This thesis critically investigates how female and male opioid users are represented in local newspapers in Ohio, one of the states which has been most severely affected by the ongoing ‘opioid crisis’ in the United States. Through an analysis of 20 articles from the The Plain Dealer and The Columbus Dispatch, the study aims to highlight how women and men who use opioids are portrayed, and what ideologies are hidden in the texts. Guided by Fairclough’s framework for critical discourse analysis and van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach, the analysis was performed on three levels: text-level, whereby journalists’ word choices, contextualisation and linguistic emphasis were studied; discursive level, which focused on processes involved in the production and consumption of the news pieces, and; sociocultural level, which entailed analysing historical and current developments of drug policy locally and nationally. The study finds that journalists downplay the seriousness of (white) male opioid use by calling men by their nicknames, by portraying them as ‘mischievous’ and by using jokey undertones when referring to their drug use. Female opioid use is constructed as abnormal by use of words such as ‘erratic’ and ‘unruly’ and women are discursively penalised for failing in their roles as caregivers to children. This thesis exemplifies how language use by local journalists’ in Ohio reinforces societal perceptions of male and female opioid users, which may influence counteractive measures by authorities.

This thesis is a critical investigation of the language used in online news headlines to report the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which took place on February 14, 2018 in Florida, United States. By analyzing 50 online news headlines, published by five of the most popular national and local news outlets, the purpose of this study is to understand how the words chosen by the journalists contribute to creating particular meanings, or representations of the event, and if through these representations any hidden ideologies are put forward. The framework used to carry out the research combined Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis with van Dijk’s sociocultural approach, resulting in the study of three different but interrelated elements of discourse: sociocultural practice, or the social and cultural context of gun ownership in the U.S.; discourse practice, hence the processes behind the production of online headlines and the cognitive processes behind their interpretation; and finally, a linguistic analysis of the text itself. The analysis found that, despite the anticipated neutral stance of news journalists, dictated by professional values such as integrity and objectivity, hidden meanings and ideologies necessarily transpire in the language used to describe the violent event, and to represent victims and attacker.

This study was an investigation of students’ explanations of disciplinary knowledge in content and language integrated learning (CLIL). In recent years, an increased interest in teaching content subjects in a foreign language (FL) has brought a growing body of research on CLIL (e.g., Dalton-Puffer, 2007; Llinares, Morton, & Whittaker, 2012), which has yielded valuable insights into CLIL classroom discourse. However, there is a paucity of studies that examined the development of student discourse in CLIL settings because most of existing CLIL research draws on large-scale corpus data and cross-sectional data. Thus, I investigated the processes in which students engaged with disciplinary knowledge and discourse in this case study. The participants included 25 students enrolled in a 15-week content-based English course on sociolinguistics at a Japanese university and a teacher who taught the course. In the sociolinguistics course, the students conducted a group research project in which they carried out sequenced tasks: writing and revising a research proposal, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting findings in oral and written forms. Data were collected in the sociolinguistics course through class observations, video-recordings of the lessons, seven focal students’ group work and oral presentations, and interviews with the focal students and the teacher. Moreover, written reports by the focal students were collected. Informed by a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition (SLA) (Atkinson, 2002; Atkinson, Churchill, Nishino, & Okada, 2007), a multimodal interaction analysis was conducted on explanations of disciplinary knowledge in the instructional and student discourses. Data analysis suggested that content knowledge was represented at