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Language, (em)power(ment) and affective capitalism : the case of an entrepreneurship workshop for refugees in Germany
2022
Abstract This paper seeks to advance research on the nexus of language, work-related training and affective capitalism by focusing on an entrepreneurship workshop organized for newly arrived refugees in Germany. Despite the occupational orientation, the primary objective of the workshop was not establishing a business but “empowering” the participants by guiding them to adopt “an entrepreneurial mindset”. To delve deeper into this ‘will to empower’, the study brings together the perspectives of governmentality studies, ethnography, discourse studies and affect studies. To investigate in more detail the evocation of the ‘entrepreneurial mindset’, the study draws on ethnographic data collecte…
Hands-on tasks in CLIL science classrooms as sites for subject-specific language use and learning
2015
This paper is concerned with content and language integrated learning (CLIL), i.e. classrooms where a foreign or second language (L2) is used as the means of instruction and where content and language learning objectives merge. More specifically, it explores the potential of hands-on tasks in CLIL chemistry and physics lessons to serve as sites for using and learning subject-specific language, conceptualised as both special concepts and terminology as well as subject-specific ways of constructing meaning. Using discourse analysis, attention was directed to hands-on tasks as well as pre-task and post-task phases. The findings indicate that despite the evident content orientation in the tasks…
Spelling out consequences : conditional constructions as a means to resist proposals in organisational planning process
2016
Organisational planning processes often materialise as a series of meetings, where the future of the organisation is jointly discussed and negotiated as a part of local decision-making sequences. Using conversation and discourse analytical approaches, this article investigates how proposals concerning the future can also be resisted by employing a specific device, a conditional construction ( if X, then Y). The data for the study originate from a city organisation, whose customer services are being developed. The results show how the conditional constructions work in two interrelated ways. First, by introducing a problematic hypothetical situation, they outline the undesirable consequences…
Multimodal literacy practices in the indigenous Sámi classroom: Children navigating in a complex multilingual setting.
2013
This article explores multimodal literacy practices in a transforming multilingual context of an indigenous and endangered Sami language classroom. Looking at literacy practices as embedded in a complex and shifting terrain of language ideologies, language norms, and individual experiences and attitudes, we examined how multilingual Sami children navigate and appropriate meaning-making resources available for them while designing their own picture books. We adopted a discourse ethnographic approach to analyse these multimodal picture books and found three different but interrelated orientations to the making of the books, each organising and valuing multimodal resources in his or her own wa…
Learners’ identifies at stake: Digital identity texts in the ELF classroom
2018
Author/s María Dolores García-Pastor GIEL – Universitat de València, Spain ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the study of identity in digital identity texts produced by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners within a specific subject of the Teacher in Primary Education (English) degree at a Spanish university. To this end, 51 digital identity texts were analysed following a “positioning perspective”, which views identity in terms of “reflexive” and “interactive” positions (Davies & Harré 1990). Results show that learners constructed non-unitary identities whose subject positions were often contradictory. They also associated certain positions with silencing identities, transition ident…
Constructions of bilingualism in Finnish Government programmes and a newspaper discussion site debate
2014
The concept of bilingualism in Finnish political discourse is predominantly used in the meaning of official or state bilingualism, focussing on the two constitutionally defined ‘national languages’; i.e. Finnish and Swedish. Legally, both Finnish and Swedish speakers have a right for public services, such as schooling or health care, in their first language. On the other hand, several language ideological debates have taken place in recent years, challenging especially the status of Swedish in administration and education. These debates have reshaped the discourses on what counts as bilingualism. This paper analyses on one hand the historical discursive development of the “official will” pr…
Marcadores discursivos y prosodia: parámetros acústicos y especialización de partículas atenuantes en español
2017
Algunos estudios recientes (Briz & Hidalgo 2008; Cepeda 1999; Dorta & Domínguez 2004; Hidalgo 2010; Martín Butragueño 2003; Martínez Hernández 2015; Romera & Elordieta 2002, entre otros) coinciden en la idea de que la realización prosódica de ciertos marcadores discursivos puede ser determinante para su interpretación precisa en contexto: en la mente de los especialistas ha acabado calando, pues, la importancia de lo prosódico como factor decisivo para explicar la riqueza funcional de los marcadores. No extraña en este sentido que el DPDE (Diccionario de Partículas Discursivas del español: http://www.dpde.es/) incluya entre sus elementos descriptivos un apartado específico dedic…
Letters to the Editor : Stratégies d’utilisation par une communauté de chercheurs francophones et tentative de caractérisation du genre
2002
Cet article se fixe comme objectif d’analyser la fonction et l’utilisation du genre Letters to the Editor au sein d’une communauté de chercheurs francophones. L’impact et la représentation de ce mode d’expression scientifique ont été mesurés à l’aide d’une enquête sous forme de questionnaire dont les résultats sont rapportés et analysés. Cette étude permet de dégager les stratégies d’utilisation du genre et conduit à proposer quelques pistes pouvant aboutir à la caractérisation du genre. Ce travail s’appuie également sur l’analyse comparée d’un corpus (1999-2001) composé à partir d’une revue de biologie et d’une revue médicale. The aim of this paper is to analyse the goal, role and use of t…
Quelques aspects de la contradiction et de la remise en cause dans le genre Letters to the editor
2001
Cette communication se fixe comme objectif de repérer quelques stratégies discursives de deux communautés de chercheurs et de comparer leur matérialisation linguistique dans un corpus de Letters to the Editor composé à partir de deux revues : The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition et de The Lancet. La stratégie de remise en cause est analysée comme le mode explicite ou implicite de la contradiction apportée à un fait scientifique établi. Ce discours, identifié comme un genre, se situe dans la logique de véridiction du discours scientifique. The aim of this study is to pick out a few discursive strategies in two research communities and to perform a comparative analysis of their linguist…
Cortesía verbal y competencia lingüística : la petición cortés como tradición discursiva
2017
Muchas técnicas de atenuación lingüística están estrechamente ligadas a estrategias de cortesía verbal. Un clásico en este contexto son las preguntas del tipo ¿Puedes pasarme el pan, por favor? que funcionan como petición cortés. La cuestión central es cómo esta conocida técnica de la petición cortés puede ser situada en el sistema de la competencia lingüística según Eugenio Coseriu. Resulta preciso aclarar si se trata de tradiciones idiomáticas que pertenecen al saber lingüístico o si se trata de una tradición discursiva y cultural que se realiza en una o varias lenguas, pero que no forma parte de estas lenguas. En el campo de la atenuación lingüística y de la cortesía verbal esta diferenc…