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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-American writer and Nobel Prize-winning author known for his Yiddish-language stories that explore Jewish life, folklore, and themes of spirituality, identity, and morality. His works often delve into the complexities of human nature, blending realism with mysticism. In his story, “A Wedding in Brownsville,” Singer tells the tale of a man named Dr. Margolin, who returns to Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood for a wedding after many years. As he reconnects with familiar faces, he is haunted by memories of his past, including lost love and the horrors of the Holocaust. The story explores themes of memory, guilt, and the enduring impact of trauma on personal identity and relationships. Q: Who were the Senciminers? Ans. Sencimineers were Jewish villagers from the town of Sencimin, where Dr. Margolin once lived. They are now dispersed due to the devastation of WW II, and some of them attend th...
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Conversational Analysis

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  CONVERSATION ANALYSIS What is Conversation? A conversation is an exchange of ideas, thoughts and information between two or more than two people. A conversation occurs when people cooperate with each other in order to introduce and sustain a single focus of attention by taking turns with each other. Conversation Analysis A major area of study in the analysis of discourse is conversational analysis. Conversational analysis looks at ordinary everyday spoken discourse and aims to understand, from a fine grained analysis of the conversation, how people manage their interactions. It also looks at how social relations are developed through the use of spoken discourse (Paltridge,2006:106). For Harvey Sacks, two important functions of CA are – that it kept its grip “on the primary data of the social world – that it was testable and examinable by more than the sociologist performing the analysis. Definition 1. Conversation Analysis (commonly abbreviated as CA) is an...
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