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Talking about “Iconic Books” in the Terminology of Book History
Authors: Stam Deirdre C.
Published: March 2015

“The book” in its many guises today provides fertile ground for the study of the many disciplines and professions in which it has played a central part. Long recognized as significant as a carrier of text, the book has lately been seen also as an example of material culture. A consideration of the book’s physical properties and uses can provide new insights into the practices and unarticulated beliefs of a cultural community. Here we consider the potential of “the book” for insights into the study of religion. The focus is on “iconic” books, a subset of books that seems intuitively recognizable as a genre, but is variously understood by the writers of the essays in this collection. It is not only the nature of iconicity that begs for definition here, but also, more specifically, the specific aspects of “the book” that cause it to be recognized as iconic. Does its iconicity spring, for example, from the beauty of the copy? The primacy of the edition and printing? The provenance of the object? As “the book” gains attention, the subject cries out for specific, stable, shared terminology to allow meaningful discussion of its elements across disciplines and fields. Such terminology can be found in the field of Book History, a discipline that has its roots in the world of Gutenberg and continues to flourish in the internet age. This paper discusses terminology. It explores various approaches to defining “iconic,” it traces the evolution of the terminology of book history, and it presents a sample of particularly pertinent terms from that discipline to clarify future discussions of aspects of an “iconic book.”
Indigenous “Texts” of Inhabiting the Land
Authors: Arnold Philip P.
Published: March 2015

Wampum is symbolic, or iconic, of a long and enduring lineage of immigrant and indigenous relationships in North America throughout the colonial and into the American period. Wampum almost always represented co-habitation agreements for how diametrically different human communities—colonial and indigenous peoples—could live together on the same lands. A vivid example is the George Washington Wampum Belt created by the U.S. government to commemorate the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794. Vitally important for understanding this agreement is that wampum is a sacred and ceremonial material that has been utilized by the Haudenosaunee since time immemorial until the present day.
Looking at Words
Authors: Plate S. Brent
Published: March 2015

Regardless of their semantic meaning, words exist in and through their material, mediated forms. By extension, sacred texts themselves are material forms and engaged in two primary ways: through the ears and eyes. This article focuses on the visible forms of words that can stir emotional and even sacred responses in the eyes of their beholders. Thus words can be said to function iconically, affecting a mutually engaging form of "religious seeing." The way words appear to their readers will change the reader's interaction, devotion, and interpretation. Examples range from modern popular typography to European Christian print culture to Islamic calligraphy. Weaving through the argument are two key dialectics: the relation of words and images, and the relation of the seen and the unseen.
Imagining Mary Magdalene
Authors: Eichler-Levine Jodie
Published: March 2015

In this article I analyze how Americans draw upon the authority of both ancient, so-called “hidden” texts and the authority of scholarly discourse, even overtly fictional scholarly discourse, in their imaginings of the “re-discovered” figure of Mary Magdalene. Reading recent treatments of Mary Magdalene provides me with an entrance onto three topics: how Americans see and use the past, how Americans understand knowledge itself, and how Americans construct “religion” and “spirituality.” I do so through close studies of contemporary websites of communities that focus on Mary Magdalene, as well as examinations of relevant books, historical novels, reader reviews, and comic books. Focusing on Mary Magdalene alongside tropes of wisdom also uncovers the gendered dynamics at play in constructions of antiquity, knowledge, and religious accessibility.
Constructing A Protestant Nation
Authors: Ellis Justine Esta
Published: March 2015

This article examines the recent controversy surrounding the Texas public school social studies curriculum revision process. The focus of this project is the text of the revised statewide curriculum, which offers a means of investigating the ways in which the conservative Christian authors of the new guidelines employ language to disseminate their particular worldview and propose a direction for the nation’s future. Through an analysis of the primary text, coupled with a discussion of scholarly sources, this article argues that the authors of the revised curriculum standards define American national identity as originating in Protestant Christianity, and construct a biblically-based narrative of United States history that challenges the notion of separation between church and state. The article also considers the concepts of the Judeo-Christian tradition, literalism, and American exceptionalism within the context of the curriculum guideline changes, and concludes with a discussion of Christian nationalism and fundamentalism.
Teaching the Bible as Philosophy
Authors: Davies Philip
Published: March 2015

Two models for the teaching of the Bible in the school system are well-known and often used: as part of a religious education or religious studies syllabus, or as literature (e.g. in the form of “Bible stories”). I propose a method that takes seriously some of the ideas of the Bible, without teaching them as religious doctrines: to analyse and discuss how the Bible deals with philosophical questions of metaphysics and ethics, such as the ideal human society, the nature of justice and evil, and the meaning of history. The Bible offers no single view on these matters, and hence can be used undogmatically as a basis for discussion, along with other sources. Since its “philosophy” is often expressed in the form of narrative, such a method of teaching the Bible will incorporate both its literary and theological dimensions.
Indigenizing a ‘canon’
Authors: Rickwood Julie
Published: March 2015

The closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney opened with a performance by Christine Anu of ‘My Island Home’, bringing the song to a global stage. Anu also popularized two songs from the Torres Strait Islands, ‘Baba Waiar’ and ‘Kulba Yaday’. Like ‘My Island Home’, both songs are performed frequently by community choirs. The article examines the shifting contexts of ‘My Island Home’, ‘Baba Waiar’ and ‘Kulba Yaday’ from their origins through popular song and into community choirs. That each song was made popular by Anu is both illustrative of and unique in the contemporary indigenizing of the canon as a whole. It is argued that the flow of the songs is connected to the desire for community choirs to express and perform the evolving and converging processes of reconciliation and national identity.
Absence and Presence
Authors: Barlow Brian C
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Picture not Worth a Thousand Words
Authors: Ziolkowski Eric J
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Mysticism Embodied Differently
Authors: Kaminski Phyllis H
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Priest, the Shaman and 'Grandfather Judas'
Authors: MacKenzie C James
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Spiritual Warfare and Territorial Spirits
Authors: DeBernardi Jean
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Creation of 'Religious' Scientology
Authors: Kent Stephen
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'Islamic Science'
Authors: Yousif Ahmad F
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One Hundred Days in Edmonton
Authors: MacLaren I S
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George Grant
Authors: Steel Sean
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Politics and Anthropology of Douglas John Hall
Authors: Andersen Carlton S
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Hybrid Constructions
Authors: Koppedrayer Kay
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Polish Church and John Paul II’s Evangelization Mission in Slavic Countries
Authors: Stachowski Zbigniew
Published: March 2015

Pope John Paul not only used his roots in Slavic culture for the political development of the Church, but gave a theological justification for the role he carved out for Poland. He saw Poland as “the chosen nation” for direct Church mission. In this article, I examine both Wojtyla’s theology of the Slavic “nations” and the specific role of the Polish people in his theory. I will survey the so-called “outstanding historic mission” of the Polish church in the re-Christianizing of Central and Eastern Europe…history for him was read in the light of the Gospel, which he believed provided a “hermeneutic key” to both world and human history. I argue that the Pope wished to extend this vision to all Slavic nations as a way of encouraging a Christian destiny “from the Atlantic to the Urals.” In my final assessment I note that this missionary vision of Pope John Paul II proved to be unsuccessful.
Polish Religiousness
Authors: Kaczmarek Kamil
Published: March 2015

Polish religiousness is a phenomenon composed of many both antagonistic and interdependent (even symbiotic) constituents. Different mental strata, political wings, degrees of engagement and social entities should be presented here to show the complexity of the phenomenon in question. I shall raise only a few of the most important problems. In order to do so, it is useful to draw four main lines of division.
Societal Activity of the Polish Parish—Continuity and Change
Authors: Firlit Elżbieta
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A Critical Assessment: On the Imperial Cult in Religions of Rome
Authors: Fishwick Duncan
Published: March 2015

In their 1998 publication of Religions of Rome, M. Beard, J. North and S. Price propound the view that the term “imperial cult” should be expanded to include a wide range of cultic activity related to the emperor, whether directly carried out in temples and other institutions of the Roman imperium or not. In particular, various forms of homage are to be included.

This critical assessment weighs their contention and finds it wanting in several key areas, notably what the best sources themselves have to say on the topic. The conclusion is that there is much to gain by retaining the original meaning assigned to this phrase.
Beyond Anthropocentrism in Barth’s Doctrine of Creation: Searching for a Theology of Nature
Authors: Gabriel Andrew K.
Published: March 2015

The critique raised most often regarding Karl Barth’s doctrine of creation concerns its anthropocentric nature. However, Barth himself moves beyond the anthropocentrism for which he is accused. Barth is indeed anthropocentric

in that his creation/covenant thesis tends to present non-human creation as a means to an end, in his exposition of the Genesis creation narratives, in his christological focus, in his understanding of the covenant, and in his anthropocentric doctrine of election, which is foundational to his understanding of the covenant. Nevertheless, Barth does not completely neglect nature. There are insights within his doctrine of creation that might be incorporated into a theology of nature, particularly that all of creation participates in the covenant.
‘Yogini’ in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches, edited by István Keul
Authors: Dalal Neil
Published: March 2015

‘Yogini’ in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches, edited by István Keul. Routledge, 2012. 340pp., $127.70 ISBN–13: 9780415625227.
Element of a Good Marriage
Authors: Ford Jessica
Published: March 2015

