scholarly journals On the enregisterment of Szekler. Communicational stereotypes recreated in the sketch Úgy-e, Magdi? by Open Stage

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-121
Author(s):  
Boglárka Németh
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Linguistic Repertoire

Abstract The article aims at unfolding the key linguistic aspects of nowadays’ stereotypical Szekler-representations through a case study on a satirical representation of regional communicative practices in the locally well-known sketch Úgy-e, Magdi? (‘Right, Magdi?’) by Open Stage. The research is mainly centred around the concept of enregisterment, thus the work is meant to be a contribution to the scarce literature on the enregisterment of Szekler (and Hungarian dialects in general) and on regional communicative practices. After providing a brief overview of the key areas and aspects along which the Szekler dialect has been enregistered so far in public discourse and in linguistics, the article tries to capture the main attributes which create the authentic Szekler voice for Hungarian speakers through analyzing the plot, the characterological figures and the linguistic repertoire conveyed by the sketch, as well as the online reactions to it given by viewers. Besides examining the most prominent phonological/phonetic, lexical and grammatical phenomena construed as characteristic to Szekler, the article also touches upon some regional conversational features depicted through stylization by the sketch.

Genome Editing or Genome Cutting? Communicating CRISPR in the British and German Press

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-66
Author(s):  
Yoo Yung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Word Processor ◽  
Public Science ◽  
German Press ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
British Press ◽  
Legal Frameworks

AbstractIn this paper, I analyze the role of metaphors in public science communication. Specifically, it is a case study of the metaphors for CRISPR/Cas9, a controversial biotechnology that enables scientists to alter the DNA of any organism with unprecedented ease and has raised a number of societal, ethical and legal questions concerning its applications – most notably, on its usage on the human germline. Using a corpus of 600 newspaper articles from the British and German press, I show that there are striking differences in how these two European countries construe CRISPR in public discourse: the British press promotes the image of CRISPR as a word processor that allows scientists to edit the DNA, replacing spelling mistakes with healthy genes, whereas the German press depicts CRISPR as genetic scissors and thereby underlines the risk of mutations after cutting the DNA. I suggest that this contrast reflects differences in the legal frameworks of the respective countries and may influence the attitudes towards emerging biotechnologies among the British and German public.

Frames as Boundaries: Rhetorical Framing Analysis and the Confines of Public Discourse in Online News Coverage of Vegan Parenting

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-170
Author(s):  
Ryan J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Boundary Properties ◽  
Blind Spots

This article examines the boundary work of frames and the methodological significance of understanding this work when conducting rhetorical framing analysis. While the boundary properties of frames have been theorized by scholars, there remains a lack of clear engagement with how to effectively address these discursive boundaries methodically. I argue that agenda-dismissal, which makes use of both prolepses and blind spots, ought to be addressed in addition to agenda-setting and agenda-extension when conducting rhetorical framing analysis. A case study is provided in which the rhetorical framing of vegan parenting in online news media is analyzed and critiqued for confining the issue within a dominant health-based frame. Strategies for dismantling discursive boundaries and reframing public issues are also considered within the context of the case study.

scholarly journals Intercultural Components in the Multimodal Structure of a Language Learning Website

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Alejandro Fernández Benavides
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Skills

The emergence of language learning websites has generated changes in intercultural communicative practices. Particularly, these sites use a wide variety of modes of communication (visual, linguistic, spatial) which allow the presence of intercultural elements. This interpretative case study analyzes the semiotic structure of one lesson of the language learning website Livemocha in order to unveil the presence of intercultural elements in it. Data were analyzed following a method for multimodal analysis and Byram’s model of intercultural communicative competence. Findings suggest the essentialist view of culture on Livemocha, based on festivals and food, and the potential promotion of some of Byram’s intercultural skills.

scholarly journals Subtitling’s cross-cultural expressivity put to the test: A cross-sectional study of linguistic and cultural representation across Romance and Germanic languages

Multilingua ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Noëlle Guillot
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Cultural Pragmatics ◽  
Initial Focus

Abstract This article focuses on linguistic and cultural representation in AVT as a medium of intercultural literacy. It has two objectives: it puts to the test increasingly accepted assumptions about AVT modalities’ distinctive meaning potential and expressive capacity, with a case study of communicative practices in their representation, via AVT, in subtitles across Romance and Germanic languages. The second objective is to make a start on a neglected question to date, by considering, concurrently, the respective potential for representation of different types of languages, Indo-European in the first instance, in different pair configurations. The study applies to (Romance) French, Italian, Spanish and (Germanic) English and German and uses a cross-cultural pragmatics framework to explore representation, per se and comparatively across the languages represented in the main data, Lonnergan’s 2016 feature film Manchester by the Sea. Data is approached qualitatively from a target text end in the first instance and primarily, in a subset of scenes from across the film. Quantitative analysis is used complementarily for diagnostic purposes or as a complementary source of evidence, with initial focus on types of features identified in earlier studies as a locus of stylised representation in subtitling with evidence of distinctive pragmatic indexing (e.g. pronominal address, greetings, thanking). The study is a pilot study and is exploratory at this stage, but part of a broader endeavour to inform debates about, and build up the picture of, AVT as cross-cultural mediation and, ultimately, promote our understanding of films in translation’s societal impact.

