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Analysing the Language of Interpersonal Relations in Corpora of Elicited Learner and Native Interactions in English
No full textClimate Change Websites and Web Film Annotation: Applying Web Tools and Techniques developed in the Living Knowledge Project
No full textAt the start of the Internet era, a web page was mainly made up of written texts containing, every now and then, some hot words (i.e. hyperlinks) that took you to a related web page. So, you started reading from the top of the page and ended at the bottom of the same page. But with the development of increasingly visually-oriented programs (e.g. Adobe Flash), in the last 15 years, web pages have evolved greatly: they have become even more complex. Sophisticated animations, short videos, and interactive objects have often taken the place of written text. The real trick for readers and web analysts is in finding ways of keeping track of the complexity of web pages, which is where multimodal web page analysis comes in handy.
With specific reference to the issue of climate change, one of the major social issues of the contemporary age, this paper reports on part of the research into websites and web film analysis and annotation carried out within the Living Knowledge Project (Baldry, 2010, 2011a, 2011b; Baldry, Coccetta, in press). In particular, Sections 2, 3, and 4 explore a multimodal model of web analysis inspired by scalar principles (Baldry, Thibault, 2006a, 2006b; Coccetta, 2011) and shows the kind of information researchers can gather when applying a scalar model to film clips and web pages. Section 5 briefly describes the climate change film corpus that the author has compiled for research purposes while Section 6 explores the concept of thematic system (Baldry, 2010; Baldry, O’Halloran, 2010; Baldry, Thibault, 2006a) in relation to this corpus and, in particular, provides some examples of multimodal intertextual thematic formations (Baldry, Thibault, 2006a: 55). Finally, Section 7 examines websites and web film annotation in relation to the McaWeb tools (http://mcaweb.unipv.it) developed as part of the Living Knowledge Project and reports on the benefits they bring to web genre analysis
Medical CLIL (Part II): How the Body Works
No full textThe research presented in this paper is based on the successful outcomes of the use of multimodal-based studies in the university English classroom (Baldry, 2008a, 2008b; Baldry, Coccetta, 2012, in press; Baldry, Kantz, 2009, forthcoming; Coccetta, in press) as a means of helping students not only improve their competence in the foreign language, but also develop analytical skills to better cope with the texts they will encounter in their future occupations. This multimodal perspective in the English classroom is further enhanced when CLIL-oriented syllabuses are adopted. This study reports on the author’s experience as professore a contratto in two undergraduate degree courses at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Pavia: the course in Healthcare Professions (Corso di laurea della Classe 3 – Professioni sanitarie tecniche) and the one in Nursing (Corso di laurea in Infermieristica) based in Treviglio. The English course for the Healthcare Professions is a 40-hour course split between the first (24 hours) and the third year (16 hours). The course for Nursing, on the other hand, was of 65 hours split between the first (45 hours) and the third year (20 hours). In particular, the paper briefly: 1) discusses the rationale for and management of a multimodal CLIL approach to medical English in the two degree courses; 2) describes the courses’ final exam and the kind of exam-oriented activities carried out in class; and 3) explains why the approach and materials functioned for both degree courses despite their fundamentally different nature
Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics. Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment
No full textIntroduction. Section 3: The Impact of Living Knowledge: Web-related Cultural and Technological Issues
No full textThe paper presents the four papers in Section 3 of the volume "Web Genres and Web Tools. With Contributions from The Living Knowledge Project"
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
First Steps towards Multimodal Functional Concordancing
No full textThe development of the MCA (Multimodal Corpus Authoring System, Baldry 2005, Baldry/Beltrami 2005) online corpus construction and concordancing system, capable of investigating a variety of multimodal texts without denuding them of their distinguishing features, has led to extensive research on the integration of multimodal corpora, and multimodal concordancing in particular, into university syllabuses in the past few years (Baldry et al. 2005, Grunther 2005, Ackerley/Coccetta 2007b, Baldry 2007, in press, Grunther 2007, Coccetta in press, Dalziel/Metelli in press). This article describes a pilot project set up at the University of Padua (Coccetta 2004) which through the use of the MCA system made a small corpus of film texts, the English Language Learning Oriented (ELLO) film corpus, more easily accessible to language learners and allowed them to investigate: a) how a specific language function (van Ek/Trim 1998a, 1998b, 2001) is enacted by a set of different language forms and b) the ways in which the various manifestations of this function perform in relation to the multimodal co-text in which they are produced. In so doing, it illustrates some of the benefits this approach brings to language learning and gives examples of teaching materials based on the ELLO film corpus which are designed to promote language learners’ communicative competence.</jats:p
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