cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517024.v1
title: PEDAGOGICAL RECONTEXTUALIZATION AND POLICIES FOR IN-SERVICE EDUCATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS: A STUDY OF PDE-PR

description: Bernstein's (1990, 2000) theory of pedagogic device is adopted as a theoretical framework for the analysis of representations of an in-service teacher education program as part of a public policy in Brazil. The program has a hybrid format and seeks to integrate theory and practice, by bringing the schoolteacher and his/her practical knowledge closer to the epistemology predominant in the university. Two sets of data were generated: 1) transcripts of the audiorecording of a focus group attended by teacher educators responsible for supervision and teaching activities within the Program; 2) a retrospective narrative of a public school teacher, co-author of this article and former participant of the Program. The representations of trainers on political-pedagogical assumptions and principles of the program showed distributive and recontextualizing rules that contributed to the reproduction of the official discourse. The teacher's narrative, in turn, stresses positive aspects that resulted in learning opportunity for himself. The distributive rules of continuing education and, later, of the curricular organization, governed the pedagogical recontextualization in the school, resulting in transformations of academic knowledge.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514684
title: THE VISUAL METAPHOR OF DISABILITY IN SARAH LEAVITT'S GRAPHIC MEMOIR TANGLES: A STORY ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S, MY MOTHER, AND ME

description: Borrowing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me(2012), by Sarah Leavitt. The genre of comics, as a cross-discursive medium, is prolific in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt's graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother's experience of Alzheimer's, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. This article points to ways in which Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir explores the potential of visual metaphor as an empowering narrative device in terms of representing disability.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514684.v1
title: THE VISUAL METAPHOR OF DISABILITY IN SARAH LEAVITT'S GRAPHIC MEMOIR TANGLES: A STORY ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S, MY MOTHER, AND ME

description: Borrowing George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor theory, and its implications for the study of visual metaphors, this article seeks to investigate the representation of the disabled body in the graphic memoir Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me(2012), by Sarah Leavitt. The genre of comics, as a cross-discursive medium, is prolific in the use of visual metaphor as a narrative technique and Leavitt's graphic memoir, in particular, employs visual metaphor in the depiction of her mother's experience of Alzheimer's, as someone slowly distancing herself from her family. This article points to ways in which Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir explores the potential of visual metaphor as an empowering narrative device in terms of representing disability.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511486
title: The Female Body and its Enigmas: The Sphinx in Franz Stuck's Painting

description: AbstractThis essay discusses the problem of female representation in the arts at the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore, I will start from a reading Bram Dijkstra's Idols of Perversity (1986). Following, I will reflect on how female body imagery is associated with the meeting of Oedipus and the Sphinx, female monster that offers puzzles and presents a hybrid body configuration. The stereotype of this demonized woman, however, begins to be rethought in the same century, becoming the Sphinx itself and its corporeal constitution a puzzle to be researched. My analysis for reading this change in sensitivity in Western arts will focus on three different paintings by the German artist Franz Stuck on the theme of the Sphinx. Therefore, I will use, besides Dijkstra, reflections by Connell, Edmunds, Paglia and Goex
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7511486.v1
title: The Female Body and its Enigmas: The Sphinx in Franz Stuck's Painting

description: AbstractThis essay discusses the problem of female representation in the arts at the end of the nineteenth century. Therefore, I will start from a reading Bram Dijkstra's Idols of Perversity (1986). Following, I will reflect on how female body imagery is associated with the meeting of Oedipus and the Sphinx, female monster that offers puzzles and presents a hybrid body configuration. The stereotype of this demonized woman, however, begins to be rethought in the same century, becoming the Sphinx itself and its corporeal constitution a puzzle to be researched. My analysis for reading this change in sensitivity in Western arts will focus on three different paintings by the German artist Franz Stuck on the theme of the Sphinx. Therefore, I will use, besides Dijkstra, reflections by Connell, Edmunds, Paglia and Goex
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513745
title: The imaginary of the decaying corpse: from the Dance of Death to the roman-charogne

description: AbstractThe image of the human corpse throughout its post-mortem decomposition has become part of the cultural and artistic demonstrations in the West, beginning with the appearance of the macabre themes in the Late Middle Ages, especially the "Dance of Death". A true obsession in the medieval times, the putrid body would reappear as an aesthetic object in the horror literature, also known as "gothic". The so called roman-charogne, literary style that abuses of macabre references, outstands within this production, exploring aspects of the decaying corpse as never seen before. This article aims to point out these examples, problematizing the presence of the rotten dead body that would answer specific demands of those times.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513745.v1
title: The imaginary of the decaying corpse: from the Dance of Death to the roman-charogne

