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The history of the family has become the source of lively controversy and Ralph Houlbrooke's study has made a major contribution to the debate. Thorough investigations reveal the attitudes and aspirations of all levels of society set within economic, political and religious contexts and developments within the period

This article explores suggestions made by the contemporary mainstream left in England that reinvigorated English national identities could be an important resource for constructing a progressive sense of social solidarity and community in England. Analysis of semi-structured qualitative interviews undertaken in a South London area finds that English identifiers do associate Englishness with a sense of social cooperation and community. However, for most participants, the expectations they have of Englishness are experienced as disrupted. Focusing on white participants' accounts, the article demonstrates how such disruptions are crucially related to the discourses of 'race' and class that seem to underpin English identities and thus severely if not fatally undermine the progressive potential of English nationalism.

AbstractWe are publishing Professor Clarke's article in two installments. The present installment gives us the structure of local government; the next will tell how and to what extent political parties figure in municipal affairs. Many readers will to file the two for reference

political vocabulary on a material of English-language articles and their translation from English into Tatar. Methodology: Methods and techniques used in the study: theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis, empirical methods including linguistic observation and selection of research data, which was examined in the light of comparative analysis, the methods of component, contextual and statistical analysis, the method of a solid sample of the actual material from the original texts. Results: The main results of the article. An analysis of the vocabulary of English publications showed that the journalists using phraseological units, metaphors and metonymy and other lexical units to describe the current events. Comparative analysis showed that translators use the whole range of translation transformations in political vocabulary. The study of the stylistic aspect in translation of social and political matters from English into Tatar has a special theoretical and practical value because of the increasing role of the Tatar language in the social and political life of the Republic of Tatarstan and the necessity of taking urgent steps in this sphere. Applications of this study: The materials of this article can be useful for students, master program undergraduates, post-graduate students while learning Tatar and English. Novelty/Originality of this study: In this research, the model of the stylistic aspect of translation of social and political vocabulary (on the material of english and Tatar languages) is presented in a comprehensive and complete manner.

This article is dedicated to the borrowing and distribution of Russian words in English. The English vocabulary contains a significant number of words borrowed from the Russian language, which will require special English loanwords in Russian: 120 frequently used words. The Russian language is rich and powerful, and this very wealth is constantly growing. Moreover, often new words come from other languages. Today we will tell you about the most frequently used words of English origin in Russian. You will find that you already know over a hundred words in English without even studying them.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Meanings in context -- 1.2.1 Beyond the linguistic code -- The assignment of sense -- The assignment of structural meaning -- The assignment of reference -- The assignment of utterance meaning -- 1.2.2 The scope of pragmatics -- The narrow view: syntax, semantics and pragmatics -- The broad view: pragmatic functions -- 1.3 The pragmatics of English -- 1.4 This book -- 2 Referential Pragmatics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definite expressions -- 2.3 Deixis -- 2.4 Anaphora -- 2.5 Using and understanding referring expressions in interaction -- 2.5.1 Referring expressions and context -- 2.5.2 Referring expressions and accessibility -- 2.5.3 Referring expressions and common ground -- 2.5.4 Referring expressions in interaction -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 Informational Pragmatics -- 3.1 Informational pragmatics -- 3.2 Informational ground: background and foreground -- 3.3 Informational background -- 3.3.1 Background assumptions -- 3.3.2 Presuppositions -- 3.4 Informational foreground -- 3.4.1 Foregrounding -- 3.4.2 Focus -- Focus and prosodic prominence -- Focus and syntactic structures -- Focus as contrastive or additive -- Focus formulae -- 3.5 Informational pragmatics: an interactional perspective -- 3.5.1 Presuppositions and backgrounding -- 3.5.2 Common grounding -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Pragmatic Meaning I -- 4.1 Meaning beyond what is said -- 4.2 What is said versus what is implicated -- 4.2.1 Grice on speaker meaning -- 4.2.2 Implicated meaning -- Conventional implicatures -- Conversational implicatures -- Generalised versus particularised conversational implicatures -- Conversational implicatures as meant or communicated? -- 4.3 Between what is said and what is implicated.

Reviews The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics, David Marquand (London: Jonathan Cape, 1988). Looks at this work on the current state of British politics written by a major political commentator and leading academic, who is also a former Labour MP and has a certain influence with the current leadership of the newly formed SLD. (JLN)