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PorThea. A historical corpus of Portuguese theater plays
No full textPorThea is a historical corpus of European and Brazilian Portuguese theater plays. The corpus consists of over 400 plays dated between 1733 and 2016, containing over 3,3 million words. Due to copyright reasons, only the metadata to the corpus is currently available. Direct access to the corpus can be requested from the author ([email protected])
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
Auxiliary Selection in Old Spanish. Supplementary materials
No full textSupplementary materials to Rosemeyer, Malte (2014). Auxiliary Selection in Spanish. Gradience, Gradualness, and Conservation. Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Benjamins
Supplementary Materials to Statistics in Historical Sociolinguistic Research
No full textCase study on the -th/-s alternation in Early Modern English described in the chapter "Statistics in Historical Sociolinguistic Research", to be published in Hernández-Campoy, Juan M. & J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre (Hgg.), The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. 2nd edition. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell
Data-driven identification of situated meanings in corpus data using Latent Class Analysis. Supplementary materials
No full textIdentifying the meanings of grammatical elements in context is a major challenge for corpus-linguistic studies of grammatical variation. This study proposes a novel solution to this problem. I describe the situated meanings of grammatical elements as latent constructs, i.e., social concepts that cannot be observed directly but need to be inferred from the way that speakers behave. I use Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to create a data-driven typology of meanings for three modal periphrases in spoken Spanish, and compare this typology to manual classification of the data in terms of modality. My findings show that (a) the situated meanings identified by the Latent Class Analysis do not directly correspond to the modal meanings that are commonly assumed to govern the variation between the three periphrases, and (b) the data-driven typology of meanings is better in explaining the variation between these periphrases.
This work will be published as a research article with the title "Data-driven identification of situated meanings in corpus data using Latent Class Analysis" in Open Linguistics (De Gruyter)
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