249 research outputs found
Subordinates' Imperatives in a Faculty Meeting: Evidence of Social Inequality and Collegiality
Imperatives are ubiquitous, and may be interesting to analyze when deployed by subordinates especially in an institutional talk such as faculty meetings. This paper was built on our earlier paper, where it describes the pragmalinguistic structures of Tagalog imperatives and the local academic conditions that hastened the production of subordinate’s imperatives for the chair of the meeting to do something. This paper is distinct because it reports and describes the proofs of social inequality and collegiality invoked during the meeting. Five meetings formed the corpus of this study. Drawing on the interface of Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis, results show that subordinate’s imperatives are evidence of social inequality because of the subordinate’s higher epistemic knowledge compared to the Chair of the meeting. The Chair wrestles with the subordinates through a number of exasperated prosodic and paralinguistic elements. Meanwhile, subordinate’s imperatives are evidence of collegiality with the shift to positive prosodic, paralinguistic, and embodied cues of the Chair and the subordinate. Overall, the discourse of imperatives is a depiction of the sharing of members’ power, knowledge, and other socio-pragmatic local academic conditions. There is also a push and pull of use and abuse of power and collegiality. Toward the end, we propose a longitudinal case to widen the scope and instances of imperatives
Subordinate’s Imperatives in Faculty Meetings: Pragmalinguistic Affordances in Tagalog and Local Academic Conditions
Subordinate’s imperatives are generally known to be a sort of a deviant speech act, especially when employed for a person in authority to do something. This paper explores two major dimensions that underpin the possible forbearance of the subordinate’s imperatives. Firstly, it is shown that the Tagalog basic imperative has pragmalinguistic properties that may be followed or broken based on some socio-pragmalinguistic affordances. Secondly, a number of contextual factors such as power, distance, and ranking, including the Filipino cultural and academic orientation of pakikisama or smooth interpersonal relationships are described. The study employed Conversation Analysis and socio-pragmatic analytic approach. The imperatives came from five meetings from three departments in a private university in Manila, Philippines. The meetings lasted for 5 hours and 50 minutes. Results show Tagalog Basic Imperative has pragmalinguistic properties that may be followed or broken based on the following likelihood: the awkwardness, indirectness and insincerity of mitigated imperatives; and the level of urgency for the hearer to do something. The giver’s socio-pragmatic conditions also hasten the production of imperatives. These results draw into the conclusion that local conditions are negotiated in during turns at talk. Within the sphere of a faculty meeting, subordinate’s imperatives are socio-pragmalinguistically legitimate, acceptable and non-deviant. Subordinate’s imperatives play an indispensable pragmatic role in the realization of the purpose of the meeting. Although the analyses are parochially based on Tagalog, implications of these microscopic findings bear out cross-linguistic, universal and cross-cultural relevance
Controle da podridão parda em pessegueiro conduzido em sistema orgânico e produção do antagonista Trichothecium roseum
Orientador: Louise Larissa May De MioCo-orientador: Cícero Deschamps, João Américo Wordell Filho e Luiz Antônio BiasiTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Agrárias, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agronomia. Defesa: Curitiba, 2007Inclui bibliografia e anexosÁrea de concentração: Produção vegeta
CORRELATING WRITER’S BLOCK AND ESL LEARNERS’ WRITING QUALITY
Despite the importance of writing in the language learners’ development, there are difficulties faced by English as a Second Language (ESL) learners that stem from various factors. One of them is the presence of writer’s block that could affect writing quality. Therefore, this study aims to describe writer’s block, along with a statistically-laden analysis of the possible correlation between the blocking experiences of 55 Filipino ESL learners and the levels of easability and readability of the essays they had written. This research employed a descriptive-correlational design using The Questionnaire in Identifying Writer’s Block (QIWB) to gauge the extent of occurrence of writer’s block and the Coh-Metrix Common Core Text Easability and Readability Assessor (hereafter Coh-Metrix T.E.R.A.), an online computational tool, to measure the levels of easability and readability of the essays. The result shows that the learners generally experienced writer’s block, and their essays collectively showed high levels of easability on the basis of narrativity, referential cohesion, and deep cohesion. However, the essays were low in syntactic simplicity and word concreteness, while the level of readability computed exceeded that of the reading ability of 10th-grade learners. Test of correlation revealed that there exists negligible relationship between writer’s block and the overall easability and readability levels of the essays, though a significant but a weak relationship was documented between lateness and word concreteness and with premature editing and deep cohesion, respectively
Question-declaration coupling in a university meeting talk: Discourse of social inequality and collegiality
Conversation Analysis (CA) deals with the description of the microscopic and corpus-driven data in an ‘unmotivating looking’ analytical fashion. As long as there are new, interesting, or deviant features from the data, they are always worthy of a micro analysis. For this paper, we report the ‘question-declaration coupling’ in meeting talks as a new feature and explicate it through the discourse of social inequality and collegiality in the academe. The data came from a total of five recorded meetings from three departments, such as Education, Arts Science, and Social Work, in a private university in Manila, Philippines. The meetings lasted for five hours and 50 minutes. From adjacency pairs of question-answer, the sequential pattern shows that the questions deserve conspicuous answers from the subordinates, but the Chair automatically couples them with declarative sentences and other utterances that serve as continuers. The pattern is categorised as a strategic turn-suppressing mechanism to hold back the members from possibly challenging the existing policies of the institution. It is also seen as a strategic mechanism to deprive the members of extending the litanies of possible counter-arguments. From a positive perspective, we argue that it is through the air of social inequality and collegiality that people are able to know their boundaries in an ongoing interaction. Toward the end, we state the implications of the results for teaching and learning socio-pragmalinguistics. We also recommend future cross-linguistic comparisons for these microscopic features under study, considering the small corpus of this study
Ocorrência de enteroparasitos em manipuladores de alimentos das cantinas da Universidade Federal da Paraíba/Campus I.
