Leadership is a broad topic that can be studied from a vast amount of angles and perspectives. The same fact is true for communication. This study combines these two concepts as it directs attention towards discursive analysis of business leaders. With this focus, the purpose is to describe the essence of rhetoric as an essential part of business communication, analyze how business leaders perform leadership through communication and to contribute to further understanding of this subject, by explaining the communication of business leaders through rhetorical analysis. To reach as far as possible within this research a theoretical framework, that will be the support for the analysis, is established as a basis on which an analysis is possible. This framework reviews the important concepts that are essential for understanding the means of the following rhetorical analysis. To analyze the textual communication of business leaders extracted from real life cases, narratives from situations where leadership is practiced have been selected based on certain criteria. The findings of this study are in unity with the direction in which this research aims. The way business leaders communicate in situations where leadership is practiced have an immense impact on how they are perceived as leaders. Therefore it is argued that business leaders should put more emphasis on increasing their understanding of how they are perceived by others, based on the way they communicate through verbal communication.

Orientador: Sirio Possenti / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T16:28:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_Heliode_M.pdf: 5085462 bytes, checksum: 82cdc956cffc2b5bab40a8bffe5e9f51 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta dissertação analisa as ocorrências do sintagma "educação a distância" e suas variantes no universo discursivo brasileiro contemporâneo, num recorte temporal de 2001 até 2011. Para tanto, embasa-se na noção de fórmula conforme proposta por Alice Krieg-Planque (2003, 2008, 2010, 2011), cujos trabalhos se inserem na Análise do Discurso de orientação francesa. O corpus, organizado a partir das ocorrências do sintagma citado, é constituído por textos de diferentes gêneros: artigos na área de educação, gêneros da mídia impressa, mídia online, mídia televisiva e também documentos oficiais do MEC - Ministério da Educação. A primeira questão diz respeito ao estatuto de "educação a distância" tendo em vista as quatro propriedades constitutivas da fórmula, a saber, funcionar como um referente social, inscrever-se numa dimensão discursiva, ter um caráter cristalizado e ser objeto de polêmica. O objetivo é analisar em que medida "educação a distância" funciona como um "lugar" privilegiado para "compreender a forma como os diversos atores sociais organizam, por meio dos discursos, as relações de poder e de opinião" (Krieg-Planque, 2010, p. 09), ao mesmo tempo em que participa de (e constitui) um processo de aceitabilidade social das modalidades de ensino não-presenciais. A principal conclusão é que está em curso uma mudança nos sentidos de "educação a distância", observável nas reformulações do sintagma. Indícios dessa mudança foram localizados por meio de uma análise diacrônica que parte de conotações negativas relacionadas à ocorrência de "teleducação", passando pela forma "educação a distância" e chegando à atualidade como "educação online/virtual". Além disso, as reformulações acontecem em meio a uma intensa polêmica, indicativa da relação interdiscursiva e da gênese de um discurso próprio de uma suposta nova forma de ensinar e aprender / Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the occurrences of the syntagma "distance education" and its variants in Brazilian contemporary discursive universe, in a time frame from 2001 to 2011. To do so, it's based on the notion of "formula" as proposed by Alice Krieg-Planque (2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012), whose works are included in French Discourse Analysis. The corpus, organized from the circulation of the mentioned syntagma, consists of texts from different genres: articles on education, print media (newspapers and magazines), online media (websites, blogs and others), TV media and also official documents of MEC - Ministry of Education. The first question concerns to the status of "distance education" as a discursive formula, considering the four constitutive features of the formula: to be a social referent, to have a crystallized character, to have a discursive dimension, and to be object of polemics. The main goal is to analyze how "distance education" can become a "special place to understand how the various social actors organize, through the discourses, relations of power and opinion" (Krieg-Planque, 2010, p. 09) and, at the same time, how it can take part in a process of social acceptability of distance teaching/learning. The main conclusion indicates it is in course a change in the meaning of "distance education", observable in the reformulations of syntagma. Evidence of this change can be seen in a diachronic analysis from the negative connotations related to the occurrence of "teleducation", going by the form "distance education" and coming to nowadays as "online education" and "virtual education". Besides, the reformulations take place among an intense controversy, indicative of the interdiscursive relation and the genesis of the new teaching and learning practices' discourse / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

