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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Social actor"”.
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A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Ideological Representations and Legitimation in the Salafi Discourse in Saudi Arabia (1980-2000).
… 2001, 2009; Wodak, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2007), social actor theory (van Leeuwen 1996, p. 32-70; 2008, pp. 23-54), corpus linguistics (Baker et al. 2008) and argumentation theory (Van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004), I examine the most salient discursive features of semantic foci, social actor …
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A critical discourse analysis of social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-language blogs posted between 2009 and 2012
This thesis examines the discourse on social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-Language blogs written between 2009 and 2012. These posts discuss a number of reformative measures that took place during that period in order to allow for greater women’s empowerment in Saudi Arabia. The …
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HOW CONTEXT MATTERS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY USE
… study used two theoretical constructs -- social actor (Lamb & Kling, 2003) and technology-in-practice (Orlikowski, 2000). The lens of social actor helped to look beyond the boundary of an organization in order to identify entities that reside in its environment and create information …
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
… or literacy, change the relationship between the social actor/agent and narrative? Second, in what way does myth, in its anthropological sense, maintain its presence in the Western historical tradition? This paper, then, is an anthropology of the West. Of particular relevance here are the works of …
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As práticas discursivas da educação corporativa no campo acadêmico brasileiro
… It delimits the Brazilian academic field as a social field of investigation. The central question is: how does the Brazilian academic field act, represent and identify discursively (with) CE? The general objective is to investigate the discursive practices about CE in the Brazilian academic …
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The dynamics of cultural continuities : clanship in the Western Cape
… clanship notions only in the context of social group formation. This literature argued that clanship is meaningless in urban situations since there are various social groups in urban towns which are based on criteria other than clanship. The present study argues, however, that clanship …
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The Identity, Agency and Political Influence of al-Hakkamat Baggara Women Poets in Armed Conflict in Darfur, Sudan, from 1980s to 2006.
… a folk singer and agitator as well as a powerful social actor. Her nurtured personal and social identities reconstruct for her gender roles that are found to be both feared and revered by the community and appropriated by the government. She is found to respond effectively to situations ranging …
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Cultura organizacional: una mirada desde los gerentes universitarios de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad de Carabobo
… managers of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Carabobo. The object of study was approached from the interpretive paradigm, with a qualitative approach. The ontology was based on the dialogic apprehension of the experiences of being, epistemology followed the …
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Empowering the powerful: a critical discourse analysis of public discourse on graduate employability
… employability. Data were collected from three socially significant English-language publications: a mainstream newspaper (the New Straits Times), an alternative newspaper (The Malaysian Insider), and a government document outlining the national approach to improving graduate employability in …
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Learning beyond words.The impact of second language adult education on migrants' social involvement: a comparison between Scotland and Greece
… related to issues of citizenship, and social inclusion, and this study embraces the adult education discourse of citizenship, in which the learner is viewed as a social actor and education as a key process to claiming and re-defining membership in society. The study, drawing from …
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Human and Machine in Formation: An Ethnographic Study of Communication and Humanness in a Wearable Technology Laboratory in Japan
… machines, resulting in burdensome and brittle social relations. In contrast, they attempt to create “human-centered technologies” that humans can interact with “naturally,” which they believe will facilitate the creation of resilient and comfortable societies. HCT researchers believe that the …
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The discursive construction and attributions of motive in relation to the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the national news genre
… issues being contested are framed, and how the actors are positioned within them; and (3) a keyword and collocation analysis to identify the ideological struggle presented in these news reports in terms of representations of motives and (de)legitimation strategies. The results show that the …
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Critical language analysis of Palestinian and Israeli online newspapers and news websites during the 2014 Gaza War
… 1985; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004), the social actor model (van Leeuwen, 2008) and referential strategies (Reisigl & Wodak, 2009) to conduct its bottom-up analysis.The results of this study reveal that marginal ideologies at both ends of the ideological spectrum in Israel compete with a …
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The People's Republic of Capitalism: The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present
… The Making of the New Middle Class in Post-Socialist China, 1978-Present" draws on a range of visual cultural forms - cinema, documentary, and fashion - to track the cultural dimension of the emergence of the new middle class subject in China's encounter with global capitalism. Through …
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Networks, [Mis]trust, and Pentecostal Conversion: narratives of divergent pathways among small Black entrepreneurs in Tshwane
… and discourse that impinge upon the workings of social capital and trust among small black entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need to draw on social networks to get advice and resources to launch and manage a business. The contacts that lead to successful outcomes are their social capital and they are …
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Circuits of Power in Alabama's Immigration Politics: Labor Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility
… same opportunities and challenges as any other social actor confronted with the racialized, politicized, and historically contingent challenges facing Latino labor in Alabama. In other words, these business actors were fully socially embedded actors within Alabama. I demonstrate that individual …
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Application of participatory design to facilitate social innovation concept with third sector organisations
… as prominent areas of focus within the realm of Social Innovation research. In this context, Participatory Design is a valuable approach to address the specific needs of local communities, enabling the engagement of local stakeholders in the creation of Social Innovation. Third-sector …
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The Process of Becoming a Songwriter: A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Perceptions and Early Environmental Experiences
… experience specific things indigenous to the social world of songwriters. This research focused on the process someone goes through to become a songwriter. The process as described by the actor is influenced by both the actor and society. Previous research is limited to structural factors …
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A ‘FROG HYPNOTIZED BY A SNAKE’? WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POLISH MOVEMENT SOLIDARNOŚĆ, 1980–1989
… broader demands. By 1981, it had become a social actor capable of shaping national and international debates. The imposition of martial law drove the movement underground, but did not extinguish it. Instead, Solidarność adapted: it relied on clandestine networks, harnessed the language of …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
… of actions involving them using van Leeuwen’s social actor framework (2008) and the transitivity system in systemic-functional grammar (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014), respectively. Second, I investigate how they talk about themselves in terms of self-appraisals using Martin and White’s …
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