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Politics and the political in critical discourse studies: state of the art and a call for an intensified focus on the metapolitical dimension of discursive practice
No full textBased on an overview of the ways in which politics and the political have been thought in critical discourse analysis (CDA), the author calls for a focus on the metapolitical dimension of discourse. The author develops his notion of metapolitics on the basis of post-foundational insights into politics, the political and processes of (de-) politicization. Metapolitics refers to projects and struggles where conflicting modes and models of politics clash. Metapolitical debates potentially reshape the structure of the public realm as well as the entities, borders and processes that constitute it. The author differentiates his descriptive and analytic use of the term from the way this signifier has been used programmatically by the anti-democratic New Right and its heirs. He demonstrates that metapolitical projects can be democratic as well as anti-democratic. In order to facilitate discourse analyses of metapolitical projects, debates and struggles, the author suggests that the metapolitical dimension of contemporary debates can be explored further by integrating insights from governmentality studies, studies of political rationality and the discourse theoretical logics approach with CDA. Moreover, a further exploration of the linguistic and textual underpinnings of metapolitics constitutes a promising pathway for future investigation. The study of metapolitics should be part and parcel of the transdisciplinary domain of critical discourse studies so that our understanding of the linguistic and non-linguistic features of metapolitical projects can be developed in equal measure at multiple levels of abstraction.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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
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
Integratiediscours tussen wetenschap en politiek: een discoursanalyse van activistische kritiek op het integratiedenken
No full textDe notie van integratie gaat al ettelijke decennia mee in het Vlaamse politieke discours. Het discours omtrent allochtonen en autochtonen is hier nauw mee verweven. In deze lezing gaat Jan Zienkowski dieper in op de ontwikkeling van dit discours. Integratie is een begrip dat zowel in de wetenschap als in de politiek op uiteenlopende wijzen gehanteerd wordt. Aan de hand van literatuuronderzoek en eigen analyses van de manier waarop integratie-gerelateerde concepten gedacht en geproblematiseerd worden in krantendiscours en interviews met activisten in de Vlaamse minderhedenpolitiek, politiseert Jan Zienkowski deze notie. Hij toont ook aan dat het debat omtrent integratie een inherent metapolitiek debat is waarin conflicterende visies op de publieke ruimte met elkaar clashen in een politiek-ideologische strijd om betekenis
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
Integratiediscours tussen wetenschap en politiek: een discoursanalyse van activistische kritiek op het integratiedenken
No full textDe notie van integratie gaat al ettelijke decennia mee in het Vlaamse politieke discours. Het discours omtrent allochtonen en autochtonen is hier nauw mee verweven. In deze lezing gaat Jan Zienkowski dieper in op de ontwikkeling van dit discours. Integratie is een begrip dat zowel in de wetenschap als in de politiek op uiteenlopende wijzen gehanteerd wordt. Aan de hand van literatuuronderzoek en eigen analyses van de manier waarop integratie-gerelateerde concepten gedacht en geproblematiseerd worden in krantendiscours en interviews met activisten in de Vlaamse minderhedenpolitiek, politiseert Jan Zienkowski deze notie. Hij toont ook aan dat het debat omtrent integratie een inherent metapolitiek debat is waarin conflicterende visies op de publieke ruimte met elkaar clashen in een politiek-ideologische strijd om betekenis.info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublishe
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
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