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Typography as Semiotic Resource

Journal of Visual Literacy, 2012
>The typography of written language not only serves as a conduit of verbal narrative, it serves as a visual element and semiotic resource with its own meaning potentials.
Frank Serafini
exaly   +2 more sources

Orchestrating semiotic resources in explicit strategy instruction

Pedagogies, 2014
Research and pedagogical information provided to teachers on implementing explicit strategy instruction has primarily focused on teachers’ speech, with limited attention to other modes of communication, such as gesture and artefacts. This interpretive case study investigates two teachers’ use of different semiotic resources when introducing second ...
Lynn E. Shanahan   +1 more
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The Semiotic Resourcefulness of Okutongerera among Haya Newlyweds

Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 2022
This paper examines okutongerera incantations to determine their semiotic resourcefulness in the giving of presents to Haya newlyweds. The data are from three wedding ceremonies which took place in Bukoba town, Kagera Region. The analysis is informed by social semiotic theory. The findings indicate that the incantations use security-related expressions,
Muganda , Godfrey   +2 more
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Memories and semiotic resources in place-making

Linguistic Landscape. An international journal, 2021
Abstract This paper explores how semiotic resources are used to build individuals’ place-making during a walk around the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam. Using Lefebvre’s (1991) spatial triad as the perceived, the lived and the conceived, the paper uses a case study of a local participant and myself to consider how
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Metonymy as a semiotic resource in fictional narrative

Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2022
Abstract This article argues that metonymy provides “cognitive roundabouts” that semiotically create more meaning in fictional narrative against the popular views that metonymy provides “referential shorthand” and “communicative shortcuts.” In the light of Lakoff and Johnson’s observation on the relationship between symbolic metonymy and
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Resources for the Teacher from a Semiotic Mediation Perspective

2011
The potential of ICT tools for learning have been extensively studied, with a main focus on their possible use by students and the subsequent benefits for them. However, there has been the tendency to underestimate the complexity of the teacher's role in exploiting this potential.
Mariotti Maria Alessandra   +1 more
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