The main aim of this study is to extend our current understanding of the linguistic characteristics of student-centred distance education texts. This aim links directly with the shift in South Africa from an objectivistic, content-centred teaching approach towards an outcomes-based, studentcentred one. Partly because few guidelines exist as to what the linguistic characteristics of student-centred texts are, developers of such texts in a distance education environment face many challenges and thus, a secondary, more indirect aim of this study is to benefit developers of distance education study materials. In view of the educational context in which the study is situated, a brief overview of some of the most relevant pedagogic perspectives underlying the notion of student-centredness is provided. Student-centredness is then interpreted in terms of Biber's (1988) construal of `involvement' and also in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL): more particularly, the interpersonal discourse semantic metafunction of SFL and on insights developed in Appraisal Theory. The focus of the study is thus on `involvement' and the expression of evaluative stance, and consequently on attitudinal language through `involvement' features. Of particular interest to the present study is how learning is advanced through the use of attitudinal language. The data for the study include six print-based distance education teaching texts (study guides) from three different academic departments at the University of South Africa. Two guides from each department are analysed and compared: one developed by way of a content-centred approach to teaching and the other by way of a student-centred approach. The linguistic construal of evaluative stance in these guides is analysed and interpreted in interpersonal terms. The thesis develops a theoretically motivated explanation of the linguistic characteristics of student-centred distance education texts, and in the process provides evidence of the interpersonal and pedagogic relevance of evaluative stance in the context of distance education. Some of the main conclusions reached are that student-centred texts differ from contentcentred ones with regard to: the extent to which the social presence of discourse participants is signalled in such texts; the extent to which solidarity is negotiated with students; the participation of students in the knowledge construction process; the relationship that prevails between lecturers and students; and the identity developed for both students as well as lecturers. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Linguistics)

