Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the writte...Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the written form can cross into the fields of advertising, informal, and spoken form. Informalisation and marketisation are the two distinct trends of border crossing. Institutions of higher education need to adjust their discourse to suit the development of the commercialized society.展开更多
Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is ...Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is manifested in a real-life English creative résumé,and how this phenomenon brings about two related consequences,informalization and marketization,through critically analyzing the informal and promotional features of the résumé.It then reaches the conclusion that such border crossing phenomenon reflects a voice by the young in reconstructing their self-identities in job-seeking discourse in post-industrialized,post-modern western societies.展开更多
RANDOM NUMBER 5,000...is the number of foreign nationals who have been busted for illegally crossing China's borders so far in 2020.As you can imagine,it's not easy getting into any country given the current s...RANDOM NUMBER 5,000...is the number of foreign nationals who have been busted for illegally crossing China's borders so far in 2020.As you can imagine,it's not easy getting into any country given the current state of world affairs,with China border authorities handling more than 700 illegal bordercrossing cases since the start of the year.展开更多
文摘Border crossing in English, as a phenomenon in post-industrialized society, refers to forms of English in one situation are crossing borders into other ones. The originally formal institutional discourse in the written form can cross into the fields of advertising, informal, and spoken form. Informalisation and marketisation are the two distinct trends of border crossing. Institutions of higher education need to adjust their discourse to suit the development of the commercialized society.
文摘Border crossing is a metaphoric term in sociolinguistics referring to a blurring of English use across different domains of social discourses.This article shows how border crossing in English job-seeking discourse is manifested in a real-life English creative résumé,and how this phenomenon brings about two related consequences,informalization and marketization,through critically analyzing the informal and promotional features of the résumé.It then reaches the conclusion that such border crossing phenomenon reflects a voice by the young in reconstructing their self-identities in job-seeking discourse in post-industrialized,post-modern western societies.
文摘RANDOM NUMBER 5,000...is the number of foreign nationals who have been busted for illegally crossing China's borders so far in 2020.As you can imagine,it's not easy getting into any country given the current state of world affairs,with China border authorities handling more than 700 illegal bordercrossing cases since the start of the year.
