This research aims to analyze Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement Speech at Harvard University to explore its wording and the interaction between the speaker and the audience. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach (MDA), and the concepts... of intertextuality and interdiscursivity were adopted in this study. The results show that intertextually, Mark Zuckerberg narrated his experiences and stories, quoting famous sayings, and inserting religious text into his speech. Interdiscursively, he imported

syntactic knowledge, followed by the ability to recognise words in connected speech. The results also revealed that listeners at different proficiency levels process the language in decidedly different ways. Less proficient learners were discovered to be far... more dependent on the linguistic and psycholinguistic subskills that are closest to the surface of the message. On the other hand, owing to the development of their syntactic knowledge and recognition of words in connected speech, more proficient

to Philosophy)hereafter termedBeiträge,posthumously published in 1986. Due to Beiträge’s experimental form and explicit rejection of traditional Western philosophy, this thesis attempts to view this text in a different perspective, connected to the Indian... through the following: Machination, death, self, nothingness, and Truth (of Beyng). The application of Sanskrit philosophical terms and contexts made possible an understanding of the Beiträgeas a'speech of Beyng' throughan impersonal‘other’ principle of a