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Developing Intercultural Competence through a Linguistic Landscapes Project: Linguistic Social Justice in Multicultural Communities
Get PDFAbstract: Everyday interactions are essential acts of conviviality for which the linguistic landscape (LL) provides an important medium. As Goebel (2015) states, all
kinds of semiotic exchanges are part of our interactional conviviality, and these
interactions develop our social relations. In this chapter, I argue that the LL is a
unique pedagogical tool – both for experiential and formal learning – in developing
students’ intercultural competence and critical sociolinguistic awareness (Hatoss,
2019a, 2023). While most studies in educational contexts have focused on devel -
oping intercultural competence within classroom walls, this chapter argues for the
utility of LL projects in educating learners to become more culturally aware and
responsive citizens and to practise citizen sociolinguistics (Martín Rojo, 2020). The
chapter draws on the Linguistics Landscapes of Sydney Project (Hatoss, 2023), an
ethnographic, student-directed study of everyday multilingual practices in Sydney
communities. The project takes a narrative approach to the LL (Wee, 2021).
Students collected and examined multilingual visual data, narrated their fieldwork
and discussed their lived experiences in the landscape. The examples presented in
this chapter highlight student participants’ reflections on everyday multilingual
practices in multilingual linguascapes (Pennycook, 2003). In this chapter, I first
present a rationale for using the LL to develop learners’ intercultural competence in
the context of multilingualism and linguistic social justice in Australia. In the second
section, I outline the project methods and provide examples to illustrate students’
engagement and intercultural learning. The chapter concludes by summing up the
pedagogical value of LL fieldwork and its contribution to the social justice research
agenda in multicultural communities
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
An international perspective on language policies, practices and proficiencies. Festschrift for David E. Ingram
Get PDF[Abstract]: The contributors to this volume come from countries in Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and the U.S.A. to offer insights into selected themes of applied linguistics organized under the letter ‘P’: Policies, Practices, Proficiencies, Parity, Presence and Prosperity.
The major theme underlying the volume is the question of how effective national language policies are and whether language-in-education policy is possible (Robert Kaplan. The volume poses further questions: How can language proficiency achieved and assessed more effectively? How can language communities maintain their linguistic and cultural heritage? Richard Lambert (USA) provides a succinct overview of language policy across the globe, Colin Power (Australia) considers the linguistic needs in an increasingly globalised world. Some other papers focus on language policy issues in the European Union, (see e.g. Guus Extra, The Netherlands) and the English Only Policy in the United States (see Zeynep Beykont). Other contexts include the Fiji Islands (Francis Mangubhai) and Senegal (Ibrahima Diallo).
The second section of the book addresses the issues of language teaching practices. Some of the main themes include intercultural language teaching (Tony Liddicoat, Australia and Svetlana Ter-Minasova (Russia), leaner independence (Terry Lamb, U.K and Hayo Reinders, New Zealand). An interesting addition to the volume is the theme of peace education through language education (Reinhold Freudenstein, Germany) cooperative learning and teacher professional development (Indra Odina, Latvia), a case study of an Internet-facilitated exchange program (Shirley O’Neill, Australia Chen Nian-Shing, (Taiwan) Li Min-Lee,(Taiwan) Mokoto Kageto (Japan), computer assisted language learning (Laurence Quinlivan and Denis Cunningham (Australia))and the concept of communicative competence (Indra Karapetjana, Latvia).
The third section deals with language proficiencies. Sabine Doff and Jan Franz (Germany) analyse the Common European Framework of Reference (CEF). Ieva Zuicena (Latvia) considers developments and the evolution of the language proficiency levels in learning Latvian.
The fourth section of the volume titled “Parity, Presence and Prosperity” deals with the retention of linguistic diversity. Contributors to this section identify solutions for the maintenance of linguistic diversity in the world and in various ethnolinguistic communities. Alan Hedley (Canada) uses a web analysis of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Anikó Hatoss (Australia) reports on a sociolinguistic study of the Hungarian community of Queensland. Marie-Claire Patron (Australia) discusses language maintenance the context of Franco-Mauritians in Australia. Francisco Gomes de Matos, (Brazil), discusses linguistic rights and peace linguistics
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
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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
Get PDFThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
Get PDFIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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