Essays about: "English Newspapers"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 57 essays containing the words English Newspapers.
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21. Smartphones in Media - The New York Times: Representation of the smartphone and the paper’s potential for normative influence of smartphone behavior
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis sets out to investigate the representation of smartphones by one of the biggest English daily newspapers of the world – the New York Times – and further sheds light on the potential influence the newspaper has on the norms of smartphone behavior. The research is conducted in two parts. READ MORE
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22. These women’s verbs : A combined corpus and discourse analysis on reporting verbs about women and men in Czech media 1989–2015
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Slaviska språkAbstract : This study aims at analyzing how women and men in five different professions are portrayed and represented through reporting verbs in Czech media over a period of 25 years (end of 1989 to the beginning of 2015). The empirical data consist of entire newspapers and magazines in the source material, a subcorpus from the Czech National Corpus. READ MORE
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23. Ukrainian Language Policy: The Status of Russian in English Language Medium Ukrainian and Russian Newspapers and in the Linguistic Landscape of Four Regions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : Following a long-standing sociolinguistic pursuit to investigate language policy through complex non-linear models that analyze historical, structural, political and social processes that produce, contextualize, circulate and negotiate particular ideologies, beliefs and myths about languages and their values through meaning-making activities, this master’s thesis aims to apply an interpretive approach to corpus-assisted discourse analysis and appropriate elements of nexus analysis to an investigation of the status of the Russian in the language policy of Ukraine during the period of 2010 to 2015. Regarding language policies as a complex social phenomenon, this study of Ukrainian monolingual language policy is focused on investigating nexuses involving policymaking, its interpretation by various political players, and implementation aiming to answer the question of how established and circulating discourses mediate, negotiate and regulate relations between Ukrainian and Russian languages. READ MORE
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24. Deciphering National Identity : - a discourse analysis of India's foreign policy behaviour during the 2014 Crimean crisis
University essay from FörsvarshögskolanAbstract : This study builds on the idea that discourses have the power to show that national identity did influence the puzzling foreign policy behaviour of India in March 2014 during the Crimean crisis. When analysing the material and illustrating the identified discourses, discourse- theorists Laclau and Mouffe’s framework is used both as theory and method. READ MORE
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25. Perspectives on the Occupy Central Demonstrations in Hong Kong : A Critical Discourse Analysis on English-language Press in Hong Kong S.A.R, Taiwan and China
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : This paper is concerned with media perceptions and how these manifest as hegemonic practices. Exploring the theme ‘language and politics’, against the backdrop of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace (OCLP) demonstrations in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), this paper sheds light on the discursive constructions of media representations in three ‘Chinese’[1] regions as well as on how such representations constitute vested interests. READ MORE