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Bancroft Cruisers
Sightseeing river cruises on the beautiful River Avon. Bancroft Cruisers is a privately owned family business, situated by the river at the Holiday Inn Hotel, near the historic Clopton Bridge. (Discount - £1 per adult, 50p per child)
Butterfly Farm
Spectacular colourful Butterflies, Caterpillars, Insects, Spiders, Scorpions and much more. (Discount - 50p per person off admission fee)
City Sightseeing Open Top Bus
'Hop on, hop off' Sightseeing Bus Tour around Stratford, to Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Shottery and Mary Arden's Farm in Wilmcote.
(Discount - 10% off tour)
Go Cotswolds
Guided day trips of the beautiful Cotswolds, from Stratford upon Avon at an affordable price. A friendly local driver-guide will collect you from your accommodation, train station or town centre location in a comfortable 16 passenger mini-bus. Fascinating history, architecture, culture, art, celebrities, folklore and an entertaining commentary during the tour. Highlights include Chipping Campden, Dover's Hill, Broadway Tower, Stow on the Wold, Rollright Stones, Bourton on the Water and lasts 6-7 hours. Cost £35 per adult, £25 per child (under 16yrs). Tours on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Private tours by arrangement and mini-bus private hire. To book seats, please call 07786 920166 or email email@example.com (Discount - £3 off per adult)
MAD Museum
The MAD museum is a wonderful and exciting collection of machines incorporating gears, chains, pulleys and whirligig paraphernalia. The exhibits fall into three areas, Kinetic Art (art in motion), Automata (interesting mechanical contraptions) and Steampunk (modern gizmos with a Victorian twist). Superbly engaging for all ages, the museum offers an extravaganza of visual entertainment with lots of rolling balls and plenty of clanking and rattling thrown in for good measure! (Discount - 10% per person off admission fee)
Shakespeare Houses
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust own and care for 5 beautifully preserved period homes and gardens associated with William Shakespeare and his family. In addition they care for Harvard House, on behalf of Harvard University.
(Discount 30% off the 'Town Houses Pass', the 'Town, Cottage and Farm Pass' and during the winter season (Nov-Mar), the 'Town Houses and Cottage Pass')
All passes are valid for 12 months, with unlimited access.
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Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall
See the schoolroom where William Shakespeare spent his schooldays, discovered theatre for the first time and was educated and inspired to become the world's greatest playwright. Step back in time and explore the medieval Guildhall, the heart of bustling civic life in Stratford upon Avon for over 400 years. (Discount - 2FOR1 entry)
Dirty Duck
15th Century building full of history and world famous in theatre circles. If you are in town for a show or just passing through, don't forget to pop in for a coffee, a drink on the terrace or a delicious meal. (Discount - 15% off food)
Garrick Inn
One of the oldest buildings in Stratford, the Garrick Inn is a traditional half-timbered building dating back to the 16th century with some parts of the building as old as the 14th century. Open all day, serving real ales and great pub food - old favourites and exciting seasonal dishes using the finest, locally sourced ingredients. British food at its best! (Discount - 10% off food)
Old Thatch Tavern
The only building in Stratford town with a thatched roof - and haunted! Warm & friendly welcome, good food, good beers!
(Discount - 10% off food)
Barnaby's Fish Restaurant
Popular fish and chip shop, eat in, or take-away. Close to the picturesque Bancroft Gardens, River Avon and Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
(Discount - 10% off bill)
Bensons Café Restaurant
One of Britain's best places for afternoon tea. Food ranges from simple to sophisticated, but is always classically presented. Elegant surroundings, attention to detail and a warm welcome. (Discount - 10% off bill or, 2 FOR 1 Afternoon Tea [normally £12.95])
Edward Moon Restaurant
Traditional English recipes and dishes using local ingredients. (Discount - 10% off whole bill lunchtime, 10% off food in the evening)
Falcon Hotel
Beautiful 16th century timber-framed Tudor Hotel in the heart of Shakespeare's Stratford, well known and loved by locals and visitors. Relax in front of real open fiires during the Autumn and Winter or sample a traditional Afternoon Tea in the beautiful courtyard garden in Spring and Summer. Dine in the formal restaurant or cosy bar and enjoy a wide range of classic British cuisine, seasonal menus and daily specials, with the finest wines and beers. (Discount - 10% off food (Bar menu, Restaurant menu and Afternoon Tea (excluding offers and promotions) AND in addition, 10% off accommodation - request at the time of booking.
El Greco Restaurant
El Greco is a stunning restaurant, cafe, bar, located in the heart of Stratford Upon Avon, overlooking the historic market square. An independent family-owned and operated business, El Greco is focused on offering good food and good value with good service. There is an emphasis on Greek food and drink, but with a touch of Italian, Spanish and English, to reflect the travels of El Greco the famous Greek artist who lived around the same time as Shakespeare. (Discount - £1 off Prix Fixe menu and £2 off Mezzes, the award-winning 22 dish Greek banquet)
Hathaway Tea Rooms
17th century tea room, coffee shop and bakery. Freshly ground Lavazza coffee to drink in or take away and some of the finest cakes and pastries in Stratford upon Avon. Pull up a chair in the spacious upstairs tea rooms, or enjoy the sunshine in the secluded courtyard garden. Open for breakfasts, lunches and high teas. (Discount - 10% off food)
Havilands Tearoom & Takeaway
A family business offering fresh quality, locally sourced food. Cosy tearoom and outside seating for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea and extensive range of freshly made takeaway sandwiches, salads, quiche and savouries, cakes and more. (Discount - 10% off food)
Hobsons Patisseries
A fine range of cakes, savouries, teas and coffees in relaxing surroundings. A place to 'watch the world go by'. (Discount - 10% off bill)
Marco's New York Italian Restaurant
Set in a beautiful, historic timber-framed building in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon, Marco's New York Italian has been inspired by Marco Pierre White's Italian heritage and love of American food. The menu comprises everything you would expect from a New York Italian restaurant with something for everyone in a relaxed setting. (Discount - 15% off bill)
Shakespeare Hotel
Beautiful timber-framed Tudor Hotel in the heart of Shakespeare's Stratford. Stylish bar and relaxing lounge.
