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Will Russians in the mod have Finnish Guard Regiment of The Leib-Gvardii?
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-Hundreds of new troops, with such famous regiments as the Old Guard, 95th Rifles and Polish Lancers
We are now accepting donations of any amount to help support the the development of the mod.
This is completely optional and the mod is and always will be 100% free.
If you choose to donate to the mod's development, the money raised will be used to offset the cost of software, hardware, web hosting and caffeine, ect, purchased to create the mod. Donators will be rewarded with their name added to the credits in the mod (Make sure to PM Docm30 here or on the Taleworld forums with the name you want credited and details of your donation), and a sense of superiority over non-donators, who you are free to consider heathens.
21 comments by Docm30 on Aug 29th, 2014
Today we'll take a quick look at the London scene in the mod, but first a short note on the mod's progress.
To put it simply: progress is slow. I find myself with little (and increasingly less) free time to work on the mod. When I can't find the free time necessary to work on the mod progress simply doesn't happen. I can again assure you that no one wants the mod released more than I do, but it's not easy getting it to that point. You'll have to bear with me.
Now, a look at the London scene, which is set in Whitehall (which is technically in Westminster, but let's not be pedantic). In the scene you'll find some of the most famous buildings and areas in London, including Horse Guards, Downing Street, Scotland Yard and the Banqueting House of the old Palace of Whitehall.
It should be noted that the scene is a work in progress and as such still needs some smaller details.
Thanks for reading.
Will Russians in the mod have Finnish Guard Regiment of The Leib-Gvardii?
It would be cool because I'm finn and would like to see that some would know our history.
Yea, I'm Finnish too. It would be great if Docm30 added Finnish regiment(s).
Does anybody happen to know good sources of information of the Finnish Life-Guards? I can't seem to find information of it other then their involvement in Leipzig and Borodino.
I was consulting this text from 1806: Runivers.ru
It's in pre-reform Russian though. I don't know if there's a Finnish version or equivalent.
Can We expect a Duchy of Warsaw in mod?
It says as much in the very first listed feature in the description.
Yes, and in the first release.
Lol! this mod is a upgrade of mount&blade napoleonic wars. I always wait for a mod in style of Napoleonic wars but with a singleplayer.
Thank you my friend!
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It has a fruity flavour that makes me think of plums combined with something a bit yeasty. It's an odd mix of sweet and sour and it leaves a strange taste on my tongue.
I'm not sure what I think of this drink except maybe 'weird'. Really weird.
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It's makes for a sweet cup of chai, although I added a bit more water than it called for so it wouldn't be too sickly sweet. It's a bit thin – I might actually use hot milk instead of boiling water for my other packet of this. The raspberry flavour isn't that strong either, present more a smell than as a taste. Still, it give me a quick energy boost for working on assignments.
The first time I have a new black tea I like to try it plain first, even though I usually put milk and sometimes honey into mine. It's sort of so I get an idea about the flavour without anything else messing with my perception. Yeah, I've got it all down to a science. ;)
This one is pretty plain actually, the Ceylon base is mostly what I taste, although there are sweet hints of maple syrup. It's not harsh-tasting, other than that it's a pretty generic Ceylon.
Mmm, that's better. I used a lot less tea and cut back the steeping time and that improved things immesurably. One thing I've been wondering is if this tea is a gyokuro? It doesn't say anything about it in the tea's description, but the I'm sure I read that the process of shading the tea (as described here) was what produced the gyokuro's flavour.
The tea has a smooth, savoury flavour that tappers off into a mildly grassy aftertaste, not nearly as grassy as most Japanese teas tend to be, though. The savory flavour is quite strong, almost like a slightly salty broth – miso soup maybe. Okay not quite, but you get the idea.
I don't think I've ever had a Indian white tea before so I was interested to see if it tasted anything like the Chinese version. The resulting brew was light and very fresh-tasting with the hint of sweetness. Some white teas are so light that they're almost like water, but this is very distinctly 'tea'. Its flavour notes are of fruit rather than the walnut notes I get from a good-quality Bai Mu Dan; this makes me think of unripe melon and maybe a bit of diluted lemon. Very unique.
