Thesis (M.A.)--Liberty University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis is a study of three of the.literary works of Jacques Benoit: Jos Carbone, Les Princes and Gisèle et le serpent. It will be an attempt to combine different spatial elements of the texts, literal and symbolic, in order to define and explore the imaginary universe of our author. In our first text, Jos Carbone, we look to establish the role of the unconscious. The background predominance of night and dark elements, unseen invaders, habitations, in short, the forest in general appears as a metaphor for the unconscious mind of the hero Jos Carbone. In our analysis, we attempt to explore this imaginary universe with intent to establish the theme of the territorial quest as it might apply to the central couple Jos and Myrtie. In our analysis of Benoit's novel, Les Princes, we endeavour to explore the allegorical world with an emphasis on the nonverbal communication of both the topography and the inhabitants of la Ville. We observe the confrontation of men and dogs in an effort to examine the role of what is considered civil or animal, pet or prey. The impotency and frustration of Coquin society coupled with corrupt Grâligean authority evoke the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on social inequality. We shall, therefore, attempt to apply some of his beliefs to imaginary elements of the novel. Finally, we shall examine the unvoiced refutation of the Grâligean's verbal law and the possible future outcome of la Ville's violent upheaval. Gisèle et le serpent will be studied in terms of a creative quest to write on the part of the hero and narrator, Gregoire Rabouin. We will take into account the displacement, transformation and constant motion of the text as well as the combination of fantastic and conventional elements. The role of the protagonist Gisèle is to be examined in terms of her capacity as role model, motivation to write and magical force behind the liberation of the hero's creative drive. We shall show the conflict created by the doctor's frustration with his rational profession and examine the unblocking of his creativity as portrayed by his relinquishing of control. Furthermore, an analysis of the parodies of his occupation, the deformation of language and patients as well as the fairy-tale format of the novel will confirm his desire to renounce medicine in favour of literary creation. Finally, we see the completion of Rabouin's narrative voyage in the discovery of his ability to write. In conclusion we shall state general observations about the imaginary universe as it applies to the comparison of our three texts. Specifically, this will entail the unconscious world, the violent and disruptive element and Benoit's tendency to stray from the rules of standard literary genres. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

A politician on the peak of his career suddenly sees himself in the middle of not one or two, but five different crisis, that demand a fitting response and a well planned crisis management strategy. While focusing on ethos and its development, the following paper analyses the communicative strategies used by Germany's ex-minister of defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. Within his one and a half year tenure he had to handle continuing accusations against policy and character. Guttenberg, who in many eyes was seen as Germany's most popular politician and whose ethos, therefore, prior to the first crisis could be described as strong, is loosing his trustworthiness among the military and other politicians the longer each crisis continues. The purpose of this study is to identify the communicative pattern of Mr. Guttenberg, which in the end lead to his resignation, while his popularity continues to be strong. With theories like Benoits apologia strategies, Bitzers rhetorical situation and Ryans kategoria and apologia speechset, the analysis of articles of the German mass medium ”Bildzeitung”, clearly mirrors Guttenberg’s tendency to react offended to personal accusations. While being able to handle accusations against his policy, this continuing communicative mistake provides an opportunity for his critics.

