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Conversational Implicature: Conveying Meaning Indirectly – Exploring How Speakers Imply Information Without Stating It Explicitly.

Conversational Implicature: Conveying Meaning Indirectly – Exploring How Speakers Imply Information Without Stating It Explicitly (Lecture begins - lights dim slightly, dramatic music fades in and out) Alright everyone, settle…

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Cultural Studies

The Body in Cultural Studies: Examining How the Body Is Socially Constructed, Represented, and Experienced Through Cultural Practices.

The Body in Cultural Studies: A Lecture on Social Construction, Representation, and Experience 🎭🧠💪 Welcome, my dear students of societal shenanigans! Today, we embark on a journey into the wonderfully…

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Linguistics

Speech Acts: Using Language to Perform Actions – Understanding How Utterances Can Function as Requests, Promises, or Assertions.

Speech Acts: Using Language to Perform Actions – Understanding How Utterances Can Function as Requests, Promises, or Assertions (Welcome! 🥳 Grab your coffee ☕ and buckle up, because we're diving…

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Cultural Studies

Fashion and Culture: Exploring How Clothing, Style, and Trends Reflect and Shape Identity, Social Status, and Cultural Values.

Fashion and Culture: Strutting Through History and Societal Strata 💃🎩👠 (Lecture Begins: Dim the lights, queue the dramatic music... just kidding. But do imagine a spotlight on a particularly fabulous…

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Cultural Studies

Sport and Culture: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of Sports, Fandom, National Identity, and the Body in Sporting Practices.

Sport and Culture: A Hilarious & Deep Dive into Fandom, National Identity, & the Sporting Body 🏆🌍💪 (Lecture Hall fills with excited chatter. Professor Sparkle enters, radiating enthusiasm and wielding…

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Linguistics

Pragmatic Inference: Reading Between the Lines – Understanding Implied Meanings Based on Context.

Pragmatic Inference: Reading Between the Lines – Understanding Implied Meanings Based on Context (A Lecture in the Art of Subtext Ninjutsu) (😎 🥋 🤯) Welcome, students, to Pragmatics 101! Ditch…

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Cultural Studies

The Cultural Politics of Food: Examining How Food Production, Consumption, and Practices Relate to Identity, Power, and Social Class.

The Cultural Politics of Food: From Haute Cuisine to Humble Hummus – A Lecture on Identity, Power, and Social Class 🌶️👑👨‍🌾 (Open on a screen displaying a dazzling array of…

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Linguistics

Compositional Semantics: The Meaning of Sentences – Understanding How the Meaning of Words Combines to Create Sentence Meaning.

Compositional Semantics: The Meaning of Sentences – Understanding How the Meaning of Words Combines to Create Sentence Meaning (A Lecture in Semantic Shenanigans 🤪) Welcome, intrepid semantic explorers! Prepare yourselves…

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Cultural Studies

Literature and Culture: Analyzing How Literary Texts Reflect, Critique, or Shape Cultural Values, Beliefs, and Experiences.

Literature and Culture: Analyzing How Literary Texts Reflect, Critique, or Shape Cultural Values, Beliefs, and Experiences (Lecture Begins: Cue dramatic music and a spotlight) Alright, settle in, literary adventurers! 📚…

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Linguistics

Lexical Semantics: The Meaning of Words – Exploring Concepts like Synonymy, Antonymy, and Hyponymy.

Lexical Semantics: The Meaning of Words – Exploring Concepts like Synonymy, Antonymy, and Hyponymy (A Humorous Linguistic Lecture) (Cue dramatic music and a spotlight) Alright everyone, settle down, settle down!…

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