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Power through the semiotic landscape

- Yao, Xiaofang, Gruba, Paul

  • Authors: Yao, Xiaofang , Gruba, Paul
  • Date: 2022
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Vol. 43, no. 5 (2022), p. 373-386
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  • Description: The aim of this paper is to advance an understanding of power in linguistic landscape research. After setting out and discussing the concepts of ‘power over’, ‘power to’ and ‘power through’, we present a case study of Chinese semiotic assemblages in the Australian regional city of Bendigo. Our research includes ethnographic details of the processes of sign production and consumption, and illustrates the ways in which power relations have been experienced through semiotic objects specific to the Chinese culture. Importantly, such objects are contextualised as to provide insights into inclusion, values, ownership and literacy by those in this specific linguistic landscape. To conclude, we argue that a close examination of the linguistic landscape can inform various forms and interpretations of power relations in diasporic contexts. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Development and validation of the human activity profile into Chinese language : Lessons in determining equivalence

- Bonner, Ann, Wellard, Sally, Kenrick, Marita

  • Authors: Bonner, Ann , Wellard, Sally , Kenrick, Marita
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing and Health Sciences Vol. 8, no. 1 (2006), p. 36-43
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  • Description: The Human Activity Profile (HAP), and associated Dyspnea Scale, is a self-report instrument for assessing levels of human activity. Although it has been used in studies examining the levels of activity in people, it is limited to people who are only able to understand English. However, many countries are multicultural with significant numbers of people whose native language is not English. This study sought to demonstrate the equivalence between the Chinese and English versions of the HAP and Dyspnea scales.Thirty-five bilingual university students completed both the Chinese and English versions of each questionnaire. There was 89% and 85% agreement between items across the HAP and Dyspnea Scale questionnaires, respectively. Although the psychometric evaluations suggested there was equivalence between the Chinese and English versions of both the HAP and Dyspnea Scale, lessons have been learnt regarding the different written forms of Chinese. © 2006 The Authors Journal Compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
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A layered investigation of Chinese in the linguistic landscape : a case study of Box Hill, Melbourne

- Yao, Xiaofang, Gruba, Paul

  • Authors: Yao, Xiaofang , Gruba, Paul
  • Date: 2020
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Vol. 43, no. 3 (2020), p. 302-336
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  • Description: Increased attention to urban diversity as a site of study has fostered the recent development of linguistic landscape studies. To date, however, much of the research in this area has concerned the use and spread of English to the exclusion of other global languages. In a case study situated in Box Hill, a large suburb of Melbourne, we adopted a layered approach to investigate the role of Chinese language in Australia. Our data set consisted of hundreds of photographs of street signage in one square block area of the shopping district. Results of our analyses show that signage portrays a variety of code preferences and semiotic choices that in turn reveal insights into the identities, ideologies, and strategies that help to structure the urban environment. As demonstrated in our study, such complexity requires a renewed and situated understanding of key principles of linguistic landscape research (Ben-Rafael & Ben-Rafael, 2015). © John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chinese music on the Victorian goldfields

- Wang, Zheng, Doggett, Anne

  • Authors: Wang, Zheng , Doggett, Anne
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 78, no. 2 (2007), p. 170-186
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  • Description: As a result of social, political and economic problems in their homeland during the mid-nineteenth century, many Chinese people decided to try their luck on the Victorian goldfields. Here they practised many types of musical activity, including Chinese opera, songs, instrumental music, and music for ceremonial and religious occasions. Chinese musicians also participated in concerts and celebrations before the wider community. This article explores these different types of Chinese music, and looks at the role of music in the lives of the Chinese people who, because of the widespread discrimination they faced, were forced to live and work in an environment of prejudice and hostility.
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An intelligent learning environment for traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and students

