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“The Anglo-Italian ethnolect in computer-mediated cross-communication”
No full textThis paper focuses on the impact that some linguistic strategies employed by a specific ethnic group involved in Computer Mediated Discourse (CMD) may have in fostering the process of identity (de)/formation, and/or in the creation of particular speech cyber-communities such as the large Anglo-Italian community on Facebook.
Earlier analyses of Anglo-Italian speech in the UK show phonological realisations, especially among the 3rd generation adolescents, highly untypical of Southern England (Guzzo 2007; 2010). These findings led us to question whether other variable features of online English in worldly contexts, such as that of Facebook groups, could reveal similar patterns in the language of Anglo-Italian community members. More specifically, can such a specific context as CMD influence the language use of the Anglophone Italians abroad? Is there a specific ethnolect Italians tend to use on the Internet in order to mould their own cyber-community and/or cyber-identity? Can we identify some specific linguistic variables in the way the cyber-participants Italianise and/or Anglicise the above-mentioned ethnolect?
Our multidisciplinary study investigates a specific type of diamesic variation in its social and mediated interaction in asynchronous communication. We posit that the ethnic group involved in any CMD process is led towards the inevitable loss of a more general, (post)national identity while promoting the creation of a cyber-identity in a virtual cross-cultural setting
New Practices in Academia: Moving towards Hybridity
No full textAdapting academic practices at a noteworthy pace during the SARS-CoV-2
pandemic has presented its challenges while also calling on pause for
thought on the way in which teaching/learning and research currently take
place in university contexts and the potential that is presented. Our study
aims to provide a detailed comparative analysis of adapting academic
practices in terms of (1) teaching/learning; (2) changes to research
methodologies on a national and international scale. In line with ethnographic
sociolinguistic practice, a web-based ethnographic poll was designed. The
questions were specifically conceived to investigate the impact of SARSCoV-
2 at three months following the declaration of a world health pandemic
on the 11th March 2020 and twelve months after the initial poll. The
questionnaire investigated eight different lines of enquiry by identifying: 1.
the participant cohort; 2. the pandemic phase; 3. impact on workload and
identifying the types of remote activities carried out; 4. impressions of
remote activities; 5. experience with online assessment; 6. analysis of
methodologies for research projects; 7. adapting practice for research
projects and future prospects; 8. predictions for best practice in the future.
Participation in the poll was global and results indicated that academic
practices have now adopted a blended approach (96%) in line with predictions
of such 12 months prior (76%). Thus, academic practices have successfully
evolved through adapting methodologies and hybridity is likely the new
future direction
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Cosmetic Surgery Discourse: Signs of Age(ism) in the British Press
No full textCosmetic Surgery discourse has been scantily addressed in the literature despite encompassing elements of identity, age/ageing, gender and social context to name but a few. In this vein, the concepts of old and young as well as reasons for opting for cosmetic surgery may indeed be linked to no longer being permitted to grow old gracefully. The study combined a qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis with corpus linguistics tools to study the representation of the social variables of age and gender in the online British press within the context of cosmetic surgery. The lines of enquiry questioned how gender and age are portrayed in the British media in relation to cosmetic surgery and what a linguistic lexical analysis would reveal in terms of ideological as well as metaphorical content. The corpus under scrutiny was collected using the online platform LexisNexis using the seed words of cosmetic surgery* and plastic surgery* from four British Daily Newspapers: The Guardian, Daily Mirror, The Times and The Daily Mail. A corpus-based discourse analysis was employed to analyse the corpus. Results revealed interesting linguistic patterns in terms of cosmetic surgery representation in the British press and how cosmetic surgery is portrayed in reference to age(ism)
Insights into Diversified Communication, Research and Education during COVID-19: Changing Times
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Languaging Ethnic Diversity: the Case of the Italian Communities in Bedford and Peterborough, UK
No full textGoing 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
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