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I imagin that this could make a decent iced tea – green rooibos seems to lend itself to that sort of thing. Hot, it makes a light, soothing evening drink that doesn't blow my mind, but that I still find enjoyable.
That's the end of this sample packet – I found that it was an interesting alternative to the usual nutty-tasting Chinese green teas. Despite its sour flavour I have noticed that it gets a bit sweeter as the tea cools off a bit, so it does have some redeeming qualities which was I why I didn't completely slag this tea. ;)
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text: 1 http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/pubs/BR/functionalsec3_6.htm Social Approaches 6 Critical Discourse Analysis Thomas N. Huckin Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a highly context-sensitive, democratic approach which takes an ethical stance on social issues with the aim of improving society. This chapter begins by describing six ways in which CDA differs from other forms of textual analysis. After a description of general strategies, certain tools of CDA such as genre, framing, foregrounding, omission, and presupposition are introduced and implemented to analyze a newspaper article. A sentence-by-sentence approach is then described followed by an analysis at the word/phrase level. After a discussion of the social context of the newspaper article, benefits of CDA for the teacher are described. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a relatively new addition to the varieties of text analysis available to the second-language teacher and researcher. It could best be characterized as an approach or attitude toward textual analysis rather than as a step-by-step method. CDA differs from other forms of textual analysis in six major respects. First, it tries to acknowledge the fact that authentic texts are produced and read (or heard) not in isolation but in some real-world context with all of its complexity. CDA is thus highly context-sensitive: It tries to take into account the most relevant textual and contextual factors, including historical ones, that contribute to the production and interpretation of a given text. Second, although critical discourse analysis casts a broad net, it is a highly integrated form of discourse analysis in that it tries to unite at least three different levels of analysis: the text; the discursive practices (that is, the processes of writing/speaking and reading/hearing) that create and interpret that text; and the larger social context that bears upon it. In so doing, CDA aims to show how these levels are all interrelated. Third, critical discourse analysis is very much concerned with important societal issues. This feature derives partly from the first, inasmuch as context is meant to include not only the immediate environment in which a text is produced and interpreted but also the larger societal context including its relevant cultural, political, social, and other facets. CDA researchers and theorists feel that since there are no restrictions on the scope of an analysis, we might as well choose texts that potentially have real consequences in the lives of a large number of people. Fourth, in analyzing such texts, CDA practitioners typically take an ethical stance, one that draws attention to power imbalances, social inequities, non-democratic practices, and other injustices in hopes of spurring readers to corrective action. This is why the term critical is used: CDA not only describes unfair social/political practices but is explicitly critical of them. Fifth, critical discourse analysis assumes a social constructionist view of discourse. Following the poststructuralist philosophies of Michel Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, CDA practitioners assume that people's notions of reality are constructed largely through interaction with others, as mediated by the use of language and other semiotic systems. Thus, reality is not seen as immutable but as open to change--which raises the possibility of changing it for the better. By focusing on language and other elements of discursive practice, CDA analysts try to 2 illuminate ways in which the dominant forces in a society construct versions of reality that favor the interests of those same forces. By unmasking such practices, CDA scholars aim to support the victims of such oppression and encourage them to resist it. Finally, in pursuit of these democratic goals, critical discourse analysts try to make their work as clear as possible to a broad, nonspecialist readership. In particular, we try to minimize the use of scholarly jargon and convoluted syntax, even at the risk of losing some precision in the analysis. In sum, the primary activity of critical discourse analysis is the close analysis of written or oral texts that are deemed to be politically--or culturally influential to a given society. But the text- analytic activity cannot be done in isolation; rather, the analyst must always take into account the larger context in which the text is located. This can be schematized as follows (from Fairclough, 1992): As suggested by this schematic diagram, a text is assumed to be the product of discursive practices, including production, distribution, and interpretation, which themselves are embedded in a complex mosaic of social practices. To put this another way: The meaning of a text derives TEXT Discursive Practice (production, distribution, consumption) Social Practice 3 Figure 1.. Three-dimensional conception of discourse (From Fairlough, Discorse and Social Change, Polity, 1992). not just