Categories Of Communication Research Articles

Scrunitizing Social Presence of In-Service EFL Teachers’ Instruction in The Enactment Of Blended Learning

Technology utilization learning is gaining popularity especially when online learning is conducted during and after the worldwide pandemic. Many studies have examined blended learning as an effort to integrate online learning and face-to-face learning which has an impact on increasing student engagement, improving learning outcomes, and providing a more flexible and personalized educational experience. However, the results of previous research also reported that the application of online learning has minimal interaction, thus leading to less meaningful learning. To respond to these problems, this study aims to investigate perceptions about the application of social presence in English teaching in the implementation of blended learning. The results of this study show that quantitatively English teachers have applied 3 important aspects of social presence, of which 59.82% agreed with teaching activities based on affective categories. Followed by the second position, which strongly agrees with 39.50% and disagrees with the application as much as 0.69%. In the Open Communication category, as many as 62.37% of English teachers also agreed with the implementation of this activity, 34.72% strongly agreed, and as many as 3% expressed disapproval. Meanwhile, on the concept of group cohesion, as many as 64.63% agreed, and 35.37% strongly agreed with this concept.

Digital and Information Literacy in Basic-Education Teachers: A Systematic Literature Review

Digital transformation has become constant and has forced governments to reevaluate the validity of their educational models; therefore, regarding digital and information literacy, to train teachers to improve new digital skills becomes essential. For these reasons, this research will explore the instruction of teachers in digital and information literacy in basic education; likewise, there will be an observation of the research’s theoretical-methodological characteristics related to these variables, and, also, we will carry out an analysis of the most pertinent contributions on the impact of new literacies and competencies in the teaching–learning processes in basic education, with the purpose of obtaining a current state overview of its teacher training within the framework of the technologies’ usage linked to teaching. This review was based on the guidelines of the PRISMA protocol, and to select 56 documents, the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases were used. The results show that, in the Scopus database, Spain is the country with the most research on the subject, with 29% of the total, followed by Indonesia, with 6%, and the United States, with 4%, and that the articles focus mainly on the social sciences and computer science. Likewise, in WoS, the country with the most research on the subject is Spain, with 30%, followed by Russia, with 10%, and Norway, with 8%, and the articles mainly revolve around the categories of education and communication. The research related to this topic uses a quantitative approach in 68%, a qualitative approach in 25% and a mixed approach in 7%. It was shown that there is a direct relationship between digital and information literacy and digital competency. In addition, it is also emphasized that digital and information literacy are continuous and long-term processes. More didactic proposals on digital skills would be necessary, over government policies and efforts, to achieve a community with a high level of digital and information literacy.

Words Matter

The academic library milieu is replete with verbal interactions that occur between library staff and patrons, as well as within the library staff cohort. Such communication impacts the quality and results of library support provided to students, faculty and community. It also affects workplace health and productivity. Consequently, among academic library staff, knowledge and awareness of effective language use is a crucial component of professional practice. This scoping review examines and analyzes the published literature for beneficial and detrimental verbatim exemplars of communication in the context of academic libraries. While the review found significant literature addressing categories of interpersonal communication in the academic library, few studies provide verbal exemplars. Given that such exemplars play an important role in understanding language categories, and in augmenting effective language use, this gap in the literature warrants further attention.

Impression management in a crisis: A conceptual framework of listed firms during the COVID-19 pandemic

This study develops a conceptual framework for impression management for listed companies, targeting various financial information users during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, many listed firms faced financial distress and limited in-person communication. Our framework is based on various communication categories and types, providing insights for managers to adjust impression management tactics, which affect emotions and induce cognitive biases in their targets that may impact their decision-making processes. Our research not only contributes to the existing literature pertaining to corporate impression management and crisis communication but also holds implications for future studies.

