Complex Interrelations In Business English Communication
Business English shall at a point imply introduction of more specific material not as much in what the linguistic part is concerned but more precisely in concording some language structures with the particular activities involved by the sophisticated busi
The Language of Meetings
1. The Language of Meetings 2. Presenting an Argument 3. Opinions 4. Agreeing and Disagreeing 5. Interrupting 6. Clarifying 7. Questioning 8. Proposals 9. Persuading 10. Degrees of Importance and Certainty 11. Compromising 12. Procedure for a Formal Meeting 13. Getting It All Together
Mutiny Echoes: India, Britons, and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
This essay asks what, if any, import the Indian ““Mutiny”” of 1857 had on A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens�s fictionalized account of the French Revolution. Begun shortly after the Indian uprising started, Dickens�s historical novel appears studiously to avoid any mention of events on the Indian subcontinent, even though these events preoccupied and enraged the author. Few scholars have attended to the question of A Tale of Two Cities and the ““Mutiny,”” but when they have, scholars have looked for analogies between India and Dickens�s account of the French Revolution. In this essay, by contrast, I examine A Tale of Two Cities in a larger context——of Britons9 response to the Uprising, of Dickens9s short stories and essays in Household Words in the years before the ““Mutiny”” and immediately after, of Dickens9s disenchantment with aspects of British culture, and of his need to articulate a national identity grounded in action. I argue that the events in India were the match that ignited Dickens9s already established midcentury interests in national identity, nobility, and masculine heroism. I do not wish to suggest that A Tale of Two Cities is an Indian ““Mutiny”” novel, but rather that it is a novel about the ““Making of Britons,”” an important endeavor for an author who was intensely dissatisfied with the Britain that he saw around him.