Language and Politics

post has three assignments

1: Weight Stigma

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Psychological (Study) Analysis a 5-7 page document (including cover page and reference page) Paper must be typed and double spaced (12/Times New Roman) . This paper must have a reference page. Citations must be included in this paper. Refer to the template in the ‘study analysis’ folder on Blackboard as a guide. Include a scholarly source (selected article). This paper must be submitted in Word document in Blackboard. This paper will be submitted through SafeAssign with less than 15% overlap in the originality report. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and result in failure and possible further sanctions. Paraphrase but do not cut and paste be APA format (PurdueOwl.org; or see APA guidelines provided on Blackboard under ‘study analysis’ folder). Directions 1. Review the abstract and paraphrase the study. 2. Identify the experiment(s) and select the one that will be analyzed. 3. Summarize the introduction and/or literature review. 4. Identify participants and procedures (methodology) and explain how the research was conducted. 5. Interpret the graph (results) and explain how it answers the research question(s). 6. After a review of the discussion section, identify the limitations of the study. 7. How would you extend the research? 8. Develop addition research questions. 9. Who will be your sample population (participants)? 10. ow would you conduct your research? 11. Explain what results you would expect with a graph. 12. Complete the paper with a conclusion. I will send the article to be reviewed when assigned.

2:Language and Politics

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Investigating an institutionalised genre: e.g. PM’s Question Time, the language of election campaigns and referenda, political interviews on TV/radio, newspaper editorials, party political websites.
The subject is actually “Language and Politics”, a bit about language and linguistic on political activities instead of only analysing political behaviours. The subject area is more on the role of liguistic (ie. use of metaphor/specific language) across a chosen institutionalised genre.
Choose ONE SPECIFIC phenomenon among these: newspaper editorials, PM’s Question Time, the language of election campaigns and referenda, political interviews on TV/radio, party political websites.

Investigate the linguistic phenomenon and investigate its role across a range of political texts regarding:
e.g. use of metaphor,
the role of pronouns or other deictic items,
the role of grammatical construction in the foregrounding/backgrounding of different social actors,
devices of depersonalisation,
uses of moralising vocabulary or fear-evoking vocabulary,
uses of modal verbs and other modal expressions to signal certainty, uncertainty etc.

Available material: texts from books, print media (newspapers/magazines, journals) internet, transcripts of video clips, posters, pamphlets, cartoons.

Focus on one main topic, illustrated by an exemplary selection of relevant examples.

Overall Structure:
1. Short introduction of topic, why interesting? Context
2. Characterization of main the theoretical/ methodological angle of your research (with references and in-text cite to research literature)
3. Analysis of examples
4. Conclusion (Your own!)
5. Complete List of References and sources used in your essay
6. Appendix: full text examples of main examples analyzed in the text

To provide you more details on this essay, the Structure of the module:
1. Basics of Rhetoric: Ethos, Pathos, Logos and their linguistic manifestations – relationship to modern theories of meaning and of language use
2. The role of political vocabulary and terminology
3. Framing in Political discourse: topic-setting, agency, epistemic presentation (assertion, question …)
4. The role of figurative langue in political discourse
5. The role of Argumentation in political discourse
6. Political discourse and ideology
7. Critical synthesis, presentation and essay briefing
8. Political discourse and the “truth”: Critical discourse analysis

3: LEADERSHIP

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Develop a personal action plan to meet future leadership challenges., write two or three paragraph about your strength in leadership situation , possible weakness that you need to be aware of , and how you intend to develop your leadership development worksheet outlining your specific goals and your intended approach.

Language and Politics