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Linguistic Repertoires and Semiotic Resources in Interaction: A Finnish Manager as a Mediator in a Multilingual Meeting
2010
This article examines professional communication in a multilingual meeting in a small company in Finland within ethnographic, sociolinguistic, and discourse analytic frameworks. English is used as a lingua franca by a group of Finnish and Chinese business professionals. The aim is to study how language is used with other semiotic resources to construct meaning in interaction. In particular, with the focus on an individual participant who was the mediator in the meeting, the goal is to analyze participants’ role alignment and interpersonal relationships. The results show that business professionals’ roles are renegotiable in a meeting and by means of language accompanied by embodied actions …
Superdiversity perspective and the sociolinguistics of social media
2018
This chapter shows how the superdiversity perspective suggested in recent critical sociolinguistics provides the study of social media discourse and communication with a useful approach to conceptualizing and empirically investigating complex and multiple axes of diversity and difference in social media practices. It discusses recent work in sociolinguistics of social media, highlighting how social media practices illustrate many of the aspects of contemporary social life and communication that are considered symptomatic of superdiversity. It shows how research in this field has moved from viewing superdiversity as a quality or quantity characterizing specific places, spaces, groups and net…
The Eternal Return of Politics
2003
Politics of Historical Signs In his text The Contest of Faculties, Immanuel Kant makes an attempt to answer the question "Is the human race continually improving?" He identifies such an attempt as belonging to a history of future times. Nevertheless, according to Kant, such a history must start from some sort of experience. He reasons that "[w]e must, therefore, search for an event which would indicate that such a cause exists and that it is causally active within the human race, irrespective of the time at which it might actually operate; and it would have to be a cause which allowed us to conclude, as an inevitable consequence of its operation, that mankind is improving." (1) By reading s…
Epistemologia dell’insegnante di matematica sulla sua conoscenza professionale. (Parte I: Quadro teorico e rassegna di alcuni risultati di ricerca).
2007
In this research the mathematics teacher’s point of view is investigated on his professional knowledge. In particular: What does he mean for “professionalism”? Does he really perceive himself as a “professional”? And how does he perceive himself as a “professional” or non a “professional”? Of what nature is his professional knowledge? On which bases are his professional practices founded? What are the sources and the limits of this knowledge? What, if any, epistemological status do his beliefs regarding the term “professional” have? The mathematics teacher’s epistemology, then, is the leading thread of the whole research. The data obtained about the teacher’s knowledge and beliefs are inter…
Epistemologia dell’insegnante di matematica sulla sua conoscenza professionale. (Parte IV: Risposte alle domande di ricerca D5-D9 e conclusioni).
2008
Le prime tre parti di questo lavoro si trovano nei precedenti tre numeri della rivista. Nella prima parte è stato descritto il quadro teorico ed è stata fatta una rassegna di alcuni risultati di ricerca sul tema in esame. Nella seconda parte è stata completata la rassegna dei principali risultati di ricerca e sono stati introdotti i problemi sui quali si è focalizzata questa ricerca. Nella terza parte è stata descritta la metodologia utilizzata per indagare l’epistemologia dell’insegnante di matematica sulla sua conoscenza professionale e sono stati riportati e discussi alcuni risultati ottenuti. In questa quarta e ultima parte si completa la descrizione e discussione dei risultati ottenuti…
Epistemologia dell’insegnante di matematica sulla sua conoscenza professionale. (Parte II: Altri risultati di ricerca. Domande di ricerca e ipotesi d…
2007
Nel numero precedente di questa rivista è riportata la prima parte di questo lavoro: il quadro teorico e una rassegna di alcuni risultati di ricerca. In questa seconda parte si completa la rassegna dei principali risultati di ricerca riguardanti il tema in esame e si descrivono i problemi sui quali si è focalizzata questa ricerca.
Epistemologia dell’insegnante di matematica sulla sua conoscenza professionale. (Parte III: Metodologia e risposte alle domande di ricerca D1-D4).
2007
Le prime due parti di questo lavoro si trovano nei precedenti due numeri della rivista. Nella prima parte è stato descritto il quadro teorico ed è stata fatta una rassegna di alcuni risultati di ricerca. Nella seconda parte è stata completata la rassegna dei principali risultati di ricerca sul tema in esame e sono stati introdotti i problemi sui quali si è focalizzata questa ricerca. In questa terza parte si descrive la metodologia utilizzata per indagare l’epistemologia dell’insegnante di matematica sulla sua conoscenza professionale e si riportano e discutono alcuni risultati ottenuti.
Images of Europe. The Union between Federation and Separation
2021
This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many images of Europe, or rather the many images through which European discourse is actually constituted in daily life, in search of their enunciative responsibility in today’s world for determining the current “State of the Union”. The identity of the European continent is based on a millenary tension between universalism and particularism: images of Europe have in fact been alternately inspired, over the centuries, by a model of homogeneity – R…
Anti-Speciesist Rhetoric
2017
The various laws protecting animals that were established in Nazi Germany (but for the most part were never put into effect) had, among others, the aim of marking the taxonomic and ontological distance between pure animals and impure sub-humans (Jews, homosexuals, the Roma). The attention to and respect for the alpha predator and noble animals was a vertiginous ignoratio elenchi of the concentration camps. With analogous fallacy, today’s anti-human and anti-speciesist eco-fascism, which regularly makes use of the reductio ad Hitlerum (“meat-eaters = Nazis”), avails itself in an irrational and populist way of the rudimentary argumentum ad personam typical of xenophobic and racist propaganda.…
Research on Emotion Recognition and Dementias: Foundations and Prospects
2021
Background: The study of emotion recognition could be crucial for detecting alterations in certain cognitive areas or as an early sign of neurological disorders. Objective: The main objective of the study is to characterize research development on emotion recognition, identifying the intellectual structure that supports this area of knowledge, and the main lines of research attracting investigators’ interest. Methods: We identified publications on emotion recognition and dementia included in the Web of Science Core Collection, analyzing the scientific output and main disciplines involved in generating knowledge in the area. A co-citation analysis and an analysis of the bibliographic couplin…