(Discount - 10% off food & drinks in the bar and lounge, AND 10% of accommodation - if requested when booking)
Thai Kingdom
Authentic Thai restaurant in the heart of Stratford upon Avon. Ideal for a romantic meal for two, family and group gatherings, light lunches, elaborate dinners, groups and conferences. (Discount - 10% off bill, evenings only)
The Food of Love
A busy and bustling cafe, offering cracking home-cooked food, served with a smile by friendly staff. (Discount - 10% off food & drinks)
The Garden Cafe
The Garden Café is a licensed café, gallery and gift shop in Sheep Street, just a few hundred yards from the Swan Fountain (Town Walk and Ghost Walk meeting place) and a popular spot for locals, visitors and actors. The café has a beautiful secret garden at the back, with local wildlife birds and an abundance of flowers and plants. The Garden Café has quirky giftware and gems displayed in and around the café! Most of the walls are full of our cards and gift wrap, giving you a huge selection to choose from.
(Discount 15% off food & drink)
Thespians Indian & Bangladeshi Restaurant
Popular family run restaurant, specialising in Indian, Bangladeshi, Balti and Tandoori dishes. Comfortable, cosy surroundings and friendly staff. (Discount - 10% off bill)
Bensons House of Tea
Superby range of quality teas and coffees all beautifully packaged and presented, and a range of gifts and souvenirs. Perfect for friends, family or yourself! (Discount - 10% off all purchases)
Nutcracker Christmas Shop
Step into Christmas at The Nutcracker Christmas Shop, a magical place where you will find beautiful, stylish Christmas and winter-themed gifts for your loved ones and for yourself! (Discount - 10% off all purchases)
Nuts in ya Mouth - NIYM
The first NIYM Roastery offering a range of amazingly tasty, healthy, naturally-flavoured nuts of the highest quality. Discover the ever-expanding range of naturally flavoured nuts and Try before you Buy! Look out for the gluten free, organic, Raw Granola Crunch - free from all processed sweeteners and 'utterly delicious'. (Discount - 10% off purchases [excluding ice-cream])
Paxton & Whitfield
Britain's leading Cheesemonger for over 200 years. Paxton & Whitfield source and mature exceptional cheeses while maintaining the timeless values of quality and service. (Discount - 10% off cheese purchases)
Teddy Bear Shop and Pewter Room
Teddy Bear and Russian Doll specialist store stocking a fantastic array of teddy bears from well known manufacturers including Gund, Steiff, Charlie Bears, Teddy Hermann Original Merrythought and various bear artists. All ages and prices are catered for including collectors from all over the world. In addition, don't miss a stunning range of Pewter items, unusual gifts, jewellery and much more. (Discount - 10% off all purchases)
Roly's Fudge Pantry
Visit Roly's Fudge Pantry to see the creamy, crumbly fudge freshly made, every day. A wide variety of flavours to buy.
(Discount - Spend £3 or more on loose fudge and get an extra 10% free)
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Washington's 'small business taxes are obscenely high'
As a small-business owner, I am disgusted with our Legislature. What are they thinking? Raising more taxes is wrong. They need to do what we are all doing. Relook at contracts that are too expensive; cut hours; don't layoff, just prune hours and salaries. They need to stop adding to our tax burden. Our small business taxes are obscenely high and are driving many out of business. Bankers in this area need to start reaching out to small business owners to help them. Sitting on their bailout money does no good for anyone.
Consider my case. Like many others, I am filing my tax return today (April 15). Like many others, I do not have the money to pay for it so will hope to be able to set up a payment plan to cover it.
This is a reflection of my financial life. Like so many others, the last three years have been a disaster financially for me personally and for my business, the Krain Corner Inn.
The Krain, which really is a part of the life of this Plateau, is struggling to maintain its quality and ambiance despite all the things that have gone on over the past three years. Everyone in Enumclaw knows what the bridge closure did to Enumclaw and Black Diamond, just look around at all the empty storefronts. So, despite the loss of our owner, cost of a new hood (state mandated), two robberies, endless rounds with electrical inspectors, etc., etc., and the loss of customers for eight months of the bridge being out and the turndown in the economy, we persist.
My great staff have made sacrifices in work and time and given their all to keep the place going. Many of them have been here the whole time we have owned the Krain and love it, too.
In addition, we have been heartened by the reponse to our Krain Corner booster program. The people who have joined it have helped us make enough for the last month and hopefully for the next few months to allow us to apply for a Chapter 13 bankruptcy which will eliminate onerous penalties and interest on back taxes while allowing us to keep going. We have to make money to go bankrupt! Thank you to every booster. We hope many more will join to save our wonderful old historical landmark.
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ESCANABA - While the numbers aren't in, the effects of two harsh winters on the deer population in the Upper Peninsula are sure to affect hunters this fall.
"We don't have any hard numbers per se, but we do know the herd did suffer this winter," said Brian Roell, wildlife biologist at the Department of Natural Resources' Marquette office.
