Université de Fribourg

Intermediality and the discursive construction of popular music genres: the case of ‘Japanese City Pop’

Sommet, Moritz

In: Handai ongaku gakuhō / Journal of Handai Music Studies, 2020/16/17//15-42

Commonly said to embody the 'urbane' and 'refined' lifestyle of metropolitan Tokyo and to prefigure the transnational and consumerist characteristics of today's mainstream J-Pop, Japanese City Pop has undergone several recontextualizations since it first surfaced in the last quarter of the 20th century. I use City Pop as an example to interrogate the intermedial qualities of the processes at...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Third parties' voices in a therapeutic interview

Grossen, Michèle ; Orvig, Anne Salazar

In: Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies, 2011, vol. 31, no. 1, p. 53-76

Università della Svizzera italiana

Fostering teamwork and socialization in collaborative working environments : Insights from a situated study on a university research team

Meschitti, Viviana ; Carassa, Antonella (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM005.

Collaborative practices in real groups are rarely studied as they develop in research teams, despite the importance of the topic. The present study aims to address this lack and is focused on how collaboration develops in an academic research team. It draws specific attention to group practices that enhance mutual engagement within the team and the socialization of doctoral students....

Università della Svizzera italiana

The arguments of corporate directors in takeover bids : Comparing argumentative strategies in the context of friendly and hostile offers in the UK takeover market

Palmieri, Rudi ; Rigotti, Eddo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.

This dissertation analyzes argumentative interactions in the context of corporate takeover bids, representing thus a first systematic study of financial communication from the perspective of argumentation theory. In general, the importance of financial communication is justified by the relevance of information for making sound investment decisions (cf. Healy Williams 2008)....