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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
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
Comment exalter le narcissisme dans l'interaction verbale (le role de l'esclave comme déclencheur du discours autocentré dans le Miles Gloriosus de Plaute)
No full textRésumé: Un discours auto-centré risque de transgresser certaines maximes conversationnelles de politesse. Plus spécifiquement, l’expression du narcissisme dans la conversation s’oppose à la ‘loi de modestie’ qui demande de réduire au minimum l’auto-appréciation. Un exemple littéraire classique est offert par le Miles Gloriosus de Plaute. En ouverture de la pièce, le soldat fanfaron, Pyrgopolynice, est en train de dialoguer avec le parasite Artotrogus. Ce personnage, qui n’apparaît nulle part ailleurs dans la pièce, a précisément le rôle de promouvoir et de pousser à un très haut point de ridicule le narcissisme du soldat. Nous avons analysé ici les stratégies discursive mises en place par Artotrogus pour obtenir la confiance de son interlocuteur et ensuit pour l’inciter à rendre manifeste son auto-appréciation sans bornes. In particulaire, l’expression memini (‘je sais bien’) ou l’expression quod omnes mortales sciunt (‘ce que tout le monde sait’) servent, dans la bouche du parasite, à permettre la continuation du dialogue, tout en assurant une apparente crédibilité aux sottes vantardises du soldat
Mid-scalar quantifiers in Latin
No full textWe define as ‘mid-scalar’ those quantifiers which express a quantity and which, on a scale from a minimal to a maximal quantity, appear near the middle. In Latin, quantifiers such as multi, aliquot, nonnulli, complures, and plerique can be called mid-scalar. Since they do not refer to a precise quantity, they are vague; the quantity they involve, however, must count as large in the given context: they are in fact context-dependent. Mid-scalar quantifiers are also ambiguous. A first kind of ambiguity is between a cardinal and a proportional reading. Another kind of ambiguity is between strong and weak readings: mid-scalars can share the features of both. The main aspects we investigate here are the properties which determine whether mid-scalar quantifiers can enter into existential sentences, whether they share the properties of floating quantifiers and whether they are always to be considered quantifiers or else numerical determiners
Indefinite pronouns in conditional clauses
No full textWhen an indefinite pronoun is found in a Latin conditional clause, it is quis in most cases, but in some cases it can also be aliquis or even quidam. This investigation tries to explain both the usual case represented by quis and the exceptional cases, represented by aliquis. Furthermore, negative conditional clauses present unexpected phenomena like the low number of occurrences of quis and the absence of quisquam in nisi clauses
Concession et scalarité
No full textLe but de cette communication est celui d’analyser certains types de propositions concessives pour lesquelles la notion de scalarité se révèle pertinente. Les concessives concernées par la scalarité ne sont pas de concessives factuelles, mais des conditionnelles concessives. Il faut considérer les propriétés sémantiques des énoncés conditionnels concessifs par rapport aussi bien aux énoncés conditionnels qu’aux énoncés concessifs avec lesquels ils partagent certaines propriétés : dans les énoncés conditionnels le locuteur ne s’y engage ni sur la vérité de la protase, ni sur la vérité de l’apodose ; dans les énoncés concessifs il s’engage sur la vérité de les deux, et de la protase, et de l’apodose, dans les énoncés conditionnels concessifs il s’engage sur la vérité de l’apodose, mais non de la protase
Universal Quantifiers in Latin: Some Remarks on Ambiguity
No full textWe have tried to show that in the field of universal quantification Latin is by no means more ambiguous than modern languages which have the article. This is due to its lexical richness which contributes to non-ambiguous readings thanks to differentiated universal quantifiers, thanks to the various forms of free-choice, free relatives and negative polarity indefinites and, finally, thanks to a rich and complex system of binary quantification
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