Dialogue Text Research Articles

Enfrentando desafios da formação docente na pós-graduação: descrição de uma experiência

Este artigo apresenta descrição e análise da prática pedagógica, buscando trazer contribuições ao enfren-tamento do desafio da formação docente para o ensino superior. O texto dialoga com elementos acerca da formação docente e com diretrizes da legislação em torno dessa temática, como forma de contextualizar a discussão. No relato da experiência, compartilha-se com o leitor todo o processo de concepção, desen-volvimento, aplicação e avaliação de uma disciplina de Estágio Didático de um programa de pós-graduação da área biológica na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. As conclusões demonstram que é necessário e possível a formação pedagógica em cursos de mestrado e doutorado, aliando as atividades práticas ine-rentes ao estágio docente em turmas de graduação, com discussões e reflexões teórico-práticas sobre a docência. Esse formato traz benefícios tanto para os alunos da pós-graduação, futuros docentes, quanto para os alunos da graduação.
 

Текстуально-диалогическая деятельность в процессе лингвометодической подготовки будущего учителя

Текстуально-диалогическая деятельность в процессе лингвометодической подготовки будущего учителя

현행 어린이 중국어 교재의 텍스트 편찬에 관한 제고 - 대화체 텍스트를 중심으로

현행 어린이 중국어 교재의 텍스트 편찬에 관한 제고 - 대화체 텍스트를 중심으로

DIALOGIC DISCOURSE IN MUSEUM PEDAGOGY OF UKRAINE AND SPAIN

Fragmentation of scientific research and insufficient understanding of the background on which the modern museum pedagogy should be based slows down its development. In practice, a museum does not always become an intermediary between an exhibit and a visitor that can provide their cognitive and emotional contact. Forms of such contact are varied. The article presents several results of the analysis of work of Ukrainian and Spanish museum organizations from the point of view of innovative experience of socio-cultural activity. The article also studies the dialogic discourse as the basis of the modern museum pedagogy.Dialogic discourse is understood as the cognitive-communicative activity of communicants in a broad (situational, sociocultural, cognitive-psychological) context, fixed by a dialogical text. The museum exhibition itself (exposition) can be viewed as a dialogical text, because as a matter of form it is a human thought fixed on material carrier. In the dialogic discourse between a museum and visitors, we can note such properties as presence of text recipients, complexity of unfolding of discourse moves and their spontaneity, thematic unity of the dialogue, individuality of meanings for each addressee depending on his/her level of preparedness, etc. Thus, we can consider dialogic discourse as an essential part of socio-cultural interaction between a museum and visitors.Since the museum pedagogical activity is often aimed at the younger generation, the article explores examples of work of Ukrainian and Spanish museums with children and families. For example, it analyses the Prado museum’s educational and family programs, audio excursions, game and theatrical "paths", the Prado School program contents, as well as the museum website information. It also views the Rules for visitors of the Prado museum that contain valuable information for parents.In the course of exploration of the Ukrainian museum and pedagogical space, it has been established that each region uses its specific capabilities in order to develop a dialogue with visitors. For example, Odessa Bleshchunov Museum has created a special guidebook for families with children, Skovoroda city museum has an interactive game, Kherson Regional Museum has opened its Museum Center for Child Leisure and Kiev organizes a competition for young museum guides.Summarizing the analysis, we can conclude that the dialogical forms gradually penetrate the process of museum work. However, the discursive part – namely, the "answer" - the response of the museum audience still requires higher attention and scientific research.

WITHDRAWN: Dialogic text: Experiencing interactive meaning making through multimodality in Pakistani EFL classroom

This article has been withdrawn at the request of the editors on the grounds that it is an early version and is not yet ready for publication in Lingua . The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal .

Consideration about Chinese Primary School Textbook "Moral and Life"

Morality and Life curriculum materials prepared embodies the spirit of Foundation Education Curriculum Reform after all, "experiment" textbook, it is experiencing fully tested teaching practice, some of the problems also in the course of gradually stand out, so "moral and Life" textbook construction and development needs to continue to improve in practice. Consideration about Chinese primary school textbook "Moral and Life" is important and necessary. including materials prepared to pay more attention to regional and cultural differences ;Scientific value orientation cannot be ignored; To reflect the new focus on the concept of curriculum evaluation; the preparation of textbooks should be conducive to change learning styles; Virtual stories and situations to be careful to use ;Textbooks should become dialogue text, rather than "Monologue" text.

