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Who Is Hidden Behind the Headline? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Russia’s and Israel’s Acts of War in Swedish News Reporting.
No full textDenna uppsats undersöker hur krigshandlingar språkligt konstrueras i svenska nyhetsrubriker om två samtida väpnade konflikter: Rysslands attacker mot Ukraina och Israels attacker mot Gaza. Studien tar sin teoretiska utgångspunkt i kritisk diskursanalys (CDA) och systemisk-funktionell grammatik (SFG), med särskilt fokus på hur språkliga val formar ideologiska representationer av agentivitet, legitimitet och ansvar. Syftet är att analysera vilka diskursiva resurser som används för att representera militära våldshandlingar, samt i vilken grad dessa konstruktioner synliggör eller döljer nationellt handlande. Analysmaterialet består av 80 rubriker från SVT.se, SR.se, DN.se och Aftonbladet.se – fördelade jämnt mellan rapportering om Gaza och Ukraina – där varje rubrik behandlar en specifik militär handling från respektive konflikt. Studien tillämpar transitivitetsanalys, ergativitetsanalys och analys av ideationella grammatiska metaforer tillsammans eller utan klassificerare samt analys av projektion och talare. Dessa metoder möjliggör att identifiera mönster i hur språket konstruerar ansvar, legitimitet och berättarmakt. Resultaten visar tydliga skillnader mellan konflikterna. I rubriker om Ryssland beskrivs de militära angreppen ofta som attacker, där Ryssland tydligt namnges som agerande part. I rubriker om Israel används däremot oftare termer som operation, angrepp eller räd – och den ansvariga sidan utelämnas ofta. Israel tillskrivs dessutom agentivitet hälften så ofta som Ryssland, vilket tydligt visar på en skillnad i hur ansvar och handlingskraft fördelas mellan parterna. Även talarpositionerna skiljer sig: Ukraina, som den attackerade parten, får ofta komma till tals i rubriker om Ryssland, medan Israel – trots att de är den attackerande parten – får utrymme i rubrikerna, samtidigt som palestinska myndigheter eller officiella talespersoner lyser med sin frånvaro. Sammantaget visar studien hur språkval i rubriker reproducerar ideologiska asymmetrier som formar vår förståelse av krig och ansvar. I enlighet med Faircloughs tredimensionella modell tolkas dessa mönster som uttryck för diskursiva och sociokulturella praktiker där vissa staters krigshandlingar synliggörs och andra språkligt förskjuts. This thesis investigates how acts of war are linguistically constructed in Swedish news headlines reporting on two conflicts: Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and Israel’s attacks on Gaza. The study applies critical discourse analysis (CDA) and systemic functional grammar (SFG), focusing on how linguistic choices distribute agency, responsibility, and legitimacy. The aim is to analyze the discursive resources used to represent violence and assess whether these constructions reveal or obscure the acting agents. The analysis is based on a corpus of 80 headlines from four major Swedish news outlets—SVT.se, SR.se, DN.se, and Aftonbladet.se—equally divided between the two conflicts. Each headline corresponds to a military action, such as a bombing or an attack. The analysis draws on transitivity and ergativity models, an examination of ideational grammatical metaphors with or without classifiers, and an analysis of projection and speaker. Together, these approaches reveal patterns in how language frames war, responsibility, and narrative control. The results demonstrate a clear asymmetry. In headlines about Russia, military aggression is frequently labelled as an attack, and Russia is explicitly identified as the responsible party. In contrast, Israeli actions are more often described using terms like operation, strike, or raid, typically without attributing the attack to a responsible side. Israel appears as the agent in only half as many cases as Russia, which clearly illustrates a difference in how responsibility and capacity for action are distributed between the parties. A similar asymmetry appears in voice attribution: Ukraine, the attacked party, is frequently quoted in headlines about Russia, whereas Israel—despite being the attacking side—is also given a voice, while Palestinian authorities or official spokespersons are notably absent Overall, the study shows how linguistic choices in headlines reflect and reproduce ideological asymmetries that shape public perceptions of war. In line with Fairclough’s three-dimensional model, these patterns are interpreted as part of broader discursive and sociocultural practices, where some states’ acts of war are made visible and others obscured.
