Communicative Functions of Code Glosses in Students’ Handbook from a Ghanaian University

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Osei Yaw Akoto
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Institutional Communication

In recent times, metadiscoursal devices are increasingly being studied by researchers in Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and English for Academic and Specific Purposes because of their indispensable role in all forms of communication. Unfortunately, code glosses, one of the metadiscoursal devices, have not received much attention in metadiscoursal studies. To fill this gap, the present study draws on Hyland’s model of code glosses to explore the use of code glosses in the Students’ Handbook of University of Cape Coast. Qualitative content analysis was employed in analysing the data set. The analysis of the text revealed that code glosses helped clarify a proposition by  defining, exemplifying, reformulating and simplifying it  The findings have implications for the theory of metadiscourse, in general, and code glosses, in particular and institutional communication/discourse.

Rehabilitation Counselor Preparation to Work With LGBTQ Persons Living With Chronic Illness/Disability: A Qualitative Content Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Franco Dispenza ◽  
Nikki C. Elston ◽  
Mary E. Huffstead ◽  
Mackenzie G. Suttles ◽  
Nedeljko Golubovic
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Counselor Preparation ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Certified Rehabilitation Counselors

Purpose:To identify meaningful educative experiences that contributed to the development of rehabilitation counselors’ abilities to provide effective rehabilitation counseling services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) persons living with chronic illness/disabilities (CID).Method:This was a secondary analysis of a larger qualitative data set that examined the educational experiences and practices of 12 certified rehabilitation counselors working with LGBTQ persons.Results:Using a qualitative content analysis methodology, 5 categories were identified: (a) formal didactic education, (b) affirmative supervision and consultation during practica/internship, (c) extracurricular-related training, (d) identification, and (e) family of origin.Conclusion:To help facilitate future counselors’ self-perceived abilities to provide effective services to LGBTQ persons living with CID, rehabilitation counselor educators should place more emphasis on LGBTQ-related issues in their curriculum and provide practical (experiential) learning opportunities for their students.

scholarly journals Construction of personal brands in beauty vlogging

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zemfira K. Salamova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Physical Resources

The popularity of digital content about make-up and self-care has been steadily growing during the recent years. Most of its producers and consumers are young people. The article analyzes three Russian YouTube-channels (“Arina Viscera”, “ND Beauty Channel” and “Gev Mua”) to study how their hosts construct their personal brands in the context of beauty content production. The article employs the technique of discourse analysis and a qualitative content analysis. The research results show that the beauty vlog format provides users with various ways of presenting themselves to the audience as they can choose different ways of demonstrating their expertise, comparing themselves to viewers, manifesting their passion for makeup and showing emotional and physical resources that are used in the production.

14. Textual Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Halperin ◽  
Oliver Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses the principles of textual analysis as a means of gathering information and evidence in political research. Textual analysis has generated strong interest as a research method not only in Politics and International Relations, but also throughout the social sciences. In political research, two forms of textual analysis have become particularly prominent: discourse analysis and content analysis. The chapter examines discourse analysis and content analysis and explains the use of documents, archival sources, and historical writing as data. It considers the distinction between discourse analysis and content analysis, as well as the differences between qualitative and quantitative content analysis. It also describes the procedures that are involved in both quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

scholarly journals The Miracle or the Monster? The problem of institutional communication supremacy in the regional TV news

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-350
Author(s):  
Ekaterina B. Gromova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Scientific Objective ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Institutional Communication ◽  
First Time ◽  
News Programs

The scientific objective of the study was to show the markers of institutional communication, that express themselves in discourse shifting from the frame information to the frame PR in the news of regional TV channels. The study was conducted on the materials of the plots about construction in the news programs of four Crimea state TV channels. The analysis sampled and systematized the semantic and lexical markers of institutional communication. The article defines the dominancy of the texts with PR in the TV news plots about construction in Crimea, revealed the insecurity of this phenomenon for the journalists professional tasks. Such approach proposed in the article was applied for the first time. In studying the methods of researching were: discourse-analysis, content-analysis, systematization, synthesis. The study concluded the non-consent of the dramatic contradiction between the journalism and PR in the regional news programs for today.

scholarly journals Exploring Information Systems Curricula

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Föll ◽  
Frédéric Thiesse
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Curricular Design ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Academic Management ◽  
Study Programs

AbstractThe study considers the application of text mining techniques to the analysis of curricula for study programs offered by institutions of higher education. It presents a novel procedure for efficient and scalable quantitative content analysis of module handbooks using topic modeling. The proposed approach allows for collecting, analyzing, evaluating, and comparing curricula from arbitrary academic disciplines as a partially automated, scalable alternative to qualitative content analysis, which is traditionally conducted manually. The procedure is illustrated by the example of IS study programs in Germany, based on a data set of more than 90 programs and 3700 distinct modules. The contributions made by the study address the needs of several different stakeholders and provide insights into the differences and similarities among the study programs examined. For example, the results may aid academic management in updating the IS curricula and can be incorporated into the curricular design process. With regard to employers, the results provide insights into the fulfillment of their employee skill expectations by various universities and degrees. Prospective students can incorporate the results into their decision concerning where and what to study, while university sponsors can utilize the results in their grant processes.

