Technology is driving society toward the end-point of neocolonialism [1] , process by which a privileged elite extracts resources from their same country and its citizens. However, once dimensions space for resource extraction are exhausted, all that left time. Then,...

Within the framework of utterance production theories “à la française”, different approaches enunciative heterogeneity have been developed since end 1970’s in interaction, re-work, and re-appropriation notions polyphony dialogism borrowed from Bakhtin Circle. These approaches, beyond their differences, had little interest prosodic, vocal gestural dimensions discursive units under study.It is th...

This paper concerns how rule-following behavior might evolve in the context of a variety of Skyrms-Lewis signaling game[13][15], how such rules might subsequently evolve to be used in new contexts, and how such appropriation allows for the composition of evolved rules. We will also consider how the composition of simpler rules to form more complex rules may be significantly more efficient than ...

Social media technologies are increasingly utilized by patients, leading to development of online social groups where patients share experiences and offer support to their peers on these platforms. Yet, there is limited research investigating actual use of: social media platforms by patients; issues faced in using such platforms and how appropriation of these platforms impact patient outcomes. ...

The impetus for conducting the present study came from Thornbury's (2005) approach to teach speaking in which he claimed that awareness-raising techniques, along with appropriation strategies, facilitate the process of teaching and learning speaking. Therefore, the present study attempted to explore the impact of the appropriation-based syllabus to teach speaking by using chunks-on-card...

Videos of what seems like enforced and orchestrated solidarity, performed by celebrities from the film industry in Kolkata, each scene blending into another, upper-class urban home-space resembling other, envisioning a brighter future, rendering same song multiple voices, with metaphors cities smiling again, circulated through social media are problematic erasures particularities, “of presence ...

This paper presents a semiotic approach to the phenomenon of appropriation, focusing on the tension between technology design and the users’ practice. On the one hand, we focus on how the technology itself, through its design, guides its users. On the other hand, we investigate how users appropriate technology, developing specific practices to meet their own needs, resisting the guidance offere...