Condensation: A translation device for revealing complexity of knowledge practices in discourse, part 2—clausing and sequencing
Condensation: A translation device for revealing complexity of knowledge practices in discourse, part 2—clausing and sequencing
| dc.creator | Maton, Karl | |
| dc.creator | Doran, Y. J. | |
| dc.date | 2017-03-31 | |
| dc.identifier | https://onomazein.letras.uc.cl/index.php/onom/article/view/30397 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.7764/onomazein.ne2.04 | |
| dc.description | Complexity of knowledge practices is undertheorized in education research because knowledge is often conceived cognitively. Legitimation Code Theory conceptualizes this com-plexity in terms of ‘semantic density’, which explores how meanings are interrelated within practices. This concept is becoming widely enacted in research, a flexibility that raises the question of identifying ‘semantic density’ in specific objects of study. This is the second of two papers that offer a ‘translation device’ for identifying ‘epistemic-semantic density’ (whe-re condensed meanings are formal definitions or empirical descriptions) in English discourse. The first paper (this issue) provided tools for exploring how individual words reveals different strengths of epistemic-semantic density. Those concepts revealed different degrees of com-plexity of knowledge. This paper outlines tools for exploring how the ways actors combine words reveals ‘epistemological condensation’ or strengthening of epistemic-semantic densi-ty. It provides typologies for identifying different kinds of ‘clausing’ and ‘sequencing’ and des-cribes how these types manifest varying degrees of increasing complexity. These concepts reveal different kinds of knowledge-building. Two contrasting examples, from a secondary school History classroom and a scientific research article, are analysed to illustrate the in-sights into complexity offered by the tools outlined in both papers. | en-US |
| dc.description | Complexity of knowledge practices is undertheorized in education research because knowledge is often conceived cognitively. Legitimation Code Theory conceptualizes this com-plexity in terms of ‘semantic density’, which explores how meanings are interrelated within practices. This concept is becoming widely enacted in research, a flexibility that raises the question of identifying ‘semantic density’ in specific objects of study. This is the second of two papers that offer a ‘translation device’ for identifying ‘epistemic-semantic density’ (whe-re condensed meanings are formal definitions or empirical descriptions) in English discourse. The first paper (this issue) provided tools for exploring how individual words reveals different strengths of epistemic-semantic density. Those concepts revealed different degrees of com-plexity of knowledge. This paper outlines tools for exploring how the ways actors combine words reveals ‘epistemological condensation’ or strengthening of epistemic-semantic densi-ty. It provides typologies for identifying different kinds of ‘clausing’ and ‘sequencing’ and des-cribes how these types manifest varying degrees of increasing complexity. These concepts reveal different kinds of knowledge-building. Two contrasting examples, from a secondary school History classroom and a scientific research article, are analysed to illustrate the in-sights into complexity offered by the tools outlined in both papers. | es-ES |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | spa | |
| dc.publisher | Facultad de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | es-ES |
| dc.relation | https://onomazein.letras.uc.cl/index.php/onom/article/view/30397/41837 | |
| dc.rights | Derechos de autor 2017 Onomázein | es-ES |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 | es-ES |
| dc.source | Onomázein ; Número Especial II: Lingüística Sistémico Funcional; 77-110 | es-ES |
| dc.source | Onomázein ; Special Issue II: Systemic Functional Linguistics; 77-110 | en-US |
| dc.source | 0718-5758 | |
| dc.subject | Legitimation Code Theory | es-ES |
| dc.subject | semantic density | es-ES |
| dc.subject | translation device | es-ES |
| dc.subject | language of description | es-ES |
| dc.subject | knowledge-building | es-ES |
| dc.subject | complexity | es-ES |
| dc.subject | Legitimation Code Theory | en-US |
| dc.subject | semantic density | en-US |
| dc.subject | translation device | en-US |
| dc.subject | language of description | en-US |
| dc.subject | knowledge-building | en-US |
| dc.subject | complexity | en-US |
| dc.title | Condensation: A translation device for revealing complexity of knowledge practices in discourse, part 2—clausing and sequencing | en-US |
| dc.title | Condensation: A translation device for revealing complexity of knowledge practices in discourse, part 2—clausing and sequencing | es-ES |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |