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David Crystal The cambridge encyclopedia of language
No full textTimbal-Duclaux Louis. David Crystal The cambridge encyclopedia of language . In: Communication et langages, n°76, 2ème trimestre 1988. pp. 122-123
Review: David Crystal, English as a global language
No full textGramley S. Review: David Crystal, English as a global language. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 1999;24(2):247-249
David Crystal, Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation
Get PDFDavid Crystal, a renowned linguist and the author of over 700 books and articles, published Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation in 2015. After diverse Stories of English (2004, 2011), he chose to relate the story of English punctuation, and to answer the following questions, which he raises in the introduction: Who were the people who introduced punctuation in the English language? Why did they do it? How did their invention evolve over the centuries? What is happening..
David Crystal, Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation
Get PDFDavid Crystal, a renowned linguist and the author of over 700 books and articles, published Making a Point: The pernickety story of English punctuation in 2015. After diverse Stories of English (2004, 2011), he chose to relate the story of English punctuation, and to answer the following questions, which he raises in the introduction: Who were the people who introduced punctuation in the English language? Why did they do it? How did their invention evolve over the centuries? What is happening..
The Pakeha myth of one New Zealand/Aotearoa. An exploration in the use of Maori loanwords in New Zealand English
No full textNew Zealand English (NZE) is the regional variety with the smallest number of speakers – about 3 millions – among the inner circle of countries where English is the first language (cf. Kachru, 2006). Its vocabulary, strongly influenced by British, Scottish and Irish, is certainly the system which displays the most differences from other English varieties, including AusE, whose similarities to NZE have been frequently overemphasized. These differences are largely dependent on the influence of the indigenous language of New Zealand; indeed, the most idiosyncratic aspect of NZE is the presence of words in te reo maori, i.e. the Maori language (Bell and Kuiper 2000).
The present paper concerns this indisputably most striking peculiarity and analyzes the usage of Maori loanwords among the discursive practices of written NZE.
Analyzing discursive practices in a selection of NZE newspapers, the study sheds light on the usage of Maori lexical borrowings. More specifically, the analysis will take into consideration Maori terms and their a) co-occurring patterns at the lexico-grammatical level, and b) pragmatic uses at the interface with semantics. The aim will be to verify the extent to which Maori terms can be seen as integrated rather than assimilated in NZE.
For this purpose, three highly frequent lexical borrowings of Maori origin have been selected (cf. Kennedy 2001), namely aroha (love), mana (power) and marae (meeting ground). Data will be retrieved from a corpus of NZ newspapers (The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion and the Press) from mid-2006 to mid-2007 and the corpus will be searched for via Lexis Nexis.
Overall, the study contributes to the vibrant discussion on the presence and recent increase of Maori lexical borrowings in NZE. In this sense, the paper also points to the fact that NZE resists globalizing tendencies which seem to be currently affecting other English varieties
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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