This article discusses the marital relationship of Draupadi, the heroine of the Mahabharata, and her five husbands, the Pandava brothers, with a focus on Draupadi’s connection to fire. Using textual analysis, the article examines the epic’s portrayal of interactions between Draupadi and her husbands to demonstrate how the epic explores Draupadi’s link to fire. Beginning with her birth from a sacrificial fire altar, Draupadi’s association with fire colors her behavior throughout the epic, including her relationships with her husbands. Her fiery personality can be seen as she incites her husbands out of passivity and into action, often on her own behalf. She ignites within them the spark that often leads to the main actions of the epic’s plot.
What The Sister Knew
Authors: Beck Brenda E F
Published: March 2015

This essay looks beneath the surface of the “Annanmar Katai,” a major folk epic from Tamilnadu, to discover how the lone female in a set of three siblings leads a life very different from that of her two elder brothers. In the absence of their parents, these men enjoy their life as twin rulers of a small kingdom. Meanwhile their sister sits alone on her swing inside the family palace. Her brothers undertake many wondrous adventures while she slowly develops her own ability to see into the future through dreams. Gradually, however, this unmarried girl discovers that her brothers are not keeping their side of the traditional sibling contract. Brothers should listen to and protect their female siblings. Their sisters (especially virgin ones) will then reciprocate by magically transferring their stored-up powers to their brothers’ swords. When, in this folk legend, two powerful brothers withhold information, their sister starts to keep her insights secret too. The family kingdom now starts to fall apart as this key understanding between a sister and her brothers grows frayed. In sum, the essay reveals the major importance given to the maintenance of a positive, life-long brother-sister bond of reciprocity in traditional Tamil culture.
Kumani Christians Contesting Masculinity and Belief in Modern Mission
Authors: Semple Rhonda A
Published: March 2015

The work and impact of modern Western missions was as much shaped by secular cultural constructs as it was by the formal goal that missions impart faith and create converts in a transcultural setting. This article extends the gender analysis of mission work and community identity to the male mission adherent in the Kumaon Protestant Christian community in north India. The evidence examined is mission-generated letters, reports and published articles, and particular attention is paid to photographic images of mission workers. Men were additionally shaped by their place in a martial British system that sought both reliable recruits and settled communities, with the result that many men fought and lived outside their communities. The findings suggest that in order to examine the negotiation of an acceptably gendered Kumani-Christian identity it is necessary to look beyond mission sources to understand ways in which that confessional identity was at times supported by and challenged by worldly pressures of what constituted manliness.
The dictée in multilingual contexts
Authors: Beer Ann , Maguire Mary H , Yoshida Reiko , Attarian Hourig , Baygin Diane , Curdt-Christiansen Xiao Lan , Lee Heekyeong , Yaghejian Arminée
Published: March 2015

We examine a familiar classroom task: the dictation exercise or dictée. This apparently simple pedagogical practice occurs in a variety of language learning settings internationally. Using extracts from our multilingual research group members’ narratives and conversations, we explore dictation in six language contexts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, French and English). The narratives are organized into four themes: power issues in the classroom, conservative vs. innovative pedagogies, linguistic features, and implications. We raise questions about the relationships between literacy and student empowerment in different contexts.
Coming-out stories and the 'gay imaginary'
Authors: Wong Andrew
Published: March 2015

Although research has shown that those struggling with their same-sex desire often rely on print materials to help them understand their sexuality, the language use in these resources has rarely been studied. Exploring the relationship among genre, social change and socialization, this article examines coming-out narratives published in print and electronic media. It argues that these narratives are more like public testimonies than personal stories. Through metanarration, the COMING OUT AS A JOURNEY metaphor and the grammatical structuring of events, writers recount their own experiences to illustrate messages regarding the processual nature of coming out, the transformation of the self through coming out, and the transformation of relationships with others through coming out. The stories which convey these messages serve as an instrument of social change, in that they give those in the closet a language to talk about their experience and socialize them into the gay imaginary.
Linguistic emancipation and the linguistic market place
Authors: Bull Tove
Published: March 2015

The main objective of this article is to discuss conditions under which linguistic emancipation can occur, e.g. conditions that must be present for a given underprivileged language to move upwards on an imagined hierarchical scale of languages. The arena in which the status and power relations of languages and language varieties are determined is, with reference to Pierre Bourdieu, called the linguistic market place.
Ethnolects and language emancipation in Northern Norway
Authors: Sollid Hilde
Published: March 2015

The sociolinguistic complexity in the historical minorities in Northern Norway adheres to two diverging processes: language shift from Kven/Sámi to Norwegian and language revitalization of Kven/Sámi. These processes are results of shifting minority politics in Norway, and although the shift from assimilatory to emancipatory politics may be described as abrupt, the sociolinguistic processes are not. In this situation, there can be no doubt about the fundamental role of the minority languages. In addition to the minority languages, the majority language as it is spoken in contexts of language shifts, i.e. the ethnolects, are part of the sociolinguistic field. This paper focuses on the ethnolects, and the role of the ethnolects in processes of language emancipation.
Bilingualism in Ukraine: defining attitudes to Ukrainian and Russian through geographical and generational variations in language practices
Authors: Ivanova Olga
Published: March 2015

