This article is based on data that was conducted through a 10 month business email conversation between a British company and an Italian company. ... The results were obtained by taking a "triangulated methodological approach essentially discourse-analytical in focus, with an additional qualitative analysis of the ethnographic data, and aided by corpus linguistic tools to retrieve recurrent phraseology typical of the business emails....

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Introduction The situation that I chose to discuss in this assignment is the time when I was transferred to a new sister company to the one that I was working for, because of the poor performance that was being recorded at this company. My main role was to try and bring things in order so that the company would perform like the others. This being a new experience I was aware of the challenge that lay in front of me and I was ready to take up to the task. Some of the things that I was expected to address were the constant complaints from the workforce about several issues include the remunerati...

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Abstract The object of this study is to explore specific identity-formations that have occurred under specific cultural and socio-political contexts that have enabled women politicians in India to acquire political power. The paper will examine Indira Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta Banerjee, and Jayalalithaa, and try to understand what led to the personalization of power in all four cases. The idea is to analyze the relationship between particular identities that these figures have acquired in popular discourse and particular modalities of power. What do the invocation of mother or sister figures sig...

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