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Rethinking generic skills [PDF]
European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2013 The paper provides a critical analysis of the notion of generic or transversal skillscontained with European Union policy discourses. The author presents a conceptualframework that challenges the idea that generic skills are universal, transferable ...
Roy Canning
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The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square: A study of the relationship between discourse and space [PDF]
Journal of Language and Politics, 2015 The year 2011 saw unprecedented waves of people occupying key locations around the world in a statement of public discontent. In Egypt, the protests which took place between 25 January and 11 February 2011 culminating in the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have now come to be known as the Egyptian Revolution.
Aboelezz, Mariam
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Communication Cues, Identities and Errors of English in the Bottom-up Linguistic Landscape in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria [PDF]
ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOCommunication identity in linguistic landscape is a means in which sign producers express their linguistic or cultural background in their signage. This also influences the sign consumers to form their understanding of signage emplaced.
Toyin Florence ADEDOTUN
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Language of Signs: A Multimodal Analysis of Celebrity-Endorsed Advertisements on Nigeria’s Social Media [PDF]
ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOIn today’s advertising landscape, celebrity endorsements on social media have become essential, merging linguistic and multimodal elements to craft engaging stories.
Olayiwola Mofoluwalope ADEDOJA +2 more
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The role of context in transactional English: spoken utterances and public signs in the UAE [PDF]
Frontiers in CommunicationTransactional and interactional English communications tend to be on a continuum rather than a dichotomy, with some communications having characteristics of both, yet others tending more toward one type of communication or the other.
Betty Lanteigne, Hedieh Najafi
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis article examines the linguistic landscapes (LL) of two communities in Beijing, China, to investigate the agency and structure embodied in them.
Mengli Zhang, Tianwei Zhang
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The geosemiotics of ethno-political graffiti in Kosovo: polyphony, emplacement and heteroglossia
Social Semiotics, 2023 Abstract: This article examines the nature of graffiti semiotics in the public space of Kosovo’s capital Pristina. By adopting a perspective on graffiti as a historically situated and semiotic practice, we identify distinct ethno-political voices, each relying on highly multimodal-linguistic resources to convey their respective political messages to a ...
Demaj, Uranela, Vandenbroucke, Mieke
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Geosemiotic Analysis of Signs in the Linguistic Cityscape of China [PDF]
International Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2021 In the last several decades, adding English to public signboards has become a common phenomenon in China, and the inclusion of more foreign languages other than English for a sign in public sphere has drawn much attention in recent years. In sociolinguistic research, linguistic landscape is a more common term and has been adopted most in studies ...
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Riots and a blank canvas: young people creating texts, creating spaces [PDF]
, 2016 This article draws on research into the work of Greenshoots,1 a small company of creative practitioners who provide opportunities for young people to work on projects involving visual and creative practices with a strong link to local heritage.
McIntyre, Joanna
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Observing wildlife through the eyes of Nils Lindahl Elliot [PDF]
, 2020 Review of Observing Wildlife in Tropical Forests. 1: A Geosemeiotic Approach by Nils Lindahl Elliot.
Mäekivi, Nelly, Rattasepp, Silver
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