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This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives' meanings and functions in media and public discourses. Negation is one of our most central phenomena in human language and we use it daily for a vast range of different purposes: for rejection, denial and for expressing non-existence. Negation is certainly one of the most multidimensional and complex units in language, semantically, cognitively and syntactically, as well as from a functional, pragmatic, perspective. Depending of the theoretical framework, sentence negation in particular has been identified as a modal operator, a truth-value operator, a rhetoric device, a figure of thought, a polarity item and a marker of linguistic polyphony and as a linguistic unit with a variety of discursive and contextual meanings. There remain, nevertheless, a large number of unsolved questions regarding negative forms of expressions and negative functions within specific languages, within different social settings and throughout the languages of the world. Thus, by bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of this universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories. Similar themes connected to negatives approached from different perspectives and examined in different languages offer a contrastive reading that actually enlarges the spectra of new knowledge presented in the books's chapters. Based on hypotheses within pragmatics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.

Communication in politics. --- Political communication --- Political science

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This book provides practical know-how on understanding, implementing, and managing main stream social media tools (e.g., blogs and micro-blogs, social network sites, and content communities) from a public sector perspective. Through social media, government organizations can inform citizens, promote their services, seek public views and feedback, and monitor satisfaction with the services they offer so as to improve their quality. Given the exponential growth of social media in contemporary society, it has become an essential tool for communication, content sharing, and collaboration. This growth and these tools also present an unparalleled opportunity to implement a transparent, open, and collaborative government. However, many government organization, particularly those in the developing world, are still somewhat reluctant to leverage social media, as it requires significant policy and governance changes, as well as specific know-how, skills and resources to plan, implement and manage social media tools. As a result, governments around the world ignore or mishandle the opportunities and threats presented by social media. To help policy makers and governments implement a social media driven government, this book provides guidance in developing an effective social media policy and strategy. It also addresses issues such as those related to security and privacy.

Business. --- Industrial management. --- Political communication. --- Computers. --- Public administration. --- Business and Management. --- Media Management. --- Information Systems and Communication Service. --- Political Communication. --- Public Administration. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Political communication --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Trade --- Management --- Information systems. --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace

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This book is a guide to the latest research using the C-SPAN Archives. In this book, nine authors present original work using the video archives to study presidential debates, public opinion and Congress, analysis of the Violence Against Women Act and the Great Lakes freshwater legislation, as well as President Clinton's grand jury testimony. The C-SPAN Archives contain over 220,000 hours of first run digital video of the nation's public affairs record. These and other essays serve as guides for scholars who want to explore the research potential of this robust public policy and communications resource.

Television in politics --- Communication in politics --- Television and politics --- C-SPAN (Television network) --- Political communication --- Political science --- Political broadcasting (Television) --- Politics, Practical --- Television broadcasting --- Politics and television --- Political aspects --- Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network

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Politische Manifeste - einst eine Fürsten, Königen und Kaisern vorbehaltene Kommunikationsform - haben sich zu einem Medium protestierender Bürger gewandelt. Anhand einer Reihe von Porträts unternimmt dieser Band eine Exkursion in die Geschichte politischer Manifeste. Von Georg Büchner über Werner Heisenberg bis zu Hans-Peter Dürr soll die »Kraft des Wortes« vom Vormärz bis zur Gegenwart beurteilt werden: Wie entstehen und funktionieren politische Manifeste? Weshalb vermögen es einige, die Massen zu mobilisieren, während andere nur Randnotizen der Geschichte bleiben? »Ein anregender Diskussionsbeitrag zur Debatte um Ausformung und Wirkungsweise der Zivilgesellschaft.« Ute Hasenöhrl, H-Soz-u-Kult, 20.09.2011 »Durchweg gelungen.« Matthias Lemke, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, www.pw-portal.de, 4 (2011) Besprochen in: DIE FURCHE, 28.07.2011, Christian Moser Archiv für die Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit, 19 (2011), Walter Fähnders

Manifestes littéraires et artistiques --- Langage politique --- Résistance politique --- Political manifestoes --- Communication in politics --- Histoire --- History. --- Political manifestos --- Political communication --- Political science --- Manifestoes, Political --- Manifestos, Political --- Histoire. --- Civil Society. --- Political Science. --- Manifest; Politik; Zivilgesellschaft; Protest; Partizipation; Geschichtswissenschaft; Politikwissenschaft; Politics; Civil Society; History; Political Science

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News Framing Effects is a guide to framing effects theory, one of the most prominent theories in media and communication science. Rooted in both psychology and sociology, framing effects theory describes the ability of news media to influence people’s attitudes and behaviors by subtle changes to how they report on an issue. The book gives expert commentary on this complex theoretical notion alongside practical instruction on how to apply it to research. The book’s structure mirrors the steps a scholar might take to design a framing study. The first chapter establishes a working definition of news framing effects theory. The following chapters focus on how to identify the independent variable (i.e., the "news frame") and the dependent variable (i.e., the "framing effect") The book then considers the potential limits or enhancements of the proposed effects (i.e., the "moderators") and how framing effects might emerge (i.e., the "mediators") Finally, it asks how strong these effects are likely to be. The final chapter considers news framing research in the light of a rapidly and fundamentally changing news and information market, in which technologies, platforms, and changing consumption patterns are forcing assumptions at the core of framing effects theory to be re-evaluated.

Claes H. de Vreese. --- journalism and society. --- mass communication theory. --- media and society. --- media effects. --- News framing. --- News framing effects. --- News framing effects theory. --- political communication. --- Sophie Lecheler. --- Journalism --- Social aspects. --- Objectivity. --- Bias in journalism --- Slanted news --- Journalistic ethics --- Objectivity --- Press and propaganda --- Press --- Social aspects