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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Communication Context"”.
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Teacher Response to Student Writing: Communication, Context, and Pedagogy
"The dissertation then examines two families of ""post-transmission"" models, the ""meaning-as-negotiated"" and dialogic models, and extends the latter to take into account awareness of interpretive difference. Based on this extension of the dialogic model, it is argued that communicative problems …
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Media Framing of the Steroids Scandal in Major League Baseball
… of media coverage in the political communication context that in this case is present in the sports media context as well. Findings merit further scholarship on broader source comparison in coverage of this scandal, agenda-setting in various forms, and further frame analysis in the …
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Hardiness and public speaking anxiety: Problems and practices.
… life events, its relationship with communication anxiety had not been previously studied. Therefore, hardiness, public speaking trait anxiety, and public speaking state anxiety were measured in a course requiring an oral presentation assignment. One hundred fifty students enrolled in …
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Construction of national identity and national pride of Germans in the intercultural context
… display of national pride in the intercultural communication context. One focus group was conducted to analyze how Germans construct and/or reinvent their national identity when communicating with individuals from other nations.</p> <p>The results show that German national identity and national …
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"It's Kind of a Funny Story...": Exploring Sexual Storytelling Among College Students
… through focus groups, using the theory of Communication Privacy Management and grounded theory to understand focus group results. The results revealed themes regarding the context in which storytelling occurs, how storytelling affects listeners, and how listeners interpret the motivation of …
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Agreement and Group Attraction in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Group Discussions
Topics within small-group communication have been explored in many contexts, such as work group, organizational meeting, or online network. This area of discipline is considered crucial because this type of communication assimilates interpersonal relations within a social setting. Two elements that …
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A Theoretical Study of the Interactive Communication Process in Video Game Playing: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
… in video game playing within an interactive communication context. To achieve this goal, symbolic interactionism is used as a theoretical ground to explicate the interactive communication during video game playing. Once the pertinence of symbolic interaction theory to the player-video game …
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Communicating Climate Change In Internet Discussion Fora: Processes and Implications
… requires new strategies that incorporate online communication. The rapid growth of new media and widespread use of the internet has marked everyday lifestyles in modern society. Information on a wide range of social issues, including climate change, is disseminated and debated through online …
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Professional and community identity in the field of technical communication in Ireland.
Technical communication is a relatively new occupational field in the Republic of Ireland, which has grown in response to the location of software and hardware companies in the country. Because it is also a new area of academic study, with just one academic programme in technical communication in …
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Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse
… American-authored Iraq War fiction within the context of public discourse. Given that modern, industrialized warfare is as much created by and through official-media discourse as represented by it, fictional accounts of Iraq exist not outside or separate from this discourse but rather in a …
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The Effects Of Anxiety On Second Language Acquisition
… on the effects of the interlocutor(s) and communication contexts on language anxiety experienced by a group of ESL students studying at a flagship university in the Southeastern United States. A background questionnaire and an adapted instrument called Second Language Speaking Anxiety Scale …
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The role of social media in HIV/AIDS communication: The relationship between perceived need and design utilities
… to explore the role of social media in HIV/AIDS communication, by investigating the relationship between perceived need utilities of social media and the design utilities of the communication channel. Following the media richness theory (MRT) and channel expansion theory (CET), a model is …
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Real-time expressive internet communications
This research work "Real-time Expressive Internet Communications" focuses on two subjects: One is the investigation of methods of automatic emotion detection and visualisation under real-time Internet communication environment, the other is the analysis of the influences of presenting visualised …
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Re-envisioning assessment of interlanguage pragmatic competence through computer-mediated communicative tasks
… second language pragmatics and computer-mediated communication to assess the pragmatic knowledge of second language users of English. It uses Purpura’s (2004) framework of communicative language ability for developing interactive, email-based role-play tasks to assess test takers’ pragmatic …
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The Intercultural Communication Experiences of Arab Muslims Studying in New Zealand: Academic and Social Perspectives
… of these students in Western academic contexts suggest, however, that there is a need for further investigation to understand the extent to which these students (re)construct and (re)ne¬go¬tiate their identities as a result of their intercultural communication experiences. The purpose …
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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT POLITICS IN GLOCALIZED ENGLISH HEGEMONY: CULTURAL STRUGGLES, FACEWORK STRATEGIES, AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN TAIWANESE ENGLISH EDUCATION
… As a Taiwanese citizen and an intercultural communication scholar, I recognize the intricate complexity of Taiwanese English education and am compelled to examine it in this dissertation as it has not received much attention in the discipline of Communication Studies. In this dissertation, I …
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Stakeholder representation in the CEO's letter to shareholders
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Stakeholder representation in the CEO's letter to shareholders
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Photo images in corporate annual reports
… </ul> The use of technology and visual communication such as photographs was found to often be more powerful than pure text, offering a dialogic approach to reporting and enabling critical reflection. The research raised the concern that images could be used to camouflage poor …