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This essay, adapted from a conference keynote speech given at the time of the coronation of King Charles III, examines the impact of monarchy on the Cultural Parent of the United Kingdom. The author suggests that monarchy invites deadening and powerful injunctions, such as Don't Lead and Don't be Powerful, and a driver message of "Know your place." These ideas are further developed, examining the impact of capitalism on all people: the pressures to give up hope, to "other" people, and to give away our physis. The author uses models of analysis developed by Drego to confront the Cultural Parent of 21st century neoliberal capitalism and suggests actions transactional analysts might take to combat the nihilism that capitalism and monarchy might evoke in our community of practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Learning to understand and speak a new language can be challenging and discouraging for adults. One potential tool for improving learning is transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS), which modulates perception, memory, and attention systems. It has recently been reported that taVNS can improve English speakers' ability to perceive unfamiliar Mandarin tones. The current project explored the potential benefits of taVNS for language learning beyond tone perception. Methods: We studied adults' ability to perceive and produce unfamiliar speech sounds as well as any potential change in language learningmotivation frompre- to post-training. Forty-five native English speakers were divided into three groups and were trained to perceive German sounds: one group received stimulation during easier-to-learn sounds (vowels), one group received stimulation during harder-to-learn sounds (fricatives), and a control group received no stimulation. Results and discussion: We did not find evidence that taVNS improved perception or production of the German sounds, but there was evidence that it did improve some aspects of motivation. Specifically, the group that received taVNS during easier sounds showed a significant decrease in feelings of tension/pressure about language learning, while the other groups did not. Overall, the present study does not find that taVNS holds benefits for the acquisition of new speech sounds; however, the field is nascent, and so the potential applications of taVNS for language learning remain to be clarified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on celebrating Chief Judge William Holcombe Pryor Jr.'s scholarly approach to his judicial career, emphasizing his engagement in teaching, publishing in law reviews, and contributing to legal discourse through speeches and panel moderations. It highlights his early academic achievements and, his foundational role in establishing a student chapter of the Federalist Society, and his subsequent diverse legal career before joining the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

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This study explores communication strategies and techniques in the political discourse of the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, during crisis. Twelve public speeches and statements made during media conferences, from April 2019 to May 2020, are analysed as sample data. These consist of three contexts, starting from the election campaign, followed by the bushfires that ravaged the nation and the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. The study identifies the prominent themes and most frequently occurring features in the data set. The election campaign communications and COVID-19 crisis communications are observed to have similar use of discourse features and emphasis of themes. Comparatively, the bushfire crisis communications showed low levels of technique usage and a low significance of themes. The speeches are grouped into four political discourse clusters for further analysis using actantial modelling. The models provide a visual representation of various actants to draw comparative insights. The study highlights that communication needs to be viewed as a discursive activity that can have variations to the contexts, and the need to attribute sufficient significance for public issues using discourse features is critical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 4th China-Pakistan Medical Conference took place in Shanghai from June 28 to 30, 2024, and was considered a success. The conference brought together medical professionals from both countries to exchange knowledge and best practices in healthcare. The conference included discussions, presentations, and workshops covering various medical topics, providing an opportunity for professionals to learn from each other and enhance their skills. The event emphasized the importance of international cooperation in advancing healthcare initiatives and fostering strong professional relationships between China and Pakistan. The conference was seen as a significant milestone in promoting goodwill and cooperation between the medical communities of both countries. [Extracted from the article]