Snail & Worm: Three Stories about Two Friends by T. Kügler

Kügler, Tina. Snail & Worm: Three Stories about Two Friends. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.Author, illustrator, and perhaps the friend of snails and worms in her backyard, Tina Kügler introduces readers to this hilarious book with three little stories of two best friends—a lovely Snail with a droll sense of humor and imagination, and a friendly Worm with a generous heart. In the first story, when Snail joyously plays with the rock, Bob, and the stick, Ann, we can see our lovely and naïve toddlers, and even our inner child. In the next story, when Worm warmly encourages Snail to climb to the top of a tall flower, we can recall how our families, teachers, and friends firmly support us even when we do silly things. And finally, when Snail and Worm have the interesting conversation about their pets, no one can refuse but smile sentimentally. They are not invertebrates anymore, but are as lively as our children, our friends, and ourselves.The dialogic text as well as the storyboard-style illustration adds a flavour of children’s comic-strip to this picture book. The fresh yet soft colour of the drawings creates a snug feeling like spring for readers. Its funny plot, vivid illustrations, and simple vocabulary will definitely be loved by pre-school and kindergarten children. The text and the illustrations are perfectly married with each other. The hilarious dialogues can be easily memorized by young students and even pre-readers, but would also fit well for a drama performance in the classroom.This book will make you giggle with your toddlers or even with your adult family and friends; I can’t wait to read more Snail & Worm adventures!Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Jing JinJing Jin is a doctoral student at University of Alberta, studying and working in the fields of language and literacy in elementary education. She received her M.A. degree in children’s literature from Ocean University of China, and her M.Ed. degree from the University of Saskatchewan. Her master’s thesis is a comparative study of selected award-winning Canadian and Chinese children’s picture books.

Нейтрализация как деривационный механизм генезиса диалогического текста

Нейтрализация как деривационный механизм генезиса диалогического текста

Behind the Orange Door

What does it mean to embody the Caribbean as performance/art? In this coolaborative essay, two Caribbean women artists respond to this question in a dynamic dialogue of text and images. Each has individually performed at and been exhibited in more than fifty venues across the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Artistic comrades for twenty years, they have also collaborated with each other in performance and video. Here, they offer a deep exchange about their creative practice, paying special attention to two works individually premiered on a split bill in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, in 2004. Incorporating both self- and peer reflection, their remarks provide historical and critical context for their own and each other's work. They also address the Caribbean as influence and inspiration, and as both a real and an imagined site.

Surrogate Fathers: imaginary dialogue and patristic culture in late antiquity

This article seeks to contribute to recent debates over Christian dialogue in late antiquity. It explores a specific form of dialogue text: invented debates about the definition of correct doctrine, often starring renowned church Fathers and notorious heretics. It argues that, far from symbolizing an ‘end’ to dialogue in late antiquity – closed down by appeals to patristic authorities – these heresiological dialogues helped to perpetuate controversial Christian debates.

After Exegesis: Feminist Biblical Theology. Essays in Honor of Carol A. Newsom ed. by Patricia K. Tull and Jacqueline E. Lapsley