description: AbstractThe image of the human corpse throughout its post-mortem decomposition has become part of the cultural and artistic demonstrations in the West, beginning with the appearance of the macabre themes in the Late Middle Ages, especially the "Dance of Death". A true obsession in the medieval times, the putrid body would reappear as an aesthetic object in the horror literature, also known as "gothic". The so called roman-charogne, literary style that abuses of macabre references, outstands within this production, exploring aspects of the decaying corpse as never seen before. This article aims to point out these examples, problematizing the presence of the rotten dead body that would answer specific demands of those times.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7508300
title: Brazilian Portuguese-English bilingualism does not affect metalinguistic awareness of L1 constraints in two argument structure constructions

description: Abstract In the present study we investigated a corollary of the multicompetence hypothesis as a description of language representation in bilingualism. According to this hypothesis, bilingualism entails a state of linguistic knowledge that does not correspond either to L1 or L2 norms. Previous studies examining online language processing of sentences in Portuguese that simulated argument structures constructions of English have shown a departure from the restrictions of the L1 grammar (Portuguese), which supports the multicompetence hypothesis. The purpose of this study was to explore whether such departure from the L1 would be observed in a psycholinguistic task that taps bilinguals' intentional attention focus on the form of linguistic expressions in their L1, therefore depicting L1 metalinguistic awareness. The results reveal that the bilingualism effects detected during real time sentence processing do not extend to metalinguistic awareness, therefore suggesting that such effects are evanescent, and most likely implicit in nature.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7508300.v1
title: Brazilian Portuguese-English bilingualism does not affect metalinguistic awareness of L1 constraints in two argument structure constructions

description: Abstract In the present study we investigated a corollary of the multicompetence hypothesis as a description of language representation in bilingualism. According to this hypothesis, bilingualism entails a state of linguistic knowledge that does not correspond either to L1 or L2 norms. Previous studies examining online language processing of sentences in Portuguese that simulated argument structures constructions of English have shown a departure from the restrictions of the L1 grammar (Portuguese), which supports the multicompetence hypothesis. The purpose of this study was to explore whether such departure from the L1 would be observed in a psycholinguistic task that taps bilinguals' intentional attention focus on the form of linguistic expressions in their L1, therefore depicting L1 metalinguistic awareness. The results reveal that the bilingualism effects detected during real time sentence processing do not extend to metalinguistic awareness, therefore suggesting that such effects are evanescent, and most likely implicit in nature.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507877
title: Different languages, different voices: evidence from Portuguese/English bilinguals' speech

description: Abstract Voice quality results from the modulation of vocal tract articulators and laryngeal activity and produces a long-term effect in speech production and perception. Bilingual speakers can alter voice quality when speaking different languages, according to evidence shown in research in the field. The present study shows results from a voice production experiment in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and English (EN) by Brazilian bilingual speakers. The experiment consisted of the recordings of reading and semi-spontaneous tasks in BP and EN. Results show statistically significant differences between languages in f0 measures, as well as in spectral characteristics (LTAS) between languages and tasks.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518974
title: English teachers' discourse and the effective promotion of students' listening skill

description: Abstract This article shows the results of a study that aimed at verifying how much B2 proficiency level students, according to the Common European Framework of Reference, understand their teachers' speech. It also aimed at identifying teachers' and students' perceptions on how speech should be delivered so that learners at this level can significantly improve their listening skill. The goal of this study was to compare the two groups' perceptions and contrast them to the degree of student comprehension as well as to the pedagogic function of the teacher's speech. The resulting data were analyzed based on Vygotsky's sociointeractionism, Benveniste's theory and Ausubel's meaningful learning concept.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518974.v1
title: English teachers' discourse and the effective promotion of students' listening skill

description: Abstract This article shows the results of a study that aimed at verifying how much B2 proficiency level students, according to the Common European Framework of Reference, understand their teachers' speech. It also aimed at identifying teachers' and students' perceptions on how speech should be delivered so that learners at this level can significantly improve their listening skill. The goal of this study was to compare the two groups' perceptions and contrast them to the degree of student comprehension as well as to the pedagogic function of the teacher's speech. The resulting data were analyzed based on Vygotsky's sociointeractionism, Benveniste's theory and Ausubel's meaningful learning concept.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517324
title: Postcolonial Issues and Colonial Closures: Portrayals of Ambivalence in Shaun Tan's The Arrival

