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Direct linkMichelle P. Banawan; Jinnie Shin; Tracy Arner; Renu Balyan; Walter L. Leite; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Academic discourse communities and learning circles are characterized by collaboration, sharing commonalities in terms of social interactions and language. The discourse of these communities is composed of jargon, common terminologies, and similarities in how they construe and communicate meaning. This study examines the extent to which discourse…
Descriptors: Algebra, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Syntax
Nickels, Edelmira L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Linguistics research has demonstrated the commonness and functions of metaphors to carry cognitive frames, which influence the way people understand and act on information. This work conveys the results of three analyses employed to describe cognitive frames: forms of linguistic metaphors used, functions of systematic metaphors that emerged, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Language Usage, Politics
Peer reviewedvan Dijk, Teun A. – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Replies to Billig's (1995) critique of his paper on the relations between language and ideology. The article argues that the paper critiqued is tentative and maintains that social cognition should not be reduced to structures of interaction or rhetoric. The article also emphasizes that ideologies are crucial in the cognitive and social management…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Group Dynamics, Ideology
Chami-Sather, Grece; Kretschmer, Richard R., Jr. – Language and Education, 2005
This research describes and analyses the type of verbal discourse and interactions among the children in a group-solving situation. Two groups of five children ages 6, 7 and 8, from two different cultures, were observed: one at an English-speaking summer camp in Beirut, Lebanon, and another at a parallel site, a neighbourhood group in Kentucky, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication, Children, Discourse Analysis
Wasson, Christina – 1996
An ethnographic and linguistic study conducted at a high-technology corporation examined decision-making in managerial meetings, focusing on the effects of silences following a proposal on the maker of the proposal. An opinion is that such silences signify a negative evaluation of the proposal, inviting the proposal maker to alter his position.…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
Lemke, J. L. – 1996
A 6-minute, videotaped segment of discourse in a medical school classroom problem-based learning session is analyzed for evidence of the kinds of meanings being constructed, their functions, and the linguistic, kinesic, and other means by which they are being made. Three interdependent discourse agendas are distinguished: construction,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Clinical Diagnosis, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