Reviewed by: After Exegesis: Feminist Biblical Theology. Essays in Honor of Carol A. Newsom ed. by Patricia K. Tull and Jacqueline E. Lapsley Christine Thomas patricia k. tull and jacqueline e. lapsley (eds.), After Exegesis: Feminist Biblical Theology. Essays in Honor of Carol A. Newsom (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2015). Pp. vi + 306. $49.95. Carol Newsom’s contributions to the field of biblical studies are rich and varied, comprising significant advancements in the study of texts from Qumran, provocative work on the Books of Job and Daniel, and the fostering of feminist biblical scholarship represented in the three successive editions of the Women’s Bible Commentary over the course of twenty years. As the editors of After Exegesis acknowledge, Newsom does not identify herself as a biblical theologian, but “her contributions to rethinking the problems and [End Page 734] possibilities of biblical theology are vast and fundamental” (p. 4). This collection takes up the spirit of Newsom’s contributions both in its methodological approach and in the mode of its production. Newsom has argued, in the editors’ words, for a vision of “dialogical, or polyphonic, truth capable of negotiating the compositional and ideological complexities of biblical texts” (p. 5). It is appropriate then to honor Newsom with a polyphony of feminist scholarship that puts biblical texts into dialogue in order to rethink and expand traditional approaches to biblical theology. Equally appropriate is the fact that this collection was brought into being with collaborative conversation among the contributors, carefully stewarded by the collection’s thoughtful editors. Each of the fifteen essays engages at least two biblical texts to explore an area of theological inquiry. Some reenvision familiar subjects of systematic theology, such as creation and salvation, while others add new areas of analysis, such as violence against women. The emphasis throughout is on texts from the Hebrew Bible. Each of the essays includes a bibliography for further reading. The volume is a valuable resource not only for specialists in biblical studies, constructive theology, and feminist scholarship but also for students and others seeking an introduction to these fields. Feminist methodological approaches create points of contact among the essays and allow for shared themes to be read across the collection. For instance, the essays that concern providence, hope, and divine judgment give rise to new conceptions of divine agency. Eunny P. Lee’s essay, “Women’s Doings in Ruth,” presents a feminist biblical theology of providence in which divine agency takes shape in the actions of women. In Lee’s reading, God acts “not by miraculous demonstrations of power but through human acts of boldness and kindness in the rhythmic flow of everyday life” (p. 42). Amy C. Merrill Willis’s essay, “Counterimagination in Isaiah 65 and Daniel 12,” places the differing depictions of salvation in these texts in dialogue with the work of feminist theologians Flora Keshgegian and Ivone Gebara. God’s redemptive work in Isaiah 65, which is immanent and grounded in human community, resonates with feminist constructions of hope and is in productive tension with the vision of divine transcendence in Daniel 12. In “Job and the Hidden Face of God,” Carleen Mandolfo brings the work of post-Holocaust thinker Melissa Raphael to bear on the patriarchal conception of a God who rewards and punishes through presence and absence. Mandolfo finds in the lament psalms and even more so in God’s response to Job texts that approach Raphael’s alternative conception of divine–human reciprocity. The essays on salvation, suffering, and praise intersect in their concern with embodiment. In “Embodiment in Isaiah 51–52 and Psalm 62,” Katie M. Heffelfinger considers the distinctive expressions of salvation in these texts, attending to the bodily imagery through which human and divine interaction is expressed. She argues that, while Isaiah 51–52 and Psalm 62 operate in differing emotional registers, they share the conviction that God alone can overcome human brokenness. The theological significance of embodied human suffering is the focal point of Amy C. Cottrill’s essay, “The Traumatized ‘I’ in Psalm 102.” In the lament psalms’ emphasis on “bodily intelligence” she finds resources for resilience in the midst of trauma (p. 184). On the other end of...

"Lieber Walter"—"Lieber Gerhard": The Dramaturgical Strategies for Including the Correspondence of Benjamin and Scholem in the Performance of Passport

This article describes my work as the dramaturg for a production called Passport , directed by the Israeli director Yael Cramsky, which premiered in Tel Aviv in 2013. The performance consisted of a collage of two dialogical texts: selections from Brecht's Conversations of Refugees , written in Helsinki in 1940-1941 and the correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem focusing on the period after Hitler's takeover of power in Germany, when Benjamin was forced to leave Berlin while Scholem was establishing his scholarly career in Jerusalem; as well as an adaptation of the story of a survivor from the Second World War, who escaped the Nazis fleeing east from Poland. The three texts were interwoven in the performance, illuminating and illustrating the experience of becoming and being a refugee from different perspectives, presenting three aspects of homelessness. My discussion gradually leads up to a very preliminary discussion of Benjamin's theory of the theatre (which is a subject that needs to be explored in depth) and how it influenced the dramaturgical process in working on Passport .

