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- Spacetimes of (in)hospitality: working through and historical relationality in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas RaumPublication . Lindemann Lino, VerenaThis article explores the memory work in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s novel Adas Raum (2021) (Ada’s Room/Ada’s Realm, 2023) and its contribution to rethinking historical relationality and the impact of contemporary forms of working through historical violence. It discusses Otoo’s novel as a repository of disruptive ways of telling and seeing that do not yield to a recuperative ‘historical desire’ (Arondekar 2015) and the evidentiary models that it enables, but instead claims room for a memory that problematises forms of (in)hospitality and discrimination in present-day Germany. Linking the figure of Sankofa to Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, the article analyses how Adas Raum entangles past, present, and future in a specific time–spaceconstellation of connective loops that suspend an understanding of history as a progression of linear time. It argues that this articulation of space and time does not only draw attention to the complexity of historical relationality, but also to the problematic exclusionary effects of national cultural memory. Working through does not thereby become a means to advance an untroubled narrative of hope, but rather a necessary way to (re)imagine a mode of remembering-learning that enables alternative forms of belonging and homemaking in the present.
- Présentation de la plateforme DeepFLE au service des enseignants de Français Langue EtrangèrePublication . Louchet, ChantalAs inovações tecnológicas consideradas revolucionárias e a sua introdução nas salas de aula sempre suscitaram apreensão, uma vez que transformam radicalmente não só a aprendizagem, mas também o ensino. Ensinar e aprender na era da inteligência artificial suscita muitas preocupações, seja sobre as capacidades de redação, seja sobre a noção de inteligência, seja sobre a veracidade dos conteúdos e das fontes a que a IA se refere, seja ainda sobre a noção de plágio. É por todas estas razões que a introdução da IA deve ser legalmente bem enquadrada. No entanto, é experimentando algumas ferramentas de inteligência artificial que avançaremos. É isso que vos proponho ao descobrir a plataforma DeepFLE, criada por uma equipa de investigadores da Universidade de Nice e destinada a facilitar a avaliação de textos escritos em francês.
- Estudo exploratório sobre os contributos da liga extraordinária dos futuros intérpretes para a formação de estudantes surdos e ouvintes de tradução e interpretação de Língua Gestual PortuguesaPublication . Gil, Cristina; Sousa, Joana Conde e; Santana, NeuzaEste estudo tem como principal objetivo avaliar os contributos e o impacto da Liga Extraordinária de Futuros Intérpretes (LEFI), uma atividade de educação não-formal organizada no âmbito de duas licenciaturas que formam intérpretes de Língua Gestual Portuguesa (LGP), em Portugal: Tradução e Interpretação em Língua Gestual Portuguesa (TILGP) da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (ESES/IPS) e LGP - Interpretação da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (ESEC/IPC). A iniciativa surgiu quando as docentes e autoras deste artigo identificaram a oportunidade de fomentar a colaboração entre pares, promovendo uma melhor integração dos estudantes Surdos e ouvintes tanto nos estágios académicos como na entrada no mercado de trabalho. Assim nasceu a LEFI, cuja experiência positiva levou à continuidade do projeto. Para avaliar o seu impacto, realizou-se um estudo exploratório de abordagem mista, baseado em três questionários online aplicados a uma amostra total de 218 estudantes participantes nas três edições. As atividades de team building desenvolvidas, incluindo jogos, exercício físico, workshops e momentos sociais, reforçaram laços interpessoais, aumentaram a confiança e a coesão entre estudantes, preparando-os para uma futura colaboração profissional mais eficaz numa área em que o trabalho em equipa é essencial, mas ainda limitado.
