Hierarchy and Institutional Texts as Vertical Authority

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Texts

Discursive stickiness: Affective institutional texts and activist resistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 2046147X2110083
Author(s):  
Erica Ciszek ◽  
Richard Mocarsky ◽  
Sarah Price ◽  
Elaine Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Material Functions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gender Transgression ◽  
Historical Discourses ◽  
Institutional Texts ◽  
Public Relations Theory

Pushing the bounds of public relations theory and research, we explore how institutional texts have produced and reified stigmas around gender transgression and how these texts are bound up in moments of activism and resistance. We considered how different discursive and material functions get “stuck” together by way of texts and how this sticking depends on a history of association and institutionalization. Activism presents opportunities to challenge institutional and structural stickiness, and we argue that public relations can challenge the affective assemblages that comprise and perpetuate these systems, unsettling the historical discourses that have governed institutions by establishing new communicative possibilities.

scholarly journals Building representative multi-genre corpora for legal and institutional translation research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
Fernando Prieto Ramos ◽  
Giorgina Cerutti ◽  
Diego Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Target Population ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Sequential Approach ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Restricted Area ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Legal Translation ◽  
Corpus Design ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Institutional Texts

Abstract Exploring questions of representativeness, balance and comparability is essential to tailoring corpus design and compilation to research goals, and to ensuring the validity of research results. This is especially true when the target population of texts under examination is very large and transcends a restricted area of specialization and/or covers multiple genres, as in the case of texts translated in institutional settings. This paper describes the multilayered sequential approach to corpus building applied in a comparative study on legal translation in three of these settings. The approach is based on a full mapping and categorization of institutional texts from a legal perspective; it applies an innovative combination of stratified sampling techniques integrating quantitative and qualitative criteria adapted to the research aims. The resulting corpora, categorization matrix and selection records, together with the methodological detail provided, can be useful for building other multi-genre corpora in translation studies and further afield.

scholarly journals How deep is the difference?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taraneh Korkmaz
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
State Power ◽  
Application Form ◽  
Official Document ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Institutional Texts ◽  
Three Dimensional Space ◽  
Multimedia Installation

This paper follows the blurriness of the concept of difference as it relates to the Canadian idea of diversity, and its manifestation in governmental forms and official documents. It highlights the paradoxical (inconsistent) function of such documents in addressing diversity, individuation and change. This research was informed by the concept of difference, defined (interpreted) by Manuel DeLanda, and is expressed in a multimedia installation titled Illegal Entries, which reconfigures the Canadian Passport Application form (PPTC 153-154) as a three-dimensional space. This installation shows viewers that this official document, which operates to legitimize state power over citizens’ bodies, is designed to undermine the concept of difference, which is at the core of individuation and is the backbone of diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. This paper provides an account of how a document is transformed into a documentary. The installation creates a bilingual, audio-visual conundrum that consists of institutional texts, commands and warnings. This is juxtaposed with animated graphics, icons and shapes that appear in the document in addition to the image of the passport ID photograph.

Inclusive Host Language Teaching

2022 ◽  
pp. 183-210
Author(s):  
Raquel Amaro ◽  
Susana Correia ◽  
Matilde Gonçalves ◽  
Chiara Barbero ◽  
Miguel Magalhães
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Institutional Texts

This chapter presents research on the teaching-learning of Portuguese as a host language, based on the exploration of authentic informational and institutional texts targeting migrant and refugee people, and considering that successful host language teaching must correspond to the needs of its target audience. The chapter discusses methods of defining and identifying criteria and features to monitor official texts with regard to inclusiveness and bias. It provides insights on how to select real texts to be used in task-based language teaching approaches for inclusive host language teaching. Departing from a real corpus analysis, the potential and the limitations of existing guidelines to inclusiveness for the assessment of real texts are shown, as well as other still neglected issues. Furthermore, this chapter provides future research directions to an effective and reliable assessment of inclusive texts that can serve as inclusive host language teaching materials through NLP and machine learning approaches.