scholarly journals Colour court: the communicative value of single-colour trademark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Mendonca
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Single Colour ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

While corporations regularly use trademarked logos and slogans, the use of colour trademarks to solidify and separate a brand from its marketplace is a recent development. This MRP explores legal conceptualizations of the communicative functions of colour in the judicial opinions of three influential colour trademark lawsuits: Norwich Pharmacal Company v. Sterling Drug, Inc. (1959), Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. (1995), and Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent Am. Holding, Inc. (2012). The following questions guide my analysis of the court decisions: How do judges determine the communicative value of colour in single-colour trademark cases? How do the different levels of meaning present in colour, as described by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen (2002), affect the way judges assess the communicative value of colours in single-colour trademark cases? Which levels of meaning in colour, as described by Kress and van Leeuwen (2002), are most important in judges’ assessments of single-colour trademark claims? The communicative value of colour, for the purposes of this research project proposal, is defined as colour acting in one or more of the three functions defined by Kress and van Leeuwen (2002). Through qualitative content analysis of three legal documents involving single-colour trademarks, this MRP seeks to explore the challenges of claiming and maintaining legal ownership of a colour. This paper suggests that courts play a major role in developing single-colour trademarks as communicative and organizational branding tools.

scholarly journals Disrupting the Discourse Behind the Zoning of the Native Americans: Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit in the Environmental Racist Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
Sehrish Bibi ◽  
Wajid Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linda Hogan ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
The Creation

This paper disrupts the Euro Americans’ environmental colonialist discourse which involves the practices of racist policies that result in the relocation of the Native Americans to a confinement called reservation. More specifically, it discusses this relocation which is termed as zoning as a dilemma for the Natives because this practice by the Euro Americans, which is primarily involves their economic agenda, not only restricts the Natives to their reservation and denies life opportunities for them but puts the responsibility of their plight on themselves. A qualitative content analysis, the research explores this idea in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit in the light of the joint critique of environmental racism and critical discourse analysis. Linguistically, the study applies critical discourse analysis focusing on van Dijk’s concept of discourse and manipulation. The analysis reveals that the discursive and cognitive strategies employed by the Euro Americans for the zoning of the Natives help the former rationalize and legitimize their environmental colonial practices. The discursive process first involves the creation of “othering” and then the tactful presentation of this “othering”. The study also highlights the counter actions taken by the Natives on the basis of the same or similar strategies as have been employed against them, to resist their zoning.

scholarly journals Colour court: the communicative value of single-colour trademark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Mendonca
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Single Colour ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

While corporations regularly use trademarked logos and slogans, the use of colour trademarks to solidify and separate a brand from its marketplace is a recent development. This MRP explores legal conceptualizations of the communicative functions of colour in the judicial opinions of three influential colour trademark lawsuits: Norwich Pharmacal Company v. Sterling Drug, Inc. (1959), Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. (1995), and Christian Louboutin S.A. v. Yves Saint Laurent Am. Holding, Inc. (2012). The following questions guide my analysis of the court decisions: How do judges determine the communicative value of colour in single-colour trademark cases? How do the different levels of meaning present in colour, as described by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen (2002), affect the way judges assess the communicative value of colours in single-colour trademark cases? Which levels of meaning in colour, as described by Kress and van Leeuwen (2002), are most important in judges’ assessments of single-colour trademark claims? The communicative value of colour, for the purposes of this research project proposal, is defined as colour acting in one or more of the three functions defined by Kress and van Leeuwen (2002). Through qualitative content analysis of three legal documents involving single-colour trademarks, this MRP seeks to explore the challenges of claiming and maintaining legal ownership of a colour. This paper suggests that courts play a major role in developing single-colour trademarks as communicative and organizational branding tools.

scholarly journals JUDGING THE ONLINE JUDGES: THE TWO #METOO CASES IN HONG KONG

2021 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Chris Y. H. Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Over Time

On November 30, 2017, Hong Kong track athlete Vera Lui posted a photo on Facebook marked with the #MeToo hashtag and described an experience of being sexually assaulted. Three days later, Hong Kong actress Louisa Mak published a similar #MeToo post on her Facebook page. While both posts, especially Lui’s, initially received many supportive comments, over time, the comments became negative and victim-blaming. Since these incidents, no other Hong Kong celebrities have risked revealing their experiences to respond to the #MeToo Movement. In this paper, I analysed the first 500 comments posted on each of the posts using qualitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis. The results reveal the practice of online judging that inhibits the disclosure of cases of sexual assault. The paper further describes the interplay between online judging and selective law enforcement by the Hong Kong Police, which has been a persistent issue in Hong Kong.

Contestation Overshoot

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-81
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Doha Round ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Institutional Status ◽  
Policy Content

This chapter surveys the demands made towards the WTO during the Doha Round by rising powers and twenty of the most influential trade-related transnational NGOs. It also compares these to the demands of established powers. Using techniques from qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis, it analyses these actors’ substantive policy demands, and the argumentative justifications that they provide for their demands. It finds that while the rising powers are largely satisfied with the institutional status quo, they are strongly dissatisfied with existing policy content. Their demands reveal a social purpose that can be described as developmental liberalism. In this approach they have found allies mostly in market-critical civil society organizations.

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