The semiotic ecology of linguistic landscapes in rural Zambia [PDF]
, 2015 In addressing the dearth in studies on linguistic/semiotic landscapes in oral-language dominant rural communities, we use the notion of repurposing to show how people from rural areas of Livingstone and Lusaka in Zambia (South-Central Africa) extend ...
Banda, Felix, Jimaima, Hambaba
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Regulatory artifacts: prescribing, constituting, steering [PDF]
, 2022 Generally, when thinking of artifacts, one imagines “technical artifacts”. Technical artifacts are those artifacts that perform a mere causal function. They aim to instrumentally help and support behaviour, not to change it.
Loddo, Olimpia Giuliana +2 more
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Acknowledging and interrogating multiplicities: towards a generous approach in evaluations of early literacy innovation and intervention [PDF]
, 2016 At a time of increasing calls from policy-makers for the use of ‘hard evidence’ in driving decision-making at national and local level in educational contexts, this article contributes to debates about evidence-based practice in early literacy research ...
Burnett, Cathy
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Ocula, 2019 The present issue of Ocula, edited by Federico Montanari, Nicola Dusi and Guido Ferraro, intends to investigate a new and yet topical issue, one which is in constant transformation: the vast field of locative media and their intertwining with data and ...
Federico Montanari
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Observatory's linguistic landscape: semiotic appropriation and the reinvention of space [PDF]
, 2014 Using a longitudinal ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape (LL) in Observatory's business corridor of Lower Main Road, the paper explores changes brought about by the influx of immigrant Africans, their artefacts and language practices.
Amiena Peck +10 more
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Multimodal Discourse Analysis of 2012 Governorship Election Campaign Billboards in Ondo State, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2021 Billboards are widely used in the world for political purposes. The Ondo State 2012 governorship candidates employed billboards for their campaigns. It is observed that an average viewer of the campaign billboards finds it difficult to attain the exact ...
Ariyo, Kayode +2 more
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Ocula, 2019 This paper aims at offering a geocritical exploration of cinema starting from The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, 2006) and retracing the tradition of the noir film genre, taking into consideration the peculiar relations between this genre and "real ...
Giorgio Avezzù
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I luoghi, il senso. Costruzione e decostruzione dell'effetto del luogo nelle fotografie di Instagram
Ocula, 2019 This article deals with the peculiarities of typical Instagram photographs (use of blurring, "filters" that decrease the chromatic range, and so on), in relation with the idea that these images should represent with immediacy the flow of life, as well as
Guido Ferraro
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Trends in LN-embedding practices at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) in 2019 [PDF]
, 2020 In this report, we describe the trends in literacy-embedding practices of level-2 and level-3 tutors who worked in vocational contexts at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), and who completed the New Zealand Certificate in Adult Literacy and ...
Ahmad, Farzana +2 more
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Vernacular mobile literacies: multimodality, creativity and cultural identity [PDF]
, 2020 This paper focuses on how advanced learners of English at a woman’s college in Saudi Arabia use Snapchat to communicate with their classmates. It examines not just the way the English language becomes a meaning making resource in these exchanges, but ...
Albawardi, Areej, Jones, H. Rodney
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