Despite a wide-spread pedagogical interest and scholarly conviction in the possibilities of educational drama for creating more contextually-situated, engaging, multi-modal L2 learning experiences (Piazzoli, 2018; Stinson & Winston, 2011), there is scarce empirical evidence concerning what actually taking place interactionally classrooms adults. This article presents bottom-up microanalysis...

This article analyzes how Offred, the protagonist of The Handmaid’s Tale, reconstructs her fragmented self through storytelling in a dialogic thought process that is connected to intertextual references. She recollects memories and engages in a parodic critique Gileadean propagandistic discourse. implies a transformation involves both body her mind critically deconstructs role regime has ...

as narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. to this end, the present study was an ...

The paper investigates the use of gaze in political communication. A study is presented on the electoral debates of two politicians in Italy and France. Fragments of their verbal discourse were analysed in terms of their hierarchy of goals, and their gaze communication was described and classified in terms of the persuasive strategies they pursue, logos, ethos or pathos. The results show that t...

Contemporary EU territorial cohesion policy presents some striking reminders of features of socialist central planning. The objective of socio-spatial solidarity aimed at balanced spatial development is a core principle of both spatial planning doctrines. Reviewing key planning documents, this article compares territorial cohesion discourses in terms of their normative and analytical natures in...

Reasoning about time often involves incomplete information about periods and their relationships. Varieties of incompleteness include uncertainty about the number of objects involved, the distribution of a set of temporal relations among these objects, and what can be called the participation of a set of objects in a temporal relation. A solution to the problem of representing and reasoning abo...

A new method for shape learning is presented in this paper. This method incorporates abilities from both statistical and structural pattern recognition approaches to shape analysis. It borrows from statistical pattern recognition the capability of modelling sets of point coordinates, and from structural pattern recognition the ability of dealing with highly irregular patterns, such as those gen...

Work organisations face demanding challenges, such as expectations to be creative, innovative, agile, competitive, efficient and adept at using employees’ knowledge while understanding and taking care of employees’ wellbeing. Organisations are actively implementing new ICT systems and environments because they seem to increase the effectiveness of interaction and collaboration, workplace learni...