Search results for "DISCOURSE"
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Pedagogy-related tensions in flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care
2020
In flexibly scheduled early childhood education and care (ECEC), the timing of care depends on parents’ non-standard working hours. Multiple individual schedules and care times in a child group may cause irregularity in a child’s daily structures, and a child may miss a standard hour’s activities that are led by teachers with a pedagogical education. In this context, the significance and definition of pedagogy is vague and tensional. This study aimed at disclosing discursive tensions related to pedagogy in flexibly scheduled ECEC constructed in interviews by Finnish teachers and childcare nurses (n = 31). The analysis of the interview data followed the principles of discursive psychology. C…
Narratiiviset resurssit, diskurssit ja luovuus kirjoittaen kerrotuissa identiteeteissä jatkosodan aikaisissa kirjeissä
2013
“Nice to get to know you”
2020
Virtual exchange comprises online collaborative activities in facilitated, educational contexts across borders. This paper offers a multimodal approach to the study of social presence in students’ asynchronous online discourse in the context of virtual exchange. It draws on the Community of Inquiry model of online learning (Garrison 2017) and interprets social presence as the dynamic discursive process of social interaction and self-presentation. The data consists of screenshots collected in a closed Facebook group during the first assignment of a Czech-Finnish virtual exchange project in 2017. The study aims to explore how the method of multimodal discourse analysis can be used to describe…
Gendered Use of the Hedge in Academic Discourse
2013
This paper discusses the distribution of hedges in academic texts in relation to the gender of the writer. The assumption prior to the analysis concerned possible differences in communicative practices between male and female writers reflected in the hedging of their propositions. The textual material covers 20 research articles, 10 written by male and 10 by female authors, published in the Journal of Linguistics in the years 2001–2010. Metadiscourse as “discourse about discourse” is connected with the communicative, social and personal involvement (Hyland 2000). Hedges, as indicators of the writer’s stance, should reveal characteristics of particular writing styles based on powerful or sup…
"Nerdfighters, we did it" : means of building a sense of community on the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers
2015
YouTube on tärkeä uusi ilmiö ja suosittu viihdekanava etenkin nuorten keskuudessa. YouTube-yhteisöjen suosiosta huolimatta ei niistä ole vielä tehty juurikaan tutkimusta, ja nettiyhteisöjen tutkimus onkin kohdistunut lähinnä tekstipohjaisiin yhteisöihin, kuten foorumeihin. Tutkielmani tarkoituksena on selvittää, kuinka YouTuben videobloggaajat rakentavat yhteisöllisyyden tunnetta faniensa keskuudessa. Tutkimuskohteenani on YouTube-kanava Vlogbrothers, jolla on yli kaksi miljoonaa vakituista katsojaa ja jonka ympärille on rakentunut poikkeuksellisen tiivis kansainvälinen katsojayhteisö. Videodataa analysoimalla pyrin erottamaan erilaisia keinoja, joilla vloggaajat vahvistavat yhteisöllisyyde…
”It’s how gay people communicate, basically” : verbal expressions of femininity in Tyler Oakley’s videos
2017
Median muutoksen mukana homoseksuaalisuus on saanut lisää näkyvyyttä. Enää ei ole harvinaista esimerkiksi nähdä televisiosarjoissa homoseksuaaleja hahmoja tai seksuaalivähemmistöihin liittyvien aiheiden käsittelyä. Vähemmistöjen rooli toimii kahteen suuntaan; koska seksuaalisuutta ei enää nähdä tabuna, oman seksuaali-identiteetin ilmaiseminen on helpompaa ja koska kyseisen identiteetin ilmaiseminen on helpompaa, se ei ole enää tabu. Tyler Oakley on yhdysvaltalainen avoimesti homoseksuaali mediapersoona, joka nousi suosioon YouTube-videoidensa kautta, joita on nyt katsottu yhteensä yli 600 miljoonaa kertaa. YouTuben lisäksi Oakley on saanut tunnustusta omaelämänkertansa ja dokumenttinsa kaut…
The minerality of wine: which status for the lexeme in which situations ?
2014
International audience; This paper aims at discussing the meaning, the relevance, and the status of the lexeme minerality in consumers’ and wine professionals’ discourses within the French-speaking world. It takes as a starting point the obvious role played by such a lexeme in wine tasting notes, in prescriptive texts, and in the marketing sector. Following previous studies [1]-[2] that have shown the instability of the notion for many speakers —including wine professionals— the discussion will focus on the status of this so-called term for each target group.The study is based on the analysis of two sub-corpora collected through a questionnaire addressed on the one hand to consumers and on …
Uncertainty-reducing cooperation scripts in online learning environments
2004
Online learning courses can create new interaction situations for participants who have not previously worked with each other. Initially, there is some degree of uncertainty between participants in these interaction situations. According to the uncertainty reduction theory, low uncertainty increases theamount of discourse and decreases information seeking. Thus, uncertainty may influence online discourseand learning. However, the relation of uncertainty reduction to learning outcomes has not yet been investigated systematically. Cooperation scripts may reduce uncertainty, and therefore enhance learning.A cooperation script, which aims to reduce uncertainty at a cognitive level, was chosen f…
Le grand débat national, une aide pour prendre des décisions locales?
2021
The Great National Debate, decided by Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of 2019 to respond to the Yellow Vests social movement, allowed the collection of citizens’ contributions on the ecological transition via an online platform. In this article, we use the corpus constituted by these contributions to identify areas where participants are asking for the development of bicycle paths and railway facilities. For this purpose, we have created a classification model to identify contributions dealing with the theme of transportation and proposed a method for extracting patterns that reflect the contributors’ proposals. We then represented these patterns on maps, using the contributors’ postal cod…
Pour une Analyse Cognitive de Discours.
2020
The present contribution proposes to lay down the methodological foundations of a Cognitive Discourse Analysis by matching the so-called usage-based Construction Grammar with a systematic approach to digital corpora in order to allow a highly precise observation of discourse, understood here as a cognitive structure in the form of a discourse frame. The proposed argumentation will be illustrated by a micro-qualitative analysis of the construction , such as "je suis sur Paris".