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Wizerunek współczesnego humanisty w dyskursie prasowym i społecznym
Full text linkThe author makes an attempt to reconstruct profiles of a modern humanist on the basis of statements entangled into the press and social discourse. The starting point is E. Fromm’s conception related to the productive and mercenary orientation that constitute the reflection of the social context of the texts under investigation. While conducting an analysis, the author uses the tools of cultural linguistics such as perspective, point of view, profiling and a linguistic image of the world, as well as the assumptions of axiological semantics
La formation de la communauté voyageuse à l’exemple du covoiturage – analyse des communiqués présentés sur les sites Internet et sur les forums de discussion consacrés à la thématique de partager les véhicules
No full textThe article is devoted to the analysis of messages produced by the users of websites and message boards concerned with carpooling, i.e. sharing free places in one’s car for monetary compensation, in order to characterize and delineate the boundaries of a new travel community, which, in turn, allows to discover the characteristics of its discourse. The author presents discursively crucial characteristics of this phenomenon arising in the process of building a community that exists at the intersection between two worlds: virtual and digital. Moreover, the author points to the economic, communication and community‑forming aspects of carpooling in the context of the dominant discourses on the communication map: public and media‑oriented
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
Dyskursywne i tekstowe reprezentacje współczesnej przestrzeni miejskiej
Full text linkThe main object of the dissertation was planned reading of the textual representation of Polish cities. The reading was structured as to enable conclusions leading to defining the elements in individual statements about a city, appears as a result of textual “subordination”. In the whole project, the category that regulates the imagery is discourse. The author's goal is to, firstly, to track the chosen types of discourse in the texts she analyses, and secondly, to construct the rules, norms and conventions of a wider discourse that would include all discourses referring to city. This creates a higher-level category of urban discourse. The argument pursues the following line of reasoning. The first chapter describes and conceptualises the basic concepts: text, discourse, point of view, discursive view of the world. These categories form the basic research toolkit and define the direction of interpretation. The second chapter presents the category of 'city' in a wider, cultural perspective. This perspective
introduces additional contexts and concepts important for the further analysis, relating directly to the category of city (place, centre, border, palimpsest, 'third space'). The third chapter forms the basic building block of the interpretation. The analysis focuses on the conventions of a tourism discourse, creating particular images of urban space. The interpretation starts by presenting the analysis of images of Warsaw and attempting to group them into semantic subgroups (facets). This attempt demonstrates the semantic complexity of a city. The
community of users is the necessary element of a discourse. That is why the author gives much
attention to figures of a tourist and a wanderer (a modern flâneur) and their ways of experiencing a city. A tourist represents the Stranger in the urban space. The tourist perspective depends on the genre conventions of the texts that describe the city. The author focuses on travel guides, with a particular modern variation of a city walking guide taken as a typical for a tourism discourse. The imagery appearing in the travel guides was then confronted with the individual and particular views of urban spaces, as seen through the lens of travel blogs. The
fourth chapter of the dissertation changes the point of view from a tourist to a resident. The research process was based on placing the tourist and the resident on the oppositional axis of FAMILIAR (OURS) – STRANGER (THEIRS). The relationship between these two categories creates the opportunity and framework for considering the differences in the way the city is represented, and the city space is valued, these differences being due to differing experiences and thus differing points of view. The collective subject of 'residents' is diverse and polyphonic. In order not to lose this diversity of voices, the author analysed both statements by municipal
officials (texts placed on the official Internet pages of the city authorities) and so-called 'ordinary members of the community' (posts of users of Internet forums). As was the case with tourists, this choice of texts for analysis enables the confrontation and comparison of individual and personal perception with the institutional view.
The argument is concluded in the fifth chapter, where the author presents a model (theoretical
construct) of urban discourse that forms a point of reference for the interpretations of individual, particular semiotic representations of a city
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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