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Canadian journal of academic librarianship,
01/2024, Letnik:
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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.
The present study examined whether parents’ and bilingual children’s own relative use of the heritage language vs. the majority language in the homes of bilingual children in Denmark before school ...start explains variance in 2
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grade majority language skills and reading skills. The study included two groups of children: the Mixed bilinguals group (defined by having a native Danish and a nonnative parent,
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= 276). Four-stage hierarchical regression analyses showed that, after accounting for type of bilingualism, socioeconomic status (SES) and home literacy environment quality, relative use of the heritage vs. the majority language explained variance in 2
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grade Danish language comprehension scores, but did not explain variance in two reading scores, namely decoding and reading comprehension. In addition, a home literacy factor denoting book exposure (number of books, frequency of reading, library visits, and age of beginning shared book reading) was a significant predictor of both 2
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grade language and reading outcomes, whereas SES became a nonsignificant predictor when adding home literacy and language use predictors. We interpret the results to mean that parents’ and the child’s own relative use of the heritage language vs. the majority language before school start does not influence bilingual children’s early reading skills, whereas a supportive early home literacy environment is a positive predictor of reading skills independently of SES and parental majority language use and skill.
Gender and Linguistic Behaviour in the New Media The issue of gender roles is a major topic in Hungarian traditional and online media, especially due to the fact that it was a leading subject in ...public life over the course of 2015. Several well-known personalities (politicians, and a defining figure of the cultural life) made statements and expressed their opinions about women’s place in society and family, triggering extreme reactions. Facebook was one of the spaces where the debate was the most aggressive, where people shared their views with their names and faces, without being moderated or censored. Our aim is to analyze the Facebook pages of the most followed Hungarian online press products from a gender linguistic point of view, more exactly the comments under the posts about the topic in question. Particular emphasis is placed on the linguistic and non-linguistic strategies that lead to constructing the classical and non-classical gender roles and stereotypes in Facebook communication.
•Other consumers are influenced by firm mimicry of customer written communications.•Firm mimicry of online customer reviews increases third-party attentiveness & trust.•Firm mimicry of online ...customer reviews increases third-party purchase intentions.•Real-world data shows that mimicry increases the star ratings of subsequent reviews.
In interpersonal communication, humans tend to mimic one another verbally and non-verbally, producing beneficial outcomes for the mimicker. The growth in online communication has moved many manager-customer interactions from in-person to a virtual environment visible to others. Thus, we investigate whether and how managers’ conscious mimicking of wording from consumers’ online reviews affects the purchase intentions of third-party readers of the exchange. We propose that mimicking is a signal of the firm’s attentiveness that increases trust, resulting in increased purchase intentions. A series of experimental studies support this hypothesis under varying conditions, such as whether the valence of the customer’s communication is positive or negative, or the frequency of the use of mimicry varies. An examination of field data finds that the use of mimicry increases the ratings of subsequent reviews. Thus, we provide managers with a straightforward tool that can increase consumer trust, purchase intentions, and subsequent review ratings.
Most research on L2 reading comprehension has indicated that 98 per cent lexical coverage provides adequate comprehension of written text. This figure has been transferred to listening comprehension ...and has been used to set vocabulary size targets for L2 learners. This study directly investigates coverage in regard to listening comprehension, to determine whether such transfer is reasonable. The coverage of four spoken informal narrative passages was manipulated, and participants' (36 native and 40 non-native speakers) listening comprehension of factual information was measured. Results showed that most native and non-native participants could adequately comprehend the spoken texts with only 90 per cent coverage, although the non-natives showed considerable variation at this level. At 95 per cent coverage, non-native participants also demonstrated relatively good comprehension, but with much less variation. Based on a 95 per cent coverage figure, language users would need to know between 2,000 and 3,000 word families for adequate listening comprehension, compared with Nation's (2006) calculation of 6,000-7,000 families based on a 98 per cent figure. Adapted from the source document
This article presents selected results from a large‐scale, mixed‐methods, federally funded investigation of US‐based language study‐abroad alumni of all ages, which included a nationwide survey (N = ...4,899) followed by professional life history interviews with 54 participants. Here, we focus on three questions heretofore unaddressed: (a) How do these alumni continue to use their additional languages? (b) How is long‐term language use associated with various study‐abroad program features? and (c) How is the role of program features reflected in life history narratives? We found that 79% of participants use their languages in at least one of the activities listed on the survey, though this use is generally confined to informal, interactive tasks. Our examination of program features using multiple regression revealed that while all features were statistically significant predictors for long‐term language use, those involving engagement with local communities (e.g., close personal relationships) showed more relative importance. Contextualized with a sample of our qualitative data, findings from this study offer a macrolevel confirmation that local engagement during study abroad retains its significance for language use over the long term and provide implications for designing study‐abroad programs that involve language learning.
