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G. Tessuto. Blogging about health: Investigating interpersonal language for discourse features of stance and engagement. In S. Maci / M. McGlashan (ed.), Critical Discourse Analysis and the New Normal.
No full textG. Tessuto (con S. Maci, M. J. Zerbe), Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age: Culture, Knowledge, Expertise, Practices. Nella collana internazionale Medical Discourse and Communication (Direttore G. Tessuto)
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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
Language and power in early 20th c. China: The case of Shanghai Minutes of Meeting
No full textThe paper analyzes the Minutes of Meetings of the Shanghai Municipal Council at the time when the British rulers were leading the Municipality of Shanghai
Facts or Followers? Identifying Key Variables in Medical-related Social Networking Sites and Computer-mediated Communication. A Case Study on Covid-19 Tweets
No full textComputer-mediated communication (CMC) in digital and online environments has become a common practice that involves a growing community on a global scale (Herring and Androutsopoulos, 2015), encompassing discourse-related features in a language-oriented perspective (Leppänen 2017; Bouvier 2018; KhosraviNik 2023). In particular, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have provided an unrivalled opportunity to communicate in a twofold direction: on the one hand, people can get information about a specific topic by retrieving both real-time and archived data; likewise, users are given a personal space to share evidence from often reliable sources, but also to express their own (and unreliable) views. A possible consequence is the rapid spread of fake news that appeal to an alleged sense of truthfulness (D’Ancona 2018), thus overcoming the range of facts spread via institutional sources, the latter being often attacked by users who undermine the concept of affiliation on the basis of mutual interests (Author, in press). The recent Covid-19 pandemic proved to be an infodemic, too (WHO 2021) and is still far from being over, at least in language and discourse-related terms. Both facts and unverified news are still making the news and are still part of SNS interactions, thus shaping the ideological views of people and users. Engagement on such platforms relies massively on the following/follower criterion, thus creating paths of information channelling depending on quantitative metrics and the impact of social “influence” provided by some digital opinion leaders (Locatelli 2020). This paper aims at providing a case study involving a sampling of random Covid-19 interactions on Twitter (now rebranded as X) over a short timespan. Following a resurgence of Covid-19-related interest due to new revelations concerning the origin of the pandemic and in a one-month timespan (March 2023-April 2023), the hypothesis is that some messages appear to be more influential and get more engagement irrespectively of their intrinsic truth but on the basis of the influential user spreading such information. As a result, the popularisation of medical facts may be dramatically hindered by non-objective processes and be preferred to scientific methods. Using a specific retrieval tool (Tweetcatcher, Brooker et al. 2016), tweets are randomly collected, arranged and analysed on the basis of device-specific metrics (e.g. number of following/followers, number of replies) to assess their engagement in relation to their potentially harmful, non-factual meaning
Correction to: Curve of Spee modification in different vertical skeletal patterns after clear aligner therapy: a 3D set-up retrospective study (Progress in Orthodontics, (2024), 25, 1, (5), 10.1186/s40510-023-00503-1)
No full textCorrection to: Prog Orthod.25, 5 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1186/s40510-023-00503-1. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the author names of the author group as the given name and family name were erroneously transposed. The incorrect author names are: Ciavarella Domenico, Fanelli Carlotta, Suriano Carmela1, Campobasso Alessandra, Lorusso Mauro, Ferrara Donatella, Maci Marta, Esposito Rosa and Tepedino Michele The correct author names are: Domenico Ciavarella, Carlotta Fanelli, Carmela Suriano, Alessandra Campobasso, Mauro Lorusso, Donatella Ferrara, Marta Maci, Rosa Esposito and Michele Tepedino The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected
Mirror, Mirror on the wall: which strategies can suit them all?
Full text linkEnglish is nowadays the dominant language in the higher education sector in Europe. Not only is it the preferred medium of communication for scholars at international conferences or visiting professors, but it is also the medium of instruction used in a growing number of degree programmes (Gotti 2014). Universities in many non-English-speaking countries are indeed embracing the challenges of internationalization, as they believe that teaching disciplinary subjects in English will make study programmes more accessible and attractive to international students, improve the foreign language skills and employability prospects of local students and enhance the international prestige and mobility of academic staff (Coleman 2006; Dearden 2014). If, on the one hand, this can open up new opportunities, on the other hand, it also poses dilemmas as far as the accreditation and training of teaching staff is concerned. For instance, what language competences and which methodological skills should the teachers deploy in order to teach their subjects through English
Tourism Websites: Scrolling and ‘Strolling’ through Capri.net
No full textPromotional tourism communication, which traditionally attempts to persuade, lure and seduce millions of potential clients (Dann 1996), has increasingly been enhanced by online multimodal resources. In particular, textual, linguistic and multimodal features of tourism websites constitute powerful instruments to affect the audience’s reaction to the subject matter they illustrate. Such resources can reach a virtually unlimited audience and offer a wide range of information through invitingly interactive websites which function as hypertexts (Francesconi 2014) with a wide variety of discursive strategies (Fodde, Denti 2008; Maci 2012). For an ideal functioning of advertising communication, verbal texts and images should interact dynamically, since they pragmatically co-determine the meaning of the whole advert (Bateman 2014: 32). A relevant aspect in web advertising is the way in which information is presented, as recent studies in informational architecture (IA), using eye-tracking tools, have shown.
From a broad MCDA perspective (Black 2006, Kress 2010, van Leeuwen, 2013), which includes ecolinguistics, this study focused on one of the most appealing and exhaustive websites dedicated to Capri, www.capri.net/it/ (available in both Italian and English). In capri.net the ‘enshrinement’ (MacCannell 1976), or ‘framing’, of Capri is mainly displayed through a sequence of iconic images aiming at signaling the eco-aesthetic and historical-cultural features of the Blue Island. We investigated its main lines of appeal (Dyer 1988), i.e. landscape and shore excursions, glamour, (habitué) celebrities and nightlife, cuisine, luxury, shopping, wedding locations, ancient historical places, and the cultural memory (Assman 2008) of the illustrious people who brought the island worldwide fame. Throughout this website’s pages, information and promotion/persuasion are deftly blended, through a carefully constructed hierarchy of presentation/foregrounding, though the interaction between the images and verbal texts is not entirely dynamic, as explained in the discussion. Another major finding of our investigation is the flattening of the diachronicity of the different topics illustrated in Capri.net: in the easily scrolled curtains of the website, the history of Tiberius, the lives of the famous writers who made the island attractive for intellectuals, and the presence of contemporary trendy celebrities in well-known bars share an undifferentiated dimension. Through Capri.net’s web pages, the ways of seeing of prospective tourists are thus virtually oriented to an everlasting, a-chronically alluring and ‘unique’ Capri-lifestyle dimension
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
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