Structuralism and Deconstructive Perspective; Hills Like White Elephants Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway written in 1927 contains tense conflicts between individual characters within the story; when viewed through the theoretical lens of structuralism and deconstructionism various meanings are derived. Structuralism takes a scientific approach of semiotics; instead of being concerned with what a certain text means, it focuses on how a text structuralizes itself to give meaning. Deconstruction
Exploring Your Theoretical Orientation As I have now explored theories, I have identified myself currently to be congruent with person-centered theory. With resources of information provided by Halbur & Halbur, I have been able to dissect parts of the theory. According to the Institute of Professional Counsellors, an organization training in multiple theories, “The humanistic approach views people as capable and autonomous, with the ability to resolve their difficulties, realize their potential,
suggesting social learning theory as a potential theoretical basis to guide research in this area. Social learning theory posits that an individual’s behavior can be predicted based on two factors: an individual’s expectation that with the performance of a particular behavior a particular reward will ensue and second, the value that the individual places on that particular reward. McLeod performed a series of focus groups in an English-speaking and a French-speaking location. This study looked more
“Vocabulary form the core of the four language skills; listening, speaking, reading”. Therefore, special emphasis must be placed in teaching vocabulary skills, as this will increase student ability to master other areas of reading such as fluency and comprehension. Conversely, other finding indicated that certain basic vocabularies do not need instructions. Especially speaking vocabulary, it was estimated that about 8,000 basic speaking vocabulary words do not need
The most influential theory was set forth by Flower and Hayes (1981), who proposed a cognitive model of recursive writing consisting of three major elements: 1) the planning stage, in turn subdivided into smaller processes such as generating ideas, organizing these ideas and
In light of the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), Abdullah Al-Harrasi , in his article "Ideological Conceptual Metaphors in Arabic- English Translation of Political Discourse," (2003) focuses on the filtering techniques governmental translators of National Day speeches of Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman used to handle the ideological implication of the conceptual metaphor OMANIS ARE SONS OF OMAN (the FAMILY metaphor). The study aims at highlighting the importance of recognizing and understanding the
Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor with a research specialty in conversational styles at Georgetown University, illustrated the Genderlect Styles theory, the idea that discourse differences between male and female are two distinct cultural dialects. The origins of this theory comes from Tannen’s book You Just Don’t Understand, which looks at explaining why men and women talk past one another and strongly believes that male and female conversation is cross-cultural communication. Genderlect
General Strain Theory Griselda’s notorious committed crime was largely related to her abusive childhood. When she was only a little child, she suffered from her mother by physically abusing her. That torched her mind to some degree. Thinking of a little girl, raised in a poor family, living in the slum, without parents’ tender love, how could she live in the silt but not imbrued? Like US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Bob Palombo said of her “I don’t think the fact that she was a female
REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK This chapter consists of a literature review, where the seminal work done within the field of media and think tanks relations is presented, as well as the theoretical framework on which this thesis is built. The literature review introduces distinctly different theories of media power that, without being able to capture all scholarly contribution within this field (Thune,2009), do provide a useful departure for better understanding “the central theoretical positions
context of the modern living and increasing risks, and the influence they have on the established bases of civil liability. Key words: civil liability, corrective justice, risk, principle. Two dominant theoretical approaches to contemporary tort theory are corrective justice and the theory of law and economics. While the idea of law and economics is the latest expression of a broader group of rivals to corrective