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Fimmini e Buttane. Negotiating sexism, sexuality, and non-pc language for the British audience of Inspector Montalbano
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War of the Words: Dialectics and discourse on the " migrant crisis " and " Islamic terrorists " in British and Italian newspapers
No full textWar of the Words: Dialectics and discourse on the " migrant crisis " and " Islamic terrorists " in British and Italian newspapers
Denise A Filmer
According to political philosopher, Thomas Nail, “The twenty-first century will be the century of the migrant” (2015, 1). In 2015 alone over one million human beings, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, risked their lives in unseaworthy vessels to reach the shores of Europe.1 An unparalleled humanitarian phenomenon in terms of scale - migration itself is part of the human condition (cf. Jayawardena, 1995: vii; Nyers, 2013) – the so-called “migrant crisis” has fuelled extreme xenophobic tendencies in popular political discourse throughout the European continent, reflected in equally inflammatory media coverage. Many British newspapers, for instance, have been roundly condemned by global humanitarian agencies, particularly for “the language used”2 to narrate events ensuing from the migratory flow. Italian newspapers have also come under criticism from national human rights organisations, while journalists from both countries have been sued for the lexical choices employed to denote migrants.3 A selected sample of these discursive representations produced by British and Italian news media constructed through the language of conflict are the focus of this contribution. Two mini-case studies analyse small but significant datasets around two key texts that generated meta-linguistic debate in media discourse chains (Fairclough, 1995). The study is divided into two parts. The first offers the theoretical rationale for the qualitative critical approaches adopted and explains the methods used. The second part focuses on the analysis. Considering news as narrative (Baker, 2006; Lopocaro, 2006), the contribution analyses the following discursive events that took place in 2015. The first occurred in the midst of the “Calais Crisis”, as The Sun stirred heated debate with the editorial “migrants are like cockroaches” (Hopkins 17 April 2015). The second was the consequence of the Paris bombings; the then editor of the Italian newspaper Libero (Belpietro 14 November 2015), published a front page editorial under the headline “Bastardi Islamici”, generating discussions as to the legality and ethics of such a title. The contribution concludes with some tentative indications of audience response via readers’ below the line comments to these particularly provocative news texts and a reflection on the status quo of racism in the news after nearly thirty-five years of CDA
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
Voicing diversity? Negotiating Italian identity through voice-over translation in BBC broadcasting
No full textThis contribution focuses on voice-over translation as a form of intercultural communication. The pilot study discussed here aims to investigate the role of voice-over techniques such as revoicing, narration and simultaneous interpreting in negotiating Italian cultural identity in non-fiction BBC broadcasts. The study is divided into five parts. The theoretical perspectives underpinning the research, narrative theory, imagology and critical discourse analysis are introduced in the first sections. An overview of the literature on voice-over translation follows in section two, while sections three, four and five present the analyses of three mini case studies spanning three non-fiction genres. The contribution concludes with some tentative observations and directions for further research
"“As my Right Honourable Lady knows...”: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Prime Minister’s Question Time Comparing Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May"
No full textAccording to van Dijk (2014), the notion of knowledge is inextricably linked to discourse. He also notes that the study of discourse has become increasingly multimodal embracing not only the verbal but also the interplay of image, sound, gesture, facework, and body position during spoken interaction. As such, “knowledge may be acquired, presupposed and expressed in these many multimodal forms, and may directly influence the formation of multimodal mental models language users use to construe when they understand text and talk” (van Dijk, 2014, p. 10). Starting from this premise, the paper presents a comparative case-study on the multimodal construction of meaning during Prime Minister’s Question Time (PMQs) (Bates et al., 2012) focusing on two historically significant PMQs: Theresa May’s before she announced her resignation (22nd May 2019) and Margaret Thatcher’s on the day of her resignation (22nd November 1990). As a political discourse genre, PMQs are extremely popular with the general public so much so that people can book their entry to the House of Commons’ Public Gallery to observe. They are also digitally available on the Parliament website, and thus easily accessible. Extracts drawn from original television recordings are examined, accounting for verbal and non-verbal cues using the multimodal annotation software ELAN (ELAN, 2020). The multimodal critical discourse analysis framework (Machin & Mayr, 2012), and the discourse-historical approach (DHA, Reisigl & Wodak, 2001) provide the theoretical backdrop necessary to address the following research questions: 1) In which ways do semiotic and verbal resources work together to produce meaning (Jewitt, 2014; Kress, 2013) in PMQs featuring Thatcher and May? and 2) How do these women leaders compare in terms of communicating political messages and disseminating “knowledge” in the context of the predominantly male parliamentary culture? Initial findings indicate that, despite occasional similarities regarding the employment of rhetorical strategies for persuasion, the two women leaders have very different ways of delivering their message, both on the verbal and non-verbal levels, thus producing an altogether different effect on their interlocutor and audience
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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