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Mia Kaasby; Nancy H. Hornberger – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article unfolds and argues for Biliteracy Metaphor Analysis (BMA), a methodology for examining the interpretation and use of metaphors in canon literature in a biliteracy context, in this case the canon of Danish literature read and interpreted by multilingual students in a ninth grade classroom. BMA combines Spradley's ethnographic framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Monolingualism, Literacy
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Ferreira, Giselle Martins dos Santos; Lemgruber, Márcio Silveira; Cabrera, Thiago Leite – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2023
Although automation is not a novelty, high hopes are currently pinned on more and more ingenious devices built with Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has become a key discussion point in the agendas of governments and multinational agencies, with particular interest in educational applications. This article explores parallels between ideas…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Theories, Figurative Language, Persuasive Discourse
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Yemelyanova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The article deals with the analysis of the addressee's factor foregrounding in the limerick discourse. The study demonstrates that the limerick discourse is characterised by an addresser-writer's and an addressee-reader/listener's reciprocality via idiosyncratic protagonists portrayed by an addresser-writer. A limerick presents a laconic…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Styles, Stereotypes, Humor
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Sarker, Md Abdul Momen; Talukder, Tusar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The paper brings into focus how Syed Manzoorul Islam, in his three-decade-long literary career, has mastered a narrative style that sets him apart from many of his Bengali contemporaries. It demonstrates all the traits unique to his storytelling: blurring of boundaries between dream and reality, self-reflexivity, irony, and humor. The research…
Descriptors: Postmodernism, Language Styles, Authors, Indo European Languages
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Zachary C. Beare; Marcus Meade – College Composition and Communication, 2015
Through an analysis of student writing and interviews, this article examines hyperbole as a neglected rhetorical device. The authors trouble notions of hyperbole as error and argue for a--reconceptualization of hyperbole as potentially highly communicative and able to convey emotional tone, passion, and significance while maintaining brevity.
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Writing Strategies
Richardson, Elaine – 1994
Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's "Dialogic Imagination" and Henry Louis Gates'"Signifying Monkey," an analysis of an African American student's essay reveals codes that are distinct to African Americans. Bakhtin's theory alerts scholars to the extent to which language is a social phenomenon. Ambiguous and heteroglossic, it reflects…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black History, Black Literature
Cincotta, Madeleine Strong – 1995
The nature of literary translation and ways in which it differs from other forms of translation are examined, looking at practical difficulties, challenges, and satisfaction in the profession of literary translation. The difficulties discussed include suggestions about how to get started, legal questions of copyright, and choice of text.…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Copyrights, Cultural Context, Dialects
Guindal, Albert Lopez – 1985
Humor is an excellent teaching tool because, in addition to preventing classroom boredom and monotony, it introduces lateral aspects of language such as irony, sarcasm, mockery, elision, ellipsis, and euphemism. Humor in language can be approached interactively or structurally through a variety of activities. It can be used to expand vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Comics (Publications), Cultural Context