Personal Discourse Research Articles

Negotiating discourses of special education teacher identity: preservice special education teachers’ identity (re)construction during practicum

ABSTRACT The shortage of special education teachers globally has created the need to understand how this group views itself, especially at the preservice stage. Understanding special education teachers’ identity construction could assist in providing teacher education that attracts and retains more special education teachers. However, little attention has been paid to preservice special education teachers’ (PSETs) identity formation. Utilising Gee’s discursive approach to identity within an interpretive qualitive paradigm, this multiple case study collected rich data via semi-structured individual interviews and weekly reflective writing from 10 PSETs in China over four months of school-based practicum. Analysis of data showed that the participants (re)constructed the Discourse of being special education teachers in and through enacting the four sub-Discourses of advocate, teacher, professional and learner. Drawing on the findings, it is argued that PSETs’ identity (re)construction during practicum involved continuous negotiation between their practicum experiences, their own personal discourses and dominant social discourses about special education teachers. Implications for policy and practice are discussed regarding improving specialist teacher preparation programmes and raising special education teachers’ social status.

RELIGIOUS VOCABULARY OF EVERYDAY LANGUAGE OF THE ORTHODOX BELIEVERS OF UKRAINE

The article attempts to analyze the interaction of the religious language sphere with the Ukrainian language in the context of the religious discourse. Due to the ability of religious discourse to interact with other types of discourse, the speech activity of Orthodox believers is realized within institutional and personal discourses, the latter of which covers the sphere of interpersonal communication in the context of everyday interactions. The objective of the study is to find out the specifics of the functioning of lexical units expressing religious meanings in everyday language of Orthodox believers of Ukraine. The attributive and modus specificity of language of the religious sphere makes it possible to distinguish the language of religion as a representative of the meaning of the existence of religion and the religious language as the embodiment of manifestations of religion in the socio-cultural context. The religious language, which is objectified in the everyday language of Orthodox believers, includes a set of language units and lexical-semantic constructions peculiar to the church-religious sphere. At the same time, the everyday language of believers is characterized by coexistence of lexical units of sacred and national languages, an appeal to the emotional sphere of believers, and the use of verbal and non-verbal means of communication. The everyday language of Orthodox believers includes theological terms, church Slavonicisms, archaisms, historicisms, borrowed words. It also contains the phenomena of polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, antonymy and acts as an additional means of communication in the context of social interactions.

Implications of tragic experiences on symbolic power: The case of displaced persons in Kenya

Displacement of human populations is a common phenomenon from natural and human causes. Conflict and natural disasters such as floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides, out-breaks of diseases are among the regular culprits. Victims of displacement experience dramatic changes in their life situations a common denominator being temporary and at times permanent deprivation of crucial resources for their daily lives. This affects their place in the social hierarchy among members of their host community. The displaced persons in Kenya following the 2007-2008 post-election violence were uprooted from their homes and deprived of their property. They lived in camps and with well-wishers depending on assistance from others. How does this affect their social station in life and how do they manifest? This paper examines the effect of displacement on the perception and treatment of the affected persons by their host communities. The paper utilizes qualitative methods to analyze the discourse of the displaced persons, providing a deeper understanding of their experiences upon displacement. The paper was guided by insights from Critical Discourse Analysis and Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts of capital, symbolic power and symbolic violence the paper. It brings to light the sudden changes in the perceptions and social evaluations of the victims and their response to the undesired changes. The paper comes to the conclusion that the new life status leads to new self-evaluations as well as the evaluations by those around them and the displaced persons lose symbolic capital and symbolic power and come to the receiving end of symbolic violence. In so doing, the paper illuminates the plight of the displaced persons beyond the evident material loses and recommends interventions to address these effects.

