Politeness Strategies on "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" Movie

Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience

Kara Lynn Andersen, in her paper "Harry Potter and the Susceptible Child Audience," argues for a rethinking of assumptions of child audiences as passive readers and viewers through an analysis of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Andersen argues that instead of categorizing children as passive and homogenous subjects of analysis, they should instead be incorporated as participants in the discourse a...

Brand New Critical Essays on Harry Potter

enjoy more popularity than Robinson itself. For example, the story of Genoveve exploits the Robinsonian theme in that its heroine leads a solitary life in the wilderness, physically isolated from other people. Genoveve was staged in Croatia as early as 1732, while Campe’s Robinson was first published in Croatian in 1796. For another century, Genoveve, translated into Croatian from the German ve...

Harry Potter and the Goblin Bank of Gringotts

Gringotts Wizarding Bank is well known as the only financial institution in all of the Wizarding UK as documented in the works recounting the heroics of Harry Potter. The concentration of power and wealth in this single bank needs to be weighed against the financial stability of the entire Wizarding economy. This study will consider the impact to financial risk of breaking up Gringotts Wizardin...

Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children.

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...