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- ItemWaar is de vis? Een zoöpoeticale interpretatie van de poëzie van Marieke Lucas Rijneveld(2022-07-22)Een onderzoek naar een alternatieve manier om de betekenis van de paling en de snoek in de poezie van Marieke Lucas Rijneveld te kunnen duiden. Dieren in poëzie zijn lang gezien als metafoor voor iets menselijks. De zoöpöetica biedt manieren om het dier in plaats daarvan als dier te lezen, waardoor een anthropocentrische interpretatie uit de weg kan worden gegaan. In dit bachelorwerkstuk wordt dit gedaan door de belichaming van de taal en de gedeelde kwetsbaarheid tussen lezer en de vis in het werk van Rijneveld te onderzoeken.
- ItemCameeën uit het verleden gesneden(2022-05-04)Door middel van het analysemodel naar intertekstualiteit van Paul Claes - uitgewerkt in het boek 'Echo's Echo's' - is een drietal verhalen uit de verzamelbundel 'Schimmen der schoonheid' van Louis Couperus geanalyseerd: ‘De nacht van Ishthâr’, ‘Het raadsel’ en ‘Frynè’. Deze verhalen zijn naast de architeksten geplaatst: 'Gilgamesj-epos', het Oude Testament en 'Deipnosophistai' . Er is gepoogd om een beeld te krijgen van het schrijverschap en de intentie van de auteur. Couperus lijkt met deze intertekstuele aanpassingen verhalen te schrijven die passen binnen zijn eigen belevingswereld, gelijk de klassieke imitatio. Door toevoeging van dramatische verhaalelementen en typerende thematieken creëert Couperus meer verhalende teksten.
- ItemNews framing and the influence of geographical proximity: a cross-cultural comparison of Dutch and British newspapers.(2023-01-23)On September 8 2022 the Queen of England, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary II, passed away. This event has been picked up by the media not only in the UK, but in all countries across the world. The death of the almost longest-reigning queen has been copiously covered and evidently, has been framed in various ways. In this study an inductive framing analysis with a focus on headlines was conducted to examine whether newspapers framed the events related to the death of Queen Elizabeth II differently across countries, and to see whether the differences that occurred could be explained by the geographical proximity to the event. A corpus of 80 headlines in The Times (UK) and NRC Handelsblad (NL) were analysed. The main results showed that there were significant differences between the newspapers; The Times consistently featured the Hero-frame, while NRC handelsblad presented the Critical-frame. The implication of these differences in framing is explained in terms of the two cultural contexts of the newspapers at question and the geographical proximity to the event in particular.
- ItemThe effect of a humorous and a non-humorous self-disclosing comment on the evaluation of Non-native accented speakers in a hiring context.(2023-01-09)The rapid increase in English as the Lingua Franca over the past couple of decades has increased the number of non-native English speakers. In previous research, it has been found that speaking with a non-native accent causes negative evaluations more often than speaking with a native accent. Naturally, the discriminatory bias towards NNE-accented speakers is also present in international business. The present study aimed to investigate whether a humorous and a non-humorous self-disclosing comment at the beginning of a job interview pitch decreased the negative evaluations in terms of perceived hireability, comprehensibility and attitudinal evaluations. 168 participants listened to a moderate or slightly accented French speaker in English who either made a humorous comment, a non-humorous comment or no comment concerning their accentedness before pitching for a position. After the audio fragment, the participants filled in a questionnaire concerning comprehensibility, attitudinal evaluations, and hireability. The results indicate that the self-disclosing comments had no significant effect on any of the dimensions. Accent strength only had a significantly negative effect on hireability and comprehensibility. Therefore, it can be concluded that the negative effect of speaking with a strong accent was found to be relatively minimal and that using a self-disclosing comment might not be an effective solution to the bias issue in job interviews. However, the current study does extend to previously unstudied non-native French-accented speakers of English in international business.
- ItemDoes a Foreign Language Influence the Emotionality and Effectiveness of Traffic Safety Campaigns?(2023-06-09)The aim of the present study was to investigate whether persuasive messages in a native language arouse more emotions than in a foreign language and whether fear or sadness appeals are more effective in persuasive traffic safety communication. In an experiment, 174 native German participants rated their emotionality after exposure to a persuasive poster concerning texting while driving and were asked about their attitudes and behavioural intentions. Findings showed that neither language nor type of appeal influenced emotionality, attitudes, or behavioural intentions. This suggests that a native language does not necessarily always arouse more emotions than a foreign language and thus globalization of such campaigns may be efficient. Furthermore, the findings imply that multiple appeal types can be equally effective. However, conclusions must be drawn with caution since general low emotionality of participants is likely to have impacted the results.