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Chan, Mei-kuen Elaine, and 陳美娟. "Expression of modality in the language of the mass media." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951831.
Full textChan, Mei-kuen Elaine. "Expression of modality in the language of the mass media." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21160375.
Full textChan, Kar-wing Veronica. "Social attitudes towards swearing and taboo language." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18685377.
Full textShah, Shibani. "Framing Kargil: Media Language and Coverage of the Kargil Conflict in the Indian Press." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1381407643.
Full textLa, Cues Victoria Lynn. "Disabling language and AIDS: An analysis of language in mainstream media." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1483.
Full textKarim, Karim H. (Karim Haiderali) 1956. "Constructions of the Islamic peril in English-language Canadian print media : discourses on power and violence." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42064.
Full textBorrowing from Jacques Ellul, this study examines the importance of myth as a fundamental basis of communication. However, unlike Ellul, it also explores alternatives to the operations of dominant communication structures. Edward Said's critique of Orientalism informs the analysis of Northern portrayals of Muslim societies; but the dissertation attempts to avoid overstating the Orientalist discourses' hegemony by proposing a model of competition among dominant, oppositional and alternative discourses on "Islam."
Mainstream media's adherence to dominant technological myths and their general reticence about the structural and direct violence of elite states are examined. Distinct similarities are found between the utopic orientations and technical operations of dominant Northern and Muslim discourses, as well as in Jewish, Christian and Muslim conceptions of holy/just war. The proliferation of contemporary Northern images about "Islam" are traced historically to four primary stereotypes about Muslims.
Examinations of the supposedly objective and secularist media reportage on terrorism show differences in portrayal according to the perpetrators' religions. Analyses of the coverage of wars involving peoples of Muslim backgrounds in the Middle East, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the former USSR demonstrate the tendency of dominant journalistic scripts to attribute diverse political, economic and territorial conflicts to a monolithic "lslam" The dissertation traces how the global media narrative's transformation of Saddam Hussein from an ally of the West to a demonic despot was aided by according him "Islamic" characteristics. It also looks at the emergence of "Islam" as a post-Cold War Other. Lastly, proposals made by scholars and journalists for enhancing inter-cultural communication between Northern and Muslim societies are considered.
Brandeis, Judy. "English language arts and media education : making links." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21197.
Full textIn order to clarify the co-relation between English Language Arts theory and Media Education theory, I interviewed experts in both fields to shed light on how these two areas of study complement one another and where the points of difference lie. The information points to the development in theory and opportunities for research that may help teachers in training and classroom teachers integrate Media Education and ELA education.
Winterstein, David P. "Language and media in the promotion of the Breton cultural identity in the European Union /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6170.
Full textOostendorp, Marcelyn Camereldia Antonette. "Investigating changing notions of "text": comparing news text in printed and electronic media." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9984_1183428106.
Full textThis research aimed to give an account of the development of concepts of text and discourse and the various approaches to analysis of texts and discourses, as this is reflected in core linguistic literature since the late 1960s. The idea was to focus specifically on literature that notes the development stimulated by a proliferation of electronic media. Secondly, this research aimed to describe the nature of electronic news texts found on the internet in comparison to an equivalent printed version, namely texts printed in newspapers and simultaneously on the newspaper website.
Kassam, Shelina. "The language of Islamism : Pakistan's media response to the Iranian revolution." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69615.
Full textPakistan's response to the Iranian Revolution provides a glimpse into the nature of a country coming to terms with itself and its own interpretation of its dominant socio-political ideology. The Revolution highlighted already-existing tensions within the Pakistani national psyche: questions were raised with regard to the ideological direction of the country, its pragmatic concerns for security as well as the role of Islam in the formation of a public identity. The Iranian Revolution, by presenting differing perspectives on some of these issues--though all were framed within the context of the language of Islamism--served to deepen the collective Pakistani soul-searching. The nature of Pakistani response was essentially one of an intricate balancing act amongst competing loyalties, perspectives and imperatives. This response highlighted Pakistan's somewhat tense relationship with itself and its reliance upon Islam as a dominant socio-political ideology. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Saunders, Ryan C. "Beyond media literacy in the language arts classroom [electronic resource] /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2010. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Saunders_RCMIT2010.pdf.
