Neste trabalho, buscou-se analisar o envolvimento argumentativo de estudantes em sala de aula, com o desenvolvimento de proposta educacional envolvendo questões sociocientíficas. Essa proposta foi composta por atividades educacionais que abordavam dimensões científicas, tecnológicas, políticas, econômicas, sociais e ambientais no processo de geração de energia elétrica, considerando as relações entre Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente. Ao longo da pesquisa, procurou-se desenvolver o processo pedagógico considerando as seguintes questões: 1) Quais as características das interações discursivas desenvolvidas pelos alunos com abordagem de questões sociocientíficas em sala de aula? 2) Quais as possibilidades de alfabetização científica, de uma formação para o entendimento e acordo com o envolvimento dos alunos em situações de argumentação e problematização do conhecimento científico? Esta proposta possui fundamentos teóricos na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo de Jürgen Habermas, que concebe na linguagem um potencial para formação e emancipação do sujeito. Envolve também uma concepção de alfabetização científica para o entendimento e acordo e para o exercício da cidadania e questões sociocientíficas, associadas à argumentação. Os sujeitos participantes foram alunos de 9º ano na disciplina de Ciências em um colégio estadual paranaense, em 2015. Os dados foram constituídos por meio de gravações em áudio e vídeo, registros em diário de campo e trabalhos elaborados pelos alunos. Em seguida foram analisadas as interações discursivas por meio de uma abordagem metodológica de análise de conteúdo construída a partir do referencial teórico da Teoria do Agir Comunicativo. A análise desses dados permite destacar possibilidades de alfabetização científica, considerando a apropriação de conhecimentos científicos e o envolvimento em argumentação e proposições de alternativas a questões envolvendo as relações entre Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente. Entretanto, os resultados obtidos também apontam dificuldades na prática educacional em Ciências, para abordagem de questões sociocientíficas com o envolvimento comunicativo dos alunos; indicam a necessidade de um planejamento educacional que estimule e potencialize a interação comunicativa, para a formação de discentes e docentes. / In this work, sought to analyze the argumentative involvement of studenst in the classroon, with the development of educational proposal involving sócio-scientific issues. This proposal was constituted by educational activities that addressed dimensions of scientific, technological, political, economic, social and environmental in the electricity generation process, considering the relationship between Science, Technology, Society and Environment. During the research, sougth to develop the educational process considering the following questions: 1) What are the characteristics of discursive interactions developed by students with socio-scientific issues approach in the classroom? 2) What are the scientific literacy of possibilities formation for understanding and agreement with the involvement of students in argumentation situations and questioning of scientific knowledge? This proposal has its fundamentals in the assumptions of the Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas, which conceives the language a potential for formation and empowerment of the subject. It also involves a concept of the scientific literacy for understanding and agreement and the exercise of citizenship and socio-scientific issues associated with the argument. The subjects in the research were Sciences students in 9º grade in a public school in the state of Paraná in 2015. Data was constituted of audio and video records and written records in a field diary. Then analyzed the discursive interactions through an approach methodological of analysis content built from the theoretical framework of the Theory of Communicative Action. The data analysis allows to highliht opportunities scientific literacy, considering the appropriation of scientific knowledge and involvement alternative proposals to issues involving the relationship between Science, Technology, Society and Environment. However, the results also indicate difficulties in educational practice in Science to approach socio-scientific issues with the involvement communicative of students. Indicate the need for an educational planning that stimulate and leverage the communicative interaction for the formation of students and teachers.