Speech Intelligibility of Korean EFL Learners : Role of Proficiency, Text Type and Text Length

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether and to what extent the intelligibility of Korean EFL learners’ speech at the text level is affected by their English proficiency, text type, and text length. Various speech materials produced by native English speakers and two Korean EFL speaker groups (high vs. low proficiency) were presented to native English listeners and two Korean EFL listener groups, respectively, for comparison of intelligibility scores. The results showed that the listeners’ overall proficiency played the most critical role in determining the level of speech intelligibility for all speaker groups, regardless of the type and length of speech materials. The speakers’ proficiency level in terms of pronunciation, however, had no significant effect. As for the text type, dialogue texts were consistently more intelligible than monologues to all listener groups while the effect of text length varied depending on the text type. These results suggest that L2 learners’ speech intelligibility needs to be examined within the context of natural L2 text beyond word- and sentence-level utterances in consideration of the interaction of text-related features and other learner variables. Some pedagogical implications are also discussed.

Automatic Identification of Character Types from Film Dialogs

ABSTRACTWe study the detection of character types from fictional dialog texts such as screenplays. As approaches based on the analysis of utterances’ linguistic properties are not sufficient to identify all fictional character types, we develop an integrative approach that complements linguistic analysis with interactive and communication characteristics, and show that it can improve the identification performance. The interactive characteristics of fictional characters are captured by the descriptive analysis of semantic graphs weighted by linguistic markers of expressivity and social role. For this approach, we introduce a new data set of action movie character types with their corresponding sequences of dialogs. The evaluation results demonstrate that the integrated approach outperforms baseline approaches on the presented data set. Comparative in-depth analysis of a single screenplay leads on to the discussion of possible limitations of this approach and to directions for future research.

‘See! The angel of death!’: Lizzie Borden, Angela Carter and l’effet de réel

ABSTRACTTaking as its subject matter the unsolved killings, in August 1892, of Andrew Borden and his wife Abby Borden at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, Angela Carter’s short story ‘The Fall River Axe Murders’ (1981) deliberately tests and teases the line of demarcation between prose fiction and historical discourse. Scrupulously specific in its descriptions of the clothes, objects, sounds and smells of life in a New England mill town on one particular day in the late nineteenth century, ‘The Fall River Axe Murders’ can most productively be read, I suggest, as a text in conscious dialogue with Roland Barthes’ essay ‘L’effet de réel’ (1968), an investigation of Barthes’ claim that ‘modern realism’ (as exemplified by the writings of Flaubert and Michelet) is characterised by a commitment to representing the contingent, the inconsequential and the insignificant – a commitment which in seeming to collapse the distinction between referent and signifier produces what Barthes calls the ‘reality effect’. The role of such details in Carter’s story, I propose, is contrariwise to puncture our confidence in the referential status of the text and to prompt the reader to reflect uncertainly upon the relationship between Carter’s fiction and documented historical events.

Dialogische Textkompetenz – Routinisiertes Schreiben in studentischer Online-Teamarbeit

AbstractCurrent concepts in writing research primarily focus on monological texts, by which we mean texts that do not demand a reply. But nowadays, dialogical writing – the exchange of messages via e.g. e-mail, text message or internet forum – is increasingly prevalent in private, educational and professional life. We therefore argue that concepts of writing research should also be made applicable to dialogical writing. Based on empirical data from two university e-learning classes, we show how students use communicative routines in order to manage a specific (writing) task: During their group work students face the challenge of initiating new steps and mobilising other group members to proceed with the project. Our study shows that texts accomplishing this task usually follow a three-part structure: They give reasons why writing to the group becomes necessary (“account”), they request the start or continuation of working (“projection”) and they present a personal contribution to the task (“achievement/input”). In cooperative online work, appropriate dialogical writing is a crucial skill. This “dialogical text competence”, as we call it, cannot be taken for granted; indeed it must be taught and practiced as it differs from competences necessary in face-to-face interaction or for writing texts in non-dialogical contexts. We therefore close our paper with a discussion of our results under the aspect of learning and facilitating dialogical text competence in contexts that offer practical experience.

