Glossary

Glossary:

Available Designs- The resources for Design - include the "grammars" of various semiotic systems: the grammars of languages, and the grammars of other semiotic systems such as film, photography, or gesture.

Civic Pluralism- All forms of expression, dialects, languages, images, etc. are equal within the political state. It is all about getting to an equitable public realm.

Critical Framing- Interprets the social context and the purpose of social designs and meanings, essentially the analysis of one's language.

Ethos- Is built on character and a moral compass.

Design- The process of shaping emergent meaning (involves re-presentation and recontextualization).

Discourse- Is a configuration of knowledge and its habitual forms of expression, which represents a particular set of interests.

Fast Capitalism (Post Fordism)- Replaces the old hierarchical command structures opting for a flattened hierarchy. It depends on cultural capital.

Genres- Are forms of text or textual organization that arise out of particular social configurations or the particular relationships of the participants in an interaction.

Homogenous National Citizenaries- Is a pluralistic society made homogeneous by construction.

Hybrid Cross Cultural Discourses- The code switching often to be found within a text among different languages, dialects, or registers; different visual and iconic meanings; and variations in the gestural relationships among people, language, and material objects. A single text that is using multiple communicative processes from across different cultures.

Hybridity- Is the process of accessing children's knowledge. It highlights the mechanisms of creativity and of culture-as-process particularly salient in contemporary society.

Intertextuality- Draws attention to the potentially complex ways in which meanings (such as linguistic meanings) are constituted through relationships to other texts (real or imaginary), text types (discourse or genres), narratives, and other modes of meaning (such as visual design, architectonic or geographical positioning). It is making connections across various texts.

Lifeworlds- Anything that is not public or work, people's individual realm.

Metalanguage- Language used to instruct and discuss language.

Multifarious- Having many parts, elements, or forms.

Multimodel- Different communication channels.

Nominalization- Using a phrase to compact a lot of information.

Order of Discourse- The structured set of conventions in various linguistic activities. It is the structured set of conventions associated with semiotic activity (including use of language) in a given social space - a particular society, or a particular institution such as a school or a workplace, or more loosely structured spaces of ordinary life encapsulated in the notion of different lifeworlds. An order of discourse is a socially produced array of discourses, intermeshing and dynamically interacting. It is a particular configuration of Design elements. An order of discourse can be seen as a particular configuration of such elements. It may include a mixture of different semiotic systems - visual and aural semiotic systems in combination with language constitute the order of discourse of TV, for instance. It may involve the grammars of several languages - the orders of discourse of many schools, for example.

Overt Instruction- Is the specific instruction of the metalanguage.

Programmatic Manifesto- The name coined to title the document; a systematic series of ideas.

Recontexualization- To place a text in a different context.

Redesign- May be variously creative or reproductive in relation to the resources for meaning-making available in Available Designs.

Semiotics- The study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication.

Situated Practice- Draws from experience and meaning making to contextualize the language that you yourself are exposed to.

Styles- Is the configuration of all the semiotic features in a text in which, for example, language may relate to layout and visual images.

Transformed Practice- Is the application of what is learned in practice, so students in turn become the designers.

Transitivity- Indicates how much agency is given into the object of a statement.

(Christine, Emily, Galen, Kristen, & Lynn)