Category Archives: Expert Talks 2020

In specialized as well as in everyday discourse, individuals usually use texts to understand their meaning in a community. Understanding is indeed the spontaneous mode of dealing with intellectual discourse since texts are written to convey a message to be understood by the readers. Accordingly, in the social sciences and humanities, many interpretive methodologies haveContinue reading “JOHANNES ANGERMULLER – DISCOURSE ANALYSIS”

What happens when your entire world view changes during your doctoral study? How can you successfully continue with your research? This presentation encourages (doctoral) researchers not to shy away from the big ‘O’ (Ontology) question and to actively work with ontology in their research to produce concepts that “expose us to the interesting, the remarkable,Continue reading “MARTINA EMKE – ONTOLOGY: FROM SOCIO-CULTURALISM TO POST-HUMANISM”

This session will start with a definition of social semiotics as a method to investigate meaning-making. First, we will explore the relevance of social semiotics in enriching our understanding of multimodal communicative competence, multiliteracies, and translanguaging practices. Then, we will explore the key premises and key methodological tools of social semiotics: signs, modes and modalContinue reading “MUGE SATAR – MULTIMODALITY/ SOCIAL SEMIOTICS”

This study explores the constructs of self and how learning has been influenced over a lifespan. Autoethnographic narrative methods were used to explore key learning experiences using a timeline to trace significant occurrences that influenced learning over a lifespan. This story telling method is used to illuminate and build historical narratives to challenge and shapeContinue reading “NEIL SUMMERS – FROM SCHOOLBOY TO NURSE TO LECTURER TO COUNSELLOR: AN AUTO ETHNOGRAPHY OF DECONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE SELF AS A LEARNER””

Thematic analysis is commonly deployed by qualitative researchers who seek to identify, analyse and interpret patterns within their collected data. In this session, drawing on research studies in which I have used this approach, I will explore the contextual shaping of our thematic analyses and the need for rigour, attention to detail and the explicitContinue reading “TERESA CREMIN – THEMATIC ANALYSIS IN CONTEXT”

Eyetracking has been used in Applied Linguistics research mainly for reading and related tasks. However, eyetracking can also give us information about the focus of attention during synchronous online speaking tasks. By recording students’ and teachers’ gaze movements during computer-mediated tutorials we can make tentative claims about their attention. Stimulated reflection interviews based on viewingContinue reading “URSULA STICKLER & LIJING SHI : EYETRACKING IN A SOCIO-CULTURAL FRAMEWORK”

Social relations are at the core of every aspect of society and relevant from disciplines as diverse as health (how do diseases pass from one group to another?) and politics (which MPs influence each other?). Social network analysis is a research approach that uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore relationships and their effects.Continue reading “VICTORIA MURPHY – SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS”

In this lecture, I build on Jaspal Naveel Singh’s Thursday’s lecture on historical foundations of ethnographic discourse studies to explore how to operationalise some of the key ideas. To illustrate strengths and limits of ethnographic and discourse analytic methods I present field notes and transcripts from two Studies of Work research projects – one ofContinue reading “YANNIK PORSCHÉ – ETHNOGRAPHIC DISCOURSE STUDIES: METHODOLOGICAL OPERATIONALISATIONS”