Full textRashwan, Nagy Mohamed Fahim Eweis. "Lyn Hejinian's and Charles Bernstein's language poetics : a postmodern conceptual grammar." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13271.
Full textDulcan, Emily. "A content analytic comparison of news frames in English- and Spanish-language newspapers." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4539.
Full textThe entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (June 25, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
Armstrong, Robin S. "Socioeconomic position and mass media campaigns to prevent chronic disease." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69375/1/Robin_Armstrong_Thesis.pdf.
Full textHassan, Amir Deardorff Kellan. "The potentiality of popular media and critical theory in first year composition pedagogies." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/a_hassan_042809.pdf.
Full textDrum, Adam Lloyd. "Speaking Their Language: Textisms in Today's Communication." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5473.
Full textUždalevič, Aelita. "The influence of the English language over Lithuanian and Russian lexis." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090629_115332-34899.
Full textTyrinėjant medžiagą ir analizuojant pavyzdžius buvo įrodyta, jog abi kalbos patiria Anglų kalbos įtaką skolinant leksinius unitus. Be to, Anglų kalbos skoliniai plačiai naudojami Lietuvių ir Rusų kalbos žiniasklaidoje. Pastebėtas naujų reikšmių vystymasis dėl Anglų kalbos įtakos ir vartotojų poreikius. Tai pat tas faktas, kad skoliniai ne iš karto įtraukiami į literatūrinę kalbą yra akcentuojamas, nors jie plačiai naudojami šnekamojoje kalboje. Semantišku požiūrių naujausius Rusų ir Lietuvių kalbos skolinius galima padalinti į keletą semantinių grupių, kuriuos visiškai atspindi tas sferas, kuriuose yra didelis žmonių susidomėjimas, ir tas sferas kuriuose vyksta visuomeniniai pakeitimai. Didžiąją dalis skoliniu Rusų ir Lietuvių kalbose priklauso ekonomikai (deliveris, брокер), technikai (failas, роуминг), muzikai (singlas, римейк), kosmetikai (tattoo, типсы), paslaugoms (single room, шоппинг), kompiuteriui (hakeris, кликнуть) ir politikai (impičmentas, спикер). Be to, galima rasti nemažai skolinių susijusiu su drabužiais (bodis, сникерсы), valgiu (miusliai, спреды), teatrais (kastingas, блокбастер), žmonėmis (breikeris, киллер) ir sportu (geimas, шейкдаун). Kai kurie skoliniai Lietuvių kalboje priklauso kultūrai (pubas) ir statybai (deckas), tuo metu kai Rusu kalboje dalis skoliniu susijusi su antgamtiniais dalykais (суперме). Abi kalbos pasirenka tos skolinius nes Anglų kalbos įtaka labai didelė, ir visos svarbiausios kasdieninio gyvenimo srytis pripildyti neologizmais... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
Talley, Edith M. "Language, Technology and the “They Self”: How Linguistic Manipulation of Mass and Social Media Distract from the Authentic Self." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/58.
Full textChan, Kar-wing Veronica, and 陳嘉詠. "Social attitudes towards swearing and taboo language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951211.
Full textBright, Sue-Ann. "Brain drain, exodus and chicken run : media discourses on emigration." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007672.
Full textBrauer, Lydia Katherine. "Contemporary constructions of English texts a departmental case study of secondary English domains /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1151259726.
Full textMunn, Marion Alison. "Religious freedom versus children's rights| Challenging media framing of Short Creek, 1953." Thesis, The University of Utah, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556146.
