The adjective ‘global’ has become a buzzword in recent years, not least in academia. Within the area of English Language Teaching (ELT) in particular, ‘global coursebooks’ have aroused a great deal of interest, but also much suspicion, as their content turns out not to be as universal as the adjective ‘global’ might literally mean. In this paper, I investigate the 2014 New Headway Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book and bring to light some of the ideological constructions underpinning this supposedly global course material. As a result of this analysis, I provide an expanded characterisation of the ELT global textbook, regarding it as a course built upon standard language ideologies rather than, as suggested by previous studies, as an artefact shaped by a predominantly neoliberal agenda.
{"title":"What is ‘global’ in an ELT global coursebook?","authors":"Laura Gerday","doi":"10.1075/ETC.00018.GER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.00018.GER","url":null,"abstract":"The adjective ‘global’ has become a buzzword in recent years, not least in academia. Within the area of English Language Teaching (ELT) in particular, ‘global coursebooks’ have aroused a great deal of interest, but also much suspicion, as their content turns out not to be as universal as the adjective ‘global’ might literally mean. In this paper, I investigate the 2014 New Headway Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book and bring to light some of the ideological constructions underpinning this supposedly global course material. As a result of this analysis, I provide an expanded characterisation of the ELT global textbook, regarding it as a course built upon standard language ideologies rather than, as suggested by previous studies, as an artefact shaped by a predominantly neoliberal agenda.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43161526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study approaches experimental literary texts from a cognitive perspective. It investigates if a constructivist modeling of cognition can be applied to such texts, and contends that there is a two-way relation between memory and literary experimentations. It suggests a fresh look at literary experimentalism – from the perspective of the cognitive processes involved in challenging (text, language, and world) schemata to varying degrees. There exists a vast body of knowledge on experimental texts, but the study of cognitive processing of such texts has until now been a less studied area of cognitive research. This study defines two main types of experimental texts based on their closeness to or divergence from the schematic parameters of world, text, and language: proximal and distal. The study shows how distal experimentations are conventionalized over the course of time and call for re-innovation.
{"title":"Experimentalism and cognition","authors":"Roghayeh Farsi","doi":"10.1075/ETC.00017.FAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.00017.FAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study approaches experimental literary texts from a cognitive perspective. It investigates if a\u0000 constructivist modeling of cognition can be applied to such texts, and contends that there is a two-way relation between memory\u0000 and literary experimentations. It suggests a fresh look at literary experimentalism – from the perspective of the cognitive\u0000 processes involved in challenging (text, language, and world) schemata to varying degrees. There exists a vast body of knowledge\u0000 on experimental texts, but the study of cognitive processing of such texts has until now been a less studied area of cognitive\u0000 research.\u0000 This study defines two main types of experimental texts based on their closeness to or divergence from the\u0000 schematic parameters of world, text, and language: proximal and distal. The study shows how distal experimentations are conventionalized over the course of time and call for re-innovation.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45047436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article reviews The Language of Brexit: How Britain Talked Its Way Out of the European Union 978-1-3500-4796-9
这篇文章回顾了英国脱欧的语言：英国如何走出欧盟978-1-3500-4796-9
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Bernard De Clerck, S. Decock, J. Vandenberghe, Mathias Seghers
In this paper, we investigate the attention given to and the impact of interpersonal, people-oriented and transactional, problem-oriented stance in English complaint refusals in business correspondence. The analysis is based on a sample analysis of English e-mail sequences from a Belgian multinational as well as experimental research that probes into the effect of interpersonal strategies on customer outcomes. The sample analysis shows a sharp contrast between theory and practice: while the need for supportive language and interpersonal attention are standard items in textbook instructions, the data show little alignment with the customer through expressions of regret, gratitude, or empathy. The experiment, in its turn, shows a positive impact of interactional stance on interactional justice but little to no impact on satisfaction, perceived professionalism, and loyalty. This raises a number of questions regarding best practice and best practice models.
{"title":"Theory versus practice","authors":"Bernard De Clerck, S. Decock, J. Vandenberghe, Mathias Seghers","doi":"10.1075/ETC.00020.CLE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.00020.CLE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In this paper, we investigate the attention given to and the impact of interpersonal, people-oriented and transactional, problem-oriented stance in English complaint refusals in business correspondence. The analysis is based on a sample analysis of English e-mail sequences from a Belgian multinational as well as experimental research that probes into the effect of interpersonal strategies on customer outcomes. The sample analysis shows a sharp contrast between theory and practice: while the need for supportive language and interpersonal attention are standard items in textbook instructions, the data show little alignment with the customer through expressions of regret, gratitude, or empathy. The experiment, in its turn, shows a positive impact of interactional stance on interactional justice but little to no impact on satisfaction, perceived professionalism, and loyalty. This raises a number of questions regarding best practice and best practice models.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42500804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin (eds), The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns","authors":"B. Kluge","doi":"10.1075/ETC.00023.KLU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.00023.KLU","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42856254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Many studies have investigated the correlations between linguistic features and human judgements of writing quality. These studies usually investigate either proficient student writing or exceptional literary writing. The current study attempts to bridge these two perspectives by comparing proficient writing to award-winning exceptional writing using movie reviews written by bloggers and Pulitzer Prize winners. A range of linguistic features representing syntactic complexity, lexical complexity, and lexical cohesion were analyzed using both automated and interpretive methods. It is found that some, but not all, of the trends seen in writing development studies continue on to exceptional writing, with lexical sophistication and lexical cohesion through conceptual associations making the largest contributions to the differences between proficient and exceptional writers.