various degrees of abstraction in the textbook and teacher explanations (e.g., specific examples, decontextualized propositional claims). Moreover, the teacher drew on multimodal resources including gestures, body movement, and slides to make dense academic knowledge accessible to the students. Regarding student discourse in group work, the focal students flexibly coordinated diverse semiotic resources including talk, written texts, and gestures, which enabled them to appropriate content knowledge and advance their discussion. In this process, their explanations of disciplinary knowledge tended to change from descriptive ones to complex ones. In the oral presentations, the students made the structure of their explanations explicit and represented disciplinary knowledge at various degrees of abstraction (e.g., specific linguistic behaviors, sociolinguistic interpretations). In the question and answer sessions that followed the oral presentations, the teacher interactionally provided feedback, which likely led some students to produce more discipline-appropriate explanations (e.g., elaborated content, increased precision). Although there was a variation among the students, the written reports exhibited the increased use of metadiscourse markers including hedges, which likely resulted in careful explanations of propositional knowledge. These findings suggest that diverse discursive contexts afforded by sequenced tasks and access to varied semiotic resources can facilitate the appropriation of content knowledge by students and support the formulation of context-specific and discipline-appropriate explanations. / Teaching & Learning

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A subsequent review led to the final version of the PIAFEx, which has 42 activities divided into 10 basic modules and a supplement. Their activities provide opportunity in which children can practice adaptive and self-regulated behaviors in a variety of situations and contexts. In the second part of the study, the final sample consisted of 138 children of preschool and 1st year of elementary school, with an average age of 5.5 years, enrolled in two public schools in the state of SP. Besides children, 10 teachers participated, five of preschool classes and five of 1st grade. Of these, four classes (two from each grade level) constituted the experimental group (EG) and six classes (three from each grade level), the Control Group (CG). The PIAFEx was implemented and evaluated over three stages: pretest, intervention and posttest. In the pretest, all children were assessed at Simon Task, Semantic Stroop Test, Trail Making Test for preschoolers, Columbia Mental Maturity Scale (CMMS) and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Parents and teachers responded to the Children Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI) and questionnaires (QPA for parents and QPR for teachers) about child and teacher s basic informations. In the intervention stage, the teachers of GE were instructed and supervised in the implementation of the activities of the PIAFEx. The teachers conducted the activities daily in the classroom. The GC remained with the regular activities. At posttest, the same procedure of the pretest was repeated, except for the EMMC and questionnaires QPR and QPA, and an interview was performed with the EG teachers. ANCOVAs were conducted, with each performance index of each instrument in the posttest as the dependent variable and the same performance in the pretest as covariate, separately for each grade level. The analyzes showed gains of the intervention on performance in attention and inhibition, measured by performance tests, for preschool children and on attention, inhibition and cognitive flexibility, measured by performance tests, and planning and working memory, as measured by CHEXI for children from 1st grade. There were gains in vocabulary skill only to EG from 1st grade and no gain on the naming speed, as expected since the intervention did not aim to develop such skill. Regression analyzes showed that socioeconomic, family and school / teacher variables contribute to the development of cognitive flexibility skills, even only individual variables figured as predictors of measures of inhibition. These analyzes also suggest that participation in the intervention may outweigh the effects of socioeconomic, family and school / teacher variables, confirming the effects of the intervention evidenced from ANCOVAs. A content analysis of the interviews with the teachers of the EG showed their perceptions of gains in organizational skills, planning, discipline, interaction and conflict resolution among children. The study enabled the development