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  2. Politeness theory - Wikipedia

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    The final politeness strategy outlined by Brown and Levinson is the indirect strategy; This strategy uses indirect language and removes the speaker from the potential to be imposing. The strategy of doing off-record is to express something general or different than the speaker's true meaning and relies on the hearer's interpretation to have the ...

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    The Gates Foundation, for example, pays a 10% rate for indirect costs, while the Carnegie Corporation and John Templeton Foundation each pay 15% of indirect costs for research.

  4. Propaganda techniques - Wikipedia

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    Common media for transmitting propaganda messages include news reports, government reports, historical revision, junk science, books, leaflets, movies, social media, radio, television, and posters. Less common nowadays are the cow post envelopes, examples of which have survived from the time of the American Civil War. (Connecticut Historical ...

  5. Spin (propaganda) - Wikipedia

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    Examples from the UK include Jamie Shea during his time as NATO's press secretary throughout the Kosovo War, Charlie Whelan, and Alastair Campbell. [ 6 ] [ clarification needed ] Campbell, previously a journalist before becoming Tony Blair's Press Secretary, was the driving force behind a government that was able to produce the message it ...

  6. John McCain took an indirect shot at Trump for his famous ...

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  7. Study shows why ending text message in a period could be a ...

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    In a new study, scientists prove that ending your text with a period could make you come across insincere.

  8. Behavioral communication - Wikipedia

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    For example, an expressive hairstyle, a show of a particular emotion, or simply doing (or not doing) the dishes can be means by which people may convey messages to each other. Behavioral communication can be understood as a variable of individual differences .

  9. Censorship - Wikipedia

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    Soft, or indirect, censorship is the practice of influencing news coverage by applying financial pressure on media companies that are deemed critical of a government or its policies and rewarding media outlets and individual journalists who are seen as friendly to the government.