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TL;DR: The field of discourse analysis has diversified in terms of conceptual approaches, metho-based approaches, and meto-semantics as discussed by the authors, since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis became an increasingly established framework in environmental policy analysis.
Abstract: Since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis has become an increasingly established framework in environmental policy analysis. The field has diversified in terms of conceptual approaches, metho...

121 citations


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07 Nov 2019
TL;DR: This paper studies how scientific papers represent human research subjects in HCML, and shows how these five discourses create paradoxical subject and object representations of the human, which may inadvertently risk dehumanization.
Abstract: "Human-centered machine learning" (HCML) combines human insights and domain expertise with data-driven predictions to answer societal questions. This area's inherent interdisciplinarity causes tensions in the obligations researchers have to the humans whose data they use. This paper studies how scientific papers represent human research subjects in HCML. Using mental health status prediction on social media as a case study, we conduct thematic discourse analysis on 55 papers to examine these representations. We identify five discourses that weave a complex narrative of who the human subject is in this research: Disorder/Patient, Social Media, Scientific, Data/Machine Learning, and Person. We show how these five discourses create paradoxical subject and object representations of the human, which may inadvertently risk dehumanization. We also discuss the tensions and impacts of interdisciplinary research; the risks of this work to scientific rigor, online communities, and mental health; and guidelines for stronger HCML research in this nascent area.

110 citations



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TL;DR: In transcultural and transnational communication settings, English learners have to be able to communicate with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds as mentioned in this paper, and for this reason, English a...
Abstract: In transcultural and transnational communication settings, English learners have to be able to communicate with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. For this reason, English a...

84 citations


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TL;DR: It is argued that topic modelling promises advances in areas where discourse analysis has traditionally struggled, such as scaling, repetition, and systematization, which go beyond the contributions of simpler frequency and collocation counts.
Abstract: Quantitative text analysis tools have become increasingly popular methods for the operationalization of various types of discourse analysis. However, their application usually remains fairly simple...

75 citations


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Amy Rossiter1
01 Feb 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the relation between critical reflective practice and social workers' lived experience of the complicated and contradictory world of practice is discussed, and the conceptual space that is opened by such reflection can help social workers gain a necessary distance from the complexity of their ambivalently constructed place.
Abstract: This paper concerns the relation between critical reflective practice and social workers’ lived experience of the complicated and contradictory world of practice. I will outline how critical reflection based on discourse analysis may generate useful perspectives for practitioners who struggle to make sense of the gap between critical aspirations and practice realities, and who often mediate that gap as a sense of personal failure. I will describe two examples of discourse-based case studies, and show how the conceptual space that is opened by such reflection can help social workers gain a necessary distance from the complexity of their ambivalently constructed place. Discourse analysis can provide new vantage points from which to reconstruct practice theory in ways that are more consciously oriented to our social justice commitments. I understand these vantage points in the case studies I will describe as: 1) an historical consciousness, 2) access to understanding what is left out of discourses in use, 3) understanding of how actors are positioned in discourse, all leading to: 4) a new set of questions which expose the gap between the construction of practice possibilities and social justice values, thus allowing for a new understanding of the limitations, constraints and possibilities within the context of the practice problem.

74 citations


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TL;DR: It was found that the topic modelling approach was able to group texts into ‘topics’ that were truly thematically coherent with a mixed degree of success, while the more traditional approach to discourse analysis consistently provided a more nuanced perspective on the data which was ultimately closer to the ‘reality’ of the texts it contains.
Abstract: This article explores and critically evaluates the potential contribution to discourse studies of topic modelling, a group of machine learning methods which have been used with the aim of automatic...

65 citations


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TL;DR: In Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and in other linguistics oriented scholarly journals as discussed by the authors, more and more research draws upon multimodality as part of carrying out analyses of how texts make m...
Abstract: In Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and in other linguistics oriented scholarly journals we now see more research which draws upon multimodality as part of carrying out analyses of how texts make m ...

