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Studying Popularization in Legal Communication: Introduction and Overview
No full textThis volume widens the scope of Legal Linguistics from the traditional focus on performative texts like statutes to the popularization of legal knowledge for different purposes. The chapters, written in English, German or French, discuss the theoretical basis and methods and investigate popularization efforts by national institutions, law firms and community websites. The objects of study cover a variety of modes and media from different national contexts reaching from print folders over online written texts to YouTube videos and movies
Grün ist nicht gleich grün. Zur Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation im Tourismus am Beispiel deutscher und italienischer Green Hotels
No full textThe paper focuses on the concept of sustainability in tourism and investigates sustainability-oriented strategies at work in German and Italian green hotels from both a linguistic and cultural perspective. Drawing on the results of a pragmatic analysis of PR texts from hotel websites and customer reviews from online evaluation portals, it outlines upcoming challenges in the field of sustainable tourism and discusses possible approaches for effective communication in the German and Italian hospitality industry
Stratégies dialogiques et transmission du savoir juridique dans le site du MInistère de la Justice français
No full textThrough its Droits et Démarches online pages (www.vos-droits.justice.gouv.fr), the French Ministry of Justice takes the social responsibility to inform citizens about the law and their lives. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss dialogic structure, multimodality and reformulation in selected pages, in order to address knowledge mediation in the website. More particularly, the paper argues that enunciative heterogeneity, interdiscursive an interlocutive dialogic strategies, and polyphony, combine to attract attention and interact with the user, so as to mitigate the skeptical attitude of citizens towards the law and the legal institutions on the one hand, and to serve as a window for French law.La section Droits et Démarches du site du Ministère de la Justice français (www.vos-droits.justice.gouv.fr) essaie de répondre à la responsabilité sociale que les institutions gouvernementales ont à l’égard des citoyens. Ces derniers ont le droit d’être informés sur la loi et sur l’influence que le système juridique qu’ils partagent a sur leur comportement et leur vie dans la société. Cet article approfondit l’analyse de la structure dialogique qui – avec la multimodalité et les différentes stratégies de reformulation – fonde la transmission du savoir juridique et institutionnel pour le citoyen dans les pages du site. Les procédés discursifs qui marquent l’hétérogénéité énonciative, montrée et constitutive, et le dialogisme interdiscursif et interlocutif ont la fonction, d’une part, d’attirer l’attention du lecteur en instaurant avec lui une sorte de dialogue apte à dépasser sa méfiance, son sentiment d’étrangeté, et d’autre part, de montrer que le site n’est que l’expression de la voix du système juridique qu’il représente. Nous allons donc rechercher dans le corpus les différentes stratégies d’introduction de voix autres par rapport à celle – neutre, mais visible dans la construction d’un dialogue avec le citoyen – du rédacteur des textes des Droits et Démarches
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
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
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