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Journal articles on the topic "My word (Radio program)"
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Stambouli, Najoua. "The challenges of public speaking in the wings of culture." Linguistics and Culture Review 4, no. 1 (April 11, 2020): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37028/lingcure.v4n1.20.
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As a content producer and presenter of the radio show program, "The Wings of Culture", broadcasted live every Friday on Radio Ribat Fm, Monastir, I have faced different challenges. This paper draws on my personal experience to examine the various challenges I have so far met while presenting the program. My presentation tackles in its first part how the radio host should inform, instruct, and entertain simultaneously the audience especially that the program targets British and American literature and civilisation. The second important challenge to address is how to use voice, word choice, and pitch in order to enact an effective public performance, and accordingly help the audience create the required mental picture specifically in the condition of the absence of a visual image. The third part, however, is devoted to talk about how to manage time, work under pressure, and have quick thinking particularly when engaging in conversation with a guest.
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Dumnic, Marija. "The creation of folk music program on Radio Belgrade before World War Two: Editorial policies and performing ensembles." Muzikologija, no. 14 (2013): 9–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz1314009d.
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This paper deals with the establishing of the organizing models, on one side, and with folk music and its aesthetic characteristics in the interwar period, on the other. This problem significantly contributed to the present meaning of the term ?folk music? (?narodna muzika?). The program of Radio Belgrade (founded in 1929) contained a number of folk music shows, often with live music. In order to develop folk music program, numerous vocal and instrumental soloists were hired, and different bands accompanied them. During that time, two official radio ensembles emerged - the Folk Radio Orchestra and the Tambura Radio Orchestra - displacing from the program the ensembles that were not concurrent to their technical and repertoire level. The decisive power in designing the program concept and content, but also in setting standards for the aesthetic values, was at the hands of music editorship of Radio Belgrade. The radio category of folk music was especially influenced by Petar Krstic (folk music editor in the period from 1930 to 1936) and his successor Mihajlo Vukdragovic (1937-1940), who formally defined all of the aforementioned characteristics, but in rather different ways. A general ambivalence in the treatment of the ensembles that performed at the radio reflects the implementation of their policies. In comparison to the official orchestras, the tavern singers and players received poor reviews in the editors? reports, despite their strong presence on the program. On the other side, the official orchestras were divided according to the regional folklore instrumentarium, but also according to the quality of playing. The Folk Radio Orchestra probably had double leadership, so it was possible to observe different approaches to the music folklore, which eventually resulted in a unique tendency towards cherishing folk music. This paper represents an attempt to show how the media term ?folk music? was constructed and where it currently stands in comparison to the usual study objects of ethnomusicology and popular music studies. My argument is that the discourse of authenticity was fundamental for the creation of official folk music.
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Graham-Jones, Jean. "“The Truth Is . . . My Soul Is with You”: Documenting a Tale of Two Evitas." Theatre Survey 46, no. 1 (May 2005): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557405000050.
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One evening in 1973, or so the story goes, Tim Rice caught the last part of a BBC program about Eva Perón on his car radio. Intrigued enough to make a point of tuning into a later rebroadcast, he became fascinated with this woman, whose single saving grace—he later stated—was that “she had style, in spades.” In late 1976, after more than two years spent researching, writing, composing, and recording (and one or two trips to Buenos Aires), Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber released the studio album of Evita, their rock-opera follow-up to the hugely successful Jesus Christ Superstar. They would not work together again until they reunited to create the song “You Must Love Me” for the 1997 film version of Evita. The original staging of Evita, under Harold Prince's direction, premiered on 21 June 1978 in London's Prince Edward Theatre. The U.S. premiere came barely eleven months later, on 8 May 1979 in Los Angeles's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. In December 1980, the Spanish-language version (translated and adapted by Jaime Azpilicueta and Ignacio Artime) opened at Madrid's Monumental Theatre. Although director Azpilicueta did not stray far from the original staging, except for a few “Argentinizing” modifications, on 26 June 1981 Prince premiered his own staging of the Azpilicueta—Artime translation in Mexico City.