МЕДІЙНИЙ ДИСКУРС ЯК СЕМІОЗИС: ПОТЕНЦІАЛ СЕМІОТИКИ ДЛЯ ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ МЕДІЙНОГО ДИСКУРСУ

The methodological apparatus of linguistics and various related fields such as sociology, culturology, psychology, and linguosemiotics, is applied to study, comprehend, interpret, and formulate the methodological principles of discourse analysis (including media discourse as a subtype of institutional discourse) and its components (text, utterance, communicative event, communicative act). Methods and approaches to studying media discourse mostly complement each other, thus being participatory. At the current stage of language science development, media discourse is the object of numerous research investigations by Ukrainian and foreign linguists. The article aims to propose a definition of media discourse by identifying its key features as a category of communication generated by mass media. To achieve this purpose: a) we consider media discourse as a complex sign and analyze its action of sign (semiosis); b) with a focus on the sociosemiosic approach to discourse analysis, we identify characteristic features of this discourse and define it as a subtype of institutional discourse; c) we provide an interpretation of the main metalanguage units used to describe the proposed approach. Media discourse is characterized by the following features: generated by various agents (including media producers – institutions and individuals – and recipients); comprises a variety of speech genres embodied in texts, which are complex signs, the signification of which is characterized by code, information and cultural dimensions; directed towards interaction. The core finding of our investigation is considered to be the reasoned presentation of the effectiveness of applying a semiotic approach to the analysis of media discourse. Media discourse is a complex sign, the signification of which occurs in the informational space and is characterized by code, informational, and cultural dimensions.

КУЛЬТУРНАЯ СПЕЦИФИКА ЖАНРА НАУЧНОЙ СТАТЬИ: КАТЕГОРИЯ АВТОРИТЕТНОСТИ

. Recent studies of various discourse types, including the scientific one, show that in communication process the authority of the participants is one of the important communicative categories realized with a set of linguistic and graphic means. They can have some specifics in the texts belonging to the same genre but different linguistic cultures. The purpose of our study is to identify the most typical lexical and grammatical means (markers) used to realize the category of authority in scientific articles genre in the English and Russian linguistic cultures. The objects of the study were three groups of markers: the authority of general scientific facts and theories; the authority of top experts in a particular field and the authority of the author of a scientific article. The research material included a number of articles in Russian and English in the field of pedagogy, management and energy. The analysis revealed significant differences in the quantity of these markers depending on the scientific field and the particular language culture, as well as a direct correlation with the quantitative use of graphic markers of the category (tables, graphs, etc.). In addition, some differences were observed in the choice of language means, particularly, the lexical and grammatical content of speech clichés, as well as some differences in syntactic patterns of the means. Theoretical importance of the analysis proves the need to study and systematize language tools used to realize the main communicative parameters of a scientific text. The practical results can be used to develop recommendations for academic writing.

Rhetorical Techniques to Increase Audience Confidence in the Speaker (Based on the Speeches of the Pleadings in Jury Trial)

The research has examined trust as a communicative category describing the relationship between the speaker and the audience, and explored techniques to enhance audience confidence in the speaker used by court speakers when speaking to jurors. The authors proceed from the idea that the presence/absence of trust (both unidirectional and mutual) between the speaker and the audience is one of the factors in the effectiveness of the speech impact exerted on the audience. The discussion of the role of trust in communication relies on classical rhetoric and on the ideas of modern humanities: law, political science, social psychology, sociology, psychology of interpersonal communication, economics, media linguistics. As a result of the analysis of classical and modern speeches in the jury court, a system of six rhetorical techniques was proposed to strengthen the audience's confidence in the speaker: 1) demonstration of self-confidence and position, verbalization of lack of doubt, presence of a clear position, determination and firmness of action; 2) demonstration of competence, high level of knowledge and professionalism; 3) demonstration of respect for the jury, emphasis on the significance of their role in the trial, including through praise and compliments; 4) demonstration of interest for the outcome of the case, for the fate of the participants in the court session, including demonstration of sympathy and compassion for the plaintiff; 5) verbalization of a sense of responsibility for the development of society, reflection on how the deed will affect the future of society; 6) appeal to ethical and/or religious values, ideas and imperatives.

Written Communication From Pharmacy Benefit Managers: Is It Helpful?

