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Meaning between, in, and around words, gestures and postures: multimodal meaning making in children's classroom communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The view of language from a social semiotic perspective is clear. Language is one of many semiotic resources we employ in our communicative practices. That is to say that while language is at times dominant, it always operates within a multimodal frame ...
Alexander R   +29 more
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

Semiotic landscapes in Bangkok’s Chinatown as a tourist destination

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
The aims of this study were to investigate the semiotic landscapes (SLs) in Bangkok’s Chinatown from the social semiotic perspective, to identify the types of semiotic resources that make Bangkok’s Chinatown a tourist destination, and to examine tourists’
Zhaoyi Pan
doaj   +1 more source

Visual representation of ASUU strikes in Nigeria: a semiotic analysis of cartoons in selected Nigerian newspapers

open access: yesLanguage and Semiotic Studies, 2023
Until recently, the study of language and meaning of cartoons, the media discourses they generate, and their analysis as a creative means of exploring meaning-making processes as semiotic resources have not received much scholarly attention in Nigeria ...
Makinde Peter Oyewole
doaj   +1 more source

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

Nodes and Arcs: Concept Map, Semiotics, and Knowledge Organization. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose – The purpose of the research reported here is to improve comprehension of the socially-negotiated identity of concepts in the domain of knowledge organization.
Friedman, Alon, Smiraglia, R. P.
core   +3 more sources

“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

open access: yesTESOL 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

Constructing tourist experience and conservation-oriented semiotic governance in a Balinese Monkey Forest: a geosemiotic perspective

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study explores the construction of tourist experience and conservation-oriented semiotic governance in a Balinese monkey forest. In the context of ecotourism, few studies examine the role of semiotic resources in mediating the relationship between ...
I Made Suta Paramarta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combining Luhmann and Actor-Network Theory to see Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
From a rural, sociological point of view no social theories have so far been able to grasp the ontological complexity and special character of a farm enterprise as an entity in a really satisfying way.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
core  

Interactive Videos in Multimodal Listening Assessments: Examining Language Learners' Perspectives

open access: yesTESOL 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

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