Linguistic Media Research Articles

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Priorities of Senior High School Students and Global Public: Recommendations for Implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) when facing major global development issues. It includes formal, informal, and nonformal education, with an emphasis on a shift from “teaching” to “learning.” Using a data tracking approach and a questionnaire, this study aims to provide theoretical and practical suggestions for implementing ESD in senior high schools. Taking a Chinese senior high school as an example, the students in the school surveyed are compared with the global public in different language regions with respect to attention priorities for SDGs; students’ performance between the attention priorities and learning situation related to SDGs and subjects integrated into SDGs between learned and nominated are also analyzed. Gender equality and good health and well-being are the SDGs that students and the public both care most about. And the majority of SDGs receive less concern of the students and the public. By comparing the average amount of news about the SDGs in seven languages, the amount of news in English is far greater than other languages. Besides, different linguistic news has similarities and differences in their attention priorities to the SDGs. The students in the school surveyed only show greater learning performance in one SDGs, climate action. Only politics and economics, geography, and biology are the subjects with outstanding learning performance and high nominations by the students. The languages used to promote SDGs represent different populations and geographical distribution. The high school students’ attention to SDGs is affected by different linguistic media with the global public views, but it also has its particularities. Regarding the deficiency in SDGs awareness and learning performance, the implementation of ESD displays a nonideal status. It is also revealed that ESD should be strengthened. Additionally, during the process of ESD implementation, it is crucial to take full advantage of the combination of formal, informal, and nonformal education, advancing media campaigns for all 17 SDGs as well as fully mobilizing all course subjects to integrate SDGs. To achieve the curriculum reorientation of ESD, all subjects are recommended to connect to SDGs through unique characteristics. Considering the priorities of the students and the public, this research appeals to strengthening ESD through formal, informal, and nonformal channels under the influence from the global development and different linguistic regions’ media promotion. The recommendations can be used as an initiative and a reference for ESD implementation.

ASPECTS OF LEXICAL AND STYLISTIC CHANGES IN CRISIS

This study aims at exploring linguistic changes in periods of crisis. We feel that great linguistic changes will appear due to the wide spread of the fatal diseases that affect human beings existence on this earth. To fight the disease people should raise their awareness of the disease through language as a linguistic media that helps them to some extent building defenses against the disease. This linguistic shift will be followed with some modifications on the existing form of language either by coining new lexicons or reformulating new terms with new concepts and values. On the stylistic matters some changes are also expected to let people express themselves either socially or economically. The interest of this study will be directed to changes in lexical usage or changes of stylistic issues of the crisis under investigation, namely in this present study the pandemic of Corona Virus that is commonly known as Covid 19. The study will be a qualitative survey of the changes that this disease has led to. The related theoretical framework and literature will be outlined as guidelines for this study. Its importance, methodology and the procedures will also be stated to show the techniques of data collection in order to obtain the main results and the discussion, then finally a summary of the main findings, recommendations and suggestions for further future studies will bring the paper to its logical end.

MODERN TENDENCIES IN PRESS LANGUAGE: STANDARDIZATION AND EXPRESSION

This article focuses on the linguistic features of media text. The transformation of the media space, which is currently taking place as a result of the rapid development of communication technologies, promotes the appeal of scientists and researchers to study the media and mass communications, the information space in the context of modern culture. New approaches to the language of the media are not only related to the general tendencies in the development of world linguistics. The changing tasks of the media, the processes of transition taking place in society also have a direct impact on this. This makes it necessary to understand the language of the media, taking into account the processes taking place in society in terms of culture, politics and ideology. Among them, the emergence of speech linguistics, which studies languages as a speech, that is, a dynamic phenomenon, has also led to radical changes in world linguistics. All language tools in the newspaper serve the purpose of persuasion and propaganda. The use of a particular linguistic tool is determined by the characteristics of their social assessment. Because every word, phrase, addition, sentence, paragraph in the text must have an impact on the audience. It is this feature in linguistic media that is the most important and fundamental to them, and distinguishes press texts from other types of style.

