Discourse analysis is defined as:
(1) The study of well-established meanings or ideas around a topic which shape how we can talk about it.
(2) The study of how meanings are established, used, challenged and changed (including in talk).
Discourse analysis aims to understand our social worlds and the implications of certain meanings and perspectives. It analyzes language data as well as other evidence to understand ourselves and complexity in social worlds. While sometimes seen as deterministic, it also considers how meanings are contested. Discourse analysis offers varied possibilities for interesting research about people and society.
There are many ways to energize a classroom and become more interculturally competent. First, “Who are you culturally?” is a reflective cultural self-awareness conversation. Second, peace-making is the focus of a brainstorming session. Third, staying in description is an eye-opening group activity. The debriefing includes theory and practical application.
Some lights on how culture, ethnicity and language operate in counselling and...Kou Kunishige
“Some lights on how culture, ethnicity and language operate in counselling and interview”
by
Kou Kunishige
Manager, Supervisor, Counsellor
Diversity Counselling New Zealand
"There always exists a distance between people in counselling. There is no set of scales to measure this distance, but it can be considered in terms of culture, ethnicity, and language. I'd like to cast some lights on these possible dimensions, and discuss them with you."
There are many ways to energize a classroom and become more interculturally competent. First, “Who are you culturally?” is a reflective cultural self-awareness conversation. Second, peace-making is the focus of a brainstorming session. Third, staying in description is an eye-opening group activity. The debriefing includes theory and practical application.
Some lights on how culture, ethnicity and language operate in counselling and...Kou Kunishige
“Some lights on how culture, ethnicity and language operate in counselling and interview”
by
Kou Kunishige
Manager, Supervisor, Counsellor
Diversity Counselling New Zealand
"There always exists a distance between people in counselling. There is no set of scales to measure this distance, but it can be considered in terms of culture, ethnicity, and language. I'd like to cast some lights on these possible dimensions, and discuss them with you."
What does it mean to be unequally yoked? I contend that, given the literary of cultural/historical context of 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul is most likely telling the Corinthian church not to become partners with those who were engaging in idol feasts in pagan temples -- for they (the church) are the temple of the Living God (cf. 1 Cor 3:16, 1 Cor 6:19).
Though few worship idols at pagan temples in our society today, there are several idols that are certainly worshiped (money, power, sexual immorality, self, etc.). As in the first century, we in the 21st century should not join others in idolatrous practices.
First presented at a Bible Study at Alpha Baptist Church in Willingboro, NJ on 1..14.18
Cultural Adaptation and Change Paper • Paper may be submiMargenePurnell14
Cultural Adaptation and Change Paper
• Paper may be submitted anytime between April 26th and May 17th.
(70 points)
Culture is an all-encompassing term that identifies not only the tangible lifestyles of persons, but
also their values and beliefs. Culture is dynamic and learned. It may be passed down and
changed through family traditions. Cultural traits are expressed through our identity - - race,
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, language and religion. Material culture of a group of people includes
things they construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food - visible.
Nonmaterial culture includes beliefs, practices, aesthetics (what they see as attractive), and
values of a group of people. Language religion, ethnicity, identity.
Assignment Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to examine cultural adaptation and change within your own family
history. Choose a family relative to interview, preferably skipping a generation, for example, a
grandfather, or grandmother, or parent. If this is not possible, choose an aunt, uncle, cousin.
The idea is to report a family-related experience over time through one or two generations. This
paper is worth 70 points towards your final grade. Note it is not just a family history, but a
discussion of cultural adaptation and change over time.
Format
• The Cultural Change paper should be approximately 4 pages (it may be more) in length
with 1.5 spacing, and normal one-inch margins.
• It should be in paragraph format, NOT just sentences answering questions.
• Submit your paper in Canvas. It may not be emailed.
• It must be computer-typed and not hand-written.
• Late assignments will be accepted; however, points will be taken off at the discretion of
the instructor.