This paper examines the question of attitudes to Ukrainian Russian bilingualism in post- Soviet Ukraine. Since the dissolution of the USSR, Ukrainian society has been subject to a new language policy, which reconsiders the status of both Ukrainian and Russian and, thus, contributes to changes in the sociolinguistic situation in the country. The common process of ukrainization is aimed at reconstruction of the titular Ukrainian language and is based on the principle of linguistic homogeneity in Ukrainian society. This paper presents results of an empirical study, which explores changes in the language preferences, attitudes and practices in Ukraine in view of the post-independence language policy. It analyses the distribution of Ukrainian and Russian in different geographical and sociolinguistic zones of the country. It focuses on deviations that contextual and social factors produce in the disposition of speakers to use both languages in contact and searches for corroboration of a generational change. The paper presents a proposal for a geosociolinguistic classification of Ukraine and delimits socio-political, social and contextual factors correlating with the language preferences and attitudes of the speakers.
The social conditioning of mood variation in the Spanish of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Authors: Waltermire Mark
Published: March 2015

Prescriptive grammars of Spanish claim that inflectional markers of the subjunctive are required for subordinate clause verbs provided that: 1) this clause is introduced by the complementizer que ‘that’ and 2) the matrix clause construction corresponds to one of several semantic notions, such as the expression of finality, personal commentary, volition, or uncertainty. Actual speech data, however, reveal that speakers variably use indicative and subjunctive mood forms in these contexts. In an attempt to account for variation in the use of mood, many theorists have claimed that use of the subjunctive is also determined by pragmatic factors related to a speaker’s knowledge of and/or commitment to the speech proposition. Unfortunately, since these factors are difficult to measure quantitatively, claims of this nature tend to be highly speculative. Given the limitations of previous analyses, this presentation will focus on the role of social factors (such as age, sex, language preference, and educational experience) on the conditioning of mood variation. Due to the bilingual nature of the speech community in Albuquerque, the grammatical distinction between indicative and subjunctive forms is slowly being lost, especially among English-dominant speakers who have never studied Spanish formally. The influence of English, which has all but lost morphological markers of mood in casual speech, may be serving to accelerate the loss of mood distinctions that is already taking place in monolingual varieties of Spanish.
El bilingüismo en el mundo hispanohablante. Silvina Montrul (2012) Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 352 ISBN: 9780470657201 (Hardback)
Authors: Bartens Angela
Published: March 2015

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La realización de quejas en la conversación femenina y masculina. Diferencias y semejanzas en el habla cotidiana de las mujeres y los hombres. A. Virginia Acuña Ferreira (2011) München: Lincom Europa. Pp. 179 ISBN: 9783862880577 (Hardback)
Authors: Pesola-Gallone Maria
Published: March 2015

Review
Spanish-English code-switching among low-fluency bilinguals: Towards an expanded typology
Authors: Lipski John M.
Published: March 2015

Spanish-English code-switching in the United States is not confined to the speech of fluent bilinguals, although the latter group exhibits the greatest consistency of structural patterns as well as the highest likelihood of conscious and voluntary control over language switching. Among less fluent bilinguals (including heritage speakers of Spanish as well as foreign language students producing the second language under duress) incursions from English may depart significantly from structural patterns characterizing fluent bilinguals, and may represent involuntary and/or unconscious insertion of English elements, ranging from tags such as you know and I mean to larger discourse chunks. The present study compares data from a cluster of low-fluency Spanish heritage speakers and a group of fluent bilingual Spanish-English code-switchers in the United States, and proposes that the notion of congruent lexicalization (e.g. as proposed by Muysken, 2000) be expanded to include ‘ragged’ and possibly involuntary code-mixing among semi fluent bilinguals.
The mediation of ‘youth language’ in mainstream mass culture: evidence from a Greek family sitcom
Authors: Saltidou Theodora P. , Stamou Anastasia G.
Published: March 2015

?y acknowledging the ideological framework upon which the media and mass culture operate, contemporary sociolinguistic research aims to explore how such texts shape viewers’ understanding about the speech of social groups and the way they eventually perpetuate or challenge certain social and linguistic stereotypes. In light of this, we examine the way ‘youth language’ is represented in a popular Greek family sitcom. As a product of late modern mass media, which tend to celebrate nonstandard, oral and conversational styles of talk, the TV series under analysis set out to familiarise a widely diversified TV audience with ‘youth language’. Hence, the construction of youth identity through the speech style teenage characters were depicted to employ was relatively favorable. Nevertheless, the TV series did not avoid perpetuating ?mostly through the visual images of young people it built? many of the stereotypes of the dominant discourse of adolescence. Eventually, this TV series contributes, even though in a subtle way, to the confirmation of established ideas about young people and their identity, and is in dialogue with relevant representations of youth detected in other mainstream mass media.
La reflexión meta-discursiva como función comunicativa en el proceso de construcción de discursos de cambio social en un grupo de mujeres [The meta-discursive awareness as communicative function …]
Authors: Morales-López Esperanza
Published: March 2015