Інтерпретація авторського «Я» крізь призму епістолярного дискурсу Ольги Кобилянської

The paper highlights the postulates of personal discourse theories (egotext) designed for the aspectual clarification of Olha Kobylianska’s epistolary discourse originality. The strokes of the writer’s biography are analyzed via the prism of her self-awareness concerning individual preferences, passions, and aspirations, in particular with an indication of the incomplete life potential realization (loneliness is critically evaluated), the presentation of the philosopher’s key worldviews, primarily feminist (gender) beliefs, and the understanding of her own creative potential national-genetic basics. It is demonstrated how O. Kobylianska expresses her views on the environment, religion, mysticism, psychology, and shows her love for learning and mastering Polish and German as foreign languages; her artistic writing in general, the tendency to intuitive prediction reflections, and her interest in music and theater are also discussed in the piece of research. The artist sincerely admits that her emotions are not always controlled during the creative process, as well as in real-life situations. In the writer’s epistolary thesaurus, one can trace the vocabulary and phraseology frequency to indicate certain psychological states and emotions, which proves that in O. Kobylianska’s nature are high sensuality, emotionality, and expressiveness. The artist’s epistolary behavior features (politeness,self-irony, humorous tone, benevolence and emotionality) display her epistolary idiostyle originality, indicating a distinct soul sensitivity. The lexeme soul has a high frequency in the text of the considered letters and presents powerful semantic and pragmatic content. O. Kobylianska’s letters analysis makes it possible to claim that she is a talented writer, an introverted type of thinking individual, a born psychologist, as well as a connoisseur of Ukrainian and other linguistic cultures.

THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE IN THE HERITAGE OF KAZAKH BI-SPEAKERS

The article examines the linguistic worldview of the world in the heritage of Bi-speakers. The peculiarities of how the linguistic picture of the world is manifested through different concepts in the lexical layer are differentiated. The opinions of domestic and foreign researchers about the linguistic picture of the universe of the world are reflected in the Bi-speakers' heritage based on various concepts and includes achievements generated by human intelligence and the inherent qualities of humanity. The specificity of the "picture of the world" in linguistic content is revealed through the use of linguistic and cultural elements in the discourse of speakers who are connected to the "national picture of the world". This study examines the cognitive models of the concepts "life" and "death" in the discourse of the linguistic personality of Bi-speakers are considered, their expression in the conceptual field that reflects the linguistic and cognitive aspects of their personality

Посвящение как способ онтологизации гетерогенности современного англоязычного научного дискурса

The aim of the research is to identify the role of dedications in English scientific prose in ontologizing its heterogeneity. One of the paratext elements of modern scientific publications in English, i.e., dedication, was used as the language material. The scientific novelty of the research is as follows: for the first time, dedication has been investigated as a type of paratext in English-language academic discourse and the dedication examples representing personal discourse and acting as paratext elements in institutional discourse have been selected. The influence of dedication functions and characteristics on the ontologization of academic text heterogeneity has been empirically confirmed; the chosen methodology has been used for the first time to analyze authentic examples, which were not previously described from the perspective of the problem under study. The paper summarizes the key characteristics of scientific discourse that are important for identifying the correlation between the ways of heterogeneity manifestation and the structural element in which it is actualized. The research findings demonstrated the following facts: general classifications of dedications without differentiation by the text type are applicable to dedications of scientific texts, the latter contribute to the ontologization of the heterogeneity of scientific texts. In addition, the heterogeneity of scientific texts was shown to be reflected in the range of types of dedications and the variety of their functions, manifested to varying degrees depending on the type of the text itself, the type of dedication and the author’s intention.

Stanisław Lem’s language thinking in the space of the writer’s aphoristicon

In this research, Stanisław Lem’s aphoristicon analysis was carried out in the view of the multifaceted classification and in the focus of the ego-text theory in particular. It was shown that the writer’s discourse is densely aphoristic: literary statements go beyond (1) the corresponding work, (2) a certain type of personal discourse, taking into account live speech, and acquire the status of aphorism, beginto enter into socio-cultural as well as verbal circulation, of not only Polish but also other linguistic cultures of the world thanks to translations. An attempt was made to characterize the creativity of S. Lem’s language thinking which is manifested in the ability to concentrate and concisely verbalize deep thoughts on a wide range of topics and issues.