Hunters may fair better in areas like Menominee County where weather was milder and food was more plentiful for deer this winter, but in areas that experienced heavy snowfall and extreme temperatures there may be fewer deer left in the woods.
"Once it reaches -20 they need to move to keep warm. There just isn't enough insulation in their fur," said Roell.
Keeping active might keep deer warm, but it also depletes their energy reserves, especially in deep snow where movement is difficult. To maintain their fat reserves deer must eat more while being active in the winter months, but food may be scarce or buried under deep snow.
"It's a combination of weather effects, inability to get food, and predation," said Roell, noting that weak or malnourished deer are more likely to be lost to predation.
Deer between eight and 11 months are particularly at risk during the winter months. While deer of all ages can be killed by harsh winter conditions, young deer are unable to build the fat reserves that older deer are capable of and may be unable to get to food supplies claimed by older deer.
In one recent study, fawns born last spring and other deer in Iron County were fitted with collars last summer and monitored over the ensuing winter months.
"The fawns were the first ones to go, and in that study the fawn survival rate was zero percent," said Roell.
The deer population is also expected to be affected by lower birth and survival rates for newborn fawns. Pregnant does are at an increased risk of reabsorbing their fetuses when their energy reserves are low, and fawns that are born following difficult winters have poor survival rates if they are born underweight.
According to Roell, because both last winter and the 2013 winter were harder on deer than usual, hunters have essentially lost three generations of fawns either to winter die off or low birth survival rates.
"We need some mild winters," he said, adding that it would take more than one mild winter for the deer population to fully recover from the last two seasons.
While all hunters are expected to have fewer deer to draw from, hunters who prefer to hunt antlerless deer may have even fewer options.
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Exploring the axiological workings of 'reporter voice' news stories-Attribution and attitudinal positioningPeter R R White
Volume 1, Issues 2-3, June 2012, Pages 57-67
This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship which is interested in the rhetorical, axiological workings of what are sometimes termed 'hard news' or 'objective' news stories-a style of news journalism typically associated with the 'quality' or 'broadsheet' news media and involving a regime of 'strategic 'impersonalisation'. It is interested in the communicative mechanisms by which such texts are often able to advance or favour particular value positions while employing a relatively impersonal style in which attitudinal evaluations and other potentially contentious meanings are largely confined to material attributed to quoted sources. It reviews previous research on the evaluative qualities of these texts, with special reference to the literature on attribution and so-called 'evidentiality' in news discourse. It is proposed that understandings of the axiological workings of these text can be enhanced by referencing some of the key insights emerging from what is termed the 'Appraisal 'framework', an approach to the analysis of evaluative language developed within the Systemic Functional Linguistic paradigm of Michael Halliday and his associates. In particular it is proposed that understandings of the workings of these texts can be enhanced by referencing proposals in the Appraisal literature with respect to implicit or 'invoked' attitude and by reference to an account of attribution and so-called 'evidentiality' which is grounded in Bakhtinian notions of dialogism, rather than in notions of truth functionality and certainty-of-knowledge claims. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
'Value added': Language, image and news valuesMonika Bednarek | Helen Caple
Volume 1, Issues 2-3, June 2012, Pages 103-113
In this article we explore the discursive construal of news values across the modalities of written language and image, with a focus on attitude/evaluation/stance. From this perspective, news values are not beliefs that journalist hold or criteria that they apply, they are values that are constructed by choices in language and image. We argue that attention needs to be paid to the contribution of both modalities to this construction to gain a fuller understanding of how events are retold and made 'newsworthy'. We illustrate our 'discursive' approach to news values through close analysis of online reporting of the 2011 Queensland floods on smh.com.au (the website of The Sydney Morning Herald, an Australian metropolitan broadsheet newspaper). As will be seen, a discursive perspective on news values provides a framework that allows for systematic analysis of how such values are constructed in both words and images. It allows researchers to systematically examine how particular events are construed as newsworthy, what values are emphasised in news stories, and how language and image establish events as more or less newsworthy. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Non-verbal signalling in digital discourse: The case of letter repetitionErika Darics
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 141-148
This study focuses on the interactional functions of non-standard spelling, in particular letter repetition, used in text-based computer-mediated communication as a means of non-verbal signalling. The aim of this paper is to assess the current state of non-verbal cue research in computer-mediated discourse and demonstrate the need for a more comprehensive and methodologically rigorous exploration of written non-verbal signalling. The study proposes a contextual and usage-centered view of written paralanguage. Through illustrative, close linguistic analyses the study proves that previous approaches to non-standard spelling based on their relation to the spoken word might not account for the complexities of this CMC cue, and in order to further our understanding of their interactional functions it is more fruitful to describe the role they play during the contextualisation of the verbal messages. The interactional sociolinguistic approach taken in the analysis demonstrates the range of interactional functions letter repetition can achieve, including contribution to the inscription of socio-emotional information into writing, to the evoking of auditory cues or to a display of informality through using a relaxed writing style. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Doing sociolinguistic research on computer-mediated data: A review of four methodological issuesBrook Bolander | Miriam A. Locher
Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 14-26
This article focuses on four methodological issues which raise challenges for sociolinguists working with online data: (1) ethics; (2) multimodality; (3) mixed methodologies and the relationship between online and offline settings; and (4) web corpora and annotation. While there are currently numerous publications dealing with questions of ethics, data and methodology from within communication studies and social scientific research more generally, there are only a handful of publications which specifically focus on empirical linguistic research. In addition to delineating the diversity of computer-mediated data, in the course of the article we review each of these methodological issues in turn, thereby discussing key terminology and reviewing relevant literature. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
"This is an erroneous argument": Conflict in academic blog discussionsMaría José Luzón
Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 111-119
