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Indigenous language story-work: Examples from Secwepemctsin (Shuswap) and Xaad Kil (Haida)
No full textWithin the canons of indigenous language documentation and linguistic analysis, “texts” – as ancient handed down narratives of the “trickster” genre, or as oral histories that speak to groups’ and individuals’ past lived experiences – have usually been considered as one component of the “holy trinity” of corpus data. On the basis of collaborative work with Secwépemctsin (Shuswap) and Xaad Kil (Haida) speakers and learners, we examine innovative ways of doing indigenous language story work as it serves the practical purpose of language documentation, revitalization and learning. Having worked with narratives among speakers and learners of Secwépemctsin and Xaad Kil, we will discuss some of the challenges and successes of transcribing and translating, editing, annotating, understanding, celebrating and re-creating indigenous narratives as a way to breathe new life into our languages. One component of this work deals with ways in which we can meaningfully reconstruct and re-gain into living oral repertoire narratives told by past knowledge keepers and speakers that never made it to the printed page, let alone to audio-recording in the indigenous language. Such texts survive in English translations only, recorded in the past through the medium of Chinuk Wáwa, or through the work of indigenous interpreters. We will show how careful contextualization of social and cultural knowledge, ecological messages, references to particular places and landscapes allow us to re-constitute and re-gain such narratives as equipment for living among language speakers, learners and practitioners in our speech communities. A second component of our work deals with ways of making sense of the messages of narratives, as we either re-construct them or decipher them where they do exist in indigenous language recordings. We then look at how narratives embed social, ecological, geographic and moral messages in specific poetic language and word play. Comparatively, we examine some features of the stylistic devices around which narratives function in this capacity. Based on these findings, and on our experiences of having workshopped narratives as a component of indigenous language teaching, we show that they, in whole or in part, can act as meaningful mnemonic devices for learners of indigenous languages. Particular parts of narratives, whether they involve lines of character speech, poetic visualizations of experience that deploy grammatical forms like classifiers and instrumentals (Xaad Kil) lexical suffixes (Secwépemctsin) , or rhythmic forms of speech (alliteration and parallel lines rather than rhyme) can serve as scaffolding for learners to memorize linguistic structures
Gyáahlangee X̱íinangaas: Co-creating links between Haida Language Acquisition and Stories Told on the Land
No full textIn this paper we explore how we can work with legacy recordings of Haida gyáahlang.ee (clan stories) to create positive attitudes towards Xaad kil, and a sense of respect and awe for the deeds of ancestors by re-telling these stories on Haida ancestral lands to participating children, youth and elders. During the 1980s, two of the presenters recorded Haida clan stories of ancestors’ adventures on the land and sea surrounding Haida Gwaii with elders who spoke elaborate Haida, often integrating song into storytelling. As we found out, while on the one hand these are stories pertaining to particular matri-clans, the transmission of these stories was by no means confined to members of the protagonists’ or storytellers’ clans, but involved much more intricate patterns of young children and adults, at an impressionable age hearing these stories and then doing the story-work of remembering, occasionally retelling, and eventually recording them with the authors. Since then, as a team we have transcribed, glossed and translated these gyáahlang.ee, training Haida learners and graduate students in the process. In doing this work, we have discovered interesting and intriguing story plots, and through additional work that uncovered some 650 northern Haida toponyms, we have connected stories in minute detail to specific locations, thus retracing the steps of ancestors. In addition, we have uncovered previously undescribed or poorly understood features of Haida discourse, in particular aspects of verb morphology and features like topic tracking morphology, of which we will show examples. Having finished the anthropological and linguistic work on these stories, the co-authors then shared them with Haida children, youth and adults during on the land language camps on the west coast of Haida Gwaii. Bringing stories alive by re-creating the lived experience of the link to places (in Haida: “he went to the halibut bank just over on that point,” “those killerwhales were fed water from this little creek here, and they beached over there,” “this is where the protagonist went to find out how to get rid of his killerwhale skin”), and re-claiming the songs that go with stories, we have been able to contribute not only to reviving storytelling, but also to re-creating the links between experiencing story, song and connection to land at a young age, where it won’t be forgotten, as our storytellers told us
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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