Discursive Construction of Chinese Military Image in the British Media

This study takes the image of China’s military as c onstructed in the British media’s military coverage of China as an object of study,and creates two reference corpora for comparative research.It is used to better analyse and compare the ideologies hidden in the British media’s coverage of China’s milita ry.From the analysis of the corpus,it is concluded that due to China’s rapid military and economic development,Western countries have developed a sense of crisis and have used media reports to instigate China’s foreign relations and mislead public think ing.

A Discursive Psychology Approach to English Learning Experiences Narrative: What's Behind the Failures?

This article takes a discursive psychology approach to the analysis of Non-English major students' English learning experience narrative. The students took part in my survey are those just say goodbye to the high school and are freshmen in college now. The English learning experience narrative is in a form of diary. Through the students themselves' own point of views in recounting their English learning experiences, I want to find the reality hidden behind their failures in learning English. And hope this can give the most teachers who work for public English education in colleges or even universities some inspiration about teaching.

Discursive Strategies for Crisis Management:A Case Study of the Johnson & Johnson TYLENOL? Crisis

Being able to respond effectively in the event a crisis is relevant to an organization's survival. Whether or not an organization is prepared for a potential crisis depends upon communications. Corporations with established crisis management communication strategies are able to communicate and respond promptly at the advent of a crisis. This paper focuses on how to handle management crisis effectively from discursive perspective via a case study of the Johnson and Johnson TYLENOL? crisis.

China-India Relationship and Buddhism—From the perspective of the discursive practice of the White Horse Temple

India and China, even though close in distance, but distant in relationship. Recently, the world has witnessed the improvement of the bilateral relations between the two big nations. The White Horse Temple, as a site constructed by discourses has transformed from‘the first government-funded temple in China'to one of the symbols of China-India friendship in the cultural exchange between the two nations. Critical discourse analysis(CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice and focuses on the ways social and political domination are reproduced in text and talk. This paper, starts from the perspective of critical discourse analysis, is exploratory in that it aims to see how the discursive practice of the White Horse Temple constitutes the discourse of China-India relationship and is constituted by the power relationship between the two nations.

Discursive National Discrimination——Critical Discourse Analysis on Luo Gang Event

Discourse is constitutive and socially constituted. The existence of national discrimination is the result of discourses. Luo Gang Event sharply reflects the contradiction between Japanese and Chinese, to which the discourse-historical approach is applied to analyze its intertextuality of discourses with other field of discourses and the formation of the "othering", therefore the discursive national discrimination come into

An Unbalanced Triangle: Discursive Analysis of American Buffalo

In American Buffalo,the three characters regard language as a weapon,with a view to gaining superiority in power relations.Through discursive analysis,this paper aims to observe the process of power relations construction in a malicious world without moral norms.

Online Peer Advice: Giving Advice on Chinese Social Networking Sites

This study investigates advice-giving in peer-to-peer comment sections on Chinese social networking sites. The results show that advice, explanation, experience, and assessment are the four most frequent discursive moves in Chinese advice given by peers on social networking sites. Involvement, mitigation, and face-threatening strategies are also utilized frequently by those peers to give directives and express empathy and solidarity on Chinese online sites, thereby building supportive relationships among them in online communities. The online peer advice-giving in this study is influenced by multiple aspects of the platform, participants, and language use, presenting distinctive characteristics that differ from other studies.

Take Actions on Learner Autonomy Introduction & Inquiry Question

Based on Toohey’s(2007)interpretation on autonomy,I develop the notion learner autonomy from three perspectives—discursive practices,alternative positionings and interactive others.Through analyzing my observation of an ESL class in a Canadian elementary school,this article mainly discusses three important factors associated with learner autonomy and how to better make use of them in teaching practices.

#Occupywallstreet: An Analysis of Twitter Usage during a Protest Movement

In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement made history as one of the largest grassroots protest events in the United States. Members made frequent use of social media tools, like Twitter, to share information and mobilize participants. This study uses content analysis to examine the way that Twitter is used to incite, organize, and perpetuate protest movements. 1500 tweets in total were coded for content and linguistic features to provide insight into how Twitter is used to achieve different goals surrounding protest movements, the tonality of the tweets, and the purpose of distributed messages. Our findings indicate that Twitter is a tool primarily used for sharing objective, logistical information, along with opinions, to create a unified community and mobilize individuals to participate in a physical space of protest.

#Take Responsibility:Non-Verbal Modes as Discursive Strategies in Managing Covid-19 Public Health Crisis

This paper examines different modes of non-verbal communication deployed as discursive strategies/safety protocol measures during the Covid-19 crisis to warn people against contracting the disease and to contain its spread.The data,which consist of forty purposively selected images used by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and remodified logos of some international brands shared on the social media space—NCDC website,Facebook and Twitter,are divided into four broad categories and analysed qualitatively using Kress and van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotic framework to examine their representational meanings.These non-verbal modes of communication are used as representations to create awareness about the pandemic,depict its manifestations(signs and symptoms)and educate people on the important guidelines to observe in order to prevent contracting the infectious disease.Thus,different semiotic resources are deployed as meaning-making processes to interrogate these thematic categories.The study concludes that the choice of the non-verbal modes/images are intentional and strategic as their specificity projects the intended meaning of the message,enhances wider reach and enables effective communication of proper management of the health crisis.

A Quad Model for Assessing Innovation Potential:Toward a Theory of Innovation Orchestration Quality

The study draws on the prevalent theories for orchestrating cross-organizational innovation and new knowledge development processes,and proposes a new,epistemic perspective for contextualizing innovation with two management dimensions,namely,innovation complexity and innovation orchestration preconditions.Innovation complexity concerns the indeterminacy or contingency of new knowledge,or new competence,to be pursued during the course of organizational innovation.Innovation orchestration preconditions refer to the contextual innovation prerequisites that should be well meshed with one another to provide a sufficiency for innovation success.The preconditions include innovation units’structures and connectivity,behavior,and convenorship.The two dimensions describe a context map-an antithetic quad model-to imply four innovation orchestration qualities,namely,coherence,cohesiveness,congruence,and concordance.Based on the quad model,the study sets forth a measurement of the four qualities,which can assess innovation potential.To corroborate the quad model and the corresponding quality measurements,the study discursively observes a cross-sectoral innovation project.The observation results evidence the multi-finality of the four qualities for innovation success.The results reveal that it is necessary for these four qualities to be managed temporally and dynamically at different stages of innovation,and reject a fallacy that any one of these qualities is more necessary than the others.The study posits that if innovation units can be convened in accordance with the four qualities,the likelihood of innovation success will be sufficiently increased.The study finally discusses theoretical and practical implications of orchestration and convenorship.