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Anneli Dyrvold; Ida Bergvall – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This article explores how seven Swedish digital teaching platforms in mathematics make use of the affordances provided by various modalities and dynamic functions. A model based on social semiotics is used to analyse how dynamic functions are used, whether or not the language is technically oriented, if relational or operational processes are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Management Systems
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Reynolds, Judith – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper explores linguistic and cultural complexity within immigration legal advice communication. Drawing from a linguistic ethnographic study, ethnographic and interactional data from two linked advice meetings about UK refugee family reunion processes are subject to deductive analysis using Risager's model of the language-culture nexus,…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigration, Laws, Ethnography
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Shahab, Sara; Rashidi, Nasser; Sadighi, Firooz; Yamini, Mortaza – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This study attempted to scrutinize the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary generic variations of textbook introductions in humanities and basic sciences with reference to the onion model. The data included a sample of 60 introductions (i.e. ten each from applied linguistics, sociology, and psychology within humanities, and ten each from biology,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Becher, Ayelet; Orland-Barak, Lily – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This study suggests an integrative qualitative methodological framework for capturing complexity in mentoring activity. Specifically, the model examines how historical developments of a discipline direct mentors' mediation of professional knowledge through the language that they use. The model integrates social activity theory and a framework of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Discourse Analysis, Art Education, Teaching Methods
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Zasyekin, Serhiy – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
The article sketches the outlines of a theoretical framework for the analysis of translation of literary texts, viewed as psycho-semiotic phenomenon and based on evaluation of earlier attempts in this direction, and on the results of a psycholinguistic empirical study of translations. Central to this framework is the recent insight that the human…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Translation, Cognitive Psychology, Guidelines
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Rey, Alain; Delesalle, Simone – Langue Francaise, 1979
Discusses lexicographic theory, various problems and models behind dictionary construction, and the role of the "cultural dictionary." (AM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Definitions, Dictionaries, Language Usage
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Cissna, Kenneth N., Ed. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1982
The seven articles in this journal issue focus on the relationship between theory and practice in human communication. Topics discussed in the articles are (1) a speech theory of human communication, (2) first principles for an "act" based theory of communication, (3) the uses of a theory of communication, (4) communication pragmatism,…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Figurative Language, Language Usage