Search results for "Diskurs"

Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey : designing knowledge about work

2021

This article examines speculative design's capacity to co‐produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co‐constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key findings of an ethnography on hockey work through an art exhibition of speculative hockey memorabilia. As such, these art pieces showed the intertwined relationships of material, discursive, and affective aspects in hockey work as well as the multiplicity …

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…

Discussion : Language in nature resource economies

2019

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…

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…

Focal social actions through which space is configured and reconfigured when orienting to a Finnish Sign Language class

2018

Abstract This paper focuses on how signing students organise themselves spatially in social interactions in a university lecture hall. One may view space as a concrete location, a social construct, and a normative actor with historical trajectories. The study addresses the question, ‘What are the mediated actions through which the students and teacher (re)configure space for participating in a class?' Following a methodological framework of Mediated Discourse Analysis and multimodal interaction analysis, I approach this question by examining the social actions occurring when entering a lecture hall. The primary data includes video recordings, photos, and participatory observations, document…

Politische Konzepte in der DDR

2013

Dieser Sammelband geht aus sprach-, literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive der Frage nach, wie (politische) Begriffe in der ehemaligen DDR konstituiert werden. Autoren aus Deutschland, Frankreich und Griechenland untersuchen Texte aus den Bereichen Presse, Literatur und Politik sowie Propaganda-Plakate und decken dabei bestimmte Vertextungsstrategien auf, die einen Einblick in die DDR-spezifische Diskurswelt gewähren. Eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit liegt bei intertextuellen bzw. -diskursiven Bezügen und bei der mehr oder weniger expliziten, aber fast immer vorhandenen Integration des öffentlichen Diskurses in andere, nicht offizielle Diskurskonfigurationen. Das Buch ist somit fü…

Nochmals zum (Fach-)Textmuster: von der Kognition zur Beschreibung einzelner Textexemplare

2009

Im Mittelpunkt des Aufsatzes steht die Frage nach der Anwendbarkeit des Textmuster-Begriffs auf die Beschreibung und auf die Analyse von Fachdiskursen. Es wird zunächst einmal kurz an die Diskussion erinnert, welche zur Unterscheidung von Textsorte und Textmuster geführt hat: während der erste Begriff den Text als statische Größe betrachtet, so fokussiert der zweite eher auf das Prozessuale an der Textproduktion und -rezeption. Aus diesem Grund scheint der Textmuster-Begriff für eine kognitive Herangehensweise besonders geeignet zu sein. Auf dieser Basis wird dann jede der traditionellen drei Textmuster-Komponenten unter die Lupe genommen (handlungstypisch-illokutive, inhaltlich-proposition…

Perelom ètničeskoj simvoliki : primenenie semiotičeskogo metoda Û. M. Lotmana pri russkoâzyčnom oficial'nom gazetnom diskurse v Èstonii v 1989…

2002

“Sexuality does not belong to the game” : Discourses in Overwatch Community and the Privilege of Belonging

2022

Players can experience a sense of belonging to videogames and the transmedial worlds surrounding them. There nevertheless exist ongoing negotiations over who has the right to belong to these spaces. Multiple works addressing related issues have highlighted that white heterosexual men still maintain the position of power in the majority of game communities (e.g., Consalvo, 2012; Paul, 2018). This position can translate into an ease of belonging while others can find themselves struggling for the right to belong. We examine the transmedial world of Overwatch, an online game, as a place of belonging and non-belonging. Since the game’s launch, two characters have been revealed as queer. In cont…