The paper presents a comparative analysis of two audiovisual commercials targeted at mothers. While the Huggies commercial employs mother identity established in 20th-century media discourse, Frida Mom challenges this normative by constructing more complex identity. major argument is that stance-taking as discursive practice enables persuader to build intended and thus influence persuadee’s dec...

The paper investigates the effect of environmental context and attention on how humans attribute goals to the behavior of man-made objects. We presented participants with moving chair’s motion along a B-spline trajectory. We manipulated the context by whether an table was placed in the environement or not. We also investigated the effect of chair’s attention toward an object on goal attribution...

Successful scientific writers make use of various lexico-grammatical features to assert their authorial voice in ways that target audience finds most convincing. While many studies have focused on the stance markers writing, very few reported construction Malaysian writers. To address this, this paper reports a three-way comparative study stance-taking made by writers, international counterpart...

Writers’ stance can be communicated by various linguistic means in both English and Chinese. Previous research (Camiciottoli 2004; Neff 2004; Xu 2007; Liang 2008) shows that L2 learners of English, even for advanced learners, are not capable of taking their stance appropriately in English. This study takes a contrastive approach to examine the stance markers in 122 pieces of Chinese learners’ E...

In this paper, I propose a developmental explanation of the reliability of the intentional stance as an interpretive strategy, and by doing so counter an objection to Dennett’s intentional stance theory (i.e. the ‘If it isn’t true, why does it work?’ objection). Specifically, young children’s use of the intentional stance enables them to learn from and thereby to become more similar to the adul...

OBJECTIVE To determine if Q angle changes in magnitude from bilateral stance when compared to unilateral stance and then if they are significantly different changes related to the presence of patellofemoral joint pain. DESIGN Observational correlation. SETTING University biomechanics laboratory. PARTICIPANTS 60 Asymptomatic females and 12 females with patellofemoral joint pain. MAIN OUT...

A novel manner of one-legged bipedal locomotion (i.e., ballistic flip) is proposed in this paper. A flip is composed of three sequential stages: stance phase, flight phase and touchdown. During the stance phase, the two objectives of control, constant locomotive speed and taking off at the end of stance phase, are achieved via a control algorithm based on nonlinear feedback linearization. The f...

Abstract Translanguaging has gained prominence as a pedagogical orientation that promises to promote the rights of minoritized migrant students by valuing pre-existing multilingualisms and identities. However, effects classroom translanguaging on teacher student outlooks relations inequality are far from universal. In this paper we consider in English language teaching Brazil, context which mul...