Full textThe media’s ability to frame a news story, or to slant it in a particular direction and thereby shape public perceptions, is a powerful tool with implications for material effects in society. In this thesis, a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of the words and photographic images used in the framing of Life magazine’s September 14, 1953 article, “The Lonely Men of Short Creek,” is combined with contextualization of the story within the historical, sociological, and regional settings that may have affected its ideological content. This provides insights into Life’s editorial perspectives and potential audience response. “The Lonely Men of Short Creek” is an account that some writers have suggested contributed to a laissez-faire attitude towards the polygamist community of Short Creek, Arizona, in which a failure to enforce state laws allowed child sexual abuse to continue unhindered there for the next half century. This analysis of Life’s account demonstrates its overall sympathetic framing of Short Creek in 1953, particularly of male community members, and the construction of a narrative with significant absences and misrepresentations that obscured or concealed darker themes. Life’s construct has in certain aspects been replicated today in what some consider to be the “definitive” account of the story, which repeats a persistent tale of religious persecution, compromised constitutional rights, and an overbearing state’s “kidnap” of the children of an apparently innocent and harmless rural polygamist community. Such a narrative has deflected attention from an alternative frame—that of a community charged with multiple crimes, including the statutory rape of children manipulated by adults within a religious ideology that demanded plural “wives.” This thesis contends that in 1953, these children were overlooked, or ignored in a fog of often taken-for-granted US national ideologies and editorial perspectives relating to religious freedom and the “sacred” nature of the family in the post-Korean War and Cold War era. Such findings raise questions about the ethics of partisan framing of news stories in which alleged victims are implicated, acceptable limits of religious and family rights, and the often un-interrogated national ideologies sometimes used to justify harmful or criminal behaviors.
Thothe, Oesi. "Investigating the role of media in the identity construction of ethnic minority language speakers in Botswana : an exploratory study of the Bakalanga." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017788.
Full textTukwasibwe, Constance. "The influence of indigenous languages on Ugandan English as used in the media." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015637.
Full textPark, Junghee. "Language adaptation to technology-mediated communication multimodal stance marking on the Korean Internet and TV in written mode /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1428837981&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textNsele, Zandile Victoria. "Ukucwaningwa kwama-atikili esiZulu ngemibiko yezindaba ezibuhlungu ezisemaphephandabeni." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/943.
Full textNordrum, Amy L. "“War on Global Warming”: Militarized Language in Environmental Journalism." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1273610932.
Full textMelton, Janet Moody. "Mass media in the writing process of English as a second language kindergarteners: A case study examination." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2881/.
Full textLam, Chi Kei Jacqueline. "Code-mixing in the spoken and written discourse of mass media in Hong Kong." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1999. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/403.
Full textWelling, Paula C. "Limited by Language: Words, Images, and Their Effect on Women." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1400944034.
Full textRomo, Carlo André. "Gender stereotypes in Spanish language television programming for children in the United States." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
Full textDeng, Dan Dan. "Cyber speak : a language as Chinese youth under new media technology." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2525510.
Full textBachmann-Stein, Andrea. "Horoskope in der Presse : ein Modell für holistische Textsortenanalysen und seine Anwendung /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013040354&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textChihota-Charamba, Audrey. "An analysis of how Zimbabwean female audiences decode meaning from the Shona-language radio programme Nguva Yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) against the background of their lived experiences." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011750.
Full textWoo, Yuen Ying Grace. "Oral and written media coverage of mundane news in Hong Kong : a case study of a fire incident." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1995. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/95.
Full textHamilton, Joshua Bridgwater. "Resituating Desire, Rewriting Reading| Spanish Neo-Avant Garde Visual Poetry and the Critique of Mass Media and Consumer Capitalism." Thesis, Indiana University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3587659.
Full textThis dissertation examines the Spanish visual poetry of the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared during the later period of the Franco regime and responded to the rise of mass media and consumer capitalism. It draws on the theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to examine how this poetry created an oppositional practice that destabilized the conventional use of codes in media, art, and literature. It brings to light what I will explore as the "schizoid" character of their work and how it redefines the roles of reader, writer, and text in order to create an awareness that is critical and resistant to what the visual poets position as authoritative discourses, such as capitalism, consumerism, and the authoritarianism of the dictatorship. They see these discourses as subjugating the individual's thought through codes of language and image, and they go about subverting such discourses by destabilizing the language and image itself on which those discourses are built.
