Topic modeling provides a valuable method for identifying the linguistic contexts that surround social institutions or policy domains. This article uses Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to analyze how one such policy domain, government assistance to artists and arts organizations, was framed in almost 8000 articles. These comprised all articles that referred to government support for the arts ...


 Este dossiê almeja reposicionar perspectivas e identidades de pesquisa, assim como fortalecer a reflexividade crítica na Linguística Aplicada, mais especificamente, área Português Língua Adicional (PLA). Para tanto, reúne trabalhos que – pela sua natureza empírica, muitas vezes exploratória partir ângulos conhecimento distintos procuram línguas descrição permitam pensar outra maneira os ...

The IVANHOE project can be understood in various ways – an interpretive environment, a tool of collaborative critical thinking, a pedagogical game for studying cultural materials – it emerges out of a basic shift in the theory of texts and textuality. IVANHOE is regulated by seven key ideas: 1. The textual field is a Baktinian space (heteroglossia); 2. In textual space, a equals a if and only i...

In the Namibian education system, teaching in junior primary is supposed to be done learners’ mother tongue. However, there always controversy on adopting a language used as medium of instruction (MoI) due multi-ethnic and multilingualism society. To make matters worse, parents equally cast doubt enrolling their children schools that uses tongue an MoI. Framed within qualitative case-study orie...

How does the Bakhtinian model of novelistic discourse, which conceives dialects as styles and dialects, appear in age world literature English? If style contemporary world-novel is purposely drained heteroglossia, it risks complicity with a frictionless communicability. This essay argues that, despite its magmatically latent energy, near-complete absence napoletano Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan n...

In light of the Bakhtinian heteroglossia and authorial hybrid construction, the present study sets out to argue how the assimilation of alien stylistics into the realm of social and ideological discourse may transcend the limits of the centralizing logos prevalent in the orthodox poetics. In so doing, first, an analysis of the Bakhtinian concepts is provided to renegotiate his argument on the a...

This study examines how boys from San Antonio Aguas Calientes, Guatemala develop their own perspective about what it means to be moral human beings in the world via discursive practices that contrast enregistered voices within an emergent performance genre simultaneously doubles as socio-dramatic play-frame. exhibits both mimesis and alterity; children have appropriated a popular adult genre, w...