Abstract The lecture format, while being the subject of much criticism, is still one most common formats university mathematics teaching. This paper investigates lecturing as a means modelling mathematical discourse, sometimes highlighted in literature its important functions. data analysed are taken from first-semester lectures given by seven lecturers at three Swedish universities, all concer...

The paper reveals structural and functional peculiarities of English occult discourse as a cultural phenomenon. research is based on the material explanatory etymological dictionaries texts manifesting Internet. uses comprehensive methodology involving general scientific special linguistic methods. identifies institutional forms types outlines ways to study them. term “occult discourse” denotes...

Discourses about technology and its role in development have been constant themes within IFIP Working Group 8.2 (see the Barcelona proceedings— Wynn et al. 2002). In this paper, we examine how strands of discourse— institutionalized ways of thinking and speaking—shape debate about the digital divide and urban poverty in America. As research is widely esteemed as a wellspring of new ideas, we ar...

First developed during the 1990s, the transnational paradigm in the study of migration has been associated with the notions of displacement, deterritorialisation and frictionless-ness. In more recent times, there has been a growing tendency to spatially ground transnational studies by locating and emplacing transnational practices. The emergence of the so-called transnational urbanism has led t...

Commenting on R&T’s ‘Developing Linguistic Literacy’ is not an easy task. Their attempt addresses precisely the right questions, in all their complexities and breadth, centring and bundling these questions in strategic and potentially novel ways, and thereby exploring new territories and encouraging investigators to enter these territories. However, I still feel left with a sense of incompleten...