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Rahayu, Tresna Yumiana, and Kartini Rosmalah Dewi Katili. "STRATEGI PROGRAM RADIO DALAM MEMPERTAHANKAN EKSISTENSINYA." Makna (Jurnal Kajian Komunikasi, Bahasa, dan Budaya) 4, no. 1 (June 19, 2019): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33558/makna.v4i1.1677.
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Umumnya, program hiburan lebih banyak disajikan radio dan disukai oleh pendengar. Maka tidaklah mudah bagi stasiun radio dengan format khusus untuk menyiarkan programkeagamaan agar dapat diterima dengan baik. Kajian Tematik adalah salah satu program dakwahyang mampu bertahan sejak 2005 hingga sekarang. Dalam hal ini, tentunya dibutuhkan strategiyang tepat bagi program tersebut untuk mempertahankan eksistensinya di Radio Rodja 756 AM.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui strategi program Kajian Tematik dalammempertahankan eksistensinya dengan menggunakan konsep strategi program Peter Pringleyang terdiri dari perencanaan, produksi dan pembelian, eksekusi, serta pengawasan danevaluasi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Berdasarkan hasilpenelitian, ada enam hal pokok dalam strategi program Kajian Tematik untuk mempertahankaneksistensinya. Pertama, adanya ilmu atau informasi keagamaan dalam setiap tema yangdihadirkan secara aktual. Kedua, narasumber yang berkompeten dalam bidangnya. Ketiga,mengumpulkan ide melalui angket, media sosial, dan diskusi. Keempat, melakukan inovasidengan menyelenggarakan kegiatan off air, promosi melalui media sosial dan secara word ofmouth, membuat jadwal siaran, dan memaksimalkan potensi. Kelima, konsisten dalam ciri khas,yaitu nama dan kemasan program. Keenam, perluasan distribusi program melalui radio analog,streaming, satelit, dan relay. Penulis merekomendasikan untuk penelitian selanjutnya mengenaieksistensi media menggunakan teori niche (ekologi media).
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Lee, Carolyne. "Mornings with Radio 774: Can John Howard's Medium of Choice Enhance Public Sphere Activity?" Media International Australia 122, no. 1 (February 2007): 122–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0712200116.
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This paper addresses the necessity for program-specific analysis in radio research by focusing on Jon Faine's Morning Program on ABC Radio 774 (Melbourne). After establishing the present prime minister's preference for radio appearances over all other types of media, I examine the extent to which Faine's particular iteration of talkback has the capacity to enhance public sphere activity, given the view that this medium is strategically being utilised by politicians to gain virtually uncontested access to listeners. My examination occurs principally through a morning's observation of Faine's program, supported by information from recordings of a constructed week of the program from the previous two months. My findings suggest that, while a certain amount of ‘top-down’ flow of information is unavoidable, some contestation of ideas often occurs, mitigating politicians’ exploitation of at least this particular program. Faine's program does, moreover, seem to give the impression of an acceptance of listeners’ calls on topics that affect their daily lives, even though only a small number of ‘ordinary’ callers are featured each day. My observations suggest this program does offer processes that enhance public sphere activity, although with some qualifications.
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Cotton-Spreckelmeyer, Antha. "Teaching Kansas Environment and Culture in the KU Academic Accelerator Program." Issues in Language Instruction 4, no. 1 (January 10, 2018): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/ili.v4i1.7004.
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As Christopher Hitchings (2008) says in his seminal work, The Secret Life of Words, “A new word is a solution to a problem” (p. 5). This observation proved true many times in my year of directing and teaching international students in the Kansas University Academic Accelerator Program (KUAAP). In fact, that simple phrase became my touchstone and inspiration during the initial terms of the program in 2014-2015.
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Cotton-Spreckelmeyer, Antha. "Teaching Kansas Environment and Culture in the KU Academic Accelerator Program." Issues in Language Instruction 4 (January 10, 2018): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/ili.v4i0.7004.
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As Christopher Hitchings (2008) says in his seminal work, The Secret Life of Words, “A new word is a solution to a problem” (p. 5). This observation proved true many times in my year of directing and teaching international students in the Kansas University Academic Accelerator Program (KUAAP). In fact, that simple phrase became my touchstone and inspiration during the initial terms of the program in 2014-2015.
