In this paper we present the results of a preliminary survey to investigate the range of temporal metaphors in mundane discourse in English. We concentrate in particular on temporal metaphors that involve space and movement, which we call ‘spatio-kinetic’ temporal metaphors. We present a sample of real text showing how, even in a short piece of discourse, a wide variety of temporal metaphors is...

In this paper we develop discourse approach to text interpretation. Being concerned with the study of language in use (written texts of all kinds and spoken data, from conversation to highly institutionalized forms of talk), discourse analysis has built a significant foundation for applied linguistics, including ELT. Discourse approach to text interpretation implies three-dimensional semiotic a...

Airong Wang, Mid-Sweden University This paper reports on a task-based language teaching course in Second Life. The data set consists of transcribed recordings and a teacher interview. Focusing on how the teacher facilitated student participation, this paper aims to explore the discourse functions in the teacher language output and then to address the teacher roles in three different task phases...

The purpose of the current study was to examine the vocal productions of young children acquiring Standard American English and to determine whether intonation production is influenced by discourse context and developmental level (i.e., age). Participants were 24 children with typically developing speech and language, ages 12 to 23 months. A cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected ...

A number of recent studies have argued that the notion of faithfulness to an original should be abandoned in models of discourse presentation, and particularly in accounts of direct speech presentation. This has coincided with a shift of attention in the study of discourse presentation from written to spoken data. This article discusses the arguments that have been made against the notion of fa...

Early intervention and integration are highly valued ideals in kindergartens Norway. Building on two research projects informed by institutional ethnography, the authors address how kindergarten teachers ‘do’ early their everyday work. They argue that this work largely revolves around managing categories, whether making categories fit people or categories. In work, rely social technology is inf...

Differences in the ways that men and women use language have long been of interest in the study of discourse. Despite extensive theorizing, actual empirical investigations have yet to converge on a coherent picture of gender differences in language. A significant reason is the lack of agreement over the best way to analyze language. In this research, gender differences in language use were exam...

Interest in conducting problem-based learning (PBL) on-line has increased to meet student and physician schedules. Little research describes skills needed to facilitate PBL on-line. In this paper we studied teaching presence in asynchronous PBL groups. Two raters, with average inter-rater agreements of 0.80, used an existing code to measure teaching presence in 62 PBL case discussions facilitat...

We will present Common Knowledge (CK) – a pedagogical and technological innovation that supports teacher orchestration of inquiry discourse occurring in the digital and classroom environments. We designed CK to support a “knowledge community” pedagogy where students add their own ideas, build on peers’ contributions, and structure their inquiry. Using tablets, students contributed to a knowledg...