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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Ethnography of speaking"”.
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Making sense of humour: some pragmatic and political aspects
This is a study of humour in context, but as humour is by its nature extremely mutable and so occurs in many forms in a multitude of contexts, this calls for certain constraints to be applied to the methods of investigation. Thus rather than attempt a panoramic view of such a polymorphic subject, …
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Framing Games: an Exploration Into the Speaking Activity of a Chinese-English Bilingual Child
The study applies an ethnography of speaking to the study of a bilingual child, with the construct of a frame as the unit of analysis. The child was observed and tape recorded playing a commercial game in Chinese with her mother, and in English with her father. Both activity frames and conceptual …
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Brandvägg. Ord och handling i en yrkesutbildning
Brandvägg describes how a group of firefighters, who consistently maintain that they are “practitioners and not theorists”, relate to various forms of language based knowledge and language based “knowledging” in their vocational training, which is based on problem based learning. From a …