The Political leader's motivating language use and his perceived effectiveness: The case of Narendra Modi's Mann Ki Baat

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daneshwar Sharma ◽  
Akash D. Dubey
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Perceived Effectiveness ◽  
Motivating Language

Territorial Politics and Devolution in Scotland

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-102
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Control ◽  
Perceived Effectiveness ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Territorial Politics ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Territorial Change

This chapter addresses territorial politics and the introduction of devolution in Scotland. It discusses the validity of the proposition that, even in Scotland, resources were weak relative to reformers' aspirations. Throughout, the chapter addresses the movement for territorial change in Scotland and explores the proposition that in the context of power politics and resource deficiencies, it adopted constrained aims and incorporated an instrumentalist approach to achieve them. Equally, the chapter considers how the British Labour leadership politically managed the emergence of devolution proposals, and explores the idea that in the context of similar relative resource deficiencies, it adopted a code focused on achieving indirect central control. Finally, the chapter considers the policy process by which devolution proposals were created, both in opposition and in government, and the extent to which it contributed to their perceived effectiveness and legitimacy, and whether Scottish devolution overall could be considered to be a successful reform. To address these issues and theoretical questions, the chapter develops chronologically. Section one focuses on territorial politics and the political debate on the constitutional question in Scotland and at the UK centre in the 1980s. Section two addresses the preparation of devolution policy in Scotland during the 1990s and the significance of the referendum on Scottish devolution held in September 1997. Finally, section three considers the Blair government's preparation of devolution policy 1997–8, the Scotland Act 1998 and plans for its implementation.

Gender, identity, and the political economy of language: Anglophone wives in Tunisia

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Walters
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Economy Of Language ◽  
Tunisian Arabic

ABSTRACTUsing the frameworks of the political economy of language, and of language use as acts of identity, this study attempts to describe and analyze the situation of natively anglophone wives living with their Tunisian husbands in Tunisia – a speech community characterized by Arabic diglossia and Arabic/French bilingualism. Particular attention is devoted to these women's beliefs about using Tunisian Arabic (TA), the native language of their husbands, and the ways in which access to TA or the use of it becomes a site of conflict between husbands and wives, or mothers and children, in these mixed marriages. (Gender, identity, political economy of language, ideology, Tunisia, Arabic, francophonie, diglossia, code-switching, bilingualism, multilingualism, family relations)

Korpuslinguistische Analysen zu den Plenardebatten des Deutschen Bundestages zwischen 2005 und 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Bopp
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
German Bundestag

AbstractPolitical linguistics is underrepresented in contemporary linguistics research for different reasons. In this article, the author outlines how discourse theory and computational linguistics can be applied to political linguistics to make it more relevant again to both linguistics community and the public. To that end, findings concerning the language use of the political parties in the German Bundestag between 2005 and 2009 are presented.

Communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Holmes ◽  
Michele A. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Behavioral Integrity ◽  
Motivating Language ◽  
Motivating Language Theory

Motivating language theory (Sullivan, 1988) is a leadership communication theory focused on the strategic use of leader oral language. Walk and talk alignment is a main pillar of motivating language theory. As such, within the field of educational leadership, we hypothesize that behavioral integrity and credibility are required in order for motivating language to occur. In this study, a survey was administered to teachers, from 2011 to 2014, at a Title I elementary school to gauge the motivating language use of the principal. We empirically tested the ability of behavioral integrity (Simons, 1999, 2008) and credibility (McCroskey & Teven, 1999) to predict the principal’s motivating language use. There were statistically significant correlations between behavioral integrity and motivating language, credibility and motivating language, and between behavioral integrity and credibility. In each year, behavioral integrity and credibility contributed significantly to the predication of the principal’s motivating language use. Behavioral integrity and credibility are integral to a leader’s use of motivating language. We discuss the results and implications for employees and organizations, along with ideas for future research.

scholarly journals New Perspectives in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Righting the Wrong through metaphor in Mornings in Jenin

