Positive image and reputation building are important strategies in developing the permanent recognition of a college in the education market. Although it seems challenging to measure image and reputation, they are an important opportunity to gain a competitive advantage due to the fact that they are unique, hard to imitate and increase a college’s chances of attracting more students. Image management requires systematic marketing research. This article is the author’s proposition for a set of image research methods that can be used by colleges.
The article presents the research results about the influence of the colloquial lexis used in a column’s language on the image of the author of the text, as well as describing the mechanism of this influence. The material was collected during empirical research, when respondents pointed to traits of the column’s author after reading his/her text, and subsequently wrote the text fragments which in their opinion represented the indicated attributes. The exploratory discourse analysis of this corpus made it possible to identify words or sentences indicating the communication of traits like “humorous”, “ironic”, “interesting writer” through the use of colloquial lexis. This article is the analysis of the communicative mechanism of constructing these attributes.
The main research problem presented in this paper is the communication of one of many features of personal image – the trait ‘inquisitive’. The paper presents the results of the research which used quantitative methods and discourse analysis in order to examine what image can be created when somebody is talking/writing about various subjects but not about him/herself. The results of the research shows that it is possible to indicate six ways of communicating“inquisitiveness”: questions, declaration of interest, declaration of information searching, insight/conclusion, multifaceted issue, details.
The article presents the research results about the influence of the colloquial lexis used in a column’s language on the image of the author of the text, as well as describing the mechanism of this influence. The material was collected during empirical research, when respondents pointed to traits of the column’s author after reading his/her text, and subsequently wrote the text fragments which in their opinion represented the indicated attributes. The exploratory discourse analysis of this corpus made it possible to identify words or sentences indicating the communication of traits like “humorous”, “ironic”, “interesting writer” through the use of colloquial lexis. This article is the analysis of the communicative mechanism of constructing these attributes.
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