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This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices
in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors' and
students' conduct to enable a new understanding of the social
organisation of doctoral research supervision. In a field that has
predominantly drawn on surveys and interviews, this study presents
a rare, direct insight into doctoral supervision meetings, showing
us what actually happens and making a significant contribution to
future practice. Based on 25 video-recorded supervision meetings at
an Australian university, the book invites the reader into the
micro-world of interactions between doctoral students and their
supervisors. Drawing on conversation analysis as an analytical
framework, the study uncovers how feedback is initiated and
delivered, how supervisors manage when students disagree with their
advice and guidance, how they acknowledge student autonomy and
identity as people with knowledge and expertise in their own right,
as well as how supervisors co-work within a team supervision
environment. Offering an important new perspective to the study and
practice of doctoral supervision, this book will be of interest to
doctoral supervisors, postgraduate students and researchers working
with conversation analysis and education, and those with an
interest in feedback and advice as an integral part of their
professions.
This volume is comprehensively designed to help prospective English
Language Teaching (EFL) teachers specializing in EFL mainly in
South Asian countries. It analyses the application of ELT theories,
concepts, and methods to sharpen their understanding of the various
techniques used for teaching English effectively in the EFL
context. The book discusses the basic concepts of language aimed to
develop a sense of the language phenomenon as a unique human
attribute. It covers the theories of language from various
disciplines such as biology, sociology, psychology, and
linguistics. The book explains the underlying structures or
components that shape the edifice of languages such as phonology,
morphology, syntax, grammar, phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.
While taking the reader through language learning theories with a
focus on English as the second language, it discusses the different
teaching methods that can be adopted by teachers in classroom
settings. The book will be of interest to teachers, students and
researchers of education, teacher education, and English Language
Teaching. It will also be useful for educators, English language
teachers, language learners, professionals working in the field of
education and language, and those who aspire to teach and learn
English in Foreign context.
The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the
late 19th century to the early 21st. Featuring 24 newly written
contributions from scholars in the field--representing expertise
from North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia--the Handbook
introduces and analyzes works by modern and contemporary women
writers that coalesce loosely around common themes, tropes, and
genres. Putting writers from different generations in conversation
with one another reveals the diverse ways they have responded to
similar subjects. Whereas women writers may have shared
concerns--the pressure to conform to gendered expectation, the
tension between family responsibility and individual interests, the
quest for self-affirmation--each writer invents her own approach.
As readers will see, we have writers who turn to memoir and
autobiography, while others prefer to imagine fabulous fictional
worlds. Some engage with the literary classics--whether Japanese,
Chinese, or European--and invest their works with rich intertextual
allusions. Other writers grapple with colonialism, militarism,
nationalism, and industrialization. This Handbook builds a
foundation which invites readers to launch their own investigations
into women's writing in Japan.
This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua
Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF
researchers in analysing their data. It mainly covers three
different approaches: corpus-based, both written and spoken,
conversation analytic and narrative approaches. In addition to
exploring these different approaches to ELF data, the volume also
introduces case studies that utilise them in analysing data in both
academic and workplace settings, which facilitates not only the
understanding of the ways in which research is conducted but also
its findings. Furthermore, the book discusses theoretical
underpinnings of ELF research and its recent development in its
first part. It is comprehensive both in understanding theory and
exploring research methods which can be deployed in conducting ELF
research. The book, therefore, will be of great interest and use
for both ELF researchers and educators as well as undergraduate and
postgraduate students who are about to embark on their ELF and
ELF-related research, and also to those who are new to the field.
The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry
since the 19th century, yet, while much attention was paid to India
by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over
time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of
scholars working in the discipline of folklore and folklife. This
fortunately changed in the 1980s when a newly energized group of
younger scholars, who were interested in a variety of new
approaches that went beyond the textual interface, returned to
folklore as an untapped resource in South Asian Studies. This
comprehensive volume further reinvigorates the field by providing
fresh studies and new models both for studying the "lore" and the
"life" of everyday people in the region, as well as their
engagement with the world at large. By bringing Muslims, material
culture, diasporic horizons, global interventions and politics to
bear on South Asian folklore studies, the authors hope to stimulate
more dialogue across theoretical and geographical borders to infuse
the study of the Indian Subcontinent's cultural traditions with a
new sense of relevance that will be of interest not only to areal
specialists but also to folklorists and anthropologists in general.
