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5. Re-orienting semantic dispositions: The role of hybrid forms of language use in university learning


 
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1. Title Title of document 5. Re-orienting semantic dispositions: The role of hybrid forms of language use in university learning - Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Caroline Coffin; Open University; United Kingdom
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) language and institutionalized contexts of learning; hybrid forms of language use; online discussion forums; orientation to knowledge; semantic disposition
 
6. Description Abstract In her chapter, Caroline Coffin considers how one’s ‘semantic disposition’ (after Hasan 2009a) may be re-oriented (or not) through the process of institutionalized learning. As students appropriate and internalize concepts and perspectives from within and across different disciplines and apply these to personal and/or professional lived experience, they are learning to reconfigure the world. In so doing, their existing semantic dispositions are inevitably unsettled and re-formed – to a greater or lesser extent. So how does this occur? What role does language play? Coffin examines contexts of learning that activate meanings and wordings which can be seen as ‘hybrid’ from a number of perspectives. She argues that such contexts and discourses potentially enable students inhabiting a largely practical world constituted by specific lived experiences to enter into a predominantly theorized world constituted by abstract and generalized models of human behaviour, illustrating how, by expanding their semiotic resources, students become active agents in discursively extending, reclassifying and navigating between personal, professional and academic worlds.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 16-Mar-2016
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/24293
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.24293
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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