• Paper organization: Your paper should be organized in two parts:
o Part I will summarize the results of your interview (paragraph, essay format see
above). This will cover most of your paper (approximately three pages).
o Part II will be a discussion of cultural consistency and change between your life
and the person you interviewed (approximately one/two pages).
Interview Questions
The following are interview questions that should guide you in conducting your interview with
your older relative. You may add questions if you wish and let the flow of the conversation lead
you. The "you" in these questions refers to the person you are interviewing.
Life Goal
• What was your philosophy of life, your life goal?
"Sense of Place" - Setting
• Where were you born? Was it a village, town, or large urban area?
• Was the area safe where you lived, was regional conflicts and wars a concern?
• Did you grow up in a rural or urban place? (country, farm, village, small town, city)
• Did you live on a farm or ranch?
• What was the approximate population of the place where you grew up (maybe a guess)?
• Were there special landmarks that made your home villa ...
Teaching historical thinking concepts can give purpose, make connections, and engage students. History may be the stories we tell about the past but we need to ask critical questions of those stories.
What does it mean to be unequally yoked? I contend that, given the literary of cultural/historical context of 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul is most likely telling the Corinthian church not to become partners with those who were engaging in idol feasts in pagan temples -- for they (the church) are the temple of the Living God (cf. 1 Cor 3:16, 1 Cor 6:19).
Though few worship idols at pagan temples in our society today, there are several idols that are certainly worshiped (money, power, sexual immorality, self, etc.). As in the first century, we in the 21st century should not join others in idolatrous practices.
First presented at a Bible Study at Alpha Baptist Church in Willingboro, NJ on 1..14.18
Cultural Adaptation and Change Paper • Paper may be submiMargenePurnell14
Cultural Adaptation and Change Paper
• Paper may be submitted anytime between April 26th and May 17th.
(70 points)
Culture is an all-encompassing term that identifies not only the tangible lifestyles of persons, but
also their values and beliefs. Culture is dynamic and learned. It may be passed down and
changed through family traditions. Cultural traits are expressed through our identity - - race,
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, language and religion. Material culture of a group of people includes
things they construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food - visible.
Nonmaterial culture includes beliefs, practices, aesthetics (what they see as attractive), and
values of a group of people. Language religion, ethnicity, identity.
Assignment Purpose:
The purpose of this paper is to examine cultural adaptation and change within your own family
history. Choose a family relative to interview, preferably skipping a generation, for example, a
grandfather, or grandmother, or parent. If this is not possible, choose an aunt, uncle, cousin.
The idea is to report a family-related experience over time through one or two generations. This
paper is worth 70 points towards your final grade. Note it is not just a family history, but a
discussion of cultural adaptation and change over time.
Format
• The Cultural Change paper should be approximately 4 pages (it may be more) in length
with 1.5 spacing, and normal one-inch margins.
• It should be in paragraph format, NOT just sentences answering questions.
• Submit your paper in Canvas. It may not be emailed.
• It must be computer-typed and not hand-written.
• Late assignments will be accepted; however, points will be taken off at the discretion of
the instructor.
• Paper organization: Your paper should be organized in two parts:
o Part I will summarize the results of your interview (paragraph, essay format see
above). This will cover most of your paper (approximately three pages).
o Part II will be a discussion of cultural consistency and change between your life
and the person you interviewed (approximately one/two pages).
Interview Questions
The following are interview questions that should guide you in conducting your interview with
your older relative. You may add questions if you wish and let the flow of the conversation lead
you. The "you" in these questions refers to the person you are interviewing.
Life Goal
• What was your philosophy of life, your life goal?
"Sense of Place" - Setting
• Where were you born? Was it a village, town, or large urban area?
• Was the area safe where you lived, was regional conflicts and wars a concern?
• Did you grow up in a rural or urban place? (country, farm, village, small town, city)
• Did you live on a farm or ranch?
• What was the approximate population of the place where you grew up (maybe a guess)?
• Were there special landmarks that made your home villa ...
