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Corpora in the classroom
No full textWithin corpus-aided language pedagogy, a distinction can be made between uses of corpora as sources of descriptive insights relevant to language teaching/learning, and uses of corpora that directly affect the learning and teaching process(es). This chapter, which is concerned with the second of these two aspects, retraces the development of data-driven/discovery learning approaches, presents their rationale and describes some relevant corpus typologies and applications, with special reference to the fields of LSP and translation teaching. It suggests that the challenge for corpus-aided discovery learning, now that corpus construction and access have become easier, is to make sure that these powerful tools and methodologies find a role in the language classroom – for communicative reasoning-gap activities, strategic and serendipitous learning as well as reference purposes – as central as that they have already secured in other areas of applied linguistics
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
A preliminary analysis of collocational differences in monolingual comparable corpora
No full textThe hypothesis that "everything we say may be in some degree idiomatic" and that "[...] there are affinities among words that continue to reflect the attachments the words had when we learned them, within larger groups" (Bolinger, 1976:102) provides a powerful argument in favour of the empirical study of collocations, with implications for theoretical, descriptive and applied branches of linguistics. In recent years, notwithstanding the vagueness of the notion and consequent methodological problems in investigating it empirically, the study of collocations has indeed defied difficulties and criticism and sparked renewed interest in a number of areas ranging from computational and corpus linguistics to lexicography, language pedagogy, and crucially for our purposes, translation studies.
The hypotheses that "everything we say may be in some degree idiomatic", and that "actual usage plays a very minor role in one’s consciousness of language" (Sinclair 1991:39) raise a number of interesting questions for translation research. Is there any evidence that translators be aware of collocational restrictions in the source and target languages? Do they show sensitivity to phraseological (a)typicality and restrictedness? These are very complex issues, that can hardly be resolved in one fell swoop. For a start, theoretical as well as methodological problems remain as to what collocations are in the first place, and how best they can be retrieved from corpora and compared (see e.g. Krenn 2000a). Secondly, different types of corpora for the study of translation exist, providing different perspectives on the translation process.
In this paper, we limit our investigation to monolingual comparable corpora (MCC) and present a number of attempts at selecting and comparing collocations across original and translated texts. This study is novel in at least two ways: to the best of our knowledge, no previous investigation of the behaviour of translators through MCC has focused on collocational restrictions, and no study of collocational restrictions in translated texts has attempted to select candidate bigrams automatically
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
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
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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