How have the ideas raised by Firth and Wagner (1997) influenced the construction of second language acquisition (SLA) theories? In this article, we take the position that prior to and since 1997, there was and has been a notable increase in SLA research and theory that prioritizes sociocultural and contextual factors in addition to acknowledging individual agency and multifaceted identities. Th...

the present study sets out to investigate the narrator’s textual position in grass’s the tin drum. although authorial self-dramatization through affinities with one or more characters in the work is undeniable, this study mainly concentrates on the inner interpenetrations of heteroglot utterances as uttered by an unreliable first-person narrator, oskar matzerath, in the light of the bakhtinian ...

This work aims to analyze the evaluative construction of judgement president republic, in relation concepts Social Esteem and Sanction, discuss Heteroglossia Monoglossia presentin an editorial, published on Estadão newspaper. For that, we adopt as theoretical-methodological approach Appraisal system its Judgement Engagement subsystems (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005).The results indicatethe predominance j...

The emergence of potential new human-computer interaction styles enabled through technological advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational linguistics makes it increasingly more important to formalize and evaluate these innovative approaches. In this position paper, we propose a multi-dimensional conversation analysis framework as a way to expose and quantify th...