Search Results - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

Applied Linguistics and the pressing need of the hour by Rajagopalan, Kanavillil

“…I argue in this paper that Linguistics can ill afford any more not to address the threat posed by burgeoning populist tendencies all over the world, coupled…”
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In defense of a pedagogical application of Specialized Lexicography/Terminography with the aid of Corpus Linguistics in ESP professor’s training by Bonqueves Fadanelli, Sabrina

“…Teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) in graduation/professionalizing technical courses face the challenge of having to work with specialized…”
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Concrete poetry for the sign language classroom by Mertzani, Maria

“…Concrete poetry creates meaning by relying primarily on visual iconicity likewise sign languages (SLs). As they are visual-gestural languages, their modality…”
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Linguistic-computational approach to the tales of the Portuguese oral tradition: Lexicon and values by Assunção, Carlos, Moreira, Isabel Moreira

“…The intrinsic relationship between oral tradition tales and the transmission of values is generally taken for granted. However, all publications focusing on…”
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Towards Translanguaging with Students at Public School: multimodal and transcultural aspects in meaning making by Takaki, Nara Hiroko

“…The aim of this paper is to report on an experiment that approximates with translingual and multimodal practices in workshops about migration involving…”
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Expanding the research on interacting and power in {coteaching|cogenerative dialogue}: contributions of CDA by El Kadri, Michele Salles

“…This paper aims at discussing the need to formulate a bridge between a theory of language (Critical Discourse Analysis, for example) and research on…”
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Dominant and vernacular literacies in a fanfictions workshop at school by Larissa Giacometti Paris

“…This article discusses the review practice of a fanfiction workshop that took place in a school during the second semester of 2014. In this workshop, students…”
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The role of meta-genres in the construction of genre: A generic stability factor? by Valfrido da Silva Nunes, Maria Inez Matoso Silveira

“…This paper discusses how some meta-genres constitute a relevant factor for the generic stability of the memorandum in the administrative activities’ systems of…”
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Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to the Assessment of Oral Accuracy of Migrant Learners of Spanish by Mavrou, Irini, Santos-Sopena, Òscar O

“…The aim of the present study was to examine the degree of linguistic accuracy in oral production of Romanian and Moroccan learners of Spanish as a language for…”
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Aphorization in Twitter: A discourse analysis of the hashtag #aprendinoenem by Mendes, Heloisa Mara

“…This paper examines the tweets that have been marked with the hashtag #aprendinoenem during the 2015 Brazilian High School National Exam – the Enem – and…”
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Subjective realization in sonnets by metaphors by Dalby Dienstbach

“…Aligned with studies of metaphor in discourse, this paper looks at the role played by metaphors in achieving communicative purposes of sonnets. Taking the…”
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Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis and Linguistic Education: Some contributions to teacher education by Gabriela da Silva Bulla, Schulz, Lia

“…As a research tradition that has developed in the search for the understanding of human actions through the observation and later systematization and analysis…”
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Reading comprehension in English at the Brazilian national high school exam (ENEM): Unveiling inferential processes by de Azevedo, Bruno, Daniel Reschke Pires, Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch

“…While the role of inferencing has been widely acknowledged as key to reading comprehension, little has been done to approach these issues in teaching and…”
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The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by de Souza Lessa, Bruno, Silinske, Jaqueline

“…This essay had the objective of problematizing the role of violence in Brazilian social life and of discussing the relevance it poses in three classics of…”
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Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Schlesinger, Philip

“…This short essay reflects on Renato Ortiz’s work and its reception in the Anglosphere. It then discusses the author’s meeting with Ortiz in Scotland during a…”
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Humor production in children's narratives in Spanish by Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor

“…The aim of this paper is to analyze children’s production of humor from a linguistic perspective. Our research focuses on linguistic aspects of humor…”
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Exploring differences in vocabulary knowledge of semi-urban ESL undergraduate students by Doddapaneni Anil Kumar, Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel

“…This study explored the differences in receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge in terms of word frequency level and vocabulary size in undergraduate…”
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Desire, need and reality: Education and professionalization of elite groups in Brazil by Martins, Thais Joi, Donadone, Julio Cesar

“…The objective of this paper is to report a study carried out at three Brazilian universities addressing only production engineering undergraduate courses. We…”
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Expectations of refugees in the tragedy of frontiers, the perception of the trajectory and the deafness of rights by Aloisio Ruscheinsky, Tulbure, Corina Nicoleta

“…The authors argue that a refugee camp is an exceptional space to put order in the tension, in the spatial and temporal dimensions. There are always multiple…”
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Secular state and freedom of religion in Brazil: The Brazil-Holy See Concordat and the "General Law of Religions" by Follmann, Jose Ivo, Gabatz, Celso

“…This article aims to explore some issues about laicity and religious freedom, the concordat signed between the Brazilian State and the Vatican, and the…”
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