scholarly journals Truth and fake news in the classroom: the sense construction and the discoursive ethics in literacy practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1219-1235
Author(s):  
Antônio Carlos Santos de Lima ◽  
Lilian Soares de Figueiredo Luz ◽  
Aurineide Profírio Barros Correia
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Discourse Ethics ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
The World

This paper aims to present a proposal of literacy practice, which reflects current and relevant topics such as truth (FOUCAULT, 2014) and the fake news (FONTANA, 2021), from the perspective of discourse ethics (SOUTO MAIOR, 2020). In this proposal, we articulate the reflection on those topics together with the production of a review – a textual genre widely used in the academic sphere. We situate our proposal in the perspective of Applied Linguistics (AL), by focusing on the issue of language as a social practice, which reflects constitutive aspects of society and culture that is crossed by discursive practices built from ideological threads (FABRÍCIO, 2006) and, for this reason, are present in literacy practices. In this proposal we have used the movie called "The invention of lying" (2009), because we could realize this movie as a useful resource that allow subjects to reflect about different aspects which they face in their social context and is related to writing and reading process in the world (LIMA; SOUTO MAIOR, 2020)

scholarly journals EXTRALINGUAL FACTORS OF DISCURSIVE PRACTICES OF FAKE NEWS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(78)) ◽  
pp. 90-92
Author(s):  
Svitlana Rybachok
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Discourse Practices

The article focuses on the issues of discursive practice of fake news as a certain type and format of social practice, which organizes social life by falsified means, determines communicative forms of individual behavior in typical situations in order to mislead, control minds and behavior of individuals and / or social groups through preferencial access to mass media resources, which promptly respond to any innovative processes in society, indicate the major transformations of society, changes in a particular community. The study identifies extra lingual factors of discourse formation that led to the creation of important social, cognitive, technological, political and ethical issues, as well as understanding the conditions and social practices under which there was a possibility of such discourse practices. The research reveals that modern discursive formation that correlate with specific technological, political, information and communicative means of virtual and real media resources have formed specific interactive and communicative/discursive practices of fake news as a hybrid form of information production and dissemination in order to manipulatively influence the public opinion, political decisions in the best interests of dominated groups.

scholarly journals Discourse and society: the language in a dialogical perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 362-371
Author(s):  
Andréia Mainardi Contri ◽  
Carla Rosane da Silva Tavares Alves ◽  
Antonio Escandiel de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dialogical Relationship ◽  
The World

This text summarizes a qualitative research of bibliographical nature that aimed to reflect about the language as social practice, emphasizing the dialogical nature of theoretical contributions, such as Bakhtin (2006, 2010) and Fairclough (2001), as well as considerations of Marx (1845) and other authors who recover conceptions of these theorists, including Fiorin (2011), who presents a retelling, especially of Bakhtinian positions. In the social perspective of language, principles that emanate from historical, social, cultural and ideological spheres articulate, so that the communication process articulates in fact as a tool to promote human interaction. Regarding discourse, there is need to understand the importance of understanding social and cultural changes, what knowing the context of the discursive subject implies and, consequently, to understand a discursive practice. In the perspective of Fairclough (2001), it is essential to critically analyze the transformations that have occurred in society. The language as social practice is evident in the various discourses, as evidenced by the theoretical positions that support this research. In this perspective, the understanding of the world occurs through the dialogical relationship, in which events of the present, past and future are intertwined, which signals that the discursive practices promote changes in contemporary society.

Summary Comments

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 284-291
Author(s):  
Robert B. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Third World

Two ideas emerge very clearly from a reading of the 15 articles that constitute this volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics: The first idea emerges from virtually all of the articles herein included—the notion of what constitutes literacy has changed rather dramatically over the past decade. The second idea derives largely from the set of articles which examine literacy practices in various parts of the world—while there is a clearer understanding of what constitutes literacy, the implementation of literacy dissemination programs, even in the most advanced countries (let alone in the third world) is beset with possibly insolvable problems.

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 compassion to distance: Hannah Höch’s ‘Mother’

2021 ◽  
pp. 135050682110289
Author(s):  
Andrea Pérez-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Abortion Rights ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the work of the German artist Hannah Höch in the light of the struggle for abortion rights in the Weimar Republic. I attempt to show how Höch’s uses of the technique of photomontage can be read as a way of introducing a distance between the work and the viewer that allows us to question the beliefs we use to make sense of the world. Specifically, I discuss her photomontage Mutter (‘Mother’), a version of a photograph taken by John Heartfield, and some of her writings and interviews. I also examine closely the material conditions and political debates in which Höch’s work – as a social practice – developed. After a brief introduction and a methodological outline, I present Höch in the context of Berlin Dada and summarise the main underlying arguments of my hypothesis. Namely, that the major interest of Höch’s photomontages lies in the complex articulation of activism and philosophy, and in the way in which they put mainstream categories into question by ‘distancing’ fragments of reality.

scholarly journals Has the World Changed? My Neighbor Might Know: Effects of Social Context on Routine Deviation

