Introductory Speech

First of all, thank you LIPI for this event, and thank your for organizing it,we feel this is perhaps the highlight of the visit by the Professor Sunberg and Associate Professor Olsson,who have been here visiting different universities and research institutes in Indonesia.I think this is a unique visit,for us at least at the Embassy.In many ways we often talk about having further exchanges between universities and research institutes

Introductory Speech

This is the introductory speech given by Romina Istratii at the Decolonisation in Praxis Conference that was held at SOAS University of London on 7 June 2018. The Conference was a student-led initiative funded by SOAS that brought together students, faculty and staff to discuss the salient issue of decolonising knowledge-making and sharing in British universities. The proceedings of the conference were partially published in volume 11 of The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Studies, which can be found here: https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/rsa/journalofgraduateresearch/edition-11

Political Discourse Analysis through Solving Problems of Graph Theory

In this article, we show how, using graph theory, we can make a content analysis of political discourse. Assumptions of this analysis are: • we have a corpus of speech of each party or candidate; • we consider that speech conveys economic, political, socio-cultural values, these taking the form of words or word families; • we consider that there are interdependences between the values of a political discourse; they are given by the co-occurrence of two values, as words in the text, within a well defined fragment, or they are determined by the internal logic of political discourse; • established links between values in a political speech have associated positive numbers indicating the "power" of those links; these "powers" are defined according to both the number of co-occurrences of values, and the internal logic of the discourse where they occur. In this context we intend to highlight the following: a) which is the dominant value in a political speech; b) which groups of values have ties between them and have no connection with the rest; c) which is the order in which political values should be set in order to obtain an equivalent but more synthetic speech compared to the already given one; d) which are the links between values that form the "core" political speech. To solve these problems, we shall use the Political Analyst program. After that, we shall present the concepts necessary to the understanding of the introductory graph theory, useful in understanding the analysis of the software and then the operation of the program. This paper extends the previous paper [6]graph theory, discourse analysis, political programs

ANALYZING SOME TYPES OF SPEECH ACTS IN NADIEM MAKARIM'S SPEECH IN COMMEMORATING TEACHER'S DAY

This study aims to analyze several types of speech acts in Nadiem Makarim's speech in commemorating Teacher's Day. This research is a qualitative research using descriptive method. The main data in this study are the utterances in Pak Nadiem Makarim's speech which contain several speech acts in his speech. The data source for this research is a video of Mr. Nadiem Makarim's speech commemorating Teacher's Day, which can be viewed on YouTube. Data analysis was carried out by (1) listening to and viewing the recorded data in the video (2) analyzing several types of speech acts in the following video (3) making conclusions from the research results. The speaking strategy uses a direct speaking strategy without preamble, a frank speaking strategy with positive politeness, and a frank speaking strategy with negative politeness introductory words

A Forum: Six Approaches to the Introductory Communication Course

During the 1990 Speech Communication Association Convention in Chicago, the Basic Course Committee sponsored a program to discuss five popular approaches to the introductory communication course. These included the public speaking course, the hybrid or blend course, the interpersonal communication course, the introductory communication theory course and the business and professional speaking course. During the exchanges between the presenters and the 80 audience members, it was noted the group communication course was conspicuously absent but was added for this volume

So You Are Going to Lecture!

This introductory talk on Lecturing is included in the course to give you an opportunity to judge in what manner I can best serve you. From this lecture, I hope that you will discover that I am not approaching the situation as a speech expert nor am I capable of qualifying as a speech expert . I would like to think that ordinary, every-day practical or workable methods will be available to us

The effect of an introductory speech course on student\u27s speech anxiety

Social Anxiety Disorder can hinder a person’s life and cause them great distress. Within Social Anxiety Disorder, public speaking anxiety is the most common. Many types of therapies are employed to assist people with overcoming the fear of social situations. Exposure is a key ingredient for most of these treatments. Exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety may occur naturally in speech courses. Two surveys measuring Public Speaking Anxiety and Social Anxiety Disorder were given on a website to students enrolled in an introductory college speech course and a control group of psychology students not enrolled in a speech course. The surveys were given at the beginning of a semester and then again at the end of that semester. It was expected that the experimental group, speech students (N=31), would display significantly lower scores on the Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety and the Social Interaction and Anxiety Subscale, while the control group, psychology students (N=42), would score the same at pretest and posttest. The hypotheses were not confirmed. There was no significant difference between the groups at posttest on the PRPSA. There was also no significant difference for either group from pretest to posttest on the SIAS. The results and implications are discussed

Materiality of Language in Jain Philosophy: Introductory Matters

This article would not have been possible without the scientific guidance and support of Dr. Priyadarshana Jain, Assistant Professor and Head i/c, Department of Jainology, University of Madras, who had presented to me a very complex and coherent vision of matter from Jaina point of view and a problem of vargaṇās, with special accentuation laid on bhāṣā-vargaṇās and an issue of omniscience. Dr. Jain indicated also Ālāpa-paddhati as a source of unprecedented knowledge on basic facts of the Jain philosophy.The aim of this article is to describe the concept of language materiality in the Jain philosophy, focusing on the literature of classical period (5th- 10th c. CE). I concentrate on the following texts: Viyāhapannatti, Ālāpapaddhati, Tattvârtha-sūtra, Tattvârthasūtra-rājavārttika etc. I take into account diverse questions such as: multidimensionality of reality, attendance of matter, the theory of molecules (vargaṇās) and the problem of matter modifications (pariṇāma).Artykuł został sfinansowany ze środków Narodowego Centrum Nauki, nr rejestracyjny projektu: UMO-2014/13/N/HS1/01061, tytuł „Dżinijska filozofia języka w okresie klasycznym (V-X w.) i jej epistemologiczne oraz ontologiczne konsekwencje”. The article is funded by National Science Centre under the project no. UMO- 2014/13/N/HS1/01061 entitled “Jaina Philosophy of Language in Classical Period (5th-10th c. CE) and Its Epistemological and Ontological Implications”

Some Introductory Notes on the Development and Characteristics of Sabah Malay

This is a preliminary description of the Malay variety used as a lingua franca in the Malaysian state of Sabah at the northernmost top of Borneo. The paper discusses a number of common linguistic features that distinguish Sabah Malay from other Malay varieties and analyses these features from a historical linguistic perspective. While it is argued that Sabah Malay has a close historical relation with other Malay dialects spoken in Borneo, especially Brunei Malay, the vernacular is also influenced phonologically and lexically by Sabah's indigenous and immigrant speech communities. Words and sentences recorded or elicited during fieldwork in various parts of Sabah illustrate these points