almost three centuries after the publication of the life and adventures of robinson crusoe, j. m. coetzee re-imagines the original story in two different versions; foe (1986) and his nobel prize acceptance speech, he and his man (2003). the recreation of one of the early novels of the western literary canon from the viewpoint of a marginalized character, which is technically called postcolonial...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...

Involving participants/intended audiences in discourse analysis may help to avoid overemphasising the structural effects of and silencing participant voice. Yet, involving participants complex analytic processes effectively can prove difficult. In this study, authors undertook a Foucauldian sexual consent material within eight (predominantly UK) wide-ranging, youth-focused campaigns identify di...

This contribution explores how subject positions and perspectives are negotiated in the discursive practices of teaching social studies. The study involved a teacher group second-language learners Grade 6, data being gathered by observations, voice recordings, collection materials throughout seven weeks. analysis, drawing upon discourse theory sociological theories education, is conducted from ...

This paper identifies and discusses the western vernacular and minimalist tendencies in Norman Mailer’s 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning “true-life story” The Executioner’s Song. Mailer’s use of a lean, often flat style of narration is read in relation to Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood to measure the extent to which Mailer moved beyond a conventional novelistic approach. The artic...

In his article "Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English" Henry Whittlesey Schroeder analyzes the different tenses of indirect discourse in these three languages. Indirect discourse in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century adopts a different time in English, German and Russian. English indirect discourse reports in the preterit; German indirect discourse hovers in the subjunctiv...

This article examines the interplay between creation of ‘meme factories’ by political elites, and their operationalisation through WhatsApp. It uses case study Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi’s) bid for re-election in 2019 to argue that elites are leveraging meme culture’s association with popular voice ‘astroturf’ public discourse, WhatsApp’s unique infrastructure advances project. ...

Research on the temporal organisation of speech perception is focussed mostly on the linguistic categories of the input. What is the role of non-grammatical categories for this processes? What kind of mechanisms integrate both kinds of features within the online process of perception? Individual voice qualities and the position of the sentence within the text were chosen to test the time interv...