese. The audiences, or readership, in this case is defined as readers from three different regions in which Chinese is used predominantly: Hong Kong; mainland China; and Taiwan. The varieties of Chinese…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English
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Widmer, Ellen – International Journal of Social Education, 1991
Discusses the relationship between the prominence of themes of the literate gentry woman in Chinese fiction and the rise of women poets. Examines later Japanese fiction to find influences of the woman reader and of earlier Chinese works. Explores the scholar-beauty novels, women as warriors, female martyrdom, and the equating of virtue with…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Authors, Chinese Culture, Confucianism