[pt] A tese apresenta pesquisa realizada com professores contratados do Departamento do Primeiro Segmento do Colégio Pedro II tendo como questão principal: O que os relatos dos docentes contratados do Departamento do Primeiro Segmento do CPII nos dizem sobre o significado de seu trabalho, sua identidade e experiência? Tardif e Lessard (2005) são referenciais teóricos usados para as reflexões sobreo trabalho docente, com as categorias teóricas atividade, experiência e identidade; Ball (2001, 2012) contribui com o conceito de atuação de políticas, e Dubet (2014), com a discussão sobre desigualdades. Como referencial teórico-metodológico foi utilizado Goffman, com os conceitos de face e estigma, entre outros, e para a análise sociolinguístico-interacional. A pesquisa qualitativa utilizou como estratégias de coleta e geração de dados: a) pesquisa bibliográfica sobre leis e documentos reguladores do trabalho de professores contratados no Colégio Pedro II, b) entrevistas semiestruturadas com quinze professoras, c) catorze entrevistas com gestores do Colégio e representantes da Associação de Docentes. A análise de conteúdo foi utilizada para a análise dos dados coletados em documentos e gerados nas entrevistas. Buscou-se, também, através do diálogo entre a Educação e a Linguagem, especialmente a Sociolinguística Interacional (GOFFMAN, 2013 [1964], 2013 [1979], b MISHLER, 1986a, 1986b), analisar as entrevistas como um encontro social, assim, a interação da entrevistadora com os entrevistados e a construção do sentido pelos atores foram também colocadas em foco. Como resultados, constatou-se que as professoras contratadas do Colégio Pedro II têm mais direitos assegurados que colegas de outras redes, como constatado na revisão empírica. Sobre a atividade docente, as professoras indicam valorizar a estrutura física e acompanhamento pedagógico realizado pelas equipes de Orientação e Coordenação, e percebem-se mais satisfeitas no trabalho, apesar da precariedade formal, do que em outras redes onde trabalham. A experiência de trabalho foi vista como formativa, percebida como uma faculdade, momento de renovação, de capacitação. Algumas professoras destacam ter aprendido a dar aula, a avaliar e a ensinar adaptando o ritmo e conteúdos às necessidades dos alunos. A experiência de contrato é procurada como um possível trampolim para a condição de efetiva, desejo da maioria. Em relação à identidade, embora a experiência de trabalho tenha propiciado uma ressignificação do ser professora para algumas, criticam a falta de aval para a realização de alguns projetos, a falta de voz para a manifestação em alguns espaços, e outras se sentem uma mão de obra descartável, apesar de perceberem o quanto a escola precisa de seu trabalho. Demandam um tratamento mais igualitário, tanto em aspectos formais (horas trabalhadas, salário), quanto simbólico, e sugerem a valorização de sua experiência nos concursos para efetivos. A análise sociolinguístico-interacional mostra como as professoras procuraram, durante a interação, equilibrar a dupla hierarquia de poder (pesquisadora e professora efetiva x entrevistada e professora contratada) e o estigma do qualificante contratada, através de estratégias de anulação do estigma, por meio da construção de uma face de professoras competentes, merecedoras de pertencer ao Colégio Pedro II, ou pela denúncia do estigma que marca a situação de professora contratada. / [en] The thesis presents a research carried out with substitute teachers of the First Segment Department of the Colégio Pedro II and it has as the main question: What do the reports of the substitute teachers of the CPII s First Segment Department tell us about the meaning of their work, their identity and experience? As theoretical references, Tardif and Lessard (2005) were used for the reflections on the teaching work and theoretical categories (activity, experience and identity); Ball (2001, 2012), for the theoretical reflection on the concept of policy and policy enanctment, and Dubet (2014), for the discussion on inequalities. Goffman s concepts of face and stigma, among others, was used as theoretical-methodological reference, including the socio-linguistic-interactional analysis The research has a qualitative framework. The researcher used as strategies to collect and generate data: a) bibliographical research on laws and regulatory documents of the work of substitute teachers in Colégio Pedro II, b) semistructured interviews with fifteen teachers, c) fourteen interviews with schools managers and Teacher s Association delegates. Content analysis was used to analyze the data collected in documents and generated in interviews. The dialogue between Education and Language, especially Interational Sociolinguistics (GOFFMAN, 2013 [1964], 2013 [1979], b MISHLER, 1986a, 1986b), contributed to analyze the interviews as a social event. The interviewer s interaction with the interviewees and the construction of meaning by the actors were also placed in focus. As a result, the substitute teachers of Colégio Pedro II have more assured rights than colleagues from other networks in Brazil. Regarding the teaching activity, the teachers indicate that they value the school structure, both physical and pedagogical – the last carried out by the Orientation and Coordination teams. Despite the formal precariousness they are more satisfied than the substitute teachers of other networks, public or private. The work experience was perceived as formative, a faculty, renewal, empowerment moment. Some teachers emphasize having learned to teach, to evaluate, and also to teach by adapting the rhythm and content to the needs of the students. The experience of contract is sought as a possible trampoline to the condition of permanent teacher, the majority s desire. Regarding identity, although the work experience has led to a re-signification of being a teacher for some, they criticize the lack of endorsement for the realization of some projects, the lack of voice for the manifestation in some spaces. Some of the substitute teachers feel as a disposable labor even though they realize how much the school needs their work. They demand more egalitarian treatment, both in formal (worked hours, salary) and symbolic aspects, and they suggest that their experience should be valued in permanent teachers’selection. The sociolinguistic analysis shows how teachers manage, during the interviews, to balance the dual hierarchy of power (permanent teacher researcher vs. interviewed substitute teacher) and the stigma of the substitute, through stigma avoidance strategies and the construction of a competent teachers face, or through the reporting the stigma that marks the position of substitute teacher.