Teaching historical thinking concepts can give purpose, make connections, and engage students. History may be the stories we tell about the past but we need to ask critical questions of those stories.
Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message to a specific group, usually for the purpose of marketing or a kind of advocacy. A signage also means signs collectively or being considered as a group. The term signage is documented to have been popularized in 1975 to 1980.
Signs are any kind of visual graphics created to display information to a particular audience. This is typically manifested in the form of way finding information in places such as streets or on the inside and outside buildings. Signs vary in form and size based on location and intent, from more expansive banners, billboards, and murals, to smaller street signs, street name signs, sandwich boards and lawn signs. Newer signs may also use digital or electronic displays.
Thousands of years before urban planning, motor vehicles, or even the wheel, the first roads appeared on the landscape. Just as molecules coalesced into cells and cells into more complex organisms, our first roads were spontaneously formed by humans walking the same paths over and over to get water and find food. As small groups of people combined into villages, towns and cities, networks of walking paths became more formal roads. Following the introduction of the wheel about 7,000 years ago, the larger, heavier loads that could be transported showed the limitations of dirt paths that turned into muddy bogs when it rained. The earliest stone paved roads have been traced to about 4,000 B.C. in the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamia.
An intersection is the area shared by the joining or crossing of two or more roads. Since the main function of an intersection is to enable the road user to make a route choice, it is a point of decision. Hence the problems that are encountered by the motorist while passing through an intersection must be recognized and the design should be in such a way that the driving task is as simple as possible.
An intersection is an at-grade junction where two or more roads or streets meet or cross. Intersections may be classified by number of road segments, traffic controls or lane design. (Wikipedia)
The word highway goes back to the elevated Roman roads that had a mound or hill formed by earth from the side ditches thrown toward the center, thus high way. The word street originates with the Latin strata (initially, “paved”) and later strata via (“a way paved with stones”).
On June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to Eisenhower, eliminate unsafe roads, inefficient routes, traffic jams and all of the other things that got in the way of “speedy, safe transcontinental travel.”
Everyone knows what bridges is, particularly for the engineer. A civil engineer can design a bridge that used to cross from point A to point B etc. Below is the history of bridges.
Bridge is not a construction but it is a concept, the concept of crossing over large spans of land or huge masses of water, and to connect two far-off points, eventually reducing the distance between them. The bridge provides passage over the obstacle of small caverns, a valley, road, body of water, or other physical obstacle. Designs of bridges vary depending on the nature of the terrain and the function of the bridge and where it is constructed.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from German root brugj?.
Giving instruction is a way when we order or ask someone to do something for us. This is very closely related to one type of text that is used to give members a step in the making or process of something. In this topic, we will use Procedure text. The procedure which we are going to discuss is the way explains how people perform different processes in a sequence of steps. A procedure is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances (for example, emergency procedures).
Under this topic title, we will learn how to ask for directions and how to give directions to someone who asked us.
When you need to go to somewhere, sometimes you don’t know the way how to get there. This is the purpose of this topic. While, if someone asks you about the direction to go to somewhere, you know how to explain the way.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
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What is discourse analysis
1. What is … Discourse Analysis?
Stephanie Taylor
The Open University
2. 2
What is discourse analysis?
(1) The study of well-established meanings or ideas around a topic
which shape how we can talk about it
3. 3
What is discourse analysis?
(1) The study of well-established meanings or ideas around a topic
which shape how we can talk about it
e.g.
‘discourses of education’, ‘discourses of health and illness’
5. 5
Discourses of nation-state or nation:
‘England’? ‘Britain’? ‘The UK’? ‘Europe’?
Different terms have different definitions and different
consequences (e.g. who is included).
Discourse is material
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What is discourse analysis?