Acquisition Specifics of Genre Repertoire of Personal Discourse in 4-6-Year-Old Children with Developmental Language Disorder and Typically Developing Peers

Acquisition Specifics of Genre Repertoire of Personal Discourse in 4-6-Year-Old Children with Developmental Language Disorder and Typically Developing Peers

Особенности синтаксиса немецких фронтовых (архивных) документов

The aim of the study is to identify the syntactic characteristics of the structure of German frontline texts as a separate kind of military discourse with its specificity of expression of logical categories associated with them. The paper examines military frontline texts from the perspective of their functional purpose (orders, reports, summary messages, etc.) and also identifies and describes the syntactic means that form the structure of discourse types of speech, i.e., narration, description, reasoning. Frontline texts make up a significant part of the materials in numerous archives and museums in Germany and Russia, but their role and status in military discourse remain open. The study is novel in that it substantiates the identification of a special type functioning on the basis of written communication during hostilities within the framework of military discourse, as opposed to the status discourse form (orders, formal regulations, codes, etc.) and the personal discourse form (communication through field mail) by conducting a comprehensive analysis of the syntactic structure of frontline texts. As a result of the study, it has been found that the texts of frontline discourse are characterized by the following logical links: attribution, conjunction, implication, which possess the appropriate syntactic means of expression. The analysis of the functional and semantic organization of German military frontline documents has shown that syntax can be considered as the basis of the structural organization of both military discourse as a whole and its varieties in the form of frontline texts.

Особенности речи и устного дискурса при детском аутизме: описание случая спонтанного билингвизма. Часть II: психолингвистическое исследование

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objectives. </strong>Pronounced disharmony in verbal communication development is considered a typical developmen­tal feature in infantile autism, however, its manifestations and mechanisms have not yet been studied enough; extremely little is known about the qualitative features of speech development and the psycholinguistic char­acteristics of the language abilities of such children. A dissociation between the semantic-pragmatic and struc­tural-functional components of language development has been reported; however, this feature has significant individual variability in different forms of autism. The aim of the current paper is to introduce a longitudinal study of the speech development in a child with autism accompanied by the phenomenon of spontaneous bilin­gualism in a monolingual family.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Methods. </strong>A case of a Lithuanian monolingual boy with early childhood autism is presented, who at the age of 4 years independently began to learn English, which resulted by the end of preschool age in the unbalanced bilingualism with a preference for L2. Longitudinal follow-up included 3 complex clinical examinations of the intellectual and language abilities (at 4, 6 and 8 years) and a psycholinguistic study of language skills in Lithuanian and English at the age of 7years. A battery of tests for assessing grammar, impressive and expres­sive vocabulary, and skills of personal discourse (story-telling and participating in dialogue-reasoning) was employed.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Results. </strong>In both languages, a deficiency in the pragmatic competence of story-telling and participating in dialogue-reasoning was revealed; however, lexical and grammatical errors occurred mainly in the native (Lithuanian) language. The study evidenced a deficit of verb expressive vocabulary, especially in Lithuanian language. Comprehension of complex grammatical constructions was impaired in the Lithuanian language to a greater extent than in English. To sum up, the results evidenced a partial compensation for the structural and functional impairment, but the persistence of a deficit in the pragmatics of speech.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Conclusions. </strong>The case study illustrates the special nature of speech development in a child with autism and a unique phenomenon of spontaneous bilingualism in a monolingual family.</p>

Main Concepts in the Spoken Discourse of Persons with Aphasia: Analysis on a Propositional and Linguistic Level

Individuals produce discourse for various purposes as part of their daily functioning. Therefore, the ability to form a discourse should be one of the main goals of functional speech-language therapy for persons with aphasia (PwA). In addition to assessing the language skills required to form a discourse, it is important to analyse how PwA form general ideas that need to be narrated. This study had two specific aims: (1) to investigate the ability of PwA, with special consideration to the stage of their recovery—the acute and the chronic phase—to form main concepts in a discourse, and (2) to examine the relationship between the number of main concepts and different types of language measures related to productivity, informativeness, and grammaticality in all tested groups. Participants included a total of 38 persons with mild and moderate aphasia (19 in the acute and 19 in the chronic phase of recovery) and 38 healthy speakers (HS) who were matched in age, gender, and level of education. In order to effectively compare the discourse produced by the groups, a single structured stimulus was used, whereby all participants were asked to orally describe a picture from the Croatian version of the Comprehensive Aphasia Test. Compared to the HS, the main concepts produced by PwA were different in number, as well as in terms of their accuracy and completeness. However, when analysing the success in the production of the main concepts with regard to the time post-stroke—acute and chronic—the difference was not confirmed, indicating great individual differences between PwA that undermine the differences on a group level. Linguistic measures of informativeness (CIUs and CIU/words) and only one measure of grammaticality (number of clauses) showed a significant correlation with the number of main concepts in PwA. When analysing correlations for PwA in the acute and chronic phases, only CIU showed a significant association with MC, confirming it as a robust measure of discourse production in PwA. PwA did not produce long and complex sentences, and they showed difficulties in the use of verbs and the marking of argument structures.