Who Is Hidden Behind the Headline? : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Russia’s and Israel’s Acts of War in Swedish News Reporting.
No full textDenna uppsats undersöker hur krigshandlingar språkligt konstrueras i svenska nyhetsrubriker om två samtida väpnade konflikter: Rysslands attacker mot Ukraina och Israels attacker mot Gaza. Studien tar sin teoretiska utgångspunkt i kritisk diskursanalys (CDA) och systemisk-funktionell grammatik (SFG), med särskilt fokus på hur språkliga val formar ideologiska representationer av agentivitet, legitimitet och ansvar. Syftet är att analysera vilka diskursiva resurser som används för att representera militära våldshandlingar, samt i vilken grad dessa konstruktioner synliggör eller döljer nationellt handlande. Analysmaterialet består av 80 rubriker från SVT.se, SR.se, DN.se och Aftonbladet.se – fördelade jämnt mellan rapportering om Gaza och Ukraina – där varje rubrik behandlar en specifik militär handling från respektive konflikt. Studien tillämpar transitivitetsanalys, ergativitetsanalys och analys av ideationella grammatiska metaforer tillsammans eller utan klassificerare samt analys av projektion och talare. Dessa metoder möjliggör att identifiera mönster i hur språket konstruerar ansvar, legitimitet och berättarmakt. Resultaten visar tydliga skillnader mellan konflikterna. I rubriker om Ryssland beskrivs de militära angreppen ofta som attacker, där Ryssland tydligt namnges som agerande part. I rubriker om Israel används däremot oftare termer som operation, angrepp eller räd – och den ansvariga sidan utelämnas ofta. Israel tillskrivs dessutom agentivitet hälften så ofta som Ryssland, vilket tydligt visar på en skillnad i hur ansvar och handlingskraft fördelas mellan parterna. Även talarpositionerna skiljer sig: Ukraina, som den attackerade parten, får ofta komma till tals i rubriker om Ryssland, medan Israel – trots att de är den attackerande parten – får utrymme i rubrikerna, samtidigt som palestinska myndigheter eller officiella talespersoner lyser med sin frånvaro. Sammantaget visar studien hur språkval i rubriker reproducerar ideologiska asymmetrier som formar vår förståelse av krig och ansvar. I enlighet med Faircloughs tredimensionella modell tolkas dessa mönster som uttryck för diskursiva och sociokulturella praktiker där vissa staters krigshandlingar synliggörs och andra språkligt förskjuts. This thesis investigates how acts of war are linguistically constructed in Swedish news headlines reporting on two conflicts: Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and Israel’s attacks on Gaza. The study applies critical discourse analysis (CDA) and systemic functional grammar (SFG), focusing on how linguistic choices distribute agency, responsibility, and legitimacy. The aim is to analyze the discursive resources used to represent violence and assess whether these constructions reveal or obscure the acting agents. The analysis is based on a corpus of 80 headlines from four major Swedish news outlets—SVT.se, SR.se, DN.se, and Aftonbladet.se—equally divided between the two conflicts. Each headline corresponds to a military action, such as a bombing or an attack. The analysis draws on transitivity and ergativity models, an examination of ideational grammatical metaphors with or without classifiers, and an analysis of projection and speaker. Together, these approaches reveal patterns in how language frames war, responsibility, and narrative control. The results demonstrate a clear asymmetry. In headlines about Russia, military aggression is frequently labelled as an attack, and Russia is explicitly identified as the responsible party. In contrast, Israeli actions are more often described using terms like operation, strike, or raid, typically without attributing the attack to a responsible side. Israel appears as the agent in only half as many cases as Russia, which clearly illustrates a difference in how responsibility and capacity for action are distributed between the parties. A similar asymmetry appears in voice attribution: Ukraine, the attacked party, is frequently quoted in headlines about Russia, whereas Israel—despite being the attacking side—is also given a voice, while Palestinian authorities or official spokespersons are notably absent Overall, the study shows how linguistic choices in headlines reflect and reproduce ideological asymmetries that shape public perceptions of war. In line with Fairclough’s three-dimensional model, these patterns are interpreted as part of broader discursive and sociocultural practices, where some states’ acts of war are made visible and others obscured.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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