INTERPRETING THE OBJECTIVELY „STRANGE” AND THE STRANGELY „OBJECTIVE”. HYBRID TEXTS IN SOCIAL DISCOURSE AND IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

The given article examines the vocabulary in social discourse, which has gained relevance in connection with the disease of the century Covid-19. The analysis is based on four articles from the German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesschau. For comparison, information is provided from a review of British and American newspapers in October 2020. The lexical units are components and fragments of discourses that, in the last decade, have attracted more attention of not only philologists, but also scientists from other areas of the social sciences and humanities. Language units are divided into specific semantic categories. The article illustrates specific factual material, and also compared their semantic derivation with facts extracted from authoritative dictionaries. Since some linguistic units, due to their "freshness", do not have time to find their place in dictionaries, their semantic categories are determined in contexts. In addition, linguistic units are categorized into specific thematic types and semantic categories.

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Challenges for study abroad in contemporary Japan

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education ◽

10.1075/sar.16019.gri ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 147-174

Author(s):

Dawn Grimes-MacLellan

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Study Abroad ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Student Mobility ◽

Social Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Japanese Students ◽

Studying Abroad ◽

Japanese Student ◽

The Social

Abstract As the number of university students studying abroad has skyrocketed globally, waning Japanese participation stands in sharp contrast. What accounts for this decline? Drawing on ethnographic research, including surveys and semi-structured interviews, conducted in fall 2016 with 14 Japanese undergraduate students majoring in the social sciences, this article discusses current challenges influencing outbound Japanese student mobility. In contrast to contemporary social discourse in Japan that has criticized young Japanese as ‘inward-looking’ and unwilling to take on new challenges, including studying abroad, my results reveal that students continue to aspire to overseas study but are also concerned about costs and other challenges. The article closes with a discussion of how a small but growing number of Japanese students are addressing impediments by taking matters into their own hands, and how this emerging trend may require a reinterpretation of statistics suggesting a decline in Japanese participation in study abroad.

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Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences

10.1017/cbo9780511801938 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 88

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

The Social

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What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽

10.1027/1614-2241/a000161 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 19-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Knut Petzold ◽

Tobias Wolbring

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Behavioral Intentions ◽

Actual Behavior ◽

Full Time ◽

Factorial Survey ◽

Survey Experiment ◽

Intended Behavior ◽

The Social ◽

Survey Experiments ◽

High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

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