{"title":"Dynamism in exchange structure","authors":"Margaret Berry","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.1.03BER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.1.03BER","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers the meaning of the term ‘dynamism’ in relation to systemic functional linguistic accounts of exchange structure, in which a distinction is often drawn between ‘dynamic’ accounts and ‘synoptic’ accounts. The paper then discusses and develops a model of exchange structure which is intended to be dynamic, focusing in turn on ‘supporting moves’, ‘queries’ and ‘challenges’. The eventual aim is that the model should be applicable to various forms of discourse, bringing out the differences between them and relating these to the contexts of situation. Applications to be particularly considered in the present paper are to classroom discourse and to a sociologically interesting form of discourse such as interviews with young offenders.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"1 1","pages":"33-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.1.03BER","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic acculturation in language learning through Facebook: Passing the turning points","authors":"Ward Peeters, C. Fourie","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.2.04PEE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.2.04PEE","url":null,"abstract":"Due to students’ growing networking needs, educational institutions are increasingly looking for tools to bolster peer communication and information exchange. These tools, furthermore, need to facilitate students’ adaptation to the new academic culture and support their academic acculturation. This study proposes to integrate the social networking site Facebook into the learning programme, providing students with a low-threshold online environment where they can share ideas , experiences and information while creating social bonds. Data from two case studies show that students experience various challenges associated with academic acculturation and try to overcome them by consulting their peers via Facebook. Ultimately, this study demonstrates that through social networking, careful assignment design and tutor support, students are encouraged to acculturate and become active, responsible learners.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"292-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.2.04PEE","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yanna B. Popova, Stories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and Enaction.","authors":"Marco Caracciolo","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.2.07CAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.2.07CAR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"326-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.2.07CAR","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59432188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Specificational there-clefts: functional structure and information structure","authors":"K. Davidse, Ditte Kimps","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.1.07DAV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.1.07DAV","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we present functional-structural and information structure arguments for recognizing specificational there- clefts, i.e. clefts that specify a value for a variable. We distinguish two types which hinge on whether the matrix is a listing or a canonical existential. Listing there- clefts enumerate one or more instances as corresponding to the variable, e.g. You are quite right David, it was engineered, seems there’s only me and you who can see this. Quantifying there- clefts indicate the quantity of instantiation of the variable, e.g. Look at the shape of it. There’s only one thing that’s that shape .","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"12 1","pages":"115-142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.1.07DAV","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds), Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns.","authors":"T. Egan","doi":"10.1075/etc.9.2.06ega","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.9.2.06ega","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"320-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/etc.9.2.06ega","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59432143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engagement markers in translated academic texts: Tracing translators’ interventions","authors":"Agnes Pisanski Peterlin","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.2.03PIS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.2.03PIS","url":null,"abstract":"The author-audience interaction is an important issue in academic writing, but when academic texts are translated, new issues regarding the author-audience relationship arise because of the translator’s involvement in the text. This paper examines translators’ interventions in academic writing by focusing on one dimension of the author-audience interaction, i.e., reader-oriented strategies or engagement markers. Corpus analysis is employed to explore the use of engagement markers in academic texts translated into English, their corresponding source texts originally written in Slovene, and in comparable original English texts. The analysis reveals that while the frequency of engagement markers is relatively similar in the two sets of originals, it is considerably lower in the translated texts. This means that translators’ interventions resulted in a reduction in the use of engagement markers. The findings identify several potential reasons for translators’ intervention, including a tendency to avoid risky strategies such as the use of directives, adaptation of the target text to the conventions of the target language/culture, and adaptation of the target text to a new audience.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"268-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.2.03PIS","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intertextuality as Cognitive Modelling","authors":"Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.2.02KAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.2.02KAR","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a way in which the concept of cognitive modelling can be applied to studies of intertextuality. The paper suggests a fresh way of looking at intertextuality – from the perspective of the cognitive processes involved in decoding intertextual references, namely, analogical mapping across different domains. Our knowledge of cognitive processes is largely based on the study of cognitive processing of texts, but texts with intertextual references have until now been a less well-studied area of cognitive research. I define three different ways in which texts relate to each other: hard modelling, soft modelling and loose association. From a cognitive perspective, I suggest that mental processing of these texts involves different knowledge structures which I describe using Schank’s (1982, 1986, 1999) theory of dynamic memory.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"244-267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.2.02KAR","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59431798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joan Cutting, Language in Context in TESOL.","authors":"F. Meunier","doi":"10.1075/etc.9.2.05meu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.9.2.05meu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"317-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/etc.9.2.05meu","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59432069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The Flaming Ramparts of the World\": The Function of Lucretius in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean","authors":"M. Hacke","doi":"10.1075/ETC.9.2.01HAC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.9.2.01HAC","url":null,"abstract":"The present article analyses Walter Pater’s novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), focusing particularly on the nexus between the story’s setting in Ancient Rome and its treatment of religion. Even though the abrupt ending of Marius’s Bildung suggests that Pater had not yet succeeded in reconciling his aesthetic philosophy with a religious life in community, the novel encourages its readers to adopt an eclectic religious consciousness. By examining Pater’s references to Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura , the article investigates how Pater used the Roman poet to reinforce this message, and to react against the materialism of post-Darwinian Britain. Moreover, it shows how Marius the Epicurean incorporates and subverts some of the motifs that can be found in popular Victorian novels set in Rome.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"9 1","pages":"221-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.9.2.01HAC","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59432181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘If but as well I other accents borrow, that can my speech diffuse’: Multilingual perspectives on English Renaissance drama","authors":"D. Delabastita, T. Hoenselaars","doi":"10.1075/ETC.6.1.01INT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ETC.6.1.01INT","url":null,"abstract":"Keywords: Functions of multilingualism; English Renaissance drama; William Shakespeare; stage dialects; Englishness vs. foreignness; interdisciplinarity","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2015-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/ETC.6.1.01INT","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59428860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}