Online conference announcements as spaces for disciplinary communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-285
Author(s):  
Rosa Lorés Sanz
Keyword(s):  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Way

Abstract The aim of the study is to explore online conference announcements as sites for disciplinary communication and the way they are realized linguistically. A corpus of 50 conference announcements included in a major listserv in the field of linguistics is analysed, focusing on rhetorical structure and major interpersonal features, namely self mentions, engagement markers, modal verbs and the use of passive voice. Results show that linguistic interpersonal markers are deployed in the text according to the various communicative functions the text has and also the role played by the writer at each stage and, subsequently, the roles ascribed to readers. Moreover, it is claimed that the wide distribution of conference announcements ensured through electronic platforms reinforces the strategic role of these texts as vehicles of communication and interaction among disciplinary members.

scholarly journals The Use of Active and Passive Voice in the News Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 218 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Lect. Sawsan Abdul –Munem Qassim
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
News Writing ◽  
Grammatical Structures ◽  
Passive Verbs

Active and passive verbs are a problematic style faces the journalist of news reports ,because sometimes he  tries to make agency invisible and he may change the role of participants in the constructions of texts, when the actions come to negative situation or related to political parties or politicians. The current study aims at : 1- exploring  the active and passive forms in written media language and their grammatical structures 2- showing  the role and uses of passive forms as one of the techniques used by the journalists .  The study has put two hypotheses:  1-active forms are used more than passive in news writing.  2- modal verbs are commonly used by the journalist more than other types. The theoretical part is presented before tackling the practical part of this study ,.Alexander model ( 1997) has been adopted in this study since this model is comprehensive and adequate to achieve the purpose of analysis . After analyzing the data , the results verified the hypotheses. On the basis of findings ,The study has put some results and recommendations .

scholarly journals Que font les communicants pour sauver leur métier ?

2017 ◽  
pp. 78-99
Author(s):  
Ivan Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Way

Les métiers de la fonction communication dans les organisations publiques françaises de sécurité sociale ont beaucoup évolué depuis deux décennies. Si dans les entreprises privées, la mise en place des services communication a été accompagnée par une prise de conscience du rôle et de la valeur des métiers de la fonction communication, dans les organisations publiques, les communicants sont toujours en train de chercher une reconnaissance et une légitimité de leur savoir- faire et de leurs compétences. Le manque de règlementation interne et externe et de cadres institutionnels de reconnaissance professionnelle oblige les communicants à chercher des voies pour préserver l’intégrité de leurs services qui est menacée par la réduction de leurs effectifs. Cette recherche s’intéresse à la façon dont les communicants publics tentent de garantir l’existence de leur métier, en projetant une image voulue et valorisée de soi. Dans cette quête de légitimité professionnelle, la métacommunication devient une des missions fondamentales des communicants dans la recherche de reconnaissance de la « typicité » de leur métier. The every-day activities of the communication practitioners in the French public organizations have evolved deeply for the past two decades. The establishment of the communication departments in the private companies was backed by the growing awareness of its primacy and the increasing strategic role of the communicator’s profession. In contrast, the communication practitioners in the public organizations are still on the quest for recognition of their legitimacy and know-how, because of the lack of internal and institutional regulations and rule-makings. This research aims to investigate the way in which the communication practitioners in the organizations of the public sector attempt to guarantee the existence of their profession through self-work everyday practices. In this struggle for professional legitimacy, the meta-communication becomes one of the fundamental missions of the communication departments in order to acquire recognition of their professional « typicity ».

A modality-based approach to the United Nations Security Council’s ambiguous positioning in the resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-387
Author(s):  
María Victoria Martín de la Rosa ◽  
Elena Domínguez Romero
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Discursive Strategy ◽  
The United Nations

Abstract This paper examines the role of deontic and epistemic central modality as a discursive strategy to express vagueness in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on the Syrian armed conflict. The paper follows a corpus-based methodology with a two-fold objective: (i) identification, quantification and analysis of the central modal verbs retrieved from the resolutions, and (ii) the description of the communicative functions performed by these verbs. Our ultimate aim is to reveal the use of deliberate flexible language leading to ambiguous positioning towards the Syrian armed conflict in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions which have been issued since 2012. The consequences associated with the institutional use of flexible language and ambiguous positioning in the resolutions under study will also be accounted for.

