Affect in sociolinguistic style

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Teresa Pratt
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Affective Value

Abstract This article argues for a focus on affect in sociolinguistic style. I integrate recent scholarship on affective practice (Wetherell 2015) and the circulation of affective value (Ahmed 2004b) in order to situate the linguistic and bodily semiotics of affect as components of stylistic practice. At a Bay Area public arts high school, ideologically distinct affects of chill or high-energy are co-constructed across signs and subjects. I analyze a group of cisgender young men's use of creaky voice quality, speech rate, and bodily hexis in enacting and circulating these affective values. Crucially, affect co-constructs students’ positioning within the high school political economy (as college-bound or not, artistically driven or not), highlighting the ideological motivations of stylistic practice. Building on recent scholarship, I propose that a more thorough consideration of affect can deepen our understanding of meaning-making as it occurs in everyday interaction in institutional settings. (Affect, political economy, embodiment, bricolage, voice quality, speech rate, high school)

scholarly journals On Track or Derailed? Race, Advanced Math, and the Transition to High School

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312098029
Author(s):  
Yasmiyn Irizarry
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Transition To High School ◽  
Performance Factors ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Racial Gaps ◽  
Accelerated Math ◽  
Research And Policy

Recent scholarship has examined how accelerated math trajectories leading to calculus take shape during middle school. The focus of this study is on advanced math course taking during the critical yet understudied period that follows: the transition to high school. Data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 are used to examine advanced math course taking in ninth grade, including both track persistence among students who took advanced math in middle school and upward mobility among students who took standard math in middle school. Results reveal sizable racial gaps in the likelihood of staying on (and getting on) the accelerated math track, neither of which are fully explained by prior academic performance factors. Interactions with parents and teachers positively predict advanced math course taking. In some cases, interactions with teachers may also reduce inequality in track persistence, whereas interactions with counselors increase such inequality. Implications for research and policy are discussed.

Interaction of Speech Coders and Atypical Speech II

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald G. Jamieson ◽  
Vijay Parsa ◽  
Moneca C. Price ◽  
James Till
Keyword(s):  
Communication Systems ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Voice Disorders ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Speech Quality ◽  
Degraded Speech ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Subband Processing

We investigated how standard speech coders, currently used in modern communication systems, affect the quality of the speech of persons who have common speech and voice disorders. Three standardized speech coders (GSM 6.10 RPELTP, FS1016 CELP, and FS1015 LPC) and two speech coders based on subband processing were evaluated for their performance. Coder effects were assessed by measuring the quality of speech samples both before and after processing by the speech coders. Speech quality was rated by 10 listeners with normal hearing on 28 different scales representing pitch and loudness changes, speech rate, laryngeal and resonatory dysfunction, and coder-induced distortions. Results showed that (a) nine scale items were consistently and reliably rated by the listeners; (b) all coders degraded speech quality on these nine scales, with the GSM and CELP coders providing the better quality speech; and (c) interactions between coders and individual voices did occur on several voice quality scales.

HiSPARC AND MiniGRAIL

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) ◽  
pp. 6884-6886 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. FROSSATI ◽  
C. T. HERBSCHLEB ◽  
J. B. R. OONK ◽  
A. DE WAARD
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Large Array ◽  
School Project ◽  
Wave Antenna ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
Gravitational Wave Antenna

HiSPARC (High-School Project on Astrophysics Research with cosmics) is a project that envisages the use of a large array of cosmic ray detectors placed at high-schools and scientific institutions in the Netherlands in order to measure high-energy cosmic ray showers. Besides contributing to the HiSPARC project, Leiden University also uses the cosmic ray detectors as veto for the resonant gravitational wave antenna MiniGRAIL.

scholarly journals Gestion du temps verbal et cohésion textuelle en production écrite

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Moulay Mohamed TARNAOUI
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Learning Problems ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
Written Production ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Textual Cohesion ◽  
The Times ◽  
Combination Mode

