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A Comparative Cognitive Study of Happiness and Sadness Metaphors in Fante and English
No full textThe advent of cognitive linguistics has resulted in a change in the way people previously perceived metaphor as purely a linguistic device. Metaphor is now studied as a cognitive instrument that shapes our language, thought and action (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Kovecses, 2002). Native speakers of a language employ metaphors to express abstract concepts of emotions. This paper does a study of the happiness and sadness metaphors in English and Fante, a dialect of the Akan language spoken in Ghana. It is underpinned by Lakoff and Johnsons’ (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory which is adopted as the framework for analysis. The study found that the two languages share some similarities with regard to the use of conceptual metaphors such as happiness is a fluid in a container, happiness is being off the ground, sadness is a fluid in a container and sadness is an object. The differences in the use of these conceptual metaphors are very minimal and can be ascribed to the different cultural practices that are prevalent in the two languages. The study recommends that teachers of language integrate metaphor awareness into their curriculum to help learners have a better understanding of metaphorical expressions to improve their communication skills. Additionally, there should be an expansion of studies on conceptual metaphors to cover more Ghanaian and African languages to enrich cognitive linguistic theory
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
Bald On-Record Politeness Strategy in Parliamentary Debates of the Parliament of Ghana
Get PDFThis paper examines how face needs are seemingly disregarded in parliamentary discourse, and the circumstances that frame such apparent infractions. Pivoting around politeness theory, politeness principles and maxims of conversation, the study uncovers means and ways in which Members of the Parliament of Ghana engage one another in debates on often contentious issues of national importance. By an analysis of content, the study identifies insults, accusations and imperatives as bald strategies used by the parliamentarians. All the actors in the debates – the Speaker, Majority MPs, Minority MPs – employed bald on-record utterances in a variety of ways and from either provocative or corrective positions in the discourse. The findings suggest that the Standing Orders on debates in the House are framed, in part, within the maxims of conversation proposed by Grice (1975), and they guide and influence the Members’ use of politeness strategies during the debates. Besides, Members tended to commit face-threatening acts when they correctively pointed out that a previous speaker had flouted the maxims of quality and relevance. In view of the findings, the study recommends that closer attention be given to the role of context in the research on politeness. Keywords: Politeness, Conversational Maxims, Context, Parliament, Standing Orders, Bald on-record DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/102-09 Publication date: July 30th 202
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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