Essays about: "speaking the truth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words speaking the truth.

  1. 1. Worlding Communication: The Foregrounding of Novel Communication Barriers in Literature

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Serra Hughes; [2022]
    Keywords : novel communication barriers; Eric Hayot; novum; world literature; estrangement; metadiegetic structures; Jürgen Habermas; Darko Suvin; language; linguistic novelty;

    Abstract : Novel communication barriers, innovative obstacles to mutual understanding that deviate from the norms of the actual world, are a recurring yet understudied presence in aesthetic worlds of all kinds. Some examples of this are Dana’s twentieth-century way of speaking that travels back in time with her in Kindred, or Americans under Japanese occupation struggling to speak through cultural and linguistic barriers in an alternate historical timeline in The Man in the High Castle, or the unique obstructions to communication in the alien encounters of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness or Ted Chiang’s “The Story of Your Life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Speech activity detection in videos

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för reglerteknik

    Author : Viktor Andersson; Nelly Ostréus; [2022]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Speech is an important way of communication all over the world. The speech information is encoded both aural and visual. More than 1.5 billion people have hearing loss and for those the visual information is even more important than for people with normal hearing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Speaking is Silver, Silence is Gold - A decolonial study examining Swedish exceptionalism and colonialism and the struggle of the Sámi people in Swedish elementary school textbooks from 1930-2013.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Lovisa Warpman; [2022]
    Keywords : Sámi; Sweden; Silence; Exceptionalism; Decolonial theory; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The narrative regarding Sweden and the self-understanding often excludes its colonial past and instead presents a “moral superpower”, deeply connected to the welfare state. While the nation has described itself as exceptional, the Sámi people have struggled for rights, acknowledgement and visibility over a long period of time. READ MORE

  5. 4. The NA-KD Truth About Influencer Marketing : Exploring influencer marketing through integrated marketing communication and the influencer’s role in strengthening a brand

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Malin Dalstam; Hedvig Nordlöf; Daniella Holmgren; [2018]
    Keywords : Influencer Marketing; Integrated Marketing Communication; Brand Identity; eWOM;

    Abstract : Problem: The nature of marketing communications is changing as a result of the rise and development of social media. In response to this advancement, the way in which companies communicate with their target audience has shifted. Consumers today attain greater control in terms of receiving and influencing a message. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Substance of Democracy behind Layers of Discourses: EU's Democracy Promotion in Tunisia

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Elvire Michel; [2015]
    Keywords : EU democracy promotion; Tunisia; EUROMED; democratic layers and substance; democratic ideal; normative power; parrhesia; public sphere; discourses and representations; civil society;

    Abstract : Following the signature of the Millennium Declaration in 2000, and of the Lisbon treaty in 2009, the EU developed a key-role role on the international stage notably through the development of the CSFP and its HR representative, Federica Mogherini. While the EU reinforced its security policies, its involvement in developing countries increased as well. READ MORE