How to Do Things With Words

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years?

Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

The rhythms of canal tourism: Synchronizing the host-visitor interface

Research about resident quality-of-life in gaming communities has been conducted in a variety of rural and urban settings, and in communities that offer an array of different types of gaming industry and gambling entertainment opportunities Two types of research are common: assessments of residents’ attitudes toward current and future gaming tourism developments and their impacts, and measurement of tangible and intangible community impacts (economic, social, cultural, institutional) associated with gaming tourism development Varying levels of perceived quality-of-life have been associated with respondents’ roles in a community (citizen, government official, business entrepreneur) and in the gaming industry Because questions about public health and safety are also politically important, one area of special research emphasis has been the perceived and actual impacts of crime in gaming communities Consideration of quality-of-life issues in gaming places brings to the forefront personal and collective values, civic participation, institutional performance, local governance processes, and the preservation of valued social, cultural, and environmental qualities of a community Such research also has an applied focus, informing planning and policymaking in community tourism development settings

Resident Quality-of-Life in Gaming Communities

Many national parks now use social media to communicate their special qualities of place and guide visitors’ experiences. But, how do they actually construct effective social media messages that resonate with their audiences? To answer this, we used rhetorical discourse analysis to examine a one-year sample of texts from the Facebook posts of three large U.S. national parks. Rhetorical discourses are persuasive; their contents, forms and styles of organization can be studied to understand how social and cultural practices of meaning-making are enacted by communicators in an effort to influence audiences. In this study, we applied Aristotle’s three modes of argumentation (ethos, logos, and pathos) to guide the rhetorical analysis. Results show that agencies primarily provided emotion-laden and informational materials for social media followers in making claims about place and about visitor experiences. Four rhetorical themes about the uniqueness of park places, the management of people, parks and significant life moments, and time and timelessness, were identified. These contributed to an overall discourse about parks and spirituality that seemed intended to reaffirm the perspectives of existing audiences of park visitors. Understanding the rhetorical-discursive qualities of social media messages, however, can help agencies adjust their communication strategies to reach more diverse audiences while deploying a wider range of rhetorical approaches. Management implications For park managers the following aspects are of high relevance. - Social media presentations can extend and enhance a national park’s relationship with publics. - Park management agencies use emotion, logic and organizational credibility to construct social media claims. - Parks’ social media texts are rhetorical (persuasive), relying primarily on emotional claims and information dissemination. - Visitor-generated stories re-posted on a park’s social media site can expand both park’s and audiences’ social and cultural perspectives. - Study parks’ social media texts presented rhetorical discourses of spirituality that reinforced traditional place relationships and ways of engaging with national parks. - Social media postings are often directed to people who already visit the park; wider use of rhetorical ideas for more diverse audiences are needed.

Place meanings and national parks: A rhetorical analysis of social media texts

Informed by social constructionist philosophies and discourse theories, this paper presents a rhetorical analysis of comments written by respondents on mail questionnaires obtained in a survey of Vermont permanent and seasonal residents. A notable feature of the comments was their assertiveness, and so rhetorical analysis – the study of persuasive communication – was used to study the structural forms, nature of arguments and claims, and stylistic features of the texts. The inductive analysis revealed six types of text organization that varied in levels of rhetorical discourse. Different kinds of argumentation strategies and claims were associated with each form, and distinct linguistic styles were used to embellish the arguments. This study advances interpretive discourse analysis in outdoor recreation research, illustrating how people use language strategically in an effort to achieve effects in readers, and informs managers who draw insight from survey research. Management implications How should researchers and managers interpret the comments written by respondents on mail questionnaires? This paper describes a process of discourse analysis that theorizes survey research as a rhetorical situation in which respondents and researchers are separated in time and space. This research will sensitize researchers and managers to the discursive qualities of survey research, showing how written comments provided by survey respondents can take various structural forms, and use identifiable claims and styles. Analyses of these discourses can help strengthen survey research by offering new ways to analyze remote communications in recreation resource management and tourism, and offer nuanced appreciation of how people interact with resource places.

Understanding written comments on mail questionnaires: A rhetorical analysis ☆

Organizational cultures are important to individuals and to groups because they offer guidelines about how to act and deal with change, and they provide internal logic for “why things are the way they are.” Analysis of the cultural aspects of organizational behavior can lead to a more complete understanding of how conservation agencies develop and use culture strategically, particularly in conceptualizing and managing resource places. Drawing examples from public lands management, this chapter considers how research about organizational culture can provide insights about place-based conservation.

Patricia A. Stokowski

Papers

The rhythms of canal tourism: Synchronizing the host-visitor interface

Resident Quality-of-Life in Gaming Communities

Place meanings and national parks: A rhetorical analysis of social media texts

Understanding written comments on mail questionnaires: A rhetorical analysis ☆

Organizational Cultures and Place-Based Conservation