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    Dialogue in the Novel: notes on Fielding's Joseph Andrews

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    The paper proposes a new reading of Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews aimed at a description of dialogic interaction which throws interesting light on the author’s narrative art. As a matter of fact, the study of the phenomenology and functions of dialogue in the novel turns out to be an extremely fertile ground of investigation and provides privileged insights into the inner mechanisms of the narrative text, as well as into its social and cultural context. A close analysis of some key dialogues ‒ performed through a pragmatic and sociolinguistic approach ‒ reveals the various functions attributed to linguistic interaction in the novel, where dialogue serves not only as the main tool to introduce characters and describe their personalities, but also as a way of unveiling the power relationships they entertain. Moreover, dialogue plays a fundamental role at the level of the plot, since it often determines the turn of events, causing the story to take new directions

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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