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Language Shift and Maintenance: The Case of Algerian Immigrants in France
No full textThe focus of the present study is on language choice among Arabic/French bilinguals in the Algerian immigrant community in France. Such a choice reflects the status of Arabic maintenance/shift as a minority language in France. This research aims to answer the question: In the case of Algerian immigrants in France, does Arabic undergo a language shift or maintenance? Why? In order to end up with illuminating results, an email questionnaire was conducted with 20 Algerian immigrants in France. The findings indicate that Arabic is lost starting from the third generation.Even though this small-scale investigation has its inadequacies, it throws light on some causes behind the decay of Arabic in the host country. Once reasons are known, remedial measures can be identified and taken. Besides, one of the important results is that our immigrants share positive attitudes towards their mother tongue which can be relied on as a strong maintenance factor eventually
A Rhetorical analysis of the persuasive
Full text linkThe present research was carried out dueb to the importance of persuasive strategies in social and work settings. Therefore, i analysed persuasive political discourse to answer these questions : what are the persuasve devices employed in Barack Obama's 2012 compaign speeches? how are they used? and what are their effects? to analyse the speeches, i suggested a reserved version of Burke's Cluster analysis that permits an inductive analysis which is a newly proposed perspective. the results show that although Obama utilized a combination of strategies , he capitalized on pathos. The findings of such a work can be a source for teachers and students of discourse analysis, literature and written expression
Verb Inflection in English and Arabic: A Contrastive Analysis Study
No full textInflection, the change of word form to mark grammatical distinctions, occurs in a variety of grammatical classes: nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, etc. The purpose of the present paper is to describe the verb inflectional morphology in English and Arabic and to conduct a contrastive analysis of both of them. The research question which is put forth is: how do the verb inflectional morphology in English and Arabic differ from/resemble each other? To answer this question, a systematic descriptive comparative study is carried out with a unique focus on the verb inflectional categories. Eventually, it was found that the Arabic verb inflectional morphology is richer and varied from that of the English. Such a study has implications in fields like foreign language teaching/learning, translation, electronic dictionaries, natural language processing, and the like
Rhetoric and Persuasion from the Classical Era Through the Modern Age
No full textRhetoric is the art of persuasion. The rhetorical theory offers a method for discovering the means of persuasion in discourse. Sincethe classical period up to the introduction of the new rhetoric, the views and perceptions have altered immensely in a myriad of ways.Consequently, I suggest, in order to overcome the complexity of understanding the rhetorical theory and its application, to gothrough the rhetoric’s history which has always been focused on areas pertinent to persuasion. In this overview, I avoided to dealwith the contemporary theories (and leave them to another occasion) because in the turn of the twentieth century, the newrhetoric broke down with the old tradition, the emphasis on persuasion, and new meanings and theories have promulgated in aquantity and audacity unprecedented in the history of rhetoric that the scope of the present article does not allow to cover
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
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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