Physicians are experiencing greater burnout due to excessive time spent on paperwork. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are adding to this problem by sending excessive mail to physicians. This study examined these mailed communications to determine their frequency and if the physician acted upon them. We hypothesized that few of these mailings would be helpful to the physician. From July 2021 to May 2023, we collected all written communications from PBMs to a single geriatrics outpatient physician. We sorted this information by specific PBM, by communication category, if it resulted in an intervention, and if communications were repeated. We found that out of 263 communications, 17 (6%) resulted in interventions made by the physician. Notices of nonformulary prescriptions (35%, N=6/17) and drug-drug interactions (35%, N=6/17) (p=0.001) resulted in interventions most frequently. The Beers list notifications did not result in intervention. Forty-one percent (108/263) of communications were repeated, and almost half of these were for recommendations (N=52/108, 48%), a category that did not result in frequent interventions. Our hypothesis that only a small number of communications were helpful to physicians was supported. A physician will more likely make interventions if the suggestion is regarding a nonformulary prescription or a drug-drug interaction. Interestingly, notification of a medication on the Beers list did not result in a geriatrician's action. Feedback to PBMs on which communications are most helpful may decrease the amount of paperwork received by physicians and aid in combating burnout.

Representation of Communicative Competence in an English Language Textbook

This study aimed to reveal the Communicative Competence category in the English textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for grade XI and the extent to which Communicative Competence has been accommodated in the textbook. Qualitative content analysis method was applied. The data were collected through reading, categorizing, and taking notes of the data into detailed information. The selected unit analysis was analyzed by referring to Celce-Murcia’s (2007) theory of communicative competence. The findings showed that all the categories of communicative competence by Celce-Murcia are found in the selected textbook. The categories include Linguistic Competence (14 activities, 11.11%), Formulaic Competence (6 activities, 4.76%), Sociocultural Competence (5 activities, 3.97%), Discourse Competence (60 activities, 47.62%), Interactional Competence (26 activities, 20.63%), and Strategic Competence (15 activities, 11.90%). These are represented in the textbook in the forms of exercises, instructions or materials, dialogues, discussions, expressions, and sentences. The results of this study contribute to English teachers in determining the appropriate competencies required by students to assist students in improving their communicative abilities.

The Strictest Taboo: The Marginalization of Marxism in Mainstream Communication Studies

Our study uses big data analysis to examine the influence of Marxism on communication studies throughout its history. We track citations of Marxist authors and the use of Marxist concepts in the titles, keywords, or abstracts of publications in the Web of Science scholarly database in the category of communication. We find that Marxian authors and ideas were almost completely absent from the mainstream of media studies until the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War and the Great Recession of 2008 significantly increased citations of Marxist authors. We use network analysis to identify different currents of thought or paradigmatic appropriations of Marxism within communication studies and identify five clusters of appropriation of Marx’s ideas within communication studies: Theories of Democracy, Political Economy of Communication, Critique of Power Relations, Feminism and Antiracism, and Critical Discourse Analysis.

Obstacles and opportunities for automation in sheep and beef farming

Automation of tasks on farm has had limited uptake in tools such as auto-weighing and auto-drafting. To develop an understanding of the range of digital tools and the potential to automate tasks in the sheep and beef industry, workshops with end-users were held in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Current digital technology use on sheep and beef farms included 26 applications representing the categories of communications, administration, monitoring, automated tasks, decision support, prediction, and proof of placement. Obstacles included the amount of time required to either set up or support the technology once in operation. Interoperability and the transfer of information between applications and along the value chain were major obstacles to generating value from combining digital technologies. Automation of data flows along the value chain would provide a significant step forward in the uptake of digital technologies. Digital solutions to aid automation need to be interoperable, with data able to be passed between software solutions, and between users to reduce compliance time and increase accuracy of data handling. The technologies need to be appropriate to be adopted on large scales in an automated way to capture labour-saving benefits. Automation solutions need to translate data into a decision-making form to allow easy interpretation and application of data.

MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS IN TEACHING REVIEWED FROM DIFFERENCES IN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

This study was aimed to describe the mathematical communication profiles applied by students of PLP-II program reviewed from emotional intelligence. Qualitative research was applied as the study method with questionnaire and observation as the research instrument. Observations were performed using recording tools (video recording) so mathematical communication done by students while studying can be observed through the recording results. The analysis was conducted in a qualitative-descriptive manner. The results of this study indicated that subjects with high emotional intelligence were capable of showing great mathematical communication skills in the development of learning instrument, comprising seven observed aspects. Meanwhile, subjects with moderate emotional intelligence only demonstrated proficiency in 4 aspects related to the creation of learning materials. In the practical learning setting, subjects with high emotional intelligence exhibited completeness, fluency, accuracy, systematicity, and focus on all observed aspects. This indicated that subjects with high emotional intelligence possessed good mathematical communication abilities in practical learning. As for subjects with moderate emotional intelligence, they only demonstrated proficiency in 14 out of 24 observed aspects, which still fell within the category of good mathematical communication.

Nepal’s Diplomacy through Rhetorics at UNGA

The paper concentrates on investigating Nepal’s Diplomacy through rhetorics. To do so the discourse of the diplomatic speeches presented by Nepal in UN general assembly are critically examined. A special category of communication known as the language of diplomacy is employed in all kind diplomatic endeavors. Diplomatic language is formal, accurate, disciplined, and is mindful of its use of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary to make it easier for people of all nationalities and cultures to communicate clearly and effectively. Euphemisms or indirect language is employed to communicate to avoid aggressive language which can be offensive. Respecting all cultures is must hence diplomatic language is culturally sensitive. Diplomatic discourse is fundamental device to cultivate global cooperation and resolve differences. The paper essences on primarily exploring the speeches of Nepal’s Statespersons: Minister of Foreign Affairs Chuda Nath Sharma (1958), Prime Ministers BP Koirala (1960),Prime Minister Kirtinidhi Bist (1968) and Sailendra Kumar Upadhyay (1988) at UN General Assemblies respectively from the lenses of critical discourse analysis. Hence, it confines itself within the speeches (the selected primary texts), their rhetorical patterns, contents delivered through diplomatic language, their domestic ideology and power politics.

Features of additional constructions that realize the category of communication in the text

Features of additional constructions that realize the category of communication in the text

Remembrance practices in the 21st century

Abstract Individuals and groups construct identity through storytelling. Sometimes individuals use these to remember past events and group narratives to foster a sense of belonging. The individual and group interact and build relationships through shared memory. The present paper examines the mediatic representations of individual perceptions of the Holocaust in @eva.stories that evoke, revive, and revitalize Holocaust collective memory. Based on Multimodal Discourse Analysis, we analyzed and organized the findings according to the following communication categories: content, mode, and medium. Using Instagram to enliven Eva’s storytelling creates a unique duality between the audience and the implicit story content‎. Consequently, multimodal storytelling via Instagram bridges the historical past to the present generation. We conclude that the collective memory’s retelling and preservation constantly change due to cultural and political contexts. Consequently, as today’s online environments are a crucial sphere of discourse, online spaces play a role in creating, maintaining, and spreading collective memories.

THE ROLE OF NEGATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN FUNCTIONING OF THE CATEGORY OF CATEGORICITY / NON-CATEGORICITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC TEXT

The article focuses on the role of the negative constructions in functioning of the communicative category of categoricity / non-categoricity in the English-language scientific texts. The analysis reveals two groups of the negative structures. The first group includes negative constructions that act as markers of categoricity and emphasize the author's confidence in reliability of the presented conclusions or legitimacy of the expressed criticism. The second group embraces negative constructions that reduce categoricity of the statement, thus acting as deintensifiers, which emphasizes the interest of the participants of scientific communication in cooperation. The study reveals that the quantitative and qualitative representation of the analyzed groups of the negative constructions is influenced by the genre of the scientific text.

