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Research into practice: The influence of discourse studies on language descriptions and task design in published ELT materials
Alex Gilmore
The ‘Thinking Aloud’ strand of Language Teaching offers me the chance to give a more personal appraisal of discourse studiesi – a vast, multidisciplinary, and rapidly expanding area of research, which I believe has strong relevance to foreign language teaching materials design and classroom practice. The broad approach to discourse studies advocated here mirrors the kind of collaborative processes, and attempts to reach beyond disciplinary boundaries, occurring in many fields of contemporary academia, where ‘there is a tension between disciplinary specialization and the need to acknowledge the complex reality of the 21st century.’ (Austin, Park & Goble 2008: 557). It is also an approach that suits the needs of foreign language teachers who, denied the comfort of limiting themselves to a narrow field of enquiry, are required to combine eclectically insights from multiple sources, in an attempt to enhance the language learning process.
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Marilena Di Bari
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Shamim Ahmed
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Discourse Analysis for University Students
2005 •
Laura Alba-Juez
... DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. Información General. Autores:Laura Alba Juez; Editores: UNED; Año de publicación: País: España; Idioma: Inglés; ISBN : 8436251504 84-362-5150-4. Otros catálogos. Bibliotecas ...
Key Terms in Discourse Analysis
2011 •
Paul Baker
2020 •
Victoria de la Rosa
The notion of stance covers a multidimensional range of phenomena. Along one dimension, which DuBois (2007) called “the stance triangle”, three different aspects of stance acts can be discerned: 1) evaluation of objects, 2) positioning of subjects, and 3) aligning with other subjects. Another dimension concerns conceptual types of stance. Along this dimension, a distinction can be made between epistemic stance, effective stance (e.g. Marin-Arrese 2011) and emotive or affective stance (e.g. Ochs 1989). In my talk, I will argue that two additional dimensions of stance must be identified. One dimension has to do with the scope of stance – that is, with the type of objects being evaluated. Biber & Fingan (1989: 92) restricted stance to propositional content, and there are good arguments that epistemic stance applies only to propositions (Boye 2010, 2012). However, effective stance, as defined by Marin-Arrese (2009), pertains to states-of-affairs (or “events”) rather than propositions. M...
Teaching and Researching Writing
mohammadreza valizadeh
Reporting Armistice: Grammatical Evidence and Semantic Implications of Diachronic Context Shifts
35 •
Claire Urbach
Journalists reporting war have increasingly been embedded with military units, especially in the recent Iraq War (e.g. Cottle, 2006: 76; Tumber, 2004). Being ‘on the ground’ amongst the action might suggest that the news produced is more strongly ‘grounded in reality’ than reports constructed in the newsroom from news ‘off the wire’. However, this investigation of seven armistice reports from the Sydney Morning Herald spanning a century (1902-2003) suggests that there has been a gradual shift away from strongly grounded, accountable reporting towards engaging, crafted prose. Across the archive of these texts, the patterning of circ*mstantial elements reflects shifts in the priority placed upon specificity of time and place. These grammatical patterns are indices of contextual differences in the demands of technology and process through which news reports have been produced. An example is the shift from lists of telegraphic corantos to ‘integrated’ articles published under a specific reporter’s byline. One conclusion that can be drawn from this is that as the reporter’s ‘voice’ mediates between reader and events, there is some sacrifice of the readers’ ability to reconstruct the unfolding of events. This conclusion prompts us to problematise the mediation of war in the news about armistice.
Proceedings of ISFC 35: voices around the world
2008 •
Maria Herke
The past few decades saw a fast growth of the call centre industry in which language and communication skills play an important role in providing quality service to customers. For successful communication at call centres, both the Customer Service Representatives (CSRs) and the customers need to be sensitive to the various linguistic realizations (whether indirect or incongruent) through which social positioning occurs. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) a great deal of attention has been given to grammatical metaphor (Halliday, 1994/1985; Martin, 1992, Berry et al. 1996). However there are relatively few applications of this theory to professional discourse analysis (Simon-Vandenbergen et al., 2003). This paper aims to investigate the use of interpersonal metaphors in English and Chinese call centre discourse and address the incongruence between SPEECH FUNCTION and MOOD and the metaphorical realizations of probability, usuality, inclination and obligation in call centre i...
