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National Language Beyond Nation-States: Vernacular Literary Language In Yi Kwang-Su, Sangjin Park
National Language Beyond Nation-States: Vernacular Literary Language In Yi Kwang-Su, Sangjin Park
Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective
The influence of Chinese and Japanese language and literature on Korea has been significant. The influence of Western notions of the modern nation-state in East Asia has also been significant. All of these influences collided in Korea. Through translation, the foreign is made comprehensible, but it is also changed and may be misunderstood. Through the process of translation, the influence of one language upon another is often underestimated, misappropriated, or hidden. The best literature attempts to reveal and transcend these hidden or unconscious dimensions. The importance of understanding the process by which such underlying influences impact culture, especially as forms …
Communicating Vision : A Linguistic Analysis Of Leadership Speeches, Debrah J. Martin
Communicating Vision : A Linguistic Analysis Of Leadership Speeches, Debrah J. Martin
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Leadership literature contains ample recommendations that leaders need to have a vision and be competent in visioning. A small subset of that literature recommends that leaders communicate their visions. There are few resources, however, that guide leaders how to communicate their visions. This study consists of an application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), including Genre Theory, and an extension of SFL, Appraisal Theory, on four visionary speeches in the field of political discourse—Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address, Churchill‘s ―We Shall Fight on the Beaches,‖ Kennedy‘s inaugural, and Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ―I Have a Dream‖—to discover how these leaders were able to …