Academic weblogs are sometimes used by scholars and interested public to engage in discussion about discipline-specific topics. The nature of the blog and its technological affordances affect the interaction taking place and the strategies used by the participants in the blog to negotiate interpersonal relations. The purpose of this paper is to examine conflict in academic blog discussions (i.e. discussions in the comments sections), to analyze whether the medium features of weblog discourse influence the strategies used to construe conflict and to determine how conflict is used for the construction of online identity. The data for the study consisted in discussions taken from 9 academic weblogs. I analyzed the corpus to get data on the following aspects: (i) the frequency of conflictual acts in each academic weblog; (ii) the strategies used to construe conflict; (iii) the target of the conflictual act. The analysis revealed a high incidence of conflictual acts in academic blog discussions, ranging from mild criticism and disagreement to more severe expressions of conflict, like bold criticism, challenging questions or insults. These results can be related to the participants' desire to construct their online identity by using conflict to defend their values and beliefs and show their allegiance to a particular group. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Discipline and resistance on social media: Discourse, power and context in the Paul Chambers 'Twitter Joke Trial'Darren Kelsey | Lucy Bennett
Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 37-45
This paper analyses discourse, power and context on social media. Through a theoretical discussion of the 'Twitter Joke Trial', we highlight the growing importance of understanding 'individual communicative nuance' (ICN) and complex power relations in the production and interpretation of online texts. But ICN is not the only problematic practice of online communications; there are other social and environmental factors that impact upon the production, consumption and interpretation of social media. Whilst adopting previous understandings of discourse, context and social practice we refine and apply models of panoptic and synoptic power that are applicable to the communicative complexities of the social media. These dimensions of power, we argue, are unfixed and shift according to the contextual environments in which they are produced and consumed. Hence, we show that critical discourse studies (CDS) can incorporate theoretical frameworks that provide the investigative and analytical approaches necessary for exploring power relations in digital media technologies. By developing this theoretical approach we propose the concept of synoptic resistance, which mobilizes oppositional power against authoritative surveillance. Whilst we do not deny that broader social structures maintain top-down power, we argue that 'omnioptic' media environments complicate these power relations in the 'countercurrents' they provide against authority. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Languaging when contexts collapse: Audience design in social networkingJannis Androutsopoulos
Volume 4-5, Issue , June 2014, Pages 62-73
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.This paper examines strategies of language choice in social networking interactions among multilingual young people on Facebook. In media studies the term "context collapse" describes the process by which online social networks bring together people from various social contexts, thereby creating a diverse networked audience. In online social networks that involve participants from different countries and language communities, language choice becomes a pertinent issue. This paper draws on empirical data from social networks among young multilingual people on Facebook to examine strategies of language choice and negotiation. Drawing on the sociolinguistic framework of audience design, the sociolinguistics of multilingualism and computer-mediated discourse analysis, the analysis examines language choice in initiating and responding contributions, metapragmatic negotiations of language style and the role of English as a resource among networked writers.
Was this analysis helpful? A genre analysis of the Amazon.com discourse community and its "most helpful" product reviewsStephen Skalicky
Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2013, Pages 84-93
The purpose of this paper is to present a descriptive analysis of Amazon.com product reviews that have been rated as "most helpful" by the Amazon.com discourse community in an attempt to discover if the shared values of the community are reflected in this specific genre. Drawing on genre theory and corpus-based discourse analysis, I detail the rhetorical patterns that exist in these reviews by analyzing a corpus of 142 "most helpful positive" and "most helpful critical" product reviews. A comparison of the results indicates that differences exist in the rhetorical patterning of positive and critical reviews. To reconcile this difference, I put forward a general argument that these differences still work towards the same overall communicative purpose of the genre, which is in turn a reflection of the shared values and goals of the Amazon.com discourse community. Product reviews that contain new or "experience" type information, as opposed to old or "search" (Mudambi and Schuff, 2010) type information are preferred by the Amazon.com discourse community. Concurrently, reviews that are similar to the "soft selling" form of advertisements (Cook, 1992), or reviews that are reminiscent of elements of "synthetic personalization" (Fairclough, 1989), are considered less helpful than reviews that focus on the author or product of the review. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Demonising the cultural Other: Legitimising dehumanisation of foreign domestic helpers in the Hong Kong pressHans J. Ladegaard
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 131-140
Recent research has provided evidence of the widespread abuse and exploitation of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) in Hong Kong. This article explores how domestic abuse of foreign labour may be legitimised through public discourses. It analyses examples from the press of court cases involving FDHs, and compares the media's version of events with the domestic worker's story as it was recorded at a church shelter for abused migrant women. The analyses show that the press engages in positive us-presentation and negative them-presentation. Employers' crimes against FDHs are consistently mitigated and explained, whereas FDHs' offences against their employers are characterised as evil actions committed by 'aliens' with a flawed character. The article argues that FDHs are dehumanised in the press which contributes to their moral exclusion. Thus, a culture of indifference has developed where public and private discourses construct FDHs as non-entities, expendable and undeserving, and therefore, exploiting them is widely seen as acceptable and just. •The Hong Kong press engages in positive us-presentation and negative them-presentation.•Foreign domestic helpers are portrayed as 'aliens' with 'strange' beliefs.•Local employers' crimes against foreign domestic helpers are mitigated.•Foreign domestic helpers are demonised in the press.•Media narratives about foreign domestic helpers legitimise their dehumanistation. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
The role of blogging in public deliberation and democracyJane Mummery | Debbie Rodan
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 22-39
Contending that media users are more than self-interested consumers and that the public sphere media can achieve more in the public sphere than simply meet market demand, our mission in this paper is to show how some public sphere media-specifically such fora as weblogs or blogs-may in fact be able to fulfil democratic public sphere responsibilities of enabling deliberative exchange. More specifically, through a consideration of three Australian politically-focused blogs-Larvatus Prodeo (group-authored blog), Andrew Bolt (sole-authored blog by a conservative commentator), and Andrew Bartlett (sole-authored blog by a former Australian Democrats Senator)-we argue that such fora can indeed inform and enable the public sphere deliberation important for democracy. We found that although blog participants might not evidently come to rational and consensual agreements, they are debating issues of public concern, and can take part in exchanges that facilitate deliberation. In our conception, deliberation is not necessarily invalidated by either the lack of any tangible outcome, or the fact that any outcomes reached are only partial and contingent, open to revision. What is rather important is the practice and procedure of deliberation performed without stringent regulation by pre-set endpoints other than that of deliberation itself. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Engagement in online hotel reviews: A comparative studyYoufei Tian
