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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Grammatical metaphor: Exploring the semogenic power of the language [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
This paper seeks to elaborate on the notion of 'grammatical metaphor' intended by M. A. K. Halliday (1983) in his Functional Systemic Linguistics (FSL). 'Metaphor' in linguistic parlance is 'a process of mapping between two different conceptual domains -
Behrooz Azabdaftari
doaj  

Exploring nominalization and lexical density deployed within research article abstracts: A grammatical metaphor analysis

Englisia
In research articles published for international reputable journals, the crucial role of abstracts to attract readers, especially reviewers or editors, is not in doubt. The article is expected to not experience direct desk rejection due to non-impressive
Faizatul Istiqomah, Yazid Basthomi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee, Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen, Tony Loughland   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

PARTICIPANTS OF MATERIAL PROCESSES IN GRAMMATICAL METAPHORS INVOLVING THE VERBS MAKE AND TAKE

Indonesian EFL Journal, 2020
This article, based on the transitivity system in a systemic functional linguistic study, is focused on the participants of material processes in grammatical metaphors involving the verbs Make and Take.
Dede Ismail
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Analysis of Literary and Scientific Genres in Azerbaijani Turkish Based on Halliday’s Grammatical Metaphor

Treasury of Persian Language and Literature
One of the key concepts in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar is grammatical metaphor. Halliday introduced three types of grammatical metaphor: ideational, interpersonal, and textual.
Masoumeh Pournazim Sis, Masoud Zoghi, Nader Assadi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Talking the Walk: ESG Discourse as Strategic Dynamic Capability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conventional wisdom suggests that firms must “walk the talk” on sustainability. In turbulent institutional environments, however, talking increasingly becomes part of the walk, as organizations use sustainability discourse to construct and maintain legitimacy.
Floriana Luisi, Olga Maria Stefania Cucaro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol, Elizaveta Lyssova‐Golomzina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perception, emotion, and synesthesia: Metaphorical combining in Keats

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2019
This article attempts to demonstrate the elaboration of poetic conceptual metaphor by way of perception verbs, emotion verbs, and expressions of synesthesia (sensorial mixing and blending).
Brannon Katrina
doaj   +1 more source