Abstract The research study discussed in this doctoral dissertation illuminates the interpretative repertoires used by teachers when describing collaborative team work. The focus of the study has been guided by an interest to investigate the ways in which teachers interpret and conceptualise their team work experiences. The topicality of the study is related to current conflicts found between the importance of professional collaboration in todays schools and the challenges of productive teacher collaboration. The theoretical framework of this study approaches teacher team work from three dimensions, namely from the viewpoint of current changes in educational policy, the working culture of teachers, and from the viewpoint of productive teacher collaboration. In this research study, teacher team work is defined as a process during which teachers work together as a team in order to plan, carry out and reflect on their classroom practise. The methodological basis of this research study is based on the social constructionist theory of discourse. This approach has been applied in order to identify what kind of discursive repertoires teachers use when describing collaboration in their team. Repertoires are seen as culturally and socially constructed discourses that specify the possibilities of relevant interpretation in a particular social organisation. The interpretation of repertoires involves the investigation of functions, contexts and dynamics of teachers verbal language. The main goal of the analysis is to clarify and model the complexities of teacher collaboration. Five interpretative repertoires defining teacher team work were identified in the empirical data of this study. These are defined as collegial, practical, group, organisational and hurry repertoires. These repertoires describe the main contents of teachers collaboration of which construction appears to be based on the dynamics between and within them. A joint feature across the repertoires seems to be in an orientation towards an interpretative conflict between restricting and progressive reasons. The different repertoires and their dynamics form an interpretative model of teacher team work through which the teachers interpretations on team work can be evaluated. The challenges of teacher collaboration appear to arise from a disintegration of teacher goals and incentives during team work. Critical incidents of teacher team work seem to be found in collaborative problem solving situations during which cultural assumptions and the meaning of reform efforts are often evaluated. Discrepancies between the teachers interpretative repertoires lead easily to narrow and restricted solutions that can be in conflict with the reform efforts linked to teacher team work. Furthermore, the discrepancies in repertoires appear to strengthen group dynamics that orient towards restricted teacher collaboration. The conflicts in repertoires appear to increase the need to emphasise alikeness, unity and stability among teachers, despite the fact that the potential of team work is usually found in distributed expertise, the construction of global views and in creative learning. This research study suggests that teacher team work is best supported by activating teachers to create joint conditions and possibilities for collaboration. On the basis of this study, positive results in teacher team work are related to teachers active role in solving emerging conflicts and to the adjustment of strong oppositions in teachers targets for collaboration. The lack of community structures in teachers profession and the tendency towards contradiction appear to support dynamics that effectively restrict teacher collaboration. The theoretical model build in this research study on teachers interpretative repertoires of team work serves a good starting point to develop and support teacher collaboration efforts in future studies.

Scuba diving has been around for years and has its origins in history many centuries ago. It has been widely explored and researched as a subject of scientific, medical, and recreational interest. More recently, with the development of sport psychology, it has become the focus of a few social scientists. This research is intended on making a contribution not only to such research in the field of sport psychology and scuba diving, but also that of discursive psychology. This study was executed from a discursive position, using ideas and methods from discursive analysis and applying them to the concept of diving safety. An attempt was made to view discourse as talk, and as such analyze talk as that what is being said. While most research on diving safety focus on how panic and fear are inner entities that drive behaviour leading to accidents, injury and death, this research wanted to look at those inner states as ways of talk and how they are interactionally constructed in talk. The context within which the diving course took place can be divided into three contexts, namely the classroom, the pool and the open water environment. Research was conducted within in the classroom and pool environment, and data consisted of voice recordings of natural conversations in the training context. This research wants to offer alternative explanations in psychology and sport, through explicating what subjects are saying, relating their talk to their situations and actions, and showing how specific situations incite certain types of talk. In conclusion, this was not only a study using naturalistic conversations, but also a study of conversations. / Dissertation (MA (Counselling Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Psychology / unrestricted

This thesis explores how UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security and its ensuing National Action Plans for gender equality inform justifications of international intervention. I ask the following questions: how does Resolution 1325 and its ensuing National Action Plans for gender equality construct subjectivities of gender? How have states appropriated these gendered subjectivities in the legitimation of conflict? I review feminist, postcolonial, and poststructuralist literatures to argue that Resolution 1325 is aligned with broader United Nations governmental strategies for framing and justifying international intervention. Resolution 1325 produces dualistic subjectivities of gender, where women are constructed either as victims or as empowered, albeit within the limits deemed acceptable in masculinized contexts. I analyze the case of German National Action Plans for gender equality and the official policy texts related to its intervention in Afghanistan. I demonstrate that the foreign policy of a seemingly progressive state embraces Resolution 1325's dualistic subjectifications of women in conflict to construct logics that legitimize the Afghan intervention. My study findings show that Germany discursively constructs women and gender equality in accordance with the UN's guidelines and its good governance framework, which do not challenge existing structures of masculinity. In addition, they function as a means through which Germany legitimizes neoliberal and neocolonial policies as acceptable, ultimately failing to challenge the international war system. / Master of Arts / This thesis analyzes UN Security Council Resolution 1325's influence on the development of German gender equality policy and German foreign policy towards intervention in Afghanistan. I ask how the visions of gender produced in Resolution 1325, which primarily frame women as victims or only as empowered, inform the approach of Germany to Afghanistan. I find that German gender equality policy and policy towards Afghanistan are heavily influenced by the UN's framing of gender, as these ideas allow for Germany to justify its role in Afghanistan as a means to empower women further or save them from victimization. This allows Germany to maintain its role as a progressive humanitarian state by aligning its justification for the mission with the UN's broad objectives. However, doing so sets a dangerous precedent by legitimating intervention so long as it fits within the confines of the UN's notion of acceptability. Ultimately, my work shows that gender and attention to women functions to "clean" the German intervention in Afghanistan and portray it as progressive in accordance with the UN's values despite the inherent militarism of the intervention.