Translation in a Multilingual Context: The Mixture of Sanskrit and Tamil Languages in Medieval South Indian Śrīvaiṣṇava Religious Tradition

Abstract In this paper, I investigate South Asian multilinguality by focusing on the medieval South Indian Śrīvaiṣṇava religious tradition (originated in the tenth century CE), which employ Sanskrit, Tamil, and Maṇipravāḷa, a hybrid language comprising both Sanskrit and Tamil, in their composition. Through the lens of translation and hybridity, I propose to complicate the recent scholarship on the Sanskrit and vernacular languages (e.g., Pollock and interlocutors) and also respond to the scholarly call for research that addresses the distinctive history of South Asian multilinguality. In particular, it explores the use of multiple linguistic media by one of the most significant Śrīvaiṣṇava theologians, Vedāntadeśika (c. 1268–1369 CE), in his Rahasyatrayasāra. The Rahasyatrayasāra which deals with soteriological and ritual aspects of the Śrīvaiṣṇavas was composed in Maṇipravāḷa and furnished with Sanskrit and Tamil opening and concluding verses. Through the investigation of the Maṇipravāḷa content in relation to the verses in the Rahasyatrayasāra, I argue that Maṇipravāḷa can be considered translation as it brings the Sanskrit and Tamil streams of the tradition together into a single context that can accommodate both. For a multilingual community like the Śrīvaiṣṇavas, Maṇipravāḷa, which represents translation into a hybrid, makes possible the collective religious identity.

النسق التأویلی للمقال الصحفی -مقاربة نسقیة مفاهیمیة للمقال التحلیلی

إن الاتجاه التأويلي للمقال الصحفي يرتبط بأسلوب الصحفي الذي يتجلى في اللغة الإعلامية المفعمة بالتراکمات الثقافية التي اکتسبها في تنشئته الصحفية، وبالرغم من وجود دراسات لغوية أسلوبية للمقال أو بالأحرى النص باختلاف ضروبه فإننا سلطنا الضوء على نوع من أنواع المقال ألا وهو المقال الصحفي، فالبعد التأويلي للمقال الصحفي أو النص الصحفي الذي لم يعط القدر الکافي من الأهمية بالرغم من خطورته وحيويته في کنف الحياة الاجتماعية والسياسية والاقتصادية والثقافية...الخ، إلا أن البعد التأويلي للمقال الصحفي أصبح يطرح أسئلة لدى المتلقي الذي تفوق حاجته الإعلامية معرفة الحدث وإنما يروم في معرفة النتائج المترتبة على الحدث من ثم فإن الکاتب الصحفي يسعى إلى تأويل الخبر في المقال التحليلي وإصدار الأحکام و التوصيل إلى أفکار يمکنها أن تخرج عن السياق المحدد المراد تغطيته، وتؤدي بالمتلقي إلى تبني أفکار الصحفي وأحکامه سواء کانت هذه الأحکام متطرفة أو معتدلة والعمل على إقناعه وتوجيه رأيه، وبناء عليه فإن مسؤولية الصحفي مهمة في هذا المقام وخاصة الأمنية منها، فمن خلال هذا التقديم حاولنا أن نسلط الضوء على المقال التحليلي الصحفي باعتباره يحتوي التفسير والتأويل مرتکزا على معطيات سياسية واقتصادية وثقافية والخط الإعلامي الذي تتبناه الصحيفة التي يحرر وينشر فيها مقالاته، وذلک بتقديم مقاربة نسقية مفاهيمية لموضوع الدراسة. الکلمات المفتاحبة: التأويل، المقال الصحفي، الخطاب، المفهوم، المقال التحليلي. ABSTRACT : The interpretive dimension of the newspaper article is related to the style of the press, which is reflected in the language of the media as stated by Abdul Aziz Sharaf, who defined it: is the language that addresses a common audience does not collect stronger than this common language common to the Arab countries, dialects are only to be Means that means that the vernacular is correct for the language of the media, the result of the history and the logic of reality, and the logic of the means governed by the linguistic media that impose the existence of a common language common to the media. In the context of the interpretation of the article, we can not ignore the semiotic aspect that will shed light on this variable. We need the semiotic dimension of the speech in the article: Perhaps the most important aspect of the press discourse is that we consider it an information group is essential that the news should be of interest to the recipient or the recipient ... It is not free to distinguish between two basic statements: the new information that the journalist believes and the recipient does not know, and the old information that the journalist believes and knows. Either because they are physically realized in the common context or because they are referred to within a specific expert text. As the language is relatively symmetrical, it interacts with the cognitive and ideological data, the news is a semantic representation of the world. Keywords: Interpretation, Journalism, Speech, Concept, Analytical article.

The Moral Gradation of Media of Deception

AbstractA central debate in the ethics of deception concerns the moral comparison among the three media through which deception is executed: lying, falsely implicating, or nonlinguistic deception. The two prominent views are that lying is morally worse or that the choice of medium is morally insignificant. This article refutes both and argues for a new position. The article first presents a theory on the moral significance of the medium of deception as such: it argues that the medium of communication affects the reliability of beliefs formed through it, which amounts to gradations in the warrant of truth of different media. Breach of lower warrant of truth is a lesser breach of trust; it therefore deserves lighter condemnation. Consequently, the article shows that, morally speaking, lying is either worse than or equal to falsely implicating and that there is no a priori gradation between nonlinguistic deception and the two linguistic media.