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Orientador: Edgar Salvadori De Decca / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-31T22:55:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gallo_IvoneCeciliad'Avila_D.pdf: 17430302 bytes, checksum: c5d8c33ad605f3c121b4dfa8fdd25b26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 / Resumo: Na França do século XIX, nasciam um movimento de idéias e um movimento social dotados de novas características. Os pensadores sociais, Saint Simon, Charles Fourier e Cabet introduziam, corno matéria para a reflexão, os problemas sociais, evidenciados por um movimento social que contestava o modelo econômico e político fundado no sistema industrial. O surgimento de uma preocupação com a indigência, o desemprego, a opressão da mulher e da criança, a exploração do trabalhio, bem como a proposição de soluções a estes problemas, foram as contribuições legadas por estes pensadores e que, por outro lado, retomaram para a sociedade, imprimindo ao nascente movimento operário uma marca forte. A idéia de transformar o mundo a partir do estabelecimento de falanstérios, de acordo com os princípios de Charles Fourier, apossara-se de parte do movimento operário e, em pouco tempo, assistia-se à emigração de operários franceses rumo às Américas, com o fim de implantar colônias societárias. O assunto desta tese é o movimento fourierista na França e a fundação de um falanstério no Saí (SC), em 1840, como primeira experiência das idéias de Fourier realizada fora do continente europeu. Deste ensaio teria brotado, no Rio de Janeiro, um movimento fourierista brasileiro, ainda que de pouco alcance / Abstract: In nineteenth-century France, a current of ideas and a social movement bearing new features were bom. Social theorists, such as Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier and Etienne Cabet, introduced as matter for reflection social problems, brought to evidence by a social movement, which contested the economic and polítical model founded in the industrial system. The rising of concern with the outcasts, unemployment, oppression on women and children, labor exploitation, but also with the proposal of solutions for these problems were the contributions legated by these social theorists, that in the other hand, returned to society, establishing a strong brand on the early labor movement. The idea of world transformation through the establishment of phalansteries, according to the principles of Charles Fourier, gained a part of the labor movement, and, shortly afier, French workers emigrated to the Americas, with the aim of creating societarian colonies. The subject of this thesis is the Fourierist movement in France and the foundation in 1840 of a phalanstery at Saí (Province of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil), as the first experiment of Fourier's ideas out of continental Europe. Out of this essay rose, at Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian Fourierist movement, that nevertheless attained a limited influence / Doutorado / Doutor em História

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This thesis investigates how the sports retailer XXL All sports united communicated throughtheir three crises during 2019. Considering that the crises were of different natures XXL isespecially interesting due to the possibility of comparing how different crises are handled.Within the field of crisis communication we have examined the material on the theoreticalbasis of Sturges, Benoit and Coombs & Holladay. This has been done through text analysis ofXXL:s Facebook posts and comments, statements in the press and press releases. Throughthis we were able to determine what kind of strategies were used and how they controlled theflow of information. The results indicate that crisis communication within XXL is notadjusted on what kind of crisis they are facing but rather adjusted by whether the companyconsider themselves guilty to the claimed offense or not.

« Les quelques propos d'Hilaire Benoit déjà recueillis sous forme d'entrevues éclairent sur le contexte qui favorisa son contact avec le roman de Montépin et sur le cheminement du récit que cette lecture engendra chez le conteur. Ces renseignements permettent pour le moment d'aborder l'étude de ce cas à partir de trois aspects fondamentaux. Tout d'abord, il faut supposer une tradition ou, du moins, des habitudes de lecture dans une culture presqu'essentiellement orale: de quelles façons se concrétisait alors cet intérêt vis-à-vis du fait écrit? et quel réseau de transmission impliquait-il? Il y a ensuite chez Hilaire l'éveil d'un intérêt pour un livre en particulier qui appellera un certain nombre de relectures: quels furent alors les critères de ce choix, conscient ou non, d'une histoire parmi d'autres? Puis, troisième et dernier aspect, c'est la vie de cette oeuvre écrite devenue orale: comment se déploya-t-elle en une suite de narrations? quels furent ses différents contextes de production? et quelle place le conteur lui réserva-t-il dans son univers imaginaire déjà fortement imprégné d'une vaste répertoire de source orale? La première étape d'un tel projet se devait de consister en une démarche d'édition critique et en une recherche de méthodes de macro-comparaison permettant une approche globale de la matière même du problème ainsi posé, soit le couple "affilié" que forment le roman écrit de Xavier de Montépin et la version orale d'Hilaire Benoit rendue disponible par l'enquête. Le texte qui va suivre devrait permettre cette approche globale du sujet, et fournir l'explication détaillée des éléments de méthode utilisés jusqu'à maintenant, tout en fournissant au lecteur les moyens méthodologiques de la reprendre sur une autre matière. Après une brève présentation de l'oeuvre écrite et de son auteur, nous verrons dans quelles circonstances s'est effectué le passage de la fiction dans le répertoire du conteur. Ensuite, par l'approche globale de l'univers du Médecin des pauvres, nous nous arrêterons aux notions de "narration" et d'"histoire" et tenterons de voir comment en saisir le rapport de la source à la version. En dernière partie, apparaîtra le texte complet de la transcription de la version orale, à laquelle auront été juxtaposés par moments des extraits correspondants de la source écrite. »--Pages 4-5