from the words-on-the-page but also from how those words are used in a particular social context. When more than one user and one social context are involved, a given text will typically have more than one meaning. The rest of this chapter is organized as follows: (1) a description of how critical discourse analysis is done, including a description of some of the tools involved; (2) an example of CDA using a newspaper report; and (3) discussion about how CDA can be applied to EFL teaching. How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis Since the primary activity of CDA is analyzing texts, it may be useful at this point to take a look at the kinds of tools that can be used. It should be kept in mind that CDA is not a linguistic theory and therefore does not provide a complete grammar of syntactic, phonological, or other linguistic elements for any particular language. Nor does it aim to describe any particular text in exhaustive detail. Instead, it tries to point out those features of a text that are most interesting from a critical perspective, those that appear to be textual manipulations serving non-democratic purposes. Not every concept found in a linguistics textbook (or even in a discourse analysis methods book such as this one) is equally useful when it comes to doing critical discourse analysis, and even CDA analysts differ somewhat among themselves in the kinds of tools they employ. Even those trained as Systemic Linguists, who represent perhaps the dominant strain of CDA, do not all focus on exactly the same kinds of text features. It is necessary, however, for any CDA analyst to have a broad inventory of possible text-analytic tools to draw from. Since I believe my approach is fairly typical of CDA methodology, and since in any case there is no standardized form of CDA methodology, I will henceforth focus (with apologies to other CDA workers) on those tools that I have found most valuable in my own work. My comments will refer mainly to written texts, as these provide the best opportunities for CDA work in EFL contexts. If your students have access to English-language advertisements, news reports, etc. on local radio or TV, however, you could apply many of the same concepts discussed here as well as some additional ones particular to spoken discourse such as turn-taking, topic management, metamessages, intonation, politeness, etc. (see Tannen, 1990; Levinson, 1983). General Strategy: I try to approach a text in two stages. First, I play the role of a typical reader who is just trying to comprehend the text in an uncritical manner. In teaching EFL students, much time would normally have to be devoted to this stage, supported by traditional EFL reading materials and instructional methods. Second, I then step back from the text and look at it critically. This involves revisiting the text at different levels, raising questions about it, imagining how it could have been constructed differently, mentally comparing it to related texts, etc. Generally, this second stage goes from large (text-level) features to small (word-level) ones, though the exact sequence might differ from case to case. It is important during this second stage not to lose sight of the first stage; that is, one should always keep the ordinary reader in mind 4 while critiquing the text. This allows the analyst to focus on those features that seem to have the potential of misleading the unwary reader. Details: What follows is a more detailed description of this second (critical) stage. The Text As A Whole It makes sense to start by considering the text as a whole, since this is usually where textual manipulations have their most powerful effect. Readers don't just pick up a text and start deciphering it word by word. Rather, they usually begin by recognizing that the text belongs to a certain genre (text type) that manifests a characteristic set of formal features serving a characteristic purpose. For example, advertisements as a genre are usually immediately recognizable by their use of attention-getting language and visual aids, by the way they extol the virtues of some product or service, and by their artificially personal tone--all of which are designed to encourage readers to buy that particular product or service. The CDA analyst should therefore begin by determining the genre of the text under analysis and observing how that text conforms to it. This genre-orientation often allows the analyst to see why certain kinds of statements appear in the text and how they might serve the purposes of the text-producer, as encoded in that genre. It can also help the analyst imagine what has been left out--what could have been said, but was not. If the genre ordinarily includes certain kinds of information, and yet one does not find such information in the text being analyzed, it gives the analyst reason to suspect that the writer has deliberately left it out. (See comments on omission, below.) Finally, many clever writers know how to manipulate a genre, how to go beyond its normal boundaries to produce special effects. For example, news reports are supposed to use neutral, objective language, but some reporters will insert an occasional loaded word to slant the report. Genre knowledge enables the analyst to detect and interpret such deviations critically. Another major part of text production and text interpretation is framing. Framing refers to how the content of a text is presented, what sort of perspective (angle, slant) the writer is taking. To be coherent, a text cannot simply be a collection of details; rather, it must try to pull these details together into some sort of unified