‘Sustainability’ and the performing arts: Discourse analytic evidence from Australia

Power, Kate

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101580

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“…This study featured a bottom-up investigation of keywords in the AEHOO; this differs from top-down analysis, which requires a priori assumptions about a discourse's lexical components [30]. In our bottom-up analysis, we performed corpus-assisted discourse study, which involves comparing a corpus to a reference corpus to highlight relevant terms [31].…”

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“…Just finished a zoom call with our ten beacon councils and new advisory group who will be leading the way in the battle against #Covid19 at a local level. #WhackTheMole £300 million additional funding for local authorities to support new test and trace (30). Funding charities and helping those most affected by lockdown -BEAT helping YP eating disorders/bereavement/Every Mind Matters.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Crises information dissemination through social media in the UK and Saudi Arabia: A linguistic perspective

Alhedayani

Alkhammash

2023

PLoS ONE

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This study investigates health-promoting messages in British and Saudi officials’ social-media discourse during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic. Taking discourse as a constructivist conception, we examined the crisis-response strategies employed by these officials on social media, and the role of such strategies in promoting healthy behaviors and compliance with health regulations. The study presents a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the tweets of a Saudi health official and a British health official that focuses on keyness, speech acts, and metaphor. We found that both officials utilized clear communication and persuasive rhetorical tactics to convey the procedures suggested by the World Health Organization. However, there were some differences in how the two officials used speech acts and metaphors to achieve their goals. The British official used empathy as the primary communication strategy, while the Saudi official emphasized health literacy. The British official also used conflict-based metaphors such as war and gaming, whereas the Saudi official used metaphors that reflected life as a journey interrupted by the pandemic. Despite these differences, both officials utilized directive speech acts to tell audiences the procedures they should follow to achieve the desired conclusion of healing patients and ending the pandemic. In addition, rhetorical questions and assertions were used to direct people to perform certain behaviors favored. Interestingly, the discourse used by both officials contained characteristics of both health communication and political discourse. War metaphors, which were utilized by the British Health official, are a common feature in political discourse as well as in health-care discourse. Overall, this study highlights the importance of effective communication strategies in promoting healthy behaviors and compliance with health regulations during a pandemic. By analyzing the discourse of health officials on social media, we can gain insights into the strategies employed to manage a crisis and effectively communicate with the public.

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Crises information dissemination through social media in the UK and Saudi Arabia: A linguistic perspective

Alhedayani

Alkhammash

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…Since The Saudi Vision 2030 is constructed officially as a sustainable vision [1], it is only convenient to examine how the concept of sustainability is localised and contextualised in KFUI. For illustration, sustainability can be based on four pillars: environmental, economic, social and cultural [28][29][30]. Nevertheless, the analysis reveals that while KFUI specifies its branding within environmental domains, connections to other discourses, which signify economic veins, are also prominent.…”

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Institutional Branding in Higher Education

Almaghlouth¹

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS 2022)

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This paper presents a corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) attempting to offer a linguistic analysis of the official King Faisal University Identity (KFUI) focusing on environmental sustainability and food security. To this end, it utilizes two tools of linguistic investigation, agency and interdisciplinarity, to offer an understanding of how this Saudi university is self-constructed in such a document and what implications such construction entails. The analysis reveals that KFU brands itself as a research-and investment-inviting academic institution with an interdisciplinary take on environmental sustainability. Such take signifies its connections to discourses on economy and technology, along with its commitment to prospective measures to be taken in light of KFUI.

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Philanthropy patterns in major Australian performing arts organizations

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Taking a management perspective in the field of philanthropy, this study examines 12 Australian major performing arts organizations over 19 years (2000–2018), which were identified as vulnerable and struggling with overreliance on public grants. Underpinned by theories that integrate understandings of external and internal resource management—resource dependence theory and the resource-based view—we uncover insights into what drives the increase in their philanthropic income. Using data from 228 annual reports and interviews, we present an original taxonomy that identifies organization-donor relationships and organizational efforts in nurturing philanthropy. We uncovered the interplays between donor engagement and positioning philanthropic staff in terms of organizational structure. Longitudinal financial and narrative data demonstrate that external resource management through donor engagement and internal resource management through organization structure emphasizing philanthropy have a significant impact on the growth of organizational philanthropic income.

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‘Sustainability’ and the performing arts: Discourse analytic evidence from Australia

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Crises information dissemination through social media in the UK and Saudi Arabia: A linguistic perspective

Crises information dissemination through social media in the UK and Saudi Arabia: A linguistic perspective

Institutional Branding in Higher Education

Philanthropy patterns in major Australian performing arts organizations

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