65 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the research programs of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, which take as their central task the specifications of the jointly constructed actions and courses of action comprising social contexts and thus significantly enhance a usage-based understanding of language.
Abstract: A key insight of a transdisciplinary perspective on second language acquisition (SLA) as articulated by the Douglas Fir Group (2016) is its usage-based understanding of language. Evidence on the fundamental role that usage plays in shaping individual language knowledge is no doubt compelling. However, while the force of social interaction in shaping language knowledge is acknowledged, missing are specifications of the jointly constructed actions and courses of action comprising social contexts of use. Also missing is a reconsideration of key SLA concepts engendered by a usage-based understanding of language. The intent of this paper is to redress these limitations. First, I summarize the research programs of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, which take as their central task the specifications of the jointly constructed actions and courses of action comprising social contexts and thus significantly enhance a usage-based understanding of language. Then, arguing that more suitable conceptual tools are needed to better capture current understandings of language knowledge and objects of L2 learning, I offer repertoire, semiotic resources, and register as alternative terms to competence and grammar. I conclude with a proposal for a Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics-based research program for further advancing understandings of SLA and transforming understandings of L2 pedagogy.

63 citations


Book
31 Dec 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, Natalier et al. presented a qualitative interview study of teenage witchcraft and a discourse analysis of racism in newspapers to understand the nature of social science research.
Abstract: Part I: The Foundations of Good Social Science Research 1. The Nature of Social Science Research (Maggie Walter) What is social research?The 'science' in social scienceSocial patterns and social meaningsSocial research: Why do we do it?The language of social scienceMethod and methodology: Understanding the differenceWhat goes into making a methodology?Voices in the field: Karen MartinFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences2. Research Design (Kristin Natalier) IntroductionResearch questionsResearch aimsLiterature reviewMethodsVoices in the field: Patricia ShortDefinition and measurement decisionsThe theoretical direction: Deductive or inductive?TimelinesResourcesDesign in practice: The research proposalFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences3. The Research Process (Douglas Ezzy) IntroductionThe process of social researchTen issues for social researchersVoices in the field: Virginia WatsonFrom method to practiceA qualitative interview study of teenage WitchcraftA discourse analysis of racism in newspapersConclusionFurther readingReferences4. Ethics and Social Research (Daphne Habibis)IntroductionWhy is ethics an issue in social research?The history of ethics and researchThe history of ethics and research in AustraliaWhen is ethical review needed?Protecting participantsData managementData storageSafetyResearch meritVulnerable participant groupsSocial mediaEthics and the researcherEthics and the organisationEveryday ethical dilemmasUnobtrusive, covert research and deceptionVoices in the field: Hannah GrahamConclusionFurther readingReferences 5. Sampling (Bruce Tranter)Why we sampleDefining the populationSelecting our sampling methodProbability samplingSample non-responseNon-probability samplingSelecting sampling size for non-probability samplingVoices in the field: Wally KarnilowiczFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferencesPart II: Quantitative Methods and the Power of Numbers 6. Surveys (Maggie Walter) IntroductionChoosing a surveyAdvantages of surveysDisadvantages of surveysCommon types of survey designThe processVoices in the field: Belinda HewittFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences7. Population-level Analysis (Natalie Jackson) IntroductionWhat is population-level data analysis?Differences between population-level and survey dataUses of population-level analysisStrengths and weaknessesAnalytical issuesAnalytical complexitiesIntracollection discontinuitiesIntercollection discontinuitiesUseful techniquesStandardisationVoices in the field: Lisa TaylorFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferencesWebsites8. Analysing Quantitative Data (Tim Phillips) IntroductionWhat are quantitative data, and why do we analyse them?How to do quantitative data analysisA mini quantitative analysisBeginning the analysisChoosing appropriate techniquesUsing your imagination and devotionVoices in the field: Joanna Sikora and Lawrence J. SahaFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences9. Using SPSS for Descriptive Statistical Analysis (Philip Patman, Lisa Denny and Brendan Churchill)IntroductionCoding your dataUsing the AuSSA for descriptive statistical analysisSPSS output windowData analysis in SPSSRecoding dataTransforming dataSaving data sets in SPSSVoices in the field: Kate WarnerVoices in the field: Jennifer AytonFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferencesWebsitesPart III: Qualitative Interviewing Methods and Meaning-making 10. Qualitative Interviewing Methods (Max Travers) IntroductionWhat is a qualitative interview?The importance of meaningHow to conduct an indepth interviewChoosing a topicHow many interviews?Recruiting intervieweesApproaching the interviewInterviewing techniquesRecording your dataBeyond interviewingFrom method to practiceVoices in the field: Margaret Alston OamFocus groupsVoices in the field: Tim MarjoribanksConclusionFurther readingReferences11. Content Analysis (Brendan Churchill)IntroductionContent analysis in social science researchQuantitative and qualitative approachesHow to conduct a content analysisVoices in the field: Rebecca DanceConclusionReferences 12. Discourse Analysis (Keith Jacobs) IntroductionThe backgroundAdvantages of discourse analysisKey terms and conceptsCritical discourse analysisFoucauldian-inspired analysisChallenges associated with discourse analysisUndertaking a critical discourse analysisFoucauldian-inspired analysisVoices in the field: Fiona ProudfootFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences13. Doing Evaluation Research (Rob White)IntroductionThe unique aspects of evaluation researchPurposes of evaluationUndertaking an evaluationPreparing the reportLimitations of evaluationVoices in the field: Diane HeckenbergFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences 14. Analysing Qualitative Data (Karen Willis) IntroductionThe vital ingredients for creating meaningOrganising dataApproaches to analysisCommencing analysisExploring relationships between categoriesDiscrepancies and deviant casesExplaining what is going on: ThemesGrounded theoryNarrative analysis and life historiesExtending the analytical challengeVoices in the field: Jane Maree MaherVoices in the field: Fiona GillFrom method to practiceConclusionFurther readingReferences15. Ethnography (Felicity Picken)IntroductionHow ethnography is usedPast and present ethnographyNew ethnographic topics and wider applicationsAccessing the fieldHow to do a good ethnographyFrom method to practiceHigh tech ethnographyConducting ethical ethnographyVoices in the field: Nick OsbaldistonConclusionReferencesPart IV: Writing Up Our Research 16. Writing Up Research (Michelle Gabriel)IntroductionDiscovery through writingWriting styleWriting a research planWriting a research reportPresentation of quantitative dataPresentation of qualitative dataFinal statementWriting strategiesEditing and revisingThe editing and proofreading processesDisseminating your writingVoices in the field: Michelle McMahonConclusionFurther readingReferences