This paper analyses the function of metadiscursive reflexion or awareness (a notion related with Bateson’s metacommunicative, 1972) in an Ecuadorian women’s group’s discussion about its disagreement with the Government on the economic issue known as ‘solidarity economy and finance’. The key point in this discussion is whether or not the perspective of gender must be included in the new law of economy and social finance. The pragmaticargumentative analysis of the most relevant discursive resources reveals that this metadiscursive awareness accomplishes two subfunctions: 1) the recontextualization of previous cognitive frames; and 2) the construction of new frames (reframings) that defend in a more creative way the inclusion of the gender perspective in the alluded law. Some of these frames provide different perspective to the ones previous used to describe the structural poverty of Ecuadorian women; and one of them calls for the development of the sumak kawsay mythical creation, the motto of the new constitution. From the theoretical-methodological perspective, I reflect on this metadiscursive function as part of the creative process of discourses of social change and on the constructivist perspective in the study of them.
Discurso político y cambio de código: la alternancia guaraní / español en el discurso de Fernando Lugo [Political discourse and code switching: the alternation between Guarani and Spanish in Fernando Lugo’s public speech]
Authors: Bonnin Juan Eduardo
Published: March 2015

In this article we analyze the alternation between Guarani and Spanish in the public speech of Paraguayan Ex-President Fernando Lugo. To do this, we first describe some historical and present features of bilingualism in Paraguay. Second, we review current literature on codeswitching to clarify in what sense we understand it: not as an alternation between grammatical systems but between symbolic representations of languages. The analysis of the corpus is divided into two sections, following the emergence of Guarani in predominantly Spanish texts or vice versa. The analysis shows a distribution that bonds Guarani with the semantic field of affections and intimacy while Spanish emerges as the language of public rationality. These results raise questions about the future implications of Paraguayan bilingual political discourse, especially with regard to the political instability in the country.
A case study of a Brazilian newcomer in a Luxembourgish school: understanding the role of Legitimate Peripheral Participation in identity development
Authors: Gómez Fernández Roberto
Published: March 2015

The aim of this paper is to better comprehend the learning processes contributing to the identity development of a 7-year old Portuguese-speaking newcomer in a multilingual primary school. Portuguese-speaking students constitute one of the ethnic and linguistic communities most affected by academic failure in Luxembourg. Furthermore, Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAMS), as defined by the European Commission (2013), constitute a special-needs, understudied and ever-growing group in European schools today. Drawing on the Community of Practice framework applied to educational contexts (Morton, 2012), this research is a sociolinguistic ethnography focusing on educational resources. With an innovative application of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) and educational resources (linguistic, curricular, cultural), this paper contributes to current research on NAMS in multilingual schools. The results drawn to our attention not only the importance of the roles of both the teacher and classmates on the newcomer’s identity development and learning, but also the predisposition of the newcomer to participate and evolve in the new community of learners.
Thinking and Speaking in Two Languages Aneta Pavlenko (ed.) (2011) Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 267 ISBN-13: 978-1-84769-337-2 (hbk)
Authors: Hammer Kate
Published: March 2015

Book review.
Remixing Composition A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy Palmeri, Jason (2012)
Authors: Anderson Erin R
Published: March 2015

Remixing Composition A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy Palmeri, Jason (2012) Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp. 194 ISBN: 9780809330898
Extreme Puppet Theater as a Tool for Writing Pedagogy at K-University Levels
Authors: Spitzer Mark
Published: March 2015

The pedagogical technique of “extreme puppet theater” is posited as a collaborative and novel learning tool for motivating students to study texts by creating new ones. Examples are provided of how this approach has worked in university courses in literature, composition, and creative writing. By extension, extreme puppet theater can be applied to other subjects, at all levels of academia, in order to offer an effective and engaging alternative to traditional teaching conventions.
From Typing to Touching
Authors: Gruber David R
Published: March 2015

As Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) grow increasingly common, this article investigates what they might do with/for writing and say about the teaching of writing. Specifically, I review three NUI writing projects, critically examining the rhetorical features of the projects and investigating the relationship between NUIs and Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs). Ultimately, I argue that NUIs are not “natural” interfaces but are as historically and socially grounded as GUIs; even so, NUIs hold the potential to invigorate a critical and activities based pedagogy, placing new focus on socially constructed meanings, material interactions, and embodied performances.
Standards and Personalization in the Writing of Linguistically Diverse Students
Authors: Enright Kerry Anne
Published: March 2015

