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Ameaning-oriented approach to islamic idioms in the western algerian transnational community
Get PDFLa lengua es uno de los principales componentes del transnacionalismo que está ganando cada vez más terreno en la investigación. El uso de la lengua conduce a la creación y/o preservación de conexiones entre espacios distantes, frecuentemente a través de las fronteras nacionales (Jiménez et al, 2009). Un modismo es una frase de uso habitual en la lengua que lleva consigo una herencia cultural e histórica y desempeña un papel fundamental en el uso de esta. Sin embargo, su significado es un reto y se sabe poco sobre él en contextos transnacionales. Este trabajo se interesa por el transnacionalismo idiomático en los países que proclaman el islam como su religión. Se ha optado por Argelia occidental como caso de estudio transnacional en el que los modismos islámicos constituyen una parte importante de las variedades árabes y reflejan diversos aspectos culturales e históricos de la vida cotidiana de los argelinos. En las actividades transnacionales participan no sólo los especialistas en idiomas, sino también las personas que se trasladan a Argelia, como los inmigrantes, los inversores empresariales extranjeros y los estudiantes europeos de Erasmus, además de los emigrantes que abandonan el país: la comprensión idiomática ayuda a los profesores de la lengua extranjera en el país de acogida a instruir mejor a sus hijos. Por lo tanto, este trabajo sugiere la aplicación de este modelo orientado al conocimiento de la lengua extranjera (Purpura, 2016), a los modismos islámicos como una forma de contribuir a la comprensión del transnacionalismo argelino. También intenta comprobar hasta qué punto esta aplicación del modelo podría ser efectiva en la actualidad. Para ello, se han recogido datos de campo y se ha entrevistado a ochenta y ocho informantes. Los resultados muestran que la mayoría de los recursos del modelo pueden aplicarse a los modismos recogidos. Sin embargo, no todos los transnacionales necesitaron pasar posteriormente por todos los estratos del modelo para llegar a la comprensión y producción idiomáticas en el contexto actual. Se aportan además otras sugerencias que podrían mejorar el dominio de los idiomatismos islámicos por parte de los recién llegados a Argelia occidental.Language is one of the main constituents of transnationalism that is increasingly gaining groundin research. Language use leads to the creation and/or preservation of connections between distant spaces, frequently across national boundaries (Jiménezetal,2009). An idiom is a regularly used phrasein the language to carry its cultural and historical heritage and play a vital role in language use. However, at times its meaning might present a challenge while Little is known about it in transnational contexts.This paper deals with idiomatic transnationalism in countries proclaiming Islam as their religion. Choice fell on western Algeria as a transnational study case where Islamic idioms make an important part of Arabic varieties and reflect diverse cultural and historical aspects of the Algerians’ every day life. Not only language specialists are involved in transnational activities, but also individuals moving to Algeria, including immigrants, foreign business investors, European Erasmus students,inaddition to emigrants leaving the country: Idiomatic understanding helps school foreign language teachers in the host country to better instruct their children.There fore, this paper suggests the application of meaning-oriented model of foreign language knowledge (Purpura, 2016) to Islamic idioms as away to contribute to the comprehension of Algerian transnationalism. It also attempts to check the extent to which this model applicability could be currently effective. Observation was under taken to collect data and eighty eightin formants were interviewed. Results showed that most of the model resources could be applied to the idiom collected. Yet, not all transnational individuals needed to go subsequently through all the model layers to reach idiomatic under standing and production in the present context. Further suggestions that might improve the new comers’ proficiency of Islamic idioms in western Algeria were provided
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
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE INTEGRATION OF EMI IN ALGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
Get PDFWith the growing spread of English as a Lingua Franca, universities around the world are increasingly offering courses taught in English, the Algerian Minister of Higher Education recently required content teachers to use English as a medium of instruction (EMI) into their classrooms. Nonetheless, the new instruction has led to many apprehensions among these teachers, who must change their mode of instruction at short notice. To ensure a smooth transition, teachers are required to pursue intensive English courses to improve their proficiency. Based on a quantitative method, the study investigates teachers’ attitudes and assessment of professional development sessions in Algerian universities one year after the beginning of the English sessions; it gauges the satisfaction of 125 higher education subject-matter instructors with the pedagogical program offered and discusses its impact on teachers’ English proficiency. The findings revealed that 46% of teachers are enrolled in the English courses and indicated low satisfaction with the implemented program. Furthermore, these valuable results have significant implications for the design of more effective and successful pedagogical training programs in Algerian higher education. Though the findings cannot be generalized, it does include features that instructors might find valuable
A meaning-oriented approach to islamic idioms in the western algerian transnational community
No full textLanguage is one of the main constituents of transnationalism that is increasingly gaining ground in research. Language use leads to the creation and/ or preservation of connections between distant spaces, frequently across national boundaries (Jiménez et al, 2009). An idiom is a regularly used phrase in the language to carry its cultural and historical heritage and play a vital role in language use. However, at times its meaning might present a challenge while little is known about it in transnational contexts. This paper deals with idiomatic transnationalism in countries proclaiming Islam as their religion. Choice fell on western Algeria as a transnational study case where Islamic idioms make an important part of Arabic varieties and reflect diverse cultural and historical aspects of the Algerians’ everyday life. Not only language specialists are involved in transnational activities, but also individuals moving to Algeria, including immigrants, foreign business investors, European Erasmus students, in addition to emigrants leaving the country: Idiomatic understanding helps school foreign language teachers in the host country to better instruct their children. Therefore, this paper suggests the application of meaning-oriented model of foreign language knowledge (Purpura, 2016) to Islamic idioms as a way to contribute to the comprehension of Algerian transnationalism. It also attempts to check the extent to which this model applicability could be currently effective. Observation was undertaken to collect data and eighty eight informants were interviewed. Results showed that most of the model resources could be applied to the idiom collected. Yet, not all transnational individuals needed to go subsequently through all the model layers to reach idiomatic understanding and production in the present context. Further suggestions that might improve the newcomers’ proficiency of Islamic idioms in western Algeria were provided
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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