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Chapter 2: The Building Blocks of Language: The Stuff That Discourse Is Made Of
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UKIP couple have foster children removed from care
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20474120
Families ‘in limbo’ after Russian adoption ban
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/28/living/russian-adoptions-limbo/index.html
Euro 2012 final: Spain v Italy as it happened
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17875873
Any time Cleveland wins it is a favorite NFL moment
http://voices.yahoo.com/anytime-cleveland-wins-favorite-nfl-moment-11919530.html?cat=14
First World War ammunition frozen in time for nearly a century has been found as glacier melts
Winter blast causes outages, traffic restrictions on P.E.I.
Recipes
http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/recipes/search/results/Pizza
Physical prep
http://www.marines.com/becoming-a-marine/ocs-physical-prep
GED hopefuls should get diploma before costs go up
http://news.yahoo.com/g-e-d-hopefuls-diploma-costs-050115801.html
FedEx
2011 Mitsubishi Endeavor review
http://www.edmunds.com/mitsubishi/endeavor/2011/?sub=suv&ps=used#fullreview
Coach Signature
http://www.sephora.com/signature-P259929
Jean Naté
http://www.revlon.com/Revlon-Home/Products/Fragrance/Jean-Nate.aspx
First to fight
http://www.marines.com/operating-forces/first-to-fight/
Powerful quake and tsunami devastate northern Japan
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12japan.html
《仙台沉没.》
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2011-03-12/053222099634.shtml
Un séisme et un tsunami dévastateurs frappent le Japon
Un terremoto de magnitud 8.9 arrasa Japón y deja miles de muertos
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/03/11/internacional/1299824643.html
Chapter 3: Genre, Register, Modality, and Participation Framework
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Obama re-takes oath of office at the White House
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/21/obama-re-takes-oath-of-office-at-the-white-house/
AccuWeather
The Weather Channel
Weather Underground
Weather.gov/National Weather Service—National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)
Hurricane Sandy or post-tropical storm Sandy?
AccuWeather (2012)
Weather, NBC New York
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/weather/stories/Evening-Weather-for-Thursday--June-7/157929735
House of Math word problems for children
Riddles
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/JackCraig/HUMOR-RIDDLES.html
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries: Stop telling teens they aren’t beautiful; make clothes for teens of all sizes
Japanese ohitashi spinach salad
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/JAPANESEOHITASHI-SPINACH-SALAD-50181150#ixzz2UOxIdnG6
ほうれん草のおひたし.
http://www.kikkoman.co.jp/homecook/college/sub/ohitashi.html
Épinards à la vapeur
http://aladistasio.telequebec.tv/recettes/recette.aspx?id=134
Chapter 4: Reference, Deixis, and Stance
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Prince William crash-lands—on purpose—on Prince Edward Island
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/04/canada.royal.visit/index.html
Just shake it [TV commercial]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qCthZz9sj0
Mitalipov: “No debemos clonar humanos porque sabemos que no es seguro
Chapter 5: Information Structure, Cohesion, and Intonation Units
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How to turn off your water
http://www.wvwd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&Itemid=28
The spinning earth: Your world is tilted
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/earth-sun/6572
Tic-tac-toe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe
Dolphins
http://library.thinkquest.org/3935/DOLPHINS.HTM
The Enola Gay controversy
http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/enola/about/
Mexican ‘ape woman’ buried 150 years after her death
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/13/mexican-ape-woman-buried
An artist finds a dignified ending for an ugly story
Learning through listening towards advanced Japanese
http://calper.la.psu.edu/japanese.php
Discourse, genre, and the National Standards: The Korean Wave
Chapter 6: Conversation
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Let that be your last battlefield [Television series episode]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi6iyPto254
Judge Judy
Chapter 7: Pragmatics: Implicature, Speech Act Theory, and Politeness
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Do I? [ TV Commercial].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVcZDSlvhgs
Why? [ TV Commercial]
http://www.advertolog.com/jimmy-dean/adverts/why-7633405/
Tobacco packaging warning messages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_packaging_warning_messages
Chapter 8: Indexicality, Stance, Identity, and Agency
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How to cope with homesickness.
The purpose of education: Learning without frontiers interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNAUJWJN08
Powerful allergy relief [TV commercial]
http://www.youtube.com/user/zyrtec?v=wpXmnteG9Xs
Moving in and adjusting. UCLA
https://www.orl.ucla.edu/parents/moving
바이엘 헬스케어 '아스피린 프로텍[Bayer aspirin protect] [TV commercial]
Chapter 9: Critical Discourse Analysis
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Full text: Tony Blair’s speech
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/mar/18/foreignpolicy.iraq1
Simple pleasures [TV commercial]
https://adpharm.net/displayimage.php?album= 255&pid=34013
Aspartame controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
Aspartame: What is aspartame?
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/aspartame
Aspartame damages the brain at any dose.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/10/06/aspartame-damages-the-brain-at-any-dose/
Understanding the China-Japan island conflict
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/understanding-china-japan-island-conflict
《南方周末》
http://www.infzm.com/content/81146
Diaoyu Islands are China’s inherent territory [White paper]