P.R.R. White | The University of New South Wales (original) (raw)
Address: Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
less
Uploads
Papers by P.R.R. White
La serie degli Occasional Papers è una collana collocata all'interno dei Quaderni del Centro di S... more La serie degli Occasional Papers è una collana collocata all'interno dei Quaderni del Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), il centro di ricerca del quale sono responsabile scientifico e che svolge ricerche nell'ambito del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Moderne dell'Alma Mater Studiorum -Università di Bologna. Gli Occasional Papers, nati nel 2005, sono accessibili all'URL http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/ceslic/?page_id=12 Finora sono stati pubblicati i seguenti saggi: (2005) Fusari, Sabrina, Il direct mail per le organizzazioni nonprofit: analisi retorica interculturale italiano-inglese (2005) Louw, Bill, Dressing up waiver: a stochastic collocational reading of 'the truth and reconciliation' commission (TRC) (2005) Nobili, Paola, 'Saper vivere' con gli altri (2006) Witalisz, Alicja, English Linguistic Influence on Polish and other Slavonic Languages
This chapter addresses the issue of pedagogy and bilingual/multilingual education: how best to ma... more This chapter addresses the issue of pedagogy and bilingual/multilingual education: how best to match teaching-and-learning approaches to the literacy development needs of students in multilingual educational settings. More specifically, it makes the case for what is known as the 'Sydney school' genre-based literacy development approach. It argues that, in providing explicit knowledge about the social functions, structures and stylistic properties of the modes of communication associated with academic success and social mobility, it has the potential to address the linguistically based social and economic inequality often experienced by students whose home language is other than the politically dominant, 'majority' language of the school. A brief account is provided of this 'genre-based' approach, followed by an account of its implementation in South Australia over the last decade or so in schools with large numbers of students who speak at home a language other than Australia's majority language, English. Finally, outcomes for students involved in such genre-based literacy development are explored, with findings of a study reported which point to these students making significant advances in their literacy development. This study is of potential interest to South African educators, illustrating the long-term gains that genre-based pedagogies can afford socio-economically and linguistically disadvantaged learners.
This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship which is interested in the rhetorical, axiologi... more This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship which is interested in the rhetorical, axiological workings of what are sometimes termed 'hard news' or 'objective' news stories-a style of news journalism typically associated with the 'quality' or 'broadsheet' news media and involving a regime of 'strategic 'impersonalisation'. It is interested in the communicative mechanisms by which such texts are often able to advance or favour particular value positions while employing a relatively impersonal style in which attitudinal evaluations and other potentially contentious meanings are largely confined to material attributed to quoted sources. It reviews previous research on the evaluative qualities of these texts, with special reference to the literature on attribution and so-called 'evidentiality' in news discourse. It is proposed that understandings of the axiological workings of these text can be enhanced by referencing some of the key insights emerging from what is termed the 'Appraisal 'framework', an approach to the analysis of evaluative language developed within the Systemic Functional Linguistic paradigm of Michael Halliday and his associates. In particular it is proposed that understandings of the workings of these texts can be enhanced by referencing proposals in the Appraisal literature with respect to implicit or 'invoked' attitude and by reference to an account of attribution and so-called 'evidentiality' which is grounded in Bakhtinian notions of dialogism, rather than in notions of truth functionality and certainty-of-knowledge claims.
La serie degli Occasional Papers è una collana collocata all'interno dei Quaderni del Centro di S... more La serie degli Occasional Papers è una collana collocata all'interno dei Quaderni del Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), il centro di ricerca del quale sono responsabile scientifico e che svolge ricerche nell'ambito del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Moderne dell'Alma Mater Studiorum -Università di Bologna. Gli Occasional Papers, nati nel 2005, sono accessibili all'URL http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/ceslic/?page_id=12 Finora sono stati pubblicati i seguenti saggi: (2005) Fusari, Sabrina, Il direct mail per le organizzazioni nonprofit: analisi retorica interculturale italiano-inglese (2005) Louw, Bill, Dressing up waiver: a stochastic collocational reading of 'the truth and reconciliation' commission (TRC) (2005) Nobili, Paola, 'Saper vivere' con gli altri (2006) Witalisz, Alicja, English Linguistic Influence on Polish and other Slavonic Languages
This chapter addresses the issue of pedagogy and bilingual/multilingual education: how best to ma... more This chapter addresses the issue of pedagogy and bilingual/multilingual education: how best to match teaching-and-learning approaches to the literacy development needs of students in multilingual educational settings. More specifically, it makes the case for what is known as the 'Sydney school' genre-based literacy development approach. It argues that, in providing explicit knowledge about the social functions, structures and stylistic properties of the modes of communication associated with academic success and social mobility, it has the potential to address the linguistically based social and economic inequality often experienced by students whose home language is other than the politically dominant, 'majority' language of the school. A brief account is provided of this 'genre-based' approach, followed by an account of its implementation in South Australia over the last decade or so in schools with large numbers of students who speak at home a language other than Australia's majority language, English. Finally, outcomes for students involved in such genre-based literacy development are explored, with findings of a study reported which point to these students making significant advances in their literacy development. This study is of potential interest to South African educators, illustrating the long-term gains that genre-based pedagogies can afford socio-economically and linguistically disadvantaged learners.
This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship which is interested in the rhetorical, axiologi... more This paper seeks to contribute to the scholarship which is interested in the rhetorical, axiological workings of what are sometimes termed 'hard news' or 'objective' news stories-a style of news journalism typically associated with the 'quality' or 'broadsheet' news media and involving a regime of 'strategic 'impersonalisation'. It is interested in the communicative mechanisms by which such texts are often able to advance or favour particular value positions while employing a relatively impersonal style in which attitudinal evaluations and other potentially contentious meanings are largely confined to material attributed to quoted sources. It reviews previous research on the evaluative qualities of these texts, with special reference to the literature on attribution and so-called 'evidentiality' in news discourse. It is proposed that understandings of the axiological workings of these text can be enhanced by referencing some of the key insights emerging from what is termed the 'Appraisal 'framework', an approach to the analysis of evaluative language developed within the Systemic Functional Linguistic paradigm of Michael Halliday and his associates. In particular it is proposed that understandings of the workings of these texts can be enhanced by referencing proposals in the Appraisal literature with respect to implicit or 'invoked' attitude and by reference to an account of attribution and so-called 'evidentiality' which is grounded in Bakhtinian notions of dialogism, rather than in notions of truth functionality and certainty-of-knowledge claims.