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Rahima, Ade, and Repha Krisdianti. "CAMPUR KODE BAHASA INGGRIS DALAM TUTURAN BERBAHASA INDONESIA PADA PROGRAM PW BANGET RADIO ELRIA BUANA JAMBI." Aksara: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 4, no. 1 (July 26, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.33087/aksara.v4i1.162.
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This research is aimed at describing two things, 1) the forms of English code-mixing in the Indonesian utterance on the program PW Banget by Radio announcer Elria Buana Jambi, 2) the factors of code-mixing of English into Indonesian language by Radio announcer Elria Buana Jambi. This research is qualitative descriptive with content analysis technique. The data of this research was acquired from the broadcast record of Radio Elria Buana Jambi and interview with announcer of Radio Elria Buana Jambi. The result of this research are. 1) the forms of code-mixing in the form of word, phrase, and clause are as follows: there are 38 quotations in the form of word pieces; there are 15 quotations in the form phrase pieces; there are 2 quotations in the form of clause pieces; and the most dominant of code-mixing code occured is word pieces. 2) The dominant factor which causes the code-mixing by announcer of Radio Elria Buana Jambi is the identification of role which covers social and registral which is derived from three causes: a) the choice of language is adjusted with the condition of broadcasting program; b) the lack of English language ability of the announcer; c) the use of uncommon English language by the youth (unconventional).
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Dwek, Raymond. "Glycobiology at Oxford: A personal view." Biochemist 28, no. 3 (June 1, 2006): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio02803004.
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In the 1980s, one of the approaches we took to determining the function of oligosaccharides was to find out how they altered in disease states. In 1985 my research group published a paper in Nature in which we showed that a change in the glycosylation of the antibody molecule correlated with the occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis. When I was interviewed on the Radio 4 Today programme and by other radio stations, it became clear that the word ‘oligosaccharide’ was not user-friendly for the vast majority of the non-scientific public. I coined the word ‘glycobiology’, and, with Tom Rademacher and Raj Parekh, members of my research team, subsequently used it in the Annual Reviews of Biochemistry in 19881. At that time I was appointed Professor of Glycobiology by Oxford University and encouraged the Oxford University Press to start the journal Glycobiology. The word ‘glycobiology’ was soon taken up around the world, where it provided a special identity to many people already working in the field. My idea was to emphasize the importance of oligosaccharides in their biological context in the hope that this would reveal their functions. In 1991, the Oxford Glycobiology Institute was opened by Fred Sanger, and together with part of the Department of Botany (of which Professor Chris Leaver, FRS, was the Head), was housed in the Rodney Porter Building.
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Samanhudi, Udi. "Reflexive Account of an Indonesian International Student’s Challenges and Opportunities in a U.K. University’s Doctoral Education Program." Journal of International Students 11, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 144–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v11i1.1096.
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This study is an autoethnography focused on providing an in-depth understanding of my personal experiences as an international doctoral student from Indonesia in a university in the United Kingdom. In this article, I share and discuss some challenging situations during my doctoral study particularly in writing a 5,000-word-essay for nine modules, which required me to explicitly perform critical thinking in my writing. I found that expressing my critical voice in writing was not easy, especially at the outset of my doctoral study period. I believe my previous education experiences neglected critical thinking pedagogy in the classroom, which is one of the most important factors causing this kind of difficulty of demonstrating critical thinking especially in writing.
Books on the topic "My word (Radio program)"
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A face made for radio: My 25 years in radio. Providence, R.I: Magiscule Pub. Group, 2007.
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Snider, Drew. My shattered nerves!: A souvenir program of the Dobber. Victoria, B.C: J & S Publications, 1995.
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Everest, Malinda Mae Yoder. My first ninety years. [Napannee, IN]: Printed by Evangel Press, 1999.
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Rollins, Henry. Fanatic!: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show. 2.13.61, 2006.
