Search results for "discourse analysis"

Visualising knowledge from chat debates in argument diagrams

2010

This study investigates whether combining chat discussion and construction of an argument diagram stimulates students to formulate new ideas in practising argumentation. In this study, 16 secondary school students discussed vivisection and gender equality in pairs using both free and structured chat tools. In structured chat, the students selected and completed partial sentences provided by the computer. After the discussion, they jointly constructed either argument diagrams freely based on the previous discussions with an Internet tool or modified a diagram the computer had constructed automatically during the structured chat. The freely constructed diagrams contained more of the students'…

A discourse analysis of success and failure accounts in learning English as a foreign language

1999

El “criado pesado”: la caracterización en la serie Águila Roja

2018

El presente articulo, partiendo de los mas recientes estudios sobre el discurso telecinematico, pretende contribuir a la investigacion en el ambito de la linguistica aplicada a las series televisivas, las cuales constituyen uno de los productos culturales populares mas influyentes en la sociedad contemporanea. El corpus de estudio esta compuesto por los guiones completos de la exitosa serie Aguila Roja, emitida por Radio Television Espanola entre 2009 y 2016. Compaginando tecnicas de la linguistica de corpus y del analisis del discurso, este estudio examina la caracterizacion de Satur, uno de los personajes principales de la ficcion, a traves de la co-construccion del significado elaborada …

Ajan henki lain kirjaimessa : suomalaisten lastensuojelulakien ja -asetusten ideologiat

2019

The Spirit of Time in the Letter of the Law. The Ideologies of Finnish Child Welfare Legislation analyses what kinds of ideologies are construed in child welfare legislation and how. It is based on a critical discourse analysis in the fields the work is situated in: language studies and social sciences. The results are applicable in the drafting and interpretation of language for professional use. In the First Child Welfare Act and Decree (1936), ideology is construed as an educational ideology in which the authorities are guided in, and largely required to take particular institutional and educational measures for child welfare when specified conditions are met. Children, young people, par…

The functions of codeswitching in EFL classroom discourse

2004

Discursive Strategies to Negotiate Power Relations in Disability Services Client Juries

2020

Collaboration with clients is an efficient way to develop social services. To strengthen the possibilities for clients to influence services, client juries are established. However, collaboration in the juries is perceived as difficult because of the power imbalance inherent in the client–social worker relationship. The aim of this study was to examine how the participants negotiated power relations in client jury meetings. The data consisted of four observed disability services client jury meetings. Analysis was performed using action-implicative discourse analysis, which aims to define different communicative problems, interactional strategies, and situated ideals of communicative practic…

A few remarks on colloquial language in Italy

2016

The present work focuses on the analysis of colloquial Italian starting from the rasgos coloquializadores (a series of conversational markers) describing the Spanish sociolinguistic research on informal contexts. After a short introduction on the rasgos, the second part of this article deals with the pattern of colloquial Italian. It may be considered a macro-variety sharing features belonging to several varieties of the Italian linguistic repertoire, further supported by the use of dialect. The theoretical context is also based on a significant number of examples from spontaneous and colloquial speech collected in Palermo. These examples show both the varied features of colloquial Italian …

Naja, normal und normal. Zur Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik der x-und-x-Konstruktion im Deutschen

2012

This article deals with the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the x und x (‘x and x’) construction in German, cf. A: Schade, dass die [Schabracken] so teuer sind! B: Naja, teuer und teuer, wenn die Qualitat stimmt, dann finde ich den Preis okay. (A: ‘What a pity that the horsetrappers are so expensive!’ B: ‘Well, expensive and expensive, if the quality is good, the price is fine with me.’). The specific discourse function of this construction is to negotiate the situational meaning of a previously used lexical item. Typologically, it has been claimed that the pattern is language-specific for Scandinavian. The paper challenges this assumption, providing empirical evidence from a questionna…

Immediacy and distance in teacher talk—A comparative case study in German elementary- and outdoor school-teaching

2017

This case study examines authentic speech acts by a German primary school teacher in the classroom context and the outdoor learning location of a forest. The study will compare the degree of linguistic immediacy or distance in these two contexts, respectively. Once a week, the class is doing “outdoor school” [Draußenschule] in places of natural or cultural interest near to their school. The structural change in the teaching environment means a change in the communication setting. The question arises if the teacher speaks to the students differently indoors than outdoors. The theoretical reference framework for the study is provided by the linguistic model “language of immediacy and language…

Discourse Analysis: Activity Book

2019

The present book contains 10 units. Each unit opens with a brief introduction and is followed by a number of tasks to be completed by students either as in-class or take-away activities. These are meant to reinforce the knowledge of the subject by guiding students in applying a range of tools for the analysis of discourse to excerpts from authentic languae use