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Prefazione
No full textLa prefazione illustra brevemente in italiano i contenuti e i pregi di una ricerca di Dottorato redatta in inglese da Erica Pinelli su termini russi connessi con l'espressione della paura indagati in sincronia e diacronia nel quadro teorico della linguistica cognitiva e sulla base dei dati del Corpus Nazionale Russo
Illocutionary constructions and conceptual metonymies
No full textThis chapter aims to contribute to the discussion of indirect speech acts by describing how constructionist approaches to language (Boas 2003; Goldberg 2006; Ruiz de Mendoza and Galera 2014) are suitable to depict the interplay of illocutions with Idealised Cognitive Models (Lakoff 1987), in particular with conceptual metonymy. I conceive of speech acts as illocutionary constructions, which are “entrenched, productive and replicable form-function pairings characterised as constructional procedures capable of jointly activating parts of illocutionary scenarios in connection with relevant elements from the context of situation” (Baicchi 2012)
Exploring the cognitive motivation of figurativity
No full textThe chapter foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativity in meaning construction, emphasise the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and illustrate the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives such as language variation and cultural models, discourse acts, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of empirical work in Cognitive Linguistics, the import of cognitive operations in the language of emotions, the relations holding between multimodality and cognitive modelling
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
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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