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Bandason, Tsitsi. "Harnessing Radio and Internet Systems to Monitor and Mitigate Agricultural Droughts in Rural African Communities." In Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195162349.003.0031.
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Humankind has not yet discovered a way to prevent drought entirely. Hence, the provision of timely and accurate climate and weather information can help rural and semiurban producers to better prepare for and mitigate the effects of insufficient precipitation (IRI, 2001). Communicating drought information to remote rural populations, however, has been a major challenge in Africa (Stern and Easterling, 1999). Seasonal rainfall forecasts, precipitation, and stream flow monitoring products, key environmental information, and even lifesaving early warnings are commonly trapped in the information bottleneck of Africa’s capital cities, due to the relative lack of infrastructure in rural areas (Glantz, 2001). Without access to reliable communication networks, the majority of Africa’s farmers and herders are cut off from the scientific and technological advances that support agricultural decision-making in other parts of the world. Before the proliferation of radios, cell phones, and televisions, Africans used local methods—interpreting wind speed and direction, cloud formations, vegetation, and insect and bird migrations, for example—to predict weather patterns and the advent or cessation of precipitation. This chapter describes a Radio and Internet (RANET; http://www.ranetproject.net) system for communicating drought information to the rural communities in Niger and Uganda. This system was developed under a disaster mitigation program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The need for a drought communications system tailored to the realities of rural Africa was initially communicated to the director of the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD; http:// www.acmad.ne) by a nomad in the desert of southeastern Algeria when he declined the gift of a radio offered by the young meteorologist researching desert locusts near Djanet. The nomad did agree that information was vital to his survival. “Just tell me where it has rained. I will know where to take my flocks” (personal communication with Boulahya, Hirir, Algeria, February 1988). He explained that he was familiar with every rise and fall of the terrain and would lead his animals every rainy season to meet the water as it flowed in streams to form pools at low spots in the landscape.
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Kiddey, Rachael. "Welcome to the Croft!" In Homeless Heritage. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198746867.003.0006.
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It was one of those days, typical of England, when you have to work very hard to remember that above the thick, white cloud the sky is always blue. I was cycling up Cheltenham Road, feeling increasingly angry, when I saw a giant advertising hoarding had been erected around a disused car showroom that had, until recently, been a residential squat. It read: ‘New Development, a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom flats. Prices start at just £199,000’. The advert included pictures of smart-looking kitchens, shiny surfaces, and anonymous faces grinning inanely at their fictional bathtubs. I started to cycle harder with each raging thought. I had woken up feeling dismal and my mood had become progressively worse as the day went on. At that time, I worked as a junior programme maker at BBC Radio 4. I had been told in a meeting that I needed to establish a ‘celebrity angle’ on a story that I was working on. It maddened me. What relevance do celebrities have to ordinary people’s lives? This was 2007. The Global Financial Crash was just months away. Back then I resembled a slightly scruffy, more politically engaged Bridget Jones. Single and painfully middle class, I smoked roll-up cigarettes and spent most of my time feeling frustrated that both national and international politics appeared to be moving to the Right while I, and millions of others, protested but got nowhere. Massive peaceful anti-war protests had been ignored by Britain’s ruling elite, and direct action carried increased risk of criminalization. Some saw violence as a resort—albeit the last one—but it was never my style, so instead I just felt increasingly frustrated. I was sick of joining ‘movements’ to quickly become nothing more than a ‘clicktavist’, and was not prepared to turn my back and sink into a state of total apathy. I felt extremely powerless and that made me angry. ‘Rachael!’ I heard someone call my name. It was Jim Dixon, an old friend and fellow graduate of the University of Bristol’s MA in Historical Archaeology.
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Hill, John T. "Edna Lewis: Selected Portraits." In Edna Lewis, 136–40. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638553.003.0014.
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I don’t remember how I first learned about Edna Lewis—only that once I heard her name, she was everywhere. Like a word you learn and then hear on the radio the next day. Like an echo. My curiosity to learn more about her grew into something like hunger. But traces of Edna Lewis in the public record were hard to come by. When the local public library didn’t have her books, I bought them secondhand. I read them many times before I started to cook from them. I started feeling that Edna Lewis was something like my friend. And stranger still—other people, even those who never knew her—seemed to feel the same way. This essay traces my friendship with a woman I have never met, indeed will never know. It asks what I have been asking myself for six years now: What is it about Edna Lewis that renders her always partially out of view, hard to get a hold of and harder still to let go?...
