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- Siméus, Jenny, 1982-
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Black Lives, White Quotation Marks : Textual Constructions of Selfhood in South African Multivoiced Life Writing
- 2018
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis focuses on South African multivoiced and collaborative life writing. The analysed primary texts are The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena (1980) by Elsa Joubert, The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa (1995) by Margaret McCord, Finding Mr Madini (1999) by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spiderwriters, David’s Story (2000) by Zoë Wicomb, and There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009), co-written by Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele. All of these primary texts are either collaborative autobiographies about black lives, multivoiced life writing texts about black lives, or a text that problematises this kind of life writing where predominantly disadvantaged, black life writing subjects either have had their lives narrated or have had their narration steered by well educated, advantaged, Westernised and usually white writers.The analyses of the primary texts are carried out by problematising them in the light of the South African historical and cultural context within which they were produced. The focus of the analyses is on the effects on and the consequences for textual constructions of selfhood when the writers tell or include the life writing subjects’ lives in the life writing texts. The involvement of the writers in the life writing projects is argued to greatly have impacted the textually represented selves that were created in the resulting multivoiced life writing texts.Drawing on theory rooted in postcolonial studies, life writing in general, and self-narration in particular, this thesis concludes that the examined black South African life narratives to various extents are told on white, Western terms and thus inserted in white quotation marks. White quotation marks are defined in this thesis as a certain Western perception of self-narration and selfhood, consisting of components rooted in language, racial tropes, narrative form, and Western autobiographical traditions. Both writers and life writing subjects have been involved in creating or employing these white quotation marks. In some cases this has been an unintentional result and in other cases it has been a conscious effort.
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- Deutschmann, Mats, 1964-, et al.
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Designing oral participation in second life : a comparative study of two language proficiency courses
- 2009
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In: ReCALL. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 0958-3440 .- 1474-0109. ; 21:2, s. 206-226
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The following paper presents two stages of an action research project involving two oral proficiency courses held in the virtual world Second Life. Course 1 was conducted during the Autumn of 2007. Based on the experiences of this course, we redesigned many aspects of it in order to improve student activity in terms of oral participation and gave the course again in Spring 2008. By analysing the recordings of four 90-minute sessions, two from each course, we were able to measure student participation based on floor space, turn lengths and turn-taking patterns, and in the study we discuss how different changes in design may have contributed to more favourable outcomes. Results seem to indicate that meaning focussed task design, which involves authenticity and collaborative elements, has a direct impact on learner participation and engagement. Furthermore, our results seem to suggest that technical and social initiations into a complex environment such as SL are important factors that have to be worked into the course design.
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- Edlund, Ann-Catrine, 1959-, et al.
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Basttulijani och Janosa Eva. Personnamn och identifikation i Kågeträskdagboken 1891–1901
- 2020
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In: Namn i skrift. Names in Writing. - Göteborg : Meijerbergs institut för etymologisk forskning. - 9789172760981 - 9789187850035 ; , s. 37-59
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we explore the relationship between unofficial personal names and socialidentification in a peasant diary from Kågeträsk in the county of Västerbotten, datingfrom 1891–1901. From a total of 208 unique personal names we have extracted 169 unofficial personal names. Three categories of unofficial names have thereby been identified and closely analysed. The social aspects that are highlighted in the name formation are gender, place and kinship. The most extensive category consists of names where the kinship relation to the father is indicated: Adams Oskar and Nickes Tilda (60 names). The second category consists of unofficial names formed in relation to place-names: Bastulid-Johan and Strand-Alma (44 names). The third category consistsof personal names for married women given in relation to the name of her husband:Roberts Greta (17 names). The analysis shows that gender is a particularly salient social aspect in all three categories. The most part of the unofficial names used in the diary are men’s names, either their own unofficial name or the name of theirson, daughter or wife. The kinship relations that are indicated by the unofficial names hereby departs from the man in the household, whereas the kinship relations to the woman in the household are unmarked and therefore invisible in the personal naming. The social identification that is indicated by the personal names may also position women and men in different social domains. Both men and women may be identified by their kinship relation to their father and their belonging to a certain place. But while men tend to be identified as sons belonging to the village, women tend to be identified both as servants, daughters, wives or daughters-in-law belonging to the particular farm.
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- Wang, Airong, 1980-, et al.
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Who owns the floor? : Examining participation in a collaborative learning scenario between student teachers and active professionals in second life
- 2014
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In: International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments. - Hershey : IGI Global. - 1947-8518 .- 1947-8526. ; 5:1, s. 34-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study investigates the effects of unequal power relations on participation in a group of student teachers and invited professionals in two collaborative workshops in Second Life. The data includes recordings, group reflections, and individual questionnaires. Participation was examined from the aspects of floor space, turn length, and utterance functions and complemented with student reflections. The results show that at a general level, the differences of floor space and turn length between the invited professionals and the students were small. Moreover, the invited professionals did more conversational management than the students, while the students performed more supportive speech acts. There were, however, individual variations.
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- Edlund, Ann-Catrine, 1959-, et al.
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Språk och kön
- 2007
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Book (pop. science, debate, etc.)
