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“I’d Rather Be Dead Than Disabled”—The Ableist Conflation and the Meanings of Disability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Despite being assailed for decades by disability activists and disability studies scholars spanning the humanities and social sciences, the medical model of disability—which conceptualizes disability as an individual tragedy or misfortune due to genetic ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael
core   +1 more source

35 Years of the Continua of Biliteracy: A discussion of what has been, what is, and what is to come

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This issue of the Forum celebrates the 35th anniversary of the seminal publication on the continua of biliteracy (Hornberger, 1989). The issue has brought together scholars who each shed light on the continued need for such conceptual framing, illuminating ways in which “the hope for understanding biliteracy, as well as literacy and ...
Nancy H. Hornberger, Jamie L. Schissel
wiley   +1 more source

Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising ...
Bartoli Cannada   +44 more
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Researching Vulnerability in Multilingual Contexts: Trauma, Ethics, and Pedagogy

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the complex intersections of trauma, vulnerability, multilingualism, and ethics in refugee settings. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as a refugee academic and years of research in refugee English language education and noneducation contexts, it employs an autoethnographic approach to critically examine ...
Mohammed Ateek
wiley   +1 more source

Tzvetan Todorov : die semiotischen und poetologischen Arbeiten ; eine Arbeitsbibliographie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Tzvetan Todorov: Die semiotischen und poetologischen Arbeiten. Eine arbeitsbibliographie. Zusammengestellt von Hans J. Wulff.
Wulff, Hans Jürgen
core  

Semiosis and pragmatism: toward a dynamic concept of meaning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S.
Merrell, Floyd, Queiroz, João
core   +3 more sources

The Film Document as a Testimony of the Present: A Sceptic at the Confessional

open access: yesImages, 2014
The semiotic mechanism of representing time present in documentary film has remained the same since the 19th century up to this very day. This is governed without exception in the cinematographic “message” by the choice and combination of visual and ...
Marek Hendrykowski
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Young Students' Functional Thinking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Early Years Generalising Project (EYGP) involves Australian Years 1-4 (age 5-9) students and investigates how they grasp and express generalisations.
Cooper, Thomas J.   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
wiley   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

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