description: Abstract This article aims to investigate the visual representation of the connection between immigration and the construction of an Australian identity as a nation in Shaun Tan's graphic novel The Arrival (2006). Based on the debate about imagined communities and the ambivalence on the narration of a nation, proposed by Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha, we will discuss how The Arrival creates moments for the appearance of the ambivalence of cultural difference at the same time that it also constructs a horizontal imagined community. On these terms, The Arrival depicts some of the liminal positionality that immigrants have to deal with when they arrive in a new place, but also constructs a cohesive and homogeneous narrative that entails the assimilation of the immigrants. In other words, this work offers a closure that can be read as an assimilation of the colonial discourse for a series post-colonial issues.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517324.v1
title: Postcolonial Issues and Colonial Closures: Portrayals of Ambivalence in Shaun Tan's The Arrival

description: Abstract This article aims to investigate the visual representation of the connection between immigration and the construction of an Australian identity as a nation in Shaun Tan's graphic novel The Arrival (2006). Based on the debate about imagined communities and the ambivalence on the narration of a nation, proposed by Benedict Anderson and Homi Bhabha, we will discuss how The Arrival creates moments for the appearance of the ambivalence of cultural difference at the same time that it also constructs a horizontal imagined community. On these terms, The Arrival depicts some of the liminal positionality that immigrants have to deal with when they arrive in a new place, but also constructs a cohesive and homogeneous narrative that entails the assimilation of the immigrants. In other words, this work offers a closure that can be read as an assimilation of the colonial discourse for a series post-colonial issues.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7515320
title: Postcolonial Longing on the Australian Cinematic Frontier

description: Abstract: The Tracker and Red Hill are cinematic re-interpretations of Australia's colonial past, which they characterise by a sense of postcolonial longing and an expectation of intimacy. Both films are portals through which arguments about historical truth, subjective memory and contemporary realities are explored and tested. In this article I argue that both these two films create the idea that the historical colonial space was a constant interplay of violence and beauty, and of hatred and friendship. As black and white characters negotiate their way in and around these seemingly polemical positions, viewers are also challenged to do the same.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7515320.v1
title: Postcolonial Longing on the Australian Cinematic Frontier

description: Abstract: The Tracker and Red Hill are cinematic re-interpretations of Australia's colonial past, which they characterise by a sense of postcolonial longing and an expectation of intimacy. Both films are portals through which arguments about historical truth, subjective memory and contemporary realities are explored and tested. In this article I argue that both these two films create the idea that the historical colonial space was a constant interplay of violence and beauty, and of hatred and friendship. As black and white characters negotiate their way in and around these seemingly polemical positions, viewers are also challenged to do the same.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517720
title: Latin-American Writing Initiatives in Engineering from Spanish-speaking Countries

description: Abstract This article analyzes Latin-American publications from Spanish-speaking countries to map programs pursued in the region and then provide a context to envision further research agendas for Latin-American Writing Studies in Engineering. The analysis of 22 publications suggests that initiatives and studies in Engineering are recent (as of 2009). The sample reveals an emphasis on pedagogically-oriented publications focused on Engineering as one field. The trends suggest that the Latin-American writing advocates in Engineering might broaden research scopes by incorporating theoretical frameworks for a) exploring and understanding different roles of writing across time and curriculum in student learning and by Engineering subfields and, b) exploring theoretical approaches to understand genres beyond individual texts (genre repertoires and genre systems).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517720.v1
title: Latin-American Writing Initiatives in Engineering from Spanish-speaking Countries

description: Abstract This article analyzes Latin-American publications from Spanish-speaking countries to map programs pursued in the region and then provide a context to envision further research agendas for Latin-American Writing Studies in Engineering. The analysis of 22 publications suggests that initiatives and studies in Engineering are recent (as of 2009). The sample reveals an emphasis on pedagogically-oriented publications focused on Engineering as one field. The trends suggest that the Latin-American writing advocates in Engineering might broaden research scopes by incorporating theoretical frameworks for a) exploring and understanding different roles of writing across time and curriculum in student learning and by Engineering subfields and, b) exploring theoretical approaches to understand genres beyond individual texts (genre repertoires and genre systems).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518335
title: Effects of Perceptual Training on the Identification and Production of Word-Initial Voiceless Stops by Argentinean Learners of English

