scholarly journals Being a journalist in a multilingual country: Representations of Dutch among Belgian French-speaking journalists

Multilingua ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Bouko ◽  
Olivier Standaert ◽  
Astrid Vandendaele
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Flemish Community ◽  
Tv News ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes ◽  
French Speaker

Abstract In this paper, we examine how the francophone TV audience is introduced to the Flemish community and its language through daily news broadcasts. More specifically, our research looks at how the Dutch language is used when francophone journalists prepare and produce their reports – during all stages of the process –, up until the actual broadcast. We therefore conducted 15 qualitative interviews with TV news journalists employed by the Belgian French-speaking public broadcaster. The interviews were organized around eight topics, e.g. the place of Dutch in the newsroom and the languages chosen during interactions with Dutch-speaking interviewees. From a discursive point of view, we focused on the selected lexical terms and rhetorical tropes (the various uses of the litotes, in particular) to unpack the journalists’ practices, in relation to their representations of Dutch. Our study provides notable insights into their representation of the differences between French- and Dutch-speaking Belgians as a generational issue, their tendency to assess their proficiency in Dutch measured against bilingualism, as well as their wish to beat the cliché of “the unilingual French-speaker”. These observations are coupled with criteria which explain why French might be preferred in the end: the TV audience’s comfort, general intelligibility and subtitling constraints.

What do texts do? The context-construing work of news

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabelle Lukin
Keyword(s):  
Social Process ◽  
News Item ◽  
News Report ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Coherent Picture ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

AbstractWithin the framework of Halliday's text and context relations, with key extensions of this model by Hasan, this paper presents an analysis of a TV news report by Australia's public broadcaster (the ABC) concerning the 2003 “Coalition” invasion of Iraq, in order to present a thesis about the context-construing work done by the register (i.e., functional variety) known as “news.” Sociologists have argued that news is a symbolic commodity, in the business of purveying forms of consciousness. How does news do this? And what, more specifically, can be said about the social process which news texts realize? This paper considers these questions, drawing on the analysis of the texture of the ABC TV news report, based on Hasan's “cohesive harmony” schema. The findings from the analysis are the basis on which I argue the news item relied for its continuity on the derived and abstract notion of “the Iraq war,” while failing to present a coherent picture of the actualized violence perpetrated by the “Coalition” as it rolled out its invasion of Iraq.

scholarly journals Local Participation in Tourism Development—Roles of Non-Tourism Related Residents of the Alpine Destination Bad Reichenhall

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Kantsperger ◽  
Hannes Thees ◽  
Christian Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Important Target

This study applies an adapted approach of the traditional view on local participation in tourism development. First, the study mainly focuses on exploring the patterns behind participation instead of the reasons for participation. Second, a case is chosen that transcends the interest in researching participation in developing countries. Third, the study focuses on non-tourism related residents, an under-researched group of stakeholders. It is thus investigated how non-tourism related residents face the process of participation in tourism development and what the main barriers and drivers are in this regard. To discuss this issue, the study takes a closer look at the case of Bad Reichenhall, an Alpine Destination in Germany. 15 qualitative interviews are conducted with non-tourism related residents and further evaluated through a qualitative content analysis. The results underline that tourism represents a public domain that concerns all stakeholders of a destination. The typology derived throughout the study reflects the heterogeneity of non-tourism related residents, coming up with four types of non-tourism related residents facing participation in tourism development rather differently. Various barriers and drivers are revealed that impact non-tourism related residents from both a personal and general point of view. Non-tourism related residents turn out as a promising and important target group in the discourse of stakeholder participation in tourism development.

scholarly journals An Arabic translation of Susan Glaspell's play, "Trifles"

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Abbas Brashi
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Arabic Translation ◽  
Des Moines ◽  
Emotionally Abused ◽  
The Right ◽  
Susan Glaspell

