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Light and Divine Wisdom: An Alternative Interpretation of the Iconography of the Fuller Brooch
2022
La spilla di Fuller viene considerata una rappresentazione, in ambito inglese, dei cinque sensi. Si ritiene che il personaggio centrale, che rappresenta la vista, presenti anche uno o più significati figurativi, legati a idee e concetti che erano correnti nel contesto culturale di re Alfredo. Questi significati figurativi dovevano presumibilmente essere enfatizzati e chiariti dai due oggetti che questa figura regge. Finora, tuttavia, questi oggetti non sono stati interpretati in modo soddisfacente, anche se la maggior parte degli studiosi ritiene che essi possano rappresentare delle piante o cornucopie. Il presente studio esplora l'ipotesi che questi oggetti siano in realtà delle torce, att…
Chaining in interpreted interaction : Finnish Sign Language interpreting in an English-medium educational setting
2016
Interaction is always multimodal. Multimodality means that meanings are conveyed by using different semiotic resources, such as language, gestures, facial expressions, written text and pictures. Even though it is considered that also interpreted interaction is multimodal, this aspect of the interpreters’ work is often neglected in research and focus on how interpreters utilize multimodality in their work is called for. In this study one English-medium lecture that is interpreted into Finnish Sign Language is analyzed. The lecture’s duration is approximately one hour. The focus is on one multimodal phenomenon: chaining. Chaining means that different semiotic resources are utilized, for examp…
Opiskelutulkin työ ja työtyytyväisyys
1998
How long is the sign?
2015
AbstractThis paper deals with the relative empirical length of signs in sign languages and provides evidence for the view that they are actually longer units than has hitherto been recognized. The evidence is presented from two perspectives: those of sign articulation and sign recognition. Concerning sign articulation, it is suggested that signs are longer units than is currently assumed because most of the structural features of signs are in fact already present before the currently accepted beginnings of signs and they continue after signs' generally accepted endings. Concerning sign recognition, the longer view of the sign is proposed on the grounds that the recognition point of signs is…
The Usability of the Annotation
2016
Several corpus projects for sign languages have tried to establish conventions and standards for the annotation of signed data. When discussing corpora, it is necessary to develop a way of considering and evaluating holistically the features and problems of annotation. This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for the evaluation of the usability of annotations. The purpose of the framework is not to give conventions for annotating but to offer tools for the evaluation of the usability of the annotation, in order to make annotations more usable and make it possible to justify and explain decisions about annotation conventions. Based on our experience of annotation in the corpus proje…
Corrigendum: ExGUtils: A Python Package for Statistical Analysis With the ex-Gaussian Probability Density
2018
Learning to read for the first time as adult immigrants in Finland : Reviewing pertinent research of low-literate or non-literate learners’ literacy …
2018
Against the backdrop of increasing global humanitarian migration to highly literate countries and the resulting necessity and challenge to provide language and literacy education to non-literate or low-literate adult second language (L2) learners, this article calls for more research on a new population of late literacy learners, particularly in Finland. The article begins by outlining the pressing necessity for research on this special group of L2 learners who has traditionally been ignored by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. It will then go on to illuminate essential components of developing reading literacy, drawing on relevant previous research on pre-literates. Further, the …
Käsityksiä kansainvälisesti rekrytoitujen hoitajien ammatillisesta kielitaidosta ja sen kehittymisestä. Mediakeskusteluiden ja asiantuntijan haastatt…
2013
Terveydenhoitoalan henkilöstön kansainvälinen rekrytointi ja kielitaito ovat herättäneet paljon julkista keskustelua. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan kansainvälistä työvoimaa – etenkin filippiiniläisiä hoitajia – ympäröiviä käsityksiä. Teoreettinen lähestymistapa pohjautuu dialogisuuteen ja sosiokulttuurisuuteen, joissa kieli ja käsitykset nähdään jaettuina, varioivina ja dynaamisina ilmiöinä. Aineisto koostuu sanomalehtiartikkeleista, verkkokeskusteluista ja suomi toisena kielenä -opettajan haastattelusta, joiden analyysissa etenkin äänen ja toimijuuden käsitteet ovat keskiössä. Tulokset osoittavat, että julkisessa keskustelussa kaiutetaan sellaisia autoritaarisia ääniä, joissa hoitajat o…
Evaluation and Self-Evaluation in Simultaneous Translation: Assessments Methods
2012
Abstract The nature of evaluation and self-evaluation in simultaneous interpretation is based on the close connection between the main text (the version proposed by the speaker) and the interpreter's version. Between these two elements a number of variables emerge, that can damage the efficiency and the accuracy of simultaneous interpretation. The intention of our study is to propose a set of scientific methods and tools in order to offer to the interpreter the possibility of a self-assessment and the benefit of an appropriate evaluation of his work. In order to achieve these goals we used several methods, including experiments, case studies, questionnaires, evaluation scales. Research subj…
El gest i la dixi d'espai en textos instructius
2009
La dixi és normalment concebuda, des del punt de vista lingüístic, com un fenomen que mostra la relació entre els trets estructurals del llenguatge i el context específic de comunicació. Hi ha mecanismes no verbals que també actuen com a recursos díctics en moltes situacions de la llengua oral. És per aquesta raó que calen estudis que analitzin diferents aspectes de la combinació d’aquests diferents mecanismes. L’objectiu d’aquesta proposta és analitzar la relació entre la verbalització dels díctics d’espai trobats en els textos instructius del projecte PRAGMAESTIL i els elements no verbals que els acompanyen. Concretament, s’observarà en primer lloc si els díctics van acompanyats de gestos…