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Ribeiro, Branca Telles; Bastos, Liliana Cabral – AILA Review, 2005
This study investigates contextualization processes in two psychiatric interviews. Specifically, it analyses how different analytical tools--frame and narrative--work to clarify contextual embeddings and story bits. Frame analysis provides a way of looking at local and larger social contexts in talk. Specifically it provides a way of understanding…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Interviews, Story Telling, Questioning Techniques
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Makoni, Sinfree; Meinhof, Ulrike H. – AILA Review, 2004
The aim of this article is to analyze the nature of the historical and contemporary social contexts within which applied linguistics in Africa emerged, and is currently practiced. The article examines the challenges "local" applied Linguistics in Africa is confronted with as it tries to amplify applied linguistic programs emanating from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics, Social Environment, Educational Practices