SYFTE Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur föreningen Stockholm Pride kommunicerade efter pridefestivalen 2011. Festivalen gjorde ekonomisk förlust och föreningen kunde inte betala alla sina räkningar. (Enligt årsbokslutet gick man back med 3,9 miljoner kronor.) Man kan tänka sig att en sådan situation hotar förtroendet för Stockholm Pride hos festivalens besökare, volontärer, sponsorer, artister, olika aktörer och intressenter. Frågan hur man försöker återvinna förtroendet blir intressant. Hur kommunicerar Stockholm Pride? Hur försöker Stockholm Pride återskapa förtroende? TEORI Att återskapa förtroende är centralt för en organisation i kris. Trovärdighet, ethos, är kopplat till retorik och kan kommuniceras. Teorier om förtroende, kriskommunikation, försvarstal, försvarsstrategier och retorik används. METOD Fyra meddelanden publicerade på Stockholm Prides hemsida analyseras med image repair theory, en typologi om försvarsstrategier som grundar sig på den antika retoriken. Typologin undersöker hur en organisation försöker återskapa förtroende i en kris. RESULTAT Stockholm Pride gör ett på flera sätt välgjort försvarstal och agerar i enlighet med forskares rekommendationer: man går själv ut med information om situationen, bemöter medial kritik och intygar att man ska göra allt man kan för att ställa situationen tillrätta. Kanske undviker man en kris tack vare sin kommunikation. Dock kommunicerar inte organisationen med enad front och tar inte på sig skulden. Man ber inte om ursäkt utan att i samma veva försvara sig. Man framställer sig som ansvarig men oskyldig och skickar därmed dubbla budskap. Stockholm Pride gör inte en så kallad pudel.

In December 22, 2010, the hockey clubs AIK and Djurgården played against each other in front of an audience of more than 11 000 people in Ericsson Globe Arena, Stockholm. Although it was one of the biggest games of the year, afterwards no one was talking about the actual game on the ice. The reason; several times during the game, hooligans from both sides started big quarrels and the hockey dome felt more like a war scene than a place for a hockey game. From a branding point of view, and along with similar incidents from the past, the night in December did not create a good situation for AIK and their image.   Therefore, in this essay I want to investigate how AIK communicated through the crisis. I also want to evaluate whether their communication was good or bad from the perspective of different crisis communication theories. The essay’s research questions are: How did media describe the crisis and AIK´s part in it? What effect did AIK´s previous history of similar problem have on the ongoing crisis? How did AIK communicate through the crisis? How was AIK´s image affected by the crisis? What did AIK do well/what could AIK have done better? To be able to answer these questions, several news articles from the sports paper “Hockeyexpressen” has been analyzed as well as a text from AIK itself. The answers from the analysis has then been weighed against Hearit´s and Benoit´s theories on apologia as well as Coombs theory on the impact from previous crisis. An important conclusion is that AIK protects its image during the crisis by using the strategy “shifting the blame”. AIK also redefines the picture of a true supporter by questioning the acts of some of their so called “fans”. AIK´s redefinition also serve to correct the news papers misleading use of different epithets on the same category of people. However, although their image stays more or less intact AIK fail to communicate the need of a broader responsibility from the society when it comes to the problems caused by sports related hooliganism.