This special issue of Journal of Communication is devoted to theoretical explanations of news framing, agenda setting, and priming effects. It examines if and how the three models are related and ...what potential relationships between them tell theorists and researchers about the effects of mass media. As an introduction to this effort, this essay provides a very brief review of the three effects and their roots in media‐effects research. Based on this overview, we highlight a few key dimensions along which one can compare, framing, agenda setting, and priming. We conclude with a description of the contexts within which the three models operate, and the broader implications that these conceptual distinctions have for the growth of our discipline.
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Cadrage, programmes d’action et préparation: l’évolution de ces trois modèles d’effets des médias
Ce numéro spécial de Journal of Communication est consacréà l’explication théorique du cadrage, de la définition des programmes d’action (agenda setting) et des effets de la préparation (priming) en ce qui a trait aux actualités. Il examine si ces trois modèles sont liés et de quelle manière ils le sont, en plus de chercher à comprendre ce que leurs relations éventuelles peuvent signaler aux théoriciens et chercheurs à propos des effets des médias de masse. Cet article offre en introduction un bref survol des trois modèles et de leur origine au cœur de la recherche sur les effets médiatiques. À partir de ce survol, nous dégagerons quelques dimensions clés comme référence pour la comparaison des modèles de préparation, de cadrage et de définition des programmes d’action. Nous conclurons par une description des contextes à l’intérieur desquels opèrent les relations entre le cadrage, la définition des programmes d’action et la préparation, ainsi que par une discussion sur les implications générales de ces distinctions conceptuelles pour le développement de notre discipline.
Framing, Agenda‐Setting und Priming: Die Entwicklung von drei Medienwirkungsmodellen
Diese Sonderausgabe des Journal of Communication widmet sich der theoretischen Erklärung von Nachrichten‐Framing, Agenda‐Setting und Priming‐Effekten. Dabei soll zum einen untersucht werden, ob und wie diese drei Modelle miteinander verwandt sind und zum anderen, welche möglichen Zusammenhänge einen Ausgangspunkt zur Erklärung von Medienwirkungen darstellen. Einführend dazu gibt dieser Artikel einen kurzen Überblick über die drei Modelle und ihre Wurzeln in der Medienwirkungsforschung. Auf Basis dieses Überblicks beleuchten wir einige wenige Kerndimensionen anhand derer man Priming, Framing und Agenda‐Setting vergleichen kann. Wir schließen mit einer Beschreibung des kontextuellen Rahmens in dem die Beziehungen zwischen Framing, Agenda‐Setting und Priming stattfinden sowie weiteren Implikationen, welche diese konzeptionellen Unterscheidungen für die Fortentwicklung unseres Faches haben.
Resumen
Los Efectos del Framing, de la Agenda‐Setting, y del Priming: La Evolución de Tres Modelos de Efectos de los Medios Masivos
Esta edición especial del Journal of Communication está dedicada a las explicaciones teóricas del framing, la agenda‐setting y los efectos del priming sobre las noticias. Examina si, y cómo, estos tres modelos están relacionados entre sí, y qué relaciones potenciales entre ellos informan a teóricos e investigadores sobre los efectos de los medios masivos. Como una introducción a este esfuerzo, este ensayo provee una reseña breve de estos tres efectos y sus raíces en la investigación de los efectos de los medios masivos. Basados en este panorama general, destacamos algunas dimensiones claves a través de las cuales se pueden comparar el priming, el framing, y la agenda‐setting. Concluimos con una descripción de los contextos dentro de los cuales las relaciones entre el framing, el priming y la agenda‐setting operan, y las implicaciones mayores que estas distinciones conceptuales tienen en el crecimiento de nuestra disciplina.
