Essays about: "English-speaking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 111 essays containing the word English-speaking.

  1. 1. A risk of conflict – Perception or Reality? : A media study of securitization and strategic narratives in the Suwałki Gap.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier

    Author : Fieke Margaretha van Dijk; [2024]
    Keywords : Securitization; strategic narratives; Suwałki Gap; qualitative content analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis studies news media published by Lithuanian, Polish and Russian news outlets on the Suwałki Gap and the Kaliningrad Oblast. It analyses whether and how these online news articles portray a risk for conflict in this geopolitical area for English-speaking audiences. READ MORE

  3. 2. Dare. Dream. Done. [Sparkles emoji] : Pragmatic functions and sentiment of emojis in tweets by American, English, Australian, Indian, and Nigerian users

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Kristoffer Olsén; [2024]
    Keywords : ambiguity; computer-mediated communication; cyberpragmatics; emoji; emoji usage pattern; national variety; pragmatics; sentiment; tweets; användningsmönster för emojis; attityd; cyberpragmatik; datorförmedlad kommunikation; emoji; nationell variation; pragmatik; tvetydighet; tweets;

    Abstract : Emojis can be ambiguous, even when used within one and the same language and geographic region, but they are also a globally accessible language in computer-mediated communication. This paper aims to examine if emoji usage across five different national varieties of English (American, English, Australian, Indian, and Nigerian), geographically located on five different continents, exhibits similar pragmatic functionality and sentiment. READ MORE

  4. 3. Strategies for Teaching and Maintaining Chinese as Heritage Language for Chinese Children in Sweden : An investigation for identifying strategies that Chinese parents use helping their children learn and maintain their heritage language

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Bertil Wanner; [2023]
    Keywords : Heritage language maintenance; mother tongue education; children learning Chinese; language proficiency; language maintenance; 承袭语言传承 母语教育 儿童汉语学习 语言能力 语言传承;

    Abstract : Chinese as a heritage language is one of the fastest lost languages in the world. In fact, in most Chinese families that have left China, the heritage language is lost by the second generation. READ MORE

  5. 4. Violence at the border: Exploring portrayals of violence in news articles reporting the border conflicts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Susanna Mäkelä; [2023]
    Keywords : Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; border conflict; slow violence; news media;

    Abstract : Using Nixon’s (2011) conceptualisation of slow violence, this study explores how violence is portrayed in English-language news articles reporting the Kyrgyz-Tajik border conflicts in April 2021 and September 2022. This study aims to discover the ways in which violence is communicated to English-speaking audiences, and, in a larger context, it contributes to the understanding of violence produced in border conflicts. READ MORE

  6. 5. Ethnic Chinese of Vietnam: Perceptions of belonging in the context of growing anti-China sentiment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Nolwenn Guéguen; [2023]
    Keywords : Vietnam; ethnic Chinese; Hoa; anti-China sentiment; Identity; social identity complexity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigated the perceptions of the identity of the ethnic Chinese minority in Vietnam. During the 2010s, tensions were high in the South China Sea between Vietnam and China, and Vietnamese citizens were taking to the street to express their disapproval of China. READ MORE