and contributes to providing an unprecedented intervention procedure in Brazil. Furthermore, the research showed its applicability in different grade levels and its effectiveness in promoting the development of EF in preschoolers and children in early elementary school, promoting fruitful contributions to the dialogue between neuropsychology and education, from a preventive view. / As funções executivas (FE) compõem um conjunto de processos cognitivos e metacognitivos fundamentais ao controle e à regulação do comportamento, emoção e cognição. Estudos internacionais têm enfatizado a relevância destas funções à aprendizagem e comportamento autorregulado e delineado programas de intervenção para promover o desenvolvimento destas habilidades. Porém, a mesma ênfase não tem ocorrido no âmbito nacional. Este projeto objetiva (1) desenvolver o Programa de Intervenção sobre a Autorregulação e Funções Executivas (PIAFEx) e (2) testar sua eficácia em uma amostra de crianças. Na primeira parte do estudo, foram desenvolvidas as atividades do programa e o mesmo foi submetido à avaliação de juízes. A revisão subsequente originou a versão final do PIAFEx, que conta com 43 atividades distribuídas em 10 módulos básicos e um complementar. Suas atividades proporcionam oportunidades em que a criança pode praticar comportamentos adaptativos e autorregulados em uma série de situações e contextos. Na segunda parte do estudo, a amostra final foi constituída por 138 crianças de pré-escola e 1º ano do Ensino Fundamental, com idade média de 5,5 anos, matriculadas em duas escolas públicas do estado de SP. Além das crianças, participaram 10 professoras, sendo cinco de classes do Educação Infantil e cinco de 1º ano. Destas, quatro classes (duas de cada nível escolar) constituíram o Grupo Experimental (GE) e seis classes (três de cada nível escolar), o Grupo Controle (GC). O PIAFEx foi aplicado e avaliado ao longo de três etapas: pré-teste, intervenção e pós-teste. No pré-teste, todas as crianças foram avaliadas no Simon Task, Teste de Stroop Semântico, Teste de Trilhas para pré-escolares, Escala de Maturidade Mental Colúmbia (EMMC) e Teste de Vocabulário por Imagens Peabody. Pais e professores responderam ao Inventário de Funcionamento Executivo Infantil (IFEI) e a questionários (QPa para pais e QPr para professores) de informações básicas sobre a criança e sobre o professor. Na etapa de intervenção, as professoras do GE foram orientadas e supervisionadas na aplicação das atividades do PIAFEx. Elas próprias conduziram as atividades, diariamente, em sala de aula. O GC permaneceu com as atividades escolares regulares. No pós-teste, foi repetido o mesmo procedimento do pré-teste, com exceção da EMMC e dos questionários QPa e QPr, e foi realizada entrevista com as professoras do GE. Foram conduzidas Ancovas, tendo o desempenho em cada índice de cada instrumento no pós-teste como variável dependente e o mesmo desempenho no pré-teste como covariante, separadamente para cada nível escolar. As análises evidenciaram ganhos da intervenção sobre os desempenhos em atenção e inibição, medidas pelos testes de desempenho, para as crianças da Educação Infantil e sobre atenção, inibição e flexibilidade cognitiva, medidas pelos testes de desempenho, e planejamento e memória de trabalho, aferidos pelo IFEI, para as crianças do 1º ano. Houve ganho na habilidade de vocabulário apenas para o GE do 1º ano e nenhum ganho da intervenção sobre a velocidade de nomeação, como esperado visto que a intervenção não se propôs a desenvolver tal habilidade. Análises de regressão mostraram que variáveis socioeconômicas, familiares e da escola/professor contribuem ao desenvolvimento da habilidade de flexibilidade cognitiva, ainda que apenas variáveis individuais figuraram como preditoras das medidas de inibição. Estas análises também sugeriram que a participação na intervenção pôde suplantar os efeitos de variáveis socioeconômicas, familiares e atrelas à escola/professor, corroborando os efeitos da intervenção evidenciados a partir das Ancovas. A análise de conteúdo das entrevistas realizadas com as professoras do GE evidenciou suas percepções a respeito de ganhos na capacidade de organização, planejamento, disciplina, interação e manejo de conflitos entre as crianças. O estudo possibilitou o desenvolvimento e contribui à disponibilização de um procedimento de intervenção inédito no Brasil. Adicionalmente, evidenciou sua aplicabilidade em distintos níveis escolares e sua eficácia em promover o desenvolvimento das FE em crianças pré-escolares e no início do Ensino Fundamental, promovendo contribuições profícuas ao diálogo entre neuropsicologia e educação, a partir de uma concepção preventiva.