scholarly journals The pragmatics of mimesis: A case study of intercultural email communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Marsden ◽  
Dániel Kádár
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Email Communication ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Quantitative Data Analysis ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Ritual Practices

Researchers have pursued interest in how the mimetic practice types of convention and ritual influence the ways in which people build up and maintain interpersonal relationships. Arguably, mimetic interactional acts that animate conventional and ritual practices are key to capturing fundamental aspects of interpersonal phenomena such as politeness, impoliteness, and humour, since language users tend to produce and interpret interpersonal behaviour through normative and repetitive moves, which may develop into routines. Despite the importance of mimetic acts in language use, little research has been done on mimesis itself in the realm of interpersonal pragmatics even though memes themselves have received attention. In this paper, we consider how mimetic chunks of interaction may develop into localised convention and possibly ritual by examining a corpus of 955 business emails between a British sole trader and her international clients, specifically focussing on mimetic practices present in greeting, signing-off and conversation topic. In particular, we attempt to show that by looking into habitual and everyday communication, the origins of conventional and ritual practices may be uncovered. A marked convergence towards using the same greeting or sign- off convention is noticeable in our quantitative data analysis and when examining the data qualitatively. The data also show that participants occasionally engage in relational practices that involve repeated and consistent responses to the same stimuli. The results indicate a tendency for accommodative communicative practices to be used, although there is no point at which mimesis can be interpreted as permanently “switched on”. 

Social Winners and Losers: A Case Study of Press Construction

2014 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Andrea Shoebridge
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Fundamental Mechanism

The role of mass media in framing public discourse about gendered life courses is a fundamental mechanism for reinforcing patriarchal culture. Women who do not comply with the marriage and maternity mandate are subject to the type of personalised reaction experienced by Australia's first female prime minister that triggered renewed public debate about misogyny in social organisation. Using case study methodology and framing analysis, I examined a feature published in the national broadsheet about marriage trends that made patriarchy's preferred model explicit. The communication practices used in the feature are discussed in terms of ‘truth’, and how they might reflect and confirm the attitudes and beliefs of the newspaper's readership.

scholarly journals SYIAH DI TASIKMALAYA: PENGELOLAAN KERUKUNAN DENGAN KOMUNITAS LAIN

Harmoni ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-129
Author(s):  
Ibnu Hasan Muchtar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
National Alliance

This paper looks at the development of Shi‘i movement that currently becomes a public discourse, especially after the foundation of an organisation which rejects the presence of Shi‘ism in Indonesia. Based on the study conducted by using qualitative method and case-study approach, this paper indicates the harmonious relationship between the Shi‘i and non-Shi‘i groups in Tasikmalaya. This has been marked by the absence of conflict between both groups. Some Shi‘i figures associated to IJABI (Ikatan Jamaah Ahlul Bayt Indonesia) and public and religious figures in Tasikmalaya, know each other personally. There have been good collaborations between community members in many socio-cultural events such as gotong-royong (mutual-cooperation), the celebration of religious festivals, national days in grass-root levels. Yet there have been rejection in the forms of rally and the declaration of ANAS (Aliansi Nasional Anti Syi’ah, National Alliance of Anti-Shi‘ism). This, however, mostly caused by the use of social media.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Human–Animal Relationships and Public Discourse: A Case Study of Lions Bred for Their Bones

Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Coals ◽  
Dawn Burnham ◽  
Andrew Loveridge ◽  
David W. Macdonald ◽  
Michael ’t Sas-Rolfes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Ethical Argument ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Human Animal

Conservation and natural resource management are increasingly attending the ethical elements of public decisions. Ethical considerations are challenging, in part, because they typically require accounting for the moral consideration of various human and nonhuman forms of life, whose interests sometimes conflict (or seem to conflict). A valuable tool for such evaluations is the formal analysis of ethical arguments. An ethical argument is a collection of premises, logically interrelated, to yield a conclusion that can be expressed in the form, “We ought to…” According to the rules of logic, a conclusion is supported by an argument if all its premises are true or appropriate and when it contains no mistaken inferences. We showed how the formal analysis of ethical arguments can be used to engage stakeholders and decision-makers in decision-making processes. We summarised the method with ten specific guidelines that would be applicable to any case. We illustrated the technique using a case study focused on captive-bred lions, the skeletons of which form part of an international trade to supply traditional medicine markets in Southeast Asia with felid bones. As a matter of public policy, the practice is a complicated nexus of concerns for entrepreneurial freedom, wildlife conservation, and the fair treatment of animals.

scholarly journals Expansion of Religious Pluralism in Korean Civil Society: A Case Study of Conscientious Objection in South Korea

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Kwang Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Conscientious Objection ◽  
Social Implication ◽  
Operational Principle ◽  
Narrow Concept

This paper analyzes a socio-cultural adaptation of the concept of religious pluralism, focusing on the matter of conscientious objection in Korean pluralistic situation. The issue of conscientious objection in Korea has extended from a religious and philosophical field to a political, diplomatic, and international problem, being influenced heavily by IRFR and UNHRC. Regardless of their numerical marginality, its social implication is revealed more clearly in recent decisions of local or higher courts and triggers another significant public discourse on how Korean civil society should expand a concept of pluralism to integrate them. The paper concludes that the concept of pluralism advances into an operational principle to prop up the civil society of Korea beyond the narrow concept of religious pluralism.

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