Racial Discourse in Sports Media in Japan

analyzing power relations in political tv interviews in english mass media

چکیده زبان سیستم کاملی ازقوانین است که برای ایجاد ارتباط و تبادل معانی مورد استفاده قرار می گیرد که در رابطه تنگاتنگ با روابط قدرتی افراد می باشد. این رابطه و قدرت افراد می تواند مستقیما در انتخاب ضمایر و سایر ساختارهای زبانی حتی در رفتار افراد تاثیرگذار باشد. در هرجامعه ای ، تقریبا نوعی روابط قدرتی درمیان افراد موجود می باشد و این رابطه درنحوه ی استفاده ی آنها در زبان منعکس می شود. بررسی ای...

investigation of (meta)discourse markers in elt coursebooks

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

The Myth of Racial Superiority in Sports

Sports hold a special place in the hearts of many Americans. Indeed, athletic competition has come to define and shape our understanding in many ways of what it means to be American. There is, however, a dark side to sports and that is the racial tension that often consumes our understanding of athletic competition and the equality of athletic prowess and personal ability. Seemingly innocuous, ...

Sports Celebrity in Japan: A Transnational History

The African Methodist Episcopal Church Media and Racial Discourse, 1880-1900

During the age of "new" imperialism at the turn of the century, several African American religious leaders like those in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church asserted that the major obstacle to liberty and equality in the United States and across the globe was racism. In the United States, the age marked an increase in racism that resulted in racial violence, discrimination, and disfran...