This study examines the interplay between standards and personalization for linguistically diverse adolescents in a year-long Senior (12th grade) Exhibition project in a U.S. public high school. Focal students included a bilingual Mexican-origin immigrant, a transnational bilingual student of Mexican origin, and an English-only adolescent from California, all female. Qualitative data consisted of multiple drafts of each student’s 15–20 page research essay, interviews, writing conferences, and school-based standards documents. Analyses attended to how conceptions of personalization of learning in relation to a major research and writing assignment were operationalized in the experiences of three learners and the consequences of each approach for the student’s attention to standards in her inquiry and writing processes. Findings highlight the normative power of standards in promoting standardization within the current accountability paradigm and the potential of deep personalization to enhance learning around writing.
Fostering Self-Regulated Learning
Authors: Rosalia Christine
Published: March 2015

Peer feedback is often considered a critical component of self-regulated learning. The purpose of this mixed-method study was to understand the effects of how a unique form of peer feedback – an online system of co-construction – might both trigger and sustain self-regulation in academic writing. Participants were 21 Japanese undergraduate EFL writers, 10 of whom worked as peer advisors in an online writing center. Peer advisors self-reported significantly more strategies than the comparison group. In addition, textual analysis of the feedback that peer advisors provided to writers showed evidence of strategy internalization, whereas the comparison group lacked metacognitive awareness and provided feedback of a lesser quality. Within group analysis points to how specific characteristics of peer feedback developed over time and with experience. This study considers how educators can use online feedback-on-feedback as a method for eliciting verbalizations of self-regulation.
Feedback: The Communication of Praise, Criticism, and Advice Robbie M. Sutton, Matthew J. Hornsey and Karen M. Douglas (eds.) (2012)
Authors: Haas Sarah
Published: March 2015

Feedback: The Communication of Praise, Criticism, and Advice Robbie M. Sutton, Matthew J. Hornsey and Karen M. Douglas (eds.) (2012) New York: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. Pp. 359 ISBN: 9781433105111
Children’s Writing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in Elementary School and Middle School
Authors: Taylor Sheryl V.
Published: March 2015

Guest editor's introduction
Process-Oriented Writing Instruction in Elementary Classrooms
Authors: McQuitty Vicki
Published: March 2015

Process writing instruction is an influential paradigm in elementary classrooms, but studies of its effectiveness are mixed. These mixed results may occur because teachers implement process writing in vastly difference ways, which makes it difficult to assess the effectiveness of process approaches broadly. Therefore, this literature review examines the features of the process writing instruction are effective. Drawing on empirical evidence, it answers the question: What practices within process writing have evidence of effectiveness? A literature search was conducted and 93 studies that met the inclusion criteria were found. The studies were coded thematically and indicate seven categories of effective practices: writing strategy instruction, computers in the writing process, talk during the writing process, play during the writing process, including children’s ways of knowing, flexible participation structures, and mentor texts. Evidence about the effectiveness of these features and directions for future research are discussed.
Improving Writing Instruction in Second and Third Grade Classrooms
Authors: Hunzicker Jana , Arquette Cecile , Quinzio-Zafran Ann
Published: March 2015

This article presents research findings from a professional development project initiated by one rural Illinois primary school to improve writing instruction in 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. During the 2010–11 academic year, the school partnered with a private university to provide customized, year-long professional development that integrated preparation for the state writing assessment and a writing process approach. Simultaneously, a study was conducted to identify and describe teacher thinking and practices related to writing instruction during participation in the project. Data were collected through a pre/post teacher survey and written teacher reflections. Participating teachers indicated 15 improvements in their thinking and practices related to writing instruction. However, confidence in their students’ likelihood to perform well on the state writing assessment decreased during the project, and changes in thinking and practices varied from teacher to teacher, possibly due to varying levels of teacher readiness to change.
Middle School Students’ Reading Responses
Authors: Fang Zhihui , Ferdig Richard E. , Wang Zhijun , Trutschel Brian K.
Published: March 2015

Reading response holds a prominent place in the English language arts curriculum. Despite its importance, few studies have explored students’ performance on the task from a linguistic perspective. This article examines a random sample of reading responses generated by students enrolled in a middle school online language arts course using a genre-specific tool that addresses content, logic, stance, and engagement. Results from the linguistic analysis show that the adolescents’ responses typically focused on personal feelings, story retelling, and character analysis, with little evidence of thematic interpretation. This finding is discussed in light of the current literature on response writing and language arts pedagogy.
The Sound of Pencils on the Page
Authors: Lannin Amy Alison
Published: March 2015

