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Discursive Strategies to Negotiate Power Relations in Disability Services Client Juries
2020
Collaboration with clients is an efficient way to develop social services. To strengthen the possibilities for clients to influence services, client juries are established. However, collaboration in the juries is perceived as difficult because of the power imbalance inherent in the client–social worker relationship. The aim of this study was to examine how the participants negotiated power relations in client jury meetings. The data consisted of four observed disability services client jury meetings. Analysis was performed using action-implicative discourse analysis, which aims to define different communicative problems, interactional strategies, and situated ideals of communicative practic…
Trust: the basis of the collaborative interaction
2005
This contribution focuses on the role of trust in developing collaborative learning. Both in face-to-face and online environments, four types of learning interactions are required: interaction with resources, with teachers, with peers and with an interface. Collaborative interaction, and therefore collaborative learning, requires people to trust one another. Several factors, such as shared social norms, repeated interactions and shared experiences, have been suggested to facilitate the development of interpersonal trust; as far as temporary teams are concerned, the concept of "swift trust" has been proposed. It is suggested that collaborative online interactions - compared to face-to-face o…
A few remarks on colloquial language in Italy
2016
The present work focuses on the analysis of colloquial Italian starting from the rasgos coloquializadores (a series of conversational markers) describing the Spanish sociolinguistic research on informal contexts. After a short introduction on the rasgos, the second part of this article deals with the pattern of colloquial Italian. It may be considered a macro-variety sharing features belonging to several varieties of the Italian linguistic repertoire, further supported by the use of dialect. The theoretical context is also based on a significant number of examples from spontaneous and colloquial speech collected in Palermo. These examples show both the varied features of colloquial Italian …
Medialne formy komunikowania obywateli z władzą
2017
The purpose of this paper is to characterize the media forms of the communication of citizens with the authorities. The discourse types with high occurrence in the public sphere of communication with the authorities are: open letter, petition, appeal, resolution of opinion, and comments in the social media (e.g. on Facebook). It can be said that these genres are a form of direct participation of citizens in the process of exercising power. They are the Citizen s weapon, a tool to exert influence on the fin a ł decisions of the authorities in matters of public life. The themes of public magazines are varied, most often „ hot cases ” referring to decisions currently taken by the authorities. …
Heteroglossic and multimodal resources in use : participation across spaces of identification in a Christian lifestyle sports community
2017
This dissertation examines how members of one particular youth community, Christian lifestyle sports enthusiasts in Finland, use language and other semiotic resources to construct participation in their community of practice (CoP). The CoP is organized around the late-modern activity culture of lifestyle sports. The participants also share the Christian faith and in their snowboarding camps organize Bible study sessions and engage in prayer and worship. The theoretical and methodological framework incorporates sociolinguistics, social semiotics, discourse studies and connective ethnography, including the exploration of both the digital and physical spaces of the community. The dissertation …
Comprendre les courses ordinaires : Enjeux et implications pour les grandes surfaces alimentaires
2010
This article aims at registering the common shopping within the framework of the domestic life, like housework. This different perspective allows a better understanding of this behaviour of purchase. Retailers will find in this paper some ideas to improve the customers' satisfaction during the ordinary and regular shopping they do.
Lietišķo e-pastu reģistra analīze
2016
Mūsdienās elektroniskais pasts ir kļuvis par plaši izmantotu komunikācijas līdzekli uzņēmumos. Pētījuma mērķis bija noteikt lietišķo e-pastu reģistra izplatītākās iezīmes Latvijas azartspēļu uzņēmuma iekšējā un ārējā komunikācijā. Pētījumā tika izmantots Baibera un Konrāda (2009) reģistra analīzes modelis individuālajam e-pastam. Pētījuma rezultāti parādīja, ka lietišķajiem e-pastiem ir gan mutvārdu, gan rakstiskās diskursa īpašības. Lietišķo e-pastu izplatītākās iezīmes ir patstāvīgie darbības vārdi, lietvārdi, modālie darbības vārdi, personu vietniekvārdi, nozarē lietoti žargonismi un saīsinājumi. To lietojumu ietekmē situācijas konteksts , un to var sekmīgi pētīt, izmantojot Baibera un K…
Conductas de riesgo y actitudes relacionadas con la infección por vih/sida en hsh
2014
Abstract:The aim of this investigation is to analyze sexual risk behaviors and attitudes for HIV/AIDS infection of MSM. The ENSI was administrated to 202 men, 168 homosexuals and 24 bisexuals, from 14 to 57 years. The results show a high confidence in condoms as a method of HIV prevention (75.7% very effective and 28.1% effective); however the systematic use of a condom is moderate in anal intercourse (54.64%) and in vaginal intercourse (49.05%) and very low in oral sex (6.22%). There is a low perceived probability (20.28%) and moderate fear (41.25%) become infected with HIV. 20.3% report having drunk alcohol in the last relationship and 5.4% say other drugs. These results should be conside…
Naja, normal und normal. Zur Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik der x-und-x-Konstruktion im Deutschen
2012
This article deals with the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the x und x (‘x and x’) construction in German, cf. A: Schade, dass die [Schabracken] so teuer sind! B: Naja, teuer und teuer, wenn die Qualitat stimmt, dann finde ich den Preis okay. (A: ‘What a pity that the horsetrappers are so expensive!’ B: ‘Well, expensive and expensive, if the quality is good, the price is fine with me.’). The specific discourse function of this construction is to negotiate the situational meaning of a previously used lexical item. Typologically, it has been claimed that the pattern is language-specific for Scandinavian. The paper challenges this assumption, providing empirical evidence from a questionna…
Pronunciation exercises in two upper secondary school EFL course books
2016
Ääntämys kuuluu olennaisena osana vieraan kielen oppimiseen ja opettamiseen. Ääntäminen antaa ensivaikutelman vieraan kielen puhujan kielitaidosta, ja ymmärrettävä ääntämys on ensisijaisen tärkeää vieraskielisessä vuorovaikutuksessa. Tästä huolimatta ääntämys oli pitkään laiminlyöty osa-alue vieraan kielen oppimisen ja opettamisen tutkimuksessa. Viime vuosina kiinnostus ääntämisen oppimisen ja opettamisen tutkimukseen on kuitenkin noussut, mutta tutkimuksia oppikirjojen ja ääntämyksen suhteesta on vähän. Tämän tutkielman päämääränä on ollut selvittää yhtäläisyyksiä ja eroja ääntämyksen esittämisessä kahdessa suomalaisessa lukiotason englannin kielen kurssikirjassa. Aineisto on koottu kahdes…