Neste trabalho, buscou-se analisar o envolvimento argumentativo de estudantes em sala de aula, com o desenvolvimento de proposta educacional envolvendo questões sociocientíficas. Essa proposta foi composta por atividades educacionais que abordavam dimensões científicas, tecnológicas, políticas, econômicas, sociais e ambientais no processo de geração de energia elétrica, considerando as relações entre Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente. Ao longo da pesquisa, procurou-se desenvolver o processo pedagógico considerando as seguintes questões: 1) Quais as características das interações discursivas desenvolvidas pelos alunos com abordagem de questões sociocientíficas em sala de aula? 2) Quais as possibilidades de alfabetização científica, de uma formação para o entendimento e acordo com o envolvimento dos alunos em situações de argumentação e problematização do conhecimento científico? Esta proposta possui fundamentos teóricos na Teoria do Agir Comunicativo de Jürgen Habermas, que concebe na linguagem um potencial para formação e emancipação do sujeito. Envolve também uma concepção de alfabetização científica para o entendimento e acordo e para o exercício da cidadania e questões sociocientíficas, associadas à argumentação. Os sujeitos participantes foram alunos de 9º ano na disciplina de Ciências em um colégio estadual paranaense, em 2015. Os dados foram constituídos por meio de gravações em áudio e vídeo, registros em diário de campo e trabalhos elaborados pelos alunos. Em seguida foram analisadas as interações discursivas por meio de uma abordagem metodológica de análise de conteúdo construída a partir do referencial teórico da Teoria do Agir Comunicativo. A análise desses dados permite destacar possibilidades de alfabetização científica, considerando a apropriação de conhecimentos científicos e o envolvimento em argumentação e proposições de alternativas a questões envolvendo as relações entre Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente. Entretanto, os resultados obtidos também apontam dificuldades na prática educacional em Ciências, para abordagem de questões sociocientíficas com o envolvimento comunicativo dos alunos; indicam a necessidade de um planejamento educacional que estimule e potencialize a interação comunicativa, para a formação de discentes e docentes. / In this work, sought to analyze the argumentative involvement of studenst in the classroon, with the development of educational proposal involving sócio-scientific issues. This proposal was constituted by educational activities that addressed dimensions of scientific, technological, political, economic, social and environmental in the electricity generation process, considering the relationship between Science, Technology, Society and Environment. During the research, sougth to develop the educational process considering the following questions: 1) What are the characteristics of discursive interactions developed by students with socio-scientific issues approach in the classroom? 2) What are the scientific literacy of possibilities formation for understanding and agreement with the involvement of students in argumentation situations and questioning of scientific knowledge? This proposal has its fundamentals in the assumptions of the Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas, which conceives the language a potential for formation and empowerment of the subject. It also involves a concept of the scientific literacy for understanding and agreement and the exercise of citizenship and socio-scientific issues associated with the argument. The subjects in the research were Sciences students in 9º grade in a public school in the state of Paraná in 2015. Data was constituted of audio and video records and written records in a field diary. Then analyzed the discursive interactions through an approach methodological of analysis content built from the theoretical framework of the Theory of Communicative Action. The data analysis allows to highliht opportunities scientific literacy, considering the appropriation of scientific knowledge and involvement alternative proposals to issues involving the relationship between Science, Technology, Society and Environment. However, the results also indicate difficulties in educational practice in Science to approach socio-scientific issues with the involvement communicative of students. Indicate the need for an educational planning that stimulate and leverage the communicative interaction for the formation of students and teachers.

