scholarly journals Creative Inquiry in Applied Linguistics: Language, Communication and the Arts

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Bradley ◽  
Lou Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Communication And The Arts ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Creative Inquiry

Qualitative Interviews in Applied Linguistics: From Research Instrument to Social Practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 128-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Talmy
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
The Status ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
Primary Means

Interviews have been used for decades in empirical inquiry across the social sciences as one or the primary means of generating data. In applied linguistics, interview research has increased dramatically in recent years, particularly in qualitative studies that aim to investigate participants’ identities, experiences, beliefs, and orientations toward a range of phenomena. However, despite the proliferation of interview research in qualitative applied linguistics, it has become equally apparent that there is a profound inconsistency in how the interview has been and continues to be theorized in the field. This article critically reviews a selection of applied linguistics research from the past 5 years that uses interviews in case study, ethnographic, narrative, (auto)biographical, and related qualitative frameworks, focusing in particular on the ideologies of language, communication, and the interview, or the communicable cartographies of interviewing, that are evident in them. By contrasting what is referred to as an interview as research instrument perspective with a research interview as social practice orientation, the article argues for greater reflexivity about the interview methods that qualitative applied linguists use in their studies, the status ascribed to interview data, and how those data are analyzed and represented.

From the Artificial to the Art: A Short Introduction to a Theory and Its Applications

Leonardo ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Negrotti
Keyword(s):  
Communication And The Arts ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Natural Objects ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Reproduction Process

The author presents the idea that all human attempts to reproduce natural objects (“exemplars”) or their functions—that is, to build artificial objects or processes—unavoidably result in a transfiguration of the exemplars. After introducing the main concepts of a theory of the artificial, the author extends the theory to communication and the arts, both of which provide compelling examples of the generation of artificial objects or processes. The author conceives of art as a paradoxical communication process by which transfiguration does not represent a failure of the reproduction process but, rather, the true objective of the artist.

scholarly journals Enhancement of Communication Skills of International Language at University Level: Teachers' Side

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Tayyaba Zarif ◽  
Aziz un Nisa ◽  
Abdul Nabi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
International Language ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
The Status ◽  
University Level

The primary objective of current research was to study the status of Enhancement of Communication Skills of International Language at University Level it focused on the exploration of problems & hurdles faced by teachers during teaching & enhancement of International Language communication skills at. The current study was descriptive in nature and quantitative by method. All those universities of Shaheed Benazirabad which offering International language as Functional and Communicative in the version of applied linguistics as content course to their students in different disciplines were the population of the study. From each University sixty percent of the teachers who were facilitating the course of International Language communication were selected with the help of purposive random sampling. Questionnaire with five point Likert scale was used for collection of data. Data was analyzed in frequencies, percent and mean scores. The study results showed that teachers faced different kinds of problems while facilitating in enhancement of International language communication skills at University level.

scholarly journals The Research Trends of Multilingualism in Applied Linguistics and Education (2000–2019): A Bibliometric Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 6058
Author(s):  
Zhong Lin ◽  
Lei Lei
Keyword(s):  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Emergent Bilinguals ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts

This study explored the state of the arts of bilingualism or multilingualism research in the past two decades. In particular, it employed a bibliometric method to examine the publication trend, the main publication venues, the most influential articles, and the important themes in the area of bilingualism or multilingualism. The main findings are summarised as follows. First, a significant increase of publications in the area was found in the past two decades. Second, the main publication venues and the most influential articles were reported. The results seemingly indicated that the research in the area focused largely on two broad categories, that is, (1) bilingualism or multilingualism from the perspective of psycholinguistics and cognition research and (2) how second/additional languages are learned and taught. Last, the important themes, including the hot and cold themes, were identified. Results showed that researchers prefer to study bilingualism or multilingualism more from deeper cognition levels such as metalinguistic awareness, phonological awareness, and executive control. Also, they may become more interested in the issue from multilingual perspectives rather than from the traditional bilingual view. In addition, the theme emergent bilinguals, a term closely related to translanguaging, has recently gained its popularity, which seemingly indicates a recent advocate for heteroglossic language ideologies.

Music and Naturoids: The Third Reality

Leonardo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Negrotti
Keyword(s):  
Communication And The Arts ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Natural Object ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Observation Level ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Technological Field ◽  
High Level

At a high level of abstraction, it can be shown by analogy that attempts to reproduce natural phenomena occur not only in technological endeavors but also in human communication and the arts, including music. This paper presents the parallel development of artificial devices—or “naturoids”—in the fields of technology, message communication and musical composition, highlighting the transfiguration that unavoidably affects the resulting device, message or musical work. In the technological field and, to an extent, in the communications field, the transfiguration of the natural object is taken as a more or less unsatisfying outcome. By contrast, in the arts, and mainly in music, the transfiguration effect is exactly what the artist pursues through placing him- or herself at a nonordinary observation level.

Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Shadow Casting ◽  
Electron Image ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

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