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Vernaudon Jacques - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Les métalangues du tahitien à l’école
'OpenEdition', 2019Co-Authors: Vernaudon JacquesAbstract:L’utilisation du tahitien comme langue d’alphabétisation depuis le début xixe siècle a généré un discours réflexif sur sa grammaire et un vocabulaire métalinguistique destiné à le décrire. Notre contribution vise à rendre compte de l’évolution de la métalangue utilisée à l’école pour enseigner cette langue, à partir d’un corpus de documents authentiques, depuis les premiers abécédaires missionnaires jusqu’aux manuels scolaires contemporains. Nous explorons à cette occasion deux questions connexes, celle de la création progressive d’une métalangue en tahitien sur le tahitien et celle de la métalangue commune pour comparer le tahitien et le français.The use of Tahitian as a language of literacy since the beginning of the 19th century has generated a reflexive discourse on its grammar and a metalinguistic vocabulary intended to describe it. Our contribution aims to account for the evolution of the Metalanguage used in school to teach Tahitian from a body of authentic documents, from the first missionary alphabets to contemporary textbooks. We also explore two related issues: the progressive genesis of a Tahitian Metalanguage on Tahitian and the common Metalanguage to compare Tahitian and French
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Les métalangues du tahitien à l'école
Université des Antilles ESPE, 2018Co-Authors: Vernaudon JacquesAbstract:International audienceThe use of Tahitian as a language of literacy since the beginning of the 19 th century has generated a reflexive discourse on its grammar and a metalinguistic vocabulary intended to describe it. Our contribution aims to account for the evolution of the Metalanguage used in school to teach Tahitian from a body of authentic documents, from the first missionary alphabets to contemporary textbooks. We also explore two related issues : the progressive genesis of a Tahitian Metalanguage on Tahitian and the common Metalanguage to compare Tahitian and French.L'utilisation du tahitien comme langue d'alphabétisation depuis le début 19 e siècle a généré un discours réflexif sur sa grammaire et un vocabulaire métalinguistique destiné à le décrire. Notre contribution vise à rendre compte de l'évolution de la métalangue utilisée à l'école pour enseigner cette langue, à partir d'un corpus de documents authentiques, depuis les premiers abécédaires missionnaires jusqu'aux manuels scolaires contemporains. Nous explorons à cette occasion deux questions connexes, celle de la création progressive d'une métalangue en tahitien sur le tahitien et celle de la métalangue commune pour comparer le tahitien et le français
Mullan Kerry - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Minimal English (and Beyond)
'Springer Science and Business Media LLC', 2020Co-Authors: Sadow Lauren, Peeters Bert, Mullan KerryAbstract:This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics
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A Brief Introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach
'Springer Science and Business Media LLC', 2020Co-Authors: Sadow Lauren, Mullan KerryAbstract:This introductory chapter to the first of three volumes celebrating the career of Griffith University academic Cliff Goddard recaps the fundamentals of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, ethnopragmatics and cultural scripts, and Minimal English (Sect. 2.1 to 2.7), then contextualizes and introduces the individual papers (Sect. 2.8)
Mary J Schleppegrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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functional grammar analysis in support of dialogic instruction with text scaffolding purposeful cumulative dialogue with english learners
Research Papers in Education, 2016Co-Authors: Rachel Rennie Klingelhofer, Mary J SchleppegrellAbstract:AbstractFor children learning English as an additional language, dialogic teaching supports both learning content and learning language. Engaging language learners in dialogue offers special challenges, however. This article describes an instructional approach that focused on engendering purposeful and cumulative talk, supported by Metalanguage from functional grammar. The Metalanguage enabled pupils’ exploration of an author’s language choices to examine how the feelings of a character in a story are presented. Records of talk were captured in writing to serve as resources for fostering further talk and to support pupils in a final written task that responded to a key question in focus throughout. We illustrate the dialogic engagement with and about text, supported by a focus on language choices, that, in turn, supported the kind of collaborative talk that is often hard to achieve with language learners.
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content based language teaching with functional grammar in the elementary school
Language Teaching, 2016Co-Authors: Mary J SchleppegrellAbstract:Today many second language (L2) teachers work with school-aged learners who need to be supported in their language development at the same time they learn school subjects. Applied linguists and researchers in second language acquisition (SLA) have much to contribute to those teachers, but to do so in more powerful ways calls for an orientation toward the goals of the content classroom. This plenary describes a project in which the theory of systemic functional linguistics is providing useful Metalanguage for exploring language and meaning in curricular activities that also support disciplinary learning. It illustrates how language-based content teaching can provide the support children need.