COMMUNICATIVE ASPECTS OF CHORAL PRACTICE

The communicative activity of a head of a choral collective is an indicator of successful professional development of choristers, a tool for improving their level. The category and concept of communication as a tool of interaction between the leader and members of a choral collective are very important aspects in choral practice. Emphasising the specifi cs of relationship between a choirmaster and choristers, the author builds a connection between personal characteristics of a choral collective head with his/her professional qualities and their communicative projection into the fi eld of communication with the choral collective. Of particular importance is consideration of national cultural traditions of students from China studying at Russian music universities.

Social presence and dynamics of group communication: An analysis of a health professionals WhatsApp group chats.

WhatsApp has become a medium of communication with the potential of promoting collaborative environment with peers, patients and general population. Till date, no analysis of professional WhatsApp groups' activities exists in physiotherapy. The official WhatsApp group chats of the Association of Clinical and Academic Physiotherapists of Nigeria (ACAPN) was analyzed. A total of 20760 chats were gleaned from July 2020 to June 2021. Videos, audios and emoticons were excluded in the analysis. Administrative permission to conduct was obtained from ACAPN leadership. Two consenting physiotherapists who had never deleted their ACAPN group chats shared and exported all chats to a Gmail. The social presence theory for group communication was used as the framework of analysis. Thematic content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. Descriptive statistics of frequency and percentages were used to summarize data. Based on social presence theory classifications, interactive messages (64.5%) followed by cohesive messages (30%) were predominant. Members used the platform more for expression of emotions affectively (100%), referring explicitly to others' messages interactively (56.6%) and for greetings (phatic and salutation) cohesively (61.8%). Qualitative themes indicate that all three categories of social presence theory communications were present sufficiently with interactive category being the most common, as members used the WhatsApp platform to interact, construct and share knowledge. Group WhatsApp platform is a veritable means of communication and an indicator of level of social presence among Nigerian physiotherapists. Communication among Nigerian physiotherapists is mostly interactive, then cohesive and affective in terms of dynamics.

Коммуникативная категория достоверности в устном научно-популярном дискурсе

The paper examines the peculiarities of the implementation of the communicative category of reliability in the oral popular science discourse on the Internet. The communicative category of reliability is studied using the material of lectures posted on the PostNauka educational platform. The features of the video lectures of the PostNauka project are determined, which indicate the need to consider the Russian-language online lecture as a separate genre of popular science discourse. The results of analysing the material under study are described: the markers of problematic reliability used by lecturers to attract the attention of the audience and increase the involvement of the listener in communication are highlighted, in particular, the specifics of the use of lexical means in lecture materials in Russian are examined. The aim of the research is to describe the specifics of the reliability category expression in the text of a popular science video lecture on history. The scientific novelty of the research lies in identifying the means of the reliability category expression in the oral popular science humanities discourse taking into account the lecturer’s choice of the optimal ways of constructing meanings when conveying information to listeners. As a result, it has been found that the transfer of scientific knowledge to a wide audience is characterised by the presence of problematic reliability markers. Such linguistic means include parenthetical words, indefinite pronouns, adjectives and adverbs with evaluative meanings, semantically empty lexemes, as well as lexemes requiring the communicants to have common presuppositions within the same linguistic culture.

A paradox‐constitutive perspective of organizational gossip

AbstractWe review cross‐disciplinary research on gossip and integrate it with two streams of theoretical scholarship: paradox theory and the communicative constitution of organization (CCO) perspective. In doing so, we develop what we label a paradox‐constitutive perspective of organizational gossip. Our perspective holds that gossip does not merely reflect or reveal organizational paradoxes but contributes to constituting them. Drawing on an extensive narrative literature review (N = 184), we conceptualize organizational gossip as a socially constructed category of interpersonal communication that, paradoxically, is regarded as both an exceptionally reliable and exceptionally unreliable source of social information. In turn, we illustrate how this contradictory view of gossip engenders paradoxical tensions when gossip surfaces in organizational life, and we illuminate two specific tensions to which gossip contributes: resistance‐authority tensions and inclusion‐exclusion tensions. Our work has important implications for research on organizational gossip, paradox, and communication and suggests intriguing directions for future investigations.