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2013, Pages 184-191
This paper explores and compares American and Chinese travelers' engagement patterns in their online hotel reviews. Overall, the two populations display homogeneity across the engagement resources of monogloss and heterogloss, construing hotel review writing as primarily assertive and drastically constricted against alternative voices. The two populations' homogeneous engagement pattern suggests that their hotel review writing is not determined by their respective national cultures. Rather it has to do with the factors of introspectiveness, impersonality and asynchrony, and beneficial mutualism concerning travelers, potential travelers, hotel owners/managements, and travel websites. This paper thus demonstrates the strength of intercultural rhetoric's proposal of analyzing linguistic/rhetorical behaviors in particular contexts in terms of complexity and changeability. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Facebook sharing: A sociolinguistic analysis of computer-mediated storytellingLaura E. West
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 1-13
This paper examines the sharing of an unfolding life event (the remodeling of a new house) on Facebook through small story posts. The fact that someone might also choose to simultaneously share the same life event on a blog (as the poster in this paper does) suggests there is a discursive goal that the blog accomplishes that Facebook cannot; on an event-specific blog, unlike on Facebook, the posts are arranged both chronologically and consecutively, within the frame of the overall event. For this reason, the blog is able to tell a narrative, while Facebook can only suggest one. At the same time, Facebook has its own interactive successes over a blog: it is ideal for audience collection, particularly for linking a narrative with people familiar with the protagonist. This particular type of audience is then able to help create the tellability of the narrative (it is of interest because it is a life event being experienced by someone they care about) and assist in shaping the small stories and connecting them discursively with the larger narrative that exists partially on the blog, and partially yet to be experienced. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Digital language practices in superdiversity: IntroductionJannis Androutsopoulos | Kasper Juffermans
Volume 4-5, Issue , June 2014, Pages 1-6
Stancing: Strategies of entextualizing stance in newswritingDaniel Perrin
Volume 1, Issues 2-3, June 2012, Pages 135-147
By stancing, I understand the process of taking one's own position within organizational, institutional, and societal frames of reference and encoding it, through collaborative practices of text production, by using linguistic and further semiotic means. The article starts by discussing the key concept of stancing in more detail (Section 1); then outlines progression analysis as the multimethod approach applied to identify stancing practices (Section 2); explains how progression analysis was applied in the Idée suisse research project (Section 3); presents exemplary findings from German- and French-speaking contexts (Section 4); and discusses how insights from field research can be generalized and contribute to increasing scientific and professional (meta-)linguistic knowledge and awareness related to journalistic stance and stancing (Section 5). © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Categories, norms and inferences: Generating entertainment in a daytime talk showRichard Fitzgerald
Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 151-159
This paper examines the way the host of a UK daytime television talk show, The Jeremy Kyle Show, generates entertainment through framing guests' stories using membership categories and category-based moral evaluations. The analysis draws upon Membership Categorisation Analysis, and in particular Sacks's (1995) discussion of categorial inferencing and category norms, to examine the way the host overlays individuals with membership categories and category-based actions. Moreover, this category work then provides for subsequent normative reasoning and moral judgements to be made for the overhearing audience. In summary the analysis demonstrates the way the show operates through making individuals and their actions morally accountable for the overhearing audience through routine categorisation work and related norms of behavior. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Reversing racism and the elite conspiracy: Strategies used by the British National Party leader in response to hostile media appearancesAndrew J. Johnson | Simon Goodman
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 156-164
This paper addresses the talk of the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, when he spoke on the BBC following a surge in electoral success for the party. Inclusion in these programmes demonstrated political progress for the BNP, yet ironically facilitated breadth of criticism for the party, as his appearances were met with widespread hostility and accusations of extremism. Reactive rhetoric to these criticisms is central to Griffin rebranding the party and becoming part of mainstream UK politics. Discourse analysis is used to explore how Griffin responds to such criticism during two radio programmes and one television programme between 2009 and 2010. The analysis shows how Griffin uses two interconnected strategies of (1) presenting British people as the victims, rather than the perpetrators, of racism, and (2) blaming this racism not on outside groups, but on an ill-defined 'ruling elite'. These strategies are not independent of one another and function in response to criticism to present Griffin and the BNP as not racist aggressors but respondents to anti-white racism. The implications of this strategy for the presentation and attempted rebranding of the BNP, alongside other far right and mainstream parties, are discussed. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Diachronic changes in subjectivity and stance-A corpus linguistic study of Dutch news textsKirsten Vis | José Sanders | Wilbert Spooren
Volume 1, Issues 2-3, June 2012, Pages 95-102
In several studies of English data, researchers have observed a trend of 'informalization': a shift of stylistic preferences in public written discourse, such as journalistic texts, towards a more conversational, or oral, style. In this paper, we aim to contribute to this issue by empirically testing this informalization thesis for Dutch. For this purpose we operationalize informalization in terms of linguistic expressions of subjectivity. Subjectivity is considered here as the expression of speakers of themselves and their own 'private states', such as attitudes, beliefs, opinions, emotions and evaluations. Our model of subjectivity includes elements such as personal pronouns (first and second person), modal verbs and modal adverbials.Comparing newspapers from 1950/1 and 2002, we are able to show that, based on those parameters, subjectivity in Dutch newspapers has increased. However, it is not primarily journalists who express themselves and their private states more: rather, the increasing subjectivity lies in the citations of words of other speakers embedded in the newspaper articles. The use of direct quotations has almost doubled, and the subjectivity expressed in the quotations has increased dramatically as well.It seems, then, that in this case the subjectivity assumed in the informalization thesis lies primarily in the proportion of quoted speech of characters in the news texts and in the subjective content of that speech. Informalization does not occur primarily through a more oral style in the journalist's text, but through literal citations of conversations of other speakers. © 2012.
