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Languaging diversity in EU institutional discourse on immigrant integration
No full textSignificant social changes involve dissemination which in turn involves recontextualization as the movement of practices, strategies, discourses from one context to another (Chouliaraki/Fairclough 1999). From the perspective of discourse analysis, a view of discourse as “an inherent and irreducible element or facet of all social phenomena and all social change” (Fairclough, in Fairclough et al. 2007: 10) means viewing “the relations between discourse and other elements or facets of social phenomena as dialectical relations (Fairclough, in Fairclough et al. 2007: 12).
Based on a theoretical methodological framework mainly relying upon Fairclough (2007, 2011) and van Dijk (in Fairclough et al. 2007), the aim of this study is an analysis of processes of ‘re-scaling’ in EU institutional discourse which involve questions of structure and agency with respect to dissemination and ‘operationalization’ of strategies in changes in social life and with a focus on ways of acting and interacting of discourses. The ‘operationalization’ of discourses as “particular and diverse ways of representing aspects of the world” will be analysed with an eye to the constitution of new relations between scales in EU institutional discourse on immigrant integration
Concettualizzazione e nominalizzazione nel discorso istituzionale dell’Ue sull’ integrazione dei migranti
No full textFinalità:
A) Analisi di termini/nozioni correlati a immigrazione (e.g. assimilazione, inclusione, integrazione multiculturale/interculturale), e di teorie e modelli politici adottati in principali paesi di accoglimento (e.g. assimilazione francese, multiculturalismo britannico, ...)
B) Analisi di indeterminatezza linguistica e concettuale nel discorso istituzionale-legale Ue come marca di ideologia per mediare i bisogni dei migranti e quelli locali del paese di accoglimento. Analisi di ruoli nel processo di integrazione.
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Disseminating knowledge of Mental Health care: a diachronic analysis of the language of the UK Code(s) of practice
No full textThis study is based on the assumption that knowledge dissemination is a particular form of intralinguistic translation from a specialized language targeted at a professional audience to a comprehensible language accessible to the average citizen (see Hilgartner 1990). The aim is to investigate the language of the Code of practice (1999, 2005, 2008) relating to the Mental Health Act (1983, 2007) (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/51771696.PDF) to identify and analyse the discursive constructions and changes in the light of studies on knowledge dissemination. Comprehensibility and simplification have been investigated in terms of re-contextualizing knowledge. Ideological implications have also been explored, taking into accounts the genre, the purpose and the target audience of both the Acts and the Code(s) of practice as they “[...] form the basis of the social representations and practices of group members, including their discourse, which at the same time serves as the means of ideological production, reproduction and challenge” (van Dijk 2004: 116-140). Besides, ‘role’ (Sarangi 2011) has been investigated as a result of a new paradigm with a focus on the patient as an individual. Plain language theories have been referred to in order to investigate the role of language in the drafting of legal documents with reference to the new communicative needs in the global era (Williams 2007). The analysis has revealed a strategic use of: modals - can, will and must - and lexical items; discourse strategies: a mix of formal and technical vs. informal and simplified register; Role: shifts in the Patient’s role, which reflect a shift in KD of MH discourse towards NBM (narrative based medicine)
Opening ‘the gate’: EU discursive strategies towards a mental well-being of citizens
No full textThe following study is part of a work in progress on the dissemination of mental health care with a special focus on language barriers. It is an attempt to answer the following research question: How does the EU legislation contribute to the implementation of policies and plans towards passing laws that place them in the context of internationally accepted human rights standards and good practices? The investigation is a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the text types ad hoc collected from the Health-EU Portal (ec.europa.eu › ... › Health Problems) and is supported by AntConc software 3.2. The study is based on the assumption of the important role of effective communication in contexts of institutional public services to avoid miscommunication, intercultural conflicts and social exclusion and aiming at the accessibility for people despite their geographical, social or other differences to overcome cultural and language barriers. The findings have revealed a type of communication:
- goal-oriented (medium/high level target audience) and - use of lexical items from specialised (legal and corporate) and lack of information accessible to common people, specifically patients
The genre evolution of the UN Secreteray-General's annual reports from 1953 to 2012
No full textThe present study examines the discursive and linguistic features of the United Nations Secretary- General's annual reports over the last sixty years with the aim of highlighting the evolving features of this genre and demonstrating its development from an informative genre addressing a restricted discourse community to a self-promotional genre aimed at the public at large
From typewritten to hypertextual: the genre evolution of the United Nations report
No full textIn the light of recent studies on genre hybridization and new media textuality, the present paper sets out to investigate the evolving features of the UN Secretary-General reports from the early years to the present day. The structure and style of these reports seem to have dramatically changed over the years: while the first reports were extremely detailed and lengthy accounts of all the events unfolding, including the very verbal processes leading to those events such as letters, meetings, ballots, the latest ones appear to be streamlined documents providing rather than facts an interpretive framework of analysis, i.e. the good-triumphs-over-evil narrative typical of UN discursive constructions
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
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