Today it is common to state that we are living in an information overloaded society. But there are many different definitions of what can be said to constitute Information Overload and there is a lack of substantial research on the subject. Conclusions in the available literature on Information Overload are often drawn on anecdotal evidence and carries a dramatized picture of the causes and effects of the phenomenon. With the tools of discursive analysis this two years master’s thesis explores how the phenomenon Information Overload is portrayed in six popular science books that deals with the subject: Alvin Toffler (1970) Future Shock, Orrin Klapp (1986) Overload and Boredom, Richard Wurman (1989) Information Anixety, Andrew Keen (2007) The cult of the amateur, Maggie Jackson (2008), Distracted and Nicholas Carr (2010) The Shallows. The result of the analysis shows that there is a common discourse of how the subject of Information Overload is represented, which stretches in and between the books intertextually. In this study that discourse is called the dystopian discourse of Information Overload. It is structured by a unified use of narratives, concepts, themes, metaphors and statements and by its separation from the opposite utopian discourse of Information Overload. In the final discussion the results of the analysis are compared to postmodern theory, a problematisation of the concept of distraction and to the Swedish government’s 2012 investigation of reading habits of young people in the country. The conclusion of the study is that the two binary discourses discovered in the analysis – the dystopian and the utopian – should be avoided in the debate and research on Information Overload. Instead the discussion should be influenced by pluralism, complexity and awareness.

Att penisen inte haft en betydande roll inom den socialpsykologiska forskningen rörande mäns identitetsskapande, samtidigt som manskroppen blivit en tydligare fokuspunkt i media och samhället de senaste åren, är utgångspunkten för denna studie. En studie som syftar till att se hur män konstruerar sin identitet utifrån sin kropp. I denna studie antogs ett diskursanalytiskt angreppssätt för att söka svar på hur män i åldern 20-30 år konstruerar sin identitet utifrån sin kropp med ett särskilt fokus på penisen och dess inverkan. Det utfördes åtta stycken semistrukturerade intervjuer, som transkriberades och kodades i programmet Nvivo. Utsagorna analyserades utifrån valda delar av olika diskursanalytiska angreppssätt och även Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv och hans teori om stigma, samt Butlers performativa idé om kön och Connells teori om hegemonisk maskulinitet. Analysen visade att männen i studien konstruerade sin identitet i förhållande till de upplevda rådande samhällsidealen. Samtliga av männen talade om vikten av att vara vältränad, ett kroppsligt tillstånd som ansågs högst eftersträvansvärt. Männen använde sig av olika diskursiva resurser när de talade om kroppen och när de talade om penisen. Penisens betydelse konstruerades utifrån dess funktion, och det var vid väldigt få sociala interaktioner som penisen hade en central roll för den uppvisade identiteten. / The fact that the penis haven’t had a central role in the social psychological field in aspect to men’s identity, although the male body has gotten more attention in media and the society as a whole, is the starting point for this study. We wanted to find out how Swedish males in the age of 20-30 years constructed their identities from their bodies and penises. The eight interviews that were conducted in a semi-structural way were analyzed by using parts of three different discursive analysis approaches, and also in aspect to Goffmans dramaturgical perspective and his theory about stigma, as well as Butlers performative idea about gender and Connells theory concerning the hegemonic masculinity. The analysis showed that the men constructed their identities in regards to what they thought was the prevailing ideals in society regarding the male body. All of the men talked about the importance of being fit, a bodily condition they strived to gain. The men used different discursive resources in their talk about the body and in their talk about the penis. Function was the main theme when it came to the penis and what it was used for, and it was in very few social interactions that the penis had a central role in the construction of the men’s identity.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-04-06T18:34:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Edi Luiza Bacco.pdf: 4477481 bytes, checksum: 53f2adb5ff7f1713ff7de4933934ea73 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-06T18:34:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edi Luiza Bacco.pdf: 4477481 bytes, checksum: 53f2adb5ff7f1713ff7de4933934ea73 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-09-29 / The sustainability culture has increasingly standing out in organizations, whether with relevant projects or just as constructed speeches in order to add value to their image. The specialized media is responsible for disclosing these companies’ actions. The goal of this study is investigate the sustainability ethos constitution on Guia Exame, from Editora Abril, mainly in the evidences that can indicate pedagogical, doctrinal and authoritarian speeches. The question that frameworks this research is: Which kind of sustainable company model the publication suggests/impose? It seeks to evaluate if the sustainability notion was reassigned on Guia Exame since its launch in 2000. We mobilized theoretical and methodological devices from Discursive Analysis (PÊCHEUX and ORLANDI), focused on the ethos identification and scenography (MAINGUENEAU). Starting from a protocol, it was adopted and pattern to analyze the corpus: covers and reading letters of 15 editions. The publication analyses revealed the conductor ethos, the one that guides the reader, as a didactic and authoritarian teacher. It was also verified, that in the meanings circulation, these 15 years of the guide, an updated on the sustainability concept. This redefinition embodies meanings in historical and social context, making the sustainability notion increasingly more extensive. / A cultura da sustentabilidade vem ganhando destaque cada vez maior nas organizações, seja com projetos relevantes ou apenas como discursos construídos no sentido de agregar valor à imagem. A mídia especializada é responsável pela divulgação das ações dessas empresas. A proposta deste estudo é investigar a constituição do ethos de sustentabilidade do Guia Exame, da Editora Abril, sobretudo as evidências que podem indicar discursos pedagógicos, doutrinários e autoritários. A pergunta que alavanca a pesquisa é a seguinte: que tipo de modelo de empresa sustentável a publicação sugere/impõe? Busca-se avaliar se a noção de sustentabilidade foi ressignificada no Guia Exame desde o seu lançamento no ano 2000. Mobilizamos os dispositivos teóricos e metodológicos da Análise de Discurso (PÊCHEUX e ORLANDI), focados na identificação do ethos e cenografia (MAINGUENEAU). A partir de um protocolo, adotou-se um padrão para analisar o corpus: as capas e as Cartas ao Leitor de 15 edições. As análises da publicação revelaram o ethos de condutor, aquele que guia o leitor, como um professor didático e autoritário. Constatou-se também, que na circulação dos sentidos, nestes 15 anos do Guia, ocorreu uma atualização do significado da noção de sustentabilidade. Essa ressignificação, incorpora sentidos do contexto histórico e social tornando a noção de sustentabilidade cada vez mais abrangente.

