Communication Imperatives Research Articles

The Global Development and Communication Mechanisms in the New Media Era: Multiculturalism and the Global Communication of New Media

In the era of new media, social media has become an essential platform for global information dissemination and cultural exchange. The globalization of social media has changed the way of information dissemination of traditional media, making the cultural values of different countries and regions blend and collide more frequently. This report will analyze how users with different cultural backgrounds interact and disseminate content on social media platforms, and reveal the potential and challenges of new media in promoting cross-cultural communication, developing multicultural and resolving cultural conflicts. In addition, through research methods to analyze the interaction of users from different cultural backgrounds on new media platforms and the dissemination of content, the research objects will include active social media users of different ages, different countries and cultural backgrounds. This report finds that new media plays a vital role in resolving cultural conflicts and promoting cultural exchanges, but it needs to be further optimized in terms of communication mechanisms to create a harmonious network atmosphere. Additionally, this report proffers recommendations for the refinement of new media communication mechanisms. By enhancing the efficacy of these channels, it becomes increasingly feasible to address the cross-cultural communication imperatives of a global user base, thereby facilitating the promotion of cultural integration and fostering a deeper, more nuanced understanding of diverse societal contexts on a global scale.

Mapping Intercultural Communication Imperatives of Police-Public Interactions in Rural Spaces

This research note seeks to generate fruitful pathways to advance a new discourse on intercultural encounters between the police and individuals from multilingual communities in Australia’s increasingly diverse rural and regional settings. How might police officers better relate and communicate with groups of migrants whose language practices are complex, unpredictable and eschew the widely used logics of translation and interpretation? How might we encourage hope in our social communities that intercultural understanding between policing agencies and new migrants is key to co-creating peaceful and resilient rural communities? How might police communication protocols that assist in supporting the retention of migrants’ linguistic capabilities and funds of knowledges contribute to the wellbeing of regional communities? What would policing rural and regional communities look like if we were to centre sociolinguistic and intercultural imperatives? In this research note, we consider these questions in our search for the next steps in mapping police communication protocols that work for all in Australia’s rural and regional settings. The goal is to contribute new conceptual approaches we can use to foster partnerships and trusting relationships between the police and our increasingly diverse rural populations.

Forward guidance and the semiotic turn of the European Central Bank

ABSTRACT This article discusses central bank forward guidance as a performative (Austin) and conative (Jakobson) practice – hence, as a form of audience-centred communication that intends to transform their behaviour when deployed by a narrator who is simultaneously also a character in the story. Taking the European Central Bank (ECB) as its primary example, the article conveys how the double role of narrator and character assumed by this institution renders it more permeable to reactions from the markets and the public. As such, ECB forward guidance is frequently misguided, with its communicative imperatives indeed being ‘corrected’ and ‘reoriented’ by market actors and publics wishing to perceive the European Central Bank as behaving like an impartial and just frontline hero. While acknowledging the presence of conversational features within these reflexive communication practices, the article approaches forward guidance as an unfolding story, not only due to the relevance of the characterisation processes through which the European Central Bank is repositioned as hero or villain by its publics, but also because exemplary episodes exhibit a reminiscent quality that isolates them from their original context and opens them up to the possibility of re-activation – as indeed happened during the recent Covid-19 pandemic crisis.

COVID-19, promotion and provision of palliative care: reaching out, accounting for linguistic diversity.

The combined forces of economic globalization and international migration have resulted in specific challenges to palliative care systems. The COVID-19 pandemic has and is still greatly affecting elder populations as well as those across the age continuum living with long-standing chronic conditions or with pre-existing diverse unmet needs. While health promotion and palliative care may appear to be conceptually opposing fields, we argue that palliative care can and should fit under the umbrella of the health promotion continuum. This commentary seeks to discuss the importance of linguistic literacy and communication imperatives in the context of access to palliative care, given the broad, diversified and sensitive scope of care. While the pandemic has demonstrated that the public health responses of migrant host societies are deeply intertwined with policies as well as local rules and constraints, the promotion and provision of safe, timely and appropriate palliative care can be achieved through a sensitive assessment of differential contexts of diversity. The pandemic has painfully illustrated the need for a strong, respectful and equitable working partnership within the professions as well as with the civic society in order for the palliative needs of those exposed to a sustained risk not to be forgotten.