{"title":"Beyond proficiency","authors":"Stuart G. Towns, R. Todd","doi":"10.1787/0b1414ed-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1787/0b1414ed-en","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Many studies have investigated the correlations between linguistic features and human judgements of writing\u0000 quality. These studies usually investigate either proficient student writing or exceptional literary writing. The current study\u0000 attempts to bridge these two perspectives by comparing proficient writing to award-winning exceptional writing using movie reviews\u0000 written by bloggers and Pulitzer Prize winners. A range of linguistic features representing syntactic complexity, lexical\u0000 complexity, and lexical cohesion were analyzed using both automated and interpretive methods. It is found that some, but not all,\u0000 of the trends seen in writing development studies continue on to exceptional writing, with lexical sophistication and lexical\u0000 cohesion through conceptual associations making the largest contributions to the differences between proficient and exceptional\u0000 writers.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"108 s1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41259873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Saei Dibavar, Pyeaam Abbasi, Hossein Pirnajmuddin
This article explores the politics of J. M. Coetzee’s writing style in Disgrace. Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s theory of textual universe and Barbara Dancygier’s narrative space construction strategies, we argue that Coetzee’s narrative is set up to expose David Lurie’s deliberately distorted self-representation. Indeed, the conflict between the protagonist’s private worlds and the textual actual world (TAW) results from the protagonist’s distorting of the TAW by his deliberately distorted self-representation clouding his judgment and, accordingly, his so-called knowledge worlds (K-worlds). Also discussed is the process through which the protagonist is brought to a reckoning – not grace – through ontological re-orientation by undergoing a three-step process of social stigmatization, recognizing his vulnerability and situatedness, and coming to terms with his actual environment (TAW).
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Critics reading narratives as progressions, that’s to say, from beginning to end, prefer to see meaning emerge as a result of the interaction between different elements in the narrative, rather than of the imposition of a priori cultural schemata. This article, however, argues for the possibility of using a priori cultural schemata, as long as these pass through the filters established by theories of narrative progression. To show how this is done, I will interpret Frank Miller’s comic 300 by letting a tool of cultural-semantic analysis interact with narrative tension in the form of suspense, curiosity, and surprise. I argue that the back and forth between narrative tension and the tool accounts not only for the content of the comic but also for its basic narrative rhythm.
{"title":"The rhythms of narrative tension and its cultural satisfaction","authors":"D. Candel","doi":"10.1075/ETC.00008.CAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.00008.CAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Critics reading narratives as progressions, that’s to say, from beginning to end, prefer to see meaning emerge as a result of the\u0000 interaction between different elements in the narrative, rather than of the imposition of a priori cultural schemata. This\u0000 article, however, argues for the possibility of using a priori cultural schemata, as long as these pass through the filters\u0000 established by theories of narrative progression. To show how this is done, I will interpret Frank Miller’s comic\u0000 300 by letting a tool of cultural-semantic analysis interact with narrative tension in the form of suspense,\u0000 curiosity, and surprise. I argue that the back and forth between narrative tension and the tool accounts not only for the content\u0000 of the comic but also for its basic narrative rhythm.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41811287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of the study is to explore online conference announcements as sites for disciplinary communication and the way they are realized linguistically. A corpus of 50 conference announcements included in a major listserv in the field of linguistics is analysed, focusing on rhetorical structure and major interpersonal features, namely self mentions, engagement markers, modal verbs and the use of passive voice. Results show that linguistic interpersonal markers are deployed in the text according to the various communicative functions the text has and also the role played by the writer at each stage and, subsequently, the roles ascribed to readers. Moreover, it is claimed that the wide distribution of conference announcements ensured through electronic platforms reinforces the strategic role of these texts as vehicles of communication and interaction among disciplinary members.
{"title":"Online conference announcements as spaces for disciplinary communication","authors":"Rosa Lorés Sanz","doi":"10.1075/etc.00011.lor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00011.lor","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of the study is to explore online conference announcements as sites for disciplinary communication and the way they are\u0000 realized linguistically. A corpus of 50 conference announcements included in a major listserv in the field of linguistics is\u0000 analysed, focusing on rhetorical structure and major interpersonal features, namely self mentions, engagement markers, modal verbs\u0000 and the use of passive voice. Results show that linguistic interpersonal markers are deployed in the text according to the various\u0000 communicative functions the text has and also the role played by the writer at each stage and, subsequently, the roles ascribed to\u0000 readers. Moreover, it is claimed that the wide distribution of conference announcements ensured through electronic platforms\u0000 reinforces the strategic role of these texts as vehicles of communication and interaction among disciplinary members.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49405090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgements","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/etc.00015.ack","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00015.ack","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41431944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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