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L’oralité et l’écriture du génocide rwandais chez Boubacar Boris Diop
No full textDans cet article, nous nous proposons d’interroger l’apport de l’oralité dans l’écriture du génocide rwandais, en nous fondant sur le roman Murambi : le livre des ossements de Boubacar Boris Diop. À partir de la notion de performance développée par Paul Zumthor, nous analysons comment le romancier met en scène une parole sur le génocide qui se manifeste avant tout à travers ses failles et ses manques. Celle-ci est constamment avortée, reprise, révélant des non-dits qui sont en rapport étroit avec la position de l’écrivain concernant le témoignage du génocide. L’œuvre affiche ainsi des préoccupations qui sont au centre de l’entreprise d’écriture de Boubacar Boris Diop
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
From home to school : bridging the literacy gap in L1 Wolof child learners of L2 French in Senegal
No full textThe relationship between first language (L1) literacy and second language (L2) learning has increasingly become an object of considerable study in the field of Second Language Acquisition. While numerous studies have been conducted on this issue in situations in which the first and second languages of literacy are related (Spanish and English: Cummins, 2000; Gonzalez, 1979; French and English Cziko, 1978), little research is currently available on how school children who are partially literate in their mother tongue learn an L2 successfully (Wagner, 1998).
This research investigates the L2 French phonological awareness, decoding and comprehension skills of two groups of sixty L1 Wolof child learners of L2 French in Senegal. Prior to learning French, one group developed early literacy skills in Arabic (the Qur’anic group), and the other group developed no literacy skills in Wolof or Arabic (the Non-Qur’anic group).Combining both quantitative and qualitative methods, the data were collected through an odd-word-out instrument, a picture-word-identification and association instrument,a reading comprehension instrument, and a questionnaire, as well as through semi-structured interviews.
This research showed that the absence of literacy skills in either the mother tongue (Wolof) or Arabic affects learning in L2 French. That is,the Qur’anic group out performed the Non-Qur’anic group in L2 French decoding skills and reading comprehension, except in the area of L2 phonological awareness where both groups performed at an equal level. The results also identified a strong correlation between early literacy skills developed at home or in Qur’anic schooland later success in decoding and reading a French text at school.Arts, Faculty ofFrench, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department ofGraduat
African courts of justice and integration
No full textLa construction communautaire en Afrique, saisie par le juge, constitue une véritable avancée. La mise en place de cours de justice a imprimé aux organisations d’intégration africaine (CAE, CEDEAO, CEMAC, COMESA, SADC, UEMOA) une nouvelle physionomie marquée par le respect du droit et de la légalité. Ces juridictions sont conçues pour accompagner les processus communautaires en contribuant à l’élimination des entraves aux objectifs d’intégration. Par le biais de leurs jurisprudences, caractérisées par une prééminence de la protection des droits de l’homme et une indigence du contentieux des libertés économiques, les cours de justice africaines, assument une mission de « gardiennes des objectifs d’intégration ». L’intervention du juge a permis de préciser le champ de compétence des institutions et de structurer les principes essentiels du droit de l’intégration même si certaines voies de droit demeurent inusitées. En outre, l’expansion du contentieux des droits de l’homme devant les prétoires des juges révèle une tendance lourde en faveur de la protection de la personne humaine avec des approches différentes. L’affirmation des cours de justice et la légitimation de leurs fonctions juridictionnelles se voient tempérées par la résistance États membres. Mais, cela n’empêche pas la manifestation de la montée en puissance du juge communautaire africain dans un contexte d’étincelle contentieuse des droits de l’homme. Ainsi, l’oeuvre jurisprudentielle scrutée montre que les cours de justice africaines ont contribué, de manière ambivalente, et déterminante à l’intégration africaine.The construction of the Community in Africa, referred by the judge, is a real step forward. The establishment of courts of justice has given African sub-regional organizations (EAC, ECOWAS, CEMAC, COMESA, SADC, WAMU) a new appearance marked by respect for law and legality. These courts are designed to support community processes by helping to remove obstacles to the objectives of integration. Through their case law, characterized by a dominance of human rights cases and a lack of economic freedom litigation, African courts of justice assume a mission as guardians of integration objectives. The judge's intervention has made it possible to clarify the scope of competence of the institutions and to structure the essential principles of integration law, even if certain legal remedies remain unusual. Moreover, the expansion of human rights litigation before the african courts reveals a strong trend towards the protection of the human person with different approaches. The assertion of the courts of justice and the legitimization of their jurisdictional functions are being tempered by resistance from Member States. But this does not prevent the manifestation of the rise of the African Community judge in a context of contentious human rights sparks. Thus, the jurisprudential work examined shows that African courts of justice have made an ambivalent and decisive contribution to African integration
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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