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I sinti lombardi di Pavia. Un'indagine sociolinguistica.
Get PDFSulla base di un'ampia ricerca sul campo, questa tesi propone una panoramica della situazione sociolinguistica dei sinti lombardi di Pavia, una comunità minoritaria del nord Italia bilingue in sinto lombardo (romaní) e italiano.
L'analisi è strutturata in due sezioni principali. La prima è incentrata sulla struttura del repertorio linguistico della comunità, come emerge dai risultati di un questionario sociolinguistico. La seconda è incentrata sui meccanismi di "language mixing" presenti in un corpus di interviste con un campione sociolinguisticamente stratificato di 26 parlanti, corrispondenti a circa 40.000 parole. Questa analisi si inserisce nel filone della ricerca quantitativa sul contatto in linguistico in ambito romaní (Adamou 2016) e italoromanzo (Dal Negro 2009, 2024). Più nello specifico, il focus principale è su fenomeni di replicazione di "matter" (prestito, code-switching), ma verranno fatti accenni anche a fenomeni di replicazione di "pattern". Particolare attenzione è inoltre dedicata alla variazione tra parlanti.
I risultati principali suggeriscono un atteggiamento positivo della comunità verso il bilinguismo e il "language mixing", che si riflette tra l'altro in una sua alta incidenza quantitativa nel parlato. Una scarsa variazione tra i parlanti suggerisce che i singoli individui tendono ad adattarsi alle norme stabilite a livello della comunità, come è spesso il caso di piccole comunità minoritarie. Più in generale, questo lavoro contribuisce al dibattito sul bilinguismo e sui fenomeni di contatto linguistico in contesti minoritari.Drawing on extensive field research, this thesis provides an overview of the sociolinguistic dynamics of the Lombard Sinti of Pavia, an understudied minority community in Northern Italy bilingual in Lombard Sinti (Romani) and Italian.
The analysis is structured into two principal sections. The first one offers a detailed examination of the structuring of the community’s linguistic repertoire, as evidenced by sociolinguistic questionnaires. The second section presents an analysis of language mixing patterns based on an oral corpus of interviews with 26 speakers, totalling around 40,000 tokens. This analysis is grounded in the quantitative paradigm of language mixing research within the Romani context (Adamou 2016) and among Italian linguistic minorities (Dal Negro 2009, 2024). The primary focus is on “matter” replication phenomena (such as borrowing and code-switching), while "pattern" replication phenomena at the level of specific syntactic structures are also considered. Attention is also paid to inter-speaker variation.
The findings suggest that the community exhibits a generally positive attitude towards bilingualism and language mixing, which is reflected in a notably high quantitative presence in the data. Moderate inter-speaker variation indicates that individual speakers tend to align with the linguistic patterns established at the community level, as is often the case with highly dense minority communities. Overall, this work contributes to ongoing debates on bilingualism and language contact in minority contexts
IL PROGETTO “IL PAESAGGIO LINGUISTICO TORINESE”
Get PDFIl contributo intende fornire una descrizione del progetto “Il paesaggio linguistico torinese”, consistito in un’attività didattica di ricerca sul campo con studenti e studentesse universitarie che ha previsto la mappatura di quattro quartieri (San Salvario, Centro, Porta Palazzo, Quadrilatero) della città di Torino. Dopo una panoramica sugli studi sul paesaggio linguistico italiano e sulle loro possibili applicazioni in chiave educativa, verranno illustrati gli scopi, i metodi e i principali risultati del progetto, sia dal punto di vista didattico, sia rispetto ai dati raccolti e alle lingue documentate.
The project “The Linguistic Landscape of Turin”
The aim of this paper is to describe the project “The Linguistic Landscape of Turin”, which consisted of a fieldwork activity with university students that involved the mapping of four districts (San Salvario, Centro, Porta Palazzo, Quadrilatero) of the city of Turin. After an overview of studies on the Italian linguistic landscape and their possible pedagogical applications, the aims, methods and main results of the project are presented, both from an educational point of view and in terms of the data we collected and the languages we documented
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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