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Kramar, Natalia – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper presents an analysis of engagement markers in the Lectures on Physics by eminent scientist and Nobel prizewinner R. P. Feynman, based on K. Hyland's model of interaction in academic discourse as stance and engagement. The Lectures were taught at the California Institute of Technology during 1961-63 and, having been turned into a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientists, Learner Engagement
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Brennan, Susan E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Examines what linguistic devices speakers use to make an entity salient in a discourse and how they re-refer to discourse entities moving in and out of focus. Speakers' center of attention was manipulated via a videotaped basketball game. Speakers referred to prominent entities as subjects; when they referred to them as objects, they repeated the…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Audiotape Recordings, Auditory Stimuli, College Students