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using a functional linguistics Metalanguage to support academic language development in the english language arts
Linguistics and Education, 2014Co-Authors: Jason H Moore, Mary J SchleppegrellAbstract:Abstract This article reports on a design-based research project that used grammatical Metalanguage from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to support primary level English Language Learners’ engagement with academic language in English Language Arts. Researchers and teachers developed lessons to support students’ ability to interpret and evaluate characters’ attitudes in literary texts through an explicit focus on language. An analysis of classroom conversations shows that SFL Metalanguage has the potential to support students’ content learning in the context of dialogic interaction during meaningful curricular activity supported by scaffolding artifacts. We show that the Metalanguage supports elaboration and enactment of meaning and exploration of patterns in language and author's purpose in the texts students read. This results in extended discourse by students in which they also connect text meaning to their personal experiences. We suggest that this approach offers new affordances for supporting ELLs’ engagement in challenging curricular tasks at the same time they develop academic language.
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the role of Metalanguage in supporting academic language development
Language Learning, 2013Co-Authors: Mary J SchleppegrellAbstract:Recent currents in language learning research highlight the social and emergent aspects of second language (L2) development and recognize that learners need opportunities for interaction in meaningful contexts supported by explicit attention to language itself. Theseperspectivessuggestnewwaysofconceptualizingthechallengesfacedbychildren learning L2s as they learn school subjects. This article reports on design-based research in U.S. schools with a majority of English language learners, where teachers were supported in using Systemic Functional Linguistics Metalanguage in the context of curricular activities. This work illustrates how a meaningful Metalanguage can support L2 learners in accomplishing challenging tasks in the primary school curriculum at the same time that it promotes the kind of focused consciousness-raising and explicit talk about language that has been shown to facilitate L2 development. Examples from classroom research exemplify how Metalanguage supports the situated and contextual language learning that current research in education and L2 acquisition calls for, while also supporting disciplinary goals and activities in English language arts.
Haugh Michael - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English:A corpus-based metapragmatic approach
'John Benjamins Publishing Company', 2021Co-Authors: Culpeper Jonathan, Haugh MichaelAbstract:Offence is a central concept in impoliteness, aggression and conflict research, yet has received only passing mention in definitions of impoliteness and related concepts. Janicki (2017) argues that impoliteness and language aggression scholars are needlessly worried about definitions. We use Janicki’s (2017) work as a spring-board into a discussion of definitions of impolite or taboo language, airing potential problems and suggesting that the study of Metalanguage offers at least a partial solution. We report a study of the Metalanguage of OFFENCE in British English, and briefly examine whether there are any differences in Australian English, using SketchEngine to interrogate data in the two-billion word Oxford English Corpus. In so doing, we tease out different uses of the term offensive, and show that concepts such as OFFENCE are coloured by the specific linguistic and cultural contexts in which they appear. We conclude that while corpus-based metalinguistic analyses cannot completely eliminate the problem of definitional infinite regress, they do, however, offer an empirically grounded way of defining words that allows us to move beyond the intuitions of individual researchers
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The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English: a corpus-based metapragmatic approach
'John Benjamins Publishing Company', 2020Co-Authors: Culpeper Jonathan, Haugh MichaelAbstract:has received only passing mention in definitions of impoliteness and related concepts. Janicki (2017) argues that impoliteness and language aggression scholars are needlessly worried about definitions. We use Janicki’s (2017) work as a springboard into a discussion of definitions of impolite or taboo language, airing potential problems and suggesting that the study of Metalanguage offers at least a partial solution. We report a study of the Metalanguage of offence in British English, and briefly examine whether there are any differences in Australian English, using SketchEngine to interrogate data in the two-billion word Oxford English Corpus. In so doing, we tease out different uses of the term offensive, and show that concepts such as offence are coloured by the specific linguistic and cultural contexts in which they appear. We conclude that while corpus-based metalinguistic analyses cannot completely eliminate the problem of definitional infinite regress, they do, however, offer an empirically grounded way of defining words that allows us to move beyond the intuitions of individual researchers
Milena Slavcheva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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semantic representation of events building a semantic primes component
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006Co-Authors: Milena SlavchevaAbstract:This paper describes a system of semantic primes necessary for the large-scale semantic representation of event types, encoded as verbal predicates. The system of semantic primes is compiled via mapping modeling elements of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), the Semantic Minimum - Dictionary of Bulgarian (SMD), and the Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). The so developed system of semantic primes is a user-defined extension to the Metalanguage, adopted in the Unified Eventity Representation (UER), a graphical formalism, introducing the object-oriented design to linguistic semantics.
