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Bülow, Anne Marie (, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates the advantages and disadvantages of the use of email to obtain agreement between two parties with overlapping but also conflicting interests. The literature on Media Richness suggests that email is too lean to facilitate agreement; but all supporting evidence stems from homogenous populations. This paper, however, starts from the hypothesis that in connection with lingua franca interaction, the text format provides advantages for parties that need to think how to phrase an argument. However, the evidence provided from a negotiation task performed by international business students indicates that, while there is a distinct advantage in the feature of reviewability, the text format itself also poses a problem because it allows selective attention. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7923 Files in this item: 1
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Argument, Cognition and Deadlock in Email NegotiationBülow, Anne Marie (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper investigates a set of email negotiations in order to explain a high number of deadlocks. The paper argues that one reason is the combination of cognitive effort characteristic of the e-mail genre, and the argumentative pattern found when two parties simultaneously try to persuade the other of the justice of their cause. For a negotiation involving the wording of a contract, the evidence suggests that, while there is a distinct advantage in the features of reviewability and revisablity, the email format allows selective attention to the other party’s arguments, which can be shown to block suggestions and lead to sub-optimal results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8239 Files in this item: 1
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Effects of Institutional Distances. Studies of Risk Definitions, Perceptions, Management and CommunicationMerkelsen, Henrik (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis consists of four papers which address different aspects of risk. All the papers in the thesis relate one way or another to food risks, but food risks is not the core subject matter of the thesis. The overall theme is about how risks are defined, perceived, managed and communicated. However, the empirical focus on food risks is not a result of mere coincidence. During the past decades society has witnessed a number of food scares such as BSE, avian bird flu, E-Coli, Salmonella and Dioxin residues (Löfstedt 2006; Knowles 2007). New food risk topics related to novel foods and biotechnology such as GMO have added to the public concerns over food risks (Frewer et al. 2002; Sjöberg 2008). Obesity and other consequences of lifestyle related food risks cause severe health problems (Seiders 2004). Recently the growing concern about climate changes has led to significant public concern and media attention to the environmental impacts of food miles and green house gas emissions in food production (Weber and Matthews 2008). As a consequence of this development consumer concerns over food safety have increased steadily since the 1970s (Knox 2000). The sum of all these risks and the resulting societal anxiety are a politicization of food risks similar to that of risks related to new technologies. The politicization of food risks is accompanied by increased public demands for regulation, which, similar to the case of regulating new technologies, lead to the necessity of a better understanding of what factors drive public attitudes towards those risks. Subsequently the studies of public perceptions of 10 food risks have increased steadily over the past decades (Löfstedt 2006, Hohl and Gaskel 2008)). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8289 Files in this item: 1
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Etablering af en ekspressiv kategori, eksemplificeret på russiskHäuser, Ivan (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandling placerer sig i forlængelse af forskningen på området følelse og sprog. Det undersøges, hvordan følelser udtrykkes af den talende og vækkes hos andre gennem sproglige midler. Antagelsen er, at der kan identificeres fællestræk, som udgør et særligt lingvistisk system for følelsers interaktion med sproget. Systemet forsøges afdækket inden for det moderne russiske sprog og beskrevet som en ekspressiv kategori. Følelser, herunder behov og motiver, driver menneskers handlinger, herunder også deres sproghandlinger. Følelser ligger ikke kun bag ved og under sproget, men kommer ofte også op til overfladen og bliver synlige i form af lingvistiske udtryk. Følelser er ikke kun private, men de er et socialt fænomen; de er integreret i sproget og spiller en rolle i dialog. Det er følelsers funktion i sproget, der undersøges i denne afhandling. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8375 Files in this item: 1
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En kognitiv-typologisk analyseBalieu, Henriette (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The dissertation seeks to answer the following questions: Which semantic properties allow for a verb to appear as well transitively as intransitively without any morphological changes, i.e. a semantic characterization of the verbs that alternate. When does the reflexive pronoun se appear in the intransitive version of the alternation? What characterizes the situations referred to by the alternation and what makes them so apt to appear in the causative alternation not only in Spanish but also in typologically related and unrelated languages, i.e. a more general characterization/description of the situations referred to by the verbs in the alternation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7945 Files in this item: 1
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French National Habitus and the Rejection of American PowerFich, Christian (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Antiamerikanisme er et emne, der har tiltrukket sig stigende opmærksomhed gennem det seneste årti. Terrorangrebene den 11. september 2001 var udtryk for et ekstremt had mod USA, og mange amerikanere følte sig efterfølgende kaldet til at spørge ‖Hvorfor hader de os så meget?‖ (Zakaria 2001). Terrorangrebene fik et efterspil, der afslørede, at det kunne være nok så væsentligt også at spørge ‖Hvorfor er vi blevet så upopulære, selv blandt vores venner?‖ (Moïsi 2009). Forberedelserne til invasionen af Irak i foråret 2003 tydeliggjorde, at der var stor uenighed om mål og midler mellem USA og dets europæiske allierede for så vidt angår linjen over for Irak. Særlig ét europæisk land blev fremstillet som repræsentant for europæisk antiamerikanisme: Frankrig. Frankrig blev i amerikanske medier såvel som af ledende amerikanske politikere beskyldt for at agere spydspids for en politisk orkestreret modstand mod USA‘s udenrigspolitik, som væsentligst skulle være motiveret af en iboende fransk tendens til antiamerikanisme. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8026 Files in this item: 1
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