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The agency of The Hungry Tide. An ecostylistic analysis
No full textThis chapter investigates the aims and scope and methodological underpinnings of ecostylistics, against the background of ecocriticism, ecolinguistics and stylistics. The theoretical and methodological frameworks outlined in the first section of the study are subsequently applied to the analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2005[2004]). More specifically, a close ecostylistic reading of three extracts from the novel through Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG; Halliday & Matthiessen 2014[1985]) will be functional to unveiling the power hierarchy built up in the texts between human and non-human Participants
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
Metaphor and Persuasion at work with Emotions and Identity in Interaction
No full textPersuasion as a mechanism functions on the basis of the capability of having a grip on somebody’s attention and being capable of holding their interest so to have influence and produce a change in their psychological, interactional, societal and political positioning. Among the fundamental existential needs of people, apart from their basic survival essentials (food and water ‘in primis’) is the need of being somebody and possibly belonging to something. This translates into the capability of mentally defining, or “framing” (cf. “frame” Chilton, 2004, as “system of metaphors”, Ferrari, 2011, 2018) their own self conceptually, which, in an integrated way, means cognitively, emotionally and bodily (Ferrari, 2018). In a contextual environment, which is the norm if we exclude hermitage, this also implies framing their own self interactionally, that is with respect to others.
As regards framing, the simplest kind of frames, and the more easily exploitable in terms of persuasion, are conflictual frames. If we think about it, the easiest way to define ‘myself’ is against another. This also recalls the basic mechanism of social systems, in which their ‘shape’ is defined by means of their difference (Luhmann, 1995). Inclusive frames instead, which is to say those presiding over integration, are conceptually and operatively more complex, both in terms of psychological articulation, and of persuasion applicability. Using an inclusive frame I can define ‘myself’ as the result of my interaction with the other: . An example of strategic discoursal use of conflictual vs. inclusive frames is offered by Conflict vs. Inclusive Rhetoric in Bush vs. Obama argumentational attitudes, styles and strategies (Ferrari, 2018). Psychologically, these frames can also be used diachronically by individuals in order to frame their identity at the present time with respect to their past and their future projections and also with respect to others. This can concern activities of internal storytelling (cf. Toolan, 2001) reconstruction but also affect choice making and action. They manifest as two opposed structures of conceptually framing one’s own identity with respect to others and in time: or, as I say, two structurally different “interactional identity framings”, one based on a conflict structure, the other on inclusion and integration
Strumenti digitali e analisi delle metafore. Esempi di applicazione nel corpus ISW – Emigrantendeutsch in Israel: Wiener in Jerusalem
Full text linkL’importanza che le metafore ricoprono all’interno di racconti biografici orali spontanei in termini di (ri)costruzione dell’identità narrativa del parlante è stata sottolineata sia dalla ricerca biografica sia dalla linguistica del discorso (cfr. ad esempio Spieß 2014). Rilevante è inoltre il ruolo che le metafore assumono nella verbalizzazione delle emozioni, dal momento che contribuiscono a creare il «potenziale emotivo» (Emotionspotential, cfr. Schwarz-Friesel 2013) di un testo. Obiettivo del presente lavoro è mostrare in che modo alcuni strumenti digitali possano costituire un ausilio nell’identificare le metafore presenti all’interno di racconti biografici orali spontanei e nell’analizzarne il ruolo sia nella costruzione dell’identità narrativa di chi parla sia nell’espressione della sua emozionalità. Per la nostra analisi ci baseremo sulle interviste tratte dal corpus ISW – Emigrantendeutsch in Israel: Wiener in Jerusalem, il secondo dei tre sottocorpora da cui è costituito il cosiddetto Israelkorpus. Dal momento che tali interviste si configurano anche come biografie linguistiche (cfr. Betten 2007, 2012a, 2017), il contributo è incentrato, nello specifico, sull’impiego di metafore in relazione alle lingue appartenenti al repertorio linguistico (cfr. Busch 2013, 2017) dei/delle parlanti. La parte applicativa offre dapprima alcuni esempi pratici di come determinate funzioni del software MAXQDA possano rivelarsi utili nell’individuazione e analisi, sia quantitativa che qualitativa, di espressioni metaforiche presenti all’interno dell’intero corpus o in una singola intervista. Al fine di mostrare come le metafore siano strettamente connesse alla verbalizzazione e all’espressione delle emozioni, viene poi analizzato in dettaglio un passo esemplare con l’ausilio del software di analisi fonetica Praat
Metafore nella narrazione autobiografica. Un confronto fra generi testuali orali e scritti
No full textStrumenti digitali e analisi delle metafore: esempi di applicazione nel corpus ISW – Emigrantendeutsch in Israel: Wiener in Jerusalem
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