Press Conference Research Articles

CSRC oral communication and corporate disclosure

Oral communication has increasingly been used as a policy tool by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to regulate the Chinese financial market. However, less is known about whether and how this newly developed policy tool affects corporate decisions. Using machine-learning techniques, this paper develops a measure to evaluate the CSRC's oral emphasis on financial disclosure based on transcripts of its press conferences and official speeches. We find that when the CSRC places more emphasis on disclosure, both the quantity and quality of corporate disclosure are improved. Further evidence suggests that listed firms with external financing plans respond more to CSRC oral communication. Moreover, under political pressure, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) comply more with CSRC oral communication in terms of disclosure quantity but not disclosure quality.

STRATEGI MEDIA RELATIONS DINAS PARIWISATA KABUPATEN ACEH TENGAH UNTUK MEMPROMOSIKAN DESTINASI WISATA

Media relations in Central Aceh between the Tourism Office and journalists are a central point for increasing the promotion of tourism destinations in 2022 in Central Aceh Aceh Province. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. As a tourist area, information is important, one of which is delivered through social media in the form of online, audio/video, and printed information. Therefore, a strategy is needed for approaching relations with the mass media, such as journalists, media entrepreneurs, professional associations of journalists, and associations of media entrepreneurs. In the study of media relations, at least some of the commonly used strategies are known: Press Tours, Media Gatherings, Press releases, Press conferences, Press Receptions, Press Relations, and Media Events. The last part is the evaluation of the practice of media relations strategy. Evaluations aim to analyze whether the strategy used is applicable and followed by the increase in tourist numbers. On the other hand, to reveal if tourists receive information from the mass media or social media, which has been growing rapidly recently in the country. The presence of digital technology helps facilitate official relations with media actors. The presence of various image, text, and video-sending applications makes this relationship should be easier. As a result, the target of bringing in more and more tourists was achieved. In this context, the Central Aceh Tourism Office has used a media relations strategy, but it has not been maximized due to the limited budget available in the 2022 Central Aceh Regional Budget.

Taiwan and the WHO: negotiating the deconstruction of racialized discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract Racialized and politicized discourses on individuals and countries have accompanied the emergence and spread of COVID-19. Adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) and investigating the WHO's news releases, press conferences and the Taiwanese government's formal responses, this article examines three discursive events involving the deconstruction of racialized discourses during the pandemic by the WHO, the WHO's Director-General and Taiwan. Specifically, I focus on the following: the WHO's calls on the international community to cease using the term ‘China virus’; Dr Ghebreyesus' calls on Taiwan to cease leveling racist insults against the Black community; and the Taiwanese government's refutation of racist allegations by deconstructing racialized meanings and highlighting its marginal status in the global health system due to international politics. The findings demonstrate the different ways each subject framed moral and immoral practice, highlighted or downplayed racialized discourse, and applied moral vs immoral distinction to manipulate and reinforce the audience's thoughts. This article contributes to the field of international relations and its connection with racism by showing how racial injustices ‘travel’ between places and are negotiated and re-politicized in the global health sphere.

Get Media Packets to Those Reporters Who Fail to Attend

Nonprofit Communications ReportVolume 21, Issue 2 p. 4-4 Press Conference Details Get Media Packets to Those Reporters Who Fail to Attend First published: 09 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/npcr.32113Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume21, Issue2February 2023Pages 4-4 RelatedInformation

Análise dos gestos enfáticos e relação com o conteúdo verbal em discurso político: Patrice Talon vs. Emmanuel Macron

he aim of this article is a qualitative analysis, based on theoretical approaches, of the illocutionary force of gestures in political discourse, i.e. which gestures express greater illocutionary force, which will be carried out through the comparison of the speeches of Presidents Patrice Talon and Emmanuel Macron at the Press Conference given during the President's working visit to Benin on July 27th2022. The work is relevant for enabling the understanding of how, in discourse, gestures contribute not only to the expression of strong involvement and argumentative conviction but also to the impact of the discourse on listeners/observers.

