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Behavior of clearances and diffusive permeability during hemodialysis with PMMA dialyzers: Clinical study
No full text(Re)Mediating the 2011 UK Riots:A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of the Social Actors Involved in the Events
No full textTelecollaboration and the Remediation of Intercultural Communication
No full textThis paper illustrates the phases of a research project called Intercultural Telecollaboration that is based on the remediation of linear written discourse via the integration of digital tools. The aim of this study is to discuss the pedagogical use of hypermedia to promote Telecollaboration, which represents one of the greatest achievements of Web applications thus far focused on the improvement of foreign language learning and intercultural competence. Ten Italian high-school students of English and ten American intermediate-level students of Italian were paired up and interconnected online in order to use their L2s to discuss several conversational topics regarding their sociocultural backgrounds. Participants were encouraged to improve their mutual intelligibility through e-partnering, that consists in the voluntary exchange of selective corrective feedback. Moreover, a pre- and a post-survey were conducted to collect qualitative data about the students' experience in taking part in the project
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
Remediating popular science from press magazines to online editions: the Table of Contents as a case of intralingual translation
No full textThis paper aims to investigate the process of 'remediation' (Bolter and Grusin 1999) of a popular science printed magazine, National Geographic, when its word shifts from the page to the screen. In particular, it focuses on the ‘paratext’, or rather ‘peritext’, especially on headings contained in the Table of Contents, which is viewed as a distinct text-type. The linguistic-cultural changes that occur in moving from print to the Web show similarities to the domain of interlingual translation in the digital world. After an analysis of data, it is argued that the remediation of the case study here discussed could be considered an instance of intralingual translation. The theoretical background of this study is mainly linguistics and is broadly informed by translation studies, but has links to journalism, new media and online communication. Empirical analysis is carried out to see whether in “[...] the ideology of directness, immediacy” of the digital age, “great emphasis is placed on plain speaking.” (Cronin 2013: 41
Reformulating political discourse: How politicians construct their identity in the Facebook era
No full textThis study investigates the way one of the most popular SNSs – i.e. Facebook – affects the construction of politicians’ identity in British/American English and Italian political discourse. The aim is to compare traditional genres of political propaganda, such as electoral campaign speeches and inaugural addresses, with the innovative genre of SNSs. The attention is on the linguistic means and rhetoric/discursive strategies that politicians use to construct their identities on Facebook, as compared to the features traditionally discussed in Political Discourse Analysis (PDA, van Dijk 1997; Chilton 2004).
The study is divided into four main sections. Section 2 briefly describes the methodology used for data collection. Section 3 explores the genre of SNSs in the pertinent literature and elaborates a set of emergent discursive features that stress their role in the processes of conversationalisation and popularisation of political discourse. Section 4 instead discusses the linguistic characteristics of more traditional political genres (van Dijk 1997), and compares them to the more innovative features of Facebook profiles. The fifth section examines such profiles from the cross-cultural viewpoint, and from the viewpoint of their social impact on the audience
Re-Mediating Identity: A Linguistic and Multimodal Analysis of Televised Format Transferral
No full textThis chapter investigates the way in which linguistic, cultural, institutional and spatial identities are customised when a fictional televised series is exported from the country in which it originated and re-scripted in an entirely new cultural and linguistic setting. After a linguistic analysis of the salient features of the source and target formats, research will focus on a multimodal analysis of the police stations portrayed in the two series, and of the specific ambit, the interview room, in which much of the characterising action takes place
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