Recherche sur l'imaginaire de la société comme corps. Le point de départ est la théologie politique médiévale. Malgré les différences de fondation (non plus religieuse mais séculière), l'imaginaire théologique médiéval de la société comme corps s'est retrouvé dans la pensée politique moderne, à travers notamment les doctrines de la souveraineté et de la représentations (J. Bodin, J.-J. Rousseau, T. Hobbes). Qu’implique sur le plan de la représentation politique la métaphore corporelle ?Cette représentation implique notamment la difficulté à penser la supranationalité (la métaphore corporelle a servi – et sert encore – à penser les Etats dans le cadre de la Nation). Quelles sont les conditions de la dilution de l'hypostase de la société comme corps ?La nécessité est posée de passer à un paradigme de l'intersubjectivité et de la communication. Une attention particulière est accordée à une approche sémiotique de la communication à travers les icônes et les indices (et non uniquement les symboles). / Doctorat en sciences sociales, Orientation sociologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Cette dissertation doctorale entend contribuer au renouveau des sciences de l’information et de la communication (SIC) et plus particulièrement de la construction du « public » dans un contexte caractérisé par une remise en question des savoirs théoriques et méthodologiques associée à l’émergence d’internet. <p>Cette problématique est développée en trois temps. Dans un premier temps, nous effectuons une synthèse des constructions du public dans la recherche sur les médias classiques. Les multiples « publics » repérés dans la littérature scientifique en information et communication (infocom) sont organisés à deux niveaux. D’une part, nous distinguons les constructions du public comme « acteur collectif » et comme « acteur assistant ». D’autre part, à un niveau plus fin d’analyse, les concepts de public comme « groupe » et comme « collectivité » permettent de distinguer deux types de public comme « acteur collectif » tandis que les concepts de public comme « récepteur » et comme « coproducteur » renvoient à deux catégories différentes de public comme « acteur assistant ».<p>Dans un deuxième temps, nous examinons plusieurs ajustements des constructions du public apportés (ou à apporter) par la recherche en infocom à propos d’internet. En ce qui concerne la construction du public comme « groupe », celle-ci recouvre désormais une grande variété de groupes dont les processus de communication interne deviennent un objet d’étude à part entière. De plus, la construction comme « public exposé » (une catégorie de public comme « récepteur ») s’articule à la problématique de l’accès aux informations. Enfin, la construction du public comme « coproducteur » voit son champ d’application considérablement élargi.<p>Dans un troisième et dernier temps, nous réalisons une méta-analyse de la construction du public d’internet. Le corpus est composé de 186 articles issus de six revues scientifiques en infocom. Les variables examinées sont :l’origine culturelle des auteurs, l’orientation éditoriale des revues, les thématiques de recherche, les constructions du public, les constructions d’internet et les méthodes de recherche. Les résultats révèlent notamment que les ajustements nécessaires des constructions du public sont peu représentés dans le corpus. Si la construction comme « groupe » est plus fréquente que la construction comme « collectivité », la première est toutefois concentrée dans deux revues et semble peu diversifiée. De plus, le public comme « coproducteur » est rarement étudié alors qu’internet facilite la participation à la production des messages et favorise l’appropriation des contenus. <p>Par ailleurs, la construction du public d’internet est culturellement marquée :les chercheurs européens le construisent plutôt comme « acteur collectif » tandis que les chercheurs américains privilégient la construction comme « acteur assistant ». De plus, les constructions du public ne sont pas associées aux mêmes constructions d’internet :le public comme « acteur collectif » est associé à une construction d’internet comme « medium » tandis que le public comme « acteur assistant » est associé à une construction d’internet comme « support », « média » ou « contenu ». Enfin, les constructions du public d’internet donnent lieu à des méthodes de recherche distinctes, le public comme « acteur collectif » étant articulé aux méthodes qualitatives et le public comme « acteur assistant » aux méthodes quantitatives. /<p>This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the revival of the information and communication sciences (ICS) whose theoretical and methodological tools are being called into question by the emergence of information and communication technologies. This study focuses on the construction of the “audience” in the age of internet and develops this issue through three chapters.<p>The first chapter synthesizes the constructions of the audience in the research on traditional media. The numerous “audiences” identified in scientific literature from ICS are organized at two levels. On the one hand, we distinguish the audience as “collective actor” from the audience as “attending actor”. On the other hand, and more precisely, the “group” and the “collectivity” are considered two different kinds of audience as “collective actor” while the construction of the audience as “attending actor” is broken up into two constructions: the “receiver” and the “co-producer”.<p>The second chapter discusses (some of) the alterations to the constructions of the audience that ICS have made (or should make) because of the properties of the internet. With regard to the audience as “group”, it covers henceforth a wide range of groups whose internal communication processes become an object of study. Moreover, the construction of the audience as “exposed audience” (a category of audience as “receiver”) is linked up with the issue of information access and the construction of audience as “co-producer” sees its sphere of validity considerably enlarged. <p>The third and last chapter develops a meta-analysis of the construction of the internet audience. The corpus is composed of 186 articles published in six scientific journals from ICS. The variables examined are: the cultural origin of the authors, the editorial influence of the journals, the research subjects, the constructions of the audience, the constructions of internet and the research methods. Among other results, it appears that the “new” constructions of the audience are not much studied in the corpus. The construction as “group” is more frequently encountered than the construction as “collectivity” but is restricted to two journals and is little diversified. Moreover, the audience as “co-producer” is rarely constructed whereas internet facilitates the participation in message production and the appropriation of contents. Furthermore, the construction of the internet audience is a culturally defined process: European researchers rather construct the internet audience as “collective actor” while American researchers tend towards a construction of the internet audience as “attending actor”. Those constructions are associated with different constructions of internet: the audience as “collective actor” is linked up with the construction of internet as “medium” while the audience as “attending actor” is associated with the constructions of internet as “device”, “channel” or “content”. Finally, the constructions of the internet audience are methodologically different: the audience as “collective actor” is studied through qualitative methods while the audience as “attending actor” tends towards quantitative methods.<p> / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation information / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

[Introduction] An investigation of relevant literature reveals numerous studies on the principles of effective advertising communications. These studies are based on work done overseas and may not apply to Blacks in South Africa. Pioneer advertising research into the Black market has been conducted in recent years by the University of South Africa's Bureau of Market Research (BM). The resultant data obtained indicated that communicating to the Black market should be treated separately from communicating to Whites in South Africa and further research is required on the effectiveness of advertising communications aimed at Blacks. This study was designed to supplement the research conducted by the Bureau of Market Research rather than to validate these findings.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / People who have disabilities that are visible often manage the boundaries around private information regarding their disability (Braithwaite, 1991) because the choice becomes how much should be revealed. The purpose of this study is to use Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory to explore the way people who have a visible disability manage privacy boundaries in communicative interactions and also the way the boundaries around private information are managed over time. The study was conducted through in-depth interviews with seven individuals who have a visible disability about their experiences in managing private information. The individuals described experiences both among other people with a visible disability and with people do not have a disability. Results from a thematic analysis revealed the presence of five main themes and several sub-themes.