Det centrala ämnet för studien är skolbibliotekets roll för elevers läsmotivation. Tidigare forskning har visat att det saknas kunskap inom området. Det har också visat sig att det skiljer sig mellan olika skolors skolbibliotek även om Skollagen trycker på att det ska finnas en likvärdighet för elevers tillgång till skolbibliotek. Studiens syfte med denna uppsats är att öka kunskapen om hur lärare uppfattar skolbibliotekets roll för att främja elevers läsmotivation vid skolor i Sävsjö kommun. För att undersöka lärarnas uppfattningar om skolbibliotekets roll för elevers läsmotivation används den sociokognitiva motivationsteorin i kombination med en kvalitativ analys med semi-strukturerade intervjuer. I studien intervjuades åtta olika lärare på fyra olika skolor i Sävsjö kommun. Detta för att se på likheter och skillnader inom kommunen. Det har visat sig i studien att det finns goda förutsättningar för skolbiblioteket att fungera som en motivationshöjare i form av det utbud som erbjuds samt lärares arbete med att inkludera skolbiblioteket i undervisningen. Utbudet i skolbiblioteken uppdateras årligen med nya böcker som lärare och elever får vara med och tipsa om. Samarbetet mellan lärarna och de ansvariga i skolbiblioteken/skolbibliotekarierna är näst intill obefintligt även att det visat sig att ett gott samarbete gynnar elevers läsmotivation. Trots detta finns det en efterfrågan att öka samarbete från båda parterna. / The central theme of the study is the role of the school library for student reading motivation. Previous research has shown that there is a lacking of knowledge in this area. It has also been found that there is a difference between schools' school libraries, although The education act stresses that there should be an equivalence for students' access to school libraries. The purpose of this study is to increase the knowledge of how teachers perceive the role of the school library in promoting pupils' reading motivation at schools in the municipality of Sävsjö. To examine teachers' perceptions of the role of the school library for student reading motivation, sociocognitive motivation theory is used in combination with a qualitative analysis with semi-structured interviews. In the study, eight different teachers were interviewed at four different schools in the municipality of Sävsjö. This is to compare similarities and differences within the municipality. It has shown, in the study, that there are good conditions for the school library to function as a motivational enhancer in the form of the range offered and teachers' efforts to include the school library in teaching. The offerings in the school libraries are updated annually with new books that teachers and pupils can take part in and advise on. The collaboration between the teachers and those in charge in the school libraries / school librarians is almost non-existent, even when it has been found that good cooperation favors student reading motivation. Nevertheless, there is a demand for increased cooperation from both parties.

Supplemental instruction (SI), a peer assisted learning model, improves course performance, retention, and graduation rates of post-secondary education students. Researchers have questioned if the success of SI is due to students becoming more aware of assessment demands or if SI also promotes construction of new knowledge. The purposes of this case study were to describe techniques utilized by SI peer leaders, explore how sociocognitive learning techniques are implemented, and explore the perceptions of supplemental instruction program stakeholders regarding sociocognitive learning techniques. The research questions focused on what techniques peer leaders are trained to implement and what peer leaders' perceptions of sociocognitive learning techniques are. Piaget's theories on cognitive conflict and construction of knowledge, Vygotsky's theories on zone of proximal development and sociocognitive learning, and Chi's framework on interactive learning provided the conceptual framework for the study. The case study was conducted at a Northeast United States community college, using interviews with SI administrators and peer leaders (n = 8), voice recordings of SI sessions, and review of training material. The constant comparative method analysis of findings suggest that peer leaders trained in traditional tutoring and sociocognitive learning techniques promote construction of knowledge, and while programmatic and peer leader goals align with sociocognitive learning techniques, student goals do not. One recommendation is to clarify the distinction of SI versus traditional tutoring. This study could lead to positive social change by contributing to expanded goals of SI resulting in enhanced quality of learning for student participants at higher education institutions.

Comment parle-t-on de quelque chose lorsque l'on n'est pas sûr de savoir de quoi il s'agit? Comment construit-on du sens au beau milieu d'une crise sémantique? Et Pourquoi? Cette thèse envisage la production linguistique dans un corpus choisi pour sa haute spécificité: le direct de CNN le 11 septembre 2001. La première partie décrit et justifie le choix de la situation de l'événement en cours et la constitution du corpus, qui bénéficiera d'une double approche, inductive et déductive. La seconde partie analyse les cadres du discours contraints par la situation et contraignant les productions: le direct télévisé et l'interaction y sont caractérisés et analysés. La typologie des profils sociodiscursifs conduit à une analyse en termes de modes de discours. La troisième partie envisage les contraintes cognitives, en intégrant les apports de la psycholinguistique. Négociation de la référence, construction du common ground, structuration de l'information y sont considérés dans le corpus, qui présents bien souvent une déviation par rapport à la situation en langue générale. Une conclusion revient sur le parcours théorique et méthodologique qui aura été nécessaire ainsi que sur certaines conclusions d'analyses. / How do we talk about something when we do not know what it is we are talking about? How do you construct meaning when it escapes? And why do we dot that? The dissertation explores linguistic production in a corpus chosen because it is highly specific: CNN's live broadcast on 9/11. The first describes and justifies this choice in terms of the situation of an ongoing event and in terms of corpus methodology; since its analysis blends inductive and deductive approaches. The second part considers frames of discourse as constrained by the situation and constraining linguistic productions: the TV live broadcast and the interaction are characterized and analyzed. Sociodiscursive profiles emerge that correlate modes of discourse. The third part considers cognitive constraints on verbalizations from the point of view of theories of common ground, bridging linguistics and psycholinguistics. Reference construction, information structuring, the notion of key-words confirm the specific quality of the corpus, deviating from general norms. A conclusion retraces the complex theoretical and methodological considerations and sums up analytical contributions.

