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Bodily Practices in Action Formation and Ascription in Multilingual Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue.
2022
This special issue brings together empirical studies that investigate how bodily practices feature in action formation and action ascription in multilingual interaction (Schegloff, 2007; Levinson, 2013). Grounded in video-based conversation analysis and drawing on data from diverse sociomaterial settings, the articles investigate the contingent interactional processes through which speakers from different language backgrounds accomplish actions and achieve intersubjectivity. They demonstrate how specific constellations of linguistic resources, bodily conduct, spatial configurations, and material ecology are built into accomplishment of actions at different levels of interactional organizati…
Priekšrocības un grūtības CLIL izmantošanā vācu valodas stundās iesācējiem
2017
Pētījumā analizētas CLIL ((Content and Language Integrated Learning) – valodas un satura integrēta mācīšanās) priekšrocības un grūtības svešvalodu stundās iesācējiem. Tas sastāv no ievada un divām daļām – no teorētiskās un no praktiskās daļas. Ievadā formulēts darba mērķis un uzdevumi, izvirzīta pētāmajai problēmai atbilstoša hipotēze, izvēlētas pamatotas pētīšanas metodes. Teorētiskajā daļā aplūkots CLIL jēdziens un tā interpretācijas, būtiskās pazīmes un varianti, analizēti CLIL didaktiski metodiskie pamatprincipi un mācību materiālā bāze, kā arī mācību sasniegumu vertēšana. Praktiskajā daļā, kas veidota kā diplomdarba teorētiskās daļas praktisks pamatojums un apliecinājums, atspoguļota p…
In the name of security : Governmentality apparatus in a multilingual mine in Arctic Finland
2021
This critical sociolinguistic study explores how mining work is governed in the name of security in a mine in Arctic Finland. Although the mining industry is dominated by multinational corporations, mines themselves tend to be concentrated in peripheries where a mobile and multilingual workforce is recruited. Mining is a high-risk business: industrial accidents and environmental damage can be severe. Discursive practices play a crucial role in risk management. In this study, the nexus of language, security, and production in mining work is analyzed by applying the Foucauldian concept of 'governmentality'. The data comprise ethnographic observations, work-related documents, and interviews co…
Timbral Qualities of Semantic Structures of Music.
2010
The rapid expansion of social media in music has provided the field with impressive datasets that offer insights into the semantic structures underlying everyday uses and classification of music. We hypothesize that the organization of these structures are rather directly linked with the ”qualia” of the music as sound. To explore the ways in which these structures are connected with the qualities of sounds, a semantic space was extracted from a large collection of musical tags with latent semantic and cluster analysis. The perceptual and musical properties of 19 clusters were investigated by a similarity rating task that used spliced musical excerpts representing each cluster. The resulting…
Linguistic recycling : The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings
2020
“She said that he said that they said…” – This issue of the AILA Review focuses on practices of quoting by which language is recycled in new contexts, transgressing formerly clear boundaries in environments of increasing mediatization. In the introduction, we first present working definitions of our topic’s key terms (Part 1). Then, we go through the topics, outcomes, and main interconnections of the ten approaches as discussed in the papers of this issue (Part 2). Based on the insights from the discussion so far, we develop a systematic framework to analyze the formal, functional, and procedural aspects of linguistic recycling (Part 3). Finally, we touch some of the white spots of this iss…
Further notes on sociolinguistic scales
2015
AbstractThis short paper seeks to reformulate and refine the notion of sociolinguistic scales as relative scope of understandability, thus drawing the notion fully into the realm of semiotics, rather than in the rather unproductive sphere of spatiotemporal and distributional interpretation where it has been deployed. Differences in scope of understandability are differences in the presupposability of signs, and such differences are not equivalent but stratified in a polycentric environment. Scales, in that sense, point towards the non-unified and hierarchical-layered nature of the sign and of meaning making practices. Scalar effects, once established, can furthermore be carried over into di…
From a municipal to a school-based English A1-language curriculum
1999
I minori stranieri non accompagnati nei Centri di Istruzione per gli Adulti in Sicilia
2018
Per i Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati (d'ora in avanti MSNA), l’apprendimento della lingua italiana diventa lo snodo attraverso cui accedere a tutela, diritti, partecipazione. I bisogni formativi dei MSNA sono stati oggetto di una ricerca che si è proposta di definirne i profili socio-linguistici, attraverso una ricognizione delle competenze linguistiche, delle condizioni familiari e sociali di partenza e delle condizioni di accoglienza in Italia, a partire dai quali tracciare percorsi possibili per massimizzare l’offerta formativa ad essi rivolta. Una particolare attenzione è stata data ai LESLLA (Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition), individui a bassa o bassissima scol…
Latvian or English – the Language Situation in Scientific Communication in Latvia
2020
The growing dominance of English as an international language of scientific communication in the world has been widely acknowledged. However, its effect in the relevant discourse community in Latvia is still to be explored. A case study was undertaken to improve upon the current understanding of the choice of scientific publishing language in Latvia and explore historical factors underpinning the current predominance of English as the lingua franca of the scientific community. It has been concluded that with a strong focus on international publishing in indexed databases, the role of English in scientific communication in Latvia has an increasing tendency to grow. Although currently English…
Sobre alguns participis actius amb verbs de moviment
2021
L’objectiu d’aquest estudi és analitzar les estructures formades a partir de la combinació d’un participi amb un verb de moviment, en casos com venir plorat de casa. L’interès d’aquestes dades rau en el fet que els participis que descrivim no són actius (plorat, tossit), però adquireixen una lectura activa en combinar-se amb verbs de desplaçament (venir, sortir, arribar). Al llarg de l’article recopilem i descrivim les dades que segueixen aquesta configuració i mirem d’esbossar alguns apunts per a una possible anàlisi formal. D’una banda, seguint la proposta d’Armstrong (2017), defensem que verbs com plorar o tossir permeten la formació d’un participi actiu resultatiu perquè tenen un object…