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Making arrangements in talk-in-interaction
No full textArrangement making is understood to be a “closing-relevant action” (Schegloff and Sacks 1973), but little attention has been given to how people arrive at mutually acceptable plans for the future. Telephone conversations between clients and staff of community and home care (CHC) services were studied to identify how arrangements for future services were made. A recurrent sequence was observed in which clients were informed of future arrangement and were prompted to reply with “response solicitation” (Jefferson 1981). Response solicitations were observed at two points: either tagged to the end of an informing, or following a recipient’s response to the informing. We show how response solicitations are routinely used in instances where recipients have some discretion in relation to the arrangement under discussion. They are a means by which an informing party can display to their interlocutor that they, as recipient, have some discretion to exercise in the matter. These findings are discussed with reference to prior research on arrangement making in other settings, which suggests the general nature of this practice.Stuart Ekberg and Amanda LeCouteu
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
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
Psychotherapeutic Projects and Personal Interests: A Conversation Analytic Investigation of Talk in Initial Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Consultations
No full textCognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is one of the most commonly practised therapies in the world and, while therapists receive specific guidance about best-practice methods of CBT, little is known about the interactional projects (tasks) that guide talk during CBT initial consultations (also called initial interviews). Similarly, little is known about the way that clients’ displayed interests or agendas might influence the talk of therapists that makes up psychotherapeutic (interactional) projects. This thesis, therefore, has two aims: 1) to shed light on the interactional projects that therapists engage in during CBT activities in initial therapy consultations, and 2) to investigate the ways that clients’ personal concerns/interests (i.e., concerns beyond those that are made directly relevant by the topical or action agenda of therapists’ turns) might impact therapists’ deployment of interactional projects and the talk through which they are enacted. Several important interactional sites remain under-investigated in initial CBT consultations, including problem presentation (a key moment where clients can present their problems in accordance with their own agendas), suicide risk assessment (an important part of risk management), and stock-taking following information-gathering (the final opportunity for clients to consider if they plan to rebook). Therefore, the three analytic chapters of this thesis each investigate one of these activity sites. Data consists of 14 audio recordings of initial CBT therapy interviews between clients and psychologists/provisional psychologists, recorded at a multidisciplinary healthcare clinic in Australia. Conversation analysis was used to investigate interlocutors’ talk and address the aims of this thesis. In Study 1, analyses of initial problem presentations revealed a project wherein therapists worked to find a causal connection between clients’ symptoms and symptom precipitants. I show how, ostensibly, clients’ only way of working to suspend this causality project was through extended tellings or storytellings, which enabled them to introduce their own personal concerns/interests. Subsequently, in Study 2, I examined suicide risk assessments wherein clients accounted for suicide attempts (in particular, fully planned and prepared but aborted, partially enacted but aborted, or enacted and survived suicide attempts). During such accounts, psychologists’ main project involved uncovering evidence of a substantial (emotional) impact of antecedent events on clients. Clients typically described their suicide attempts as (at least partially) accounted for by the morally problematic behaviour of others and searched for a response to such story elements from therapists. Psychologists did not usually provide such responses but instead maintained their project of uncovering the impact of events on clients or moved on to further therapeutic business (thereby prioritising the determination of clients’ risk of suicide or self-harm). Study 3 revealed a routine activity at the end of information-gathering in initial consultations wherein therapists would take stock of progress through the overall therapeutic endeavour. This “stock-taking” activity preceded rebooking subsequent consultations and involved therapists engaging in a project of (often implicitly) encouraging clients to attend future sessions. Unlike the first two studies, therapists displayed an orientation that the activity and project described in Study 3 were partly contingent on clients’ concerns (in particular, a concern that, thus far, therapy, which to that point consisted only of an initial interview, was in some way deficient). Across each of these studies, I showed how therapists worked to maintain a collaborative atmosphere despite, at times, favouring the progression of institutional projects over clients’ personal interests. I discuss possible future applications of the findings of my thesis, which include encouraging clients to continue therapy, assisting therapists in maintaining an affiliative environment in therapy, and informing the design of authentic and quality digital therapies.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 202
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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