This book was originally published as a special issue of South
Asian History and Culture.
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism,
and the American Literary West offers an alternative origin story
for American conservatism, tracing it to a circle of writers,
artists, and thinkers in the late nineteenth century who yoked
popular understandings of Darwin to western literary aesthetics.
That circle included writer Owen Wister, artist Frederic Remington,
entertainer William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, historian Frederick
Jackson Turner, and a young Theodore Roosevelt. The book explores
how their lives and their writing intertwined with their
conservative sensibilities. For them, going west was akin to time
travel, a retrogression into an earlier and hardier age. It was
through those retrogressions into the American state of nature,
they imagined, that society could discover its finest and fittest
citizens. Such a society would be the modern realization of Thomas
Jefferson's century-old dream of a "natural aristocracy." Theirs
was a new conservatism, rooted not in a history of European
monarchy but rather in stories about American individualism and the
frontier west, updated for the age of Darwin.
The first book to provide an overview of both theory and practice
in community translation, including an industry perspective on the
market. Chapters authored by both those delivering courses and
industry professionals, making the book applicable to researchers,
trainee translators and professionals. This book expands on current
titles by taking an international perspective, covering both theory
and practice and offering insights into translator training.
The first book to provide an overview of both theory and practice
in community translation, including an industry perspective on the
market. Chapters authored by both those delivering courses and
industry professionals, making the book applicable to researchers,
trainee translators and professionals. This book expands on current
titles by taking an international perspective, covering both theory
and practice and offering insights into translator training.
Combining theory with practical application, this collection of
real-life, provocative case studies on social issues in sports
provides students with the opportunity to make the call on ethical
and professional dilemmas faced by a variety of sport and
communication professionals. The case studies examine the successes
and failures of communication in the corporate culture of sport
intersecting with social issues including race, gender, religion,
social media, mass media, public health, and LGBTQ+ issues. Topics
include the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement,
sexual abuse scandals, domestic violence, cultural appropriation,
and mental health. Each chapter contextualizes a specific issue,
presents relevant theory and practical communication principles,
and leads into discussion questions to prompt critical reflection.
The book encourages students to view the evidence themselves,
consider competing ethical and professional claims, and formulate
practical responses. This collection serves as a scholarly text for
courses in sport communication, business, intercultural
communication, public relations, journalism, media studies, and
sport management.
* Compares traditional and new approaches to emotions. * Focuses on
emotion analysis in digital environments. * Interdisciplinary
critical approaches from social psychology, sociolinguistics,
sociology, anthropology and philosophy.
This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates
Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century England. Divided into two sections, the book
examines the 'sites' where these identities were forged - the
academy, printing house, household, theatre and prison - and the
'types' of texts that expressed them - spiritual autobiographies,
religious poetry and writings tied to the ars moriendi - providing
a broad analysis of social, material and literary forms of devotion
during England's Long Reformation. Through archival and
cutting-edge research, a detailed picture of 'lived religion'
emerges, which re-evaluates the pietistic acts and attitudes of
well-known and recently discovered figures. To those studying and
teaching religion and identity in early modern England, and anyone
interested in the history of religious self-expression, these
chapters offer a rich and rewarding read. -- .
This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary
achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States.
Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose
ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South
Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there
exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political
systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in
1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the
incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and
children's literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American
Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an
introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section
has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms,
and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the
relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism,
particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature
and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the
premise that there is much to be gained for both fields by putting
them in conversation, and they do so in a variety of ways. In this
manner, the collection contributes to what Joni Adamson and Scott
Slovic have referred to as a "third wave of ecocriticism." Adamson
and Slovic attribute the rise of this "third wave" to the richly
diverse contributions to ecocriticism over the past decade by
scholars intent on including postmodernism, ecofeminism,
transnationalism, globalization, and postcolonialism into
ecocritical discussions. The essays in Toward an Ecosomatic
Paradigm extend this approach of this "third wave" by analyzing
disability from an "environmental point of view" while
simultaneously examining the environmental imagination from a
disability studies perspective. More specifically, the goal of the
collection is to investigate the role that literary narratives play
in fostering the "ecosomatic paradigm." As a theoretical framework,
the ecosomatic paradigm underscores the dynamic and
inter-relational process wherein human mind-bodies interact with
the places, both built and wild, they inhabit. That is, the
ecosomatic paradigm proceeds from the assumption that nature and
culture are meshed in an ongoing and deep relationship that has
implications for both the human subject and the natural world. An
ecosomatic approach highlights the profound overlap between
embodiment and emplacement, and is therefore enriched by both
disability studies and ecocritical insight. By drawing on points of
confluence between disability studies and ecological criticism, the
various ecosomatic readings in this collection challenge normative
(even ableist) constructions of the body-environment dyad by
complicating and expanding our understanding of this relationship
as it is represented in American literature and culture.
