Search results for "discursive"
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Towards multilingual competence: examining beliefs and agency in first year university students’ language learner biographies
2021
As working life across the world is increasingly multilingual, multicultural and multidisciplinary, higher education language teaching is faced with a challenge of how to prepare students for it. Many universities have recently developed multilingual pedagogies but central to their success is learners’ perceptions of these practices. To fill this gap, this article explores first year university students’ language learner biographies to gain insight into how learners construct their linguistic realities. The biographies were studied with discourse analytical methods to examine the participants’ beliefs about language learning and their sense of agency in it. The results reveal that participa…
Framing the 26J: the discursive advertising strategy of Cs on Twitter in the 26J campaign.
2021
Este trabajo analiza la estrategia comunicativa de Ciudadanos para la difusión de sus spots en Twitter durante la campaña de las elecciones generales del 26 de julio de 2016. En la investigación se emplean técnicas de análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo, estas se basan en el modelo discursivo de encuadre de Gallardo-Paúls (2014, 2021) que aquí adaptamos, identificando categorías específicas del lenguaje audiovisual. Los resultados muestran, en primer lugar, que el empleo de Twitter para la difusión del spot electoral fue muy escaso. Por otra parte, la argumentación fundamental que preside la estrategia textual del encuadre fue mostrarse como el partido de la unión y el cambio. En el ámbito …
Whose business is it anyway? Distributing responsibilities between family members and formal carers
2015
This study reports on a discourse analysis of how responsibilities for the care of older people are defined and distributed in the interview talk of working caregivers in Finland. The analysis focuses on how the interviewees depict their encounters with professionals (e.g. social and health care workers) and the responsibilities attached to the position of a family member versus professional. The theme is examined against the backdrop of broader Finnish and European discussions about the development of welfare society, the relations between the state and individual citizens as well as discussions about older people’s care needs. Data were obtained by face-to-face interviews. In the intervie…
L’effectivité du discours du banquier central sur la conjoncture
2015
International audience; Ce chapitre s’interroge sur les raisons de la montée en puissance de la politique de communication des banques centrales, notamment celle de la BCE. Nous commençons par présenter les arguments mis en avant par la théorie économique standard, qui justifie à la fois l’indépendance des Banques Centrales (à l’égard du pouvoir politique) et le « gouvernement des anticipations » des agents économiques. Les thèmes de la transparence, de la crédibilité et de l’indépendance ont été associés au cours des années 1980, aboutissant à la nécessité de mettre en place des banquiers centraux « conservateurs », c’est-à-dire hostiles à l’inflation. Cette littérature a influencé les pra…
An analysis of cohesion in a popular music recording : Tori Amos's "Me and a gun", in its articulations of textual subjectivity
2002
Autobiographical texts written by learners of Catalan as an Additional Language: From formative needs to reflection in the teaching of narrative genr…
2022
In this article we analyse autobiographical narrative texts written by university students studying Catalan as an Additional Language at a CEFR (2020) B1 level. The goal is to analyse the formative needs related to the writing of this genre in order to foster metadiscursive reflection in the classroom that will allow students to improve their written output. To this end, we analyzed a corpus of 39 autobiographies at both the macrotextual level (i.e., rhetorical moves) and the microtextual level (i.e., deictic elements which channel the narrative’s organization). Our results show that the problems that these texts present for students are related to awareness of the elements that define the …
Teaching How to Write Essays in Secondary Education: Didactic Sequences Analysis
2021
[EN] The development of the writing expression competence, and in particular, the argumentative competence has awoken interest among the different educational levels. The essay has been studied from different pers-pectives in Secondary Education, however there are not any studies on how books teach the writing process at this level, where the mini-essay format is actually worked on more. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to learn more about the examples of didactic sequences to teach how to write essays/mini-essays in textbooks of third and fourth year of Secondary Education. The methodology applied is the analysis of the qualitative content and the gathering of information fro…
Discovery-learning in grammar education:a study on anaphoric pronouns
2022
En les darreres dècades, en el context educatiu portuguès, com en altres països, la gramàtica ha estat un tema central de debat en l’educació L1. L’any 2001, amb la publicació del Currículum Nacional d’Educació Bàsica, la gramàtica, que es va anomenar «coneixement explícit de la llengua», es va considerar un dels components bàsics del currículum de L1 portuguès. Des d’aquesta perspectiva, inspirada en les propostes del moviment anglosaxó de consciència lingüística, l’objectiu principal de l’educació gramatical és desenvolupar els coneixements implícits que els infants ja tenen i utilitzen en un coneixement cada cop més reflexiu i explícit. En aquesta concepció, en què se suposa que «la majo…
Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Subverting the Masculinity of World War I Official Discourse
2014
Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991) offers an imaginative deconstruction of the myth of the Great War as produced within British official patriotic rhetoric and in some of the best-known lyrics by Wilfred Owen (1893- 1918), who, together with Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), has always been celebrated as one of the leading War poets. If Owen’s poetry partly entails the apolitical sublimation of the devastating facts of war through the ambiguous sentiment of pity, in Barker’s novel any suppression of emotions is posited as artificial and counterbalanced by a thorough exploration of those contradictory aspects of the Great War which official discourses have tended to obscure: the homoerotic experi…
Development discourses of the low human development index : countries in UN post-2015 discussion
2015
This study is about development discourses and agents of the countries with low Human Development Index (HDI) in Africa. It is based on six UN Post-2015 national consultations. These six nations are Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Liberia and Zambia. The criteria of data selection involve the level of HDI, language, format of the report and geographical location. The idea about development as discursive constructed social reality is at the focus of theoretical framework. The method is Discourse Analysis (DA) with some Foucauldian characteristics. The research questions are: What kind of specific development discourses and agentive roles are there in pol…