Guy Ramsay

List of John Benjamins publications in which Guy Ramsay is involved.

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Shaping Minds: A discourse analysis of Chinese-language community mental health literature

Guy Ramsay

Mental illness is an increasing concern of government health services across the globe. It is timely, therefore, that community education about mental illness is subject to discourse analysis. Shaping Minds explores how the psychoeducational message is presented to Chinese-speaking audiences in… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 32] 2008. ix, 149 pp.

Articles

Ramsay, Guy 2003 ‘Virtual’ learning communities beyond the classroom: Perceptions of tertiary Chinese language and non-language learners Asian Languages and Computers, Hoven, Debra and Jeong-Bae Son (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Article

As class contact times are reduced as a result of fiscal restraints in the modern tertiary sector, language instructors are placed in the position of having to find new ways to provide experience and continuity in language learning. Extending ‘learning communities’ — sites of learner knowledge… read more

Ramsay, Guy 2001  What are they getting at? Placement of important ideas in lengthy Chinese newstext: A contrastive analysis with Australian Newstext Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 24:2, pp. 17–34 | Article

When reading lengthy expository texts, Australian-born (Aus) learners of Modern Standard Chinese (MSC) as a second language (L2) often find it difficult to elicit the main points being expressed by the text author. Contrastive rhetoric studies attribute this to the differing stylistic patterns of… read more