This research paper investigates the use of politeness strategies in the speeches of King Abdullah II of Jordan at the 75th, 76th, and 77th sessions of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Using a qualitative research design, the study examines how various politeness strategies, as outlined by Brown and Levinson (1987), are employed in the King's speeches to achieve diplomatic goals. The analysis focuses on both the types of politeness strategies--positive, negative, bald on-record, and off-record--and the functions they serve in advancing Jordan's diplomatic agenda. The study draws on the transcripts of three speeches delivered on 22 September 2020, 22 September 2021, and 20 September 2022, selected through convenience sampling. Findings reveal that positive politeness strategies are used to foster unity and collective responsibility, particularly in addressing global challenges such as COVID-19, climate change, and food insecurity. Negative politeness strategies emerge in discussions of sensitive issues like the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, aiming to minimize imposition on the international audience while advocating for peaceful solutions. Off-record strategies are employed to indirectly criticize global inaction, while bald on-record strategies convey clear, unambiguous positions, particularly regarding the two-state solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The research concludes that King Abdullah II strategically balances these politeness tactics to engage international stakeholders, promote Jordan's interests, and encourage global cooperation, all while maintaining diplomatic decorum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyzes Watson's (2014) United Nations address, focusing on her strategic use of politeness norms within the gender equality discourse. The primary aim is to investigate Watson's deployment of politeness strategies to enhance communication and persuasion. It examines how her use of polite language functions as a rhetorical tool and assesses the effectiveness of adhering to politeness standards in shaping the discourse on gender equality. The study focuses on politeness strategies while excluding broader contextual factors like historical, political, or public reactions. One key finding is Watson's use of modesty to defensively address audience doubts. By admitting possible skepticism and responding humbly, Watson adheres to the modesty maxim, skillfully diffusing potential resistance and establishing rapport with her audience. This rhetorical choice reflects her ability to foster trust and enhance the persuasiveness of her speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyses Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha's coup speeches from a lexico-semantic ambit. The study reveals that the language of coup speeches is deliberately different from that of everyday usage. It exposes us to the forms and characteristics of political language as contained in coup speeches which include; newspeak, doublespeak, diplomacy, vagueness, persuasiveness and euphemism. The major sources of data are the Babangida and Abacha's coup speeches of August 27, 1985 and November 17, 1993, respectively. The study adopts Hallidayan's theory which helps in the analysis of the texts. The findings reveal that language is an important tool in coup speeches and that the choices of words used by the speakers are highly dependent on their idiosyncrasies. The study also reveals that both speakers use the same lexico-semantic features such as, lexical choices which include the diction and choice of words used by the speakers; referring expression which include pronominal references; lexical reiteration which include repetition of dictions and phrases and also the use of lexical relation which include synonyms, antonyms, etc. to arrive at meaning. It therefore concludes that both speeches have some similarities since they were both delivered at similar circumstance and situation. Lastly, the study concludes that military coup speeches have some elements of political orientations as reflected in their choice of words which is geared toward persuading, appealing and convincing the audience through the use of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study assumes that former President Rodrigo Duterte and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. used different types of deixis in their first State of the Nation Address (SONAs). Supporting this assumption is the theory of Deictic Expressions by Stephen Levinson. This study is descriptive qualitative. Findings revealed that former President Duterte and President Marcos Jr. used different types of deixis in their speeches. The most dominant type of deixis used by former President Duterte is personal deixis, which obtained the highest frequency, particularly the pronoun "I". In contrast, the most prevalent deixis used by President Marcos is "personal deixis", particularly the pronoun "we". It is concluded that personal deixis was the most dominant type of deixis among the five types used by the two speakers in their speeches. Future researchers are encouraged to conduct a future study that will focus on the usage of deixis in books or speeches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the 12th International Congress on Education in Ethics, which took place at the Anáhuac University Mexico in June 2024. The event brought together more than 70 experts from 22 countries to discuss topics related to education in ethics, sustainable development, and integral ecology. Keynote speeches, roundtable discussions, and parallel sessions highlighted the importance of relevant and applicable ethical education to address contemporary challenges. Participants reflected on the need to integrate ethics into education to shape ethically responsible leaders. [Extracted from the article]

