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In this paper, I will analyse the use of satire in Hard times and the ways Dickens criticizes the most prominent changes brought by the industrial revolution to British society. I will also examine how Dickens challenges the prevailing view of the society that practicality and facts were of greater importance than feelings and people. Finally, I will show how through the dualistic characters, using satire, Dickens wants to expose Victorian society's hypocrisy as well as his critical point of vi...

The advertising messages about women are often stereotypical: a woman's place is in the home, women do not make important decisions, women are dependent and need men's protection, and men regard women primarily as sexual objects. The purpose of the current work is to examine the way in which gender roles and gender stereotypes are portrayed in advertising, as well as to analyze the language of advertising from a structuralist point of view (taking into account Leech’s linguistic study of Eng...

A person’s perception of such matters as civil rights, economy, immigration, wars and welfare are significantly affected by the manner and extent of media coverage. Mass media de¬cide what type of information will be given to the public, in what amount and how exactly will be given. This work consists of two parts: the first part offers an overview of those scholars who exposed in their works the evidences similar to those presented by Herman and Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent (1988). The s...

In this paper, I’m analyzing the travel brochure about a variety of local tours organized by International travel solutions agency to Moscow. First, I’ll take a look at the specific structure of the brochure, next, I will examine the language being used to attract readers attention and different persuasive techniques to persuade people into buying the tourism products and services being promoted.

En este documento he resumnido los temas resumidos de la asignatura Fundamentos de Lingüística General. Son los resumenes bien estructurados con toda la informacion necesaria para aprobar el examen con buena nota.

In this work, I will analyze the topic of the heritage of gender inequality and the reasons of women’s lower position in the modern society. I will explore Virginia Woolf’s essay “A room of one’s own” in which she described the struggle of women in the early 20th century to break into men-dominated areas. I will also examine the reasons there were so few good women novelists, artists, or writers for so long a time.

The aim of this analysis is to examine and uncover implicit statements in the language of Obama's speech delivered to Young people in Brussels in 2014. Under the light of Critical Discourse Analysis based on Fairclough’s analytical framework, to detect examples of linguistic strategies that impose moral or ideological values on people as well as its linguistic features such as vocabulary, grammar, textual structures, rhetorical devices, etc.

In this essay I’ve provided a comparison between brainwashing constituents in Orwell’s 1984 and Today’s World (particularly United States). It helps us gain a deeper insight into the motives and purposes of United States international politic as well as its political ideology. I’ve also attempted to show the ability of U.S., to shape global events and to form public opinion about certain events according to its interests. This is possible because of the American propaganda machine, whic...

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