Browsing by Supervisor "Leitch, Shirley"
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Possibilities of transformation: discourses of difference in organisational communication
(The University of Waikato, 1998)In this thesis I set out to create an interdisciplinary location from which to address the relationship between gender and communication in an organisational context. I draw on feminist and post-structuralist theory to ask ... -
Strangers, sojourners, selves: the intercultural communication experiences of ethnic Chinese students in western tertiary education
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This study describes the intercultural communication experiences of Confucian heritage culture students in a western tertiary setting. Exploring the intercultural communication encounters enabled an understanding of how ... -
The discourse of New Zealand and French television advertising: a comparative approach
(The University of Waikato, 2003)This thesis explored two television advertising discourses. In a response to a need for more qualitative inductive approaches to cultural/national advertising whereby each culture is seen as unique and is not compared to ... -
The political field and public relations : Competing discourses in New Zealand’s first MMP election
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This thesis uses Norman Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis to analyse the campaign discourse of each of the five main political parties that contested the New Zealand general election in 1996. The parties ...
