Shaping Minds: A discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature
Guy Ramsay
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 32] 2008. ix, 149 pp.
Guy Ramsay
List of John Benjamins publications for which Guy Ramsay plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Articles
2003 ‘Virtual’ learning communities beyond the classroom: Perceptions of tertiary Chinese language and non-language learners Asian Languages and Computers, Hoven, Debra and Jeong-Bae Son (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Article
As class contact times are reduced as a result of fiscal restraints in the modern tertiary sector, language instructors are placed in the position of having to find new ways to provide experience and continuity in language learning. Extending ‘learning communities’ — sites of learner knowledge… read more
2001 What are they getting at? Placement of important ideas in lengthy Chinese newstext: A contrastive analysis with Australian Newstext Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:2, pp. 17–34 | Article
When reading lengthy expository texts, Australian-born (Aus) learners of Modern Standard Chinese (MSC) as a second language (L2) often find it difficult to elicit the main points being expressed by the text author. Contrastive rhetoric studies attribute this to the differing stylistic patterns of… read more