- On and off: digital practices of connecting and disconnecting across the life coursePublication . Ganito, Carla; Jorge, AnaIn a time of ubiquitous and permanent access to the internet made available to more and more people, emergent research has focused on audiences’ practices to disconnect from the internet, to go offline and to remove their presence and visibility from online spaces. Connectivity being a central element of ‘social media logic’, disconnecting has been analyzed particularly in relation to social networking sites. In this paper, we aim at tracking people’s practices of connecting and disconnecting in relation to their life course. The life course approach enables the researcher to account for change and complexity. Our study thus analyses trajectories that are understood as sequences of roles and experiences incorporating social context and individual variation. We base the analysis of these trajectories on the principle of agency, where people construct their own life course through daily choices and practices within the limits and opportunities of given historical and social circumstances. It is important to understand the differences in touchpoints with technology and the difference in affordances at each life stage. This could serve as a basis for the definition of better policies towards Internet use in schools, companies and society at large, to better frame the right to connect and disconnect. In this paper, we present results from a mixed-method exploratory study, conducted in Portugal, that sought to map intentions and tactics that users of the internet develop to build offline spaces where internet access or the use of online services is suspended.
- ‘It’s time for action, not words’ - training students to translate Amílcar Cabral’s final speech into Portuguese sign language: Portuguese sign language at the crossroads of postcolonial studies and sign language translation studiesPublication . Gil, CristinaIn 2024, Portugal commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, marking the end of a 41-year dictatorship and colonial wars. In this context, a group from Portugal’s oldest institution offering higher education for Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) interpreters – the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal – undertook a voluntary project to translate Amílcar Cabral’s final speech into LGP. The project aimed to create an accessible video with LGP, Portuguese subtitles, and Cabral’s original audio to engage diverse audiences and provide educational content. Led by two professors with extensive interpreting experience, the project involved third-year students of a Translation and Interpretation of Portuguese Sign Language program (TILGP) and relied on collaboration with Deaf advisors to select appropriate signs. It sparked discussions within the Portuguese Deaf Community on decolonising LGP signs and examining racism in those signs from Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) perspectives. The project explored the challenges of interpreting a historically-significant speech, focusing on cultural and historical nuances of Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, and Portugal. This article examines ethical, cultural, and technical aspects, showing how such projects enhance interpreter competence and intercultural mediation, and highlights extracurricular activities’ role in improving sign language translation skills.
- The role of the social media user: affordances and social responsibilityPublication . Roberts, JessicaAt a critical moment in history, the Hutchins Commission (1947) was convened to assess the role of the free press in a democratic society, articulating the social responsibility theory of the press. Nearly 80 years later, social media have become a part of everyday life for people around the world. More people than ever can now create, disseminate, analyze, and filter information to reach a broad public, with huge consequences for public information, but little attention to the role users play in shaping information on social media and the responsibility that comes with it. This study examines what the affordances of social media platforms, such as “frictionless” design and endless scroll, communicate to users about their roles and responsibilities, focusing on two of the most popular platforms, Instagram and Facebook. Role theory is used as a framework to understand how users might interpret their roles and responsibilities, as communicated by the platforms’ affordances. The social responsibility theory of the press is applied to understand how we might reconsider the responsibilities of social media users in democratic societies, focusing on the role users play in shaping the information others see and how they might be made more aware of that role.
- ‘Hi, Carlinhos, how are the unicorns?’ Forms of address as stance-taking devices in the housing crisis debate on Portuguese X/TwitterPublication . Faria, RitaThis study examines forms of address in European Portuguese (EP) as stance-taking devices, reinforced by impoliteness, in a corpus of 410 tweets posted in response to the Lisbon mayor’s measures and policies to combat the current housing crisis. The study hypothesises that the complex EP address system is used dynamically, with few discursive constraints emerging from settings and interlocutors, and that this dynamic usage is then employed to signal (mis)alignment with the mayor’s policies. By means of a qualitative annotation of the corpus and an examination of code relations (how, or if, the different codes, or annotation labels, intersect), the study concludes that EP forms of address are deployed to their full semantic range in the corpus, thus confirming the first hypothesis. The subsequent hypothesis, positing that forms of address are prominent stance-taking devices, is not fully supported. The main nexus between stance and address links the anti-policies stance to indirect address, surpassing expressed, direct forms such as pronouns or nominal forms. However, this and other preferences emerging from the analysis (namely, a leaning towards more generalised impoliteness devices instead of more confrontational ones) point to the importance of linguistic indirectness in EP, which can be culturally motivated. An important conclusion is that EP address comprises nuanced sociocultural factors that should be acknowledged especially in educational settings so as to facilitate the use and learning of these forms. Finally, by focusing on online address as part of the debate on the housing crisis, this study has uncovered significant anti-immigration discourses marking an oppositional, anti-policies stance warranting further investigation addressing the current climate of disruption and crisis.
