Literary Discourse: A Methodological Proposal for Knowledge Organization

Discourse and Knowledge Theoretical and methodological aspects of a critical discourse and dispositive analysis*

A Methodological Proposal for Environmental Education

This paper discusses methodological criteria for environmental education. The place of environmental education in the curriculum has led to its being considered as a dimension that should cut across different disciplines, instead of offering a corpus of contents by itself. Nevertheless, experience has shown that ecology has systematically filled up the contents of environmental education. In th...

Erlbaum Associates. 321-355. 9 Literary Discourse

Literary reading has been a topic of inquiry among scholars of literature and educationalists for nearly three quarters of a century (Richards, 1929; Rosenblatt, 1937). Among empirical researchers, in contrast, attention to literature is quite recent, with most studies having been carried out only over the last 20 years. The literary field is fraught with controversy, however. Basic differences...

African Literature and English Language: A Political Literary Discourse

A political literary discourse is important at this moment, given the political upheavals that have engulfed African countries. The writer is often seen as an emancipator of the masses therefore, the imaginative writer can, through his work, offer critical appraisal of existing political situations in order to mould and redirect the actions of society, its belief and values. Literature can ther...

Beyond Class A: A Proposal for Automatic Evaluation of Discourse

Introduct ion The DARPA Spoken Language communi ty has just completed the first trial evaluation of spontaneous query/response pairs in the Air Travel (ATIS) domain. 1 Our goal has been to find a methodology for evaluating correct responses to user queries. To this end, we agreed, for the first trial evaluation, to constrain the problem in several ways: D a t a b a s e A p p l i c a t i o n : C...