Conference Speeches Research Articles

Linguistic and stylistic and linguacultural features of the oral and written discourse “scientific conference” (based on the international conference on scientific communication)

INTRODUCTION. The analysis of the role of the language expressive function in oral-written scientific and popular scientific sub-styles is carried out; the objectives of the work are defined; the relevance of the study is substantiated, emphasizing the fact that the oral-written text of the scientific style remains insufficiently studied to date; stylistic characteristics of the studied genre are given and, based on this, a working hypothesis for the expected results is put forward.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The study of linguostylistic expressive means is conducted on the materials of English and Russian speakers’ presentations of the annual scientific and practical conference of the Foreign Languages Department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In the course of the study, a comparative analysis of the approaches to report writing of two Englishspeaking and three Russian-speaking speakers was carried out using the method of continuous sampling of all stylistic devices in the speeches of the speakers at the conference.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Similarities and differences in approaches to speechwriting for a scientific conference between native and non-native English speakers are revealed. Almost all speakers actively use expressive language means regardless of whether they are native or not. The dominant stylistic devices are repetition, metaphor, and phraseological unit.CONCLUSION. The results contradict the general idea of the normativity and strictness of this style. The approach to presentation texts writing is rather determined by the individual preferences of the speaker, the topic of the speech specifics and personal experience of participating in such events than by attachment to the status of a native or non-native speaker. Prospects for further research may include in the spectrum of analysis a larger number of samples of conference speeches and/or representatives of nonEuropean regions for a better understanding of the relationship between the cultural code and scientific discourse.

Intertextuality and The Submerged Portrayal of Goodwill in Nigerian Political Discourse

Political discourse can be understood as the language and communication strategies used by politicians, political parties, government, and media to articulate their perspectives, promote their interests and shape public opinion. In achieving these, political actors leverage the foregrounded knowledge of their audience by alluding to various existing texts and themes that frame their speeches in a way that presents them in a good light to their audience. This concept, known as intertextuality, arms the textual and thematic repertoire of various political actors and provides the basis for an ideological connection between politicians and the masses. This study employs Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to scrutinize the intertextual dimensions in Peter Obi's political discourse, focusing on linguistic choices at the levels of metafunction (ideational, interpersonal and textual), lexicogrammar, register genre, and context of the situation. Gathering data from online newspaper publications, Facebook and Twitter posts, as well as campaign and conference speeches, the research reveals how Obi strategically deploys intertextual references to convey goodwill and position himself as a transformative figure—a "Messiah" addressing Nigeria's multifaceted challenges. The analysis underscores Obi's adeptness in tailoring linguistic choices to specific contexts and audiences, portraying him as intimately connected to the concerns of the masses. Significantly contributing to a sparse literature on the intertextual analysis of Obi's speeches, this research sheds light on the intricate dynamics of Nigerian political discourse, offering valuable insights into the strategic use of language in shaping political identity and fostering connections with the public.

Salvemini's antifascist exile in London: attracting the attention of a British audience

AbstractIn 1925 the Fascist dictatorship forced Gaetano Salvemini to leave Italy and begin a new life in exile. Salvemini understood he could find political and financial support in London to achieve two main aims: to live a decent life as an antifascist exile and fight the Fascist dictatorship from abroad. Thanks to a network encompassing intellectuals, academics, journalists, and politicians, London provided Salvemini with a platform for sharing antifascist stances outside Italy. This essay will develop research on this topic by taking into account Salvemini's conference speeches, articles, books, and essays written while in Britain, from 1925 to 1934. The corpus of the selected texts will show that Salvemini carefully singled out topics that were able to attract the attention of a foreign audience, particularly British public opinion. Therefore, the analysis of Salvemini's intellectual production during this period and the reaction of the press will contribute to cast a new light on his antifascist strategies; in other words, it will lead to a consideration of the extent to which being part of a British intellectual network transformed his approach to the antifascist struggle.

Visualizing Pollution: Representations of Biological Data in Water Pollution Control in the United States, 1948-1962.

After the United States Congress passed the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, biologists played an increasingly significant role in scientific studies of water pollution. Biologists interacted with other experts, notably engineers, who managed the public agencies devoted to water pollution control. Although biologists were at first marginalized within these agencies, the situation began to change by the early 1960s. Biological data became an integral part of water pollution control. While changing societal values, stimulated by an emerging ecological awareness, may explain broader shifts in expert opinion during the 1960s, this article explores how graphs changed experts' perceptions of water pollution. Experts communicated with each other via reports, journal articles, and conference speeches. Those sources reveal that biologists began experimenting with new graphical methods to simplify the complex ecological data they collected from the field. Biologists, I argue, followed the engineers' lead by developing graphical methods that were concise and quantitative. Their need to collaborate with engineers forced them to communicate, negotiate, and overcome conflicts and misunderstandings. By meeting engineers' expectations and promoting the value of their data through images as much as words, biologists asserted their authority within water pollution control by the early 1960s.