61 citations


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TL;DR: The study of organizational tensions, contradictions, dialectics, and paradoxes is on the rise in the organizational sciences as discussed by the authors, and an integrative methodology for studying these contradictions is proposed.
Abstract: The study of organizational tensions, contradictions, dialectics, and paradoxes is on the rise in the organizational sciences. This article sets forth an integrative methodology for studying these ...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the networks and discourses of Facebook pages of Western European far-right parties, movements and communities and find that the form of farright mobilization is shaped by political opportunities.
Abstract: Far-right groups increasingly use social media to interact with other groups and reach their followers. Social media also enable ‘ordinary’ people to participate in online discussions and shape political discourse. This study compares the networks and discourses of Facebook pages of Western European far-right parties, movements and communities. Network analyses of pages indicate that the form of far-right mobilization is shaped by political opportunities. The absence of a strong far-right party offline seems to be reflected in an online network in which non-institutionalized groups are the most prominent actors, rather than political parties. In its turn, the discourse is shaped by the type of actor. Content analyses of comments of followers show that parties address the political establishment more often than immigration and Islam, compared to non-institutionalized groups. Furthermore, parties apply less extreme discursive practices towards ‘the other’ than non-institutionalized groups.

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TL;DR: There was a main effect of discourse type on most primary linguistic variables in both groups, suggesting that, in adults with and without language impairments, each discourse type taxed components of the spoken language system to varying extents.
Abstract: Purpose Discourse analysis is commonly used to assess language ability and to evaluate language change following intervention in aphasia. The purpose of this study was to identify differences in language produced during different discourse tasks in a large aphasia group and an age- and education-matched control group. Method Four structured discourse tasks across 3 discourse types (expositional, narrative, and procedural) were evaluated in a group of adults with aphasia (n = 90) and an age-matched control group (n = 84) drawn from AphasiaBank. CLAN software was used to extract primary linguistic variables (mean length of utterance, propositional density, type–token ratio, words per minute, open–closed class word ratio, noun–verb ratio, and tokens), which served as proxies for various language abilities. Using a series of repeated-measures analyses of covariance, with significantly correlated demographic and descriptive variables as covariates, main effects of discourse type were evaluated. Results Despite...

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TL;DR: The role of cultural discourse in China's breathtaking development and change has engendered various responses and interpretations as discussed by the authors, however, most scholarly interpretations are "Westcentric" (p. 5).
Abstract: China’s breathtaking development and change has engendered various responses and interpretations. However, most scholarly interpretations are ‘Westcentric’ (p. 5). The role of cultural discourse an...

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TL;DR: Novel standardized and non-standardized assessment tools for SLP use reported in TBI research literature from the past 15 years are described, to guide evidence-based SLP practice and inform future research.
Abstract: Background: Social communication assessment after traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a challenging area within speech-language pathology (SLP) clinical practice. Difficulties include the lack of ...