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Khaled Abkar Alkodimi
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Opinion ◽  
Literary Metaphor ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Literary Devices ◽  
Literary Techniques ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Majority of world opinion today is critical of Israel’s role in the current standoff with Palestine fueled by the illegitimate occupation of the West Bank, depriving millions of Palestinians of their homeland. Yet, almost all non-Islamic countries maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, recognizing it as a country. The plight of the Palestinians, especially the children uprooted from their homes and forced to lead lives of depravation as refugees as a result of Israeli occupation has become a subject for insightful writings by many writers and critics, including Abulhawa who in Mornings in Jenin, skillfully employs language to showcase not the political tragedy (though it operates as the background) but the personal one. This paper textually analyzes Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin to explore the author’s use of the literary metaphor to expose not only the reality in Palestine, but more importantly, the horror of Israeli violence against Palestinians, trauma both physical and psychological. The study further highlights how the author raises a significant question: Who is the real terrorist in Palestine? The findings show that the novel utilizes several literary techniques to bring forth Israeli terrorism and Palestinian agony under Israeli occupation. Via language use, Abulhawa concludes that it’s the Israeli occupation, brutality and aggression that leads to Palestinian resistance/terrorism. Mornings in Jenin, in other words, is an attempt by Susan Abulhawa to justify the means of resistance concluding that Israel is the actual terrorist and not the Palestinians who have a ‘just cause’ to resist Zionist colonization. What is remarkable is her ingenuous use of literary devices to achieve the desired effect on the readers.

scholarly journals ANALISIS WACANA KRITIS STRATEGI POLITIK PENGGUNAAN BAHASA DALAM PIDATO PRESIDEN SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO

LITERA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Sumarti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Figures Of Speech

This study on the political strategy in the language use in Susilo BambangYudhoyono’s speeches is focused on the language behaviors. The data were collected from the internet sources containing his speeches in several occasions with regard to political policies during his presidency. The data were analyzed using the critical discourse analysis approach. The results show that his political strategy in the language use is reflected in the uses of words, sentences, and figures of speech. The language use helps public understandings of the conditions that Indonesian people are now facing and supports his presidency. From the language praxis, his political strategy in the language use is relevant to language behaviors in general.

scholarly journals Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
Language Strategies

Abstract This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financial center employ to justify their practices. The contribution herein surveys the political rationality of the country’s financial center by analyzing the langue de bois that its representatives and boosters use. These language strategies, furthermore, enable Luxembourg’s finance elites to socialize the domestic public’s understanding of their activities.

Language use in socialist context by the example of description of the 1st May – Labour Day

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Adriana Dănilă
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Content ◽  
The Media

The present paper aims to analyze journalistic texts, that were published in the German GDR-newspaper Neues Deutschland on Labour Day 1st May 1949. The texts serve the political authority as an instrument of legitimation of its own ideology and as an instrument to control and influence the crowd of people. The enhancement of socialist worldview and the denigration of others thinking are processed and conveyed by means of language; the media content and the language use are ordered and controlled by the political authority.

Leader Talk and the Creative Spark

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton Mayfield ◽  
Jacqueline Mayfield
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Garden Variety ◽  
Motivating Language ◽  
New Business ◽  
Worker Perceptions ◽  
Creative Environment

Garden variety creativity has a vital but often overlooked role in business. Garden variety creativity happens whenever someone develops a new way of dealing with a workplace issue. It contrasts with institutional creativity—actions meant to develop radical new business methods and products at an organizational level. Institutional creativity advances a business’ place in an industry. Garden variety creativity makes daily routines more efficient and fulfills employees’ need for expression in the workplace. This article examines how leader communication—as captured by the motivating language framework—influences employee’s perceptions of the creative environment. Structural equation model analysis found a strong, significant, and positive relationship between leader motivating language use and worker perceptions of their creative environment. Motivating language use explained 55% of the variance in creative environment perceptions in a sample of over 140 workers drawn from diverse organizations. Findings also showed a 7% increase in creative environment perceptions for every 10% increase in motivating language use.

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