Collectively, the essays in this book augment the American
environmental imagination by highlighting the relationship between
disability and the environment as reflected in American literary
texts across multiple periods and genres.
Eighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the
seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's
novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent
prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction, ballads, essays
and miscellanies, stories were told of women's mistaken belief in
their lovers' vows. In this 2009 book Katherine Binhammer surveys
seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the
context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these
tales tell varying stories of women's emotional and sexual lives.
Drawing on new historicism, feminism, and narrative theory,
Binhammer argues that the seduction narrative allowed writers to
explore different fates for the heroine than the domesticity that
became the dominant form in later literature. This study will
appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literature, social and
cultural history, and women's and gender studies.
This groundbreaking text provides practical, contextualized methods
for teaching and discussing topics that are considered "taboo" in
the classroom in ways that support students' lived experiences. In
times when teachers are scapegoated for adopting culturally
sustaining teaching practices and are pressured to "whitewash" the
curriculum, it becomes more challenging to create an environment
where students and teachers can have conversations about complex,
uncomfortable topics in the classroom. With contributions from
scholars and K-12 teachers who have used young adult literature to
engage with their students, chapters confront this issue and focus
on themes such as multilingualism, culturally responsive teaching,
dis/ability, racism, linguicism, and gender identity. Using
approaches grounded in socioemotional learning, trauma-informed
practices, and historical and racial literacy, this text explores
the ways in which books with complicated themes can interact
positively with students' own lives and perspectives. Ideal for
courses on ELA and literature instruction, this book provides a
fresh set of perspectives and methods for approaching and engaging
with difficult topics. As young adult literature that addresses
difficult subjects is more liable to be considered "controversial"
to teach, teachers will benefit from the additional guidance this
volume provides, so that they can effectively reach the very
students these themes address.
-assesses in SF media by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world.
-connects established topics in gender studies and science fiction
studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media.
challenges conventional generic boundaries; providing new ways of
approaching familiar texts; recovering lost artists and introducing
new ones; -shows how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations
inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political
practice. -engages with current political concenrs and connects the
rise of hate-based politics to SF movements -a range of both
emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural
studies engage with a huge diversity of topics
This book presents a critical analysis of ways in which
schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia are represented in the
press. Interrogating a 15 million-word corpus of news articles
published by nine UK national newspapers over a 15-year period, the
author draws on techniques from corpus linguistics and critical
discourse analysis to identify the most frequent and salient
linguistic features used by journalists to influence and reflect
broader public attitudes towards people with schizophrenia. In
doing so this book: Evaluates the extent to which media
representations are accurate and the extent to which they are
potentially helpful or harmful towards people living with
schizophrenia; Employs a bottom-up approach guided by linguistic
patterns, such as collocates and keywords, identified by corpus
software; Contributes to the de-stigmatization of schizophrenic
disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions
surrounding it; Applies a mixed-methods approach in order to expose
attitudes and beliefs found 'between the lines' - values and
assumptions which are often implicit in the way language is used
and therefore not visible to the naked eye. The findings of this
monograph will be relevant to advanced students and researchers of
health communication, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics
and will also carry importance for journalists and mental health
practitioners.
Multilingual policies are increasingly important and required in
educational settings worldwide, yet there lacks a solid
experimental body of theory, research and practice, providing
guidance for the development of policies. The Israeli context
presented in this book serves as a case study or a model that could
be used by bodies or entities seeking to devise a multilingual
policy. Divided into three parts, the authors begin by addressing
the general notion of a multilingual education policy with specific
reference to the Israeli context. The book then focuses on specific
challenges confronting the new policy that have been explored in
empirical studies and concludes with a proposed framework for a new
multilingual education policy related to the core theoretical
topics and empirical findings discussed in the previous chapters.