The RLDS Church, Global Denominations, and Globalization: Why the Study of Denominations Still Matters

The RLDS Church, Global Denominations, and Globalization: Why the Study of Denominations Still Matters

ROMAN TUBAJA (1944–2021)

On 17 April 2021, Roman Tubaja, an ethnographer, museum curator, and a long-standing director of the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń named after Maria Znamierowska-Prüffer, passed away. Born on 16 February 1944 in Warlubie, Kociewie, he graduated in ethnography from the Jagiellonian University in 1966. As of 1967, he worked at the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń continuing there throughout all his career, and moving up the entire promotion ladder. Having been appointed Head of the Folk Architecture Department in 1970, in 1978, he was promoted to become Deputy Director for Research, while on 1 April 1980, he was assigned to become Director of the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń, which he remained for almost 30 years until his retirement in 2009. An excellent logistician, during his term of office he consistently extended and modernized the Museum, doubling the volume of the collection; furthermore, he held team stationary ethnographic research in the regions forming Gdansk Pomerania. Roman Tubaja’s academic output is made up of almost 40 papers tackling folk architecture as well as history and theory of ethnographic museology, of conceptual works, and of numerous conference speeches. He also authored several museum exhibitions.

Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788-1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents.

Past histories charting interactions between British healthcare and Aboriginal Australians have tended to be dominated by broad histological themes such as invasion and colonization. While such descriptions have been vital to modernization and truth telling in Australian historical discourse, this paper investigates the nineteenth century through the modern cultural lens of mental health. We reviewed primary documents, including colonial diaries, church sermons, newspaper articles, medical and burial records, letters, government documents, conference speeches and anthropological journals. Findings revealed six overlapping fields which applied British ideas about mental health to Aboriginal Australians during the nineteenth century. They included military invasion, religion, law, psychological systems, lunatic asylums, and anthropology.

What is Zimeiti? The commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms

“Zimeiti” (we media or self-media) is a buzzword in China that has never been clearly defined. It generally refers to non-institutional content providers on social media platforms such as WeChat and Weibo. I conducted a systematic analysis of metadiscourse about zimeiti, including industry reports and conference speeches by important figures in this community. I found that zimeiti is mainly seen as an emerging commercial sector monetizing user attention. Its boundaries are set loose enough to include any new forms of monetization on social media platforms, while at the same time strict enough to exclude discussions on social and political implications. To legitimize this industry, the community adopts depoliticization strategies that emphasize market mechanisms. Based on the findings, I propose a “push and pull” model to explain the variances in politicization/depoliticization across media types. The findings provide an important reality check on the zimeiti community and help us gain insights into China’s restricted yet highly commercialized online content ecosystem.

Assembling sustainability reporting in Singapore

Sustainability reporting has seen increased adoption as more businesses are recognizing wider societal and environmental obligations outside of traditional shareholder commitments. Several jurisdictions such as Malaysia and Hong Kong have passed regulations to encourage or mandate sustainability reporting. Likewise, Singapore has instituted mandatory sustainability reporting for all listed companies since 2016. The development of sustainability reporting in Singapore is explored using material from government agencies, company sustainability reports, conference speeches and newspaper articles. Viewing sustainability reporting as a socio-material assemblage of heterogeneous actors, discursive practices and other policy artefacts, local corporate sustainability initiatives are framed heavily in business logics such as the ‘triple bottom line’, while being anchored to broader national sustainability campaigns and commitments under international agreements. Such an economistic framing may limit the effectiveness of efforts to drive genuine changes in corporate sustainability, as companies may merely engage in a ‘checkbox ticking’ exercise to fulfil regulatory obligations. This paper highlights the multisited nature of policymaking and the tensions that may arise in a top-down approach to implementation.

One word to rule them all: ‘Civic-mindedness’ and Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen’s Nationalist Covid-19 rhetoric

The essay is a case study critically engaging the Danish Prime Minister’s rhetorical leadership during the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis. Through conceptually oriented rhetorical criticism of a series of press conference speeches given by the PM, the essay demonstrates how her rhetorical leadership in the early stages of the corona crisis relied on communitarian appeals couched in nationalistic terms whereby contributing to stopping the spread of the virus gradually became inscribed in a Social Democratic narrative about community and solidarity and which eventually was presented as part and parcel of an essential ‘Danishness.’ The argument is that the PM’s speeches successfully framed the national response to the epidemic as just that, a national or even nationalistic response. Analysis of the salient phrases ‘standing together by keeping apart’, ‘civic-mindedness,’ and ‘taking care of Denmark’ inform the characterization of the PM’s rhetorical strategy and its ideological underpinnings. The term ‘civic-mindedness,’ specifically, was used as a short-hand referent for all the government’s instructions, advice, and admonitions to change the public’s behavior, and functioned as a guideline for the people in Denmark regarding their understanding of and reactions to the corona epidemic. One word to capture many words, and one word to guide, even rule, a people.