The enteroparasitosis and their damages to one health represent a public health
severe problem. One of the main forms of transmission occurs through water and
contaminated foods by protozoa as well as helminthes, thus food h
andlers play an
important role in the contamination process. This work has as a goal to investigate the
occurence of enteroparasites in handlers, working in shops situated at Federal
University of Paraíba as well as trace an enteroparasitological profile o
f them. The
study counted on a sample of 58 food handlers, being developed in 3 steps. During
the first step, it was applied an epidemiological form. In the second, the fecal material
was analyzed by Hoffmann, Pon and Janner’s techniques and Blagg method.
The third
step consisted in delivering and forwarding the reports to a basic health unit. Through
coproparasitological exams, it was found that 70.69% of the investigated ones
revealed positivity to at least one parasite species as well as intestinal comme
nsals.
This fact itself reflects in the sanitation, presence or not of sewage, consumed water
quality and the hygiene habits in which these employees are exposed. The major
occurrence of individuals with enteroparasites was observed in females, representin
g
80% (32) of a 40 women total.
The parasitological profile found was: Endolimax nana
(62,7%),
Entamoeba coli
(15,52%),
Ascaris lumbricoides
(5,17%),
Entamoeba
histolytica/E.dispar
(1,72%) and
Giardia lamblia
(1,72%).
Therefore, the creation of
educational programs which aim the guidance of appropriate practice concerning
personal hygiene and food handling, is essential since these measures can decrease
the risks of contamination as well as the spread of enteroparasites.As enteroparasitoses
e seus danos à saúde representam um grave problema de
saúde pública, haja vista o grande número de indivíduos infectados. Uma das
principais formas de t
ransmissão, ocorre mediante água e alimentos contaminados
por protozoário e/ou helmintos, assim
os
manipuladores de alimentos desempenham
papel signif
icativo no processo de dissemina
ção. Este trabalho tem por objetivo
investigar a ocorrência de enteroparas
itos em
manipuladores
atuantes
em
estabelecimentos comerciais
da Universidade Federal da Paraíba
(UFPB), bem como
delinear o perfil enteroparasitológico dos mesmos.
O estudo contou com uma amostra
de 58 manipuladores de alim
entos, sendo desenvolvido em trê
s etapas. Durante a
primeira etapa, aplicou
-
se uma ficha epidemiológica. Na segunda, o material fecal foi
analisado pela técnica de Hoffmann, Pons e Janner e
método de
Blagg
.
A terceira
etapa consistiu na entrega dos laudos e no encaminhamento a unidade bá
sica de
saúde (UBS). Mediante exames coproparasitológicos, constatou
-
se que 70,69%
(41)
dos investigados apresentaram positividade
para pelo menos uma espécie de
pa
rasitos e comensais intestinais, este fato reflete nas condições de saneamento
básico, prese
nça ou não de rede de esgoto, qualidade da água consumida e os
hábitos de higiene a que os funcionários estão expostos.
A maior ocorrência de
indivíduos enteroparasitados foi observada no gênero feminino, representando 80%
(32) de um total de 40 mulheres.