The gradual disappearance of the so-called ‘alt-right’, caused in part by the gradual deplatforming of its figureheads has created somewhat of a power vacuum, allowing for a new generation of far-right influencers to take over. The Groyper movement, led by 23-year-old Nicholas J. Fuentes, could in this sense be described as one of the successors of the alt-right. The Groypers are youth-led and youth-oriented, insofar as their primary aim is to radicalize – or ‘red pill’ – Generation Z, a strategy outlined both in their speech and their use of social media platforms primarily used by young people, with TikTok being the most notable example. Despite the movement’s relative infancy, it could easily be described as one of the fastest growing far right group in the modern era – in large part due to the perfect storm created by the COVID-19 lockdowns and the Black Lives Matter protests – and has recently begun to spawn culturally distinct offshoots outside of the United States into countries like Canada. This thesis will therefore examine the discursive practices of the Canadian ‘branch’ of the Groyper movement on TikTok in order to identify some of the tactics it uses to facilitate the radicalization of teenagers and young adults by drawing on Ruth Wodak’s Discourse-Historical framework. The findings of this project add to a growing body of research regarding youth-oriented far-right movements, the use TikTok for propaganda purposes, and the broader literature of discourse analysis.

Cette recherche étudie les processus psychopathologiques associés aux comportements se référant au Body Art. Ce travail est centré sur l'approche de pratiques relevant de la modification corporelle (piercing, tatouage, scarification, stretch) et de la pratique de performances (séance de tatouage de plusieurs heures, suspension, play piercing et performance artistique). La méthodologie mixte est axée sur l'évaluation quantitative de variables symptomatologiques, de personnalité, émotionnelles et de variables associées à la dimension « corporelle » au sein d'une population de sujets adultes pratiquant ou non la modification corporelle et/ou la performance. L'évaluation qualitative étudie les productions discursives des individus à travers l'analyse de la structure grammaticale du discours et les thématiques qu'ils abordent. / This research examines psychopathological processes associated with behaviors referring to the Body Art. This work deals with body modification practices (piercing, tattooing, scarification, stretch) and performance (several hours tattoo sessions, suspension, play piercing and artistic performance). The methodology consists on both quantitative and qualitative study. Quantitative evaluation focuses on variables of symptomatology, personality, emotional and variables associated with "body" dimension in a population of adult body artists and non-practicing. Qualitative evaluation examines discursive productions through the analysis of the grammatical structure of the speech and associated topics.