Sökning: "Patterns of language use"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 149 avhandlingar innehållade orden Patterns of language use.
1. Immigration, security and the public debate on US language policy : A critical discourse analysis of language attitudes in the United States of America
Sammanfattning : The narrative of the United States is of a "nation of immigrants" in which the language shift patterns of earlier ethnolinguistic groups have tended towards linguistic assimilation through English. In recent years, however, changes in the demographic landscape and language maintenance by non-English speaking immigrants, particularly Hispanics, have been perceived as threats and have led to calls for an official English language policy. LÄS MER
2. Play, Culture and Learning : Studies of Second-Language and Conceptual Development in Swedish Preschools
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies how second-language and conceptual development emerge through interactions in Swedish preschool environments. It studies how types of interaction, such as play, can scaffold children toward such developments. LÄS MER
3. A língua de Camões com Iemanjá : Forma e funções da linguagem do candomblé
Sammanfattning : The present thesis addresses the relationship between the structure and social functions of language through the study of an Afro-Brazilian Portuguese speech community. The adopted methodological, analytical, and theoretical standpoints have their origin in linguistic anthropology, social psychology of language and discourse analysis. LÄS MER
4. Brandvägg. Ord och handling i en yrkesutbildning
Sammanfattning : Brandvägg describes how a group of firefighters, who consistently maintain that they are “practitioners and not theorists”, relate to various forms of language based knowledge and language based “knowledging” in their vocational training, which is based on problem based learning. From a sociocultural perspective to learning, and within the parameters of a didactic perspective with the focus on the students as learning language users, understanding is searched for what happens in the educational setting. LÄS MER
5. Juridiska – ett nytt språk? : En studie av juridikstudenters språkliga inskolning
Sammanfattning : This dissertation considers the language socialization of law students. One message that the law students encounter is that legal Swedish is an entirely new language. LÄS MER