whole. There can be frames within frames. For example, a news report might be framed as a narrative, or story; and within that frame it might set up a Good Guys vs. Bad Guys frame with one group of participants being given favorable treatment over the other. One particularly powerful way of framing a text is through the use of visual aids. Analysts should be alert to photographs, sketches, diagrams, formatting devices, and other visual embellishments. Closely related to framing is foregrounding (and its opposite, backgrounding). These terms refer to the writer's emphasizing certain concepts (by giving them textual prominence) and de- emphasizing others. Textual prominence sometimes derives from the use of genres, as certain genres will sometimes have slots that automatically bestow prominence on any information occupying those slots. For example, the top-down orientation of news reports decrees that sentences occurring early in the report will be foregrounded while those occurring later will be backgrounded. 5 The ultimate form of backgrounding is omission--actually leaving certain things completely out of a text. Omission is often the most potent aspect of textualization, because if the writer does not mention something, it often does not even enter the reader's mind and thus is not subjected to his or her scrutiny. It is difficult to raise questions about something that is not even there. Writers can also manipulate readers through presupposition. Presupposition is the use of language in a way that appears to take certain ideas for granted, as if there were no alternative. A common example of this at the text level would be an advertisement that describes a product in such glowing terms that the product appears to have no rival. Many texts contain more than one style of discourse (or register, see below). Writers can exploit these discursive differences to manipulate readers in various ways. For example, an advertisement for a medical product might be written partly in the voice of a typical user (Some seasonal allergy medicines used to make me feel drowsy.... Then I woke up to HISMANAL) and partly in the voice of the medical scientist (The reported incidence of drowsiness with HISMANAL [7.1%] in clinical studies involving more than 1600 patients did not differ significantly from that reported in patients receiving placebo [6.4%].). The first voice emphasizes the helplessness of the ordinary citizen; the second emphasizes the authority and expertise of the scientific community. [Quotes from TIME, 4/24/95, p. 57.] Reading Sentence By Sentence Having noticed the genre and framing of a text, readers next typically proceed through it sentence by sentence. At this level, in addition to constructing the basic meaning of each sentence, they might notice that certain pieces of information appear as grammatical subjects of the sentence and are thereby topicalized (which is a type of foregrounding at the sentence level). A sentence topic is what the sentence is about. Often the topic of one sentence continues as the topic of the next, reinforcing its importance in the text. Topicalization is thus a form of sentence- level foregrounding: In choosing what to put in the topic position, writers create a perspective, or slant, that influences the reader's perception. Readers might also notice, if only subconsciously, the agent-patient relations in sentences. If someone is depicted as an agent, who is it? Who is doing what to whom? Many texts will describe things so that certain persons are consistently depicted as initiating actions (and thus exerting power) while others are depicted as being (often passive) recipients of those actions. Another common form of manipulation at the sentence level is the deletion or omission of agents, which escapes the notice of many uncritical readers. Agent-deletion occurs most often through nominalization and the use of passive verbs. For example, a headline like Massacre of 25 Villagers Reported does not say who did the killing, thanks to the nominalization massacre. The same is true of a headline reading, 25 Villagers Massacred, because of the agentless passive construction. In both of these cases, the spotlight is on the victims, not on those guilty of the crime. Presupposition can also occur at the sentence level. If a politician says, We cannot continue imposing high taxes on the American people, he or she is presupposing that the taxes Americans 6 pay are high (which makes good political rhetoric but is not true, at least not compared to other industrialized nations). Such presuppositions are quite common in public discourse, especially in political speeches, advertisements, and other forms of persuasive rhetoric. They can also be found in supposedly objective discourse such as that found in news reports. Presuppositions are notoriously manipulative because they are difficult to challenge: Many readers are reluctant to question statements that the author appears to be taking for granted. Insinuations are comments that are slyly suggestive. Like presuppositions, they are difficult for readers to challenge--but for a different reason. Insinuations typically have double meanings, and if challenged, the writer can claim innocence, pretending to have only one of these two meanings in mind. (This is similar to what Hodge & Kress, 1988 call an ideological complex.) Because of this deniability, insinuations can be especially powerful elements in any kind of discourse. Words and Phrases At a more detailed level of reading, one can take note of the additional, special meanings (or connotations) that certain words and phrases (lexis) carry. Connotations derive