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Comparative Analysis of Some Tigrinya Proverbs
Get PDFThe present article largely draws upon the author’s thesis dealing with the topics of birth and death in Tigrinya proverbs, submitted at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. The paper investigates -parallels of some of these proverbs to those from other African as well as Mid- East-ern, European, and Asian language cultures. The relevance of the analysis lies in the fact that, although being the third largest modern Semitic language, Tigrinya remains not sufficiently studied, with many gaps in the academic research of this language, not to mention its proverbial heritage. Although the notion that Tigrinya proverbs have equivalents in other languages might suggest itself, hardly any documented evidence of it has been presented up to the present day. The following analysis thus takes a step toward the comparative study of Tigrinya proverbs by offering an annotated overview of selected proverbs and sayings with their correspondences in other languages
Das alternative Belarus und das marginalisierte Andere: Zu Ausgrenzungstendenzen im nationalkonservativen Lager der belarussischen Opposition
Get PDFDer vorliegende Beitrag problematisiert das Bild der belarussischen Nation, das von der belarussischen politischen Opposition angeboten wird. Es handelt sich weniger um ein konkretes politisches Programm einzelner Parteien, sondern vielmehr um Umrisse eines Konzepts, die aus Stellungnahmen ihrer Anführer, Vertreterinnen und Vertreter ersichtlich werden. Dabei wird vor allem untersucht, wie sich einzelne Vertreter des sogenannten "Belarussischen Unabhängigen Blocks", also des konservativen, national-christdemokratischen, mitte-rechts bis rechts orientierten Teils der Opposition, in Bezug auf Gruppen positionieren, die unter dem derzeitigen Regime in Belarus in besonderem Maße verschiedenen Formen von Diskriminierung ausgesetzt sind. Es soll aufgezeigt werden, dass diese Teile der Opposition hier denselben Leitlinien folgen wie die dominierenden politischen Strukturen im Land, denen sie sich entgegenstellen. Sie bieten damit keine Alternative zur Überwindung der in der belarussischen Gesellschaft vorhandenen Diskriminierungsmuster. Dies soll an Beispielen von Diskriminierung aufgrund der sexuellen Identität, des Geschlechts, der sogenannten ethnischen Herkunft sowie der Religion illustriert werden. Die in diesem Beitrag dargelegte kurze Analyse erhebt keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit und ist vorläufig. Sie sollte nicht als pauschales Urteil verstanden werden, dass alle Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der belarussischen Opposition die geschilderten Ansichten teilen würden
Proverbs in Language Teaching: Using the Example of Let’s Speak Tigrinya (2018)
Get PDFProverbs have been used in language teaching for centuries. Nowadays, language learners associate mastery of this traditionally oral genre to a certain level of fluency and regard it as an access key to a deeper understanding of the native speakers’ culture. The recently released Tǝgrǝñña coursebook Let’s Speak Tigrinya (2018) contains almost fifty proverbs, and provides students with an insight into this old and rich tradition. However, owing to the lack of commentary or translation, the paper here seeks to compensate for this deficiency. In comparison with several Tǝgrǝñña proverb collections, it becomes apparent that the expressions listed in the textbook are common in Eritrea as well as in the Tǝgray region, in several alternative variations, some of which have been attested to in earlier European research works. A few examples even have an Amharic equivalent. The proverbs focused on here cover a wide range of both grammatical and everyday life topics and should be implemented in a more effective manner than the textbook provides. However, due to the lack of translations and occasional misprints, their accessibility is radically reduced and of little use for the individual language learner unassisted by a classroom situation
Use of Proverbs and Similar Sayings in Recent Protests and Political Debates in Poland, Belarus, and Russia
Get PDFIn the article, the attention is focused on recent political events in three Eastern European countries, namely Poland, Belarus, and Russia. In the case of Poland, the emphasis lies on demonstrations against the new anti-abortion law, commonly known as the Women’s Strike (Strajk Kobiet). The focus then moves to the protests which followed the presidential elections held in Belarus on 9 August 2020. Finally, the pa-per addresses the public debate around the Russian opposition politician and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny. In all three cases, the use of paroemias on different levels and its role are examined. The sayings dis-cussed here appear in interviews, official statements, on social media, and on demonstration posters
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
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