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TL;DR: This paper examined patterns in online communication using computer mediated discourse analysis to understand how teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence are manifest, and found that social presence is correlated with teaching presence and social presence.
Abstract: This case study examined patterns in online communication using computer-mediated discourse analysis to better understand how teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence are manifest...

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TL;DR: The authors discusses the intersection of language choice, identity and online political activism in the context of the 2011 Syrian uprising by bringing together the notions of entextualization and chronotopes.
Abstract: Abstract This article discusses the intersection of language choice, identity and online political activism in the context of the 2011 Syrian uprising by bringing together the notions of entextualization and chronotopes. The data is drawn from a longitudinal analysis of two Syrian dissidents’ Facebook pages between 2010 and 2012 as part of a study of Syrian dissidents’ digital practices. Through an analysis of their status updates and their friends’ comments, I show how the repertoire of these two Syrian dissidents changed abruptly with the onset of the 2011 uprising. The shift in repertoire underlies the emergence of distinct chronotopic identities, through which both subjects re-positioned themselves vis-à-vis the sociopolitical context: cosmopolitan identities before and dissident identities after the uprising. The article contributes to the study of chronotopic identities by showing how processes of entextualization are chronotopically informed, particularly in a context of socio-political upheaval. Additionally, it sheds further light on the role of technology in social and political change.


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30 Apr 2019
TL;DR: In this article, a critical exploration of how particular uses of digital media technologies are framed as facilitating planting and care is conducted through an investigation of how digital tree planting campaigns represent trees as valuable and situate them in relations of care for others and the environment.
Abstract: In the last decade, planting trees through the internet, social media, and web and mobile applications has become popularised as a means to express care and consideration for the earth and distant others. The advent of digital tree planting coincides with the rise of environmental marketing and agendas for sustainable development that stress the good of trees for addressing environmental change, alongside swelling interest in everyday digital technologies and consumption as mediums for environmental action. Against this backdrop, the thesis critiques how digital tree planting campaigns are promoting ecological care at a distance. It explores how such campaigns represent trees as valuable and situate them in relations of care for others and the environment. This critical exploration develops through an investigation of how particular uses of digital media technologies are framed as facilitating planting and care. Three empirical cases are chosen, which shed light on the three overarching digital strategies that companies and organisations are employing for this purpose: (i) online shopping; (ii) apps, games, and crowdfunding sites; and (iii) cryptocurrencies, credit cards, e-cards, and e-donations. A set of corresponding campaigns is analysed for each case using multimodal ecocritical discourse analysis, which attends to trees as subjects of environmental discourse and practice. The resulting case discussions illustrate how the promotion of various kinds of digital consumption affects the kinds of relations with, and regard for, trees that can be imagined. In so doing, it is argued, the campaigns also draw selective lines of ecological connection between contributing individuals and distant others and environments, provoking productive questions about the terms of caring that are being forged. Intellectually, the critique unfolds through a conversation between ecological ethics and media and cultural studies, and is variously inflected by environmental anthropology, critical studies in marketing and consumption, and geography.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use insights from the sociology of knowledge to interrogate the epistemological and ontological assumptions of neurocriminology, an interdisciplinary field that studies the neural basis of crime.
Abstract: With the increasing use of imaging technologies like fMRI in prison sentencing and penal policy, sociologists must comprehend the consequences of these trends and the scientific assumptions upon which they stand. This article uses insights from the sociology of knowledge to interrogate the epistemological and ontological assumptions of neurocriminology, an interdisciplinary field that studies the neural basis of crime. Through a discourse analysis of research articles that embrace what we term the “neurocriminological vision,” we demonstrate how features of the research design eschew the consideration of social factors underlying crime and antisocial behavior. Focusing on the selection of control variables, the ‘thinness’ of experimental tasks, and the management of inconvenient facts, we demonstrate how neurocriminological research transforms complex, socially situated behaviors into problems of neurocircuitry. We link these practices to the field-specific dynamics in which neurocriminology is situated, specifically as an interdisciplinary field which derives authority from neuroscience but is met with skepticism within criminology. In response to these dynamics, neurocriminologists produce not only knowledge, but also ignorance that is strategically useful given their professional goals. Beyond the particular case at hand, we emphasize the relationship between internal dynamics within scientific fields and their effects on the co-production of knowledge and ignorance.

