scholarly journals Analysing Legitimation Strategies in Relationship Advice Articles of Women’s Magazines

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sharifah Nurulhuda Alkaff ◽  
Reem Adib Lulu
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
English Language ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Relationship

This study explores the strategies used to legitimate relationship advice articles in locally produced English language women’s magazines from three different contexts, which are, Malaysia, the US, and two Middle Eastern countries (UAE and Egypt). Six women’s magazines, two from each context, were chosen for this study. Sixty articles, ten from each magazine, from the relationship advice sections of each magazine were analysed using content analysis. We focused on the strategies used to legitimise these advice articles based on similar studies on the legitimisation of advice through the use of intertextuality and voices appearing in these texts. In addition, we also investigated if there are differences in the strategies of legitimation used in these articles due to differences in the cultural norms in the three contexts. Our findings revealed four legitimation strategies which were employed to construct advice in the texts we analysed, namely, ‘Cross-Section of Real-Life’, ‘Appealing to Authorities’, ‘Celebrity Endorsement’, and ‘Popular Culture References’. Our findings also revealed that the writers of sex and relationship articles in all three contexts have to carefully craft their texts in order to produce advice that is considered legitimate and can be accepted by their readers. Finally, our study showed that there appears to be a clear connection between the legitimation strategies used and the socio-cultural aspects of each society.

scholarly journals Left politics and popular culture in Britain: From left-wing populism to ‘popular leftism’

Politics ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 026339572096066
Author(s):  
Jonathan Dean
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Party Leader ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Classic Essay ◽  
Popular Feminism ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses the cultural traction and media visibility yielded by left-wing ideas and people during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure as British Labour Party leader (2015–2019), while also offering some more general reflections on the relationship between left politics and popular culture. I begin by noting that the cultural and media aspects of Corbynism have largely been neglected in the scholarly literature. I then go on to caution against the temptation of subsuming the cultural aspects of Corbyn-era left politics under the label of ‘left-wing populism’. Instead, I defend a conception of ‘popular leftism’ as distinct from ‘left-wing populism’, via an engagement with Stuart Hall’s classic essay ‘Notes on Deconstructing the Popular’, as well as Sarah Banet-Wesier’s recent work on popular feminism. The second half of the article maps key features of ‘popular leftism’ as a distinct cultural/political formation that has emerged ‘in and against’ neoliberalism. In particular, it focuses on media visibility, affective tenor, and tactical and intellectual dynamics. While popular leftism’s entanglement with neoliberalism has proved problematic for its transformative capacity, I nonetheless conclude that its emergence is testament to the importance of popular cultural production and consumption in shaping recent iterations of left politics in Britain.

Games People Play

2016 ◽  
pp. 364-376
Author(s):  
Sandy Baldwin ◽  
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang ◽  
Dibyadyuti Roy
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
West Virginia University ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Representational Politics ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru ◽  
The Relationship

The study of various choices made while producing and playing games allows little opportunity for interrogating video games as a transcultural convergence of multiple subjectivities and institutions. This chapter speaks to this topic by presenting the Computer Games Across Cultures (CGAC) project. CGAC involved humanities researchers from West Virginia University (USA), Bangor University (Wales), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) who over a two-year period sought to understand creative and cultural aspects of gaming. CGAC's researchers employed both qualitative and quantitative methodologies to bridge the gap between the academic explorations of gaming in tandem with industry-specific practices within such spaces. This chapter provides an overview of the resultant work through its analysis of a cross-section of games. Examining both Western mainstream games and lesser known games from places like India and Ghana helped interrogate representational politics in videogames and provide a broader view of the relationship between gaming and game making, in a socio-cultural context.

scholarly journals Den etnometodologiske konversationsanalyse som kulturanalytisk metode

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Susanne Kjærbeck
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Telephone Conversation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

This article will focus on the ethnomethodological conversation analysis (CA) as a method for analysing cultural phenomena in conversation. It will present some of CA’s basic assumptions about the social character of situated interaction and the use of con-text in conversation as well as discuss some recent research projects which, based on the conversation analytical approach, focus on cultural aspects of face-to-face or telephone conversation. Finally, it presents basic methodological aspects of the main traditions within cultural analysis, the functionalist paradigm and the interpretive anthropology, and relate the CA approach to these traditions. It is suggested that CA may make significant contributions to the ongoing discussion of methodology within the fields of cultural analysis and intercultural communication, be it the technical skills for analysing organization or identity in talk in interaction, the approach to context, to the interactive character of communication, or the reflexive understanding of the relationship between social and cultural norms and situated interaction.