Many writers find that freewriting is crucial to their work, and it has been around long enough to be part of the common language within composition studies. Freewriting is defined as the sustained, often timed, approach to writing-without-stopping. What is “free” is the direction the writer may take and the freeing of ideas through writing. Despite the recognized benefits of freewriting, it has seldom been studied in secondary classrooms, and teachers may be reluctant to implement it on a regular basis. This article presents case studies to examine what, if any, benefits are found when daily freewriting is implemented. Two junior high school classrooms were studied for a semester. Data included student freewriting samples, interviews with students, pre and post surveys on students’ views of writing, and observational notes. In addition to the qualitative data, a collection of quantitative data (fluency rates and pre and post writing apprehension scores) created a mixed-method study. Findings include many benefits from regular freewriting. The classroom routine provided a sense of peace in a very busy day; freewriting helped develop confidence and comfort with writing; student writing quality showed flexibility in thought and style of writing depending on topic; and students engaged with course content. Several implications are made for teachers, including the importance of carefully establishing the routine and expectation that students will write during this time. In addition, teacher modeling of the freewriting showed a positive influence on the students’ writing experiences.
Writer Identity and Writing Workshop
Authors: Leung Cynthia B. , Hicks Jacky
Published: March 2015

Students currently attending colleges and universities in the United States were in elementary school when writing workshop was first introduced as a teaching method. In this article an undergraduate honors student and a literacy teacher educator critically reflect on the student’s 2nd grade experiences with writing workshop and identify the features of this teaching method that led to her development of a writer’s identity. Through autobiography and retrospective analysis of primary data, they argue that tone, the basic elements of writing workshop of time, choice, and process; a literature-rich environment; and a community focus contributed to the development of a writerly identity.
Writing Their Worlds
Authors: Flint Amy Seely , Fisher-Ari Teresa Renee
Published: March 2015

The growing disparity in the cultural and linguistic backgrounds in U.S. classrooms of teachers and students suggests that there is a critical need for teachers to be knowledgeable and prepared to effectively teach this diverse population of students. In a longitudinal research study conducted in two 3rd grade classrooms in the Southeastern region of the United States, researchers examined the impact of a sustained and generative model of professional development on teachers’ sense of agency and their understandings of what it means to be a writing teacher with multilingual students (Flint, Kurumada, Fisher, and Zisook, 2011; Flint, Zisook, and Fisher, 2011). In this article, we add to this empirical work by focusing on pedagogical practices that strengthened the writing curriculum and teachers’ understandings of the children they teach. The pedagogical shifts, which happened over an extended period of time, were marked by two distinct and interconnected processes: (a) teachers began to understand and adopt the discourse of writing workshop and then use it as a mediator of students’ thought to promote student voice; and (b) teachers gradually released their control over students’ authorial voice and agency for writing. These processes enabled students to share more about their lives, beliefs, and interests, and for their teachers to recognize the uniqueness and perspective each child brought to the classroom.
Using PhotoVoice to Empower K-12 Teachers and Students
Authors: Adams Susan R. , Brooks Katie , Greene Michelle C. S.
Published: March 2015

PhotoVoice is a community and participatory action research method based in grassroots empowerment education, critical feminist theory, and documentary photography which enables people with little money, power, or status to communicate needed changes to policymakers. Prior to this in-school research project, studies of PhotoVoice in the United States focused on adolescents in out-of-school educational settings (Chio and Fandt, 2007; Strack, Magill, and McDonagh, 2004; Wilson et al., 2007; Zenkov and Harmon, 2009; The Viewfinder Project, 2010). In this study, teacher participants found that English language learners and resistant writers were motivated to identify the impact of personal and political realities in their lives in order to question existing structures and to imagine alternative futures. The use of PhotoVoice in K–12 classrooms offers an accessible, motivating, and technologically rich entry point and an authentic forum for emerging young writers to share their photos, their writing, and their stories with others to create powerful visual representations to transform existing conditions in their communities.
Reflections on Effective Writing Instruction
Authors: Viesca Kara Mitchell , Hutchison Kim
Published: March 2015

This reflection on effective writing practice is the result of a university-school partnership focused on collaboratively investigating the work of a successful 5th grade writing teacher. The co-authors collectively present the work of Mrs. Hutchison, a veteran teacher who worked in a predominately low-income school with a high percentage of students labeled English language learners. Mrs. Hutchison’s class was a space where each student was both a learner and a teacher and most students developed a great interest and love of writing. This reflective piece presents data documenting Mrs. Hutchison’s success as well as a collaborative reflection on her work intended to provide a glimpse into Mrs. Hutchison’s commitments and practices, and how these resulted in students’ learning and productive writing activity and achievement. In so doing, we hope to provide some models of effective practices that others may wish to adapt or investigate further.
The Writing Thief Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing Culham, Ruth (2014) Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association. Pp. 191 ISBN: 978-0-87207-099-8
Authors: Baynum Lynn F.
Published: March 2015