This article argues that the pressures of war at the turn of the sixteenth century converted some diplomatic orations from ritual embellishments into tools for communication to a reading public interested in news about ambassadors and their activities. Using a survey of diplomatic orations printed between 1470 and 1513, the article demonstrates that diplomats could use orations to influence public perceptions. After the 1494 French invasion of Italy, increased public interest in contemporary diplomatic news created potential audiences for printed diplomatic orations. In three case studies of orations printed in 1509/10, Jacopo Antiquario, Louis Hélian, and a speaker purporting to be Antonio Giustinian used rhetorical exaggeration to outright disinformation in order to manipulate popular perceptions against Venice. The transformation of some diplomatic orations into print aimed at persuading a reading public points to a reciprocal relationship between the evolution of print culture and diplomacy in early sixteenth-century Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the ways in which apology functions as a stance act at public speech events. Rather than focusing on speakers' intentions, in this study I pay attention to indexical meanings associated with apologies in a specific context. The study primarily analyses apology sequences that involve code-switching, which were drawn from ethnographic data gathered in a Korean university where English has been adopted as its official language (EOL). Data analysis shows that the use of apology allows speakers to take a stance towards their language choice and the institutional language policy. Both apology and speakers' metalinguistic articulations prior to code-switching reflect and reinforce the two language ideologies: (1) the language policy is intended to serve for international members of the university, and (2), Korean can be used when needed. A closer look at the way in which apology is used in specific contexts suggests that speakers' main purpose of apology is self-presentation in a public event. Apology functions to index speaker's defiance of an institution's language policy while avoiding their responsibility for the action. The sociolinguistic concept of stance allows us to better understand speakers' positioning with respect to norms and expectations informed by institutional language policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper highlights the role of idioms in Boris Johnson's speeches on the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022. The total sample of phraseological turns identified during the analysis of the speeches of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson, dedicated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, includes 30 phraseological units. The main pragmatic function of the public speech is persuasion directed at influencing the listener or reader and shaping his views. Emotional information prevails in public speeches and relies on a wide range of language means reflecting it. Phraseological units belong to these means and their usage has its peculiarities. Since phraseological unit is one of the modes of reflecting thoughts, it is a clue to understanding speaker's values, ideas, intentions and beliefs. Johnson resorts to core usage of phraseological units, including biblical expressions, as well as violation of an idiom presented by the replacements, extension of the base form (by means of evaluative insertions), inversion of the base form and phraseological allusions. As the analysis of the data showed Boris Johnson's texts are dominated by neologisms, metaphorical comparisons, personifications, metaphors, epithets, hyperboles which are well-documented tropes in political discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the keynote speech from the TA Cumbrian conference that took place on 25 February 2023. It concerns the personal legacy of social, economic, and political contexts as lived through the lives of previous generations. It is delivered through a radical and relational lens and draws on past and current thinking about alienation. The author makes reference to features from her father's life that have come to hold significant meaning for her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction Themed "Better Sub-Regional and Urban Development from the Perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative," the 2023 Annual Conference of the International Urban Planning Branch of the Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC) was successfully held in Kunming from Jun. 23 to 25, 2023. The conference, organized by the International Urban Planning Branch and hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning, Yunnan University, coincided with the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Thus it aimed to share new insights and practices related to sub-regional cooperation, sustainable development, global industrial restructuring, urban vitality, cross-border cultural exchanges, and more, both in China and internationally. Furthermore, the conference presented in-depth research and analysis on the strategic advantages of the Belt and Road Initiative and held dialogues and case studies on high-quality sub-regional and urban development worldwide. The goal was to provide innovative perspectives for China to implement high-quality cross-border collaboration under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. The keynote speeches given at the conference have been collected by China City Planning Review and meticulously proofread by the respective speaker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An interview with Governor Spencer J. Cox, about his landmark speech to the Utah State Bar on his National Governor's Association initiative, "Disagree Better: Health Conflict for Better Policy" is presented. Governor Cox discusses what disagree better initiative is all about and how, where, and why he is promoting this, how he became interested in this topic, and what healthy disagreement looks like.