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Manzo, V. J. "Introduction to Programming." In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199777679.003.0006.
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A programming language is a means to specify processes performed by a computer. A programming language is somewhat similar to the language we speak. Each word in the language serves some function and the ordering of each word follows a syntax from which we derive meaning. In a programming language, these words are commonly referred to as functions or objects. Each object has some purpose germane to the programming language. For example, an object called number might allow a user to specify a number. Another object called + might be used to add that number to another number. The objects, each with a specific purpose, work together to create some intended outcome; this is how a program works. In this case, the program we defined added two numbers together. In a typical programming language, there are numerous objects, each with a specific function. One difficulty in the beginning stages of learning to program is that you do not know the fundamental objects that form the basic vocabulary of that programming language. In this book, we will begin by developing small music programs that use only a few objects. As we progress in chapters, more objects will be introduced and your programs will become more sophisticated as you incorporate more objects into them. Another difficulty lies in thinking about the steps involved in creating a program. There are different ways to write programs that achieve the same result, but they all require that precise activity be specified in order to produce that result. In my first experience as a kindergarten music teacher, I stood at the door of my classroom and greeted the students as they entered the room. “Good morning, let’s take out our books and start class.” At that moment, they hadn’t yet put their backpacks down, walked to their seats, or sat in their chairs. It was obvious that they were not ready to begin class. Some students scrambled to find any book anywhere in the room. Some took all of their books out of their backpacks. One student began crying. It was a disaster.
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. "The Land Laboratories: 1933– 1936." In A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.003.0015.
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On June 26, 1933, the University of Wisconsin offered Aldo Leopold a position teaching the nation’s first graduate program in game management. The New York Times hailed it as the “one and only ‘wild-game chair.’” This was the chance he’d been waiting for. Despite the small salary, Leopold accepted. Letters of congratulation filled the mailbox at 2222 Van Hise. Among them was one from none other than the preservationist crusader W. T. Hornaday: …My Dear Ally, I salute the University of Wisconsin, for its foresight and enterprise in establishing the first Collegiate Professorship of Game Management created in the United States… . I congratulate the Wisconsin Alumni Foundation on its correct initiative in the choice of the Best Man for the new foundation… . It is all a helpful gesture in the struggle to save American game and sport from finally going over the precipice, A.D. 1940. …Leopold set up shop in “two small, rather dark rooms” in the basement of the university’s Soils Building. As an outsider to the academic establishment, he was expected to be more of a free-floating conservation resource for the state than a departmental teacher. He outlined some of his duties for the Milwaukee Journal: ...To conduct research in the life history of Wisconsin birds and mammals; develop cropping methods suitable for their preservation and increase; train men to devise and apply such methods; impart to other students a general understanding of the wild life conservation problem; assist farmers and other landowners in selecting and applying cropping methods; integrate game with other uses of land; and advise conservation officers on questions of wild life management and policy. …He was charged with giving radio talks and public addresses, overseeing soil erosion and game-cropping projects, and helping plan a university arboretum and wildlife refuge—all before the official teaching would begin. Since conservation was “a way of living on land” for Leopold, he wanted to involve as many people as possible.
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Ehrenfeld, David. "Forecast: Chilly Overcast Light Drizzle No People Left." In Swimming Lessons. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195148527.003.0014.