This is an Arabic translation of “Trifles”, a famous play by prominent American playwright Susan Glaspell (1876-1948). Glaspell was one of the founders of the Playwright’s Theatre, formerly recognized as the Provincetown Players in the United States of America. She wrote ten novels, twenty plays, and more than forty short stories. “Trifles” is a one-act play written in 1916.2 It is considered to be one of Susan Glaspell’s major works. “Trifles” is a play that is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks. The play was based on the murder case of the sixty-year-old farmer, John Hossack, which was covered widely by Susan Glaspell while she was working as a journalist with the Des Moines Daily News immediately after her graduation from Drake University. Accordingly, “Trifles” presents the murder of an oppressive husband by his emotionally abused wife. It is an attempt to re-address the John Hossack case from the point of view of women who might not have a similar viewpoint of the nature of marital disagreement and domestic unhappiness.3 The murder happened in a period where women had insufficient protection from domestic abuse, and had not yet obtained the right to vote. The main characters of the play are: 1- The Sheriff, Mr. Henry Peters; 2- Mrs. Peters(wife of the Sheriff); 3- Mr. Lewis Hale (a neighbour of Mr. and Mrs. Wright); 4- Mrs. Hale (wife of Mr. Hale); and 5- The County Attorney, Mr. George Henderson. The off-stage characters are: 1- Mr. John Write (the victim); 2-Mrs. Minnie Write (the victim’s wife); 3- Frank (Deputy Sheriff); 4- Harry (a helper of Mr.Lewis Hale); 5- Dr. Lloyd (the coroner). The play addressed the life of Mrs. Wright who becameenraged and took the life of her abusive and violent husband after he killed her bird. The motivefor murder was the killing of the canary because it represented freedom for her. Mrs. Wright, theprotagonist, lived through a series of emotions, such as rage, shock, lack of feeling, rejection,and deep sadness, mainly because the loss of her bird was sudden, surprising and unforeseen.4 She considered the death of her bird as a great calamity, as she lost something extremely crucialin her life. Susan Glaspell chose the title of the play from a line stated by one of the characters inthe play, Mr. Lewis Hale, when he says: “Well, women are used to worrying about trifles.” The title demonstrates irony when Mrs. Minnie Wright seemed to be more concerned about triflesthan she is about being under arrest for murder. This English play, “Trifles,” was chosen to betranslated into Arabic because of its significance and association to the Arab culture. For thesake of wide readability, it was translated into Modern Standard Arabic (formal Arabic), as it isquite the same in all Arab countries.

scholarly journals The development of trust over time in an emerging market context: the case of the Tunisian automotive sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1210-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tibor Mandják ◽  
Samy Belaid ◽  
Peter Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Business Relationship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Trust ◽  
Emerging Country ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how context influences the quality of business relationships. This theoretical question is studied from the point of view of trust, one of the important components of business relationship quality. The authors study how trust is related to the dynamics and management of the business relationship in the context of an emerging market. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on qualitative interviews with 15 spare-parts resellers in the Tunisian automotive industry. The authors take a monadic view, interviewing resellers about their relationships with their wholesalers-importers. The decision to undertake the research in Tunisia is based on three factors. First, Tunisia is an emerging country and there is very little published research based in the Maghreb countries. Second, the Tunisian automotive parts market structure is relatively simple and, hence, easily understood, with most spare-parts being imported because of the low level of local production. Third, the actors in the study are all Tunisian companies, so research allows us to explore relationships between local companies in an emerging country. Findings The authors find that different kinds of trust play different roles over the dynamics of the relationship. Perceived trust is more important at the emergent stage of a relationship, and as the two parties learn from each other, experienced trust becomes more important in the established relationships. The initial perceived trust creates the possibility of building trust, and when mutual trust exists between the parties, it motivates them to maintain the relationship, but there is always the threat of the degradation of the quality of the relationship because of the violation or destruction of the trust. Research limitations/implications This paper shows that more care should be taken when using trust as the variable under scrutiny. Different aspects of trust manifest themselves at various stages of the relationship building cycle. Practical implications The results emphasize that when initiating a business relationship, managers first need to create perceived trust. Thereafter, once trust is built up, it is the trust that may “manage” or act to control the on-going relationship as long as the partners’ behavior or network changes do not violate the trust. Originality/value The results of this paper show that there is a mutual but not necessarily symmetrical or balanced influence of trust on the behavior of the partners involved. The influence of the different parties is dependent on the power architecture, the history of the relationship and the network position of the actors.

scholarly journals Francophonie et études francophones: considérations historiques et métacritiques sur quelques concepts majeurs (Francophonie and Francophone studies: historical considerations and metacritiques on a few major concepts)

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
François Provenzano
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Francophone Studies ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

The so called French-speaking world is much more than a community of speakers using the same language. Since the era of decolonization, language has become a major economical stake for France, as well as an important symbolic struggle against Anglo-Saxon linguistic and political hegemony. In the academic context also, the developments of Francophone studies demonstrate a current preoccupation with integrating francophone reality into the common encyclopaedia. This paper steps back from such contemporary debates. Analysing the historical and epistemological backgrounds from which francophone projects have been emerging since the end of the nineteenth century, the paper discusses a number of useful concepts for approaching francophone realities. I argue that the main difficulty of the theoretical work in this field is the diversity of definitions of the object, as well as the inability to separate it from ideological content. Starting with the so called first occurrence of the word ‘francophonie’, I examine the institutional, sociolinguistic, poetical and socioliterary definitions that have attempted to explain the constitutive dimensions of an abstract francophone unity. Taking a metacritical point of view, and inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological works on the one hand and discursive approaches on the other, this article hopes to present pointers for future research into the study of French-speaking zones, peoples and cultures.