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Em hipótese, acreditamos que essas notícias ajudam a construir representações sociais acerca da violência de gênero a partir da apresentação de estereótipos de vítima e agressor na sociedade, da individualização do problema da violência, da associação desse problema às classes sociais menos privilegiadas e da apresentação do crime de violência de gênero como crime passional. O estudo dessas notícias apresenta-se como algo complexo, do qual não participam apenas informações de ordem linguística, mas também de carácter social, histórico, cultural e cognitivo, uma vez que a análise discursiva não pode ser dissociada do contexto, dos atores sociais e das instituições envolvidas na produção da notícia, bem como das ideologias presentes nesse processo. Por esse motivo, assumimos como base teórica de nossa investigação uma proposta multidisciplinar: a Teoria Sociocognitiva de Teun A. van Dijk (1999a; 2011a; 2012; 2014b). Ademais, contamos com as contribuições dos estudos sobre gênero e discurso de Cameron (1985, 1997), Wodak (1997), West, Lazar e Kramarae (2000), Fernández Díaz (2003), Lazar (1993, 2005, 2007), Magalhães (2005; 2009), Heberle, Ostermann e Figueiredo (2006). Além das análises discursivo-analíticas, também utilizamos o programa de linguística de corpus WordSmith Tools para realizar análises quantitativas. Os resultados das análises nos levaram à confirmação das hipóteses iniciais: o discurso das notícias reforça estereótipos de vítima e agressor, típicos de uma estrutura social patriarcal, na qual é atribuída à vítima ou aos vícios (álcool e drogas) a responsabilidade da violência sofrida; além disso, a violência de gênero é apresentada como um problema individual e associada às classes sociais menos favorecidas; e, por último, o discurso das notícias apresenta grande parte dos crimes de violência de gênero como crimes passionais. / The main objective of this study is to analyze how the media help to build the social representation of gender violence the Espírito Santo, the state that leads the national ranking of femicide, with 9.8 homicide rate for every hundred thousand women. Elected as corpus research news on gender violence in ES, aired in 2013, in the newspapers A Gazeta and A Tribuna. Under no circumstances, we believe that this news helps to build social representations of gender violence from the presentation of victim and perpetrator stereotypes in society, the individualization of the problem of violence, this problem Association to less privileged social classes and presentation of crime of gender violence as a crime of passion. The study of this news comes as something complex, which not only participate in information, language problems, but also social, historical, cultural and cognitive, since the discursive analysis cannot be dissociated from the context of social actors and institutions involved in the production of news, and of these ideologies in the process. For this reason, we assume as theoretical basis of our research a multidisciplinary proposal: a Sociocognitive Theory from Teun A. van Dijk (1999a; 2011a; 2012; 2014b). In addition, we rely on the contributions of studies on gender and discourse from Cameron (1985, 1997), Wodak (1997), West, Lazar and Kramarae (2000), Fernández Díaz (2003), Lazar (1993, 2005, 2007), Magellan (2005; 2009), Heberle, Ostermann and Figueiredo (2006). Also we used the corpus linguistics program WordSmith Tools to perform quantitative analysis. The results of the analysis led us to the confirmation of the initial hypothesis: the discourse of news reinforces stereotypes victim and aggressor, typical of a patriarchal social structure, which is attributed to the victim or vices (alcohol and drugs) the responsibility of the violence suffered; moreover, gender violence is presented as an individual problem and associated to lower social classes; and, finally, the discourse of the news has much of crimes of gender violence as crimes of passion.

