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The mighty gaze of power in Earl Lovelace's : The Dragon Can't Dance and The Wine of Astonishment
No full textFil: Basabe, Enrique Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
From De-Anglicization to Internationalisation: Cultural Representations of the UKand the USA in Global, Adapted and Local ELT Textbooks in Argentina<a href=
Get PDFIt is generally acknowledged that the culture of English-speaking countries has abandoned its central role in recent ELT materials. However, this study suggests that representations of the Anglo-American culture are still favoured in ELT textbooks but that, in most cases, they have been transformed into “international” attitudes. This idea is tested by the compilation of lists of cultural references for four series of textbooks in use in Argentina, and by the application of the procedures of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to a selection of reading passages from them. The findings provide an answer as to what representations of English-speaking cultures are in current textbooks and open to debate the apparent fairness of English as an International Language (EIL).Existe un consenso casi generalizado en que la cultura de los países de habla inglesa ha abandonado su papel central en los textos de inglés como lengua extranjera. Sin embargo, se sugiere que las representaciones de la cultura Anglo-americana aun persisten sólo que transformadas en actitudes “internacionales”. Esta idea se pone a prueba mediante la compilación de listas de referencias culturales en cuatros series de libros en uso en Argentina y en el Análisis Crítico del Discurso (ACD) de una serie de textos destinados a la lectura en dichos volúmenes. Los resultados determinan qué representaciones culturales subsisten en los textos y abren al debate la aparente neutralidad del inglés como lengua internacional (EIL, por sus siglas en inglés)
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Cuando la literatura cura: Una guía de lectura para Reading in the Dark (Deane, 1997)
Get PDFLa literatura cura cuando, a través de la escritura, el autor intenta cerrar la herida causada por el trauma infligido por la condición colonial o por la aparente normalidad del canon literario. A los lectores les resta detectar las claves que les permitan descubrir la lógica mediante la cual el autor desea hacer las paces con su pasado. A esa empresa están dedicadas estas breves notas de investigación. Se propone una guía de lectura para Reading in the Dark de Seamus Deane (1997), novela contextualizada en la cruenta realidad de Irlanda del Norte anterior a los Problemas (1968-1998). Se sugiere que, a fin de revertir los efectos del trauma causado por esa situación, Deane construye su propia literatura menor (Deleuze & Guattari, 1978). Ubicada en las fronteras entre la autobiografía y la ficción, la novela puede ser abordada en términos de las categorías deleuzianas desterritorialización del lenguaje, articulación de lo personal y lo político, y mecanismo narrativo colectivo. Leídas al unísono, dichas características, ponen en juego, con una potencia no menor a las de las literaturas post-coloniales, las condiciones revolucionarias de una literatura menor y es allí donde, al decir de Deleuze (2006), yace la verdadera salud del escritor.Palabras clave: literatura, literatura norirlandesa contemporánea, literatura menor, traumaAbstractLiterature heals when, through writing, the author tries to close the wound caused by the trauma inflicted by either the colonial condition or the apparent normalcy of the literary canon. Readers are then enticed to detect the clues and the overall logics through which the author wishes to come to terms with his past. That is the intention of these brief research notes. A reading guide to Seamus Deane’s (1997) Reading in the Dark is suggested here. The novel is set in the harsh panorama of Northern Ireland before The Problems (1968-1998), and it is proposed that, in order to overcome the effects of the trauma derived from that situation, Deane (1997) designs his own minor literature (Deleuze & Guattari, 1978). Halfway between fiction and autobiography, the novel can be analized in terms of the Deleuzian categories deterritorialization of language, collective narrative mechanism, and articulation between the personal and the political. Read in tandem, those traits put at play, with no lighter strength than those of post-colonial literatures, the revolutionary conditions of a minor literature, and it is there where, according to Deleuze (2006), lies for the author its true health. Key words: literature, contemporary northern irish literature, minor literature, trauma
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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