scholarly journals The Construction of China’s National Image From Transitivity Perspective—A Case Study of Fighting COVID-19: China in Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1421-1427
Author(s):  
Zhencong Liu ◽  
Hui Liu

Using the theory of transitivity system within Systemic Functional Linguistics as the theoretical basis and the white paper named Fighting COVID-19: China in Action, which was published by the Chinese government on June 7, 2020 as the corpus, with the help of corpus analysis tool, UAM Corus Tool 3, this paper uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the construction of China’s national image. The results show that the frequency of material processes is extremely high, which is 88.26%, while existential processes and behavioral processes occupy only an extremely small proportion, 0.73% and 0.09% respectively. Relational processes are in the second rank, 5.34%. The frequencies of verbal processes and mental processes are similar, accounting for 2.97% and 2.6% respectively. Through a detailed analysis of the six transitivity processes, a national image that advocates “people supremacy”, selfless collectivism, with strong executive ability and mobilization, and a great responsibility in the international society is found to be constructed. This paper lays a foundation for further studying China’s national image in the path of SFL. It also sheds some light on the construction of China’s image in the official government document.

2020 ◽  
pp. 009365022091181
Author(s):  
Aviv Barnoy ◽  
Zvi Reich

This study uses the case study of journalists to explore the socio-cognitive nature of interpersonal trust in growingly deceptive ecosystems. Journalists are ideal test subjects to explore these issues as professional trust allocators, who receive immediate feedback on right and wrong trust decisions. The study differentiates, for the first time, between source and message credibility evaluations, based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings show that journalists can distinguish source and message credibility. However, in practice they rely on source evaluations as an “autopilot” default mode, shifting gears to observations of source and message credibility in epistemically complex cases. The proportion between both is close to Pareto distribution. This extreme division challenges both inductive and mixed inference theories of epistemic trust and suggests revisiting the “typification” doctrine of newswork. Data partially support the hegemony and “epistemic injustice” theory, showing that traditional credibility criteria might trigger the exclusion of nontraditional voices.


10.1002/ir.26 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 (112) ◽  
pp. 15-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josetta S. McLaughlin ◽  
Gerald W. McLaughlin ◽  
John A. Muffo

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 661-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mann Hyung Hur

This study explored the motivation factors of charitable giving and their value structure. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. Six components were found which individually stand for the dimensions of the motivation factors of charitable giving: a good deed, altruism, a desire for social responsibility, a desire for the common good, mass psychology, and a showing off reward-expecting manner. Two different networks among the factors of charitable giving were shown: one represented a notion of social and individual virtue, and the other referred to a notion of selfishness. Therefore, it can be said that people give to charities both in order to demonstrate their virtue, and to satisfy their selfishness.


2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Keller ◽  
Heinz Streib

Abstract Narrative study of religious lives has formed part of numerous projects at the Bielefeld Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. An essential instrument in our designs, which mostly combine qualitative and quantitative methods, is the Faith Development Interview (FDI). In response to longstanding criticism its cognitive structural framework has been revised in respect of styles and schemata. The religious styles perspective examines the self as articulated in narratives and associates it with affectivity and emotion. This article gives an overview of our theoretical and methodological revisions, which take cognizance of current developments in lifespan developmental and clinical psychology such as attachment, mentalization and wisdom. We illustrate the implementation of these advances with a case study from our current study of ‘spirituality’,1 which we locate in the complex multi-method design, and outline the triangulation of qualitative and quantitative data.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Dina Graselita Putri ◽  
Emmy Uthanya Antang ◽  
Tri Yuliana Eka Sinta

This study aims to: (1) to know the consumer's characteristics of local food kupu (made of cassava), and (2) to know consumer perceptions of local food kupu. This research was a case study at the Home Industry "Griya Jawau Melin". The number of samples was 35 respondents, which has been specified with a convenience sampling technique. The research was designed both qualitative and quantitative methods, Data were collected through interviews with a questionnaire guide, and data were analyzed descriptively and using a Likert Scale.   These results indicate that kupu consumers have varied characteristics, including gender, age, ethnic, education, occupation, and income. Consumers' perceptions of local food kupu which consist of variables i.e. taste, quality, price, sosial, and culture, are considered good with a score of 3203 and an average score of 79.58. The variable that gives the highest score was a culture with an average score of 84.57, followed by sosial variables (average score 81.94), quality variable (average score 81.55), price variable (average score 77, 90), and lastly, the taste score with an average of 69.43. These results indicate that the most influencing purchases are cultural and sosial faktors, the taste faktor being the last variable influencing the purchase of Kupu after the quality and price variables.


