scholarly journals The communicative role of silence in Akan

Pragmatics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kofi Agyekum
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Communicative Role

This paper looks at the meaning of silence within the Akan speech community. It discusses two types of silence (1) performative silence and (2) semiotic silence. The positive attributes of silence as a communicative strategy will be explored. The paper outlines the various communicative situations in Akan society in which silence is employed, highlighting religious, social and linguistic aspects. Attention is drawn to indigenous expressions to describe silence. In passing, I will also compare the Akan data with other African societies and cultures outside Africa. The paper finally discusses silence vs. talk, silence and gender, and the acquisition of silence as a form of socialisation and communicative competence.

scholarly journals Communicative strategy of promoting Donald Trump’s positive image in political twitting

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Local Strategy ◽  
American Society ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Communicative Role ◽  
Rational Reasoning

This article focuses on the communicative strategy of promoting Donald Trump’s positive image in political twitting. It analyses the concepts of political twitting, image, and communicative strategy. It also investigates the hierarchical organization of the global communicative strategy of political discourse that aims to exert communicative influence in order to seize and retain political power. In the article, I determine the place occupied in this hierarchy by the local strategy of promoting a positive image as well as its subordinate local sub-strategies and rhetorical techniques implementing them. The local sub-strategies are differentiated according to the type of values. These values underlie the various communicative roles which altogether make up the image. The sub-strategies of the patriotism demonstration (that renders the communicative role of the PATRIOT) and the faith demonstration (that stands for the communicative role of the BELIEver) are rooted in ethical values. The sociocultural values of masculine American society underlie the sub-strategies of the economic efficiency demonstration (rendering the communicative role of the EFFicient ECONOMIC MANAGER), the power demonstration (suggesting the communicative role of the tough POLITICAL LEADER), and the demonstration of popularity (standing for the communicative role of the POPULAR POLITICAL LEADER). The familiarization with the electorate sub-strategy (that renders the communicative role of the buddy) is based on social group values. These sub-strategies are implemented by the rhetorical techniques of influencing the addressee, focused on different spheres of the human psyche: the sphere of rational reasoning (argumentation), emotions and sensations (declaration and emotive contagion), and volition (instruction). The dominant communicative role of Trump is of the PATRIOT, which is built on the basis of the sub-strategy of the patriotism demonstration. Its analysis ascertains that these rhetorical techniques are predominantly interwoven within one tweet, simultaneously affecting several spheres of the recipient’s psyche.

Empirical Analysis of Clinical Evaluations on Children Involved in the Child Protection System: The Role of Age and Gender

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Felix ◽  
Anjali T. Naik-Polan ◽  
Christine Sloss ◽  
Lashaunda Poindexter ◽  
Karen S. Budd
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Clinical Evaluations ◽  
And Gender

The role of masculine norms and gender role conflict on prospective well-being among men.

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aylin Kaya ◽  
Derek K. Iwamoto ◽  
Jennifer Brady ◽  
Lauren Clinton ◽  
Margaux Grivel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Role Conflict ◽  
Gender Role Conflict ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Masculine Norms ◽  
And Gender

Leadership and Employee Motivation: Moderating Role of Gender

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beena Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Demand Pull ◽  
Logistics Services ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Moderating Role

With the present business environment which is creating a strong demand pull for quality and efficient logistics services, core issues are being gradually removed with time but HR issues are still neglected. Motivation can be the key process of boosting the morale of employees to encourage them to willingly give their best in accomplishing assigned tasks. During growth of any sector, dimensions of leadership can have great impact on employee motivation. This research paper analyzes impact of transformational leadership on employee motivation and moderating role of gender. The result shows significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and employee motivation and gender does moderate the relationship.

Goddess on the Frontier

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Bryson
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Frontier Region ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Shifting Identities

This book follows the transformations of the goddess Baijie, a deity worshiped in the Dali region of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, to understand how local identities developed in a Chinese frontier region from the twelfth century to the twenty-first. Dali, a region where the cultures of China, India, Tibet, and Southeast Asia converge, has long served as a nexus of religious interaction even as its status has changed. Once the center of independent kingdoms, it was absorbed into the Chinese imperial sphere with the Mongol conquest and remained there ever since. Goddess on the Frontier examines how people in Dali developed regional religious identities through the lens of the local goddess Baijie, whose shifting identities over this span of time reflect shifting identities in Dali. She first appears as a Buddhist figure in the twelfth century, then becomes known as the mother of a regional ruler, next takes on the role of an eighth-century widow martyr, and finally is worshiped as a tutelary village deity. Each of her forms illustrates how people in Dali represented local identities through gendered religious symbols. Taken together, they demonstrate how regional religious identities in Dali developed as a gendered process as well as an ethno-cultural process. This book applies interdisciplinary methodology to a wide variety of newly discovered and unstudied materials to show how religion, ethnicity, and gender intersect in a frontier region.

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