In The Gay Science §341, the thought of eternal return is introduced as the announcement of a "demon." Two possible hearers are described: one is crushed by the demon's speech, while the other is overjoyed. This article argues that these responses are different because they are responses to different messages. One is conveyed in plain words by the demon's speech; the other is implied by a final reference to "this ultimate eternal confirmation and sealing." While that confirmation is provided by what the demon says, not everyone will be aware of it: rather, only someone for whom the value of life has become problematic will be aware of it. Further, it seems that the demon does not understand his own message, since he personifies a will to knowledge that is indifferent to such concerns. Thus, only a human being can gain insight into the value and meaning of life from the thought of eternal return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the tone of the president's immigration policy speeches as a function of the political context, policy characteristics, and individual presidents in two ways. First, we describe the tone of the president's immigration rhetoric using DICTION software and its five global categories of tone. Second, we hypothesize that commonality and optimism, two categories of tone expressive of immigration policy, will co‐vary by political context, policy characteristics of immigration, and a president's approach to rhetoric. To test our expectations, we collected presidential mentions of immigration since 1953 from the Public Papers of the Presidents. Key variables, like the president's honeymoon and the post‐9/11 era, increase a president's commonality tone, and the president's approval ratings encourage greater optimism. Individual presidents also shape presidential rhetoric, indicating the importance of presidential style to immigration tone, especially for optimism. We conclude with implications of our work for the systematic study of presidential tone and the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deductive and theory-driven research starts by asking questions. Finding tentative answers to these questions in the literature is next. It is followed by gathering, preparing and modelling relevant data to empirically test these tentative answers. Inductive research, on the other hand, starts with data representation and finding general patterns in data. Ahn suggested, in his keynote speech at the seventh International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2021, that the way this data is represented could shape our understanding and the type of answers we find for the questions. He discussed that specific representation learning approaches enable a meaningful embedding space and could allow spatial thinking and broaden computational imagination. In this commentary, I summarize Ahn's keynote and related publications, provide an overview of the use of spatial metaphor in sociology, discuss how such representation learning can help both inductive and deductive research, propose future avenues of research that could benefit from spatial thinking, and pose some still open questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As codified in professional guidelines, professional interpreters should faithfully interpret everything that has been said exactly as the original speakers. In other words, court interpreters are expected to adequately interpret both the content and the manner of original utterances into their pragmatic equivalence to the best of their knowledge. However, little has been known about the court interpreters' accuracy in rendering the manner of speech in remote settings in non-European languages. The present paper reports initial findings from a larger experiment research study that assesses Australia-based professional interpreters' accuracy in interpreting discourse markers and speech style in court-related remote settings. This paper focuses on the way in which discourse markers were used by the Mandarin Chinese-speaking defendant in courtroom examination answers and interpreted by practitioners. Mandarin Chinese markers '呗(bēi)', '啦(à)', '啊(a)', '吧(bā)' and '嘛(mà)' were analysed using a collection of models of markers in Mandarin Chinese. A general disregard for discourse markers was found in remote settings, as reflected by omissions, mistranslation and moderations of illocutionary forces, particularly the use of the monotone in practitioners' renditions of some attitudinal markers in Mandarin Chinese. Such disregard may have further implications for the accuracy of court interpreting in remote settings. The findings of the present study intend to inform future interpreter education and contribute to interprofessional collaboration between interpreting service users and providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An editorial is presented by Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb detailing her invitation to deliver a portion of the Presidential Address at the National Communication Association Convention in November 2023 as well as the reasoning behind why she was not permitted to give her portion of the speech. Included in the article is her speech, about genocide in Gaza, presented in Arabic and translated into English as well.

