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Moving-Time and Moving-Ego Metaphors from a Translational and Contrastivelinguistic Perspective
Get PDFThis article is concerned with some cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of two types of time metaphors, the Moving-Time and the Moving-Ego metaphor. The latter metaphor appears to be far less well-entrenched in languages such as Croatian or Hungarian, i.e. some of its lexicalizations are less natural than their alternatives based on the Moving- Time metaphor, while some others are, unlike their English models, downright unacceptable. It is argued that some of the differences can be related to the status of the fictive motion construction and some restrictions on the choice of verbs in that construction
Figurative meanings of the lexeme ‘’face’’ and their Croatian equivalents : Diplomski rad
Get PDFThis paper attempts to determine and classify figurative meanings of the lexeme face in the English and Croatian corpora. The aim was to explore cultural variation between English and Croatian in realizations of figurative meanings of face. The total of examples provides a basis for some generalizations to be made regarding similarities and differences between the realizations of abstract concepts in English and Croatian. The author of the paper found the same conceptual metaphors and metonymies with equivalent linguistic expressions in both languages, but also the same conceptual metaphors and metonymies with different linguistic expressions in Croatian and English what reveals the similarities, but also subtle cultural differences between the speakers of the two languages
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
Utjecaj španjolskoga na leksičkoj razini na varijete engleskoga
No full textThe spread of the English language across the globe is a result of the formation of various varieties of English, otherwise known as World Englishes. These varieties are modelled under the constant influence of a plethora of factors, including the historical, cultural, socio-economic and linguistic influences of the regions in which a particular variety of English is spoken. One of the factors that has left a noticeable mark on English is the Spanish language. Being the second most spoken language in the world with approximately 460 million speakers, it has had significant impact on the lexical varieties of English in regions where Spanish has a notable presence. Contrasting the growing number of Anglicisms in the contemporary Spanish lexicon, the reverse process is also in motion. Albeit comparatively smaller, the increasing presence of Spanish in international communication has resulted in a growing use of Hispanicisms in English. The language users’ socioeconomic milieu, exposure to mass media, use of information technology and favouriting foreignisms all affect the morphosyntactic, semantic and stylistic forms of these borrowings. The results of these influences are particularly notable in various fields of life, ranging from vocabulary regarding humanities and natural sciences to terms used in everyday life.Raširenost engleskoga jezika diljem svijeta rezultat je formiranja različitih varijeteta engleskoga poznatih kao svjetski engleski. Ovi su varijeteti oblikovani pod stalnim utjecajem mnoštva čimbenika, uključujući povijesne, kulturne, socioekonomske i jezične utjecaje regija u kojima se govori određeni varijetet engleskog. Jedan od faktora koji je ostavio zamjetan trag na engleski je španjolski jezik. Budući da je drugi jezik na svijetu po broju govornika s približno 460 milijuna govornika, imao je značajan utjecaj na leksičke varijetete engleskog u regijama u kojima je španjolski značajno zastupljen. Nasuprot sve većem broju anglicizama u suvremenom španjolskom leksiku, u tijeku je i obrnuti proces. Iako razmjerno manja, rastuća prisutnost španjolskog u međunarodnoj komunikaciji rezultirala je rastućom upotrebom hispanizama u engleskom. Socioekonomski milje korisnika jezika, izloženost masovnim medijima, korištenje informacijske tehnologije i favoriziranje prilagođenica utječu na morfosintaktičke, semantičke i stilske oblike ovih posuđenica. Rezultati ovih utjecaja posebno su izraženi u raznim područjima života, od vokabulara humanističkih i prirodnih znanosti do pojmova koji se koriste u svakodnevnom životu
Engleski neologizmi u društvenim medijima: lingvistička analiza
No full textThe internet has made it easier for new words and phrases to enter the language of communication. Neologisms are essential to a language because they keep it modern. The discussion and analysis of English neologisms from the social media platforms TikTok and Twitter are the main goals of this thesis. On social media platforms, abbreviations, clipping, compounding, blending, coinage, and semantic shift are the most frequently used word formation processes. The major motivation for using neologisms, according to the participants, was their efficacy in communicating ideas.Internet je olakšao ulazak novih riječi i fraza u jezik komunikacije. Neologizmi su ključni za jezik jer ga održavaju modernim. Rasprava i analiza engleskih neologizama s platformi društvenih mreža TikTok i Twitter glavni su ciljevi ovog diplomskog rada. Skraćivanje, slaganje, srastanje, novotvorenice i semantički neologizmi najčešće su korišteni procesi tvorbe riječi na društvenim mrežama Twitter i TikTok. Sudionicima je glavna motivacija za korištenje neologizama bila njihova učinkovitost u prenošenju ideja
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