Through an examination of the linguistic practices encountered and used by Shona language-speakers in Zimbabwean city Gweru, this study explores intersections between language use, change, perceptions COVID pandemic—as caused virus referred to Gweru’s Shona-speakers as, variously, “COVID-19” its English-language representation or “kovhidhi” “dzihwamupengo” two most common Shona-language represe...

This article discusses the function of semiotics in political discourse after socio-political processes taking place Iraq since 2003 and its role development textual criticisms some Iraqi politicians, analyzes reasons for functioning speech politicians. The research is mainly focused on finding out to what extent text studies draw sign systems that can store transmit information, nature purpose...

Although left-right items are a standard tool of public opinion research, there remains some difference of opinion on the optimal response format. Two disputes can be identified in the literature: (a) whether to provide respondents with a small or large number of answer categories and (b) whether or not to administer the response scale including a midpoint. This study evaluates the performance ...

This article presents reflections about the new curricular guidelines for portuguese language teaching in basic education. In aqualitative approach and a theoreticalfoundation discursive semiotics, this study porposes considerations argumentative process of enunciator-writer Base Nacional Comum Curricular text Elementary School incorporation semiotics linguistic socialpractices. Afterward, its ...

In 1994 Orlikowski and Gash articulated Technological Frames of Reference as a systematic theoretical lens to examine technological developments in organisations. A decade later, in 2004, Davidson and Pai expressed concern that while the lens was widely cited in academic discourse, the incidence and adoption of the model as an analytical framework for socio-cognitive analysis and interpretation...

We describe a general methodology, socio-cognitive engineering, for the design of human-centred technology. It integrates software, task, knowledge and organizational engineering and has been refined and tested through a series of projects to develop computer systems to support training and professional work. In this paper we describe the methodology and illustrate its use through a project to ...

Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and exclusion, confirming much of the economic...

The aim of this study was to investigate the specific contents of the social representations (SR) associated with men and women drivers and to examine the effects of the social insertions of individuals (i.e., age, sex and socio-economic status) on the content and the structure of these SR. A preliminary study with 414 French participants identified thematic content associated with men and wome...