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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"discourse studies"”.

  1. Mental models in manifesto texts : the case of students for a democratic society and weatherman

    Holland, Jeremy, Hart, Christopher, Szerszynski, BronislawLancaster University2018

    … and ‘context models’ in socio-cognitive discourse studies, ‘case frames’ in frame semantics, ‘idealized cognitive models’ in cognitive linguistics and ‘deictic space models’ in cognitive discourse studies. Building on these recent approaches to mental models, conceptual operations such as …

    lancaster Repository record

  2. Making Sense of Chinese Higher Education Internationalization: Critical Gazes at the Nexus of State, Power, and Globalization

    Wu, JianUniversity of Cambridge2022

    … predominant methodology can be characterized as discourse studies. A thesis-by-publications format makes the investigation of the broad research question possible by dividing it into smaller research questions and adopting various theoretical frameworks and methodologies. The introductory chapter …

    cambridge Repository record

  3. The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)

    Ferreiro Gómez, José Manuel, Wodak, RuthLancaster University2018

    … analytical framework, drawing in critical discourse studies (CDS), theories of identity, international interventions, peacekeeping and postcolonialism. This framework analyses a set of discursive strategies through which legitimation and identity are constructed. This study comprises a …

    lancaster Repository record

  4. Academic literacies in policy and practice

    Hidalgo Avilés, Hilda, Unger, JohannLancaster University2018

    … Chemistry. I combine two frameworks: critical discourse studies (Fairclough, 2001, 2003) and academic literacies (Lea & Street, 2006; Lillis, 2001) to investigate how broader social and institutional contexts influence specific academic literacy practices reported by university students and …

    lancaster Repository record

  5. The critical architect: How can educational leaders use duoethnographic boundary-spanning dialogue to build pathways for transformative leadership?

    Lawrence, Wendy2025

    … culture are everywhere, acting as obstacles to discourse and progress. Any attempt to rethink schools must include the voices and ideas of marginalized students and families who are often excluded from curriculum, programming, and jobs. Discourse is a social construct that creates and recreates, …

    emich Repository record

  6. In search for totemic foods: Exploring discursive foodscapes online in Finnish, English and French

    Makela, M.University of Westminster2020

    … emerge as totemic foods in online foodie discourse. The corpus is compiled from Social Networking Services (blogs, community websites, recipe sharing sites, and conversation fora) in Finnish, English and French. The theoretical framework is construed with post-Bourdieusian taste and …

    westminster Repository record

  7. Negotiating constructions of success and failure: women in mid-life and formations of subject, subjectivity and identity

    McAvoy, Jean MarieThe Open University2009

    … and contest. The thesis also considered how discourse studies might take life history and personal order seriously. It presents an empirical analysis of personal order, extending this to interpersonal orders and habits of engagement accruing for subjects in ongoing relationships. It adds to …

    the-open-u Repository record

  8. Learning and teaching in higher education : policy constructions, participants' experiences and recontextualisation

    Horrod, Sarah, Potts, Diane, Unger, JohannLancaster University2019

    … and a framework and concepts from critical discourse studies (CDS). Specifically, I draw on Bernstein’s (1990; 2000) principles of how pedagogic discourse is created, the identities available to students and teachers, the notion of the official recontextualising field (ORF) and the pedagogic …

    lancaster Repository record

  9. Debating the European Union transnationally : Wikipedians’ construction of the EU on a Wikipedia talk page (2001-2015)

    Kopf, Susanne, Koller, VeronikaLancaster University2018

    … has received considerable attention in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), addressing e.g. questions regarding language policy and discourses surrounding topics connected to the EU (e.g. Muntigl, Weiss, & Wodak, 2000; Unger, Krzyżanowski, & Wodak, 2014; Wodak, 2007a). However, private individuals’ …

    lancaster Repository record

  10. Intellectuals as spokespersons for the nation in the post-Yugoslav context : a critical discourse study

    Sicurella, Federico, Wodak, RuthLancaster University2015

    … and by defining national identities in public discourse. Engaging in symbolic practices of nation-building, however, also enables intellectuals to legitimise their own authority and social status, as reflected in the concept of national intellectual practice elaborated by Suny and Kennedy …

    lancaster Repository record

  11. Dialogical dynamics and argumentative structures in dispute mediation discourse

    Janier, MathildeUniversity of Dundee2017

    … the aim of discovering the characteristics of discourse in mediation. As a result, theories based on systematic analyses of mediation dialogues are appearing, which offer novel insights and valuable data. As many research works have shown, argumentation deserves a particular attention in …

    dundee Repository record

  12. DIVERSE COLLEGE WRITERS AND THE CONVERSATION ON ERROR AND STANDARDIZATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

