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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"semiotic resources"”.
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The out of school literacy practices and semiotic resources of two grade 4 boys who excel at creative writing
… their out of school literacy practices and semiotic resources and whether they affect or contribute towards their creative writing. I developed a case study based on home visits, interviews and collecting artefacts. I discovered that family social practices underpin many of the out of school …
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Using semiotic resources to teach and assess scientific concepts in a bilingual Namibian primary school: A socio-cultural discourse analysis
… meaning. I combined various theoretical resources from a sociocultural approach to language as social practice, Bakhtinian heteroglossia and dialogism, neo-Vygotskian ideas of what constitutes the learning of scientific concepts, together with the recent theorising of dynamic …
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Printmaking pedagogy: a multimodal social semiotic approach to the intaglio hardground process
… process for the first time. A multimodal social semiotic framework is utilised to shed light on the meaning-making practices related to intaglio hardground. This can be a somewhat deterministic process which is hindered by conventions and constraints. This research explores a metalanguage for the …
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The bones of the book: schematic structure and meaning made from books.
… 2015), they offer readers an array of different semiotic resources from which to make meaning. These include, not only text but imagery, typography, layout, paper, varnishes, cut apertures, and so forth. But how are these resources blended in cognition to make coherent meanings? This …
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“Making up (for) lost heritage: an ethnographic study of dance, language and identity in London’s Greek Cypriot diaspora”
… of heritage language along with other semiotic resources. Within these dance settings, participants synthesize their identities, drawing elements from various verbal and non-verbal semiotic resources constructing their hybrid identities productively and flexibly. Regardless their …
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A multimodal social semiotic approach to the analysis of manga : a metalanguage for sequential visual narratives
… of sequential visual narratives, how different semiotic resources may be employed to construct a visual narrative and how sequence of images may be developed. Over the years, extensive research has been undertaken in the area of still images. However, the particularities of meanings made in …
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A multimodal social semiotic exploration of the 'glocal' in EAL
… to an understanding of how multimodal semiotic resources in EAL teacher training videos construct English teaching in global settings. The investigation of the videos utilizes a multimodal social semiotic lens based in the work of Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and grounded in Halliday …
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”Det kan vara svårt att förklara på rader”. Perspektiv på analys och bedömning av multimodal textproduktion i årskurs 3.
… is grounded in sociocultural theories, in sociosemiotic theory and in multiliteracies research. The methods used consist of qualitative multimodal text analysis and semi-structured interviews with students and their teacher. The three empirical studies were carried out, each having a different …
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A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Student Explanations in Content and Language Integrated Learning
… Moreover, the teacher drew on multimodal resources including gestures, body movement, and slides to make dense academic knowledge accessible to the students. Regarding student discourse in group work, the focal students flexibly coordinated diverse semiotic resources including talk, …
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The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube
… By investigating their use of language and other semiotic resources on the social media platform, the aim is to gain insight into their identity performance (Jonsson & Muhonen, 2014) and how they reflect superdiverse conditions. The study builds on a growing body of research exploring …
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Multimodal textbook design : analyzing the construction of the discourses of pharmacology
… 'redesigning' meaning from a range of available resources. These include multimodal semiotic resources such as visual and verbal modes, as well as particular discursive and social practices that the text draws upon. The study originates from a disagreement over which Pharmacology textbook fourth …
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Scenario pedagogy as a negotiated, multimodal approach to developing professional communication practices in higher education
… using a wide variety of verbal and visual semiotic resources. Their selection of hybrid discursive, generic and modal resources are foregrounded at both draft and final product stage and include their communicative processes as well as the material artefacts they deliver in class. How …
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From street to screen: Linguistic productions of place in San Francisco's Mission District
… different ways individuals use linguistic and semiotic resources to create, engage and regiment these interactive spaces. Uniting theory and methods from anthropology, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics, I explore what language does in these open and expanding …
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Image analysis for translating English multimodal texts into Greek : a multimodal semiotics approach to translation training in a Greek higher education context
… for developing this role. Visual literacy, semiotics, and translation theories provided the conceptual framework for this multimodal semiotics approach to translation training, which guided my examination of the way the trainees described semiotic resources, how they used verbal and visual …
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English-mediated oral presentations in pharmacy : exploring literacy practices among Saudi female undergraduates
… 2006; Street, 1984). It also utilizes a social semiotic understanding of meaning-making to examine the presenters’ communicative choices (Kress, 2010; Kress, Jewitt, Ogborn, & Tsatsarelis, 2001; Leeuwen, 2005; Matusiak, 2013). Data for this investigation includes semi-structured interviews with …
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A multimodal analysis of the rhetorical devices used for meaning-making and humour in Saudi media cartoons
… in the frequency of the rhetorical devices and semiotic resources employed in the cartoons, the ways frequent devices are manifested across the visual and verbal modes, and the social and cultural insights into Saudi society. The cartoons were thematically classified into four major categories: …
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Argument as design: a multimodal approach to academic argument in a digital age
… Within this context, the study identifies the semiotic resources that students draw on and examines how they are employed to construct academic argument in three digital domains, namely video, comics and PowerPoint. Grounded in a theory of multimodal social semiotics, this study posits that …
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The social semiotic study of performance in a classical Hollywood film
Taking a social semiotic perspective, this thesis aims to develop methods of film segmentation, transcription and analysis which can be applied to the research of feature films, especially classical Hollywood films, through a comprehensive study of three scenes from the 1953 Hollywood film Roman …
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EXAMINING THE USE OF L1+ IN THE ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: A CONVERSATION ANALYTIC STUDY OF STUDENT PRACTICES
… classroom often use their other languages and semiotic resources (referred to in this study as L1+) to engage with other students in the class. Empirical analysis is needed to understand how and for what purposes the L1+ is used. This study takes a micro-analytic approach using Conversation …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… of multimodal and face-to-face communicative resources. I address enduring questions within the fields of linguistic anthropology, language education, and Latinx (media) studies through a multi-sited ethnography centered around three focal field sites: (1) a Spanish-language community radio …
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