2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
A Genre Analysis Approach to Effective Writing in Multilateral Diplomacy
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19K00793
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| Research Institution | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
ZENUK西出 Lori 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (30453145)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HOLLENBACK MICHAEL 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (40838934)
立木 ドナ 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80347517)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Model United Nations / United Nations / Diplomatic Writing / Resolutions / Genre Analysis |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
To rectify this gap in empirically grounded materials and methods for the teaching of diplomatic writing we successfully held a Model United Nations conference for Japanese and non-Japanese University students at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies for three days (200 participants), the Japan University Model United Nations (JUEMUN) to collect baseline data of non-native speakers writing 12 United Nations Resolutions (tangible products of a United Nations committee’s deliberations through the result of research, writing, discussion, negotiation) for the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Japan University English Model United Nations (JUEMUN) an international conference at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies University of Foreign Studies http://juemun.org (Nishide, Tatsuki,& Hollenback). We were also successful in collecting resolutions data of non-native and native speakers at one international Model United Nations Conferences in Europe. National Model United Nations (NMUN) in Erfurt, Germany 2019 with 2 meetings (Security Council and General Assembly and 150 students for 4-days of sessions(http://www.nmun.org/) (Nishide, Tatsuki & Hollenback). United Nations resolutions in the three United Nations bodies General Assembly, Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council on the same agendas or issues have been accessed. We are now using a genre approach to illustrate the deficit in (recurrent grammar and phraseological patterns, and function and purpose of the content) student generated Model United Nations resolutions.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
We are not on schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the National Model United Nations in New York with over 5000 participants where we were doing data collection was cancelled. Due to the cancellation we were not able to get the resolution data on three United Nations bodies. Therefore, in 2020, we will keep collecting more data for analysis. We were also unable to attend a conference in Cambodia due to the virus.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In our second year of the project with the cooperation of other research team members, we will continue to analyze data collected from the previous year and continue our data collection at the Japan University English Model United Nations conference and three National Model United Nation's conferences in Kobe, Washington D.C. and New York. We will analyze diplomatic writing for United Nations and Model United Nations resolutions for three United Nations main bodies (General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council) using both quantitative and qualitative analysis based on systemic functional grammar, a corpus linguistics approach supported by Sketch Engine, Antconc 2.0 software, Genre and critical discourse analysis to address how diplomatic writing features presented, justified and how actions are recommended in United Nations General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council resolutions though examining recurrent grammar and phraseological patterns, and function and purpose of the content. In addition, we will present our findings at conferences in the UK, Japan,and the USA.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The funding will be used to:
1) Continue to collect data at Model United Nations conferences in Asia, Europe and North America. The data will be collected at conferences and through interviews with diplomats and United Nations Secretariat members on diplomatic writing for 3 bodies including Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly.
2) Soft and hardware purchases for data analysis.
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[Book] Mobile Technologies and Applications for Internet of Things, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing2019
Author(s)
Gelsomini, Federico., Kanev, Karmen, Barneva, Reneta., Bottoni, Paolo, Tatsuki, Donna Hurst, Roccaforte, Maria
Total Pages
406
Publisher
Springer
ISBN
978-3-030-11433-6
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