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English in Singapore: Modernity and Management
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The Introduction of the Lexicon of Grammar into China. Typologies of Neologisms and Historical Background of their Creation
No full textDuring XIX century, the great flow of scientific texts coming from the Western countries into China made it necessary for the Chinese scholars to embark on the tremendous task of creating brand new sets of words in order to give a Chinese name to the new concepts introduced from Western learning and that were becoming part of their own learning.
The studies carried out in the last fifteen years demonstrated that this process of creation of neologisms underwent an evolution during the period between the half of XIX century and the first two decades of XX century.
In this paper, I report the results of the lexical and socio-historical analysis of Chinese grammatical lexicon, as created in the two first Chinese texts dealing with grammar:
Yingwen juyu (Examples of English language), by Wang Fengzao, published in 1879, maybe the first Chinese textbook of English language for Chinese students;
Mashi wentong (General rules of language by Mr. Ma), by Ma Jianzhong, published in 1898, unanimously acknowledged as the first Chinese grammar of Chinese language.
In this paper I carry out a combined interpretation of lexicological data together with the relative historical background. The aim of my inquiry is to see whether and how the differences of historical context influenced the creation of Chinese grammatical lexicon. In general, the purpose of such an investigation is to formulate hypotheses on the communicative motivations that determined different lexical choices and different patterns of creation of lexical terms in a given period and regarding a given lexical domain
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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