(1) The study of well-established meanings or ideas around a topic
which shape how we can think and talk about it
(2) The study of how meanings are established, used, challenged
and changed (including in talk)
8. 8
The study of how meanings are established, used,
challenged and changed (including in talk)
(i) Over time (‘genealogical study’ Foucault)
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The study of how meanings are established, used,
challenged and changed (including in talk)
(i) Over time (‘genealogical study’ Foucault)
(ii) In ordinary life (discourse practices)
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Analysing discourse practices around nation and national
identity
‘football wise we can mix it with anyone. But first and foremost
we’re a very proud country and we’ve got to go out there wanting to
win.’
John Terry, England player, quoted in The Observer 20.06.10
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Analysing discourse practices around nation and national
identity
‘football wise we can mix it with anyone. But first and foremost
we’re a very proud country and we’ve got to go out there wanting to
win.’
John Terry, England player, quoted in The Observer 20.06.10
14. 14
Analysing discourse practices around nation and national
identity
‘football wise we can mix it with anyone. But first and foremost
we’re a very proud country and we’ve got to go out there wanting to
win.’
John Terry, England player, quoted in The Observer 20.06.10
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Jackie Abell, Susan Condor, Robert D. Lowe, Stephen
Gibson and Clifford Stevenson (2007)
‘Who ate all the pride? Patriotic sentiment and English
national football support’
Nations and Nationalism 13 (1), 2007, 97–116.
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Analysing discourse practices around nation and national
identity
Charlie: I’m English. It’s in the blood, you can’t help, it’s in
the blood.
Jackie: And that gives you certain characteristics that make you
C: It does. It makes you shave your head, put a bit of weight on (laughter) and watch
football.
….
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Analysing discourse practices around nation and national
identity
J: Do you think you can choose to be English?
C: I think they had more of a sense of Englishness say earlier on, in the,
well from the day dot all the way up to say the 1970s. They had more
of a sense of being English than they have now because it’s such a
multi-racial society, that people who are being brought into it don’t
have as much value of where they come from than what they used to
have. And the way we see it, well I see it, a few of the lads and that,
on St George’s day, we’re just trying to keep alive, you know, the
theme if you like, of where we are.
….
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Analysing discourse practices around nation and national
identity
J: So if you’re of a different race then you’re not English?
C: (1) You mean like
J: If you’ve got Pakistani parents but you were born here, are you English?
C: No, you’re Pakistani.
J: Why aren’t you English?
C: ’Cos your parents are Pakistanis.
J: So if your parents had been Welsh and you’d have been born here
C: I’d have been Welsh.
J: You’d be Welsh?
C: Yeah.
J: So it’s not on where you were born, but on where your parents were born?
C: No. It’s blood, it’s blood in’t it? (Abell et al, 2007, pp.101-2)
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Two assumptions:
1) ‘support for the England team follows naturally from a sense of
pride in a distinctive English national identity’
2) ‘English national identity is naturally and inevitably a function of
personal and collective ancestry’
(Abell et al, 2007, p.102)
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Multiple, overlapping discourses:
Int: Where do you feel most at home then?
P: I think feeling at home is is a hard job for me but I think in I think about it a lot cos
I think [townname] is is the place ah Cos I’ve been here so long I’ve been here
longer than anywhere else um and have so much in my own history now attached to
[townname] um but it’s hard to say that it it’s home because you know or that I
belong because my early history wasn’t in [townname] as (.) not many people’s was
um But as I say there are no there are no there’s no family no extended family there
are only relatively recent friends you know Anyone over the last twenty years um
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Two definitions:
(1) The study of well-established meanings or ideas around a topic
which shape how we can talk about it
(2) The study of how meanings are established, used, challenged
and changed (including in talk)
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Why analyse discourse?
• To understand our social worlds and their complexity
• To understand the implications of certain meanings and world views
• To understand ourselves within our social worlds
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What kinds of data?
• Language data (written, spoken - found, collected)
• Other kinds of evidence (images, behaviours, situations – found,
collected)
25. 25
Criticisms of discourse analytic research:
• Deterministic? (But also about how meanings are used and
contested)
• Just words? (But discourse is material)
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Why do discourse analysis?
• Varied possibilities
• Interesting
• About people and their social worlds