2. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) (February, 2003) reported a study on student violence in Nova Scotia schools
3. This way of presenting data leads the reader to think that violence in schools is quite a relevant issue, even alarming issue. 26 had either been threatened or assaulted by a student with a weapon 116 had been shoved 59 had been kicked 94 had been hit by a student The researchers asked 1,800 teachers to take part. About 600 responded:
4. This view wouldn’t be transmitted if the results had been exposed in a statistical way. Consequently we would have that 4% had been threatened or assaulted with a weapon 19% had been shoved 9.8% had been kicked 15% said a student had hit them
5. Even more, if the scope of the results wouldn’t be on giving agency to the conclusion “alarming violence in schools”. The results could have been presented in the following way: 96% had not been threatened or assaulted 81% had not been shoved 90% had not been kicked 85% of the teachers said they had not been hit by a student
7. Critical Discourse Analysis sees language as a system of interactionally stimulated signs that help human beings to construct and construe reality. Faircough (2003), Wodak (2006) [both online]
8. The construction of reality is achieved through cognitive processes subsuming or that are subsumed by language; scaffolding in this way, a dynamic dialectical relationship between language and social ontology. (ibid.)
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11. RE COGNITION PIECE OF REALITY PIECE OF REALITY INTERACTION THROUGH LANGUAGE FAMILY FRIENDS ENVIRONMENT WORK SELF-VIEW ABSTRACTION REALITY NEW KNOWLEDGE
12. In CDA, Discourse is: “ a category which designates the broadly semiotic elements […] of social life (language, but also visual semiosis, ‘body language’ etc.)” . (Fairclough 2006 [online])
13. CONTEXT SOCIETY LANGUAGE DISCOURSE Discourse, in this way, subsumes language, social practices and social beliefs or ideologies and context.
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18. The objective of this discipline is to uncover the ideological beliefs that are concealed in the words of our texts or oral speech, so as to resist and prevail over the diverse forms of power (control) or to obtain an appreciation of the power control we are performing without a proper realization. (Fairclough, 1989)
19. “ Yo espero que estas páginas puedan ser útiles a quien crea en la necesidad de que la imaginación ocupe un lugar en la educación; a quien tiene confianza en la creatividad […]; a quien conoce el valor liberador que puede tener la palabra. El uso total de la palabra para todos me parece un buen lema, de bello sonido democrático. No para que todos sean artistas, sino para que nadie sea esclavo.” (Rodari, 1973. En Lomas, Carlos 2002 (pp. 172).