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“It is unfortunately no exaggeration to say that the survival of the planet over the next century or so hinges on developing more progressive strategies of discourse for sharing and accessing crucial knowledge and for communicating about our problems and conflicts.” Robert de Beaugrande. The Story of Discourse Analysis. In: Teun van Dijk (ed.), Introduction to Discourse Analysis. London: Sage, 1996, 35-62.
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“It is unfortunately no exaggeration to say that the survival of the planet over the next century or so hinges on developing more progressive strategies of discourse for sharing and accessing crucial knowledge and for communicating about our problems and conflicts .” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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It is unfortunately no exaggeration to say that the survival of the planet over the next century or so hinges on developing more progressive strategies of discourse for sharing and accessing crucial knowledge and for communicating about our problems and conflicts.
Robert de Beaugrande. The Story of Discourse Analysis. In: Teun van Dijk (ed.), Introduction to Discourse Analysis. London: Sage, 1996, 35-62.1Simplified and standardised language2nd Cochrane #TechSymposium 20 Sept 2014, HyderabadJuliane RiedCochrane Translations Co-ordinator2
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4Habla Cochrane?Voc fala Cochrans?Parlez-vous Cochrane ?CochraneParli Cochrane?Sprechen Sie Cochrane?Govorite li Cochrane? - ? ? ? ?Apakah anda berbicara Cochrane ? Adakah anda bercakap Cochrane ? Cochrane ? ?Do you speak Cochrane?5Screen shot of TM
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7ERASE & REWIND8The idea is:We need standardised textWe need simple textWe also need clean text (data)
9What are the tools?Boilerplate text / based on statistical analysis:
Simple-writing-suggest / -correctWhat else?
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