The purpose of the research is to explore social workers' listening skills pertaining to listening as communication skill during an experimental social work interview. The research methodology comprised unique application of a social work interview. A sample of five participating social workers was invited to listen to a video recording of a social work interview requesting them to identify information presented by the client through observation and listening by applying a set of predetermined theoretical conversation elements. The participation and involvement of participating social workers during the listening experiment was video recorded for subsequent evaluation. The conclusion reached from research findings indicates that the unique approach adopted by participating social workers' achieved mixed results towards hypothetic assistance offered to the experimental client. The researcher recommends that social workers be developed and trained in the art of maintaining effective listening skills during social work interviews to improve assistance to clients. / Social Work / M. A. (Social Work)

An immense degree of linguistic diversity exists in the work force where it is possible for speakers of twenty-three home languages to come into contact on the work floor. The language of management in industry is predominantly English; while supervisors are primarily English- or Afrikaans-speaking. Misinterpretation of speaker intent plays a significant role in communication breakdown that occurs when management or foremen/supervisors communicate directly with workers who do not understand the two erstwhile official languages sufficiently or not at all. Reagan ( 1 986) hypothesized that the greatest number of problems are caused by what might be termed mutual ignorance, rather than by language difficulties. The aim of the thesis was therefore to establish what constitutes the mutual ignorance that leads to misinterpretation of speaker intent. The Hymesian model, the ethnography of speaking, was used as a model for an analysis of sociolinguistic features in factories in the Pretoria-WitwatersrandVereeniging area. For data collection a process of triangulation was used and qualitative and quantitative methods used. The Free Attitude Interview technique was used for unstructured interviews. Other methods include observation, and elicitation procedures such as the Discourse Completion Test, which were used in structured interviews. Language preference, forms of address and politeness markers were examined. Findings revealed that the major differences were found to be in the area of non-verbal behaviour. Speakers of Afrikaans and English are, on the whole, unaware of politeness markers used by speakers of African languages. Afrikaans and English speakers are unaware of offensive non-verbal behaviour used by them. It is revealing that speakers of the official languages believe this to be the very area that makes communication possible, but it is the area in which they may cause offence. It was also found that speakers of African languages have adopted many of the features of the power dominant group at work. The findings of the research are important for the development of strategies for overcoming misinterpretation of speaker intent and negative stereotyping. This research was undertaken as part of the Human Sciences Research Council's programme entitled Language in the labour situation. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)

This study focuses on the conununication strategies of women principals in secondary schools. It highlights the role of conununication in management by examining the purpose of conununication, communication process, barriers to effective communication and the types of communication, which are verbal and nonverbal communication. The study, further highlights that communication in management may be affected by the differences in communication styles of women and men. It further shows that while differences in communicative styles can be attributed to many factors, socialisation into gender positions is a major factor that leads to gender communication differences. Though socialisation is one of the factors shaping communication of men and women, post-structuralists also argue that children who are socialised are not just passive recipients. During socialisation each person is active in taking up discourses through which she or he is shaped. The socialisation, starts at home, then to school and also the community. Children develop sex-appropriate speech in different communities. A single case study explored the conununication strategies of a woman principal in the Northern Province, South Africa. Reputational sampling was used for the selection of the participants and site. Data gathering was done by means of interviews [with the principal and six teachers], observation and document analysis. Findings suggest that a woman principal's communication is shaped by the context in which she is a woman, mother, wife, African, educational manager and as an individual with her own unique personality. Women managers in rural contexts experience cultural barriers to communication as women are not expected to talk much and should appear to know little in the presence of men. Women are also not supposed to conununicate non-verbally by keeping eye contact, using more space and using facial expression. In this study, a woman manager emerges as a good communicator who overcomes cultural barriers by even practicing what is not traditionally acceptable. The woman principal prefers personal encounters as channels of communication and as an African, she overcomes language barriers by using mother-tongue when speaking with staff and students. In general. this study found that the woman principal preferred human-oriented communication strategies, and endeavoured to conquer cultural barriers to communication. / Educational Leadership and Management / D.Ed. (Educational Management)

The purpose of the research is to explore social workers' listening skills pertaining to listening as communication skill during an experimental social work interview. The research methodology comprised unique application of a social work interview. A sample of five participating social workers was invited to listen to a video recording of a social work interview requesting them to identify information presented by the client through observation and listening by applying a set of predetermined theoretical conversation elements. The participation and involvement of participating social workers during the listening experiment was video recorded for subsequent evaluation. The conclusion reached from research findings indicates that the unique approach adopted by participating social workers' achieved mixed results towards hypothetic assistance offered to the experimental client. The researcher recommends that social workers be developed and trained in the art of maintaining effective listening skills during social work interviews to improve assistance to clients. / Social Work / M. A. (Social Work)