A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations Secretary-General's Opening Remarks to the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine

AlAfnan, Mohammad Awad; Oshchepkova, Tamara

doi:10.11114/smc.v10i2.5662

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“…P. 131) rather than a simple subject of study or a conceptually limited idea. Critical discourse analysis was used in several studies to investigate public speeches (AlAfnan, 2022a, 2022b, AlAfnan & Dishari, 2024 and written documents (AlAfnan & Oshchepkova, 2022). It also investigated several linguistics and pragmatic features (AlAfnan, 2024).…”

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Malaysia’s National Blockchain Roadmap: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Focus, Goals, and Challenges

AlAfnan,

MohdZuki

2024

WJEL

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This Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) study examines Malaysia’s National Blockchain Roadmap 2021-2025, assessing its focus, goals, future development plans, and challenges based on text and context analysis. The study reveals that the roadmap presents a comprehensive strategy aimed at leveraging blockchain technology to drive economic growth, foster innovation, and enhance Malaysia’s competitiveness in the digital age. It emphasizes government adoption, regulatory clarity, industry collaboration, talent development, infrastructure investment, and use case exploration to lay the foundation for Malaysia to emerge as a global leader in blockchain innovation. Through strategic initiatives and partnerships, Malaysia aims to streamline administrative processes, enhance transparency, and optimize resource allocation within public agencies, showcasing its commitment to digital transformation and socioeconomic development. Additionally, the roadmap prioritizes the development of a robust regulatory framework to govern blockchain usage, fostering innovation while ensuring compliance. Industry engagement is underscored with initiatives aimed at catalyzing the development of industry-specific blockchain solutions tailored to address key challenges and opportunities. The roadmap anticipates further development and expansion driven by technological advances, evolving regulatory frameworks, and industry collaboration. Based on the context analysis, the roadmap faces several challenges, including regulatory uncertainty, interoperability issues, resource constraints, lack of trust, intellectual property concerns, and competing priorities. To overcome these challenges, Malaysia needs to advance in technology, regulatory frameworks, industry collaboration, education, talent development, infrastructure investment, and use further case exploration.

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Malaysia’s National Blockchain Roadmap: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Focus, Goals, and Challenges

AlAfnan,

MohdZuki

2024

WJEL

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“…This can be carried out in an ambiguous way by saying something that does not really reflect what the person wants. Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory was used to examine politeness in business writing (AlAfnan, 2014a(AlAfnan, , 2015(AlAfnan, , 2021a, engineering articles (Martinez, 2001), research papers (Getkham, 2014), hedges in medicine (AlAfnan, 2022b, AlAfnan, 2022cFalahati, 2007), university titles (Afful and Akoto, 2010). AlAfnan (2014bAlAfnan ( , 2023 built a theoretical framework to examine workplace emails in an organizational context in Malaysia based on politeness theory.…”

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Positive and Negative Politeness in Nonverbal Communication Contexts: An Examination into Driving Behaviors in Europe

AlAfnan¹,

MohdZuki²

2023

SMC

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This study examines politeness as a nonverbal politic behavior in 29 European countries and territories using Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory. The examination looked into the nonverbal acts of ‘following road signs and speed limit’ and ‘giving signals before changing lanes’ as they reflect (1) negative politeness in the form of avoiding imposition and reducing face-threatening-acts and (2) positive politeness in the form of noticing and appreciating other drivers’ wants and interests to drive without imposition respectively. The examination looked into four variables that are the gender of drivers, age of drivers, level of education of drivers and their country of origin. The study found that European drivers are generally polite and they tend to use the positive politeness act (giving signals) of noticing and appreciating other drivers more often than the negative politeness act (following sigs and speed limits) of reducing imposition and avoiding face-threatening acts. The study also found that the level of education did not play a significant role in the adherence to the driving politic behavior. However, this study found a positive coloration between the age of drivers and their adherence to the driving politic behavior as older drivers follow the driving politic behavior more often than young drivers. This study also found that female drivers in Europe are more polite than male drivers as they notice and appreciate other drivers (positive politeness). This study also revealed that Danish (female), British (male and female), Irish (male), Finish (male), Dutch (male and female), Belgium (female), Austrian (female), Greek (female) and Spanish (male) drivers have the highest frequency of adherence to the driving politic behavior. The study also found that Portuguese male and female, Croatian male and female, Macedonian male and female, Scottish male and female, Albanian male, Norwegian male, Czech male, Austrian female, Romanian male and Swedish female drivers have the lowest frequency of adherence to the driving politic behavior in Europe. The study also found that Cypriot (male), Catalonian (female), French (male and female), German (male and female), Hungarian (male and female), Italian (male and female), Polish (male and female), Russian (male and female), Serbian (male and female), Slovakian (male and female), and Turkish (male and female) drivers’ adherence to driving politic behavior is relatively moderate to high.

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‘I represent a country that wants peace.’ Compassionate leadership in Maia Sandu’s address on the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly

Wawrzyński

2024

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The paper discusses the case study of Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s speech in the general debate during the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2022 in the context of the war in Ukraine. It considers compassionate leadership as a communicative strategy in political crisis management and investigates the congruency between the contents of narrative and nonverbal immediacy as its measure in political communication. The presented study is based on data collected with a content analysis of the address and the automated coding of facial expressiveness with FaceReader 9 (Noldus IT) in the recording of Sandu’s speech. The timeline analysis compared the narrative with the intensity of neutrality, basic emotions, sympathy, pain, attention, emotional arousal, valence, and the RPPG-estimated heart rate, describing displayed emotionality, motivation, and physiological stress. The standardized results suggest increased nonverbal signaling of emotions, oriented towards surprise, considered a substitute expression of compassionate responsiveness, sympathy, and sadness, while violent emotions (anger, disgust, and contempt) were marginalized. Moreover, the analysis provided evidence of the consistent, verbal, and nonverbal presence of core assets of compassionate leadership in Sandu’s address to the UN General Assembly.

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A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations Secretary-General's Opening Remarks to the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Malaysia’s National Blockchain Roadmap: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Focus, Goals, and Challenges

Malaysia’s National Blockchain Roadmap: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Focus, Goals, and Challenges

Positive and Negative Politeness in Nonverbal Communication Contexts: An Examination into Driving Behaviors in Europe

‘I represent a country that wants peace.’ Compassionate leadership in Maia Sandu’s address on the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly

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