Understanding the Factors Affecting Employees’ Motivation to Engage in Co-Creation in the Banking Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Feldmann ◽  
Frank Teuteberg
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Motivation Factors ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
Motivation To Participate

Increasing digitalization and new technological possibilities also entail substantial changes for working methods in the B2B (business-to-business) environment in banking. In this context, the concept of co-creation is critical. Although this concept and the motivation factors behind it have been thoroughly investigated in the B2C (business-to-consumer) sector, only a few research results exist for the B2B context. This study aims to bridge the current knowledge gap and investigate individuals’ motivation to participate in B2B co-creation. By using a case study and qualitative interviews, this study focuses on two aspects: (a) It reveals how a co-creation measure is used in practice in the B2B environment; and (b) it provides information on the motivation factors and outcome from the point of view of the participants in the B2B co-creation project. The paper concludes with an integrative model of the main motivation factors behind B2B co-creation and their effects.

scholarly journals Audiovisual infotainment in European news: A comparative content analysis of Dutch, Spanish, and Irish television news programs

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1534-1551
Author(s):  
Amanda Alencar ◽  
Sanne Kruikemeier
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Television News ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
News Programs

This study investigates to what extent audiovisual infotainment features can be found in the narrative structure of television news in three European countries. Content analysis included a sample of 639 news reports aired in the first 3 weeks of September 2013, in six prime-time TV news broadcasts of Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands. It was found that Spain and Ireland included more technical features of infotainment in television news compared to the Netherlands. Also, the use of infotainment techniques is more often present in commercial, than in public broadcasting. Finally, the findings indicate no clear pattern of the use of infotainment techniques across news topics as coded in this study.

scholarly journals Pragmatic Presupposition in Waspada Daily Articles

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Umar Mono ◽  
Dian Marisha Putri ◽  
Liza Amalia Putri
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Actual Event ◽  
Pragmatic Presupposition

An article of editorial is the key of newspaper which is the editor’s point of view toward an actual event that is popular when it is published. The editor provides information such as events, incidents, facts or opinion so that readers know and understand it. The objectives of the research results are: Firstly, to describe kinds of presuppositions found in Waspada daily news. Secondly, out of all data, 6 articles or editorials, there are 201 sentences with presuppositions consisting of individual, existential, lexical, factive, structural, non-factive, and counter factive presupposotions. The data show that readers must have knowledge and situational context in order to make presupposition. The articles on Waspada daily news can be made teaching materials of Presupposition in Pragmatics. Among all speech acts, there is also a presupposition made by a speaker to the listener.

scholarly journals Latina/o Adolescents in an Emerging Immigrant Community: A Qualitative Exploration of their Future Goals

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Gonzalez ◽  
Gabriela L. Stein ◽  
Laura R. Shannonhouse ◽  
Mitchell J. Prinstein
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Consensual Qualitative Research ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
College Planning ◽  
Future Aspirations ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

Although immigrant adolescents typically have high hopes for their futures, educational and career outcomes often do not match aspirations. The future aspirations of 17 Latina/o adolescents in an emerging immigrant community were explored. Qualitative interviews were conducted and analyzed using consensual qualitative research methodology (CQR). Interviews focused on goals for education/career and supports and barriers to reaching those goals. Overall, students expressed high aspirations but were unclear on how to achieve them. Family members and school personnel were seen as supportive, but with limitations. Barriers mentioned by most participants included early pregnancy, finances, and circumstances beyond their control; they declined to endorse other barriers when prompted. Students also held less optimistic views of the educational and career possibilities of an “average” Latina/o/a as compared to their own goals, which is framed in terms of stereotypes. A clear theme emerged where students placed the primary responsibility for their success or failure on themselves without acknowledging many barriers in the environment. Findings are discussed from a social justice point of view with implications that pertain to provision of college planning information, context for applying it, affective support, and systemic advocacy.

scholarly journals THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER OBRENOVIĆ IN THE REFLECTION OF THE RUSSIAN PRESS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor E. Tumanin ◽  
Marat Z. Galiullin ◽  
Denis R. Sharafutdinov
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Way

April 1, 1893, the sixteen-year-old King of Serbia, Alexander Obrenović, made a coup d'état [1]. On the direct instructions of his father, Milan Obrenović, who lived after his abdication in France, minor Alexander Obrenovićh arrested the regents J. Ristić, K. Protić and J. Belimarcović, sent ministers in prison, declared himself an adult and took power into his own hands. [2] The events of 1893 became a new stage in the difficult period of the development of the independent Serbian state at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; that period is of particular interest to researchers [3, 16, 17]. The events that the contemporaries called "the Serbian revolution" were discussed in the European press solely from the point of view of practical expediency, and therefore even the most cautious contemporaries were inclined to see the latent participation of Russian diplomacy in it. The English "Times" decided that the "act" of the king is "although not constitutional", but "natural" [4]. The representatives of the press in other European capitals (Berlin, Vienna and Paris newspapers) agreed with the opinion of the newspaper which sympathized with the liberation of Serbia from the "imaginary liberal terror" and the " bold move " of the king who put an end to the protracted crisis, the way out could not be peaceful, in their opinion [5]. It was not without curiosity: "Daily News" of Gladstone launched a malicious wickedness around the world calling the April events in Belgrade "a wedding gift to Knyaz Saxe-Coburg" [4]. The coup d'etat á la Alexandre de Serbie was a household name for a long time.

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