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"Sam meets Alicia, falls in love, gets her pregnant, and starts having doubts" : dating and sex in English high school textbooks
2015
Onnellisuus ja tyytyväisyys elämään ovat länsimaisille ihmisille keskeisiä tavoitteita. Useat tutkimukset ovat toistuvasti osoittaneet että ihmissuhteilla on suuri merkitys näiden tavoitteiden saavuttamiselle. Koulujen oppikirjateksteillä on mahdollisuus esitellä hyviä ihmissuhdemalleja, joita oppilaat voivat halutessaan soveltaa omissa elämissään. Seurustelusuhteiden kuvauksista oppikirjoissa ei kuitenkaan ole tehty selvityksiä, vaikka seurustelu onkin ajankohtainen ja merkityksellinen aihe useille lukioikäisille. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin miten seurustelusuhteita käsitellään Suomen kouluissa englannin opiskeluun käytetyissä Open Road -kirjasarjan osissa 1–3. Tutkimusmetodina on Jam…
Peaceful Foreign Policy and Remembrance of War Effort : The Conceptualisation of Willingness to Defend in Finland and Its Connections to Previous Arm…
2022
In Finland, a conceptualization of willingness to defend has been a traditional part of the defence-related debates and the state has vested interests to maintain the high level of willingness. This paper examines the connections to the Second World War in political discourse related to willingness to defend. Based on the analysis of political and societal debates, I will demonstrate that the Second World War serves as an historical experience for the understanding of the concept by offering an idea of individual sacrifice relevant to the survival of the state, as a prime example. peerReviewed
Aplicaciones lexicográficas de un corpus de discurso turístico: contextos de uso y definiciones
2012
En este artículo se propone, como punto de partida, la elaboración de un corpus de discurso turístico, incluido en una base de datos informática diseñada para tal efecto. En una segunda etapa, se analiza, cómo se contextualizan y usan los términos relativos a la tipología de habitaciones en las páginas web de promoción de hoteles, y si se ajustan o no a la definición que de ellos se ofrece en normativas y diccionarios. Esta metodología de trabajo permitirá, entre otros, diseñar futuros glosarios de promoción hotelera que recojan en las definiciones de los términos todos los matices de significado y notas de uso que sean útiles y adecuadas a los posibles destinatarios del glosario. De este m…
Soziale Medien als fünfte Gewalt: Strategische Organisation deutscher und finnischer Gegenredekampagnen auf Facebook
2023
Social media, as the fifth estate, increasingly influence public discourses and play a major role in shaping public opinion. Undoubtedly, they have the potential to promote participation and democracy. On the other side, they also constitute a risk for democratic societies, as the spread of hate speech and fake news has shown. As a response, forms of counterspeech organised by civil society have emerged in social media to counter the normalisation of hate speech and democracy-threatening discourses. In order to influence discourse in social media in terms of the fifth estate, counterspeech campaigns must be visible also quantitatively. In this ethnographic contrastive study, I analysed…
Eponyms or Descriptive Equivalent Terms? The Question of Scientific Accuracy in Medical Discourse
2008
A large part of medical lexicon is made up of eponymous terms. These have often been an object of debate and disagreement among specialists and linguists. More precisely, some claim that eponyms should be maintained, while others are inclined to substitute them with descriptive equivalent terms. The aim of this work is to highlight the importance of linguistic accuracy in medical communication through the analysis of the main advantages and disadvantages involved in both the use of eponyms and descriptive terms. The work is divided into four main parts. The first part provides a classification of the various types of medical eponyms, according to the types of names they can include. The sec…
Non-standard Problems in an Ordinary Differential Equations Course
2018
International audience; We report first results from a teaching intervention in an ordinary differential equations (ODEs) course for engineering students. Our aim is to challenge traditional approaches to teaching of Existence and Uniqueness Theorems (EUTs) through the design of problems that students cannot solve by applying well-rehearsed techniques or familiar methods. We analyse how the use of nonstandard problems contributes to the development of students' conceptual understanding of EUTs and ODEs.
Hulluus kulttuurisena kysymyksenä
2019
Tensions and striving for coherence in an academic’s professional identity work
2017
The emergence of ‘new managerialism’ in academic institutions and professions has given rise to tensions between one’s professional self and work context. Such tensions often originate from a misalignment between institutional and personal values. This study builds on a dialogical approach to identity and discusses the role of inner tensions and conflicts in terms of making sense of one’s professional identity. These aspects are explored and exemplified by introducing a sample case of one individual student and university researcher/teacher, Anna, who participated in one-year Pedagogical Studies for Adult Educators. Leaning on the narratives of Anna’s learning diaries and a later interview,…
Exploring the Ideal of Dialogue by Taking into Account Both an Observed Interaction Session and the Participants’ Views on the Interaction
2014
Published version of an article in the journal: Interchange. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10780-014-9221-7 The focus of the article is on the ideal of using dialogue to promote contact between school and home. The aim was to explore this ideal by taking into account both an observed interaction session and how the participants perceive this interaction. The study draws on data from observation of a meeting about a pupil with special needs and his transition from lower to upper secondary school. The participants were the pupil, the mother and father, the special needs teacher, the school counsellor, the school psychology counsellor and the special needs co…
Faire déguster et parler de son vin pour le faire aimer et le vendre : quelques stratégies dans des interactions producteur-client
2015
International audience; Cette contribution, qui s’inscrit dans le projet global OenoLex Bourgogne, vise une analyse discursive d’interactions authentiques entre des professionnels bourguignons du vin et des clients (potentiels) en contexte de dégustation. Elle présente le corpus original produit dans le cadre du projet et met l’accent sur les stratégies de transmission de connaissancestechniques et sur les argumentaires de vente développés par les producteurs et/ou vendeurs