scholarly journals Les TICE, un moyen d’émancipation didactique au Maroc

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-338
Author(s):  
Asmaâ Afnakar
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Time Constraint ◽  
Writing Classroom ◽  
Classroom Activity ◽  
Réseau Social ◽  
Institutional Texts ◽  
Reseau Social

Sur la base d’une expérience d’écriture collaborative menée sur un réseau social, nous tentons de démontrer comment un usage des TICE transgressif des textes institutionnels et de la conception de l’activité d’écrire telle qu’elle se présente dans les textes officiels au Maroc pourrait contribuer à une redéfinition des relations stéréotypées entre enseignant et apprenant et à la création d’un espace allié à celui de la classe, où l’on enrichirait les enseignements qui y sont dispensés et qui échapperait à la contrainte du temps. The ICT, a means of emancipation in Morocco. Abstract: On the basis of a collaborative writing experiment we led on a social network, we attempt to demonstrate how "informal" use of ICT in a writing classroom activity (beyond official institutional texts) could help redefine the stereotypical relationship between teacher and learner and create a parallel space for classroom, where instruction is enriched and time constraint is bypassed.

Master’s students’ post-editing perception and strategies

FORUM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Loïc de Faria Pires
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Tracking Data ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Process Study ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Tracking Device ◽  
The University ◽  
Institutional Texts ◽  
Editing Process

Abstract The present article aims at presenting the results of an exploratory post-editing process study carried out in a Belgian university, the University of Mons. For this experiment, 64 final-year translation students with no post-editing experience post-edited from English into French parts of five different institutional texts from the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of the European Commission. They were additionally asked to fill in a prospective questionnaire and a retrospective one, related to their post-editing perception and strategies. Four students took part in the experiment on a separate computer equipped with an eye-tracking device, so that eye-tracking data could be collected and compared with these students’ questionnaires. We found that results related to eye-tracking data correlate well with previous research, and that students’ perceptions of post-editing depend on each university’s particular context.

scholarly journals The model of Mary between Islam and Catholicism: The figurativization of normative principles in the intercultural exchange

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-315
Author(s):  
Jenny Ponzo
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Narrative Representations ◽  
Intercultural Exchange ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
Institutional Texts

AbstractIn the Catholic tradition, saintly characters work as figurativizations or narrative representations of underlying values and normative principles and therefore represent strategic communication media to disseminate particular models of behavior among the faithful. This paper tests the efficacy of the representation of saintly figures in the case of the interreligious dialogue by focusing on the case study of the construction and communication of the figure of the Virgin Mary in the encounter between Catholics and Muslims. What emerges from an analysis of scholarly and institutional texts, as well as from some reflections on ecumenical practices in Marian shrines, is that the representation of Mary as the figurativization of abstract values and norms mostly concerns a cultivated elite and that the dialogue on the respective representations of Mary is quite limited and concerns especially Mary as the model of the perfect pious and devout person.

Global Anglican Discourse and Women’s Ordination in Kenya: The Controversy in Kirinyaga, 1979–1992, and its Legacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Stephen Asol Kapinde ◽  
Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Holistic Development ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Multiple Material ◽  
Institutional Texts

Abstract In the 1980s, the question of women’s ordination in the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) caused a controversy in Kirinyaga diocese, in which Archbishop David Gitari (1937–2013) played a critical role as an advocate for women. This controversy is just one example of how African Christian women have faced multiple material and theological obstacles to ordination, both in the Anglican Church and in other churches. Through an analysis of institutional texts we show how the issue of women’s ordination has been addressed in formal Anglican decision-making processes. We also outline the patriarchal attitudes that characterized the wider discourse of women’s ordination in Kenya and in the Anglican Communion, and discuss how this discourse informed Gitari’s intervention. Opposition to women’s ordination is only one facet of sexism in the ACK, as was implicitly recognized by Gitari in his wider project of ‘holistic development’.

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