scholarly journals Strategic role of HRM from the angle of training of employees in the period of transformation of business

Bastina ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Tatjana Jovanović ◽  
Olja Arsenijević
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Philip Morris ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The One ◽  
Hr Strategy ◽  
The Way

Employees are the key in any business because the outcome of a business depends on their achievement. Their importance is multiplied when dealing with business in times of crisis. Under such conditions, some companies make a strategic decision to move towards change and transform their business. In order to achieve the vision, it is necessary, on the one hand, to transform the business from the root, and to change the business culture on the other, align it with new plans, change the way of work and the way of thinking of employees. In this context, it is necessary to include employees in the entire transformation as soon as possible, and the presented case study of Philip Morris Serbia just illustrates this example. By analyzing secondary data, the text considers the significance of the strategic role of HRM, primarily training and development as a means to help employees keep pace with change, lead them and grow within the organization. Particular emphasis is placed on how through a well-conceived and embedded HR strategy with the overall direction of business transformation, turbulent times within the company and beyond can be transformed into an opportunity to create a competitive advantage.

MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE FOR ALPHABET-SWITCHING IN THE WORKS OF CICERO: COMMON NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-516
Author(s):  
Neil O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Consistent Pattern ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Reliable Transmission ◽  
Accurate Record ◽  
The Way

Of the hundreds of Greek common nouns and adjectives preserved in our MSS of Cicero, about three dozen are found written in the Latin alphabet as well as in the Greek. So we find, alongside συμπάθεια, also sympathia, and ἱστορικός as well as historicus. This sort of variation has been termed alphabet-switching; it has received little attention in connection with Cicero, even though it is relevant to subjects of current interest such as his bilingualism and the role of code-switching and loanwords in his works. Rather than addressing these issues directly, this discussion sets out information about the way in which the words are written in our surviving MSS of Cicero and takes further some recent work on the presentation of Greek words in Latin texts. It argues that, for the most part, coherent patterns and explanations can be found in the alphabetic choices exhibited by them, or at least by the earliest of them when there is conflict in the paradosis, and that this coherence is evidence for a generally reliable transmission of Cicero's original choices. While a lack of coherence might indicate unreliable transmission, or even an indifference on Cicero's part, a consistent pattern can only really be explained as an accurate record of coherent alphabet choice made by Cicero when writing Greek words.

Review of Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions.

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 729-730
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Role

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

The adaptation of design thinking in auditing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda MEIJER-WASSENAAR ◽  
Diny VAN EST
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

How can a supreme audit institution (SAI) use design thinking in auditing? SAIs audit the way taxpayers’ money is collected and spent. Adding design thinking to their activities is not to be taken lightly. SAIs independently check whether public organizations have done the right things in the right way, but the organizations might not be willing to act upon a SAI’s recommendations. Can you imagine the role of design in audits? In this paper we share our experiences of some design approaches in the work of one SAI: the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA). Design thinking needs to be adapted (Dorst, 2015a) before it can be used by SAIs such as the NCA in order to reflect their independent, autonomous status. To dive deeper into design thinking, Buchanan’s design framework (2015) and different ways of reasoning (Dorst, 2015b) are used to explore how design thinking can be adapted for audits.

Bad Dreams and Secret Artists: Translating Freud into Literature

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
English Reader ◽  
Creative Writer ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the increasingly popular approach to Freud and his work which sees him primarily as a literary writer rather than a psychologist, and takes this as the context for an examination of Joyce Crick's recent translation of The Interpretation of Dreams. It claims that translation lies at the heart of psychoanalysis, and that the many interlocking and overlapping implications of the word need to be granted a greater degree of complexity. Those who argue that Freud is really a creative writer are themselves doing a work of translation, and one which fails to pay sufficiently careful attention to the role of translation in writing itself (including the notion of repression itself as a failure to translate). Lesley Chamberlain's The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud is taken as an example of the way Freud gets translated into a novelist or an artist, and her claims for his ‘bizarre poems' are criticized. The rest of the article looks closely at Crick's new translation and its claim to be restoring Freud the stylist, an ordinary language Freud, to the English reader. The experience of reading Crick's translation is compared with that of reading Strachey's, rather to the latter's advantage.

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