Publicism of F.M.Dostoevsky and A.I. Solzhenitsyn: From socialism to the “Russian idea”

The purpose of the article is to describe the socio-political and philosophical views of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn on socialism and the “Russian idea”. The empirical basis of the study is publications from Dostoevsky’s “Diary of the Writer”, as well as articles, interviews, speeches at press conferences by Solzhenitsyn. The study is divided into several parts: 1) analysis of thе views of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn’s youth; 2) socialism as the antithesis of Christianity; 3) transformation of socialist ideas; 4) understanding of the “Russian idea”. Dostoevsky’s “Diary of the Writer presented not a rejection of socialist ideas, but a critique of the European version of socialism and an understanding of “Russian socialism”. This becomes the basis for the formulation of the “Russian idea”, associated for Dostoevsky with the conviction that the Russian nation must bring true Orthodoxy to other nations. The novelty of research is that it presents a comparative analysis of Dostoevsky’s and Solzhenitsyn’s ideas about socialism, messianism, the “Russian idea”, and the fate of Russian people. These ideas are reflected in the authors’ publicism related to the issues of Russian pochvennichesvo. Solzhenitsyn argues about the fate of the people and its task. However, the “Russian idea” becomes “the preservation of people” and the rejection of global objectives. At the same time, these calls and Christian ideals are paradoxically combined in the work of Solzhenitsyn with a love for the revolution and the demand to fight communism in the USSR.

The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia by Bo Petersson (review)

Reviewed by: The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia by Bo Petersson Darrell Slider Petersson, Bo. The Putin Predicament: Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 237 ibidem, Stuttgart, 2021. 219 pp. Notes. References. €34.90 (paperback); €22.99 (e-book). The 'predicament' in this informative study by Bo Petersson is that Putin's regime is based primarily on personal charisma. Charismatic legitimacy can disappear quickly and is difficult to transfer to a successor. The author argues that this makes the regime vulnerable and portends future instability. In part, the system is vulnerable by design: institutions that could provide for succession have been systematically dismantled or undermined. For example, there is no genuine ruling party that could put forward a successor; the nominal ruling party, United Russia, is a creature of Putin's Presidential Administration. After an overview of scholarship on leadership, charisma and succession, Petersson proceeds to analyse how major issues that have confronted the [End Page 191] Kremlin in recent years have impacted political stability and Putin's legitimacy. The author restricts his analysis largely to Putin's numerous speeches, interviews and press conferences; he also focuses primarily on the period from 2011 to 2021, arguing that the political system changed dramatically with Putin's return for his third and fourth terms. Protests against Putin and election fraud in late 2011–12 and the rise of a rival, Alexei Navalny, created a new set of potential threats to the regime that underscored the political dilemma. Though the book was completed a year before Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the framework presented here supports the argument that fears of declining legitimacy may have been a key motive. The 2014 annexation of Crimea and Russia's fostering of separatism in Ukraine's eastern provinces provided a major legitimacy boost at a critical time of declining trust in the president. It also provided a useful target for media attacks, post-Maidan Ukraine, along with the United States in the role of 'puppet master.' In one chapter, Petersson demonstrates how 'othering' has produced a changing cast of enemies who both threaten Russia's existence and promote values (in short, 'Gayropa') that repel most of its citizens. Constitutional changes pushed through in 2020 figure prominently in the book, and Putin used the plebiscite to postpone the problem of term limits for himself that otherwise could have caused problems in 2024 when his second term (and fourth overall) came to an end. The new provisions allow Putin to continue to serve, if reelected, until 2036; thus, '[t]he answer to who was to succeed Putin was — Putin' (p. 181). Petersson contends that by early 2021, though, the 'Crimean consensus' had weakened, and the Kremlin was on the defensive. Fears of a resurgent opposition were heightened by the exposure of the FSB plot to kill Navalny, his widely seen documentary on the gaudy palace under construction on the Black Sea coast, and large protests following Navalny's imprisonment on returning to Russia. One problem that is not addressed sufficiently in this study is how the Russian public would recognize Putin's missteps and policy failures as they happen. Petersson argues that a key component of Putin's charisma derives from his reputation as a leader 'who can and will deliver the goods' (p. 62). Yet that perception can easily be the result of manipulation. Policy outcomes that outsiders objectively understood as failures, including several discussed in this study, were not perceived as such by Putin's core supporters. Russia's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, was an abject failure; excess deaths in Russia as a percentage of the population were higher than for any other major country. Russians, though, were repeatedly told by Putin and his media that he handled the crisis more effectively than other world leaders. More recently, the 2022 attack on Ukraine failed to provide an anticipated quick victory and led to a level of wartime casualties not seen since World War Two. State media [End Page 192] covered up these failings, and the Russian public rallied around a wartime leader seeking to preserve the homeland against...

