Essays about: "language strategies for politics"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 essays containing the words language strategies for politics.

  1. 6. 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 tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Natalie Choi; [2016]
    Keywords : critical discourse analysis; appraisal theory; media analysis; English-language newspaper; hegemony; sovereignty; democracy; Occupy Central; politics; multilingualism;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 7. A More Just Way of Living For Everybody? Stories of Language, Privilege, and a Transition Towns Movement in Eastern Canada

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Lucia Bardos; [2015]
    Keywords : Language; Transition Towns; Transition Movement; Privilege; Epistemology; Coalition Politics; Feminist Theory; Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore the relationship between the transition movement and social and ecological justice. Through a case study of Transition Guelph (TG), a transition town in Ontario, Canada, I discuss how TG creates a language based on binary concepts embedded in unequal power relations, and how this language informs their actions and activism. READ MORE

  4. 8. A Rhetorical Criticism of Google´s European Identification Strategies

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för retorik

    Author : Kristoffer Nordman; [2014]
    Keywords : Rhetoric; Business Communication; Communication Science; Google; Lobbying; EU; European Union; Kenneth Burke; Burke; Identification; Eric Schmidt; Eric E. Schmidt; Innovation Policy; European Innovation Convention; Public Relations; Public Affairs; Government Outreach; Corporate Political Influence;

    Abstract : This thesis examines Google’s Executive Chairman Eric E. Schmidt’s speech at the European Innovation Convention 2011 from the perspectives of Kenneth Burke’s dramatism and identification theories. In the wider context it aims to contribute to the analyses of human progress traced through the history of our technologies and inventions. READ MORE

  5. 9. Brunt blir grönt : perspektiv och strategier för ekologisk design i postindustriella miljöer

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Marta Strand; [2013]
    Keywords : landskapsarkitektur; industri; ekologi; Lövholmen; hållbar utveckling; miljödebatt; ekologisk modernisering; reklamation; bioremediering;

    Abstract : Sedan stor del av den industriella produktionen flyttat från västvärlden till låglöneländer har det blivit en aktuell fråga hur vi omhändertar de övergivna industriområden som lämnats kvar. En trend som vuxit sig stark är att omvandla industrimiljöerna till nya miljöprofilerade parkområden och stadsdelar, som Hammarby Sjöstad i Stockholm och Västra Hamnen i Malmö. READ MORE

  6. 10. Teaching "The hunger games"; Read - Write - Speak - Listen

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Cecilia Stridsberg; [2012-06-28]
    Keywords : The hunger games; interdisciplinär; language skills; socio-cultural perspective; language competence;

    Abstract : This essay explores how the best-seller The Hunger Games can be applied in the classroom. In the curriculum for the English courses in Upper Secondary School the students should develop an all-round communicative competence including receptive, productive and interactive language skills. READ MORE