- The evolution of gender representation in two editions of a Spanish as a foreign language textbookPublication . Pereira, Grauben Navas de; Chenoll, AntónioTextbooks play a crucial role in the foreign language learning and teaching process: they support teachers when preparing, organizing and evaluating the foreign language acquisition process. Additionally, they have a considerable bearing in the representation of culture and of gender roles (Fernández Darraz, 2010). A textbook should transmit the values associated with the language students are learning and it should moreover encourage critical work on these values in general. Commercial, political, or pedagogical considerations (Morales & Cassany, 2020) cannot justify an aseptic presentation of reality that does not consider the presence of women in egalitarian roles, or the questioning of the depiction of classical roles as opposed to a more diverse representation that would enable the promotion of equality in general terms (Fernández Darraz, 2010). On many occasions, this equity in representation is made explicit in the images selected (particularly in larger publishers, where particular care is taken regarding this aspect), since visual representations are more evident. But there are other aspects and components of a textbook that also account for these cultural features, such as texts, audios, and videos. Notwithstanding the importance of this representation, there seems to be a lack of significant studies that examine textbooks used in Spanish as a Foreign Language from a comprehensive social and gender perspective. Therefore, we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the text and images contained in two editions of a complete textbook (Aula Internacional 1 Nueva Edición (2013) and Aula Internacional Plus 1 (2020)) using the qualitative data analysis programme At las.ti. Based on this analysis, we highlight the social dimension of Spanish as a Foreign Language Teaching and focus on the relationship between language usage and texts and images contained in the textbook. We examine several variables such as gender representation, roles, age, and ethnicity using an inductive-deductive methodology. Through an in-depth analysis of the construction of gender equality in the book, we assess the use of inclusive language and the visual representations of gender in each textbook. Through the diachronic comparison of the two editions of the textbook, it will also be possible to assess whether there have been some accurate and precise changes in terms of gender representation or not. The analysis is guided by Critical Discourse Analysis, based on frequency and order of appearance. This analysis could be a valuable aid for teachers interested in encouraging a conscious transmission and questioning of the values associated with the culture under study through critical work on these values and themes in class.
- Why do we archive? Ethical, political, and technical reflections on art collections in psychiatric institutionsPublication . Franco, Stefanie GilThis article begins with the question: “Why do we archive?” It reflects on art collections produced within contemporary psychiatric institutions in Portugal. It explores the ethical, bureaucratic, and political dimensions involved in the care and circulation of these works, created by people with lived experience of madness. Considering efforts to deinstitutionalize large psychiatric hospitals, the article examines specific cases of still-operational Portuguese institutions that house artistic archives. It problematises the status of these productions, which often oscillate between becoming defunct archives, being discarded, or circulating within art brut and outsider art circuits, raising questions regarding artist rights and the use of these works following the death or discharge of their creators. The analysis is structured around two main axes: first, the role of psychiatric institutions in light of the challenges posed by reforms to Mental Health Law; and second, the circulation of these artistic expressions and their contemporary discourses, with a focus on the Portuguese context. Finally, the article emphasises the urgent need to reconsider the management and preservation of these artistic archives, highlighting the tension between protecting privacy and providing access to the memory of institutionalised subjects, and questioning the current role of asylums as custodians of these cultural and human legacies.