Book review.
Use of copper slag and washed copper slag as sand in concrete: a state-of-the-art review
Authors: Lye Chao-Qun , Koh Siew-Kiang , Mangabhai Raman , Dhir Ravindra K.
Published: March 2015

This paper provides the gist of the systematic review undertaken, involving evaluation, analysis, repackaging and modelling of all the literature that could be sourced on the subject. Copper slag (CS) and washed copper slag (WCS), as to be expected, have essentially similar basic physical (although WCS is usually finer than CS) and chemical characteristics and therefore they can be treated as one material. In-depth analysis of 2192 test data sourced from the literature showed that, given all the basic material characteristics, CS/WCS can be used as the sand component for making all strength grades of concrete and giving similar (or in some aspects better) performance to the corresponding concrete made with natural sand. The special attribute of CS/WCS for lowering the mix water demand has been used by the authors to develop two simple models for utilising the potential water savings and estimating the strength gains that can be realised when designing concrete with CS/WCS for given strength at a specific age. It is demonstrated that the water-saving potential of CS/WCS can be used to make other recycled and secondary materials more acceptable for use in concrete.
SAFETY ENSURING OF COMPANIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BANKRUPTCY CASES
Authors: Ryakhovskaya A. N.
Published: March 2015

Substantiates the direction of balancing the interests in the implementation of bankruptcy cases, the need to improve the skills of arbitration managers, employees of financial and banking sector, other members of the bankruptcy proceedings, their knowledge of the functioning of the institution of bankruptcy. It is noted the special role of experts, the presence of many remarks to the quality of their conclusions, the need to increase the proficiency requirements of the legal basis of the bankruptcy institution. It is considered the possibility of using the pre-trial mediation settlement of disputes.
FORECASTING OF SHIP’S CONSTRUCTION COST BY USING THE METHOD OF THE FUZZY SETS THEORY
Authors: Alekhin M. Y. , Raev V. V.
Published: March 2015

In order to take a rational decision about construction of a ship it is necessary to have an adequate predictive estimate of a construction cost. Traditional forecasting methods do not provide the required level of reliability of a shipyard’s cost estimates. The method of cost forecasting based on fuzzy logic system is proposed. This method has several advantages, including: use of fuzzy initial information for forecasting; increase of the result’s validity due to the potential of use all relevant information for forecasting. In view of the aforesaid it increases the validity of management decisions and has a positive impact on the overall economic sustainability of an enterprise.
MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES OF THE PRESENCE OF A FOREIGN CAPITAL IN THE BANKING SECTOR OF UKRAINE IN THE POST-CRISIS CONDITIONS
Authors: Pogorelenko N. P. , Gadetskaya S. V. , Sidorenko O. N.
Published: March 2015

The approaches to the regulation of the bank activity from the perspective of monitoring the presence of a foreign capital on the basis of the model analysis are considered in the article.
ETHNIC ASPECTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION IN THE MEGACITY (CASE STUDY MOSCOW)
Authors: Seredina M. I.
Published: March 2015

The article considers ethnic aspects of social interaction in Russia's largest megacity - Moscow. The features of the formation of ethnic communities (groups) are analyzed at different stages of the city development. It is emphasized the interaction tools of ethnic communities. It is analyzed the issues of reducing ethnic conflicts and using the experience of positive cooperation of various national groups in Moscow.
THE ROLE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF COMPANY TOWNS
Authors: Reznikova E. V.
Published: March 2015

The development of small and medium enterprises (SME) plays an important role in the comprehensive modernization of the economy of single-industry towns, acting as a factor of its growth and diversification. The analysis of the dynamics of the development of SME of non-diversified municipal formations and directions of its state support was made, suggestions on the monitoring organization of statistical factors of SME in single-industry towns and on the development of comprehensive investment plans on modernization of single-industry towns were made in a part of the development and support of small and medium businesses in single-industry towns.
FINANCIAL DIAGNOSTICS OF A DISTRESSED ENTERPRISE
Authors: Kalvarsky G. V. , Lvova N. A.
Published: March 2015

The article is devoted to problems of Russian enterprises’ financial diagnostics. Special attention is paid to the order and special features of distressed enterprise's financial diagnostics in accordance with the Rules of financial analysis for arbitration managers. The possible ways of improving the procedure of financial diagnostics are studied. Particular attention is paid to the methodical foundations of analysis and assessment of solvency, financial stability and profitability of the distressed enterprise.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE OF THE NEW INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE ECONOMY
Authors: Kuznetsov S. YU.
Published: March 2015

Business intelligence is a new management tool of an innovative enterprise. Business intelligence as a continuous innovation in business analytics of the new intellectual enterprise can integrate all activities into an efficient and sustainable business organization. BI promotes the prosperity of the firm, through intelligent management of strategies, finance, marketing, business processes, staff and assets in a world of unlimited information.