from the frequent use of a word or phrase in a particular type of context. The word grammar, for example, has negative connotations for most Americans, who have unpleasant memories of being drilled in school by a stern grammar teacher. Labels often carry unavoidable connotations. For example, with a polarized political issue, such as abortion in the U.S., it is virtually impossible to refer to one side or the other in completely neutral terms. Someone who opposes abortion would likely be labeled pro-life by sympathizers but anti-choice by opponents. Most educated American readers seeing one or the other term would immediately understand this additional connotation. Sometimes connotations are conveyed through the use of metaphor or other figures of speech. Another aspect of textuality based largely on lexis is the register of a text . Register refers to a text's level of formality or informality, its degree of technicality, its subject field, etc. The text you are reading right now, for example, is intended to be in a semi-formal, semi-technical, applied linguistic register. Writers can deceive readers by affecting a phony register, one that induces a certain misplaced trust. Typical examples of this would include advertisements written either in a friendly conversational register or in an authoritative expert register. Modality is another feature of discourse worth attending to for critical purposes. Modality refers to the tone of statements as regards their degree of certitude and authority; it is carried mainly by words and phrases like may, might, could, will, must, it seems to me, without a doubt, it's possible that, etc. Through their use of such modal verbs and phrases, some texts convey an air of heavy-handed authority while others, at the other extreme, convey a tone of deference. An Example We will briefly examine the following text to get a sense of how CDA works. 7 Reprinted by permission of Associated Press. This is a news report published in the January 6, 1991 edition of The Salt Lake Tribune, one of the two main daily newspapers in Salt Lake City, Utah, a city of about 1,000,000 people in the western United States. The details of this report were actually gathered and distributed by an international wire service, the Associated Press; the Tribune presumably only edited the report and put a headline on it. It is best to begin an analysis by trying to put oneself in the reader's position, that is, by imagining a typical reader and how he or she might typically deal with this text. (In terms of Fairclough's schematic diagram, this is one aspect of the Discursive Practices box.) It is reasonable to suppose that a typical reader of this report would be a regular reader of the Tribune and a resident of Salt Lake City. This topic would be of some concern to many such readers, for two reasons: (1) The state of Nevada lies just to the west of Utah and has long been the site of nuclear testing. During that time cancer rates among Utahns living near the state line have increased disproportionately to those of other Utahns, leading to widespread belief that these downwinders are being afflicted by nuclear fallout carried by westerly winds from Nevada. (2) At the time of publication (January 6, 1991), the start of the Persian Gulf War was less than two weeks away. Most Utahns, like most other Americans, were very much tuned in to the impending conflict. In my opinion, a typical reader of this section of the paper, having noticed the headline, would probably have skimmed at least some of the article. Text Analysis 8 We now take a close look at the text, starting with features associated with the text as a whole (genre, framing, visual aids, etc.) and then gradually narrowing down to sentence-level and word-level features. Genre. Newspaper reports typically have a top-down or inverted pyramid structure with information presented in descending order of importance (Van Dijk, 1988). Thus, whatever the reporter chooses to put first will be interpreted by most readers as most important, and whatever appears last will be interpreted as least important. In this case, the reporter has chosen to foreground the arresting of 700 people, not the reasons for the demonstration. Indeed, the fact that British and U.S. nuclear weapons are tested at the Nevada site is mentioned only at the very end. Other reasons for the demonstration are only briefly mentioned, all in the second column. Framing. The news-report formula just described obliges the writer to order his information in a top-down sequence of statements, with the initial ones serving to create a frame for the story. In the case at hand, the writer has clearly chosen to frame the event as a simple confrontation between a crowd of protestors and law-enforcement officials. The entire first column is devoted to numerical details about how many demonstrators there were and how many of them were arrested. The writer has also chosen to depict the officials in favorable terms and the protestors in unfavorable ones. Notice, for example, how Energy Department estimates are given priority over those from the protesting group, and how the DOE (Department of Energy) spokesman's comments are presented before those of the demonstrators. This framing succeeds in drawing attention away from the more substantive aspects of the event, such as American military policies, public health, and environmental protection. Visual aids. No photos or other visual aids accompanied this article, though one can easily imagine what kinds of photos could have been used (policemen wrestling with protestors, protestors being led away to police vans, etc.). The