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TL;DR: In this article, a discourse analysis of an influential Official Norwegian Report, ‘The School of the Future, Renewal of Subjects and Competences' (NOU 2015:8), explores how ideas of 21st century skills are translated into the Norwegian education policy context.
Abstract: 21st century skills is a global network of corporate and governmental influences that promotes competences suited to fit the future knowledge economy. Through a discourse analysis of an influential Official Norwegian Report, ‘The School of the Future. Renewal of Subjects and Competences’ (NOU 2015:8), this paper explores how ideas of 21st century skills are translated into the Norwegian education policy context. Firstly, the paper analyses the context-specific reasons for receptiveness by investigating discursive warrants. Secondly, the paper identifies how the policy document constructs a set of preferred subject positions that constitute an image of an ideal student. Thirdly, the paper investigates the discursive framing of these subject positions. We find that the policy document constructs an image of an ideal student who is creative, responsible, cooperative, engaged, self-regulated and in complete control of herself, her learning and her future. This image draws on more pronounced neo-libera...

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26 Apr 2019
TL;DR: Matthiessen as discussed by the authors elaborates on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach to register in this contribution to the inaugural issue of Register Studies, and has left an indelible mark on the theory and systematic study of patterns of register in language use.
Abstract: Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen elaborates on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach to register in this contribution to the inaugural issue of Register Studies. He is Chair Professor of the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he pursues a scholarly agenda that includes developing the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics and applying it to text and discourse analysis, functional grammar, issues related to language evolution and typology, and comprehensive descriptive models of register. Throughout his career, Matthiessen has made major contributions to SFL theories and methods. Among his major works is Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems (1995, International Language Sciences Publishers). More than any other scholar, Matthiessen has expounded on Halliday’s early ideas on register and applied SFL theory to describing models of register variation. He remains an active researcher in the area of register studies which includes his registerial cartography – the comprehensive and systematic description of the registers in a language. Matthiessen’s work has left an indelible mark on the theory and systematic study of patterns of register in language use.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the application of the "smart cities" and "urban climate justice" concepts to two urban initiatives based in Bristol, UK, and developed a heuristic which could improve traditional policy analysis approaches.

Book
10 Jul 2019
TL;DR: The authors provides an up-to-date reference on contemporary topics in specialist discourse analysis, current research methodologies and innovative approaches to the study of writing; new insights into conceptual and theoretical issues related to the analysis of academic writing; an accessible introduction to diachronic research in EAP and a case for the value of the diachurable study of texts using corpus techniques; a clear overview of how texts work in interaction and how they relate to evolving institutional and political contexts; links between the practices of different disciplines and the environments in which they operate, as well as observations on the
Abstract: Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years. Demonstrating how published writing represents academics’ decisions about how best to present their work, their readers and themselves in the global context of a rapidly shifting university system, this book provides: An up-to-date reference on contemporary topics in specialist discourse analysis, current research methodologies and innovative approaches to the study of writing; New insights into conceptual and theoretical issues related to the analysis of academic writing; An accessible introduction to diachronic research in EAP and a case for the value of the diachronic study of texts using corpus techniques; A clear overview of how texts work in interaction and how they relate to evolving institutional and political contexts; Links between the practices of different disciplines and the environments in which they operate, as well as observations on the ways in which they differ. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers of EAP/ESP and Applied Linguistics and will also be of significant interest to academics and students looking to have their work published.

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TL;DR: Matusov et al. as mentioned in this paper compare and contrast dialogic analysis versus discourse analysis of dialogic pedagogy to address Bakhtin's quest for "human sciences" and avoid modern traps by positivism and by post-truth.
Abstract: The goal of this article is to compare and contrast dialogic analysis versus discourse analysis of dialogic pedagogy to address Bakhtin’s quest for “human sciences” and avoid modern traps by positivism and by post-truth. We argue that dialogic analysis belongs to dialogic science, which focuses on studying “the surplus of humanness” (Bakhtin, 1991, p. 37). “The surplus of humanness” is “a leftover” from the biologically, socially, culturally, and psychologically given – the typical and general – in the human nature. It is about the human authorship of the ever-unique meaning-making. Dialogic analysis involves the heart and mind of the researchers who try to reveal and deepen the meanings of the studied phenomena by addressing and replying to diverse research participants, other scholars, and anticipated readers (Matusov, Marjanovic-Shane, & Gradovski, 2019, in press). We argue that dialogic science is concerned with meta-inquiries such as, “What does something in question mean to diverse people, including the researchers, and why? How do diverse people address and reply to diverse meanings?” In contrast, traditional, positivistic, science is concerned with meta-inquiries such as, “How things really are? What is evidence for that? How to eliminate any researchers’ subjectivity from the research?” (Matusov, 2019, submitted). Positivist (and monologic) science focuses on revealing patterns of actions, behaviors, and relationships. We argue that in the study of dialogic pedagogy, it is structural and/or functional discourse analysis that focuses on studying the given and objective aspects of dialogic pedagogy. In the paper, we consider, describe, interpret, and dialogically re-analyze a case of dialogic analysis involving science education coming from David Hammer’s and Emily van Zee’s (2006) book. We also discuss structural and functional discourse analysis of two pedagogical cases, a monologic and a dialogic one, provided by David Skidmore (2000). We dialogically re-analyze these two cases and Skidmore’s research. We conclude that in research on dialogic pedagogy (and beyond, on social sciences in general) both dialogic science (involving dialogic analysis) and positivist science (involving discourse analysis) are unavoidable and needed, while providing the overall different foci of the research. We discuss the appropriateness and the limitations of discourse analysis as predominantly searching for structural-functional patterns in the classroom discourses. We discuss dialogic tensions in the reported dialogues that cannot be captured by discourse analysis search for patterns. Finally, we discuss two emerging issues among ourselves: 1) whether discourse analysis is always positivist and 2) how these two analytic approaches complement each other while doing research on dialogic pedagogy (and beyond).