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I used to enjoy listening to the National Weather Service forecasts on my short-wave weather radio. An endlessly repeated taped message updated every few hours might be less than thrilling, but the voices of the half-dozen or so forecasters made it come alive. Each one had an identifiable style and intonation; it was easy to assign personalities, even faces, to them. Ten years ago the announcers were all men. There was the one I labeled the grand elder, with his pontifical voice and distinctive, rolling rhythms. When cost-cutting forced the station to move from Manhattan to the grounds of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, way out on Long Island, he disappeared from the airways. Perhaps the daily commute on the Long Island Expressway was too much for the old fellow. I am sure I wasn’t the only listener to mourn the loss of his avuncular cadences. Another announcer who appealed to me spoke fluently until he came to an American Indian place name such as Manasquan or Wanaque (both in New Jersey). Then he hesitated. I could imagine the look of terror in his eyes when he scanned the next line of the script, and there it was, a word with fearsome Q-sounds or daunting combinations of con-sonants and vowels. If I had had any way of getting in touch with him, I would have comforted him by explaining how lucky he was to be broadcasting in the New York–New Jersey metropolitan area. Up in northern Maine, the forecasters have to cope with names such as Caucomgomoc and Chemquasabamticook. Some announcers proclaimed their individuality with what seemed like deliberately odd pronunciations of common words. The most original was the fellow who figured out a new way to say “climate,” an achievement I would have thought was impossible. He did it by lengthening the separation between the two syllables and heavily stressing the second: “cly-matt.”Eventually, the Weather Service hired its first woman announcer, a welcome addition; she made her mark immediately by shortening the phrase “Here are the latest Central Park observations” to “Here is the latest Central Park.”
Conference papers on the topic "My word (Radio program)"
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Yanko, T. E. "RUSSIAN ADVERB DAVNO ‚LONG AGO, FOR A LONG TIME‘ REVISITED FROM A CORPUS PERSPECTIVE." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-773-783.
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During the last twenty years, the Russian adverb davno ‘long ago, for a long time’ was widely discussed in literature. It was recognized that the unique parameter of davno is its inability to be the theme of a sentence. Moreover, if davno functions in the context of aspectual forms relating to the past it can only be the rheme. In the context of the aspectual verbal forms relating to the past but preserving the connection with the moment of speech, davno can be either the rheme proper, or a component of the rheme. A classic example of an aspectual verb form referring to the past is the general factual meaning of the imperfective aspect. At present, the spoken data corpora can shed light on the communicative structure analysis, since the prosodic structure of the sound speech provides a straightforward access to the communicative structure. Novel parameters of davno are as follows. 1) Whereas davno is traditionally recognized as a word of rhematic polarity it can nevertheless function as a component of the theme in the context of attributive clauses and constructions (Davno soglasovannyj visit dolzhen byl sostojatjsja v aprele ‘A visit planned long ago would take place in April’). 2) The general factual meaning of the imperfective aspect, contrary to what was assumed before, is not an absolute prerequisite for davno to function as the rheme. The spoken corpus showed that in the context of negation and in the context of the verbs of speech, the general factual allows for davno to function as a component of the rheme but not the rheme proper (Ja davno tebja ne videl ‘I have not been seeing you for a long time’; My davno govorili, chto nasha zadacha — eto borjba s terrorismom ‘We have been insisting for a long time that our main goal is the struggle against terrorism’). 3) A specific type of questions with the initial davno (as well as with other adverbs with the meaning of a considerable quantity like chasto ‘often’, mnogo ‘much’, and daleko ‘far away’) is singled out. Such questions cannot be unambiguously classified either as yes-no-questions or as wh-questions (I davno vy zdesj stoite? ‘And how long are you staying here?’). A description of unique prosody of such questions is given. 4) In the context of discourse continuity, davno acquires the rising prosody which is in fact uncharacteristic of a word, which is unable be the theme (Xotel eto sdelat’ davno, no teperj sdelaju tochno ‘I wished to do it long ago, but now I will do it for sure’). The rising tone is accounted for by the meaning of continuity, which has the same prosody as the theme. 5) In constructions kogda-to davno ‘once upon a time’, ochenj davno ‘very long ago’, davno-davno ‘very long ago’, davnymdavno ‘very long ago’, dovoljno davno ‘quite long ago’, ne tak davno ‘not so long ago’ davno loses its rhematic polarity. The parameters of davno are exemplified by spoken fragments taken from the Multimodal corpus of the Russian National corpus, and the minor working collection of the Russian speech recordings specifically set up for this investigation. The software program Praat was used in the process of analyzing the sound data.