large, bold typeface used for the headline would certainly draw the reader's attention, and thus immediately set up the frame just discussed. Foregrounding/backgrounding. As mentioned above, this article foregrounds the protestors- versus-police frame. And in so doing, it backgrounds more important societal issues regarding military policy, public health, etc. Omission. Determining what has been left out involves first asking the question, What could the writer have said here? In other words, what kind of information does the genre allow? Teun Van Dijk's studies of news discourse show plainly that the news-report genre allows for substantial background information and verbal commentary. This text could have included information about the scope of the nuclear testing planned for at the Nevada site, about the longstanding health problems being experienced by downwinders, about American military policies, about environmental effects of nuclear testing, about where the protestors came from (were they locals or did they come from all over the U.S.?), and so on. The fact that it does not include such important information--in a genre supposedly devoted to informing the public--gives the critical discourse analyst ample reason to raise suspicions about the real interests of this newspaper and the wire service (Associated Press) which supplied the report. I would argue, with Michael Parenti (1993), that in order to secure a large audience for advertisers, the popular news media as 9 represented by this newspaper and wire service are more interested in entertaining and titillating than in genuinely informing and educating the public. Presupposition. The way this news story is framed presupposes that the most interesting feature of public protests is the number of protesters arrested, not the issues behind the protest. The story also presupposes that government officials are more correct in their actions than ordinary citizens, and more reliable in their accounts. Another presupposition in this account is that the behavior and movements of the protestors are of more significance than the behavior and movements of the police. Discursive Differences. For the most part, this text is written in the semi-formal register of reportorial discourse. There is a noticeable intrusion of protest-sign discourse, however, with slogans like Farms Not Arms, Give Peace a Chance, Radiation is Poison, and Stop Destroying Our Planet. This alternative discourse, though perhaps necessary for signs, seems less dignified in comparison to the discourse of the rest of the article. Instead of quoting the signs directly, the reporter could have interviewed the sign-holders and gotten fuller statements from them similar to that from Bill Walker. In my view, this would have had the effect of treating the protestors' concerns with more respect. Topicalization. Looking more closely at the individual sentences, one can see a pattern of sentence topics that supports the protestors-versus-officials frame: Nevada Officials.... More than 700 people.... Thousands [of demonstrators]... Those [demonstrators] arrested on misdemeanor trespass charges... An Energy Department spokesman... A sponsor of the protest, American Peace Test...the crowd... The turnout... The DOE spokesman, Darwin Morgan,... more than 700 people... Some of the demonstrators... Demonstrators... The demonstrators... 10 Other [demonstrators]... Bill Walker, a spokesman for the [protestors]...the protest... British and U.S. nuclear weapons... All but the last sentence have topics referring either to the protestors (11 references) or to the officials (3). The text is clearly, therefore, about the protestors and the officials; it is not about the issues that motivated the rally in the first place. Agency. Although the protestors are heavily topicalized in this text, they are not endowed with much power. If we note how agent-patient relations are depicted, we see that in almost all of the sentences in the first half of the report, the government officials are the ones initiating actions: They arrest, take, transport, estimate, say, and release. It is only in the second half of the report that the protestors are empowered with initiative of their own: They kick, carry, rally, cross, crawl, etc. Interestingly, this sequencing of events is the precise opposite of the actual chronology of events; the actions of the protestors presumably preceded those of the government officials, not the other way around. Deletion/omission. Although the government has the power in this text, it is somewhat concealed from view. For example, the slogans on the signs carried by the demonstrators do not say who should give peace a chance or who is destroying our planet. Presumably it is the government, but we are forced to guess this. In a sentence like More than 700 people were arrested Saturday . . ., the writer could have added, . . . by government officials. Instead, the writer probably assumed that readers could easily infer this, and so left it out. Many other sentences and noun phrases in this text also omit specific mention of the government as agent. This has the overall effect, I would argue, of backgrounding the government's responsibility for any of these things. Presupposition. There are a number of sentence-level presuppositions operating in the verbal comments embedded in this text. For example, when the DOE spokesman says that Some of the demonstrators were a bit more aggressive [emphasis mine], he implies that all of the demonstrators were aggressive to at least some degree. The demonstrator's sign reading Give Peace a Chance presupposes that the government is