From Reluctance to Acceptation: Participation of Poor-People in Policy Implementation Using Discursive Institutionalism

The poor-people reluctance in participation in government’s policy implementation was caused by by the distance of government policy discourse and poor-people discourse. This article investigates policy implementation of sanitation program in Probolinggo City, East Java using Discursive Institutionalism perspective and Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis method to discover hidden meanings of the multi-actor’s discourse. The research found, first, the reluctance of poor-people participation in policy implementation was caused by negative discourse on sanitation interpellated the poor-people. Second, acceptation for the program implemented was achieved by narrowing the gap of discourse through penetration of alternative discourse constructed under policy design. Third, policy implementor’s discourse was exercised by breaking personal discourse of the people. Forth, discursive strategy changed personal discourse of society which then shifts reluctance to acceptance for government programs. Fifth, policy design for activating urban poor-people’s participation as social engineering based on discourse and discursive strategy.

Vague retellings of personal narratives in temporal lobe epilepsy

PurposeAside from deficits identified in single-word level retrieval, individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) exhibit clinical oddities, such as circumstantiality in their language production. Circumstantiality refers to the use of language which is pedantic, repetitive, and overly detailed. This becomes particularly evident when elicitation tasks impose minimal structure, or when impersonal narratives are retold over consecutive occasions. Personal reminiscence is highly specific and localised in time, placing unique demands on cognitive-linguistic systems. It is hypothesised that the nature of this elicitation paradigm will produce a unique psycholinguistic phenotype in those with TLE. Among controls there is a compression of output for impersonal narratives, meaning that they use fewer words over less time and are more fluent. The opposite effect is observed when personal narratives are retold. MethodsTo investigate the micro- and macrolinguistic processes underpinning personal discourse production in TLE, we examined the elicited language output of 15 surgically naïve individuals with TLE and 14 healthy controls. Participants were asked to recall and re-tell an autobiographical memory on four immediately consecutive occasions, representing an alternative unstructured elicitation. Following transcription and coding of output, a detailed multi-level discourse analysis of output volume, fluency, cohesion, and coherence was conducted. ResultsAs anticipated, a distinctly different pattern emerged in TLE when compared with controls who did not compress their output volume across repetitions but instead produced greater novelty, and a more coherent and refined account over time. Individuals with TLE consistently told a less distinct story across repetitions, with disturbances in fluency, cohesion, and coherence. ConclusionThis reflects a reduced capacity to produce a coherent mental representation, in all likelihood related to the neurolinguistic demands of recalling and retelling specific personal events.

“Everyone has it, everyone uses it”: The emergence of “publicness” through multiplication in dialogical networks

This paper explores news production as “participatory journalism” in which ordinary people directly participate via the Internet. While participatory journalism idealises citizens' and journalists’ co-creation, there are said to be limitations such as loss of quality, which results from the insularism of participants. In this paper, we consider the example of a Japanese TV news programme as participatory journalism. The programme reports on the problem of “isolation in connection” — youth’s persistent sense of loneliness despite keeping in touch with many people via online connections. However, the concept of “isolation in connection” presents different versions of the problem such as public projections of personal angst. Therefore, we adopted a combined methodological perspective, including membership categorisation analysis (MCA) and dialogical networks (DNs). Subsequently, we investigated how the programme participants made the problem accountable through categorical descriptions and discursive organisation of interactions among relevant actors in the course of programme sequences. Through this investigation, we elucidate how publicness emerges through the multiplication of personal discourse in the DNs and we consider how news production works through discursive practices in the Japanese milieu.

