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This study examines patterns of negotiation between teachers and parents in junior high schools in Israel. These negotiations were examined on "parents' days" in three schools between four class teachers and 80 parents of students in their classes. Guided by interpretive approaches to the study of micro-social processes and their application in the models of Hargreaves (1972, 1991) and Strauss (1978, 1990), dealing with negotiations, strategies and working agreements, the study focused on observations of teacher-parent interactions and interviews with teachers and parents. It was found that teachers are guided on parents' day by both pedagogic and survival goals: they seek to advance the students in their studies and to care for their well-being through contact with the parents, but also to shift responsibility to the parents. The parents' goals on these days are to learn about their children's situation in the school, but also to win the teachers' support and sympathy for their children in order to help them advance. To achieve their goals each side uses resources to impress and convince the other side. The teachers emphasize their professional authority, their bureaucratic status and the knowledge they possess of the parents and their children. The parents use their status and rights as parents and the knowledge they possess of the school and the teachers. The findings also indicate that the teachers stress mainly the instructional aspect. This approach perpetuates the hierarchy existing in the education system and does not help to narrow the gaps between students from different socio-economic backgrounds. This indicates a direction for further study and investigation of the question as to how the school can be made to contribute to greater equality, among other things through changing the teachers' educational perception. Perhaps the main purpose of parents' day lies in its ritual functions, which are designed to serve the school organization and constitute a restatement of the common goals of teachers and parents, while supporting the ideology of parent participation and confirming the statuses and roles of teachers and parents. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Socio Education)

This study examines patterns of negotiation between teachers and parents in junior high schools in Israel. These negotiations were examined on "parents' days" in three schools between four class teachers and 80 parents of students in their classes. Guided by interpretive approaches to the study of micro-social processes and their application in the models of Hargreaves (1972, 1991) and Strauss (1978, 1990), dealing with negotiations, strategies and working agreements, the study focused on observations of teacher-parent interactions and interviews with teachers and parents. It was found that teachers are guided on parents' day by both pedagogic and survival goals: they seek to advance the students in their studies and to care for their well-being through contact with the parents, but also to shift responsibility to the parents. The parents' goals on these days are to learn about their children's situation in the school, but also to win the teachers' support and sympathy for their children in order to help them advance. To achieve their goals each side uses resources to impress and convince the other side. The teachers emphasize their professional authority, their bureaucratic status and the knowledge they possess of the parents and their children. The parents use their status and rights as parents and the knowledge they possess of the school and the teachers. The findings also indicate that the teachers stress mainly the instructional aspect. This approach perpetuates the hierarchy existing in the education system and does not help to narrow the gaps between students from different socio-economic backgrounds. This indicates a direction for further study and investigation of the question as to how the school can be made to contribute to greater equality, among other things through changing the teachers' educational perception. Perhaps the main purpose of parents' day lies in its ritual functions, which are designed to serve the school organization and constitute a restatement of the common goals of teachers and parents, while supporting the ideology of parent participation and confirming the statuses and roles of teachers and parents. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Socio Education)

<p>The aim of this study was to find out how features that have been found to be typical of women’s language, such as hedges, tag questions and a high level of talkativeness etc., are represented in a popular TV series. Five cross-sex conversations from one episode of the sitcom <em>The New Adventures of Old Christine </em>were analyzed, and the results show that many of the features of interest, as for instance tag questions, minimal responses and indirect style, are unexpectedly used more frequently by men in this small investigation. In fact, the only feature that was used more frequently by the female main character was hedges. Several factors affect the results of the study, as for instance the fact that the conversations are fictional. The special characteristics of the speakers also affect the results, as well as the tone and the topic of the chosen conversations. Many of the features of interest were used to a very small extent, which is probably a result of the fact that the language in a sitcom is to be entertaining and rather quick, which leaves little or no room for the features studied.</p>

The aim of this study was to find out how features that have been found to be typical of women’s language, such as hedges, tag questions and a high level of talkativeness etc., are represented in a popular TV series. Five cross-sex conversations from one episode of the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine were analyzed, and the results show that many of the features of interest, as for instance tag questions, minimal responses and indirect style, are unexpectedly used more frequently by men in this small investigation. In fact, the only feature that was used more frequently by the female main character was hedges. Several factors affect the results of the study, as for instance the fact that the conversations are fictional. The special characteristics of the speakers also affect the results, as well as the tone and the topic of the chosen conversations. Many of the features of interest were used to a very small extent, which is probably a result of the fact that the language in a sitcom is to be entertaining and rather quick, which leaves little or no room for the features studied.