presently not doing so. Another sign reading Stop Destroying Our Planet presupposes that the government is presently destroying our planet. Although there are more presuppositions attached to the protestors' discourse, the one presupposition from the DOE official may actually carry more weight because it is framed differently. Insinuation. The reporter makes a key insinuation in this text. In the fourth paragraph, he or she notes that [the turnout] failed to match a turnout of 5,000 demonstrators in 1987, when 2,000 people were arrested on trespass charges. This statement is embedded in a sentence about size comparisons, and so the reporter could argue that it is simply making a statement of fact regarding the size of the demonstration. I would argue, however, that there is also an implied judgment of quality here, too. Most readers of this report, I believe, would be wondering about whether this demonstration was a success or a failure. The report never answers that question 11 directly, but since it describes the event largely in terms of numbers (of protestors and arrests), the reader is likely to interpret the phrase failed to match as an insinuation that the demonstration itself was something of a failure. Connotations. At the word/phrase level, we can begin our analysis by noting some of the connotations employed by this writer. Although news-reporting discourse is supposed to be objective, the author of this piece indulges in a number of metaphorical excesses. For example, the actions of the demonstrators are described in distinctly animalistic terms: They crossed a cattle guard, crawled across fences, were taken to holding pens, and kicked at the guards when they were brought out of the pens; some were a bit more aggressive than others. Verbs like rallied and fanned out add a faintly militaristic sense: One commonly speaks of rallying the troops and having soldiers fan out in search of the enemy. Both sets of metaphors serve to trivialize the protestors: The animalistic ones depict the protestors as irrational, while the militaristic ones make them seem violent and thus hypocritical, given their public stance in favor of peace. Register. Most of this text is written in the standard, semiformal register of news reporting. The only exceptions are the quote from the DOE spokesman and the slogans on the demonstrators' signs, which are somewhat informal. I would argue, however, that these two kinds of exceptions have different effects. The informality of the DOE spokesman's comments serve to put a human face on the government officials, making them more sympathetic. The informality of the protestors' slogans, on the other hand, only trivializes their concerns. Modality. This entire text is written in the indicative mood and past tense, the same modality as that of historical discourse. It reports a series of actions in a highly factual tone, without the slightest trace of uncertainty. There are no instances of conditional, hypothetical, or subjunctive modality in this text. This has the overall effect, I would argue, of making the issues underlying the protest completely closed to discussion or negotiation. And this makes the events themselves seem more like an ineffectual ritual than a meaningful clash of ideas. Contextualized Interpretation As emphasized earlier in this chapter, an essential feature of Critical Discourse Analysis is the full use of context in analyzing texts. In analyzing this particular text, I have already made a number of comments indicating how I think a typical reader might read and interpret it. I have also suggested various tactics used by the writer (whether consciously or not) to put a certain slant on this text. My analysis shows, I think, that the text clearly paints a one-sided picture that favors the government officials and belittles the demonstrators. But this is not enough. A full discussion of this text should also take into account the larger sociocultural context surrounding it. This could include the place of political demonstrations in American culture, the environmental and health effects of nuclear testing, the proposed United Nations ban on nuclear testing, U.S. military policy in general and the buildup leading to the Gulf War, and so on. It should also include a discussion of the media in influencing American public opinion. A useful reference here is Parenti's Inventing Reality. Parenti argues that in a society where the major news media are owned by large corporations and thus expected to turn 12 large profits, reporters are under constant pressure to titillate the public without seriously challenging the power structure. This Gulf Protest report is an excellent example. It entertains the reader by recounting an interesting skirmish in the desert between the government and a large group of citizens, but it does so in an uninformative way that does not challenge the status quo. Several thousand protestors gathered in the desert, they rallied and agitated, and they were either dispersed or arrested--end of story. The serious issues underlying this event are so obscured and trivialized that one has to ask the question: Is this report typical of anti-government protest coverage? If the answer is yes, then one has to ask further questions about the role of the media in informing the public, the role of the media in democracies, the responsibility of the educational system in the face of such ideological manipulation, etc. Space restrictions prevent my going further into this aspect of CDA, which is unfortunate since this is a crucial part of the whole enterprise, one that distinguishes CDA from other forms of discourse analysis. In