Essays about: "linguistic community"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 42 essays containing the words linguistic community.

  1. 21. The Right to Have Rights in the Mekong - How Hannah Arendt and the Khmer Krom Illustrate the Failures of the International Rights Regime

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Hugo Lundberg; [2018]
    Keywords : Hannah Arendt; Khmer Krom; Mekong; Vietnam; Right to have rights; human rights; indigenous rights; UNDRIP; TWAIL; international law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The Khmer Krom are an indigenous people living in the Mekong delta with a complex historical relation to the majority population. Vietnamese legal climate and treatment of minorities has been shaped by this complex history. READ MORE

  3. 22. Stylistic Refusal: A Case of Language Crossing? : Consequences of Stylistic Choices in a Social Media Discourse

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Yasmina Klovemark; [2018]
    Keywords : Language Identity; Crossing; Linguistic Appropriation; Refusal; Legitimacy; YouTube Comments;

    Abstract : Due to social media’s vast reach, platforms are created where participants of different speech communities interact. In these interactions, the role of language in conveying a credible identity is brought to light. READ MORE

  4. 23. For the Love of the Game : The role of social media and strategic communication in developing women’s softball in Europe

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Linnea Goodman; [2018]
    Keywords : non-profit organizations; strategic communication; communities; social media; sports organizations;

    Abstract : This study explores how social media contributes to the relationship between community and non-profit organizational communication in the scope of marginalized women’s sports. The analysis of the data is based on a theoretical framework of social identity and self-categorization theories in imagined communities from a non-profit, strategic organizational communication perspective. READ MORE

  5. 24. Gäris and ickebinäris: Exploring a Swedish Gender-Separatist Group on Facebook

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

    Author : Sofia Hedberg; [2018]
    Keywords : gender separatism; Facebook; social media; feminism; safe space; mundane citizenship;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the experience of participating in a ‘hidden’ gender separatist forum for women and nonbinary persons on Facebook. It does so through a case study of a group called Växtgäris, which constitutes one link in a chain of gender separatist forums established on Swedish Facebook in recent years, whose names all end with -gäris. READ MORE

  6. 25. Fat talk in online discourse. A comparison of pro-anorexia and body positivity on social media

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

    Author : Marieke van Tour; [2018]
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    Abstract : This study will compare two online communities; pro-anorexia and body positivity through a retrieval of posts tagged with the hashtags #thinspo (‘thin inspiration’) and #bopo (‘body positivity’) respectively. Two corpora of 120 posts per community were comprised and then processed in AntConc with the aid of a corpus linguistic approach. READ MORE