Essays about: "communicative silence"

Found 3 essays containing the words communicative silence.

  1. 1. "Under pressure". A study of the Swedish Public Health Agency´s crisis - and reputation management during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Lina Karlsson; [2021-07-27]
    Keywords : COVID-19; crisis communication; societal crisis; public organizations; public agencies; reputation; reputational threat; Image Repair Theory; IRT; Bureaucratic Reputation Theory; BRT; rhetorical analysis; rhetorical criticism; kategoria; apologia;

    Abstract : This study examines the Swedish Public Health Agency’s (PHA) crisis communication regarding the COVID-19 pandemic during the year of 2020. Departing from a synthesis of the frameworks of Image Repair Theory and Bureaucratic Reputation Theory, the PHA’s online press conferences are critically analyzed to map out how the PHA’s representatives react to reputational threats that occur alongside and in connection to its management of the crisis at hand. READ MORE

  3. 2. Conflict Discourse in Television Series – The Functions and Uses of Silence in Relation to Social Class

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Linnea Elin Andersson; [2020-04-30]
    Keywords : engelska; silence; television; conflict management strategies; conflict; conversation; turn-taking; communication; avoidance; confrontation; conversation analysis; qualitative research;

    Abstract : This study paper investigates the correlation between social class and the use of silence in conflict discourse, by comparing the interactional style and turn-taking behaviour in two television series representing the upper and lower class. To this end, the study analyses conflict conversations inThe Crown (UK) andShameless (US) to show how in both scripts writers use specific linguistic elements to represent how these social classes are depicted in media. READ MORE

  4. 3. THE APPLICATION OF POLITENESS THEORY INTO ENGLISH EDUCATION IN JAPAN

    University essay from Avdelningen för språk och kultur; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Maho Kawai; [2013]
    Keywords : politeness theory; ESL in Japan;

    Abstract : In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) revised the Course of Study in English education twice in the last decade (in 2002 and in 2011), and the drastic changes have been made especially in the section of communicative skills: introduction of English study in elementary school, teaching English in English in high school, requirement of the subject ‘Oral Communication I’ in high school, etc. The aim of the revisions is to produce international individuals, who have high English proficiency not only in input-skills but also in output-skills, especially in speaking (MEXT 2004: 90, MEXT 2011). READ MORE