Search results for "DISCOURSE"

Commenting on poverty online : A corpus-assisted discourse study of the Suomi24 forum

2020

This paper brings new insight to poverty and social exclusion through an analysis of how poverty-related issues are commented on in the largest online discussion forum in Finland: Suomi24 (‘Finland24’). For data, we use 32,407 posts published in the forum in 2014 that contain the word köyhä (‘poor’) or a predefined semantically similar word. We apply the Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) method, which combines quantitative methods and qualitative discourse analysis. This methodological solution allows us to analyse both large-scale tendencies and detailed expressions and nuances on how poverty is discussed. The quantitative analysis is conducted with topic modelling, an unsupervised …

Genre contextualisation and rhetorical organisation aspects in english written communication for information technologies

2014

Promocijas darbā tiek analizēta un sistematizēta rakstveida saziņa angļu valodā informācijas tehnoloģiju jomā. Pētījums pamatojas uz salīdzinošu valodniecības un lietišķās valodniecības teoriju analīzi par valodas funkcijām, saziņas modeļiem, konteksta veidiem, diskursu un žanru un empīriskā pētījumā iegūtiem rezultātiem Latvijas, Igaunijas, Krievijas un Baltkrievijas uzņēmumos. Promocijas darbā apskatītie valodniecības jautājumi, kā arī izdarītie secinājumi pierāda, ka rakstveida profesionālo saziņu IT nozarē raksturo komunikatīvo mērķu, retoriskās organizācijas un lingvistiskās izvēles (tekstveides perspektīva) mijiedarbība, kā arī profesionālie diskursa procesi, kuri atspoguļojas žanru d…

Cultures in interaction : construction of ethnic identities in Amy Tan's "The bonesetter's daughter"

2007

The functions of teachers' language choice and code-switching in EFL classroom discourse

2008

Koulutuksellisen tasa-arvon diskurssit ja toimijat peruskoulun tuntijakouudistuksessa

2017

In this research the interest was to understand the discursive formation of educational equality in political texts concerning the national core curriculum in Finland in the beginning of 2010s. The research problem was to describe and analyze discourses of educational equality and to analyze who are portrayed as actors of educational equality. The material consists of statements which different organizations, administrative bodies of education and private individuals gave in response to presentations, prepared in 2010 and 2012, regarding the objectives of the comprehensive school and the distribution of lesson hours. The research is based on critical discourse analysis and the analysis of s…

Educational equality discourses in the Finnish comprehensive school system

2017

Yhtenäiskoulua kohti – opettajien ja rehtorien diskursseja koulukulttuurin muutoksesta

2022

Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan yhtenäiskoulun opettajayhteisön sosiaalista todellisuutta, jota rakennetaan ja ylläpidetään vuorovaikutuksen kautta. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää, millaisia konstruktioita tulevan yhtenäiskoulun opettajat ja rehtorit luovat yhtenäisen koulukulttuurin rakentamisesta ja muutokseen sitoutumisesta. Tutkimus on osa opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön rahoittamaa Uutta luova asiantuntijuus -hanketta. Tutkimusaineisto koostuu kymmenestä tulevan yhtenäiskoulun opettajan ja rehtorin teemahaastattelusta, ja se on analysoitu diskurssianalyysin keinoin. Yhtenäisen koulukulttuurin rakentaminen merkityksellistyy tutkimustuloksissa kolmessa dominoivassa diskurssissa,…

‘It is important at this point to make clear that this study is not “anti-iPad”’ : Ed-Tech speak around iPads in educational technology research

2020

This position paper contributes to the field of critical educational technology (Ed-Tech) research by providing empirical evidence for the qualities of the phenomenon known as Ed-Tech speak. The research question, how does Ed-Tech speak in research articles about Apple's iPad contribute to promoting and validating the importance and utility of the iPad for teaching and learning, is addressed by applying critical genre analysis to investigate empirical research articles discussing the use of iPads in institutional education. As a result, four categories were formed: the self-evident importance of iPads, overgeneralization of references, the use of strong reporting verbs (to boost weak refere…

Kansainvälinen kriittisen diskurssintutkimuksen konferenssi Valenciassa 5.-8.5.2004

2004

All-inclusiveness in Legal Language. Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Specialized Discourse

2008

This book explores recent theoretical and practical changes in the investigation of language and context, with a particular attention to legal language as a highly specialized discourse. Given the huge variety of human experiences, any approach to language cannot be solely conducted at the level of grammatical rules and structures, but at the level of social contexts and contextual backgrounds as well. In fact, important form-function correlations are discovered when lexico-grammatical investigations are supported by sociocultural and psycho-cognitive enquires about the way in which textual artefacts (and, particularly, specialized texts) are conventionally and linguistically organized and …