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The permeable context of institutional and newspaper discourse. A corpus-based functional case study of the European sovereign debt crisis
No full textThis chapter presents a comparison between two electronic corpora about the European sovereign debt crisis, one consisting of Financial Times articles and one consisting of official statements published on-line by the European Union and European Central Bank. The aim of this study is to contribute to the relatively recent investigations of the interface between SFL and corpus linguistics (Thompson & Hunston, 2006; Bednarek, 2010), especially as concerns the analysis of linguistic markers of ideology and evaluation in small scale corpora of institutional and newspaper discourse.
The corpora contain all the texts published in the week December 9-December 15 2011, so as to reflect a particular stage in the crisis: the selected time span coincides with the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s refusal to sign up to a new EU treaty aimed at enforcing greater fiscal discipline and integration in the eurozone, described by the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, as a “fiscal compact”. Mr Cameron’s veto, which was wielded on December 9, 2011 at a European Union summit in Brussels, revived the debate over euroscepticism and created worries of a “two-speed Europe” with Britain playing a marginal role.
Firstly, we provide a brief introduction to the interaction between SFL and corpus linguistics in current linguistic theory. Secondly, we present and compare the layout and structure of the corpora, as well as their main keywords and recurrent key word clusters. Thirdly, we use some of the highest ranking keywords as the starting point for an analysis of the patterns of Transitivity (with particular attention to relational Processes) and Modality (especially the use of objective Modality) that emerge from the corpora. Our results show a significant degree of “permeability” (Hasan 2004, Fairclough, 2004) between the institutional and newspaper discourse of the debt crisis, especially as concerns Modality markers that convey the idea that much economic policy is not a matter of choice, but one of necessity
'Just War' or just 'war: Arguments for Doing the 'Right Thing'
No full textThe chapter makes a linguistic analysis of the discourse of the House of Commons proceedings relating to the Iraq war, with particular reference to speeches and interventions made by members of the government. Methodologically, it combines corpus-assisted discourse analysis (Haarman, Morley, Partington, 2003, Bayley 2004, 2005, Miller 2006) with appraisal analysis (Martin & White 2005, White 2002, 2003, Martin & Rose 2003, Martin 2000), and involves both quantitative analysis of corpus data and qualitative analysis of texts. The chapter compares and contrasts the government’s positioning on war with that of Clare Short, a dissenting Labour MP who did vote with the government on March 18th but subsequently resigned her cabinet-level position as Secretary of State for International Development on 12th May 2003 in protest over the war.
It first makes a analysis of the discourse of members of the British government, as they sought to justify and legitimate military action in the House of Commons in 2003, drawing on the House of Commons sub-section of the CorDis corpus, in order to investigate the extent to which their arguments corresponded with, or diverged from, notions of just war. It subsequently investigates Clare Short’s positioning on the war in Iraq in 2003 as it emerges from the analysis of the same corpus, tracing her arguments chronologically from when she was a member of the government to her position after her resignation. Chouliaraki (2005) has argued that the quest for legitimacy and credibility in the justification to enter the war in Iraq was strongly motivated by the “humanitarian argument”; or, in other words, to liberate the Iraqi people from dictatorship. We claim that the humanitarian argument was largely absent in the discourse of the government while it was foregrounded and recontextualised in the discourse of Clare Short
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
Evaluating evaluation and some concluding reflections on CADS
No full textThe chapter is divided into two halves. In the first, the way in which both politicians and newsworkers reported and evaluated the behaviour of rival politicians and news organizations regarding the conflict in Iraq in its initial stages is examined, as evidenced in various CorDis subcorpora. The second contains a number of reflections on the nature of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and its relation to recent theoretical developments in corpus linguistics
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
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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