European solidarity patterns during a pandemic

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The revival of solidarity in disasters — a theoretical approach

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Who cares for what? Care networks and new urban activisms in Madrid: Restating solidarity

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Implementation of Wi-Fi energy efficient wireless media transmission

In our day-to-day life there will be many wireless technologies are available like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. In a single application, multiple technologies can be used as per the requirements, and a coexistence mechanism is widely used to switch between these technologies, but sometimes it is difficult to switch as per the application. If a small modification of application will lead to change in the entire technology. In this criterion, there is a need for one solution. In this paper, we are going to reduce the need for a coexistence mechanism by implementing an energy-efficient method for audio streaming over Wi- Fi technology using the DLNA mechanism also by introducing noble materials in the technology nodes. This work has several benefits like full home coverage with less power and supports HD audio streaming without interference. This mechanism can be extended for use in wireless PAS, multilingual conferences for sending conference speeches live in multiple languages simultaneously, and other applications.

A century with and against the market. The ILO and ‘global social justice’

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The refugee crisis and the delegitimisation of the EU: a critical discourse analysis of newspapers’ and users’ narratives in Italian Facebook pages

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The way out of Basic Income’s utopia trap. Making sense of the basic income debate

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Language Milton-model Analysis in Political Discourse

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the verbal influence (also known as suggestion) realization phenomenon in political discourse, which is usually understood as a holistic combined image of the text (be it an advertisement slogan, a political program, a speech, or an interview) itself and the emotions of its recipient and addressee. and is aimed at a a political subject’s (politics, political force, power) influencing a political object (audience, electorate, voter). The political discourse is studied from the standpoint of Psychology, Communicative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Speech Acts Theory, Advertisement Theory, PR / GR, Political Linguistics and other related sciences, but it is the involvement of such new methods of studying the linguistic and extralinguistic implementation of suggestion in political discourse, influence being its basic function, that emphasizes the relevance of the work, aimed at studying the manifestations of suggestion in political discourses with the help of NLP’s Milton-model analysis. Contemporary political discourse as an array, which, given the specificity of its functioning in today's information society, is characterized by immanent suggestogenicity is the object of the research; while the essential linguistic features of political discourse as a tool for the realization of its programmed suggestibility are the subject. The factual data of the research is represented by recorded media speeches, political advertisement, political programs and press conference speeches of the politicians heading the governments of Ukraine, USA, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Germany (about 200 items of each class). The author involves the meta- and Milton-model analysis of the text having been researched and developed in the NLP paradigm in order to isolate the actual linguistic influential patterns (markers of language metamodeling processes, simple, complex and indirect inductions). The linguistic algorithm of Milton-model analysis of political discourses having been researched and visually illustrated with relevant examples combines a complex scientific approach within such multisubstrate science as NLP, and thus it will allow not only to single out dominant strategies of constructing texts and mechanisms of these discourses, but also to highlight the ways to counteract their negative effect, as well as serve in the construction of appropriate planning decisions in the field of optimizing the effectiveness of political communication, emphasized the prospects of the research having been presented in the article, as well as its essential practical value.

Equity and the Urban University: Introduction to the Chicago Conference Issue

This 2018 CUMU Annual Conference issue of Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ) highlights efforts by universities and scholars seeking to engage directly with issues of equity in cities. Reflecting on the conference theme, Partnering for Equity, the City of Chicago offered arguably one of the most sobering and rich contexts for discussing the role of higher education in promoting equity. A 2017 study found the cost of lost income to Chicago’s regional economy due to racial segregation exceeded $4 billion (Urban Institute, 2017, pg. IX). This same study noted an estimated 83,000 college degrees never attained because of racial segregation (Urban Institute, 2017, pg. 40). Chicago, like many urban areas, presents the most pressing opportunities and challenges for uncovering and addressing issues of equity.
 As reflected in the conference presentations and speeches, one of the most important changes in higher education is the growing recognition that social change begins on and around the campus. Paulo Freire posited this view nearly 40 years ago in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, naming education a political act. To fully realize this transformative power of higher education, universities must partner across institutions and sectors to reveal and address critical issues of equity. This is the focus of the work shared at the 2018 CUMU Annual Conference.

Keep it straight and simple, also with respect to migration: a comment on Streeck’s “Between Charity and Justice”

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