Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Subject "language"
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The Collaborative Self: From Collectivity to Individuality and What Blogs Can Teach Us About Identity
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)This paper uses blogs as a starting point for an examination of how identity is constructed collaboratively through a series of linguistically mediated social processes. The goal is to establish a theoretical framework ... -
Contesting the centre: Low German-speaking Mennonite identity, language, and literacy constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)We make sense of who we are by talking about ourselves with others, telling stories about ourselves, our experiences, and our feelings. When we do this, we construct sociolinguistic spaces in which we speak, live, work, ... -
Executive functioning moderates associations between shyness and pragmatic abilities
(Wiley, 2020-09-26)While elevated shyness is associated with weaker pragmatic language abilities for some children, not all shy children demonstrate pragmatic challenges. Understanding the factors that may account for this variability is ... -
On the Effects of Disfluency in Complex Cognitive Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)While much previous research has suggested that decreased transcription fluency has a detrimental effect on writing, there is recent evidence that decreased fluency can actually benefit cognitive processing. Across a series ...