Language-communication models and public communication imperatives as a strategic instrument for forming the political image of the leader

Language-communication models and public communication imperatives as a strategic instrument for forming the political image of the leader

КОММУНИКАТИВНЫЕ ИМПЕРАТИВЫ В НЕМЕЦКОЯЗЫЧНЫХ СОЦИАЛЬНЫХ СЕТЯХ

The article is devoted to communicative imperatives with the intention of expressing sympathy and support in the German-language texts of social networks. The analysis is based on the methods of functional and pragmatic linguistics including the method of conversation analysis by K. Brinker. The author ascertains verbal expression in speech acts of communicative imperatives depending on interactants’ intentions. The study material was compiled using the German-language records and comments that were selected on the twitter.com portal using a continuous sample.

HOLMES, Douglas. 2014. Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 280 pp.

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Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Interdisciplinarity and Indigenous Language Media: Understanding Language Choices in Zimbabwe’s Media

ABSTRACTIndigenous language media research by linguists in Zimbabwe is generally epitomised by animated arguments which disapprove of the dominance of English and marginalisation of indigenous languages in broadcast and print media. Considering the communicative and cultural imperatives for indigenous language media in post-independence African nation-states, including indigenous languages in the media is paramount. However, whilst the need to protect indigenous languages and the effects of global spread of English hegemony have attracted considerable scholarly attention, leading factors that shape language attitudes and language choices in the media are underspecified, and in some cases not specified. Applying the interdisciplinary research approach, this article maintains that an interdisciplinary approach provides the foundation for developing eclectic theory. This enhances the comprehension of historical, socio-political, economic, technological and other factors which determine language choices in broadcast and print media.

Cross-cultural communication imperatives

PurposeGiven the rising expansion of Western multinational companies (MNCs) to the African contexts, the development of expatriates and local employees has become increasingly important to the human resource management of these MNCs. This paper aims to provide critical lessons on cross-cultural communication competences for Western expatriates working in the sub-Saharan Africa business environment.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is a qualitative phenomenology that makes use of lived experiences of senior expatriate staff working in Ghana in the form of direct interviews.FindingsResults showed that cross-cultural communication competence is very important for Western expatriates’ functioning in sub-Saharan Africa. The findings also established a plethora of cross-cultural communication skills that are essential for Western expatriates’ successful adaptation and work outcomes in Africa.Practical implicationsThis research argues that there is the need for the appreciations of the differing cultural patterns of expatriates and local staff, and this provides the underlying assumptions of intercultural and cross-cultural communication in global business.Originality/valueA critical perspective of international business that has scarcely been studied offers lessons for Western expatriates working in sub-Saharan Africa.

Douglas Holmes: Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks

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Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 280 pp.

Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R. Holmes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. 280 pp.

Inside Central Banker’s Discourses - Douglas R. Holmes, Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks (Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Inside Central Banker’s Discourses - Douglas R. Holmes, Economy of Words. Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks (Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Communicating authoritarian elite cohesion

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework to analyse the communicative imperatives authoritarian regimes face as a consequence of their self-inflicted opacities. The most important facts about the actors and factors that sustain authoritarian rule are unobservable. To demonstrate their power, authoritarian rulers have to render them visible. They have to dramatize their power and present on the front stage what they want people to know about the backstage of authoritarian politics. We conceptualize the communicative strategies of authoritarian rulers with a focus on the primary existential threats they face: the lateral threats that emanate from within the authoritarian elite. We illustrate dictators’ communicative repertoire with empirical material from communist Cuba from 2006 to 2011, during the critical juncture of leadership transition from Fidel Castro to his brother Raúl.

