Acceptance of the norm or suspension of disbelief? The case of formulaic language in dubbese

Swiss director Milo Rau holds a mirror up to theatre to call into question its assumptions, conventions, and relationship to daily life. Rau’s nonfictional story of the murder of Ihsane Jarfi takes place within two overarching narratives with different timeframes—what happens on the stage now, and what happened beyond the stage then. His dramaturgy cautions against both suspension of disbelief and catharsis and against confusing the fictional with the real.

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Analyzing trends in the aural decoding errors of Japanese EFL learners

IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching ◽

10.1515/iral-2020-0050 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Kriss Lange ◽

Joshua Matthews

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

First Year ◽

Formulaic Language ◽

Decoding Skills ◽

Efl Learners ◽

Japanese University ◽

Syntactic Knowledge ◽

L2 Listening

Abstract Japanese EFL learners’ difficulty with accurately decoding connected English speech motivated this mixed methods study. The aural decoding capacities of 63 first-year Japanese university students, with low to intermediate level English proficiency, were first measured with a battery of paused transcription tests (PTT). The transcriptions were clusters of three-words that each possessed attributes typical of co-articulated speech. In addition, after each test, a subgroup of 10 participants individually listened to the same PTT and recounted introspective self-observations of their perceived difficulties with the aural decoding tasks in their L1. These quantitative and qualitative data were used to identify four trends in decoding errors which were categorized as follows: limited collocation familiarity, syntactic knowledge constraints, difficulties utilizing co-text, and L1 phonological influence. This study investigates some of the difficulties associated with aural decoding, highlights the challenges of identifying the origins of decoding errors and suggests that more focus is needed on developing decoding skills as well as knowledge of formulaic language in L2 listening education.

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Waiting for a deus ex machina: ‘Sustainable extractives’ in a 2°C world

Critique of Anthropology ◽

10.1177/0308275x20959419 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 471-489

Author(s):

Dinah Rajak

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Research And Development ◽

Corporate Responsibility ◽

Fossil Fuels ◽

Oil Industry ◽

Paris Agreement ◽

New Wave ◽

Suspension Of Disbelief ◽

Oil Company ◽

Growth Forecasts

In recent years the oil industry has shifted from climate change denialism to advocacy of the Paris Agreement, championing sustainability in an apparent assertion (rather than rejection) of corporate responsibility. Meanwhile growth forecasts continue unabated to finance the industry’s enthusiasm for upstream ventures in uncharted territories. How do extractive companies, and those who work in them, square this contradiction? Fieldwork among oil company executives points to a new wave of techno-optimism: a deus ex machina that will descend from the labs of corporate research and development (R&D) labs to reconcile these irreconcilable imperatives. Rather than denial, the projection of win-win synergies between growth and sustainability involves a suspension of disbelief; an instrumental faith in the miraculous power of technology that tenders salvation without forsaking fossil fuels, or restructuring markets.

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Editor's Introduction

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics ◽

10.1017/s0267190512000116 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. vi-vii ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Charlene Polio

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Applied Linguistics ◽

New York Times ◽

Annual Review ◽

Popular Press ◽

Formulaic Language

Given the proliferation of recent research on formulaic language, including several books, it seemed time to devote an issue of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics to the topic. Empirical research focusing on chunks of language shows no signs of waning, and the topic has even made its way into the popular press, thanks to Ben Zimmer's column in the New York Times two years ago.

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Ludic Learning

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations ◽

10.4018/jgcms.2013040102 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 20-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Aleshia T. Hayes ◽

Carrie L. Straub ◽

Lisa A. Dieker ◽

Charlie E. Hughes ◽

Michael C. Hynes

Keyword(s):

Virtual Environments ◽

User Experience ◽

Social Presence ◽

Mixed Reality ◽

Emerging Technologies ◽

Emerging Technology ◽

Sense Of Presence ◽

Suspension Of Disbelief

New and emerging technology in the field of virtual environments has permitted a certain malleability of learning milieus. These emerging environments allow learning and transfer through interactions that have been intentionally designed to be pleasurable experiences. TLE TeachLivE™ is just such an emerging environment that engages teachers in practice on pedagogical and content aspects of teaching in a simulator. The sense of presence, engagement, and ludus of TLE TeachLivE™ are derived from the compelling Mixed Reality that includes components of off-the shelf and emerging technologies. Some of the noted features that have been identified relevant to the ludic nature of TeachLivE include the flow, fidelity, unpredicability, suspension of disbelief, social presence, and gamelike elements. This article explores TLE TeachLivE™ in terms of the ludology, paideic user experience, the source of the ludus, and outcomes of the ludic nature of the experience.

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