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Patricia Paugh; Lara J. Handsfield; Deborah MacPhee – Journal of Literacy Research, 2025
Debates about how to teach reading have continuingly aligned with political agendas in the United States. In this article, we reveal ways in which educational journalism uses metaphor to align the "science of reading" with values and beliefs held by conservative Christian religious groups. Through a critical metaphor analysis of 24…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Instruction, Religious Factors, Churches
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Paulson, Eric J.; Theado, Connie Kendall – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This study employed a metaphor analysis approach to investigate instructor language as it relates to the positioning of agency within a college developmental reading course context. Agency, or the socioculturally mediated potential to act, is a crucial part of self-regulated, self-efficacious learning and contributes to identity formation and…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Reading Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Rohde, H.; Levy, R.; Kehler, A. – Cognition, 2011
We show that comprehenders' expectations about upcoming discourse coherence relations influence the resolution of local structural ambiguity. We employ cases in which two clauses share both a syntactic relationship and a discourse relationship, and hence in which syntactic and discourse processing might be expected to interact. An off-line…
Descriptors: Cues, Rhetoric, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language