Elizabeth de Freitas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elizabeth de Freitas is involved.
Articles
2014 The haptic nature of gesture: Rethinking gesture with new multitouch digital technologies Gesture 14:3, pp. 351–374 | Article
This paper is about re-thinking gesture in order to reckon with its material and haptic nature, especially in the current multitouch technology environment. This re-thinking of gesture returns to the principle of indexicality found in Peirce’s material semiotics, and develops this principle through… read more
2012 Mathematical meaning-making in whole-class conversation: Functional-grammatical analysis of a paradigmatic text Dialogue and Representation, Létourneau, Alain and François Cooren (eds.), pp. 60–79 | Article
This paper focuses on a brief whole-group conversation captured in a sixth grade classroom taught by an experienced teacher. Drawing upon systemic functional linguistics, we treat the conversation as a multi-semiotic text of the genre of teacher-guided mathematics problem framing. After describing… read more