Real-to-Reel

This article develops a linguistic media theory that brings together Peircean materialist indexicality from Barthes, Bazin, Doane, Krauss, and others with linguistic anthropologist Michael Silverstein’s nonreferential (social) indexicality. Following Argentine sound artist Eduardo Costa’s practice with tape recording, the article challenges critical theory to account for the sonic meaning at play in pragmatic (nonsemantic) communication related to gender, race, and diasporic community. More than a mere supplement or limit, material sonic media expand aesthetic representation, and media archaeology opens new possibilities to intervene in language politics.

Reflexivity and exploring the meaning of delirium through media depictions: Methodological insights from a phenomenological study.

In the course of a phenomenological study that explored the experiences of family members during their older loved one's delirium, a range of delirium experiences depicted in artistic, creative, and linguistic media were reviewed. The search for, and compilation of, media sources for reflection during data analysis is described in this paper. In doing so, the researcher reveals how attentiveness and openness to varied depictions of lived experiences, as well as a valuing attitude toward challenging subjective perspectives, can enhance researcher reflexivity and appreciation of interpretive meanings. Turning to media depictions of delirium offered alternative perspectives on the experience. It challenged the researcher's assumptions, enhanced phenomenological reflection, promoted critique of evolving interpretations, and suggested meanings that might not have otherwise been realized. The approach used is a potent, although often overlooked, way to differentiate the nature of phenomena shared through lived experience data. Media-based methods and their use in phenomenology continue to be explored. Illustrations of how to integrate media sources, as well as discussion about the benefits and alternatives to more common uses, are needed.

Percorsi linguistici e semiotici: Critical Multimodal Analysis of Digital Discourse

The language section of LEA - edited by Ilaria Moschini - is dedicated to the Critical Multimodal Analysis of Digital Discourse, an approach that encompasses the linguistic and semiotic detailed investigation of texts within a socio-cultural perspective. It features an interview with Professor Theo van Leeuwen by Ilaria Moschini and four essays: “Retwitting, reposting, repinning; reshaping identities online: Towards a social semiotic multimodal analysis of digital remediation” by Elisabetta Adami; “Multimodal aspects of corporate social responsibility communication” by Carmen Daniela Maier; “Pervasive Technologies and the Paradoxes of Multimodal Digital Communication” by Sandra Petroni and “Can the powerless speak? Linguistic and multimodal corporate media manipulation in digital environments: the case of Malala Yousafzai” by Maria Grazia Sindoni.

Can the Powerless Speak? Linguistic and Multimodal Corporate Media Manipulation in Digital Environments: the Case of Malala Yousafzai

Paraphrasing Spivak’s essay, “Can the subaltern speak?” (1988), this paper will discuss how blogs can be manipulated by corporate media at both a linguistic and multimodal level, analysing Malala Yousafzai’s 2009 blog. Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and is known for her activism in women’s rights, but critics have questioned the authenticity of her voice, maintaining that her language is not likely to be produced by a child. This paper will address the question as to whether her blog has been manipulated, analysing linguistic features - such as lexical density, readability, keyness, modality markers in English, and multimodal resources. Linguistic and visual data will be discussed to see how multimodal approaches to communication can disentangle corporate mass media manipulation.

Thinking and Character Education through Language Learning

This is no easy problem, and I am going to offer no simple remedy, but I must confess that I find it difficult to realize how any individual will be capable of playing his part as a leader of society unless he has had some insight into certain elementary subjects, if I may use that terribly scholastic phrase. How can anyone play his part unless he has an intimate skill in his own language, spoken and written? How many boys and girls come into the university, or even go out of the university, able to speak, to write or to read? I don't mean running your eye along the page-we can all do that. Again, if I may return to Sesame and Lilies, you will remember how Ruskin says that good books are like gold mines. You can pick stones up without labor, but to get gold you must toil and sweat. Such is reading. Surely our own language and all that it means, whatever our language may be-French for the Frenchman, English for the English-speaking, Italian for the Italian-speaking-the linguistic media of our own culture surely are fundamental to a liberal education. We must have some skill in reckoning, because if we do not we cannot move about the world. It is a necessary technique of modern life to be able to do a little arithmetic, as much as it is to understand the rule of the road. It seems to me to be practically essential. And then, in this world which is conditioned so largely by all the development of modern science, both physical and biological, with the immense changes that have taken place in the last century, surely no one can be regarded as fully educated unless he knows something about the principles and the elementary facts which modern society must recognize as the very condition of its existence.