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Al-juboori, Ali; Mustafa, Sabah S. – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Deception is a misrepresentation of reality that attracted many researchers examining it from various perspectives. However, no due attention has been given to the discursive deception strategies in the work of think tanks. This study aims at exposing the deception strategies deployed in the conservative American think tanks' discourse which…
Descriptors: Deception, Pragmatics, Persuasive Discourse, Political Attitudes
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Green, David A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
Seventy-seven new academics--59 at a large, public university in the UK and 18 at a medium-sized, private comprehensive university in the USA--were asked to read an extract of an article on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and mark the text according to categories of difficulty or dislike. Analysis of the data revealed six main…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Figurative Language, Literary Styles, College Faculty