This study focuses on the representative works of three different writers, Quizás Brigitte Bardot venga a tomar una copa esta noche by Alfonso López Gradolí, La caída del avión en el terreno baldío by José Luis Castillejo, and Textos y antitextos by Fernando Millán. López Gradolí's book restructures the notion of desire as it is represented in capitalist narratives of lack, ultimately schizophrenizing desire as a displaced logic of lack and creating new, interpersonal codes that redefine desire as immanent connection. Castillejo's work deconstructs representation through open-ended texts that multiply possible reading strategies, thus grounding desire in the process of building new codes. Millán's book deconstructs representation into a figural narrative that redefines the reader's role from that of a passive consumer to that of an active schizoanalyst that co-creates poetic codes and schizophrenizes transcendental structures that govern language and image.
Brooks, Evan Thomas. "The Adaptive Media Strategy of Greenpeace in China." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338388499.
Full textMalatji, Edgar Julius. "The development and sustainability of indigenous African language newspapers : ba case study of Seipone, Nthavela and Ngoho News." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1755.
Full textThere is a conspicuous importance of having newspapers that publish in the indigenous African languages for the indigenous population in a democratic dispensation. The indigenous African languages are key components of their respective cultures. The survival of the language is, in some way, dependent on the print media (newspapers) (Salawu, 2004:8). In addition, the indigenous language newspapers have cardinal roles of promoting previously marginalised languages, preserving indigenous cultures and upholding democracy. Nevertheless, these newspapers are struggling to sustain themselves in the print media industry. It is, therefore, critically important to examine the factors that adversely affect the sustainability of these newspapers.
Lee, Ka-yan Maggie, and 李嘉欣. "Advertising discourse analysis : a case study of female identities in a Hong Kong local female magazine." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207134.
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Tallerman, Margaret Olwen. "Mutation and the syntactic structure of modern colloquial Welsh." Thesis, University of Hull, 1987. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:4476.
Full textKresic, Marijana. "Sprache, Sprechen und Identität Studien zur sprachlich-medialen Konstruktion des Selbst." München Iudicium, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2908566&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textSmith, Jade. "For the people : an appraisal comparison of imagined communities in letters to two South African newspapers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016264.
Full textMusau, Paul M. "The liberalization of the mass media in Africa and its impact on indigenous languages." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-92283.
Full textLove, Andrew Lawrence. "Musical improvisation as the place where being speaks : Heidegger, language and sources of Christian hope." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:4640.
Full textWang, Wei. "Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia: A contrastive genre study." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1701.
Full textWang, Wei. "Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia a contrastive genre study /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1701.
Full textThis thesis is a contrastive genre study which explores newspaper commentaries on terrorism in Chinese and Australian newspapers. The study examines the textual patterning of the Australian and Chinese commentaries, interpersonal and intertextual features of the texts as well as considers possible contextual factors which might contribute to the formation of the newspaper commentaries in the two different languages and cultures. For the framework of its analysis, the study draws on systemic functional linguistics, English for Specific Purposes and new rhetoric genre studies, critical discourse analysis, and discussions of the role of the mass media in the two different cultures. The study reveals that Chinese writers often use explanatory rather than argumentative expositions in their newspaper commentaries. They seem to distance themselves from outside sources and seldom indicate endorsement of these sources. Australian writers, on the other hand, predominantly use argumentative expositions to argue their points of view. They integrate and manipulate outside sources in various ways to establish and provide support for the views they express. It is argued that these textual and intertextual practices are closely related to contextual factors, especially the roles of the media and opinion discourse in contemporary China and Australia. The study, by providing both a textual and contextual view of the genre under investigation in the two languages and cultures, aims to establish a framework for contrastive rhetoric research which moves beyond the text into the context of production and interpretation of the texts as a way of exploring reasons for the linguistic and rhetorical choices made in the two sets of texts.
Lam, Leong Iok Anni. "Globalizing Macao : news frame and English language press in Macao." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2150204.
Full textLi, Xiaoqin. "Chuan mei "yue gui" zai Zhongguo : yi "Nan fang zhou mo" wei li = Media "deviance" in China : the case of Southern Weekend /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents click here to view the fulltext, 2005. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b18843050a.pdf.
Full textCaldwell, Marc Anthony. "Struggle in discourse the International's discourse against racism in the labour-movement in South Africa (1915-1919)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002872.
Full textLegge, Janet Helen. "Post-feminism in Cosmopolitan and For Him magazine (FHM) : a critical analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005956.
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