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The "Mobile languages" corpus MoJezik 1.0 (audio)
No full textThe "Mobile Languages" corpus documents in-depth, semi-structured sociolinguistic interviews with speakers from two Slovene regions and distinctive dialects: Idrija (Cerkno dialect, Rovte group) and Ribnica (Dolenjska dialect, Dolenjska group), who study or work in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, and thus navigate daily between dialectal and standard language use. Interview topics include narratives of personal (linguistic) history, reflections on past and present language practices, attitudes towards their own dialects and other Slovene varieties, experiences of dialect perception in the Ljubljana context and of standard-like speech in local environments, linguistic identity, stereotypes and prejudices, intergenerational language use (especially with children), and language behaviour in educational settings.
The corpus includes:
– Idrija group: 4 speakers (2 women, 2 men; 2 adults, 2 secondary-school students), recorded between 2009 and 2013; total interview length: 5 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds.
– Ribnica group: 6 speakers (2 primary informants and 4 close contacts, including family members, friends, and colleagues), recorded between 2020 and 2022; total interview length: 4 hours, 37 minutes, 15 seconds.
The interviews were conducted within the framework of broader sociolinguistic research, which also encompassed informants’ self-recordings of spontaneous speech in diverse everyday situations and a quantitative variationist analysis of five phonological variables (dialect-specific) across various communicative contexts. The interview data enable comparisons between speakers’ metalinguistic commentary and their actual language use as documented in the recordings.
The findings of the Cerkno and Ribnica studies are comprehensively presented in two scientific publications:
* Bitenc, Maja (2016): Z jezikom na poti med Idrijskim in Ljubljano [With Language on the Move Between Idrija and Ljubljana]. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. https://www.ff.uni-lj.si/publikacije/z-jezikom-na-poti-med-idrijskim-ljubljano
* Bitenc, Maja (2025): Govor v gibanju med Ribnico in Ljubljano [Speech in Motion Between Ribnica and Ljubljana]. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612976316
This entry contains only audio recordings, and only for speakers who have consented to the publication of their recordings. The transcriptions are available in a separate entry: The "Mobile Languages" corpus MoJezik 1.0 (transcription), http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2037
The "Mobile languages" corpus MoJezik 1.0 (transcription)
No full textThe "Mobile Languages" corpus documents in-depth, semi-structured sociolinguistic interviews with speakers from two Slovene regions and distinctive dialects: Idrija (Cerkno dialect, Rovte dialect group) and Ribnica (Lower Carniola dialect, Lower Carniola dialect group), who study or work in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, and thus navigate daily between dialectal and standard language use. Interview topics include narratives of personal (linguistic) history, reflections on past and present language practices, attitudes towards their own dialects and other Slovene varieties, experiences of dialect perception in the Ljubljana context and of standard-like speech in local environments, linguistic identity, stereotypes and prejudices, intergenerational language use (especially with children), and language behaviour in educational settings.
The corpus includes:
– Idrija group: 5 speakers (3 women, 2 men; 3 adults, 2 secondary-school students), recorded between 2009 and 2013; 1,112 transcribed utterances, 31,506 transcribed words.
– Ribnica group: 11 speakers (3 primary informants and 8 close contacts, including family members, friends, and colleagues), recorded between 2020 and 2022; 2,889 transcribed utterances, 47,364 transcribed words.
The transcriptions are orthographic, with selected non-standard features preserved using special symbols to capture salient dialectal elements (e.g., the fricative [γ] and the bilabial glide [w] in the Cerkno variety). Speaker names have been anonymised. While transcription prioritised content and was performed by multiple transcribers, consistency in the phonetic rendering of dialectal features was not systematically verified. Users should be aware that detailed phonological analysis may require additional checking.
The interviews were conducted within the framework of broader sociolinguistic research, which also encompassed informants’ self-recordings of spontaneous speech in diverse everyday situations and a quantitative variationist analysis of five phonological variables (dialect-specific) across various communicative contexts. The interview data enable comparisons between speakers’ metalinguistic commentary and their actual language use as documented in the recordings.
The findings of the Cerkno and Ribnica studies are comprehensively presented in two scientific publications:
* Bitenc, Maja (2016): Z jezikom na poti med Idrijskim in Ljubljano [With Language on the Move Between Idrija and Ljubljana]. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. https://www.ff.uni-lj.si/publikacije/z-jezikom-na-poti-med-idrijskim-ljubljano
* Bitenc, Maja (2025): Govor v gibanju med Ribnico in Ljubljano [Speech in Motion Between Ribnica and Ljubljana]. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789612976316
The corpus speech files for speakers who have consented to the publication of their recordings are available as a separate entry: The "Mobile languages" corpus MoJezik 1.0 (audio), http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2042
Language and Gender – Analysis of Standpoints regarding Gender-inclusive Language in Delo and Die Welt Newspaper
No full textMagistrsko delo se ukvarja s temo jezika in spola, ki je v Nemčiji in Sloveniji aktualna in pereča. Razpravljanje o temi jezika in spola v jeziku je ustvarilo dva tabora – tiste, ki spolno vključujočo rabo jezika zagovarjajo, in tiste, ki v spolno vključujoči rabi jezika vidijo predvsem ideologizacijo jezika in se jim trenutno stanje v jeziku ne zdi izključujoče. V Sloveniji je bila debata najživahnejša po sprejetju sklepa številka 41 na senatu Filozofske fakultete v Ljubljani, ki v pravnih aktih fakultete določa rabo ženskega generičnega spola za kateri koli spol. V Nemčiji je debata še zmeraj živahna in poteka v različnih medijih (na televiziji, radiu, v časopisu). Magistrsko delo najprej predstavi vidike spola v jeziku, izrazne možnosti spola v nemščini in slovenščini ter morebitne težave, ki jih izrazni načini v obeh jezikih prinašajo. Delo se nato osredotoči na pozitivna in negativna stališča v razpravi o spolno vključujoči rabi jezika v razpravah v dnevnem časopisu Delo in Die Welt. Analiza stališč je opravljena na vzorcu skupno 29 člankov, ki so razvrščeni najprej v dve skupni glede na prevladujoča stališča v članku – na negativna in pozitivna stališča, nadalje so znotraj pozitivnih in negativnih stališč opredeljeni argumentativni sklopi, v katere lahko uvrstimo stališča iz analiziranega vzorca člankov. V zaključnem delu magisterija je primerjava med stališči v slovenskem in nemškem časopisu.The master\u27s thesis deals with the topic of language and gender, which is a very current and extremely significant topic in Germany and Slovenia. The debate on the topic of language and gender has produced two major streams of thought - on the one hand, the advocates of the gender-inclusive language, and on the other hand, those who view gender-inclusive language use primarily as ideologizing and find the language sufficiently inclusive in its current state. In Slovenia, the debate around this topic was most lively after the adoption of Resolution No. 41 in the Senate of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. In Germany, the debate is still ongoing on several levels (television, radio, newspaper). Based on this information, the master\u27s thesis first presents different aspects of gender in language, its possible expressions in German and Slovenian, as well as the potential issues caused by the expressions of gender in both languages. The thesis then focuses on the positive and negative attitudes towards the use of gender-inclusive language in the discussions in the daily newspapers Delo and Die Welt. The analysis of attitudes is conducted on a sample of 29 articles in total, which are first divided into two common groups according to the predominant attitude in the article - negative or positive. Subsequently, the positive and negative attitudes are further divided into broader argumentative groups of the attitudes in the articles. In the last part of the master\u27s thesis, the attitudes in the Slovenian newspaper Delo and the German newspaper Die Welt are compared
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
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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