Deprivation, distance and connectivity: The adaptation of mobile phone use to a life in Wesbank, a post-apartheid township in South AfricaFie Velghe
Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 203-216
The high uptake of mobile phones in the developing world has instigated studies on the impact of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in poverty reduction programs and other programs that would benefit the poorest and most excluded sections of the global population. It has created new hopes as to how mobile phones would be able to close the so-called global digital gap that exists between the developed and the developing world and transform the fortunes of the poor. As ICTs are always embedded in social and economic realities and practices which deeply influence, define, and restrict people's mobile phone use, one should however be cautious in transporting and applying findings and studies focusing on the created opportunities of mobile phone use from one continent, country or even community to another.This article focuses on the mobile phone use of middle-aged women living in Wesbank, a post-apartheid township in Cape Town. By highlighting the main characteristics of the community (poverty, unemployment, crime, migration, multilingualism and illiteracy) I discuss the influences of these characteristics on mobile phone use. In this way, this article looks at the sociolinguistic aspects of discourse. By scrutinizing the availability and accessibility of certain resources and the unequal distribution of others, this ethnographic research looks at the conditions for discourse, or, in a lot of cases, conditions for 'non-discourse'. Although the adoption of a mobile phone creates diverse opportunities with regards to connectivity, safety, and literacy acquisition, poverty, crime and illiteracy are major constraints on the full realization of the potential. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
"SOS 112 what has occurred?" Managing openings in children's emergency callsJakob Cromdal | Daniel Persson-Thunqvist | Karin Osvaldsson
Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 183-202
This article examines the initial exchanges in calls to the Swedish emergency services, focusing on callers' responses to the standardised opening phrase SOS one one two, what has occurred?. Comparisons across three age groups - children, teenagers, and adults - revealed significant differences in caller behaviour. Whereas teenagers and adults offered reports of the incident, child callers were more prone to request dispatch of specific assistance units. This pattern was only observable when children were accompanied by an adult relative, which leads us to propose that child callers may be operating under prior adult instruction concerning how to request help. The second part of the analysis examines the local organisation of participants' actions, showing how turn-design and sequencing manifest the local concerns of the two parties. The analysis thus combines quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the ways through which the parties jointly produce an early sense of emergency incidents. These results are discussed in terms of children's agency and competence as informants granted to them by emergency operators, and how such competence ascriptions run against commonsense conceptualisations of children as less-than-full-fledged members of society. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Just like home: Remediation of the social in contemporary news broadcastingRichard Fitzgerald | Susan McKay
Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 1-8
In this paper we examine contemporary news presentation, noting some of the discursive and textual features as broadcasters endeavour to capture and hold target audiences in an intensely competitive and connected environment. Drawing on Bolter and Grusin's (1999) notion of 'remediation' we examine how the news studio and presentation style has begun to borrow artefacts and language styles that resemble the domestic sphere in layout and discourse. We begin by noting the increasing use of domestic furniture from which news is presented before then examining how the presenters in a particular news program present a newspaper review section during the program. What is notable here is the way the presenters do not stick to the topical news stories of the day but use the stories to touch off further personal stories about themselves, and which take up most of the allocated time slot. In the final section we examine how this level of informality is utilised in integrating viewer comments and feedback into the going interaction maintaining a level of synchronicity of topical comment. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
The appropriation of transcultural flows among Copenhagen youth - The case of IlluminatiAndreas Stæhr
Volume 4-5, Issue , June 2014, Pages 101-115
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.This paper examines how transcultural flows related to the conspiracy theory of Illuminati are encountered and appropriated through YouTube by a group of Copenhagen adolescents. I find that the adolescents engagement with the Illuminati society is not limited to new media practices but on the contrary spread to other everyday practices as well. In examining how the adolescents relate to and use such transcultural flows I look at how they align and dis-align with Illuminati imagery and how they engage with the conspiracy theory in different everyday situations and on Facebook. In this way I discuss how Illuminati imagery is used as a resource in the young people's everyday social practices. Such insights clarify the way in which transcultural phenomena that are circulated by the Internet and new media become elements of cultural diversity in so-called "super-diverse" societies.
