Shoshana Dreyfus
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shoshana Dreyfus plays a role.
Articles
2024 From empathy to activism: An analysis of a letter to the Minister which resulted in successful outcomes for a person with severe intellectual disability and their family Moving towards Peace, Compassion and Empathy through Semiotic Enquiry: Special issue of the Journal Language, Context and Text 6:1 (2024), Thomson, Elizabeth A., Awni Etaywe, Ingrid Wijeyewardene and Penny Wheeler (eds.), pp. 176–199 | Article
This paper examines how an adult’s letter to the New South Wales Minister for Disability regarding problems identified within the disability service sector resulted in successful outcomes: that is, the changes asked for were delivered. A range of discourse semantic tools of analysis including… read more
2023 From the personal and private to the community and public: Adapting Sydney School pedagogy to train support workers of people with intellectual disability Language, Context and Text 5:1, pp. 108–123 | Article
This paper reports on the adaptation of Sydney School genre pedagogy’s Teaching Learning Cycle for the design of a workshop that aims to encourage disability support workers and their managers to think more expansively about the people with intellectual disabilities they work with and support.… read more
2022 Emotion in speech: A systemic functional semiotic approach to the vocalisation of affect Language, Context and Text 4:2, pp. 335–374 | Article
This paper explores how emotion is conveyed in spoken language based on a sample of three stories for children read aloud by a trained storyteller. It draws on both Martin & White’s appraisal framework (2005) and a systematic account of vocal features. Interpreting and profiling emotion is a… read more