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TL;DR: This paper explore how the analysis of im/politeness can be tackled from a discursive pragmatics perspective and reveal the dynamic interaction among the three levels of discourse, i.e., micro, macro, and meso level.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the study of the language used by the teacher and students in the classroom, and use video recording technologies to study classroom research in the past.
Abstract: Classroom research in the past has mostly been based on the study of the language used by the teacher and students. With the availability of video recording technologies, it is now possible...

Book Chapter
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between linguistic landscape studies and discourse studies by focusing on select case studies which exemplify the way that acts of linguistic and semiotic display in the public arena operate as key sites for social organisation and for political regulation and contestation.
Abstract: Research into the way that linguistic and other semiotic signs are displayed in public space has opened up a productive field for social language analysis over the last few years. Often focused on the policy implications – at both institutional and grass-roots level – of public signage, linguistic landscape research has, from the very beginning, engaged with issues of politics and ideology and thus, indirectly, discourse. In recent years it has also begun to theorise the ways in which semiotic artefacts and practices generate meaning by interacting in explicitly dialogical ways. To date however, theorising that is directed specifically at the relationship between linguistic landscape studies and discourse studies has been slight. This chapter explores the nature of this relationship by focusing on select case studies which exemplify the way that acts of linguistic and semiotic display in the public arena operate as key sites for social organisation and for political regulation and contestation. These short case studies also examine how meaning is generated through complex layering of contexts, the interplay between multiple signs, the narrative potential of landscapes and the dialogic possibilities presented by social media which allow local meanings to be up-scaled and reconfigured, thus pulling site-specific semiotic events into much broader discourses.

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TL;DR: Despite the central role schools have played in the resettlement of refugees, we know little about how principals, teachers, parents, and staff at community-based organizations interpret and negotiate.
Abstract: Despite the central role schools have played in the resettlement of refugees, we know little about how principals, teachers, parents, and staff at community-based organizations interpret and negoti...

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TL;DR: This article analyzed classroom discourse over the length of an instructional unit using an analytical lens informed by Heath's concept of joint work, which revealed how three parallel and complimentary discourse practices emerged primarily and more readily once students were given access to the materials needed for their mining extraction tool.
Abstract: This exploratory case study examines how various instructional strategies can influence elementary-aged student discourse patterns during an engineering design challenge. With engineering design increasingly entering the elementary science classroom both within the United States and internationally, students must now engage in discipline-specific practices intended to mirror the work of professional engineers. The current study analyzed classroom discourse over the length of an instructional unit using an analytical lens informed by Heath’s (in: Masten (ed) The Minnesota symposia on child psychology, Psychology Press, New York, pp. 59–75, 1999) concept of joint work, which revealed how three parallel and complimentary discourse practices emerged primarily and more readily once students were given access to the materials needed for their mining extraction tool. The study’s findings illustrate the importance of designing and implementing pedagogical supports capable of ensuring students understand how their drawn designs can be used (Henderson in Sci Technol Hum Values 16(4):448–473, 1991) to manage the uncertainty that naturally arises during an engineering design challenge. Furthermore, the results point to the need for further research at the classroom level that investigates how students can be better supported to overcome the challenges associated with design-based problem solving, possibly via the inclusion of written, rather than verbal support.