...Ketil Raknes; Øyvind Ihlen Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of public interest topics by public affairs practitioners and how politicians evaluate these arguments. Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes the rhetorical theory of topos and theories of the public...

... Lobbying Big Tech Regulation Rhetoric The unprecedented position of Big Tech(nology) companies – transnational technology corporations who are the providers of critical infrastructure for our digital communication environment (for example, Apple, Google, Meta or Microsoft, or TikTok...

... 04 10 2023 27 11 2023 30 11 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Issues management Rhetoric Public relations Corporate communication Corporate social responsibility Corporate science communication...

... communication-scientific insights from a rhetorical tradition to strategic communication research and other social science fields where lobbying is studied, e.g. policy studies. To build the proposed typology, a literature search was conducted. In addition to seeking out existing typologies, the search terms...

...Maria Isaksson; Mona Solvoll Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the identification and collaboration rhetoric of the Norwegian government and public health authorities during the pandemic. The aim is to show whether and how actors use strategies and themes of identification...

... that the transmission model would fail to adequately describe, let us consider the advertorial of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco published in 1984 under the headline “Some surprising advice to young people from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco”. This message, which has been the object of previous research in rhetoric and argumentation...

... in times of health crisis. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Civil society diplomacy Strategic communication Collective Connective Rhetoric Hackathon Civic consciousness (Snow, 2006), shared cause, science (Arranda, 2022...

... of introduction of the guaranteed number of places on voting lists for women while 53% were opposing such solution (CBOS, 2010). Image Rhetoric Public opinion Communication strategy Political communication Ambiguity is natural, although rarely noticed, part of human communication. As Keysar (2007...

...Liz Yeomans; Sarah Bowman Purpose The paper explores university leaders' employee-focused sensegiving discourse during the COVID-19 health crisis. The aim is to reveal how leadership sensegiving narratives construct emotion in the rhetor-audience relationship. Design/methodology/approach...

...Øyvind Ihlen Purpose There is a great potential in pulling together science communication and strategic communication, especially given how the former has gained importance in organizational contexts. Strategic communication, including rhetorical theory, can offer insights that are invaluable...

..., increasingly is a primary concern for professionals in crisis communication or issue management. Design/methodology/approach A discursive psychological perspective is drawn upon to conduct a qualitative analysis of the interactional and rhetorical features of mobilization on two Facebook event pages...

... Rhetoric Communication technologies RQ1. What groups and organisations participated in debates related to #migrantcrisis on Twitter? RQ2. What frames are associated with #migrantcrisis on Twitter? Through the empirical analysis of the Twitter network...

...Jeffrey Gauthier; Jeffrey A. Kappen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the rhetorical strategies used by organizations when the legitimacy of their products is challenged by stakeholders’ sustainability concerns. Design/methodology/approach The approach involves rhetorical...

...Alison Berry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how the US Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) communicatively engaged in legitimization concerning accreditation. Design/methodology/approach This study utilized the rhetorical analysis approach outlined by Hoffman...

... of organisations, like advertising and environmental reports, as a part of on‐line environmentalist campaigns. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on textual semiotics and a semiotic‐based approach to rhetoric; the methodology is qualitative and exploratory. A part of the text published on the web...

... and patients. Design/methodology/approach To demonstrate public relations' importance in IMC, dLife's relationship with the changing health marketing landscape is contextualized. Constitutive and empowerment theory is employed to frame a rhetorical analysis of dLife's efforts to target marketers...

...Andrej Skerlep The paper criticises the dominant paradigm of public relations theory for lack of interest in discursive and rhetorical dimensions of public relations. An alternative theoretical approach to public relations is identified that does treat discursive and rhetorical dimensions of public...

... organisational metaphor on which the reengineering construct is based;—equivocate about the meaning of the essential term ‘work’; and confound the goals of reengineering with its inevitable consequences. Rhetoric Reeingineering Equivocation Group dynamics Downsizing Journal of Communication Management...