The present study is inserted in the scope of discursive practices of students in high school in the context of mathematical education, supported by information and communication technologies. The few opportunities of dialogic interactions offered to these students led the research teacher to propose and analyze a didactic experiment using the internet chats. Therefore, the objective of this st...

Today many classrooms in Sweden are multilingual, characterized by a diversity of linguistic, cultural and epistemological resources available for teaching learning. Handling this puts certain demands on teachers order to provide all students equal learning opportunities context where the language instruction is Swedish. As response this, local school development projects based multilingualism ...

According to the traditional way of thinking of the communication process (more generally: of the discoursive dynamic), actors exchange ready-made meanings. In other words, communication entails pre-defined semiotic devices, resulting from previous stipulation. Therefore, intersubjectivity is based on a repertoire of shared meanings, pre-existent to the social exchange. To underline the quality...

Assessing scholarly influence is critical for understanding the collective system of scholarship and the history of academic inquiry. Influence is multifaceted, and citations reveal only part of it. Citation counts exhibit preferential attachment and follow a rigid "news cycle" that can miss sustained and indirect forms of influence. Building on dynamic topic models that track distributional sh...

This article has evolved from a research project following a micro-level approach to the postwar ‘agricultural revolution’. Above all, it focuses on the diversity of post-1945 agricultural development, i.e. the various ways farming actors experienced, interpreted and acted upon the natural and societal structures of their rural lifeworlds, thereby reproducing and/or transforming the local, regi...

Collective decisions are ubiquitous in complex democratic societies. Elections, referenda, decisions in legislatures, committees, multimember courts, expert panels, and boards of companies or other organizations are all examples. In such decisions, disagreement is equally ubiquitous. People disagree with each other on many levels. They disagree not only on what choices should be made but also o...

ABSTRACT In this paper we propose a methodological tool that seeks to contribute the empirical study of practices in organization studies. There is need for innovating and improving analytical tactics theorizing about practice, particularly helping connect localized social interactions broader contexts. We “temporal bracketing discourses” provide detailed example empirically illustrates its app...

In this thesis I have addressed the problem of text summarization from a linguistic perspective. After reviewing some work in the area, I have found that many satisfactory approaches to text summarization rely on general properties of language that are reflected in the surface realization of texts. The main claim of this thesis is that some general properties of the discursive organization of t...

AIM To report a descriptive study of early infant feeding experiences focusing on ACCOUNTS OF WOMEN WHO EXPRESSED MILK EXTENSIVELY IN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS POSTPARTUM. BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about the reasons for expressing milk following healthy term births. Evidence indicates it is an increasingly common practice during early infant feeding in Westernized countries. A more comp...

Investigating the discursive construction of EFL learners’ motivation is a relatively new area of inquiry. Hence, there is a dearth of research into how foreign language learners’ discourse mediates their motivation construction. This study attempted to examine the discursive construction of two (one male and one female) Iranian EFL learners’ motivation in Shiraz University, Iran by examining t...