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Dealing with barriers in EU discourse of Mental Health Care
No full textThis chapter focuses on the ways in which EU institutional discourses of mental health care are recontextualized for the purpose of disseminating specialized knowledge. It specifically investigates whether language barriers occur in specialized discourse, assuming that comprehensibility and simplification are key factors for effective communication with the lay audience. The investigation is carried out on the grounds of a quantitative-qualitative analysis of different text types collected from the Health EU Portal, and adopting a concordance-based discourse analytical approach. Findings reveal how texts are mostly targeted to professional audiences, marginalizing citizens and patients through the use of inaccessible language which hinders effec-tive communication with the general public.
The investigation reveals a noticeable difference among the texts in the EU corpus. In general, specialized discourse was found to be featured by legal language, notably known for its obscurity and ambiguity, thus resulting unintelligible to non-experts as no discursive strategies of support were identified. Processes of recontextualisation were implemented when other professionals (e.g. doctors, managers and hospital staff) were the direct recipients. In these cases, discourse was recontextualised to facilitate professional understanding by moving from specialised legal language to technical registers appropriately. The analysis of the online information booklet programme 2008-2013 shows a move towards the marketisation of the institutional discourse of mental health care. It is centred on self-promotional discourse as a counterpart of specialised discourse. Thus, its goal is to disseminate self-promoting content, rather than effectively cater for common people or patients, despite the occasional use of a less formal and simplified register
'Make it happen!' The online promotion of human values in the UN millennium project
No full textThis paper analyses the features of UN communication online with regard to rhetorical moves, text organization and visual impact
Languaging Diversity in EU Institutional Discourse on Immigrant Integration
No full textThis chapter begins by identifying dominant concepts for the study of integration highlighting differences and/or similarities among them with special attention to integration of immigrants from a European perspective. The research develops to highlight interrelationships between notions identified in dimensions of integration and analysis of roles through
words, especially nouns, deployed in EU institutional discourse in dealingwith immigrant integration. The investigation is based on a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the texts in a Corpus ad hoc collected and searched by AntConc 3.1.2 software. The Corpus includes different text types in a time-span that extends from 2008 to 2013, notably specialised legal texts and texts addressed to a broad and mixed audience: EU Directives, “Strengthening the Global Approach to Migration: Increasing Coordination, Coherence and Synergies” (8.10.2008), European Agenda for the Integration of Third- Country Nationals” (20-7-2011), “EU Initiatives Supporting the Integration of Third-Country Nationals” (20-7-2011). In particular, the analysis has shown a move in the 2011 texts towards the gender perspective and a more careful look at the figure of the “ethnic entrepreneur” with a socio-economic role in the host society in the EU Initiatives text, which seems to mark a step forward in the EU stance to migration and im/migrant integration. The migrant’s identity moves from a generic “person” or “applicant” in the Directives to figures of migrants as beneficiary (man, woman, child, migrant) to whom rights (education, public health, residence and so on) must be granted, and who at times are granted a role as social actors. Overall, a depersonalised discourse on immigrant integration appears to be slowly replaced by a new type of discourse stressing the EU involvement in operationalising processes and activities in favour of immigrant integration
The role of SHALL and SHOULD in two international treaties: the UN Charter (1948) and the European Convention on Human Rights (1950).
No full textThe aim of the study is to analyse the language if two international treaties: The United Nation Charter (1945) and the European Convention of HumanRights (1950). In particular, it investigates the value of 'shall' and 'Should' in the institutional language of the United Nation and of the Council of Europe through a comparison between the English version of the documents and their Italian translations. The contrastive analysis will provide evides of difficulties encountered in the interpretation of the value and the meaning of modal auxiliary verbs in different language
Exploring language behaviour in ESP courses
No full textThe study aims at illustrating the projects carried out in non linguistic Faculties and within the framework of ESP courses. The projects were meant to check the usefulness of corpus linguistics methodology in teaching English tpo students at non-linguistic Faculties, to promote students'involvement and active participation in the learning process, and to increase language awareness though corpus analysis of specialized texts.The corpus-based teaching activitities have been carried out as practical sessions in courses which were run on a combination of discourse analysis and corpus linguistics
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
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