To spray or not to spray: The discursive construction of contested environmental issues in the news mediaRolf Lidskog | Ulrika Olausson
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 123-130
This paper focuses on the role of the news media in the (re)definition of contested environmental issues. It analyzes how the media, by means of various discursive strategies, legitimize or delegitimize different stakeholder claims about how to handle environmental issues, i.e. how certain definitions of how to understand and manage them achieve hegemonic positions. Guided by critical discourse analysis, the paper analyzes local and national newspapers' reporting on two insect outbreaks in Sweden: one which resulted in spraying and one which did not. The analysis focuses on the constructions of causes and solutions to the problems and of the consequences of spraying. The paper concludes that the news media's contribution to the production of hegemonic meaning on contested environmental issues is heavily colored by the routines of journalism, as well as by media logic in general and the media's difficulties handling scientific uncertainty in particular. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Towards a multidimensional approach to journalistic stance. Analyzing foreign media coverage of BelgiumBram Vertommen | Astrid Vandendaele | Ellen Van Praet
Volume 1, Issues 2-3, June 2012, Pages 123-134
This paper argues for an expansion of the traditional notion of journalistic stance as defined by Martin and White (2005). Its main plea is that appraisal resources, metaphors or agency expressions in a newspaper article are not the only traces of a journalist's line of vision: a journalist's assessment as to whether particular information is worth mentioning in the article and whether or not the information will be covered in substantial detail are also - be it less explicit and hence more difficult to pin down - expressions of evaluation.News production is in essence a delicate game of choice-making at various levels, not only between including overt or implicit evaluative expressions in the text, but also between providing more or less relevant information, and between giving a detailed or vague description of that information: choices which are at all times governed and constrained by the specific socio-economic and professional context in which the journalist operates. For that reason this paper argues that future research on journalistic stance should try to expand the notion of evaluation to all discursive levels at which choice-making is at stake.In order to support our claim, the paper presents a case study cross-comparing 48 news articles reporting on one and the same news event: the resignation of the Belgian federal government in April 2010. The articles were written by 16 different foreign correspondents attached to broadsheet newspapers from four neighbouring countries of Belgium. The majority of the news articles are characterized by a low frequency of explicit evaluative language (reporter voice). Relying on systematic cross-comparison of appraisal resources and triangulation with ethnographic data, the paper uncovers manifestations of journalistic stance across multiple levels of discourse in order to demonstrate how the intricate puzzle of choice-making affects coverage of the news event. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Hotels' responses to online reviews: Managing consumer dissatisfactionYi Zhang | Camilla Vásquez
Volume 6, Issue , December 2014, Pages 54-64
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.In this study we investigate the generic structure of hotel responses to customer complaints posted on popular travel website, TripAdvisor. Extending the genre analytic notion of rhetorical moves (Swales, 1981, 2004) to this computer-mediated text type, we analyzed 80 hotel replies that were posted in response to online consumer complaints. Our analysis of the responses of 4- and 5-star hotels located in 4 popular urban tourist destinations in China indicates that ten move types are commonly found in this genre, with eight of these appearing in the majority of reviews. These results suggest that online responses from businesses replying to user-generated reviews tend to be highly formulaic and conventionalized, with thanking and apologizing among the most common moves identified. However, we also found considerable variation with respect to how specific hotels were about addressing the problem(s) discussed in the original customer complaint, as well as the extent to which hotel management indicated having taken actions to correct those problems. Finally, our study found that in this set of responses, hotel personnel tended to emphasize a corporate (rather than personal) identity when constructing responses to complaints. The study's findings provide insights into some of the ways in which businesses are managing consumer dissatisfaction online.
Media discourse and dual language programs: A critical linguistic analysisTheresa Catalano | Aleidine J. Moeller
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2013, Pages 165-174
Much research exists that discusses the benefits of dual language education (DLE) as well as the political, historical and social factors involved in the implementation (or lack of) of DLE in the United States. However, little attention has focused on how these programs are presented in media discourse. This study aims to fill this gap by examining media discourse and how DLE is currently relayed to the public. Twenty-nine online articles from US news sources were collected and analyzed as regards linguistic strategies used in media discourse of DLE. Findings reveal the prevailing metaphors used in multilingual/monolingual discourse to be LANGUAGE/ENGLISH AS WATER and DLE AS BUSINESS/FACTORY. Other significant findings include the frequent use of linguistic strategies such as metonymy, pre-suppositions, legitimization and deictics. Based on these findings, the authors offer suggestions of how discourse can be adapted to expand and improve communication about DLE in future media discourse.© 2013 Elsevier Ltd.


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In recent weeks, market pundits (most notably Jim Cramer on his Mad Money show) have speculated about the sustainability of Telefonica's (NYSE:TEF) hefty dividend, which currently stands around 11% in euro terms. While TEF's depressed share price is largely attributable to the recessed European economy and especially, the company's exposure to austerity-stricken Spain, speculation about the yield undoubtedly plays a part in Telefonica ADRs trading near 52-week lows.
Telefonica paid out nearly €7B in 2011 dividends -- even if the company cut its cash payout by half, it would still yield a respectable 5-6%. But the upshot is that a pending dividend cut is most likely reflected in the current share price. If so, TEF could even bounce on news of a cut as investors welcome the removal of uncertainty and increased financial flexibility.
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Most impressive is Telefonica's free cash flow (NYSE:FCF). In 2011, it posted a record €9.3B FCF, equating to €2.06 per share. While Yahoo Finance shows a payout ratio of 109% (based on €1.20 EPS), this slide from the company's year-end presentation shows TEF's shareholder remuneration (including buybacks) fully covered by FCF: (Click to enlarge)
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So I went wheeling this weekend at southington offroad in northeast Ohio. The first hill I came down, I grenaded the clutch. I have a 2013 2door rubicon with 3000 miles on it. I was in 4lo and came down off a plateau to a steep hill, and as soon as I hit the descent the clutch just blew apart. Having it towed to the dealership today. Anybody have clutch problems? Think my warranty will cover it?