Pedagogical discourse of a bilingual - future teacher of the Russian language

Learning of the Russian pedagogical discourse of a bilingual person plays a great role in science, because this discourse is based on ethno-cultural/bilingual consciousness, cognitive processes, speech activity and communicative behavior peculiarities. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to analyze pedagogical discourse of a bilingual Komi-Permyak bachelor in the process of training for the profession of a Russian language teacher. The aim of the research is to build a model of communicative-verbal act of a bilingual in different educational environments: monolingual (Russian-speaking), bilingual (Komi-Permyak-Russian), multilingual in multi-ethnic classes. Research materials include scientific sources on cognitive science, psycholinguistics, discourse studies, bilingualism; textbooks and manuals on teaching Russian as a native/non-native tongue/foreign language; scientific works on comparison of Komi-Permyak and Russian languages. The research methods are the following: involved observation of the process of educational communication, analysis of the Russian-language pedagogical discourse of a Komi-Permyak bachelor bilingual personality, communicative speech acts modeling. The study proved that the pedagogical discourse of a bilingual teacher of the Russian language specifically reflects the processes of ethno-linguistic consciousness, manifested in cognitive, speech, linguistic and methodological activity, and communicative behavior. Communicative acts are not perfect and should be controlled by the bilingual consciousness of the teacher and vary depending on the certain audience. Pedagogical discourse research both from the side of the teacher bilingual personality and of students provides grounds for effective training of a future teacher at the university. The results of discursive analysis are presented by models of communicative speech acts based on different learning environments and addressees, that allow to create linguistic and methodological base for a future bilingual teacher of the Russian language, who will be ready to teach Russian-speaking monolinguals, bilingual Komi-Permyaks, students with different native languages.

E-sports discursive space: theoretical aspects of analysis

The article is devoted to the notion of discourse and discursive space and revealing the specifics of e-sports discursive space. The article touches upon some problems of research of the discourse and discursive space in Anglo-American, French, German and Russian linguistic conceptions. The notion of e-sports discursive space is introduced for the first time in the linguistic analysis and is characterized as a hybrid dimension incorporating interplay e-sport discourse, mass media discourse, sport medical discourse and internet-discourse. E-sports discursive space may be exposed as a field structure the kernel link of which appears e-sports interplay discourse, uniting game patches and some commands and orders uttered by the cyber-sportsman in the process of the game. It is compressed, well-packed by terminological nominations and directive speech acts, comprising instructions and recommendations on using the avatars. It nominates the user name as an avatar, its game characteristics (forces, power, dexterity etc) and innovations in the system of a game. The other mentioned types of discourses lay on a periphery of the discursive field. Mass-media discourse advances the e-sports discursive space in the field of media translation giving it liveliness, fancy, imagination, expressiveness and evaluative characteristics opposite to some dryness and laconism of interplay e-sports discourse. Sport-medical discourse concerns and discusses physical, psychological and emotional states of e-sportsmen. Internet discourse is realized in the form of chats, blogs an vlogs of e-sportsmen arguing about qualities of sportsmen, advantages and disadvantages of avatars ans strategies of the game. The uniting link of all the discourses included into the single whole e-sports discursive space proves to be the criterion of integrity that is expressed through the unity of the topic, semantics, structure, time and space and event and situation continuum. A special place and significance in the e-sports discursive space is taken by a discursive personality. E-sports discursive personality is realized in e-sports discursive space heterogeneously: on the first level - as a text personality of the avatar and on the second level - as a language personality of the real e-sportsman avatar carrier. The values underlying the e-sports discursive space correspond to sport discourse values getting a victory and with personal discourse orientation getting maximum success in self-development in the field of physical and mental health, psychological robustness, reaction speed, logical strategies etc. E-sport discursive space may be represented as also a cognitive one where an important place is taken by e-sport terminology.

<쇼미더머니>를 통해 본 한국힙합의 계승과 변화

The purpose of this paper is to examine the aspects of desire and resistance inherent in Korean hip-hop. And to understand the current socio-cultural function and position of Korean hip-hop. For this purpose, <Show Me the Money> was selected as a sample of Korean hip-hop. And all the songs released from season 3 to season 10 were analyzed.
 Through this, I tried to understand the desire and resistance inherent in today's Korean hip-hop. And compared with the past from the point of view of 'inheritance and change', and examined what it means.
 As a result, today's Korean hip-hop has the following socio-cultural meaning. First, underground hip-hop in Korea has been handed down as an ‘attitude’, claiming an independent identity and pursuing self-realization. Second, Korean hip-hop has changed from a means for public discourse to a means for personal discourse. Third, capitalism and materialism have shifted from the object of resistance to the object of pursuit. I hope that this thesis can contribute to the formation of a progressive discourse related to Korean hip-hop.