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tilmann Betsch ◽  
Stefanie Lindow ◽  
Christoph Engel ◽  
Corina Ulshöfer ◽  
Janet Kleber
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The World

Post-Yugoslav Serbian Literature and Its Roots in the Social and Political Changes

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Milan Orlić
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
World Language ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The World ◽  
Socialist Realist ◽  
The One

Post-Yugoslav literature and culture came out of the stylistic formations of Yugoslav modernism and postmodernism, in the context of European cultural discourse. Yugoslav literature, which spans the existence of “two” Yugoslavias, the “first” Yugoslavia (1928–1941) and the “second” socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1990), is the foundation of various national literary and cultural paradigms, which shared the same or similar historical, philosophical and aesthetic roots. These were fed, on the one hand, by a phenomenological understanding of the world, language, style and culture, and on the other, by an acceptance of or resistance to the socialist realist aesthetics and ideological values of socialist Yugoslav society. In selected examples of contemporary Serbian prose, the author explores the social context, which has shaped contemporary Serbian literature, focusing on its roots in Serbian and Yugoslav 20th century (post)modernism.

scholarly journals CULTURAL REPRESENTATION OF POWER AND THE COURT DURING THE PERSONAL REIGN OF CHARLES I STUART

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
L. I. Ivonina
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The World ◽  
King Charles I ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

The article analyzes the main features of the Caroline era in the history of Britain, which were reflected in the cultural representation of the power of King Charles I Stuart and the court’s daily life in the 1630s. The author shows that, on the one hand, the cult of peace and the greatness of the monarch were the cultural product of the Caroline court against the background of the Thirty Years' War in continental Europe. On the other hand, there was a spread of various forms of escapism, the departure into the world of illusions. On the whole, the representation of the power of Charles Stuart and the court’s daily life were in line with the general trend of the time. At the same time, the court of Charles I reflected his personality. Thinly sensing and even determining the artistic tastes of his era, the English king abstracted from its political and social context.

scholarly journals A Review : Fake News Analysis and Detection

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-69
Author(s):  
Mridula Arvind Halgekar ◽  
Vidya Kulkarni
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference

With the growing world in terms of technology and population, the growth of technological use by the population has also increased. The technology has become a part of every human being’s life. It is not just a part of his professional life but also a part of his personal life. There are so many things happening in the world that keeps the world changing. To grow along with this growing world, we need to keep ourselves updated. Media plays an important role in keeping the population updated. The world is kept updated irrespective of the location of the population reading the news and the location of the incident occurring. Fake news is the biggest drawback in this process. We believe what we see and what we read as it the only way to keep ourselves updated. So Fake news hampers the population and may result in unexpected incidents. So it is the need of the hour to understand the difference between real and fake news. This project is for fake news analysis and detection. A dataset of news is considered, pre processing is done and then the fake news and real news are predicted using random forest and xgboost algorithms.

scholarly journals An Investigation of Sites, Uses and Practices For  Literacy in the Lives of Pasifika Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
John G Dickie
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lower Test ◽  
Pasifika Students ◽  
The One ◽  
Out Of School

<p>An investigation of sites, uses and practices for literacy in the lives of Pasifika students Lower test scores on school measures of literacy for Pasifika students than for the majority of students in New Zealand are a cause for concern. As part of a wider attempt to address this problem the Ministry of Education has argued that teachers need to be better informed of out-of-school literacy practices. This thesis considers what can be learned when this guidance is followed and it investigates students' social and cultural uses of literacy in family and community settings. It explores the argument that knowledge of these out-of-school literacies will inform teachers and through incorporation (McNaughton, 2002) teachers may be able to make effective connections for students to school literacy. A sociocultural perspective is used to investigate the social and cultural practices of the students while the study also uses Cremin's (1976) concept of configurations of sites to consider how learning is mediated for students in different settings. Rogoff's (1995) three planes of analysis provide a tool to examine students' practices at the community, interpersonal, and personal levels. The investigation sought the students' own perspective of how they appropriate knowledge about literacy as they collected information with cameras and journals on their own practices. The participants were 14 Pasifika students aged 11 and 12 years (mostly Samoan) as well as three adult Samoan church representatives and teachers from the students' school. Students' photos were used to elicit rich description in semi-structured interviews and interview schedules were also used with students and adult participants. The findings illustrate how the students were socialised into particular practices that are contextualised in the sites of family, church and neighbourhood. They reveal that for the students there was both overlapping of values and conflict between their sites of literacy practice. The complementarities occurred most strongly between family and church and a valued feature of the students' practice was the use of Samoan language. The most common conflicts were those related to popular culture and they occurred between the sites of family, church and school on the one hand and neighbourhood sites on the other as well as within family sites. The thesis argues that awareness of the complementary and conflicting features is essential for teachers in understanding the complexity the students face in choosing their paths among two cultures. This knowledge enables teachers to incorporate aspects of out-of-school literacy into school practice and to draw on those in the students' backgrounds who may facilitate students' literacy acquisition.</p>

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