Decoding social media speak: developing a speech act theory research agenda

Developing a Research Agenda through Pitching

This paper details my use of the pitching template framework (Faff, 2015) in the development of the research agenda for my PhD at the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School. The pitching template was used once for the research proposal submitted when applying for the PhD program and twice more during the early months of the program. Use of the pitching template framework appears to have ...

Developing a Research Agenda for the Analysis of Product Supply: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Developing a research agenda for assisted living.

PURPOSE We describe an approach to identifying knowledge gaps, research questions, and methodological issues for assisted living (AL) research. DESIGN AND METHODS We undertook an inventory of AL literature and research in progress and commissioned background papers critiquing knowledge on selected subtopics. With an advisory committee, we identified a comprehensive list of researchable questi...

Speak, Act, Remember

The fields of language production and verbal memory have relatively little contact. I argue that utterance planning for language production has substantial memory maintenance demands and that utterance planning provides the maintenance and ordering processes for short-term verbal memory tasks. There has already been some movement toward this view. I discuss benefits to pursuing these links more...

A Study on Social Hope: A Grounded Theory Research

The present study aims to use the interpretive approach to investigate “social hope” from an emic point of view among Isfahan city residents. The research method is qualitative which uses grounded theory strategy. Based on the purposeful sampling method (Successive Theoretical Sampling) 20 people up to 15 years old participated in the present study and their interpretations of social hope were ...