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“When Languages Mix in Mali” Amkoullel, l’enfant peul by Amadou Hampâté Bâ: ASociolinguistic Analysis
No full textThis sociolinguistic approach to Amadou Hampâte Bâ’s autobiographical story Amkoullel, l’enfant peul focuses on the use of the French language in Mali’s colonial context as a means of writing and literary poetics. The author places this official language, though absent from everyday interaction, at the heart of his work, in order to highlight other oral usages that convey tradition and ancestral local culture. These include the French of the tirailleurs, Bamanankan (the lingua franca), Arabic, and other ethnic languages. Our research focuses on an analysis of the phonetic, phonological and semantic aspects of these languages. The author immerses us in a sociolinguistic environment where historical and cultural issues linked to the preservation of Africanity and Peuhl identity crosses contemporary Mali.Cette approche sociolinguistique du récit autobiographique Amkoullel, l’enfant peul de Amadou Hampâté Bâ s’intéresse à l’utilisation de la langue française en contexte colonial malien comme moyen d’écriture et de poétique littéraire. L’auteur positionne cette langue officielle, pourtant absente des interactions courantes, au cœur de son œuvre pour valoriser d’autres usages, liés à l’oralité, qui véhiculent la tradition et la culture locale ancestrale. Il s’agit du français des tirailleurs, du bamanankan (langue véhiculaire), de l’arabe ainsi que d’autres langues ethniques. L’intérêt de notre recherche porte sur une analyse des aspects phonétiques, phono-logiques et sémantiques des langues en présence. L’auteur nous plonge dans un milieu sociolinguistique où les enjeux historiques et culturels liés à la préservation de de l’africanité et de l’identité peule sillonnent l’espace malien contemporai
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
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
Journal Writing in Socio-Anthropology Reflections on Identity Power and Memory
No full textThis article examines the determining role of journal writing in socio-anthropology, shedding light on its impact on research and society. By emphasizing its function as a window into social and cultural realities, it addresses identity construction, power dynamics, and its use as an ethnographic research tool. It also examines emerging trends related to new technologies. By calling for ongoing reflection, this research underscores the importance of remaining attentive to the evolution of this practice, while acknowledging the ethical and methodological challenges.
Cet article examine le rôle déterminant de l’écriture du journal en socio-anthropologie, mettant en lumière son impact sur la recherche et la société. En soulignant la fonction du journal comme fenêtre sur les réalités sociales et culturelles, l’écriture du journal aborde la construction de l’identité, les dynamiques de pouvoir ;légitime son utilisation comme outil de recherche ethnographique. L’écriture du journal examine également les tendances émergentes liées aux nouvelles technologies. En appelant à une réflexion continue, la présente recherche souligne l’importance de rester attentif aux évolutions de la pratique de l’écriture du journal, tout en en reconnaissant les défis éthiques et méthodologique
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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