This framework includes principles and strategies for implementing
the process described in the book in other contexts, ensuring wide
applicability and relevance. Expanding Multilingual Education
Policies: Theory, Research, Practice is an essential read for all
involved in language policy and planning within Applied linguistics
and education.
Multilingual policies are increasingly important and required in
educational settings worldwide, yet there lacks a solid
experimental body of theory, research and practice, providing
guidance for the development of policies. The Israeli context
presented in this book serves as a case study or a model that could
be used by bodies or entities seeking to devise a multilingual
policy. Divided into three parts, the authors begin by addressing
the general notion of a multilingual education policy with specific
reference to the Israeli context. The book then focuses on specific
challenges confronting the new policy that have been explored in
empirical studies and concludes with a proposed framework for a new
multilingual education policy related to the core theoretical
topics and empirical findings discussed in the previous chapters.
This framework includes principles and strategies for implementing
the process described in the book in other contexts, ensuring wide
applicability and relevance. Expanding Multilingual Education
Policies: Theory, Research, Practice is an essential read for all
involved in language policy and planning within Applied linguistics
and education.
With a wide range of contributors from all over the world and from
a range of disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook offers a truly
global perspective on developments in research on writing. The new
edition draws greater attention to writing and human development
within a range of cultures, from childhood through adulthood.
Attention to multimodalities, and writing/learning to write in
digital spaces.
This book examines the formations, internal tensions, and promotion
of macroconcepts as novel ideas borrowed from Europe but mediated
through Meiji Japan. Corpus-based discourse analysis Uses two most
influential periodicals Xinmin Congbao and Minbao Represents the
first study in English on this press debate between Xinmin Congbao
and Minbao that contributes significantly to the intellectual
foundation of modern China.
The principal purpose of topics in musicology has been to identify
meaning-bearing units within a musical composition that would have
been understood by contemporary audiences and therefore also by
later receivers, albeit in a different context and with a need for
historically aware listening. Since Leonard Ratner (1980)
introduced the idea of topics, his relatively simple ideas have
been expanded and developed by a number of distinguished authors.
Topic theory has now become a well-established branch of
musicology, often embracing semiotics, but its relationship to
performance has received less attention. Musical Topics and Musical
Performance thus focuses on the interface of theory and practice,
and investigates how an appreciation of topical presence in a work
may prompt interpretative thoughts for a potential performer as
well as how performers have responded to such a presence in
practice. The chapters focus on music from the nineteenth,
twentieth and twenty-first centuries with case studies drawn from
composers as diverse as Beethoven, Scriabin and Peter Eoetvoes.
Using both scores and recordings, the book presents a variety of
original and innovative perspectives on the subject from a range of
distinguished authors, and addresses a neglected area of musicology
and musical performance.
Nakazawa connects Buddhist philosophy with modern sciences such as
psychology, quantum theory, and mathematics, as well as linguistics
and the arts to present a perspective on understanding the mind in
a world built on interconnection and networks of relations. While
Lemma Science is a new and modern study of humans, its provenance
is deeply rooted in the Eastern thought tradition. The ancient
Greeks identified two modes of human intelligence: the logos and
lemma intellects. Etymologically, logos signifies to "arrange and
organize what has been gathered in front of one's self." To
practice logos-based thinking, one must rely on language. Thus,
humans organize and understand the objects in the universe
according to linguistic syntax. In contrast, lemma etymologically
signifies the intellectual capacity to "grasp the whole at once."
Instead of arranging objects along a time axis, as language does,
the lemma intellect perceives the world in an intuitive, non-linear
and non-causal manner, comprehending the whole in an instant. This
book embarks on a venture to establish a new science based upon the
lemma intellect. Using non-logos-based materials, rigorously
following lemma-based methods, and transgressing the boundaries of
academic fields, Nakazawa seeks to construct this new science as a
fluid, dynamic entity. This book will be of great interest to
researchers across the fields of Japanese studies, Buddhist
studies, psychology and linguistics.
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