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Coordinators in Safaliba
Get PDFThis study examines the Safaliba coordinators „ní‟ / „aní‟, „á‟, „ka‟, „chɛ‟ and „bíí‟ in their naturally occurring environments. Safaliba is a Gur language spoken by some 5000 -7000 people in the north-western part of Ghana.
The main areas of study include the syntactic categories that each coordinator can coordinate, the semantic properties of each of the coordinators and the pragmatic effect that the use of theses coordinators can have. Combinations of the individual coordinators called compound coordinators are also investigated; discussing the syntactic categories that each compound coordinator can coordinate, their semantic contents and the pragmatic effect that the use of each compound coordinator can have. The main source of data is eight (8) selected and transcribed narratives collected during a two month field work carried out between July and August 2010 in Mandari, the largest Safaliba village.
A general background about Safaliba is presented first. Here the language and its people are introduced. Some basic grammatical properties of Safaliba are also presented with the aim of facilitating the reader‟s understanding of various issues as they pertain in Safaliba. These constitute chapters 1and 2.
Secondly, the syntactic properties of the coordinators are investigated. Here, the syntactic categories that each coordinator can coordinate are illustrated with relevant examples. At the end of the discussion on the syntactic properties of these coordinators, I look at whether the coordinators in the language adhere to Payne‟s (1985) implicational scale that is assumed to constrain the syntactic properties of coordinators across languages.
Next the semantic and pragmatic properties of the coordinators are tackled. Here the discussion tries to assign specific meanings to the various coordinators by separating the meanings from connotations that are pragmatically inferred from the use of these coordinators. An attempt to account for the source of the pragmatically derived connotations is also made here.
Last to be discussed are compound coordinators. Here the discussion concerns the definition of compound coordinators and how they are formed. The syntactic categories that each compound coordinator can coordinate are illustrated. Also, specific meaning is assigned to these compound coordinators by separating the pragmatically derived connotations they can carry from the bare meaning of the compounds
Coordinators in Safaliba
No full textThis study examines the Safaliba coordinators „ní‟ / „aní‟, „á‟, „ka‟, „chɛ‟ and „bíí‟ in their naturally occurring environments. Safaliba is a Gur language spoken by some 5000 -7000 people in the north-western part of Ghana.
The main areas of study include the syntactic categories that each coordinator can coordinate, the semantic properties of each of the coordinators and the pragmatic effect that the use of theses coordinators can have. Combinations of the individual coordinators called compound coordinators are also investigated; discussing the syntactic categories that each compound coordinator can coordinate, their semantic contents and the pragmatic effect that the use of each compound coordinator can have. The main source of data is eight (8) selected and transcribed narratives collected during a two month field work carried out between July and August 2010 in Mandari, the largest Safaliba village.
A general background about Safaliba is presented first. Here the language and its people are introduced. Some basic grammatical properties of Safaliba are also presented with the aim of facilitating the reader‟s understanding of various issues as they pertain in Safaliba. These constitute chapters 1and 2.
Secondly, the syntactic properties of the coordinators are investigated. Here, the syntactic categories that each coordinator can coordinate are illustrated with relevant examples. At the end of the discussion on the syntactic properties of these coordinators, I look at whether the coordinators in the language adhere to Payne‟s (1985) implicational scale that is assumed to constrain the syntactic properties of coordinators across languages.
Next the semantic and pragmatic properties of the coordinators are tackled. Here the discussion tries to assign specific meanings to the various coordinators by separating the meanings from connotations that are pragmatically inferred from the use of these coordinators. An attempt to account for the source of the pragmatically derived connotations is also made here.
Last to be discussed are compound coordinators. Here the discussion concerns the definition of compound coordinators and how they are formed. The syntactic categories that each compound coordinator can coordinate are illustrated. Also, specific meaning is assigned to these compound coordinators by separating the pragmatically derived connotations they can carry from the bare meaning of the compounds
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
Linguistic Challenges of Courtroom Interpretation in Ghana: A Survey Approach
Get PDFThis paper presents the results of a survey on the linguistic challenges of courtroom interpretation in Ghana. It is part of a larger study on the challenges of courtroom interpreters. Specifically, the paper discusses the everyday linguistic challenges faced by courtroom interpreters, and the coping mechanisms deployed. Additionally, the paper makes proposals on ways that these challenges encountered by courtroom interpreters can be mitigated. In terms of findings, the paper shows that the main linguistic challenges include insufficient bilingual skills, terminological issues relating to legal jargon (legal terminology), terminology in specialized areas such as medical science, finance, economics, etc., measurement and quantities terms (e.g., money, fines, land, time, etc.), descriptive terms like color, height, etc., kinship terminology as well as speakers’ uses idiomatic expressions you are not familiar with. The paper notes that interpreters often use creative strategies like codemixing, omission of details, approximating color, and kinship terms, and seeking clarification through intervention to overcome these challenges. By way of recommendation, we propose the creation of glossaries in indigenous languages, collaboration with communities to identify and develop appropriate kinship terminology, the development of context-specific terminology, simplification of language, pre-session preparation, and continuous training and professional development
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
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