Author(s):  
Samuel Nuamah Eshun

  Background: In 2010, the Government of Ghana launched a Labour Intensive Public Work (LIPW) programme through the Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP). It earmarked $56 million for the execution of the programme in 60 relatively poor districts in Ghana. The programme is directed to offer jobs and income earning opportunities to some identified rural poor, especially the youth, during the seasonal labour demand shortfalls through the rehabilitation and maintenance of public or community infrastructure like roads and dams. Objectives: The article aim to investigate the extent to which the programme has reduce poverty among the youth with the Daffiam Bussie Issah District in Ghana as a case study. Method: A mixed research method involving both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed in the study. The matched case-control study design was adopted. Ninety (90) beneficiary youth in three (3) beneficiary communities of the LIPW programme were compared with ninety (90) youth in three other non-beneficiary communities in the same district. Focus group sessions were also held with beneficiary youth of the programme to understand how the programme has impacted on their lives. Results: The study revealed that beneficiary youth of the LIPW programme were able to increase their livestock holding by 71.4%, monthly income by 24.4%, food consumption by 25.9% and farm sizes by 41.6%. Conclusion: The study recommended that the government of Ghana should scare up the LIPW programme to cover more communities in order to reduce poverty in Ghana


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 001-010
Author(s):  
Firda Aulia Khairin ◽  
Annisa Annisa

The SMK STIKES Rajawali Bandung project is a unique project because it has a steep terrain location that creates various risks, so a risk analysis is needed. The identification in this study was 32 risks. This research uses qualitative and quantitative methods with the stages of identifying possible risks, assessing risks, knowing the causes, and ways of dealing with dominant risks if they occur. The results of the study of the 32 risks consisted of 3 very high risks, 2 high risks, 23 medium risks and 4 low risks. The biggest risk comes from the external risk that can be detected, namely the risk of rain with a score of 20. Therefore, the risk of rain requires ideal treatment using a dewatering pump.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachariah Benton Hurdle

Middle school mathematics teachers often do not emphasise statistics and geometry in their lesson plans for a variety of reasons. However, these are integral topics in mathematics, and using direct lecture or hands-on activities may have different effects on teacher confidence when approaching these subjects. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, anxiety was found to improve with lecture-based workshops, while confidence and effectance was found to improve with manipulatives-based workshops. The results showed some surprising and unsurprising reasons for these conclusions.          Key words: teacher education; math anxiety; manipulatives; geometry; statistics


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
N’dri Kouadio Patrice

In evangelical communities, divorce is prohibited and a pastor is seen as a model, a spiritual guide and, above all, a guarantor of the Christian faith and morality. From this point of view, the breakdown of the marriage bond of a pastor with his wife undermines the cohesion and stability of the communities under his tutelage. This is because divorce is considered in Christian circles as a transgressive and anomic act. This article is a comprehensive approach of the divorce of pastors. It also shows its explanatory factors using a case study of two localities, the Assemblies of God Church and the International Ministry of the Revelation of Yopougon. The study was carried out using a socio-anthropological approach combined with both qualitative and quantitative methods. Based on the result of this study, the divorce of pastors is explained by several factors. The most essential include: the tensions and the recurring disputes in the couple; the continued infidelity of the spouses; the lack of forgiveness and reciprocal acceptance of spouses in case of error; the subtle flight of one of the spouses of the household, and so on. Although they are human guides and shepherds, pastors who have succumbed to these situations have destroyed the sacred bond of their marriage. These kinds of behavior of the evangelical guides have led to the regression of the social and political functioning of the Christian communities. Divorce, however, has become a symbolic act of destruction of socio-religious bonds while tarnishing the image of the evangelical world.


Author(s):  
Hasri Arey ◽  
Suripto Suripto ◽  
Rian D. Hapsari ◽  
Muhammad Firyal Akbar

The East Seram Regency is a disadvantaged region in Indonesia with many sub-districts that do not have access to internet and electricity. The remaining options for sub-districts was hindered because it is limited by wilderness and free oceans and the APBD (Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget) in this regency is also limited. Although, the implementation of e-Government by the Regent are willing to follow the mandate of Presidential Regulation No. 95 of 2018 concerning Electronic-Based Government Systems (SPBE). The purpose of this study was to analyze and determine the readiness of the East Seram Regency in implementing the e-government system in Indonesia. This study used a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods and data collection technique was also carried out by using a questionnaire for 76 respondents, in-depth interviews for 7 informants, and documentation. The result showed the quality of public human resources and civil servants in the field of communication and the informatics are low. Also, the ICT infrastructure such as internet, servers, networks, and computer equipment are inadequate. The East Seram Regency is a disadvantaged region that prioritizes physical development infrastructure rather than allocating a high budget for the information technology tools. Therefore, it is concluded that the East Seram Regency as one of the disadvantaged region in Indonesia whose Local Government is 'Not Ready' to implement an e-government system as mandated by Presidential Regulation No. 95 of 2018.  


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