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- Deutschmann, Mats, 1964-
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Apologising in British English
- 2003
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. More than 3000 examples of apologising are included in the analysis.Primarily, the form and function of the apologies are examined in relation to the type of offence leading up to the speech act. Aspects such as the sincerity of the apologies and the use of additional remedial strategies other than explicit apologising are also considered. Variations in the distributions of the different types of apologies found are subsequently investigated for the two independent variables speaker social identity (gender, social class and age) and conversational setting (genre, formality and group size). The effect of the speaker-addressee relationship on the apology rate and the types of apologies produced is also examined.In this study, the prototypical apology, a speech act used to remedy a real or perceived offence, is only one of a number of uses of the apology form in the corpus. Other common functions of the form include discourse-managing devices such as request cues for repetition and markers of hesitation, as well as disarming devices uttered before expressing disagreement and controversial opinions.Among the speaker social variables investigated, age and social class are particularly important in affecting apologetic behaviour. Young and middle-class speakers favour the use of the apology form. No substantial gender differences in apologising are apparent in the corpus. I have also been able to show that large conversational groups result in frequent use of the form. Finally, analysis of the effects of the speaker-addressee relationship on the use of the speech act shows that, contrary to expectations based on Brown & Levinson’s theory of politeness, it is the powerful who tend to apologise to the powerless rather than vice versa.The study implies that formulaic politeness is an important linguistic marker of social class and that its use often involves control of the addressee.
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- Deutschmann, Mats
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Social variation in the use of apology formulae in the British National Corpus
- 2006
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In: The changing face of corpus linguistics. - Amsterdam : Rodopi. - 9042017384 - 9789042017382 - 940120179X ; , s. 408-
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper explores sociolinguistic variation in the frequency of apologising in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The starting point for the investigation is the �apology formula�, represented by the lexemes �afraid�, �apologise�, �apology�, �excuse�, �forgive�, �pardon�, �regret� and �sorry�. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers acting in a number of different conversational settings. More than 3000 examples of apologising form the basis for the analysis. In the BNC, young and middle-class speakers favoured the use of the apology form. Only minor gender differences in apologising were apparent. The study implies that formulaic politeness is an important linguistic marker of social class and also shows that corpus linguistic methodology can successfully be used in socio-pragmatic research.
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- Rooswall Persson, Gun
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Lärande samtal : elevers kollektiva textbygge i samband med diktskrivande
- 2000
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to describe and interpret the process by which pupils collectivelybuild a text during discussion of a group task. The study also has two further aims: firstly toexemplify task-oriented, interactionist and genre-specific conversational moves; and secondly todescribe, interpret and compare symmetric and asymmetric co-operative and competitive conversationalmoves, and laughter, in the interaction. At the same time, the way in which the participantsconstruct gender is also discussed.In spring 1997, conversations with pupils were video recorded; the pupils being in the finalyear of compulsory education at school. The pupils were divided up into six groups of fourpupils. The groups were determined according to gender, two all-girl groups, two all-boygroups and two mixed groups. By dividing the groups in this way gender aspects were takeninto account. The conversations of each group were recorded on three separate occasions withouta teacher being present. The task which the pupils were given was to talk about and write apoem together. The conversations were then transcribed, described and interpreted.The results showed the pupils in the different groups used different conversational stylesduring problem-solving. This was partly dependent on whether the group was all girls, all boys,or a mixed group. The pupils' conversational styles and the groups' conversational patternswere categorised and evaluated according to their didactic function.This study belongs to the field of research called "Swedish at School." It deals specificallywith interaction, function and learning in pupils' collective text-building as they solve a problemthrough discussion. Learning in these problem-solving group discussions is promoted bythe four-dimensional conversational style i.e. dominant, asymmetric, task-oriented and grouporiented,being shown by at least one pupil whose style is accepted by the group. The criteriaused in these learning conversations can also become a support for teachers when forminggroups. Group discussions are generally regarded by teachers as providing excellent occasionsfor pupils to learn. However, the study also shows that this type of activity can be pedagogicallycomplicated for the teacher to lead, and it is not always an effective way for pupils to learn.
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Svenskans beskrivning 31 : Förhandlingar vid Trettioförsta sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Umeå den 20–21 maj 2010
- 2011
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Editorial proceedings (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sedan 1963 har det vid olika universitet i Sverige och Finland regelbundet anordnats sammankomster för svenskans beskrivning. Vid dessa har forskningsresultat som rör svenska språkets uppbyggnad och användning presenterats och diskuterats. Den trettioförsta sammankomsten ägde rum i Umeå den 20-21 maj 201. Konferensens tema var "Perspektiv på skrivande", vilket belystes i plenarföredragen samt i de workshoppar som hölls i samband med konferensen. De olika sektionsföredragen berörde en bredd av ämnen, som samtalsanalys, genreanalys, språkkontaktfenomen och svenskämnet i högskolan. I denna volym publiceras två av plenarföredragen och 29 av sektionsföredragen. Som värd för konferensen stod Institutionen för språkstudier vid Umeå universitet.
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