- Jia, Long, Stranieri, Andrew, Shen, J

  • Authors: Jia, Long , Stranieri, Andrew , Shen, J
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at HIC 2008 Australia's Health Informatics Conference; The Person in the Centre, Brunswick East, Victoria : 31st August - 2nd September 2008
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  • Description: Objectives: This study aims to support the training of Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners by embedding an expert diagnostic model for arthritis into an Intelligent Interactive Learning Environment (IILE). Background: The increasing prevalence of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) outside China is characterised by the emergence of university level practitioner training and stringent regulatory requirements. TCM differential diagnosis is a difficult task that was traditionally taught by exposure to large numbers of patients in a master-apprentice context. In university degree programs, students and novice diagnosticians cannot have the exposure to cases possible in the traditional context. An online system that engages students in the interactive construction of a virtual case and provides immediate feedback on the appropriateness of student actions and the accuracy of diagnostic conclusions can enhance student learning. The system, an Intelligent Interactive Learning Environment (IILE) is based on an approach that has been shown to improve learning outcomes in intensive care nurse training. Methods: An expert model of diagnostic reasoning elicited from TCM expert practitioners lies at the core of the IILE. The knowledge acquisition is performed using an argumentation tree representation that has been shown to be effective in structuring complex knowledge and facilitating engineer - expert interactions. Problems associated with keeping knowledge bases up to date are mitigated with the use of a knowledge model known as ripple down rules permits dynamic updating of knowledge so that knowledge bases evolve over time. A simple narrative model builds up the virtual case study as user interaction proceeds. Results and discussion: This article reports preliminary results in the study that includes an overview of TCM differential diagnosis, the argument tree, the ripple down rule representation and the narrative based IILE. Segments of the knowledge model based solely on TCM literature are illustrated.
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Investigating parody and forgery in children's and young adult literature : Exploring the implications of Bakhtin and Chronotopes

- Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at the Children's Literature and Social Development conference 2006, Maccau, China : 21st October, 2006
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  • Description: This paper explores a number of children’s and young adults’ books in relation to artistic representations of the world of young people. It considers such explorations in relation to what may be considered parody and/or forgery in literary representations of young people, based on the work of Bakhtin. Related pedagogical considerations in classrooms in primary and secondary schools are also explored. A number of works is examined as to ways in which parody and forgery figure in the writing, and ways in which these connect with adult concepts in their response to literary works which children and young adult readers engage throughout their years of schooling. The paper presents such conceptualisations in relation to children’s books as affording new ways of approaching reading and writing in classrooms and opening up spaces for literary and pedagogical responses that takes teachers and students beyond traditional and conventional referents. It explores the possibilities of creating spaces for exploring cultural, social, personal and critical identities by young people.
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Are immigrants at risk of heart disease in Australia? A systematic review

- Dassanayake, Jayantha, Dharmage, Shyamali, Gurrin, Lyle, Sundararajan, Vijaya, Payne, Warren

  • Authors: Dassanayake, Jayantha , Dharmage, Shyamali , Gurrin, Lyle , Sundararajan, Vijaya , Payne, Warren
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian Health Review Vol. 33, no. 3 (2009), p. 479-491
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  • Description: We systematically reviewed the peer-reviewed literature to establish the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among immigrants in Australia and whether being an immigrant is a CVD risk factor. Of 23 studies identified, 12 were included. Higher prevalence of CVD was found among Middle Eastern, South Asian and some European immigrants. Higher prevalence of CVD risk factors was found among Middle Eastern and Southern European immigrants. Higher alcohol consumption was found among immigrants from New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Smoking and physical inactivity were highly prevalent among most immigrants.

The Gaol on the hill: The prelude to and construction of Bendigo's sandstone gaol

- Edmonds, Leigh

  • Authors: Edmonds, Leigh
  • Date: 2019
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Before/Now : Journal of the collaborative Research Centre in Australian History (CRCAH) Vol. 1, no. 1 (2019), p. 47-58
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  • Description: The gold rushes on the Victorian goldfields of the 1850s increased the population of the new colony seven times over. This created many problems for the new government, not the least of which was an increase in lawlessness which put authorities under severe pressure to house the rapidly growing convict population. Other issues confronting colonial prison administrators were the mobility of the population as gold seekers moved to the latest finds, the presence of a large Chinese population on the goldfields and the housing of the mentally disturbed. At the same time, new philosophies in prison design gave the Victorian government the potential to replace its first, hastily constructed, goals with the latest ‘state of the art’ prisons at strategic locations across the goldfields.

Children as the future of China : Lu Xun's contribution to the development of modern Chinese children's and young adult literature

- Zeegers, Margaret, Zhang, Xiaohong

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Zhang, Xiaohong
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Children's literature and social development 2006, Beijing, China : 21st September, 2006
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  • Description: This paper focuses on the unique contribution by Lu Xun in the development of Chinese Children’s Literature in the 20th Century, particularly as to ways in which Lu Xun’s ideas influenced the children of that period and its effects on the development of modern Chinese children’s literature. It examines a number of Lu Xun’s representative writings—about children, his essays, his novels, his poems, his scribbles—as not only his criticising the evils of constructs of childhood as feudalistic and inhumane, but also as his revealing the essence of such constructs as fostering children as obedient slaves in their adult years. This paper thus explores Lu Xun’s view of children developing as complete persons based on the twin aspects of spiritual and physical existence, which implies not only gaining freedom but also changing the social world so that this could happen.
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