MENDONÇA, Jeane Maria Alves. A expressão de obrigação em Fortaleza/CE: ter, dever e precisar em variação. 2010. 106 p. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-09-28T14:24:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Diss_JMAMENDONCA.pdf: 2970247 bytes, checksum: 9d7249452547ea1f48bf966f6498b7db (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-11-14T13:47:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Diss_JMAMENDONCA.pdf: 2970247 bytes, checksum: 9d7249452547ea1f48bf966f6498b7db (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-14T13:47:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_Diss_JMAMENDONCA.pdf: 2970247 bytes, checksum: 9d7249452547ea1f48bf966f6498b7db (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / This research at an analysis of the expression of obligation by means of auxiliary modal verbs ter; dever and precisar; considering both linguistic and extralinguistic elements; in the speech of the city of Fortaleza; located in the Brazilian state of Ceará For the analysis of the linguistic facts; Labov’s Variation Theory was adopted Moreover; as an attempt to integrate the principles of markedness and iconicity to the results; functionalism was also considered In order to investigate this variation phenomenon; 24 instances were adopted from the speech corpus Português Oral Culto de Fortaleza (PORCUFORT) collected between the years of 1993 and 1994 The study revealed that; during the instauration of an obligation; ter is the preferred form among speakers; since it represents 77% of occurrences out of a total of 322 data It is followed by the variant dever; which corresponds to 15% of the data The variant precisar corresponds to 08% of the data This piece of research also revealed that elements such as age group; type of obligation; time; and illocutionary force appear to be significant for the use of the variants ter and dever; the latter form also being conditioned by the element group entitled type of deontic target On the other hand; the variant precisar seemed to be conditioned only by type of deontic source / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a expressão de obrigação na fala de Fortaleza/CE por meio dos verbos auxiliares modais ter; dever e precisar; considerando-se fatores linguísticos e extralinguísticos Adotamos; para a análise dos dados; a Teoria da Variação e; na tentativa de integrar os princípios de marcação e iconicidade aos resultados obtidos; consideramos; também; o Funcionalismo Para investigar esse fenômeno de variação; utilizamos 24 inquéritos de um corpus de fala; intitulado Português Oral Culto de Fortaleza (PORCUFORT); coletado nos anos de 1993 e 1994 O estudo revelou que; durante a instauração de uma obrigação; o ter é a forma preferida entre os falantes; pois representa 77% das ocorrências; de um total de 322 dados; seguido da variante dever; que corresponde a 15% dos dados; e da variante precisar; que corresponde a 08% dos dados A pesquisa revelou; ainda; que os fatores faixa etária; tipo de obrigação; tempo e força ilocucionária são significativos para o uso das variantes ter e dever; sendo esta última forma também condicionada pelo grupo de fatores tipo de alvo deôntico Por sua vez; a variante precisar mostrou-se condicionada apenas pelo tipo de fonte deôntica

Text in English / The study examines the social motivations that prompt the Rwandan bilingual speakers to code-switch from Kinyarwanda to English, French or Kiswahili in their casual conversations about real-life situations. Methodological techniques used for data collection are ethnographic non-participant observation, oral interviews, focus group discussions and shorthand notes techniques. Examples were examined and interpreted within Myers-Scotton’s Markedness Model as the main theoretical framework for the study. The research findings align with Myers-Scotton’s categories such as the sequential unmarked choice, code-switching itself as the unmarked choice, the marked choice and the exploratory choice respectively. The main social factors that influence code-switching among the Rwandan bilingual speakers were identified as signalling educated status, expressing different social identities, demonstrating measures of power, authority and prestige, narrowing or widening social distance, and maintaining relationships. These results support the hypothesis that code-switching is a strategy to maximise social benefits from the interlocutors in conversation. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M.A. (Sociolinguistics)

This thesis entitled Umoya Wamagama endeavors to establish the nature of the relationship between IsiZulu and Haitian Kreyòl. As a member of the Nguni group, IsiZulu is spoken by Africans. On the other side, Kreyòl is spoken by African descendants of Haiti, the world's first Black independent Republic. Viewed from a multidisciplinary perspective, these two languages exhibit a significant relationship, hence this important observation: IsiZulu- Haitian Krèyol: So Close, Yet So Far! In other words, they are far from a linguistic point of view but close from a psycho-theological perspective. * So Far: Comparative linguistics shows that Kreyòl is genetically related to French and Latin. * So Close: Born in Haiti during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, Kreyòl keeps alive the spirit of the African ancestors and still contains linguistic roots of ancestral languages. Vital and vibrant is this historical relatedness linking the two languages. While Haitian Kreyòl is genetically related to French and Latin, it shares with IsiZulu an ancestral psychodynamic and theological paradigms deeply rooted in Ubuntu. Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu. These words crystallize the essence of Ubuntu. Its psychological and theological study transcends the literal language. In that regard Umoya Wamagama refers to both literal and figurative linguistic expressions. The emphasis however is more on the words which connote additional layers of meaning rather than those which simply denote their meanings. The method used in this thesis is comparative, descriptive, investigative, analytic and exegetic when necessary. Providing evidence of linguistic relationships, the comparative and analytic approach then embraces the semantic field of IsiZulu-Kreyòl as a significant psycholexicology where explanations puts an emphasis on the meaning and the spirit of the words. Siye ngomoya wamagama. Hence, the core question of addressing the psychological and theological dimensions of this research which is based on a multidisciplinary approach. After 500 years, in the wake of European colonial expansion, the Spirit of the African slaves is still alive in the psyche and the language of the Haitian people. As we said above: Yize isiKreyòl saseHaiti sifuze nesiFulentshi nesiLatini, sabelana nesiZulu ngokwemisuka nangokwezimiso zezinkolelo okunezimpande ezijulile emfundisweni yobuntu. IsiZulu and Kreyòl are related through an ancestral psychodynamic and theological paradigms rooted in Ubuntu. / African Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