Категориальная реализация концептуально значимого смысла в дискурсе И.А. Ильина

The paper discusses the specifics of the synthetic discourse of works by I.A. Ilyin, which connects the features of philosophical, religious and aesthetic discourses. The method of linguity literal interpretation, aimed at justifying the characteristics of the functioning of language units in the discourse of the individual, is established by the originality of the interaction of philosophical, religious, political and aesthetic plans of the content in the word and text. Three options for the interaction of discourses are described: philosophical plus political, plus religious, plus aesthetic; philosophical plus religious, plus aesthetic, philosophical plus aesthetic. It is determined that in the discourse of I.A. Ilyin structural and semantic synthesis of word and text conditions implemented by the categories of personality, events, temporality, space and evaluation, asked by the philosophical mental vector, due to the interaction on the field of discourse of philosophical and religious, philosophical and aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of content. Conceptually significant meaning is decoded by establishing the explicit and implicit methods of representation of the semantics of the word, micro and macrocontext, deterministic cohesion of the personal discourse. The proposed interpretation of the synthetic type discourse determines the discourse of the works of I.A. Ilyin as a specific communicative space, outlined by the following coordinate system: Actually thinking (philosophy), an active public position (polytick), the purpose of “seeing in the whole of God” (religion), “Justice in the subject / subject” (aesthetics).

Online movie review as a person-oriented type of discourse

The article examines the features of the presence of a person-oriented type of discourse in the online movie review written in English. Personal discourse in itself covers almost all text types generated by the Internet due to the presence of various verbal and non-verbal means of converging the addressee of the communicative message. The variety of linguistic characteristics of disclosing the inner world of a person, verbal means of expressing interpersonal relations, lexical means of explicating the category of a person and other way of linguistic representation of the author's self determine the consideration of online movie reviews as a person-oriented type of discourse. The aim of this article is to analyze the linguistic means of manifestation the personal discourse in the English-language amateur movie review. The empirical material collected for description, classification and analysis in this paper is based upon a corpus of movie reviews taken from the American review-aggregation website for film and television Rotten Tomatoes. The person-oriented type of discourse is intrinsically inherent in the online movie review due to its fundamentally dialogic nature and the low level of formalization of the communicative message. The analysis of the online movie reviews has revealed that the attributive feature of the deployment of personal discourse in the online movie review is a statement that carries subjective modality. Personal and demonstrative pronouns in conjunction with modal words, verbs and particles are those lexical means which express a subjective attitude towards the film. The explicators of the modal-evaluative meanings in the online movie review are parenthesis and inversion. In addition to emotional and expressive vocabulary, the personal discourse of online movie reviews manifests itself in the widespread use of colloquial vocabulary.

Diasporic Archives and Hauntological Accretions

Centering on two recent participatory archive projects, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn’s The Making of An Archive (2014-present), and Regent Park Film Festival’s Home Made Visible (2017-2019), this essay examines how diasporic archives “densify” authoritative records, and allow us to think generatively about archival movements and accretions. Both projects gathered and digitised archives from members of diasporic and racialised communities. Through public calls and workshops soliciting amateur archivists’ personal and familial still and moving image troves, these projects prioritised excavating and inscribing quotidian and ephemeral records as a response to Canadian multiculturalism’s imposed silences. The essay approaches diaspora – and diasporic archives – not (just) through rubrics of loss and obsolescence, but through the concept of hauntological thickening, arguing that these two projects intervene on authoritative and singular archival narratives by densifying the latter with occluded histories, affects, and textural traces of transfer. It also examines how quotidian visual records offer hauntological refractions of official narratives, and become vehicles for imbrications of personal, familial, and national histories and discourses. Finally, the essay concludes with an exploration of how the archives engage audiences through affective and sensorial registers.