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Já seu objetivo específico está pautado na investigação do uso, deliberado ou não, de expressões linguísticas metafóricas na construção dessas representações, licenciadas por metáforas conceptuais, empiricamente observadas, como MULHER É ANIMAL, MULHER É COMIDA, MULHER É COISA (MÁQUINA), e CORPO FEMININO É TERRITÓRIO. Para explorar tais objetivos, temos, como objeto de investigação, as chamadas e manchetes das capas do jornal Meia Hora, de circulação diária no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. A partir do corpus selecionado, constituído por seis capas do periódico, procuramos identificar metáforas e metonímias, tanto verbais quanto visuais, tendo como base dois trabalhos de referência: o de Cameron e Maslen (2010), que orienta a identificação das metáforas verbais, e o de Forceville (2008), utilizado como ferramenta de identificação de metáforas não verbais. Identificadas as expressões figuradas, buscamos, a partir de uma análise qualitativo-interpretativista (LÜDKE e ANDRÉ, 1986) e à luz da teoria da metáfora conceptual (LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1980b[2002]), dentro do paradigma da Linguística Cognitiva (GEERAERTS, 2006), propor as possíveis representações cognitivas, ou seja, metáforas conceptuais, frames e MCIs, que subjazem a tais expressões. Além das expressões metafóricas e de sua base conceptual, são igualmente objetos de análise os efeitos pragmáticos, com ênfase no humor, produzidos pelo uso da linguagem metafórica no contexto dos gêneros analisados, assim como a sua dimensão ideológica, no que diz respeito às representações da mulher em nossa língua e cultura. Os resultados da análise corroboram a hipótese sobre a relevância das metáforas conceptuais e frames, nas representações sobre a mulher, que reproduzem e reificam ideologias patriarcais, que a reduzem a um papel de objeto que tem como função primordial satisfazer o homem nas esferas doméstica e sexual. A análise também evidencia a articulação entre o cognitivo e o discursivo na produção de sentidos, ao mostrar como a linguagem metafórica e metonímica se apropria das condições do próprio gênero discursivo, e como este, por sua vez, é, da mesma forma, em parte, determinado pela natureza da linguagem metafórica, corroborando a visão de Dienstbach (2015) sobre metaforicidade / The main aim of this research is to contribute to the understanding of how women are conceptualized and represented in common sense discourse, from a sociocognitive perspective. As to its specific purpose, the research is aimed at the investigation of the use, deliberate or not, of linguistic metaphorical expressions in the construction of particular representations, licensed by conceptual metaphors, which are empirically observed: WOMAN IS AN ANIMAL, WOMAN IS FOOD, WOMAN IS AN OBJECT (MACHINE), and FEMALE BODY IS TERRITORY. In order to explore these goals, the analysis is based on a corpus consisting of six covers of a daily newspaper, from Rio de Janeiro, called Meia Hora, on the basis of which we intend to investigate linguistic and visual metaphors (and metonymies), following two theoretical axes: Cameron and Maslen (2010), which guides the identification of verbal metaphors, and Forceville (2008), used as a tool for the identification of non-verbal metaphors. Through these figurative expressions, we try to identify the possible cognitive representations (conceptual metaphors, frames and ICMs), which underlie them, through a qualitative-interpretative analysis (LÜDKE and ANDRÉ, 1986), oriented by the principles of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (LAKOFF and JOHNSON, 1980b [2002]), as well as by the tenets of Cognitive Linguistics (GEERAERTS, 2006). We also investigate the pragmatic effects of figurative language, with emphasis on the humor produced by the use of metaphorical language in the context of the genres analyzed. Moreover, the ideologies emerging from the data, with respect to representations of women in our language and culture, are also focused. The results of the analysis corroborate the hypothesis on the relevance of conceptual metaphors and frames in women representations, which reproduce and reify patriarchal ideologies that provide women with the role of an object to serve men, both in the domestic and in the sexual spheres. The analysis also evidences the relationship between the cognitive and the discursive dimensions in meaning production, and the way metaphoric and metonymic language can appropriate the discursive genre conditions to generate the intended meaning effects. Finally, we intend to investigate how genre itself is determined by the nature of the metaphoric language, according to the studies of Dienstbach (2015) on metaphoricity