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Translanguaging silence and humor: Registering, resisting, and reconstructing identities in an English‐medium classroom in the United States

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article adopts a translanguaging and flows perspective to explore how a graduate course instructor constructs a “quiet student” identity through a historical speech event to explain academic concepts in an English‐medium‐instruction (EMI) classroom in the United States.
Gengqi Xiao
wiley   +1 more source

Construing Complex Referentiality in Interspecies Interaction: Embodiment and Biosemiotics. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Peltola R, Grandgeorge M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Developing L2 semantic knowledge of English modality through concept‐based language instruction: Do cognitive linguistics materials have an advantage?

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
wiley   +1 more source

Ruptures as Imagined and Theorized: Symbolic Resources for Dealing With the Unexpected. [PDF]

Integr Psychol Behav Sci
Gillespie A, Zittoun T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Sociological and religious interpretations of Adinkra symbols: qualitative analysis of the 2025 inaugural outfit of Ghana's president. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Mensah RO, Bordoh A, Acquah A, Bruce-Amartey Jnr E, Nunoo PK.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
wiley   +1 more source

Root Canals and Conspiracies: A Social Semiotic Analysis of Digital Narratives on Social Media and the Promotion of Misinformation. [PDF]

Dent J (Basel)
Holden ACL.
europepmc   +1 more source

Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging the stuff of words: language materiality and symbolic power. [PDF]

Educ Linguist
Thurlow C.
europepmc   +1 more source