How fast where you going. Did you down gear hard or ride the clutch? What gear were you in.
was the clutch pressed in when you started down the hill?
I had the clutch pressed in, but I was in 4lo so the clutch is always engaged. I probably got it up to 4000-4500 rpm before it blew.
sorry I am a bit confused was your foot pressing the clutch pedal in or was your foot off the clutch
My foot had the clutch pressed in down to the floor
Sounds like you did an over speed on the clutch. If you were going down hill in 4-low and depressed the clutch pedal you could have gotten the clutch disk to spin at an excess of 8,000 rpm. You would not see this on your tachometer as your clutch disk would be spinning from forces imposed by the transmission and not the fly wheel. At that speed your clutch disk would rip apart as it can not handle those speeds.
He said foot depressing clutch fully to the floor, going downhill - so I assume he has a foot on the brake... at which point the engine should be idling, no?
Make sure your jeep is spotless when you take it to the stealership. Much better than a muddy trail driven Jeep. Could save you some headaches with your warranty.
I rarely have my foot on the clutch in 4lo going down hill.
I imagine that his initial descent down the hill was with the clutch engaged (pedal up) putting force on the engine (showing tach at 4k) and then the OP pushed in the clutch and that is when the clutch went boom.
8000 rpm equals 133 rotations per second for clutch grenading.
Let's say the tire speed was 2 rotations a second...
2 rotations/second * 4.10 gear ratio * 4 to 1 transfer case ratio * 5 to 1 1st gear ratio === 164 rotations per second or 9,840 rpm (BOOM!)
I, too, am curious as to how fast you were going(and gear) when the clutch blew.
So.....When going down a steep decline in 4lo, in this case, it would have been better to ride the brakes to slow the decent? The main issue was speed, correct?
I am trying to understand what happened and how to avoid it.
It defiantly makes sense that I could have over reved the clutch because the guy who towed me back to the campsite was able to pull shreds of clutch fibers out. Hopefully jeeps warranty helps me out! I'll know for later to never ride my clutch...doh
Yep. The flywheel and pressure plate went from 4k to 800 RPM. The clutch disc went from 4k to 9k...BOOM
I had it engaged to get me over the ledge but because the incline was so steep I panicked a little a pressed in the cutch and brake to slow me down and boom no more fun weekend
This is why we keep tranny in gear AND CLUTCH ENGAGED when descending steep grades!! Especially in 4L. The clutch WILL over-speed if allowed to spin freely.
I tend to be a bit of a wimp - I think I've only had my engine near 4k a few times (offroad uphill on wet ice in 4lo, not daring to take the time to shift, but needing to build momentum up). I don't think I'd be anywhere near that rpm going downhill (because I'm a chicken and that sounds like going too fast to be in control to my comfort level) - but it's good to understand how it could happen.
Personally, I never press clutch while descending a hill- even in 4H or 2H; except to shift or stop. When stopping, I keep clutch engaged until almost stopped, THEN step on the clutch pedal.
Put tranny in first gear and TC in 4L, and let the engine hold you back.
This is one reason that I believe that all stock JEEPS put way too tall of gears in their diffs.
I am running 5.38's with a 4:1 TC. First gear in 4L gives me like a 94:1 crawl ratio. I never need to ride the brakes going down steep grades!
PS. As a side note. I don't know how drivers test examiners are today with manual transmissions; but when I took my test (circa 1960), they would fail you for stepping on the clutch too soon coming to a stop sign or going down a hill. Yeah, I am an old fart!!
And having spent a lot of years in the big rigs, there you also want to keep the clutch engaged at all times. And I do know the CDL examiners will fail you for the above stated reasons if you are testing to get a CDL.
So pressing in the clutch and letting the vehicle just coast down hill while foot on the brake is a no no in 4lo? You're better off keeping the clutch engaged and vehicle in gear and just riding the brake at that point? It makes sense to me, but like Ivoryring states its all muscle memory and I'd likely forget that 4lo has a very low stall point and would be afraid to use my brakes.
I'm new to the Jeep as well as 4wd. What gears can be used in 4lo? I'm assuming anything past 2nd gear wouldn't really help much..
In the OP's case..what gear would have been the best for his situation?
I know, some of the places we put our JEEPS can be more than just a little nerve racking. This is where going with someone that has a LOT of experience off road in the technical stuff can really be a huge help.
here is a pretty good article on it
Exploding Clutch - Tech Tip
What gear you are using in 4L just depends on what your doing
Great article! Thanks, that is pretty much exactly what happened. We learn from our mistakes though, this just happens to be an expensive one haha
Ask me how I know to keep clutch engaged while wheeling!!! Only I did it in reverse!
Never depress your clutch and coast down hill. Gear down and run in gear. 1. Ita illegal to coast down a hill and 2. You cause damage like blowing yor clutch and wearing your breaks. Use your gears. That's what there there for.
I also do as you mention and go with a group of much more experienced guys. Ultimately though, we all learn through making mistakes... I'm pretty sure the OP won't be repeating this one (no matter who pays for the replacement clutch).
The moral of this story: Don't take your wrangler off road.
I remember the first "group ride" I did as an adult. Before the long decent, members of the Jeep club familiar with the trail stood about 15 yards before it and talked to every driver, spending a while with the MT people to remind them of what was about to happen. (And also reminding them to "follow through" the decent and not congregate at the bottom to congratulate each other)
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