Hagaras an Archetype Matriarch: A Comparative Study of Ostriker’s “The Opinion of Hagar”and Kahf’s “Hagar in the Valley”

This paper marks out the archetype figure of Hagar, one of the most revisited examples of motherhood in the corpus of Islamic and Jewish studies. The researcher shows that both Alicia Ostriker, Jewish-American poet and critic (born 1938), and Mohja Kahf, an Arab-American poet (born 1967), attempt feminist readings of Hagar’s story. The study tackles Hagar in Ostriker’s poem “The Opinion of Hagar” and Kahf’s “Hagar in the Valley”. Both poets retell their traditional Jewish and Muslim narratives and depend heavily on scriptures and religious heritage. Through Hagar’s story, they both reflect on contemporary cultural issues; discrimination against women and the hardships faced by immigrants are two main issues that Ostriker and Kahf see in the story of Hagar. Yet each poet has a different focus and different manners based on adaptation and appropriation of the original story. The reinterpretation of Hagar’s narrative depended on the poets’ religious sources, as well as on each poet's reception of the narrative. The two poems of ‘Hagar’ are considered a recovery for the female voices that have played a significant role in the development of women’s religious history in the United States of America. With intertextuality, the two poets situate the narrative of Hagar as an archetypal and mythical figure for all women and as a key text in interfaith dialogue between Judaism and Islam

A Systemic Functional Approach to Analyzing Thai Pronouns

This article attempts to illustrate the relationships between Tenor dimensions and pronominal reference in standard Thai. It argues for additional consideration of Thai pronouns as negotiators of interpersonal relationship. In addition to making deictic reference and being part of the Mood elements in major clauses, these resources can mark interpersonal social differentiation as well as attitudinal or emotional involvement. Based on examples of data collected from 40 contemporary Thai novels, the study has attested that usage of first and second person pronominal forms reflects the interplay among the three Tenor dimensions—“status,” “contact,” and “affect.” The study further suggests a new approach of pronominal categorization in Thai—pseudo T-pronouns with informal forms, pseudo V-pronouns with deferential flavor, and N-pronouns or pronominally used nominal terms. They all are found strategically used in novels to construe Tenor relations. By means of expressive pronominal switching and discriminatory pronominal choice, Thai pronouns can be employed to differentiate between positive and negative affective involvement of interactants in dialogical texts.

A Sad Monologist: Unreliable Reporting of Dialogue in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World

The article addresses the question of who reports the dialogue in fictional texts featuring an unreliable narrator. Since no human being can remember and reproduce lengthy conversations accurately, some narrative theorists attribute direct speech representation to the author instead of the character narrator. This means that the speech of other characters may be reported reliably even if the narrator is totally unreliable. The narrator’s version of the events may then be contradicted by others, which allows the reader to perceive his biases. However, Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World illustrates the fact that direct speech reports, too, can be distorted by the narrator’s subjectivity, especially his emotions. In Ishiguro’s novel, the narrator’s grief and depression lead him to misremember and invent past conversations. Following Meir Sternberg, the article argues that the reliability of speech reporting in unreliable narration must be determined on a case-by-case basis. The text must signal that the narrator’s speech reporting is unreliable. In the absence of a signal, the reader is supposed to disregard any deviations from verbatim reproduction and to accept the transgression of the limits of human memory.

Sublimation therapy: Helping reason get back to a solid footing

ABSTRACTThis article responds to Professor Tumolo’s “A Sublimed Experience of the Rhetoric of Plato’s Republic.” He selects passages from Plato’s Republic in order to illustrate Plato’s explicit use of rhetoric as a subliminal tool for political control. He finds the Myth of Metals establishes through “public memory” a caste system ensuring that only the golden people, the philosophers, will be considered able rulers. They are the only ones able to see the Truth outside the Cave. Philosophy publically opposes rhetoric because it privately manipulates it for its own power. I respond that Tumolo’s conclusions are too broad for the limited passages that he considers, too literal when considering a dramatic and dialogic text like the Republic, and too committed to a preconceived mind-set that Plato (and philosophy) is opposed to rhetoric and wishes to avoid it. Philosophy and rhetoric do basically differ that one needs to reveal itself for examination and the other to conceal for most effective persuasion, but they also need each other. Tumolo finds rhetoric in the Republic; if he can free himself of advisors like Popper, he may also see the philosophical role of rhetoric to find the best opinions for guiding our lives. Amid the free speech in a democracy, philosophy can best flourish.