Are herding transmissions in the gulf cooperation council stock markets regional or international?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Gabbori ◽  
Basel Awartani ◽  
Aktham I. Maghyereh ◽  
Nader Virk
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Equity Market ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Absolute Deviation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Market Return ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe authors aim to assess whether herding in GCC stock markets is more responsive to global dynamics than its response to regional developments. To do so, they use the largest equity market in the region which is Saudi Arabia as the benchmark, and then they examine if herding crosses from this large regional market to the rest of equities in the neighboring markets during various time periods. To compare the importance of global influences on herding, the authors investigate and compare the impact of the information flow from the US equity market on the herding of equities in the GCC markets.Design/methodology/approachTo investigate herding in GCC markets the authors use the relationship between the squared market return and the cross-section absolute deviation that does not covary with market styles and/or fundamentals. In order to do that we follow Galariotis et al. (2015) and account for four styles: market-oriented, small-cap, value and momentum. As these factors have been shown to be associated with the economic fundamentals, filtering the covariance of deviation with these factors is expected to remove the style and the fundamental herding influence from the value of the dispersion.FindingsThe results show significant herding behavior that persists across various independent periods. This evidence stands even when the authors control for the well- known factor structures in stock returns. Importantly, the authors find that the few herding crossovers that occurred during the sample period are more likely to originate from the Saudi market rather than from the US. Therefore, the authors conclude that behavioral inefficiencies in the GCC equity markets are likely to be regional and that the sentiment-based trading in the US has essentially a minimal role to play.Practical implicationsThe empirical findings are useful for policymakers who aim at preventing market manipulation in order to preserve the integrity of financial markets. Policymakers in the GCC should disclose more information to aid investors so they do not rely on other investors' trades. The portfolio managers should be aware that the correlation of GCC equities can be higher in the short term due to common market herding in these countries. As the US market does not play an important role in triggering behavioral irrationalities in these markets, investing in GCC equities is a good hedge in a US portfolio. Finally, the results have also important implications for active funds that aim to exploit short-term trending in markets in order to enhance performance.Originality/valueThe authors’ contribution in this paper is to investigate herding in GCC markets by using the relationship between the squared market return and the cross-section absolute deviation that does not covary with market styles and/or fundamentals. Another contribution of our paper is to investigate any cross herding from the Saudi market to the rest of the markets in the area. The previous literature on GCC equity market herding is silent on this issue and it is typically restricted to the level of the single market.

scholarly journals Web ACE - A Study in Reciprocal Informing

10.28945/2785 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwona Miliszewska ◽  
Grace Tan
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
Oral Presentations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Web Based System

A Computer Science degree includes a compulsory final year Project subject. The Project involves the design and implementation of a real-life computer application for a client, and gives students an opportunity to work in a setting emulating a real-life information technology environment. Students undertake the Project subject together with its co-requisite subject in English Language and Communication. The English subject focuses on consolidating written and oral communication skills such as compilation of technical reports, and delivery of oral presentations - skills directly relevant to the Project. This paper reports on a unique Project experience where a group of students developed a Web based system for ‘special’ clients - their English lecturers. The paper discusses the rationale for the project, its details and benefits. It highlights the relationship between the Project students and the English lecturers and the dual roles of informers and clients, that each of the parties played in the process.

scholarly journals Acculturation, Biculturalism and Cancer Risk and Preventive Behaviors Among Pacific Islander Immigrant Youths in Hawaii

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. 15s-15s
Author(s):  
H.-R. Lee ◽  
H.E. Lee ◽  
K. Cassel ◽  
M. Hagiwara ◽  
L. Somera
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Pacific Islander ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Preventive Behaviors ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Culture is an important force which affects health behaviors linked to cancer risks among immigrants. Studies have demonstrated the process of acculturation can produce a form of stress that impact health negatively. On the other hand, research suggests that biculturalism, defined as the combining and practicing of customs from two cultures, may be a healthy approach to acculturation. Biculturalism is especially relevant for youth immigrants as their cultural identities are still developing. Pacific Islanders, a fastest growing populations in the US, often experience discrimination in the society at large and in the health care system. Pacific Islander youth in the US navigate between two cultural identities: their native culture as they live in a close-knit community that still maintains strong cultural norms and values, and the dominant American culture that they face once they step outside their community. This is one of the rare studies that examine the relationship between acculturation and cancer preventive behaviors among Pacific Islander youth. Aim: We aim to study the process through which biculturalism influences cancer risk and preventive behaviors such as smoking, sunscreen applications, physical activity and healthy eating among Pacific Islander youth immigrants in Hawaii. Specifically, we map the process of influence that links biculturalism to self-esteem and to these cancer risk and preventive behaviors. Methods: Using survey data from 284 Pacific Islander youth, we developed and tested a theoretically driven model that specifies the relationship among variables listed above. Results: Results show that self-esteem serves as an important mediator connecting biculturalism to cancer preventive behaviors. While biculturalism did not have a direct influence on behaviors and outcomes, it led to increased self-esteem which, in turn, directly influenced attitudes about sunscreen application, physical activity and healthy eating. However, there was neither direct nor indirect link between biculturalism and smoking. Conclusion: While numerous studies have shown links between biculturalism and health, not many studies focus on the specific process through which the influence is exerted. This study provides an important insight into the process through which biculturalism impacts cancer preventive behaviors among minority youth in America. Data from the study showed a clear relationship between biculturalism, self-esteem, their attitudes and behavior related to cancer prevention among Pacific Islander youth living in Hawaii. This study provides insights into potentially novel methods and interventions designed to increase cancer preventive behaviors among migrant youth by dually promoting adoption of U.S. cultural norms, while concurrently embracing an individual´s historic cultural identity.