description: Abstract In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of perceptual training, administered to Argentinean learners, in the perception and production of word-initial voiceless stops in English. 24 participants were divided into 3 groups: (i) Group 1, which participated in 3 training sessions; (ii) Group 2, which, besides performing the same training tasks, was explicitly informed about the target item; (iii) Group 3 (control). All participants took part in a pre-test, a post-test and a delayed post-test. In all these tests, they participated in a consonant identification task and took part in a read-aloud task. Our results show a significant increase of both experimental groups in identification. As for production, Group 2 exhibited a significant increase in /p/ and /t/ after training. These results are indicative of the effectiveness of perceptual training tasks in helping learners focus on Voice Onset Time.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7516316
title: Vowel inventory size matters: Assessing cue-weighting in L2 vowel perception

description: Abstract: To examine whether L1 vowel inventory size could be a contributing factor to the use of temporal cues in L2 vowel perception, this study assessed the perception of English /i-ɪ/ by 66 learners of four different L1s: Danish, Portuguese, Catalan and Russian. The L2 learners performed a forced-choice identification task containing natural and duration-manipulated stimuli. Findings suggest that the participants’ over-reliance on duration cues seems to be partially related to their L1 vowel inventory size. The participants with the largest L1 vowel inventory (Danish) demonstrated the most native-like vowel perception and the participants with the smallest L1 vowel inventory (Russian) over-relied on duration cues more than the other learners. Interestingly, the participants with somewhat comparable L1 vowel inventories (Portuguese and Catalan) performed similarly.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518335.v1
title: Effects of Perceptual Training on the Identification and Production of Word-Initial Voiceless Stops by Argentinean Learners of English

description: Abstract In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of perceptual training, administered to Argentinean learners, in the perception and production of word-initial voiceless stops in English. 24 participants were divided into 3 groups: (i) Group 1, which participated in 3 training sessions; (ii) Group 2, which, besides performing the same training tasks, was explicitly informed about the target item; (iii) Group 3 (control). All participants took part in a pre-test, a post-test and a delayed post-test. In all these tests, they participated in a consonant identification task and took part in a read-aloud task. Our results show a significant increase of both experimental groups in identification. As for production, Group 2 exhibited a significant increase in /p/ and /t/ after training. These results are indicative of the effectiveness of perceptual training tasks in helping learners focus on Voice Onset Time.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7516316.v1
title: Vowel inventory size matters: Assessing cue-weighting in L2 vowel perception

description: Abstract: To examine whether L1 vowel inventory size could be a contributing factor to the use of temporal cues in L2 vowel perception, this study assessed the perception of English /i-ɪ/ by 66 learners of four different L1s: Danish, Portuguese, Catalan and Russian. The L2 learners performed a forced-choice identification task containing natural and duration-manipulated stimuli. Findings suggest that the participants’ over-reliance on duration cues seems to be partially related to their L1 vowel inventory size. The participants with the largest L1 vowel inventory (Danish) demonstrated the most native-like vowel perception and the participants with the smallest L1 vowel inventory (Russian) over-relied on duration cues more than the other learners. Interestingly, the participants with somewhat comparable L1 vowel inventories (Portuguese and Catalan) performed similarly.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513202
title: A complex approach on integrated late bilinguals’ English VOT production: a study on south Brazilian immigrants in London

description: Abstract: Adopting a Complex perspective to language, this study explores the correlation between length of residence (LOR) in London and the production of word-initial English voiceless stops by late south Brazilian bilinguals who have an integrative motivation towards the host language and culture. To this end, 12 immigrants are compared to 10 standard southern British English monolinguals. Acoustic analysis of VOT duration is reported. Results demonstrated that immigrants’ VOT values for English are positively correlated with LOR. Bilinguals with the longest LOR revealed a production of English VOT within the range expected for the controls. These findings can be interpreted as evidence for language as a Complex Adaptive System, and for the hypothesis that the neuroplasticity and the cognitive mechanisms for language development remain intact during the lifespan.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513202.v1
title: A complex approach on integrated late bilinguals’ English VOT production: a study on south Brazilian immigrants in London

description: Abstract: Adopting a Complex perspective to language, this study explores the correlation between length of residence (LOR) in London and the production of word-initial English voiceless stops by late south Brazilian bilinguals who have an integrative motivation towards the host language and culture. To this end, 12 immigrants are compared to 10 standard southern British English monolinguals. Acoustic analysis of VOT duration is reported. Results demonstrated that immigrants’ VOT values for English are positively correlated with LOR. Bilinguals with the longest LOR revealed a production of English VOT within the range expected for the controls. These findings can be interpreted as evidence for language as a Complex Adaptive System, and for the hypothesis that the neuroplasticity and the cognitive mechanisms for language development remain intact during the lifespan.