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University Exchange Students’ Practices of Learning Finnish: A Language Ecological Approach to Affordances in Linguistic Landscapes
2020
In linguistic landscape (LL) studies, various projects have demonstrated how language learners benefit from tasks that involve the documentation and interpretation of the LL. In this chapter, we investigate how Finnish as a second language learner exchange students turned the local LL into affordances during their time abroad in Finland. While language awareness and its relation to learning and teaching have been extensively discussed, it has often been regarded as a property of an individual consciousness: a faculty or a tendency of a particular person to perceive, notice and reflect upon the linguistic features present in their environments. In contrast, we argue for an approach that cont…
Facsimile : The Makings of the Similar in Graham Rawle’s Collage Novel Woman’s World
2016
This article reads Graham Rawle's collage novel Woman's World (2005) by utilizing the literal and metaphoric meanings of the facsimile as critical tools. Woman's World is an assemblage of circa 40,000 fragments cut and pasted from over a 1000 copies of British women's magazines of the early 1960s. These snippets are reproduced in facsimile and thus feature a jerky variety of font types, cases, and sizes. Woman's World does not only present a facsimile of its found graphic materials but it also studies, in my reading, the "facsimile" (similarizing, imitating, copying) qualities of gender identification, adopted discourses, (cross-)dressing, and the novel's own construction. The "varieties of…
Descrizione di una battaglia. Attori e strategie della prova in un processo per femminicidio
2022
Spostando l’attenzione dalla dimensione della verità a quella della veridizione e analizzando la sentenza come una battaglia dialettica che ridefinisce i confini delle identità degli attori coinvolti, il libro propone l’esame di un caso di femminicidio andato in giudizio nel dicembre del 2015. È l’omicidio di una donna che viene insolitamente definito dai giudici come un femminicidio e il cui movente è rinvenuto nel desiderio di possesso dell’omicida nei confronti della vittima. Un caso del quale la cronaca si è poco occupata, anche per il basso livello socio-economico e culturale di vittima e assassino. A renderne ancor più ricca la narrazione, il fatto che di esso (e della giovane vittima…
El cuerpo materno en la red: entre el orden de lo ?deseable? y el de lo real
2019
El estilo de vida fitness se realiza en, y a través de, un entramado subjetivo y de poder en el que circulan y se ensamblan dispositivos empresariales, terapéuticos, sanitarios y de espectacularización de los cuerpos, tendientes a inscribir la vida de la población en las tramas conflictivas de un capitalismo heterosexista, neoliberal e informacional. En dicho marco, la temporalidad, metamorfosis y plasticidad del cuerpo materno irrumpe como problema y objeto de intervención de tecnologías diversas orientadas a ajustar su tamaño, forma y devenir a los parámetros de la vida activa y saludable. En escenarios digitales, dicha tensión se materializa, por un lado, a través de dispositivos visuale…
Dorobek naukowy Milana Leščáka pozostawiony w spadku folklorystom i kulturoznawcom
2022
Milan Leščák (1940–2022) – distinguished Slovak ethnologist and folklorist; he lectured at Comenius University in Bratislava and established the Department of Folklore and Regional Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Between 1963–1998 he worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Slovak Academy of Sciencies, and between 1998–2006 he performed the function of the Chair of the Department of Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. He was also the Chief Editor of the journal Slovenský Národopis, and the co-founder of the film festival Ethnofilm Czadca.
El paper d’Alfred Morel-Fatio en els inicis de la catalanística
2022
El nostre objectiu en aquest article és fer una síntesi dels principals estudis d’Alfred Morel-Fatio sobre llengua i literatura catalanes, així com definir el seu paper en la catalanística del segle XIX, especialment a França però també a la resta d’Europa. Cal saber que aquest erudit francès va tenir un paper cabdal en el desplegament dels estudis universitaris catalans fora del nostre àmbit lingüístic, a banda de fer aportacions significatives al desplegament de la filologia catalana. Així, arribem a la conclusió que Morel-Fatio té el mèrit de ser el primer professor que va introduir l’estudi de la llengua i la literatura catalanes a les aules universitàries. A banda d’això, no es pot obv…
Rase un autorība izbēgušo vergu naratīvos (Fr. Duglass un H. Džeikobsa)
2017
Izbēgušo vergu naratīvi ir izveidojuši nozīmīgu pamatu 19. gadsimta Afro-Amerikāņu literatūrā, sniedzot vērtīgu attēlojumu par melnādaino vergu nepārtraukto cīņu dienvidu štatos, ar mērķi saglabāt identitāti un iegūt brīvību, tādējādi veicinot izpratni starp ziemeļu štata cilvēkiem par šaušalīgajiem notikumiem, kas norisinās verdzības iestādēs. Līdz ar to pašreizējā pētījuma mērķis ir veikt dzimtes un rases balstītu salīdzinājumu starp vergu naratīviem (Frederiks Duglass un Harieta Džeikobsa), un atbildēt uz galveno pētījuma jautājumu, nosakot kā abu dzimuma autori risināja ar rasi un dzimti saistītās problēmas. Lai sasniegtu uzstādīto mērķi, tika izvēlēti attiecīgi metodiskie paņēmieni, pr…
Le récit d’esclave africain-américain : réflexions sur une appellation générique
2015
What do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American slave narratives have been a staple of American literary studies over the past decades. The narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and other ex-slaves have been recovered, anthologized and discussed by eminent critics such as Marion Wilson Starling, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Frances Smith Foster and William L. Andrews. For all its ubiquity, however, the generic label 'slave narrative' has been used in many different ways by specialists of African American literature. In this essay I argue that the systematic and sometimes uncritical use of the label has led to generalizations that limit our understanding of…
Initial support teachers training through Mcdrury & Alterio’s storytelling model storytelling methodology. A research in the laboratories of the spec…
2019
Creating digital stories provides with important opportunities to practice and master a number of specific 21st-century skills, content, and technology standards. Storytelling has been extensively used in children’s education as a valuable and creative tool, however, its use in the higher education process has been less common and this paper proposes that storytelling can be used as an effective reflective tool in higher education. Digital storytelling is essentially the application of technology to this age-old experience of sharing personal narratives and seeking to teach and learn from them. What is different, and what makes these digital stories so potentially powerful, is the availabil…
Interrelating agency, autonomy and identity in foreign language learning
2014
Foreign language (FL) learning is increasingly examined in terms of the language learning person’s agency, autonomy and identity. What agency refers to in FL learning and how it relates to autonomy and identity nevertheless remains unclear. As theoretical discussions about the interconnections are ambiguous, more empirical evidence is needed. The present article addresses this need, contributing to a fuller understanding of the three notions in FL education. The article explores one student’s FL learning in a general upper secondary school for adults (GUSSA), analysing her language narratives, which refer to her storied, FL related experiences. The findings suggest that agency can be concep…