any case, contextualized interpretation should be broad enough and deep enough to take into serious account the fundamental premises of a democratic society: equal justice for all, basic fairness, individual freedoms (within reason), guarantees of human rights, government by popular will, etc. Applications To English Teaching Critical discourse analysis offers several benefits to the teacher of English. First, it engages students' interest. Many students are interested in current issues, especially those having cultural or political aspects. CDA deliberately seeks out texts that matter, the kind that students are confronted with in their daily lives. Even course readings and other educational materials could serve as targets of critical discourse analysis. Second, CDA helps students become better, more discerning readers. It makes broader use of context than other approaches and thus invites students to look at the big picture. And it encourages students to analyze texts in ways that bring their hidden meanings to the surface. Third, it allows teachers to focus on a variety of textual features and show students how they have real significance for reading comprehension. Concepts like connotation, framing, presupposition, and so on can be taught not just as abstract terms but as important features in the interpretation of real-world texts. In this chapter, I have tried to give you a fairly detailed idea of how critical discourse analysis is done. Needless to say, such an analysis is far too complicated to assign to students who are just learning the language. Instead, I recommend that teachers acquaint students with CDA in smaller doses. This can be done in either of two ways: 1. Using much shorter texts than the one we just analyzed. Advertisements would be a good possibility, as they are often quite brief; or 2. Taking a longer text (such as our Gulf Protest example) but have students focus on only a few kinds of features. To make things easier, teachers could analyze the text beforehand and then direct students' attention to those features that are most salient. 13 Teachers could start by having students first read the text and then answer questions about it such as How is this text framed? or Point out an example of metaphor in this text. A useful follow-up step would be to ask Why is it framed in this way?, What purpose does this metaphor serve? etc. Once students become familiar with this kind of questioning, teachers could take a different text and just start in with open discussion. Alternatively, teachers could have their students do a written analysis of the text. In any case, it is important to assign texts that pertain to a subject and culture that students are familiar with. The reader has probably noticed while we were analyzing the Gulf Protest text that a good analysis depends heavily on knowledge of the topic and the larger social context. I would therefore recommend that teachers look for English-language texts in local newspapers or magazines, on topics of local interest. Thomas Huckin directs the Writing Program at the University of Utah, where he is also an Associate Professor in the Department of English. He has written many articles on discourse analysis, stylistics and technical and professional writing and is the coauthor of Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication, and of Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English, and is chief editor of Second Language Reading and Vocabulary Learning. Dr. Huckin is a member of the Editorial Board of English for Specific Purposes and the TESOL Quarterly.


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Most college students who study state government take only an academic interest in the arcane and sometimes maddening procedures behind how a legislative bill becomes law.
But Chris Gustafson, a junior at Arizona State University, has reason to take it personally when lawmakers convene Jan. 14. He wrote one of the bills that's expected to be introduced to seek limits on future tuition increases at all three state universities.
The Arizona Capitol Times reported Dec. 7 that Gustafson was a student this fall in an ASU class taught by Rep. David Schapira, D-Tempe. Schapira used his inside access to provide the class with an up-close look at how the Legislature writes and passes laws. Gustafson and his fellow students even spent a day on the floor of the House of Representatives debating and voting on various measures as if they were lawmakers themselves, the Capitol Times reported.
Schapira's ultimate motivation for his students to perform well was a promise that he would pick one of the mock bills approved by the class to introduce at the actual Legislature. And Schapira selected Gustafson's proposal to require a two-thirds vote, instead of a simple majority, by the Arizona Board of Regents when it wants to raise tuition rates by more than 5 percent or student fees by more than $200.
Bills are almost never approved in the same form that they are introduced. But Gustafson told the Capitol Times he hopes to at least influence whatever happens next year.
"My end goal for this would be everybody to come together and, instead of having two tuition proposals (from the university presidents and the students), having one proposal everyone can agree with," he said.
The board of regents votes almost unanimously on budget issues. So Gustafson's proposal might not be enough to rein in tuition rates that have doubled in the past six years. But legislative approval would be one small sign that state officials have heard the concerns of financially strapped students and their families.