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Simulated animal and simulated umwelt: Towards a method of analysing and critiquing nonhuman animals in consumer settings

open access: yesSign Systems Studies
In this article I develop sociologist George Ritzer’s concept ‘simulated animal’ by focusing on rational systems, enchantment, and nonhuman animal corporeality and behaviour.
Andrew Mark Creighton
doaj   +1 more source

Reconceptualising Motivation as Material‐Semiotic Entanglements: Translanguaging in Graduate TESOL Education

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingual students in Anglophone universities often operate in survival mode. While translanguaging supports learning, critical gaps remain in understanding how translanguaging pedagogies transform and sustain motivation in English‐dominant contexts.
Melissa Jufenna Slamet, Julie Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Mind, Cognition, Semiosis: Ways to Cognitive Semiotics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What is meaning-making? How do new domains of meanings emerge in the course of child’s development? What is the role of consciousness in this process? What is the difference between making sense of pointing, pantomime and language utterances?
Konderak, Piotr
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Twelve Years Revisited: Translanguaging as Relational Pedagogy for Sustaining Language Learning Motivation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how foreign language teachers’ beliefs about the medium of instruction and translanguaging evolve over time by revisiting three in‐service teachers twelve years after their initial interviews. Using a qualitative longitudinal design, the study traces how translanguaging was initially framed as pedagogically deficient but ...
Danping Wang
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Line

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source

L2‐Mediated Personal Competence as a Dimension of Identity Development Among International Students in Kazakhstan: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kazakhstan has emerged as a non‐traditional destination for international students through the expansion of English‐medium instruction and government‐funded scholarship schemes. This convergent mixed‐methods study examines how degree‐seeking international students from non‐Commonwealth of Independent States countries adapt to academic ...
Kymbat Yessenbekova, Anas Hajar
wiley   +1 more source

#Socialtagging: Defining its Role in the Academic Library [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The information environment is rapidly changing, affecting the ways in which information is organized and accessed. User needs and expectations have also changed due to the overwhelming influence of Web 2.0 tools.
Ammer, Annalise, Bertel, Katherine
core   +1 more source

Effective Visual Communication in Higher Education: Intercultural and Cross‐Cultural Design

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how undergraduate design students develop cultural sensitivity through a live brief by the Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), focusing on global‐local tensions in their responses. While prior studies address global‐local dynamics, few explore intercultural pedagogy in the United Kingdom live briefs.
Samantha Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Symbols are not uniquely human [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Modern semiotics is a branch of logics that formally defines symbol-based communication. In recent years, the semiotic classification of signs has been invoked to support the notion that symbols are uniquely human.
Araújo, Ivan   +4 more
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Old Skool Spinning and Syncing: Memory, Technologies, and Occupational Membership in a DJ Community

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We show how technology and its temporal instantiations act as material‐relational mnemonic devices that provide temporal anchors for collective remembering in occupations and form the basis of what we call an 'occupational mnemonic community'.
Hamid Foroughi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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