    Pierce, Tommy

    … sociolinguistics, second language writing, and discourse studies to the forefront of the WAC conversation on diverse student writers and error. In Chapter One, Beyond the Tipping Point,' I illustrate the ever-increasing diversity of pre-college and college writing classes, and consider the key …

    unm Repository record

  13. Contradictions and Opportunities: Learning from the Cultural Knowledges of Youth with Histories of Domestic Violence

    Pyscher, Tracey2016

    … they engage with and resist educational discourses and practices and thus take up subject positions. What we do know from popular, psychological literature is that HDV youth are often objectified as troubled and deficient and this shapes their identities and experiences in school. In this …

    umn Repository record

  14. Slovene language policy in time and space : the trajectory of a language strategy from inception to implementation

    Savski, Kristof, Wodak, Ruth, Unger, JohannLancaster University2015

    … theory, interpretive policy analysis, critical discourse studies, and critical sociolinguistics. The framework analyses policy as a set of practices which occur across different social spaces, such as fields and nexuses of practice. It also takes into account the changeability of such spaces, …

    lancaster Repository record

  15. A Discourse Analysis of Stakeholders? Understandings of Science in Salmon Recovery Policy

    White, Dave D.Virginia Tech2002

    … expressed in formal salmon recovery policy discourse; 2) rhetorical practices employed to justify or undermine claims about salmon policy 3); and patterns of understandings of science and associated rhetorical practices between social categories of actors. This research contributes to …

    vt Repository record

  16. The Multilingual Literacy Practices of Mirpuri Migrants in Pakistan and the UK : Combining New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis.

    Capstick, Anthony VincentLancaster University2014

    … as seen through the lens of New Literacy Studies. This means understanding literacy as a social practice, applied in different contexts to meet different purposes, in this case for the purposes of migration. This focus meant exploring many different activities involving reading and writing …

    lancaster Repository record

  17. “All these wonderful things”: the place of digital resources in newly qualified English language and literacy teachers' practices, from higher education to high schools

    Campbell, EduardSchool of Education2021

    … the digital is limited. Additionally, recent studies point to the immense pressures placed on these teachers during their first years as qualified teachers. This case study is an in-depth investigation of the practices of two newly qualified English language and literacy teachers, at two South …

    cape-town Repository record

  18. Tendências de consideração moral e ensino de ciências: veiculação e perspectivas em uma sala de aula no município de Ouriçangas-Ba

    Cruz, Jamile Santana daUniversidade Federal da Bahia2025

    … it establishes with nature be considered. Thus, studies on teaching ethics in science education and its possibilities are fundamental. Therefore, this work contributes to promoting the teaching of ethics in science education from the perspective of aspects of moral consideration trends. Located …

    brazil-ufba Repository record

  19. HABILIDAD ARGUMENTATIVA EN HISPANOHABLANTES CON AFASIA PROGRESIVA PRIMARIA: UNA COMPARACIÓN TRANSCULTURAL SEGÚN EL NIVEL DE ESCOLARIZACIÓN Y EL REPERTORIO LINGÜÍSTICO

    DONATI, ALESSANDRAUniversità degli Studi di Milano2025

    … by a progressive loss of speech. Within the discourse studies on APP, there is a lack of focus on one of the most complex discursive skills, i.e. argumentative skills. For this reason, the aim of of this thesis is to detect and quantitatively analyse the argumentative ability of a group of …

    milano Repository record

  20. The delegitimisation discursive strategies of women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia

    Alenazy, KhaledUniversity of Essex2018

    … Arabia. To do so, the study draws on critical discourse studies (CDS), in particular the socio- cognitive approach (Van Dijk, 1998, 2008, 2013). The socio-cognitive approach emphasises the importance of investigating the social, cognitive and discursive dimensions of social problems such as …

    essex Repository record

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