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / Nosso trabalho investiga como a realizaÃÃo variÃvel de concordÃncia verbal em construÃÃes de voz passiva sintÃtica, com a alternÃncia entre a presenÃa e a ausÃncia de marca explÃcita de plural no verbo de 3 pessoa, apresenta-se no atual contexto linguÃstico cearense, especificamente em dois jornais locais: O Povo e DiÃrio do Nordeste. Para isso, selecionamos 240 ediÃÃes, durante o perÃodo de janeiro a dezembro de 2016, levando-se em consideraÃÃo trÃs gÃneros textuais: editoriais, artigos de opiniÃo e notÃcias. No total, coletamos 121 dados referentes à variaÃÃo de concordÃncia verbal com a construÃÃo de voz passiva sintÃtica, os quais foram submetidos ao programa computacional estatÃstico Goldvarb X, que gerou frequÃncias e pesos relativos que serviram de base para a descriÃÃo e anÃlise dos dados. O programa apontou que a ausÃncia de marca explÃcita de plural no verbo com a voz passiva sintÃtica à condicionada essencialmente por dois grupos de fatores: um linguÃstico, forma verbal, e outro extralinguÃstico, gÃnero textual. Contudo, o nÃmero de dados em que o verbo apresenta marca explÃcita de plural (59,5%) mostrou-se mais representativo do que o somatÃrio dos dados em que o verbo nÃo consta da marca explÃcita de plural (40,5%). Para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho, utilizamo-nos dos pressupostos teÃrico-metodolÃgicos da SociolinguÃstica Variacionista (LABOV, 2008), conjugados a princÃpios funcionalistas, em especial, o PrincÃpio da MarcaÃÃo (GIVÃN, 1995) e o PrincÃpio da Expressividade (DU BOIS & VOTRE, 2012). AlÃm da possÃvel mudanÃa em direÃÃo à indeterminaÃÃo com a construÃÃo de voz passiva sintÃtica, concluÃmos que, no grupo de fatores linguÃsticos forma verbal, as formas perifrÃsticas e infinitivas, especialmente com esse tipo de construÃÃo, tendem a ser realizadas sem a presenÃa do morfema de plural, como uma manobra para reduzir ou anular o esforÃo de codificaÃÃo, motivada em termos de expressividade e de eficÃcia comunicativa. Jà em relaÃÃo ao grupo extralinguÃstico gÃnero textual, hà tendÃncia de que formas mais marcadas ocorram em contextos mais marcados e as menos marcadas em contextos menos marcados, ou seja, formas verbais mais marcadas em construÃÃes de voz passiva sintÃtica â com a presenÃa de morfema de plural â tendem a ocorrer em contextos mais marcados, como no gÃnero textual editorial, ao passo que formas verbais menos marcadas â com a ausÃncia de morfema de plural â tendem a ocorrer em contextos menos marcados, como no gÃnero textual notÃcia. / Our work investigate how the variable fulfillment of verbal concord in synthetic passive voice constructions, alternating between the presence and absence of explicit mark of plural in the third person of verb forms, is presented in the current linguistic context of CearÃ, specifically in two local newspapers: O Povo and DiÃrio do Nordeste. In order to reach this goal, we selected 240 editions focusing on three textual genres: editorial, opinion article, and news from January to December, 2016. A number of 121 data concerning the variation of verbal concord with the synthetic passive voice construction was selected and submitted to the statistical computer program Goldvarb X which generated frequencies and relative weight that served as basis to the description and data analysis. The program pointed out that the absence of the explicit mark of the plural in the verb with the synthetic passive voice is subject to two groups of factors: one linguistic, verbal form; and the other extralinguistic, textual genre. However, the number of data in which the verb presents explicit mark of plural (59.5%) claimed to be more representative than the amount of data in which the verb is not present in the explicit mark of plural (40.5%). In order to develop this research, we used as theoretical-methodological basis the Sociolinguistic Variation (LABOV, 2008), attached to the functionalist principles, notably to the Markedness Principle (GIVÃN, 1995) and the Principle of Expressiveness (DU BOIS & VOTRE, 2012). Besides the possible change towards the indetermination due to the use of the synthetic passive voice, we conclude that as for the group verbal form the periphrastic and infinitive forms, especially with this type of construction. The aforementioned forms tend to be fulfilled without the presence of the plural morpheme as a device to reduce or set aside the codification effort and motivated in terms of expressiveness and communicative accuracy. As far as the extralinguistic group textual genre is concerned, there is a tendency that more marked forms occur in contexts that are more marked and less marked forms occur in contexts that are less marked as well. In summary, more marked verbal forms in synthetic passive voice â with the presence of a plural morpheme - tend to appear in contexts that are more marked such as in textual genre editorial whereas less marked verbal forms â absence of plural morpheme â tend to occur in contexts that are less marked such as in the news textual genre

Collective nouns are a category of nouns that refer to a group of people or things. This group of nouns has the special characteristic that when in singular form, they can be followed by either a singular or a plural verb. This feature of collective nouns has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and traditional grammarians, who in the last few decades have tried to explain this phenomenon by investigating different perspectives on it, thereby taking into consideration morphological, syntactic and semantic, as well as variational and discourse-specific differences (Biber et al, 1999; Levin, 2001; Depraetere, 2003). One of the main assumptions that has been suggested in the literature is that collective nouns have specific concord preferences, allowing for either a singular or a plural verb or both. Another assumption that has also been invoked is that when collective nouns are part of a complex noun phrase, as for instance in the phrase the rest of (the) society, in which the collective is part of the of-phrase, the plural tends to be used. Based on these two assumptions, the aim of this thesis is to further investigate, firstly whether a singular or a plural verb is used after expressions where a collective noun is being modified by a quantifying noun expression (e.g. the rest of, part of), secondly whether the concord preferences the collective nouns have an influence on the verbal concord and finally if there is any difference between the two main varieties of English, namely British and American English. Since this is a topic of actual language use, the methods used in corpus linguistic research are also employed in the thesis. More specifically, by looking at the instances of quantifying noun expressions modifying collective nouns as well as the frequency with which such constructions occur in two different corpora, the enTenTen13 and the GloWbE (Corpus of Global Web-Based English), the thesis seeks to answer the aforementioned questions. From the analysis of the data it was concluded that in some cases the concord preferences of the collective nouns influenced the verb form following the complex noun phrases, whereas in others these preferences did not determine the selection of the verb form. Syntactic, semantic as well as contextual factors seem to also influence the selection of the verb form. Furthermore, variational differences occurred, since in British English the plural was more often used with collective nouns that prefer the plural concord over the singular one or that are more variable in their concord patterns, whereas in American English the singular was the preferred choice in all cases.