This work has taken the region of Qwaqwa as a case study. Through this study, the researcher attempted to join in the debate around language varieties that occur as a result of contact between different language groups. To achieve this objective, the factors that have an impact on Sesotho spoken in the Qwaqwa area and, in particular, in schools, have been assessed. The researcher provides a broad and general picture of the language situation and patterns of language use in the Qwaqwa area. A brief overview of the geographical description, historical background and economic development of Qwaqwa is given. Some of the linguistic phenomena that play a role in language variation in this area fall under the spotlight. Language contact, i.e. language and dialect, regional and social dialect, the use of language and the impact of language contact between languages is discussed. Patterns and the extent of language contact and the resultant effects of interference, codeswitching and borrowing as well as the processes and points at which these processes occur are identified. The major similarities and relationships between spoken and written Sesotho, as used by learners in Qwaqwa schools, is highlighted with the discussion focussing on the linguistic description of the similarities and relationships between the two forms. / African Languages / (M.A.(Afican Languages))

Ancrée dans les méthodes de la sociolinguistique critique, cette thèse fait état des questions de légitimité, d’inclusion et d’exclusion, d’ancrage et de mobilité au sein de la collectivité francophone de la province du Manitoba, une minorité linguistique de langue officielle au Canada. Par l’entremise d’un travail de terrain ethnographique et d’entretiens semi-dirigées, cette étude cherche à sonder les questions de la redéfinition de la francité manitobaine, la reproduction des frontières de différenciation du groupe depuis les années 1960. Cette thèse se penche également sur la formation d’une élite en émergence au Manitoba français durant les années 1960 et le phénomène de migration et de mobilité d’une partie de ce groupe. En posant d’emblée une question importante, ‘Qui décide pour qui’, cette thèse se propose de naviguer à travers les questions légitimité sociale, linguistique et identitaire au Manitoba depuis les années 1960. / This research discusses the legitimizing forces that comprise what it means to be francophone in French speaking parts of Manitoba, an official language minority group in Canada. The researcher has through the lens of critical sociolinguistic analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, used participant observation, open ended interviews and discourse analysis to uncover themes of legitimacy, belonging and elite-building in 1960s Franco-Manitoba and how these themes resonate today. The research attempts to answer the conundrum, “who decides for whom” in matters of the right to francophone recognition. The current issues of migration and the dynamic tension between anchoring of the perceived centre and an ever-shifting periphery of linguistic and “ethnic” boundaries underscore the research.

Traditional healers are one among professionals that are viewed as the most significant people in African Society. They are accorded the highest esteem because of the role they play in saving people’s lives and promoting cultural aspects such as ukuhlonipha amasiko in isiZulu. It should be remembered that this word ukuhlonipha which means to respect, is used across cultures to maintain peace within family and society. It all depends on which culture promotes it more than others. It is sociolinguistic truism that ukuhlonipha is essentially linked to the ubuntu philosophy of African people. However, traditional healers more than other people follow ukuhlonipha culture in numerous ways, especially when they meet, being consulted and during traditional ceremonies. They serve and promote what in IsiZulu is known as ukuhlonipha, which to the uninitiated and sometimes even to the scholars of this philosophy is a mystery. It is for this reason and others that people view them as the soul of society. This study looks at relevant sociolinguistic theories especially the politeness theory to analyze most of the hlonipha features shown by traditional healers, apprentice and people during consultation. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

