Search results for "Discourse"

Tensions and striving for coherence in an academic’s professional identity work

2017

The emergence of ‘new managerialism’ in academic institutions and professions has given rise to tensions between one’s professional self and work context. Such tensions often originate from a misalignment between institutional and personal values. This study builds on a dialogical approach to identity and discusses the role of inner tensions and conflicts in terms of making sense of one’s professional identity. These aspects are explored and exemplified by introducing a sample case of one individual student and university researcher/teacher, Anna, who participated in one-year Pedagogical Studies for Adult Educators. Leaning on the narratives of Anna’s learning diaries and a later interview,…

Exploring the Ideal of Dialogue by Taking into Account Both an Observed Interaction Session and the Participants’ Views on the Interaction

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: Interchange. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10780-014-9221-7 The focus of the article is on the ideal of using dialogue to promote contact between school and home. The aim was to explore this ideal by taking into account both an observed interaction session and how the participants perceive this interaction. The study draws on data from observation of a meeting about a pupil with special needs and his transition from lower to upper secondary school. The participants were the pupil, the mother and father, the special needs teacher, the school counsellor, the school psychology counsellor and the special needs co…

Constructing blind identity : a case study of how blind identity is constructed in a television interview between a blind interviewee and a sighted i…

1999

Retorica e discorso politico

2005

Nell'ambito dei discorsi specialistici, il political discourse si pone come uno dei più interessanti sotto il profilo della retorica e della discourse analysis. La comprensione e interpretazione di un corpus di discorsi politici, inclusi nel presente lavoro monografico, attraverso gli strumenti teorici della Rhetorical Analysis e Critical Discourse Analysis mette in luce le ragioni, motivazioni e strategie che stanno alla base di precise sceltelessico-grammaticali, terminologiche, e semantiche degli autori dei political speeches. I risultati ottenuti sono quindi interpretati e valutati sulla base dell'importante relazione fra testo (nel caso specifico il discorso politico) e il contesto ent…

Kansalaisjärjestöjen julkisuuskuva suomalaisessa lehdistössä : case: Amnesty Internationalin vuosiraportti

2004

Teoria dyskursu wobec badań nad epistolografią. Analiza korespondencji Agnieszki Osieckiej i Jeremiego Przybory

2014

A discourse can be variously defined. It is also used by different areas of science. Discourse analysis allows to see not only what is directly given in the text, but also what has had an influence upon its creation. Therefore, the theory of discourse, where the main foundation is its three-dimensionality (cognitive dimension, expresive dimension and interactive dimension), discourse's subjects and context, can be used as a method of epistolography research. An analysis of Agnieszka Osiecka's and Jeremy Przybora's correspondence from the position of a discourse's investigator will allow to acknowledge any intertextual links as well as those that arise from the context or the interaction: th…

The case of cusà in Sicilian: From interrogative clause to epistemic adverb and discourse marker

What can discourse psychology say about teachers' music talk and their teaching strategies?

2009

The teaching in music and culture schools is an activity that involves approximately one third of the children in Sweden, but there are only a few scientific studies conducted on the subject. The most of its participants will have music as a hobby in their future lives, but the vast majority of the students in higher music education once started their carriers in those schools. In this way music and culture schools can be seen as having a great impact on both cultural and musical activities in Sweden. This also points at the importance of knowledge concerning this institution, which this paper hopefully supplies for. The study has a social constructionist and post-structuralistic approach w…

Keep Calm in Heated Debates: How People Perceive Different Styles of Discourse in a Scientific Debate

2021

Scientific debates are, in an epistemological sense, argumentative approaches aimed at coming to the most appropriate conclusion. However, as these debates sometimes involve interpersonal rather than content-driven attacks (e.g., an argument between scientific experts might involve personal dislike), the following question arises: How do such communication behaviors affect people’s perception of the argument? In an empirical study, we presented prospective teachers (N = 222) with a newspaper article about two scientific experts controversially discussing the pros and cons of a fictional vocabulary training program. Using a 1 × 2 between-subject design, the article contained either a neutral…

Political Identities Constructed on a Social Network: The Labour Party on Facebook Boards

2019

This paper is concerned with how an (institutional) political identity is constructed on a Social Network (SN) wall, which represents the political identity of the party as designed in digital interactive contexts, and where political image constructions are eventually accepted or negotiated by the digital audience. Like other political parties, the Labour Party resorts to online platforms for official accounts and political message dissemination (Gerbaudo 2014; Boyd 2014) and constructs its (online) identity. Since interaction is seen (Baumann 2000; De Fina 2011) as the most important locus for the production of identities, this study looks at Facebook boards as interactional sites where t…