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A cognitive stylistics study of The Other Presence and The Hopeless Hopes
No full textTHESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT THE NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Supervisor: Prof Haileleul Zeleke WoldemariamThe research presents a cognitive stylistics study of two Namibian novels: Francis Sifiso Nyathi’s The Other Presence and Salom Shilongo’s The Hopeless Hopes. The novels have been selected because they presented Namibian societal problems from two different Namibian perspectives. The study also argues that only few such Namibian novels have been investigated conceptualising applied linguistic theories such as cognitivism, functionalism and structuralism. To guide the entire stream of the research, the researcher raised three fundamental questions: How does cognitive metaphor help explicate psychological hitches as captured creatively in the two novels? What is the mind’s contribution to conceptualise and comprehend contextual meanings in the two novels? How does content schema contribute to the understanding of the two novels? It is therefore against these three questions that the two novels have been purposefully selected and studied in order to address the gap. Conceptualising and implementing cognitive metaphor, the study also analyses the root causes of societal problems such as unemployment, unfair treatment of people, HIV/AIDS and witchcrafts in the Namibian social fabric. In The Other Presence, it is HIV/AIDS what is referred as the other presence of the other. Shilongo’s The Hopeless Hopes also reveals how Robert and the other fellow ex-combatants gathered at a Big House in Windhoek to hand over their petition to Honourable Zopa. This clearly indicates that the State House is being contextualised to a Big House, while The Founding Father and former President of the country, Honourable Sam Nuyoma referred to as Honourable Zopa. The contextual meaning of the selected novels can thus only understood if the readers of the concerned novel have general background of the Namibian society. Following cognitivism as a broader theoretical framework, the study has also followed a schema theory specifically to explain mental problems and contextual meanings. The study revealed and demonstrated how cognitive stylistics approach to Namibian novels can advance the literary understanding of multiplicities of themes such as culture, taboo, superstition, unemployment, colonialism and corruption
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
A cognitive stylistics study of the Nama-Herero genocide in Kubuitsile’s the scattering, Utley’s lie of the land, Tjingaete’s the weeping graves of our ancestors and Van Den Berg’s parts unknown
No full textThis study examined four Namibian Nama-Herero literary texts about the genocide in Namibia through the application of the cognitive stylistics theory as a framework for analysis. These are namely, Lauri Kubuitsile’s The Scattering (2016), Jaspar D. Utley’s Lie of the Land (2017), Rukee Tjingaete’s The Weeping Graves of our Ancestors (2017) and Zirk van den Berg’s Parts Unknown (2018). The four novels were chosen because they present the Nama-Herero genocide, which took place from 1904 -1908 where over 65,000 Ovaherero and 10,000 Nama people died in what is known as the first genocide of the twentieth century. The study aimed at probing how the usage of the tools of cognitive stylistics can aid the reader to better understand the construction of narratives of the genocide in the selected Namibian fictional imaginaries. The study promotes new discourses on cognitive stylistics studies of Namibian literary works. The study is significant to researchers and readers as it is a useful reference tool for students, politicians and researchers conducting studies in the field of cognitive stylistics. Cognitive stylistics combines explicit, rigorous and detailed linguistic analysis of literary texts. Cognitive linguistics argues that a particular situation in a literary text can be interpreted in different ways. The study followed a qualitative approach whereby a content analysis instrument was used to collect the data. It was a desktop analysis study as no fieldwork was carried out. Observations from nuanced readings of the texts indicated that themes in the selected texts largely centre on the natives’ experiences of the genocide during this period of colonial occupation and encounter. Conceptualising and implementing cognitive tools, the study also analysed how the Herero and Nama people suffered at the hands of German colonial rule, whereby natives were incarcerated, tortured, raped, and killed and their livestock confiscation. This was achieved through the examination of literary creativity through the use of cognitive ii metaphor, genocidal trauma, and mental and physical oppression. Several creative writing resources were used to project genocidal narratives in telling genocidal fictionalised stories. In addition to that, conceptual metaphors were used to establish a connection between the reader and the connection extends beyond the reader and text to include specific contextual aspects. Considering the extent of the Nama-Herero genocide where an estimated 80% of the Ovaherero and about 20% of the Nama populations were wiped out, the study concluded that ordinary human beings do not take pleasure in killing fellow humans unless it is evil-spirited and coupled with the extreme hate for people from other races or owing to differences in opinion. The study also concluded that the Germans used crime and punishment to colonise the then-German South West Africa. One of their plans was to exterminate the local Ovaherero and Nama populations as a form of punishment. The extermination of the local Ovaherero and Nama populations was the punishment for the local indigenous people for their resistance to German’s occupation. It was concluded that reading, analysing and schematising genocidal fictional works can reflect a negative past for current world citizens to understand and adopt ways that can be used to prevent genocide
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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