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"Mes rencontres plurielles avec Leng Hong"
No full textInternational audienceCet article, intégré au catalogue de l’exposition "Leng Hong d’ici et d’ailleurs", tente de mieux cerner l'oeuvre de cet artiste chinois présentée au château d’Issan, du 03 juin au 26 juillet 2013
"Mes rencontres plurielles avec Leng Hong"
No full textCet article, intégré au catalogue de l’exposition "Leng Hong d’ici et d’ailleurs", tente de mieux cerner l'oeuvre de cet artiste chinois présentée au château d’Issan, du 03 juin au 26 juillet 2013
Multi-word Sequences in Learner Corpora: A Corpus Analysis of Lexical Bundles / Ang Leng Hong and He Mengyu
Full text linkThere have been longstanding attempts to establish frequency profiles of words which are
specific to academic register in order to facilitate learners in composing fluent academic
writing. A more noteworthy effort was by Coxhead who proposed the Academic Word List
(Coxhead, 2000). Recent developments in the field have increasingly regarded multi-word
sequences such as lexical phrases, lexical bundles, formulas and clusters as crucially important
and functionally significant in the academic contexts (Simpson-Vlach & Ellis, 2010). The present
study adopts a corpus-based approach to identify a type of multi-word sequence, i.e., lexical
bundles in student academic writing. Lexical bundles retrieved from a corpus of Asian college
student essays and a corpus of British university-level student writing are identified, analysed
and compared using corpus-linguistic techniques. The results of the analysis show that certain
lexical bundles share the same keywords. This keyword sharing characteristic suggests that
lexical bundles are internally analysable although they are initially retrieved as continuous
strings of words. Besides, there is no significant difference in the functional use of lexical
bundles between the Asian learners and British native students. However, both Asian learners
and British university students are found to prefer different types of lexical bundles. Simpson-
Vlach and Ellis’s (2010) functional classification taxonomy (e.g., referential expressions, stance
expressions, discourse organising functions) is used to categorise and analyse the items
functionally. Finally this paper discusses the pedagogical implications drawn from the analysis
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
Lexical bundles in selected children’s fiction: A corpus-based analysis / Antermeet Kaur A/P Senthok Singh and Ang Leng Hong
Full text linkThis study aims to identify four-word lexical bundles in the selected children’s fiction.
Previous studies on lexical bundles have investigated the existence of lexical bundles
in a wide range of genres. However, little has been done on children’s fiction with
regard to the use of lexical bundles in this genre. Using Biber, Conrad and Cortes’s
(2004) framework, this study therefore analyses the structural and functional
properties of lexical bundles in a corpus of children’s fiction. A 1.7 million-word
corpus was built comprising 30 well-read children’s books. The data was generated
and analysed using a corpus analysis tool, WordSmith Tools Version 6.0. The results
revealed the presence of lexical bundles in the selected children’s fiction. The
structural analysis results show that prepositional and verb phrases dominate the
children’s fiction. With regard to the functional classification of lexical bundles,
referential lexical bundles occur the most, followed by action-related expressions and
stance bundles. The results are indicative of the presence of lexical bundles in
children’s fiction which has not received much research attention in phraseology
studies. This study has several pedagogical implications which stress on the
importance of employing lexical bundles in fiction, textbooks and classroom activities
in order to benefit children in their language learning and acquisition. Lists of
frequent lexical bundles can be incorporated into English language lessons as a way
to expose learners to the phraseological patterns of language
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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