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Communicating the ideas and attitudes of spying in film music: A social semiotic approach [PDF]

, 2014
Taking the example of two 1960s popular spy films this paper explores how social semiotics can make a contribution to the analysis of film music. Following other scholars who have sought to create inventories of sound meanings to help us break down the ...
Griffith, F, Machin, D
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“All Native Speakers” at Singapore's ESL Schools: Implications for TESOL Communities in the Pursuit of Diversity‐Based Professionalism

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Televizyon Reklamlarında Çocuk İmgesinin Göstergebilimsel Analizi

Online Academic Journal of Information Technology, 2015
Ürünler, üreticiler ve dolayısıyla markalarla çevrili olarak yaşadığımız çağdaş tüketim toplumunda reklamlardan bağımsız olarak yaşayabilmek neredeyse imkânsızdır ve yaşamlarımızı şekillendiren önemli kültürel argümanlardandır Batı,2005:176 ...
Haluk Arda Oskay
doaj   +1 more source

The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corrruption [PDF]

, 2007
The central focus of this paper is the disjunction between the findings of climate science in revealing the threat of global warming and the failure to act appropriately to these warnings. The development of climate science can be illuminated through the
Gare, Arran
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35 Years of the Continua of Biliteracy: A discussion of what has been, what is, and what is to come

TESOL 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

Researching Vulnerability in Multilingual Contexts: Trauma, Ethics, and Pedagogy

TESOL 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

The polyglot self in the semiotic spheres of language and culture

Sign Systems Studies, 2015
The article focuses on the human individual as a signifying and communicating self whose properties can be detected or assumed on the basis of its language in verbal communication through texts and text-processing activities or, more broadly, in both ...
Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik
doaj   +1 more source

“Bread Earning Saturated With Humiliation”: “اللقمة من هناك مغمسة بالذل” Linguistic Citizenship as Acts of Love and Sumud Among Palestinian English Teachers at Jewish Israeli Schools

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how Palestinian English teachers (PETs) working at Jewish–Israeli schools navigate trauma in an educational space that both requires and negates them. Driven by labor market demands rather than efforts at educational integration, PETs operate under constant affective and political tension, forced to comply with colonial ...
Muzna Awayed‐Bishara
wiley   +1 more source

Semiotic Dynamics Solves the Symbol Grounding Problem [PDF]

, 2007
Language requires the capacity to link symbols (words, sentences) through the intermediary of internal representations to the physical world, a process known as symbol grounding.
Luc L. Steels, Martin Loetzsch, Michael S. Spranger   +2 more
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Interactive Videos in Multimodal Listening Assessments: Examining Language Learners' Perspectives

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The academic success of international students who speak English as a second language (L2) hinges on their ability to effectively communicate and comprehend information in English, which requires well‐developed listening skills. Given that real‐world listening mostly involves processing both auditory and visual information, incorporating ...
Shanshan He, Ruslan Suvorov
wiley   +1 more source