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Eine Kritik der Begriffe "soziale" und "räumliche" Distanzierung
No full textvon Mario Bisiada Beitragsbild: Foto von Everton Vila on Unsplash // CC0 Seit Beginn der Corona-Krise hat sich der Begriff der “sozialen Distanzierung” etabliert; das Robert-Koch-Institut rief am 11. März dazu auf. Der deutsche Begriff ist eine Entlehnung vom Englischen social distancing. Hierbei wird zunächst einmal eine Übersetzungsproblematik sichtbar, die auch schon bei der Übertragung des Begriffs social network/media als “soziale Netzwerke/Medien” auftritt: Während im Englischen und im ..
Testing the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis on modal verbs expressing obligation and necessity in Catalan through the COVALT corpus
Get PDFCapítol de llibre: Josep Marco. 2021.Testing the Gravitational Pull Hypothesis on modal verbs expressing obligation and necessity in Catalan through the COVALT corpus. Publicat en: Mario Bisiada (ed.), Empirical
studies in translation and discourse, 9783961103010 (2021), pàgs. 27–52. Berlin: Language Science Press.This chapter aims to test Halverson’s Gravitational Pull Hypothesis (GPH) on the
Catalan modal verb caldre. Data from two comparable parallel sub-corpora from
the COVALT corpus (English-Catalan and French-Catalan) are used to that end.
However, caldre only serves as a starting point for hypothesis formulation and data
analysis, as it is part of the wider network of modal verbs and verbal periphrases
conveying obligation or necessity in Catalan. On the basis of networks of obligation
and necessity in Catalan, English and French, three hypotheses are put forward: 1)
caldre will be under-represented in the English-Catalan subcorpus when compared
to Catalan non-translations; 2) caldre will be either over- or under-represented in
the French-Catalan sub-corpus when compared to Catalan non-translations; and
3) caldre will be significantly more frequent in the French-Catalan than in the
English-Catalan sub-corpus. Results confirm hypotheses 1 and 3, and for hypoth-
esis 2 the scales are tipped in favour of over-representation, mainly as a result of
strong connectivity between caldre and its French source text triggers. Connectiv-
ity, in the present study, seems to be favoured by formal similarity, which comes
in two forms: syntactic isomorphism and phonological/graphological similarity
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
Movement or debate? How #MeToo is framed differently in English, Spanish and German Twitter discourse
No full textThis article examines 1,353 tweets on #MeToo in English, Spanish and German from July and August 2019, revealing how #MeToo is most commonly referred to as a “movement” in English and Spanish but as a “debate” in German, a differ- ence that echoes German-language press habits. Based on an analysis of semantic prosody, the study demonstrates that words indicating longevity such as “era” and “times” collocate with #MeToo in English and Spanish, but not in German. This points to a framing of #MeToo as influential and long-term in English and Spanish and as exaggerated and short-term in German. Reflecting this difference, #MeToo is talked about in more negative terms in German tweets compared to English and Spanish, as shown by a qualitative analysis of evaluative author stance. The study adds to existing knowledge of the power of hashtags for feminist social me- dia activism by highlighting the importance of (cross-)linguistic corpus-assisted discourse studies of hashtags on social media, which helps understand the ways in which anti-feminist discourse taps into the channelling of emotions through hashtags to undermine cross-national women’s movements
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
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