Jane Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crisis, what’s a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase ‘crisis of value’ and asks whether it should be used to descr…
Book Town
A book town is a small community on the geographical periphery that has experienced regeneration through a themed identity centered around secondhand and antiquarian bookselling; festival culture and events; writing and reading. The clustering of bookshops in book towns produces a multiplier effect that has been recognized by governments and development organizations for its capacity to enhance and sustain regional economies. A growing number of …
Gender Differences in Color Naming: Direct Mail Order Advertisements
N A SEMINAL WORK ON GENDER DIFFERENCES in speech, Robin Lakoff (1975) invents a conversation between a man and woman to illustrate lexical differences between the sexes. Readers are asked to imagine how the woman, then the man, would describe a wall painted a pinkish shade of purple. She asserts, The woman may say 'The wall is mauve,' with no one consequently forming any special impression of her as a result of the words alone; but if the man sho…
You call that a rhetorical question
English in Advertising
The Language of Advertising.By Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder
Miscommunication across cultures: The case of marketing in Indian English
Successful communication requires that messages achieve their intent. If the explicit purpose of the message is to generate sales, yet the originator's implicit intent (persuasion) is not achieved, marketing strategies can be said to have failed. This paper focuses on the contents of a direct‐response sales letter written in English, which offers a product marketed by an Indian firm to an American audience. It contends that in marketing situation…
You call that a rhetorical question
Gender Differences in Color Naming: Direct Mail Order Advertisements
N A SEMINAL WORK ON GENDER DIFFERENCES in speech, Robin Lakoff (1975) invents a conversation between a man and woman to illustrate lexical differences between the sexes. Readers are asked to imagine how the woman, then the man, would describe a wall painted a pinkish shade of purple. She asserts, The woman may say 'The wall is mauve,' with no one consequently forming any special impression of her as a result of the words alone; but if the man sho…
English in Advertising
The Language of Advertising.By Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder
English in Advertising
The Language of Advertising.By Torben Vestergaard and Kim Schroder
Miscommunication across cultures: The case of marketing in Indian English
Successful communication requires that messages achieve their intent. If the explicit purpose of the message is to generate sales, yet the originator's implicit intent (persuasion) is not achieved, marketing strategies can be said to have failed. This paper focuses on the contents of a direct‐response sales letter written in English, which offers a product marketed by an Indian firm to an American audience. It contends that in marketing situation…
Gender Differences in Color Naming: Direct Mail Order Advertisements
N A SEMINAL WORK ON GENDER DIFFERENCES in speech, Robin Lakoff (1975) invents a conversation between a man and woman to illustrate lexical differences between the sexes. Readers are asked to imagine how the woman, then the man, would describe a wall painted a pinkish shade of purple. She asserts, The woman may say 'The wall is mauve,' with no one consequently forming any special impression of her as a result of the words alone; but if the man sho…
You call that a rhetorical question
Book Town
A book town is a small community on the geographical periphery that has experienced regeneration through a themed identity centered around secondhand and antiquarian bookselling; festival culture and events; writing and reading. The clustering of bookshops in book towns produces a multiplier effect that has been recognized by governments and development organizations for its capacity to enhance and sustain regional economies. A growing number of …
Crisis, what’s a crisis? Some methodological reflections on evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on Australian arts and culture
This essay discusses a 2021 interview-based pilot project on the impact of COVID-19 on a cross-section of Southeast Queensland artists and cultural organisations. Though it engages with empirical data, it addresses conceptual concerns. Our interviews aimed at capturing the emotional as well as the objective costs of the pandemic on cultural practitioners. The essay considers the phrase ‘crisis of value’ and asks whether it should be used to descr…
Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Law (2 works)