Search results for " discourse"

The 'terroridiom' principle between spoken and written discourse

2008

This paper focuses on phraseology used within the domain of politics, both in written and spoken discourse. We concentrate on the lemma TERROR and on the recurrent sequences in which it is embedded, reflecting how native speakers, both American and British, tend to use it in preferred environments making routinized blocks of language. The data come from two corpora: the spoken corpus includes speeches of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and the written corpus is made up of articles from The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. Since text is nothing but phraseology of one kind or another (Sinclair 2008), our attempt here is to uncover which of the two varieties lends itself more willingly to…

Focal social actions through which space is configured and reconfigured when orienting to a Finnish Sign Language class

2018

Abstract This paper focuses on how signing students organise themselves spatially in social interactions in a university lecture hall. One may view space as a concrete location, a social construct, and a normative actor with historical trajectories. The study addresses the question, ‘What are the mediated actions through which the students and teacher (re)configure space for participating in a class?' Following a methodological framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, I approach this question by examining the social actions occurring when entering a lecture hall. The primary data includes video recordings, photos, and participatory observations, document…

Understanding functional ability: Perspectives of nurses and older people living in long-term care

2017

The functional ability of older people has come to play a significant role in their care. Policies and public debate promote active aging and the need to maintain functioning in old age, including among older people living in long-term care. This study explores the meanings given to functional ability in the interview talk of long-term care nurses (n=24) and older people living in long-term care (n=16). The study is based on discourse analysis and positioning theory. In this study, accounts of functioning differed between nurses and older residents. For the nurses, functional ability was about the basic functions of everyday life, and they often used formal and theoretical language, whereas…

Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia, Vol. 20, Issue 1 

2012

DALIA ANTINIENE. Attitudes Reflecting National Identity of Lithuanian Students ; ALDIS BULIS, ROBERTS ŠKAPARS.Competitiveness of Latvian companies in People’s Republic of China ; GUNTA ROZIŅA, ELVĪRA ZELGALVE. English for Banking: An Instrument for International Communication ; VIESTURS PAULS KARNUPS. The 1936 Devaluation of the Lat and its Effect on Latvian Foreign Trade ; VALĒRIJS PRAUDE, SANTA BORMANE. Trends of Development and PossIBiLities of efficiency improvement in Marketing Communications ; CAROLIN KUHN, ĒRIKA ŠUMILO. “Leaders Must Learn How to Create an organisational Climate Where Others Apply Innovative Thinking to Solve Problems and Develop New Products and Services”

Komunikācija: Kultūras un vēstures diskurss

2005

Mathematical Modelling Problems in a Mathematics Course for Engineers: A Commognitive Perspective

2021

Mathematical knowledge is very important for engineers; both quantitative and qualitative analysis of physical systems and manufacturing processes require solid scientific principles and appropriate mathematical tools. Teaching of mathematical modelling at the university contributes to the development of mathematical competencies, motivates the interest to mathematics and plays a significant didactical role in promoting advanced mathematical thinking. These views are supported by the analysis of students’ work on a mathematical modelling assignment in a university mathematics course for future engineers with the help of the commognitive framework. Students’ narratives in written solutions a…

Medical Metaphors in Economics News Articles in English and Italian

2017

As Lakoff and Johnson (1980: 3) state in Metaphors We Live by, “our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” From a linguistic point of view, metaphors not only exist in everyday language but in specialized discourse too, where they are frequently the result of interdisciplinary borrowings. The language of economics, replete with medical metaphors, is one of the most representative examples of this phenomenon. This paper offers a quantitative and qualitative analysis of medical metaphors in English and Italian economics news discourse, as no research seems to have been conducted so far on the topic from a cross-linguistic…

Metaphor they heal by?

2014

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of figurative speech in Medical English paying special attention to the use of metaphors in medical discourse. After briefly introducing the recent approaches to the study of metaphors based on psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic theories, we propose a qualitative analysis of selected medical texts with three aims: (1) at a lexical level, to find out how commonly doctors use metaphors to name pathologies, and to classify such metaphors in relation to their linguistic type; (2) at a psycholinguistic level, to investigate if metaphors, when used to denominate an illness, use metaphoric mappings; (3) at a communicative level, to establish if do…

Introduction. The aesthetics of migration: Reversals of marginality and the socio-political translation turn

2018

Translation has imposed itself with determination as a condition for intercultural and linguistic exchanges among human beings living in distant parts of the globe for millennia. Not only has it contributed to the understanding of sociocultural structures, political systems, and technological and digital processes, but it has also encouraged our knowledge of the world – strengthening our awareness of marginalities, liminalities and otherness, and, certainly, widening our interlinguistic and intercultural, as well as translinguistic and transcultural horizons. This volume ranges across disciplines and subjects in translation studies, critical migration and border studies, the visual and perf…

El revival del sufijo -érrimo

2022

Este trabajo de investigación analiza el comportamiento actual del sufijo culto -érrimo, dado que hemos percibido una vitalidad que no encaja con la descripción como obsoleto que se realiza en las gramáticas y tratados de morfología. En consecuencia, para poder describir sus características, hemos seleccionado los types atestiguados en el corpus CdE:Now, que está compuesto de textos digitales provenientes de webs y magacines. Este nuevo comportamiento vincula su nueva vigencia a un discurso muy oralizado propio de blogs, redes sociales, columnas de opinión, interacciones con noticias, etc., con un registro coloquial. Los resultados constatados son que -érrimo presenta un perfil de sufijo ac…