The role of the press conference and work in small creative groups as interactive teaching methods (on the topic “Development of higher medical education in Ukraine”)

The role of the press conference and work in small creative groups as interactive teaching methods (on the topic “Development of higher medical education in Ukraine”)

Non-fluency and language-pair specificity in Chinese-English consecutive interpreting: A corpus-driven study

Language-pair specificity, which refers to linguistic and cultural differences between the language pair, has been hypothesized as one of the variables shaping the interpreting performance and product. The current study adopts a corpus-driven paralinguistic approach to testifying the language-pair specificity hypothesis. The corpus is a bilingual parallel corpus of Chinese-English Interpreting for Premier Press Conferences, which consists of 200,000 words/characters in total. The original and interpreted discourses are aligned at the sentential level and annotated at linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic levels. The paralinguistic analysis focuses on non-fluency, specifically the different types of pauses and self-repairs. It is found that a majority of non-fluencies in the interpreted utterances are syntax-driven, which means that most of the pauses and self-repairs in Chinese-English interpreting are related to syntactical structures in the original speeches. The finding implies that language-pair specificity should be considered an important variable in research and training of interpreting between syntactically-contrastive languages.

A Study of Pragmatic Strategies in the Spokespersons' Replies at China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regular Press Conferences—From the Perspective of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle

A Study of Pragmatic Strategies in the Spokespersons' Replies at China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regular Press Conferences—From the Perspective of Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle

从批评话语分析视角看外交话语中的否定言辞及其英译——以外交部例行记者会为例

从批评话语分析视角看外交话语中的否定言辞及其英译——以外交部例行记者会为例

The Market Impact of Fed Communications: The Role of the Press Conference

The Market Impact of Fed Communications: The Role of the Press Conference

Interactive forms of the final lesson in a group of foreign students

This article considers the specifics of the organization of the final lesson with the help of interactive forms in the classroom of foreign students studying the Russian language. The aim of this article is to describe and analyze the effectiveness of conducting a final lesson on the topic under study in the form of a press conference and a job interview. This form allows you to qualitatively systematize the studied material, work out the skill of retelling and compiling an oral monologue, gain experience in speaking to an audience, develop communication skills, and also prepare for business communication in the upcoming professional activity. The advantage of such a lesson is seen in the high generalizing potential of the types of work used, offered in the lesson in a game form. The authors demonstrate the main structural elements of the lesson and the main types and forms of work on a specific example, and also provide the main results. The proposed forms of final lessons have been tested for several years in different classrooms of foreign students at South Ural State University.

Jurnalisme Investigasi dalam Film Dokumenter The End Game

Watchdoc Documentary as one of the alternative media in Indonesia, often shows the results of journalistick work in a documentary film.one of them is The EndGame documentary film which raises issues about the current KPK situation. Watchdoc courage in covering the issue in depth caused controversy in various circles. That’s what makes me interested in knowing the description of investigative journalism that implemented in the film. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach by analyzing using the theory of eight elements of investigative journalism and four characteristics of investigative journalism by Santana (2003). From the results of this study, shows that Watchdoc’s coverage of the KPK issue has fullfilled all the characteristics and elements of investigative journalism. However, in its search Watchdoc does not emphasize the principle of cover both side or search for the opposite point of view. Watchdoc doesn’t present sources from institutional representative, Watchdoc only uses open statements from various press conference and news snippets that have been published. In conclusion, the documentary film focuses more on how and why it happened, not revealing what and who is the mastermind behind the issue. So, overall the results are still not clear enough to be called as a perfect investigative journalism, but rather lead to in-depth reporting with an advocacy jornalism perspective.

Doctors’ Orders vs. Politicians’ Bafflegab: Analysis of Iranian President’s and Deputy Health Minister’s Speeches on the Coronavirus Pandemic

This study adopted a critical discourse analysis approach to analyze the potential ideological differences between the Iranian President and Deputy Health Minister (DHM) in the representation of issues related to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The analysis was based on the meeting of the national task force against Coronavirus chaired by President Rouhani, held in 2020, and DHM’s five press conferences and interviews during the same period. By integrating insights from van Dijk’s model (2005), the findings revealed that the President’s speech on the Coronavirus Pandemic was highly ideological. However, the DHM had a tendency to use more objective and neutral words in the descriptions of the COVID-19 and express his views in a transparent way. The findings of this study are significant in raising the public’s awareness of the manipulative function of the language used by politicians to express political ideologies, even on a public health issue such as the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The Critical Discourse Analysis of Maudy Ayunda’s Speech at Press Conference on the Introduction of the Government Spokesperson for Indonesia's G20 Presidency

This study aims to describe the transcript of Maudy Ayunda’s speech as a critical discourse analysis taken from a video from Youtube Chanel Liputan 6. Maudy Ayunda is a spokesperson for G20 Presidency in Indonesia. The method used by the researcher was qualitative descriptive with textual content analysis based on Van Dijk’s design. This analysis is divided into four parts: macro-structure, superstructure, superstructure, and microstructure. This study also examines the linguistic aspect. In the macro-structure, the textual content is analyzed thematically. The theme of Maudy Ayunda’s speech was about persuading Indonesian people to participate in making success the G20 Presidency in Indonesia. Then, for the superstructure, the text of Maudy Ayunda’s speech is divided into three main elements, namely: opening, content, and closing. In superstructure analyze the general meaning by providing supporting reasons organized in the opening, content, and closing of the discourse. In micro-structure analyzes semantically, which refers to the social meaning of the text and the persuasive language used in the text. Besides that, Maudy Ayunda used formal language when delivered her speech.
 
 Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Speech, Van Djik

Environmental Geostrategic Analysis in the Development of the Archipelago's Capital City

The development of the National Capital City (IKN) of the Archipelago is faced with major ecological challenges, both because of the existing conditions of Penajam Paser Utara Regency and Kutai Kartanegara Regency and because of the vision of IKN which is green and sustainable. This study aims to analyze the Government's strategy in managing environmental resources and solving existing ecological problems in accordance with the IKN's vision. The research was conducted qualitatively through literature studies from various sources, including academic texts, laws, articles, journals and press conferences from government agencies. It was found that the Government has made various efforts to realize the vision of the IKN and protect the environment such as seeking raw and clean water supplies, managing land, and reclaiming ex-mining pits. But it takes enormous resources to do so, along with good execution, monitoring and evaluation.

Media Relations Strategy in Building a Positive Image of the Institution

Media relations are one of the determining strategies in building the institution's image. The research aims to determine the Media Relations Strategy by Public Relations of Bank Indonesia West Java Province in creating a positive image of the institution. The qualitative method used in this research uses descriptive analysis to describe a situation or event. It gives a detailed description of specific individuals or groups regarding the circumstances and symptoms. Theoretically or conceptually, this research is based on Rosady Ruslan's concept of media relations which is divided into three, namely Media Gathering, Media Tour, and Press Conference. The data collection in this study is by interviews and observations with four informants. The results of this study indicate that the Media Relations Strategy carried out by Bank Indonesia Public Relations in West Java Province includes three activities: Media Gathering, Media Tour and Press Conference activities. This research is hoped to impact the development of public relations science and public relations practices in companies.

Concordancing DEVELOP* at the Interpreter-mediated Press Conferences

Thanks to the pragmatist Reform and Opening-up (RoU) program initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China, the largest developing country, has witnessed decades of sustained development and is poised to overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world. RoU is a major watershed in China’s recent history, signaling the beginning of China’s rapid economic development and meteoric rise over the past few decades in the global arena. The broader RoU discourse represents an important overarching metadiscourse, legitimizing China’s miscellaneous developments and policies, economic system, style of governance, and stances for the entire post-1978 period. In particular, ‘development’ is an operative word for and a key component of the RoU, which also constitutes a central and recurring theme throughout the interpreter-mediated premier-meets-the-press conferences in China. Development studies represents a growing and interdisciplinary research area. However, it is rarely explored from a discursive perspective in political interpreting, despite the vital mediating role of interpreters. To bridge this gap, framed within the broader trends of interdisciplinary research and digital humanities, the pragmatist mixed-methods approach of corpus-based critical discourse analysis is applied to the premier-meets-the-press data (1998–2017) to explore the government-affiliated interpreters’ agency and (re)construction of China’s ‘development’ discourse over one-fifth of a century. The study reveals the interpreters’ institutional (over)alignment and frequent strengthening of Beijing’s development discourse in English at different levels using various discursive means. Discursively, this established the interpreters’ role and text ownership in (re)shaping reality, further facilitating China’s development, (re)constructing and disseminating sociopolitical knowledge, and possibly even effecting changes and transformations to the East–West power differentials as vital (re)tellers of the Chinese story. Looking beyond the traditional view of interpreting as a more static and mechanical process in a semi-closed and self-contained system, this article discusses the vital role interpreting plays from a historical, communication, geopolitical and development perspective.

Political discourse on immigration in the UK and the USA from the 1950s to the 1980s

Despite having vastly different historical and geographical experiences with immigration, both the United Kingdom and the United States of America now have political parties that express similar anti-immigrant political rhetoric and have implemented or attempted to implement comparable policy responses to immigration in recent years. The purpose of this article will be to explore and compare historical political discourse to provide a better understanding of British and American immigration. The focus will be on the post-World War II era up to the 1980s, with political party manifestos and party platforms from late 1970s and 1980s elections, as well as speeches, interviews, and press conferences by national leaders. Claims that the borders are broken and out of control, as well as recent criticisms of immigration by political parties and leaders in both the United Kingdom and the United States, while often fiercer than before, are simply a continuation of decades of anti-immigrant hostility, with periods of openness and restrictionism in both.