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In post-Bologna Europe, there has been a noticeable increase in English-medium instruction. In this article we take the case of Sweden as an illustrative example of the wider disciplinary issues ...involved in changing the teaching language in this way. By 2008 the use of English in Swedish higher education had risen to such an extent that it had to be regulated at the governmental level and through university language policies. Such policies have attempted to provide generalised pragmatic guidelines for language use across educational programmes. In this paper we argue that such general policies fail to take into consideration fundamental disciplinary differences and their potential impact on language use. We present a theoretical argument about the knowledge structures of disciplines, relating these to the disciplinary literacy goals of educational programmes. We then illustrate our argument using data from an extensive survey carried out at a major Swedish university. We conclude that the disciplinary variation in the use of English can be seen as a product of different knowledge-making practices and educational goals. This conclusion problematises "one-size-fits-all" language policies which only deal with general features of language use and do not allow for discipline-specific adjustments.(HRK / Abstract übernommen).
This article aims, within the constructionist paradigm, at integrating culture into the framing process. Four characteristics are important for this approach: the distinction between the event, the ...media content, and the frame; the explicit attention to the reconstruction of frame packages; the relationship between frame packages and cultural phenomena; and the interaction between frame sponsors, key events, media content, schemata, and the stock of frames. An elaborated framing model is presented, and, subsequently, the constructionist approach is compared with priming and agenda setting. Finally, the methodological implications are discussed, in order to develop a strategy to reconstruct frame packages. ZhaiYao Yo yak ResumenEl Enfoque Constructivista del Framing: Trayendo Cultura aEl objetivo de este articulo, dentro del paradigma constructivista, apunta a integrar la nocion de cultura al proceso del framing. Cuatro caracteristicas son importantes para esta aproximacion: la distincion entre el evento, el contenido de los medios masivos, y el encuadre; la atencion explicita a la reconstruccion del paquete de encuadre; la relacion entre los paquetes de encuadre y el fenomeno cultural y la interaccion entre los patrocinadores de los encuadres, los eventos claves, el contenido de los medios masivos, los esquemas, y el stock de encuadres. Presentamos un modelo elaborado del framing y comparamos posteriormente el enfoque constructivista con el priming y la agenda setting. Discutimos, finalmente, las implicaciones metodologicas para desarrollar una estrategia de reconstruccion de paquetes de encuadres. AbstractEin konstruktivistischer Ansatz zum Framing: Die Kultur wieder ins Spiel gebracht.Innerhalb des Konstruktivistischen Paradigmas liefert dieser Artikel eine Moglichkeit, Kultur in den Framing-Prozess zu integrieren. Vier Merkmale sind fur diesen Ansatz zentral: (a) die Unterscheidung zwischen Anlass, Medieninhalt und Frame, (b) die Fokussierung auf die Rekonstruktion von Frame-Bundeln, (c) die Beziehung zwischen Frame-Bundeln und kulturellen Phanomenen und (d) die Interaktion zwischen Frame-Sponsoren, Hauptanlassen, Medieninhalt, Schemata und bestehenden Frames. Nachdem ein ausfuhrliches Framing-Modell diskutiert wurde, wird der konstruktivistische Ansatz mit Priming und Agenda-Setting verglichen. Schlussendlich werden methodologische Implikationen fur die Rekonstruktion von Frame-Bundeln diskutiert. ResumeL'approche constructionniste au cadrage: ramener la cultureCet article vise, a l'interieur meme du paradigme constructionniste, a integrer la culture au processus de cadrage. Quatre caracteristiques importent dans cette approche: la distinction entre l'evenement, le contenu mediatique et le cadre; l'attention accordee explicitement a la reconstruction d'ensembles de cadrage; la relation entre ces ensembles et les phenomenes culturels; l'interaction entre ceux qui parrainent les cadres, les evenements cles, le contenu mediatique, les schemes et les cadres disponibles. Un modele elabore de cadrage est d'abord presente, suivi d'une comparaison de l'approche constructionniste avec celle de preparation (priming) et de definition de programme d'action (agenda setting). Pour terminer, les implications methodologiques sont discutees afin de mettre au point une strategie de reconstruction des ensembles de cadrage.
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