The current vast sociocultural shift from Modernism to PostModernism forms the backdrop to this study. Whenever paradigm shifts occur, the metaphors which depict human experience and identity also change. The mechanistic metaphors of Modernism are giving way to metaphors derived from art and literature, in particular narrative theory. Self, as one of the most pivotal notions in philosophy, literature, and psychology, should not be excluded from this process of reconceptualisation. As the point of intersection between the personal and the cultural, the notion of Self now needs to bereformulated to become more coherent with Post-Modernist ideas. Within this framework the Modernist notion of a Self which is unified, substantial, and stable across all contexts, is deconstructed in this study to reveal the linguistic and ideological codes and conventions which are used in its construction. It is proposed that the Self can be viewed as embedded in relationship with others and as inscribed by the prevailing cultural ideologies regarding personhood. As such the Self can be regarded as held together reflexively by narrative codes and conventions. These ideas are demonstrated in an analysis of two written self-narratives and applied to the conventions and practices in psychotherapy. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

MONTEIRO, Francisca Natália Sampaio Pinheiro. Fala, professor!: um estudo variacionista de atos de comandos proferidos por professores de Fortaleza/CE. 2010. 119p. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2010. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-08-07T14:22:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_diss_FNSPMONTEIRO.pdf: 1097762 bytes, checksum: 61aadb3f7abea3c61f56056b1274345b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-11-14T12:20:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_diss_FNSPMONTEIRO.pdf: 1097762 bytes, checksum: 61aadb3f7abea3c61f56056b1274345b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-14T12:20:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_diss_FNSPMONTEIRO.pdf: 1097762 bytes, checksum: 61aadb3f7abea3c61f56056b1274345b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo variacionista dos atos de comando, codificados pelo imperativo, pela perífrase ir mais infinitivo, pelo infinitivo e pelo gerúndio, na fala de professores de Fortaleza/CE. Para tal análise, adotamos os pressupostos teóricometodológicos da Sociolinguística Variacionista e do Funcionalismo Linguístico. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é investigar fatores linguísticos e extralinguísticos que condicionam a variação das formas de codificação dos atos de comando. Os dados foram submetidos ao tratamento estatístico do programa GOLDVARB. Foram analisados 410 dados, obtidos através de gravações de aulas de 18 professores do Ensino Fundamental e Médio da rede Municipal e Estadual de ensino em Fortaleza. Os professores foram agrupados em três faixas etárias (20 a 30 anos; 35 a 45 anos; mais de 50 anos) e nas três áreas em que a disciplina ministrada está inserida (Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias; Ciências da Natureza, Matemáticas e suas Tecnologias; Ciências Humanas e suas Tecnologias). A análise dos dados indica que o fenômeno em estudo é condicionado por fatores linguísticos, menção explícita do manipulado, marcas de polidez e força do comando, e pelo fator extralinguístico faixa etária. Palavras-Chave: Atos de comando. Imperativo. Modalidade. Sociolinguística. Funcionalismo. / This dissertation presents a variationist study of acts of command in Portuguese, codified by the Imperativo, by the periphrasis ir may infinitivo, by the infinitivo, and by the gerúndio, in the speech of teachers from the city of Fortaleza, in the Brazilian state of Ceará. In order to conduct the analysis, we adopted the theoretical and metodological presuppositions of Variationist Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Functionalism. The general aim of this study is to investigate linguistic and extralinguistic elements that condition the variation of forms of codification of the acts of command. The data was submitted to statistical treatment on the program GOLDVARB. An analysis of 410 data obtained through the recordings of teaching sessions of 18 Elementary and High School teachers of state and town schools was conducted. These teachers were grouped into three age groups (20 to 30, 30 to 45, may 50), and into the three areas in which the subject is inserted (Languages; Codes and Technologies; Natural Sciences; Mathematics and Technologies; Humanities and Technologies). The data analysis indicated that the considered phenomenon might be conditioned by linguistic elements, explicit mention of the manipulated, politeness markers, and force of command, and by the extralinguistic element age group.