RÉSUMÉ. Notre étude s’inscrit dans une perspective didactique et vise l’étude de certains tiroirs verbaux dans la production écrite des apprenants marocains, particulièrement ceux de la 1ère année du lycée qualifiant, section Sciences Expérimentales. A cet égard, notons que la mauvaise gestion de ces temps ne facilitera pas l’interprétation du texte et rendra en conséquence la tâche du lecteur difficile. En effet, les apprenants passent d’un temps à un autre bien que la consigne soit d’ordre narratif exigeant le respect des temps du récit étudié antérieurement en classe. Substituer un temps verbal à un autre sans tenir compte de la cohésion du texte est une entorse à la norme rédactionnelle. Il découle de cette analyse que la conjugaison, le mode, l’aspect et la concordance des temps continuent à créer de vrais problèmes d’apprentissage chez nos apprenants du FLE en milieu institutionnel. Mots-clés : cohésion textuelle, dysfonctionnements, production écrite, temps verbaux.     ABSTRACT. Our study is part of a didactic perspective and aims to study some verbal drawers in the written production of Moroccan learners, especially those of the first year of qualifying high school, section Experimental Sciences. In this respect, it should be noted that the mismanagement of these times will not facilitate the interpretation of the text and will make the task of the reader difficult. Indeed, learners go from one time to another although the instruction is of a narrative order requiring the respect of the times of the story studied previously in class. Substituting one verbal time for another without taking into account the cohesion of the text is a departure from the editorial standard. It follows from this analysis that the combination, mode, appearance, and concordance of the times continue to create real learning problems for our FLE learners in institutional settings. Keywords: textual cohesion, dysfunctions, written production, verbal tens. 

scholarly journals Household food security status and associated factors among high-school students in Esfahan, Iran

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1609-1613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assieh Mohammadzadeh ◽  
Ahmadreza Dorosty ◽  
Mohammadreza Eshraghian
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
School Students ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Food Insecure Households

AbstractObjectiveThe present study was designed to determine household food security status and factors associated with food insecurity among high-school students in Esfahan, Iran.DesignCross-sectional surveys.SettingThe present study was conducted in autumn 2008 in Esfahan, Iran. The samples were selected using systematic cluster sampling. Socio-economic questionnaires, food security questionnaires and FFQ were filled out during face-to-face interviews. In addition, data on participants’ weights and heights were collected.SubjectsA total of 580 students (261 boys and 319 girls) aged 14–17 years from forty high schools in Esfahan, Iran, were selected.ResultsThe prevalence of household food insecurity according to the US Department of Agriculture food security questionnaire was 36·6 % (95 % CI 0·33, 0·40). Food insecurity was positively associated with number of members in the household (P < 0·05) and negatively associated with parental education level and job status and household economic status (P < 0·05). Moreover, students living in food-insecure households more frequently consumed bread, macaroni, potato and egg (P < 0·05), while they less frequently consumed rice, red meat, sausage and hamburger, poultry, fish, green vegetables, root and bulb (coloured) vegetables, melons, apples and oranges, milk and yoghurt (P < 0·05).ConclusionsFood insecurity was prevalent among households in Esfahan, Iran, and food security status was associated with socio-economic factors. Students who belonged to food-secure households more frequently consumed healthy foods (except sausage and hamburger), whereas those living in food-insecure households more frequently consumed cheap foods containing high energy per kilogram. The present study suggests that intervention programmes be designed and carried out.

scholarly journals Livelihood, Market and State: What does A Political Economy Predicated on the ‘Individual-in-Group-in-PLACE’ Actually Look Like?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Quilley ◽  
Katharine Zywert
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Market State ◽  
State And Market ◽  
The Individual

Ecological economics has relied too much on priorities and institutional conventions defined by the high energy/throughput era of social democracy. Future research should focus on the political economy of a survival unit (Elias) based upon Livelihood as counterbalance to both State and Market. Drawing on the work of Polanyi, Elias, Gellner and Ong, capitalist modernization is analyzed in terms of the emergence of a society of individuals and the replacement of the survival units of place-bound bound family and community by one in which the State acts in concert with the Market. The operation of welfare systems is shown to depend upon ongoing economic growth and a continual flow of fiscal resources. The politics of this survival unit depends upon high levels of mutual identification and an affective-cognitive ‘we imaginary’. Increasing diversity, a political rejection of nationalism as a basis for politics and limits to economic growth, are likely to present an existential threat to the State–Market survival unit. A reversal of globalization, reconsolidation of the nation-state, a reduction in the scope of national and global markets and the expansion of informal processes of manufacture and distribution may provide a plausible basis for a hybrid Livelihood–Market–State survival unit. The politics of such a reorientation would straddle the existing left–right divide in disruptive and unsettling ways. Examples are given of pre-figurative forms of reciprocation and association that may be indicative of future arrangements.

Evaluating Communicative Abilities of a Highly Unintelligible Preschooler

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 236-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara W. Hodson ◽  
Julie A. Scherz ◽  
Kathy H. Strattman
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Speech Rate ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Treatment Goals ◽  
Conversational Speech ◽  
Speech Sample ◽  
Communicative Abilities

Procedures to examine the communication abilities of a highly unintelligible 4-year-old during a 90-minute evaluation session are explained in this article. Phonology, metaphonology, speech rate, stimulability, and receptive language are evaluated formally and informally. A conversational speech sample is used to provide information for assessing intelligibility/understandability, fluency, voice quality, prosody, and mean length of response. Methods for determining treatment goals are discussed in the final section.

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