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The 70th SEPAWA® CONGRESS, the 19th European Detergents Conference, and the Cosmetic Science Conference took place successfully from October 25th to 27th, 2023 in Berlin. Research results on detergents, cleaning agents, cosmetics, and perfumery were presented. The winners of the SEPAWA® e. V. Young Researchers' Award and the SEPAWA® e. V. Innovation Award were honored. The SOFW Award for the best articles in the SOFW Journal of the previous year was also presented. The congress included scientific lectures on various topics, poster presentations, and a Cosmetic Science Conference. The keynote speech was given by Dr. Theo Waigel and addressed the topic "Politics and Economy in Unstable Times". The SEPAWA® CONGRESS 2024 will take place from October 16th to 18th at the ECC in Berlin. [Extracted from the article]

Early linguistic environment has shown an impact on children's later language development, particularly, child directed speech has been associated with providing children with linguistic input from which to look for regularities and patterns, and boosting children to produce utterances beyond their current competence. This article aims to examine linguistic and interactive features of the speech addressed to Argentinean toddlers (mean age 19.9 month) living under different socioeconomic circumstances. We focused on the lexical diversity (VOCD) and syntactic complexity (MLU) that characterize utterances that fulfil different pragmatic functions (comments, requests for verbal and non-verbal response) addressed to children living under vulnerated and non-vulnerated socioeconomic circumstances. Results showed differences regarding lexical diversity between groups of households for requests for non-verbal response, while regarding syntactic complexity differences between groups were found in both requests for non-verbal response and for verbal response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Speech therapy uses a combination of approaches to assess speech and language, including analysis of spontaneous speech, use of standardized scales and assessment by the child's parents and/or preschool teachers. In this paper, we present the Teddy Talk Test. Using a sample of sixteen children aged 4 to 5 years, we examined whether the test provided representative data on child language development. The parent questionnaire included information on the parents' education, the parents' native language, the child's gender and the language the parents speak with their child. It was found that the Teddy Talk Test has the characteristics of screening tests for speech and language: it is time-efficient, it covers receptive and expressive language tasks, and it allows for rapid assessment of speech and language in large numbers of children. However, since the Teddy Talk Test has not yet been evaluated, we do not know its value regarding sensitivity, specificity and predictive validity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a keynote speech at the PCE 2022 conference, this paper responds to the conference theme "How can I be of help?" from the perspective of person-centered therapy. I focus on the kind of help (i.e. the kind of change, or outcome) that clients can expect when participating in person-centered therapy through the lens of "congruent functioning", a contemporary reframing of Rogers' concept of the fully functioning person. This model of congruent functioning was developed from an ongoing research program originally focused on the study of a brief self-report instrument, the Strathclyde Inventory (SI). In this paper, I report findings from this program, including a theoretically coherent hierarchical relationship between SI items identified from the pattern of clients' scoring that may indicate a hypothetical pathway for the development of congruent functioning. I present three different types of supporting evidence for the congruent functioning model, highlighting potential cultural differences, and a case example that considers apparent deterioration in congruent functioning by the end of therapy. Finally, I argue that the model of congruent functioning resonates not only with Rogers' theory concerning the change process underpinning person-centered therapy, but also supports the ongoing commitment to personal development required of person-centered therapists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a lightly edited version of the keynote address delivered at the 2023 ICON•S Annual Conference, held at Victoria University of Wellington--Te Herenga Waka, on 5 July 2023. I provide an overview of legal pluralism and its implications, addressing why legal pluralism heretofore has been overlooked by jurists, the historical roots of legal pluralism, how to identify what qualifies as law, internal and external legal pluralism, three categories of law that help frame legal pluralism, why customary law is difficult to incorporate within state law, the implications of legal pluralism for legal development and human rights, and much more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This was written first as a keynote speech, which was given at the midway point of the 27th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, held in Stockholm, Sweden, and Turku, Finland, 26–30 June 2023. It was originally entitled 'The Māori anthologist' and addressed the politics and aesthetics of my career as an editor of some sixteen anthologies of, mainly, Māori and New Zealand literature. But after listening to the papers that had been presented, which primarily covered the South Pacific, I decided to alter my presentation and offer a personal intervention on my career as a Pacific rather than a Māori writer, ranging from The Whale Rider (1987) through to Navigating the Stars: Māori Creation Myths (2020). Furthermore, the presentation now responded to themes of Pacific and Oceanic transnationality and transculturality, which had arisen from the conference. This article is both a consolidation and extension of thoughts and arguments that were given in that keynote speech, with identity and indigeneity key concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]