scholarly journals Ideological Manipulation of Translation through Translator’s Comments: A Case Study of Barks’ Translation of Rumi’s Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bita Naghmeh-Abbaspour ◽  
Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi ◽  
Iqbal Zulkali
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Ideological Manipulation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

As purposefully crafted information around a text, paratext is a critical platform for ideological manipulation in translation. Translators’ comments as a form of paratext can cause ideological deviations between source and target texts that diminish the ideological context of the source text. On this ground, this study aimed to explore translators’ comments and how they can subtly recontextualize the ideology of texts and reframe them in new ideological contexts. Thus, choosing Coleman Barks’ translations of Rumi’s poetry as a case study. It aimed to probe the congruency of Rumi’s ideology with the ideology embedded in the translator’s comments on the verses. The study employed critical discourse analysis as its analytical methodology and explored the collected controversial examples of the translator’s comments. The findings illustrated a high level of ideological deviation between the source and target texts. Moreover, the findings implied the translator’s dominant approach toward a text from an inferior language comparing the superior English language. It has shown that ideological fidelity in translation is not only confined to texts but includes paratexts as well. The present study can be considered significant as it revealed the de-Islamization trend of a Middle Eastern text in the light of the relationship of the unequal languages. The study suggests that paratexts as an empowering platform for translators effectively direct the readers’ perception about the source text and its author. This study hopes to make the translator trainees more cautious in their comments on the original authors’ voices and ideology.

scholarly journals ‘Get in touch with yourself’: The Structure of Relationship Advice in Women’s Magazines

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Reem Adib Lulu ◽  
Sohayle M. Hadji Abdul Racman
Keyword(s):  
Solution Structure ◽  
English Language ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Way

This study investigates the way sex and relationship advice articles are structured in four English language women’s magazines. Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire were selected from the US, and Female and Her World from Malaysia. Forty articles were selected for the analysis. The study adopts Machin and Van Leeuwen’s (2003) problem-solution structure, besides using discourse pragmatic analysis. By studying this genre in the two different contexts, one of the main things that emerged is that this particular genre is more complex and diverse than what other researchers have found. The writers of the advice resort to various strategies and techniques to attract women to read these articles. They also have to balance social and cultural sensitivities with their message of freedom and liberation for women as appeared in the Malaysian data. Thus, studying this genre gives useful insights on how culture affects the texts and vice-versa.

scholarly journals Cooperation in Israeli-Saudi Relations: Impact on Iran in the Middle East

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 394-400
Author(s):  
Sumeera Imran ◽  
Sarim Akram Bacha ◽  
Zafar Khan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Us ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Immense Potential ◽  
The Relationship

The study explores the transformation in great power politics and factors affecting the dynamics of the Middle Eastern political landscape, such as the relationships between ideological arch-rivals of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Israel. The closing up of the relationship between KSA and Israel is a historic transformation, holding immense potential embodying change in the strategic landscape of the Middle East. The article argues that the changing dynamics of global power politics has polarised the political dynamics of the Middle Eastern region along opposite poles. The US, China and Russian involvement in the Middle Eastern region have pushed the ideological arch-rival of KSA to the US and Israel, pushing Iran to tilt towards Russia and China in the region. Therefore, the significance of the study lies in the changing nature of international structure and the way this shift has impacted the inter-dynamics of Saudi-Israeli cooperation in the Middle East.

The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Hurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuclear Issue ◽  
The Relationship

The United States, Iran and the Bomb provides the first comprehensive analysis of the US-Iranian nuclear relationship from its origins through to the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. Starting with the Nixon administration in the 1970s, it analyses the policies of successive US administrations toward the Iranian nuclear programme. Emphasizing the centrality of domestic politics to decision-making on both sides, it offers both an explanation of the evolution of the relationship and a critique of successive US administrations' efforts to halt the Iranian nuclear programme, with neither coercive measures nor inducements effectively applied. The book further argues that factional politics inside Iran played a crucial role in Iranian nuclear decision-making and that American policy tended to reinforce the position of Iranian hardliners and undermine that of those who were prepared to compromise on the nuclear issue. In the final chapter it demonstrates how President Obama's alterations to American strategy, accompanied by shifts in Iranian domestic politics, finally brought about the signing of the JCPOA in 2015.

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