This paper presents results from a comparative and qualitative discourse-historical analysis of governmental crisis communication in Austria, Germany, France, Hungary Sweden, during the global COVID-19 pandemic lockdown March 2020 to May (a ‘discourse strand’). By analysing sample important speeches press conferences by government leaders (all performing as ‘face management’), it is possible de...

This article argues that revisions of curricula in teacher education, undertaken response to the UN’s Agenda 2030, goal 4.7, and OECD’s The Future Education Skills, need consider new ways teaching topics related current environmental issues. Grounded ecocriticism dialogic practices, this promotes ecocritical dialogues, as developed by research group Nature Children’s Literature Culture, one via...

Abstract The study examines the collaborative nature of problem solving as dyads and triads adults were grouped to solve digital problems using online resources. Digital involves nimble use skills, strategies, mindsets navigate in everyday contexts novel resources, tools, interfaces, efficient flexible ways, accomplish personal professional goals. Findings address talk during through three inte...

This paper attempts to study the relationship of argumentation and knowledge building at a discourse level. Its basic research question is whether discourse more indicative of argumentation also indicates characteristics of knowledge building. A total of two databases of online discourse generated by sixth-grade and tenth-grade students were analyzed to see whether the findings can be generaliz...

This study examined narrative discourse in 20 children and adolescents at least 1 year after sustaining a head injury. Narratives were analyzed along the dimensions of language structure, information structure, and flow of information. Severity of impaired consciousness was associated with a significant reduction in the amount of language and information. The most important finding which emerge...

Writing is "good" when it anticipates the knowledge that its readers will bring to it-the questions they will implicitly ask-and tailors its content and form accordingly. A large part of this tailoring involves the careful use of "discourse clues": choices of wording, patterns of phrasing, and specific discourse connectives that signal the structure and intent of a text to the audience. We begi...

this paper reports on an exploratory study that explores the instructional patterns within english as a foreign language (efl) secondary school classrooms in syria. recently, the syrian ministry of education (moe) has introduced a new national curriculum which recommends a shift in efl teachers’ instructional practices. despite this costly innovation, there has been no attempt to check whether ...

Linguistic expressions form interesting patterns in discourse. In the domain of temporality, the morphemes of tense and aspectual viewpoint pattern significantly within a discourse. Shifts of viewpoint and tense are often associated with shifts of direction, and with the distinction between foreground and background. One important reason for this effect is that aspectual viewpoint and tense for...

BACKGROUND Dialogic book-sharing is an interactive form of shared reading. It has been shown in high income countries (HICs) to be of significant benefit to child cognitive development. Evidence for such benefit in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is scarce, although a feasibility study of our own produced encouraging findings. Accordingly, we aimed to establish the impact on child langu...

This article provides an empirical study of public engagement with climate change discourse in China by analysing how Chinese publics participate the discussion around two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and individual users interact state elite actors pre-eminent microblogging platform Weibo. Using social network analysis methods a temporal comparison, we examine structure co...