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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"everyday language"”.
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… of the not-so-subtle connotations of our everyday language-games, and will proceed to show that, despite their naivete, these connotations nevertheless have a formative impact on modern academic accounts of moral rationality and ethical deliberation. The thematic focal points of my essay …
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A home for all? : exploring discourses that inform the construction of belonging in contemporary South Africa
… and negotiated within the social action of language. This is explored by investigating the situated meanings individuals assign to events, places, institutions and people in relation to their experiences of belonging and exclusion. Poststructuralism, phenomenology and social constructionism …
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Folding City Flats
<p>This collection of poems draws largely upon language to construct unlikely images and scenes that evoke a sense of displacement. Although the poems may deviate stylistically, they maintain a lyric sensibility that takes its grounding from a Modern sensibility while also heavily influenced by …
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Carrollian language arts & rhetoric: Dodgson's quest for order & meaning, with a purpose
Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of …
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A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town
… to South Sotho/Setswana as their family heritage language, they differed widely in other respects, because of different social locations as middle class/working class families, including everyday language use and the social expectations of their young children.
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PoEM : a parser of emotion metaphors
… generally recognized as an integral component of everyday language, very few computational systems capable of understanding metaphoric utterances exist today. This thesis describes one approach to the problem and presents PoEM, a prototype system which recognizes and interprets metaphoric …
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'Bridging discourses' in a bilingual South African mathematics classroom with a collaborative teaching model
… learners have to access a curriculum in a language which is not their home language. Research has been conducted into several aspects of the challenge that this poses to educators and learners alike and how classroom discourse reflects this reality. This case study of a rural, bilingual …
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The way of connection : journeys with the map of loss
… using pictures. creative activities and everyday language. The Map is a unique approach to understanding life. The Map presents a visual guide to the importance of balance in our lives. and provides us with an opportunity to realise connections between our actions. thoughts. feelings. and …
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Reducing Linguistic Barriers In Secondary Chemistry Through Inquiry-Based, Phenomena-Driven Instruction For English Language Learners
… linguistic barriers that limit English Language Learners’ (ELLs) access to meaningful participation in secondary chemistry classrooms. Traditional instruction often prioritizes dense academic language and rote memorization, positioning ELLs as passive learners rather than active …
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Why Interpersonal Ties are Important for People: An Analysis of the Concept of Social Capital and Its Dimensions of Holism, Convertibility, and Conductibility
… has shown itself in both sociological theory and everyday language. Its increasing popularity has mainly resulted from its conceptualizations by some of the most prominent social scientists, such as Pierre Bourdieu, James Coleman, Nan Lin, and Robert Putnam and from its empirical applications to …
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Gli anglicismi nella comunicazione politica su Twitter
… referring to grounded studies in the field of language contact and language imperialism, we present an analysis which is divided into three main parts. The first part presents some quantitative results and evaluates the incidence of anglicisisms on the entire corpus we have gathered, specifying …
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Vijayanagara in foreign eyes: a study of travel literature and ethnology in the Renaissance (1420-1600)
… narratives based on the creative use of everyday language. The argument then goes on to focus on various descriptions of the South Indian kingdom of Vijayanagara written in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by foreign observers. This body of literature is studied thoroughly and in …
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The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda
… a rhetorical gap between those who speak the language of the law on reconciliation, and those who speak the everyday language of forgiveness informed by a Judaeo-Christian rhetorical frame. It is argued that the gap is addressed by public deliberation or “live rhetoric”, allowing for a divided …
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"What was repeated had weight" : ordinary rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück.
… itself—a ritualistic art form created out of everyday language. As poetry utilizes repeating elements in order to offer profound insights into the human condition, so do ordinary rituals utilize repeating actions to offer their enactors healing over time.
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Individual and Joint Contributions of the Cerebral Hemispheres to Language Comprehension
Normal language comprehension requires contributions from and cooperation of many parts of the brain, ranging from sensory areas that receive the initial physical input, through frontal and temporal areas associated with oft-characterized language subprocesses, to brain areas involved in …
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Immediate transfer of learning from speech perception to speech production
… More generally, these results support models of language processing with separate input and output phonologies (Dell et al., 2007), suggesting that only internal activation of the production system during perception promotes transfer of phonotactic constraints to production. Given the emphasis on …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… the impact of bilingual education (immersion and language maintenance programmes) and the vitality of minority languages. It explores multiple factors, including parental expectations, that influence the decisions of parents who have chosen to educate their children through the medium of the …
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Valutazione ambientale strategica e governance territoriale: metodologie e procedure
… with various meanings and are often misused in everyday language, so as to be regarded by many as words full of rhetoric, ambiguous, devoid of any real content, used to express everything and nothing. The likely cause of this misuse is that they are concepts related to complex systems and …
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Nomenclaturas aplicadas à CASP: uma análise do discurso dos gestores de saúde do Estado da Paraíba
… Profit and Loss, have gained space within the everyday language of professionals with health training, such as Pharmacists-Biochemists, nurses, dentists and physicians, for example. In addition, functions considered as administrative, financial and accounting are seen in the health areas as an …
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Resisting dominant language and literacy ideologies through family multilingualism and the making of ikhaya
… uninhibited, long before the understanding of ‘language policy' as regulating mechanism with its oppressive monoglossic language ideologies (Romaine, 2001) came into being. As a consequence of occupation and division of African regions into colonies, monolingual ideologies that favoured European …
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