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Capturing learning in classroom interaction in mathematics: Methodological considerations
2015
International audience; This paper discusses issues of how to transcribe and analyze video-recordings when studying learning in small group work in mathematics. Since bodily features of interaction and the use of artefacts play important roles in mathematical reasoning, a multimodal approach to transcribing is necessary. Thus, the theoretical grounding for transcriptions has to be in accord with the perspective on learning adopted in the analysis. In the paper, the principles for studying what Radford (2000) refers to as knowledge objectification processes when learning mathematics will be discussed.
Metaphorical GIFs and humour online: the case of “when” posts on Tumblr
2021
International audience; “When” posts have now become a staple of microblogging platforms such as Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook. They consist of two things: a verbal caption opening with “When” followed by an assertive clause describing a situation of life on the one hand, and a static or moving image presenting a visual elaboration of the situation described in the caption on the other hand. “When” posts rely on the striking relationship between what the caption describes and what the image shows. In the case of the posts selected for the present study, this relationship is metaphorical: the caption and the image, which are juxtaposed without mediation, act respectively as a verbal tenor and …
Epistemic Modality Variation in Community Law Journals
2012
Over the last decades the attention of scholars working in the filed of academic discourse has been directed towards language variation, and academic writing is not any more considered as a consistent and homogeneous form of discourse. The importance traditionally given to the consensual and static aspects of disciplinary communication has been coupled with the emphasis increasingly placed to the analysis of interactions/practices/activities that sustain discourse communities. According to the sociolinguist approach, genres become ‘dynamically rhetorical structures’ that can be manoeuvred according to the discipline’s norms, values and ideology, both historically and incrementally changing …
Epistemic Modality Markers in European and American Law Journals
2013
Over the last decades the attention of scholars working in the filed of social sciences has been directed towards language variation, and discourse analysis has increasingly evolved as a valuable way of understanding the use of language in a variety of academic, institutional and professional settings (Clyne 1994; Flowerdew & Gotti 2006; Bhatia et al. 2008). According to the sociolinguist approach, genres become ‘dynamically rhetorical structures’ that can be manoeuvred according to the discipline’s norms, values and ideology, both historically and incrementally changing as disciplinary knowledge and genres required and created by discourse communities’ change (Bhatia 2004; Hyland 2004,…
A Deep Learning Model for Automatic Sleep Scoring using Multimodality Time Series
2021
Sleep scoring is a fundamental but time-consuming process in any sleep laboratory. Automatic sleep scoring is crucial and urgent to help address the increasing unmet need for sleep research. Therefore, this paper aims to develop an end-to-end deep learning architecture using raw polysomnographic recordings to automate sleep scoring. The proposed model adopts two-dimensional convolutional neural networks (2D-CNN) to automatically learn features from multi-modality signals, together with a "squeeze and excitation" block for recalibrating channel-wise feature responses. The learnt representations are finally fed to a softmax classifier to generate predictions for each sleep stage. The model pe…
Modalność epistemiczna w ustnych wypowiedziach maturzystów
2016
In this article the author analyses components of the epistemic modality, by means of which a student assesses the accuracy of views presented during the oral matriculation examination in the Polish language. Considering the specificity of spoken utterances during the oral matriculation examination, the epistemic modality can be defined as all kinds of information on an intellectual attitude of the speaker who, on the basis of his/her own knowledge and thinking processes which are taking place in his/her mind al a given moment, makes a “gradable” assessment of a view’s reliability. The analysed texts differ depending on the level of certainty of their authors as far as the communicated cont…
Evidentials and Epistemic Modality
2018
Abstract This chapter deals with the relation between the notional domains of information source and epistemic modality. It surveys various approaches to this relation and the cross-linguistic patterns of the way in which linguistic units (of diverse formats) with evidential or epistemic meanings develop extensions whereby they encroach into each other’s domains. Meaning extensions in either direction can adequately be captured, and confusion between both domains can be avoided, only if in the analysis of the meaning of such units (a) an onomasiological and semasiological perspective and (b) a coded-inferred divide are distinguished. Thus, epistemic extensions often arise as Generalized Con…
Interactional means of teaming up: enacting the features of contemporary working life in a theater performance
2021
Abstract The article examines how the aspects of the social world are enacted in a theater play. The data come from a videotaped performance of a professional theater, portraying a story about a workplace organization going through a personnel training program. The aim of the study is to show how the core theme of the play – the teaming up of the personnel – is constructed in the live performance through a range of interactional means. By focusing on four core episodes of the play, the study on the one hand points out to the multiple changes taking place both within and between the different episodes of the play. On the other hand, the episodes of collective action involving the semiotic re…
El periodismo católico contra las reformas republicanas sobre enseñanza (1931-1933)
2014
La politización de la prensa española durante la II República fue especialmente intensa entre las cabeceras católicas. Los diarios ABC y El Debate, los dos periódicos conservadores más importantes durante aquellos años, fueron muy activos en las protestas contra las reformas vinculadas con la enseñanza. Sus discursos se sumaban a la propaganda de la reacción y fortalecían la acción de colectivos y organizaciones. Este trabajo analiza una muestra de editoriales y crónicas publicadas por estos periódicos con el objetivo de determinar, por un lado, qué mediaciones llevaron a cabo y, por otro, hasta qué punto su voluntad intervencionista quedó plasmada en sus artículos. Los resultados indican q…
Corporate online presence : a study of eight Finnish exporting companies' corporate websites
2012
Yritykset käyttävät verkkosivujaan tuotteiden ja palveluiden markkinoinnin ohella myös yrityksen mainostamiseen ja verkkoidentiteetin luomiseen. Verkkoidentiteetti heijastaa kielen ja visuaalisen ilmeen kautta yrityksen identiteettiä sekä tavoiteltua yrityskuvaa. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää kriittisen diskurssianalyysin avulla millä tavalla suomalaiset vientiyritykset ilmentävät verkkoidentiteettiään sekä kielellisesti että visuaalisesti yritysprofiileissaan. Yritysprofiilit rakentuvat yritystarinoista, joiden tehtävänä on esitellä keskeisiä asioita yrityksestä ja samalla rakentaa tietynlaista kuvaa yrityksestä. Verkkoidentiteetin lisäksi tarkoituksena oli selvittää onko yritystar…