From Fontainebleau to Facebook: The Early Modern Discourse of Personal Sincerity and Its Echoes in the Contemporary Discourse of Organisational Transparency
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DOI: 10.1002/sres.2448
Abstract: In the past four decades, transparency has gone from being primarily a clear plastic sheet used with overhead projectors to being primarily a quality of organisations. The pledge to provide (or, in corporate jargon, deliver)… read more here.
Keywords: sincerity; facebook early; modern discourse; early modern ... See more keywords
The sound of (in)sincerity
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.10.008
Abstract: Abstract In social life, humans do not always communicate their sincere feelings, and speakers often tell ‘prosocial lies’ to prevent others from being hurt by negative truths. Data illuminating how a speaker's voice carries sincere… read more here.
Keywords: speaker; sound sincerity; sincerity;
I withdraw and apologise but…: Ghanaian parliamentary apologies, the issue of sincerity and acceptance
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.004
Abstract: Abstract Employing a corpus-assisted discourse studies approach, this paper investigates apologies in a parliamentary context, using as data Hansards of the Parliament of Ghana (2005–2018). It identifies various apologetic expressions in the data, examines the… read more here.
Keywords: sincerity; apologise ghanaian; ghanaian parliamentary; withdraw apologise ... See more keywords
Seeking sincerity, finding forgiveness: YouTube apologies as image repair
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2018.04.007
Abstract: Abstract Social media have become important communication tools for organizations and public figures, particularly in times of crisis. Public figures are frequently advised to use social media platforms to apologize to publics, and their apologies… read more here.
Keywords: social media; sincerity; image; image repair ... See more keywords
Affective block and the musical racialisation of Romani sincerity
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DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2020.1815551
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article analyses field research on tambura chordophone traditions among Croatian-, Serbian-, and Romani-Americans to consider diverse performers’ strategies of musical (in)sincerity. These strategies mobilise affective investments of musical labour alongside more directly conscious… read more here.
Keywords: racialisation romani; sincerity; block musical; musical racialisation ... See more keywords
“From Hypocrisy to Sincerity”
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DOI: 10.1163/22117954-12341382
Abstract: This article analyses certain rhetorical aspects of “Islamic State” (IS) propaganda. Specifically, it discusses arguments used to concretise calls to action, focusing on recurring ways in which supposed benefits of engagement are contrasted with disadvantages… read more here.
Keywords: hypocrisy sincerity; sincerity; sincerity hypocrisy;
Performative speech act verbs and sincerity in Anglo-Norman and Middle English letters
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DOI: 10.1515/multi-2019-0011
Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries),… read more here.
Keywords: sincerity; norman middle; performative speech; speech act ... See more keywords