Textual Interaction

Hoey, Michael

doi:10.4324/9780203351093

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“…At the textual level, these discourse characteristics can be analyzed by examining how certain meanings are produced and for what purpose (Wood and Kroger, 2000;Hoey, 2000). Of particular interest are (competing) storylines and narratives, through which the smart city is (re-)presented in particular ways.…”

Section: A Global Discourse Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

Joss¹,

Sengers

Schraven³

et al. 2019

Journal of Urban Technology

276

169

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Despite its growing ubiquitous presence, the smart city continues to struggle for definitional clarity and practical import. In response, this study interrogates the smart city as global discourse network by examining a collection of key texts associated with cities worldwide. Using a list of 5,553 cities, a systematic webometric exercise was conducted to measure hit counts produced by searching for "smart city." Consequently, 27 cities with the highest validated hit counts were selected. Next, 346 online texts were collected from among the top 20 hits across each of the selected cities, and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively using AntConc software. The findings confirm, first, the presence of a strong globalizing narrative which emphasizes world cities as "best practice" models. Second, they reveal the smart city's association-beyond the quest for incremental, technical improvements of current urban systems and processes-with a pronounced transformative governance agenda. The article identifies five critical junctures at the heart of the evolving smart city discourse regime; these shed light on the ongoing boundary work in which the smart city is engaged and which contain significant unresolved tensions. The paper concludes with a discussion of resulting implications for research, policy, and practice.

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Section: A Global Discourse Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

Joss¹,

Sengers

Schraven³

et al. 2019

Journal of Urban Technology

276

169

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“…University websites, like other institutional websites, can best be characterized as discourse colonies, using a term first defined by Hoey (1984Hoey ( , 2001cf. Tárnyiková 2002, Tomášková 2011a, Dontcheva-Navratilova 2006, i.e.…”

Section: Generic Features Of University Web Presentationsmentioning

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A walk through the multimodal landscape of university websites

Tomášková¹

2015

BSE

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The study provides an insight into the ways in which universities employ multimodal elements to advertise the academic experience, research-informed teaching and research results, thus attracting prospective students. Anchored in the methodology of genre analysis and multimodal discourse analysis related to Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, the research focuses on the contribution of images -photographs and pictures -to the ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings conveyed by the websites to prospective students. The corpus analysed includes the home pages and prospective students' web pages of British, North American and Czech university websites. The corpus design not only provides material for a case study of this web genre, but also enables a cross-cultural comparison to be made. The contrastive analysis revealed significant differences both in the form and the function of images between the British/American and the Czech sub-corpora suggesting the relevance of the social and cultural contexts for the realization and the establishment of genres. The development of web genres also seems to be significantly shaped by the progress of internet technologies and their growing affordances.

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“…The text, 'Introducing the Indomitables pack', is a fragmented clause. Some of the linguistic structures are deleted to achieve persuasion (Hoey, 2000;Carter & Nash, 2013). The clause has a Material Process, 'Introducing', which makes the communication to sound in a polite way.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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<b>Euphemism: The commonplace of advertising culture

Dalamu

2018

Acta Sci. Lang. Cult.

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Politeness is a concern and necessity in advertising because of sensitization goals to be achieved in the midst of cultural, legal and competitive challenges. Thus, this study examined the utilization of euphemistic devices that facilitate mild persuasion in advertisements. Ten advertisements served as the data of investigation. The theoretical explication rested on Barthesian denotative and connotative annotations and Halliday's transitivity concepts. The study revealed concealments in forms of the socio-cultural affiliation and association (solo), domination (power, the Hero), distinction (made of more), and superiority (Indomitables). Also, personification and personalization (bigger boy; your world), self-worth (greatness), borrowing (Naija), and transfer of professional meaning (credit card) functioned as replacements for seemingly inappropriate lexicons. Advertisers hide behind the metaphor (a taste of black), discrimination (choose greatness), and comparison (more, bigger) to expedite recipients' response. Therefore, as euphemisms are everyone's linguistic behavior, the study suggested that their analyses and applications need to follow a similar course. That might assist language users to curb communication crises.

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Textual Interaction

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The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

The Smart City as Global Discourse: Storylines and Critical Junctures across 27 Cities

A walk through the multimodal landscape of university websites

<b>Euphemism: The commonplace of advertising culture

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