Modeling the Economy with WordsEconomy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. By Douglas R. Holmes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

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Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R.Holmes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 263 pp.

Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Douglas R.Holmes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 263 pp.

Book Reviews

Presents a perspective on the way economic circumstances are conceptualized and managed. Discusses creating a monetary regime; communicative imperatives; markets being a function of language; apprehensions; kultur; temporality; simulations; the inflationary tempest; liquidity-trap economics; the overheard conversation; intelligence; representational labor; a manifesto for a public currency; and a totality of promises. Holmes is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

La marque politique : vecteur de sens et moteur d'engagement citoyen

The concept of political brand depicts the adjustment of the political sphere to current communication imperatives. The brand model thus highlights the convergence of politics and consumption. The shift towards the branding field could potentially lead to the advent of a 'political consumerism' model, according to which, through social media, consumer sovereignty constitutes a new standard of political sovereignty. As new-fledged political brand communities, the Tea Party and the Pirate Party offer two modern examples of these new forms of mobilization grounded on the aggregation of consum-actors involved in politics.

What practitioners and your patients understand about UV

Purpose: A primary role that Eye Care Professionals perform is to make patients aware of avoidable ocular health risks. Research into patient and practitioner understanding of chronic UV exposure implications was conducted to see how this relates to communication imperatives.

Communication imperatives for indigenous peoples’ representation in policy making: Lessons from the IPRA (Indigenous Peoples Rights Act) experience

The role of communication in social development requires a keener eye to explore the fragile position of this marginalized sector: the indigenous peoples or IPs.With information and communication scholars taking an interest in new challenges towards sustainable social change, it is important to lay down a frame of understanding of the fragility of indigenous peoples’ position and the complexity of solutions being offered them.The purpose of the paper is to direct attention towards a sector whose voice, position and representations are vulnerable to political machinations surrounding decision- and policy-making. Indigenous peoples for years have become easy targets of economic and political players whose interventions in IP communities carry the name of development. In this era where the promises of globalization are entering the tiniest corners of societies and where the world is becoming a “smaller place”, IPs are ironically being pushed towards the center and admonished to leave the periphery to become mainstream members of the bigger nation-state. Local–global coalitions could be a result of these unnatural movements. Mining and military exercises, to name a few, gain entry in IP territories to carry out development and diplomatic aid and in turn transform IP communities into compulsory beneficiaries of such interventions.This paper’s exploration, however, is specifically focused on an arena where IP voice and representation are given legal remedies: the legislature. Although literature about the plight of indigenous peoples abound, focus on the catalytic role of IPs in policymaking is seldom documented and given attention to. This paper takes the reader to a Philippine situation where IPs were able to actively take part in the co-construction of their own reality, via their participation in the formulation of the Indigenous Peoples Right Act (IPRA).The role of communication in policymaking forms the rationale behind the paper’s position. Policymaking opens an avenue for subjects to have their constructs on development emerge. That is the role of communication: a meaning-making activity where understanding is at its core.Although enactment of the IPRA happened more than a decade ago – and the law has had its share of brutal and unabashed criticism – recalling the story behind its formulation was necessary to derive insights on the following:•Fragile groups as indigenous peoples were subjected to a linguistic battle in the policymaking arena.•Consensus-building and social negotiations were communication approaches that contributed to IP representation in policymaking.•IP-led advocacy shows that IPs as leaders and advocates can competently involve themselves in the affairs of government.•There are imperatives of communication and information that can help facilitate the engagement of indigenous peoples in solving social problems, via the legislative arena.Information and insights concerning IPs’ position and representation, the role contributed by communication, and distinctive qualities of IP-led advocacy are derived from the IPRA story. The routes by which the development project operates in the policymaking arena, as illustrated in the case of the IPRA, are then able to offer insights to the tasks we continue to face as information and communication scholars and practitioners.