O perfil parasitológico encontrado foi:
Endolimax
nana
(62,7%),
Entamoeba coli
(15,52%),
Ascaris lumbricoides
(5,17%),
Entamoeba
histolytica/E. dispar
(1,72%) e
Giardia lamblia
(1,72%
). Portanto, é imprescindível a
criação de programas educacionais que visem
a orientação de práticas adequadas de
higiene pessoal e manip
ulação dos alimentos, uma vez que estas medidas diminuem
os riscos de contaminação e disseminação de enteroparasitos
As ferramentas de BI (Business Intelligence) e suas contribuições para o processo decisório de uma empresa do sul do Estado de Santa Catarina
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso, apresentado para obtenção do grau de Bacharel no curso de Ciências Contábeis da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, UNESC.As ferramentas de Business Intelligence buscam ressaltar por meio de gráficos, telas onde tornam a informação mais atraente aos olhos dos gestores, pois fazem com que a análise se torne mais clara. Para que possa identificar as ferramentas utilizadas pela empresa objeto de estudo, mas também os procedimentos utilizados pela mesma. Em relação à metodologia do trabalho, utilizou-se a pesquisa descritiva, a mesma desenvolveu-se sobre um estudo de caso. Quanto à abordagem do problema, o estudo caracteriza-se como qualitativo. Essa pesquisa busca realizar o estudo sobre as necessidades das informações de uma empresa a fim de fazer um estudo de caso observando os benefícios que poderiam ser trazidos com o BI. Através da pesquisa realizada pode-se obter dados onde foram geradas informações relevantes a empresa pesquisada, fazendo com que suas tomadas de decisões possam ser feitas de forma mais segura. Pode-se então sugerir algumas estratégias para melhoria de resultados, com base nas análises feitas
A cartografia tátil como prática educacional no ensino inclusivo da geografia
The search for inclusion in the contemporary world has grown in the most diverse social
spheres. This is no different in education, where new ways of promoting education for
students with disabilities, called inclusive education, are discussed. In order for this inclusive
education to take place, Federal Laws provide for its implementation, as the Federal
Constitution of 1988, in its art. 6, in addition to the Basic Federal Law for Education, the
LDB - Law of the Guidelines and Bases of Brazilian Education (Law 9.394 / 96). These and
many other laws address the necessity and obligation of such inclusive teaching. In contrast,
this inclusive education still has few adequate methodologies for effective teaching for these
students with disabilities. Within these methodologies, we highlight tactile cartography, an
educational practice geared towards the teaching of Cartography and Geography in general,
for students with total visual impairment and / or low vision. Tactile cartography is based on
the encounter between Cartography, Education and Geography, and it is necessary to
understand the three parts to understand tactile cartography. Using tactile maps, which are
representations of geographic contents, tactile cartography aims to assist people with visual
impairment in the orientation, location and analysis of geographic contents, whether physical
or social. In order to propose this inclusion, this work has as main objective to reduce the
difficulties of students with visual impairment in the school environment, strengthening their
understanding and bringing the student closer to Geography and its contents, through tactile
cartography. The research was developed at the Rodrigo Otávio Municipal Elementary
School, located in the Bairros dos Estados, in the city of João Pessoa / PB, with students with
visual impairment of the 5th grade enrolled regularly in the school. In this way, tactile maps
of the contents of the textbook were constructed, following the assumptions of Almeida
(2011) to help the students during the academic period. In this context, we sought to
understand the effectiveness of this educational practice in regular education and to ponder its
importance in the training of students with disabilities in the initial years. As a result, it was
noticed that the tactile cartography, when applied in the correct way, helps the students'
comprehension, enabling the visualization of that map through the touch, making Geography
teaching effective and more complete.NenhumaA busca pela inclusão, no mundo contemporâneo, tem crescido nos mais diversos âmbitos
sociais. Esse fato não é diferente na educação, onde se discutem novas formas de promoção à
educação para estudantes com deficiência, chamada de educação inclusiva. Para que essa
educação inclusiva aconteça, Leis Federais dão aporte para que ela seja efetivada, como a
Constituição Federal, de 1988, em seu art. 6°, além da Lei Federal básica para educação, a
LDB – Lei das Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Brasileira (Lei 9.394/96). Essas e várias outras
leis abordam a necessidade e obrigatoriedade desse ensino inclusivo. Em contrapartida, essa
educação inclusiva ainda apresenta poucas metodologias adequadas para efetivação do ensino
para esses alunos com deficiência. Dentro dessas metodologias se destaca a cartografia tátil,
prática educacional voltada para o ensino da Cartografia e Geografia em geral, para os alunos
com deficiência visual total e/ou baixa visão. A cartografia tátil se arquiteta no encontro entre
a Cartografia, a Educação e a Geografia, sendo necessário o entendimento das três partes para
compreensão da cartografia tátil. Fazendo uso de mapas táteis, que são representações dos
conteúdos geográficos, a cartografia tátil tem como objetivo auxiliar pessoas com deficiência
visual na orientação, localização e análise de conteúdos geográficos, sejam eles físicos ou
sociais. Buscando propor essa inclusão, esse trabalho tem como objetivo principal promover a
redução das dificuldades dos estudantes com deficiência visual em âmbito escolar,
fortalecendo sua compreensão e aproximando o estudante à Geografia e seus conteúdos, por
meio da cartografia tátil. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida na Escola Municipal de Ensino
Fundamental General Rodrigo Otávio, localizada no bairro dos Estados, na cidade de João
Pessoa / PB, com alunos com deficiência visual do 5° ano matriculados regularmente na
escola. Desse modo, foram construídos mapas táteis dos conteúdos pertencentes ao livro
didático, seguindo os pressupostos de Almeida (2011) para auxiliar os alunos no decorrer do
período letivo. Nesse contexto, buscou-se compreender a efetivação dessa prática educacional
no ensino regular e ponderar sobre sua importância na formação do aluno com deficiência nos
anos iniciais. Como resultados, foi percebido que a cartografia tátil, quando aplicada da forma
correta, auxilia a compreensão dos estudantes, possibilitando a visualização daquele mapa por
meio do tato, tornando o ensino de Geografia efetivo e mais completo
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