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Charles Richardson: Prescriptivist or Descriptivist? An Analysis Based on "A New Dictionary of the English Language" (1836-37)
No full textAlthough not much has been written about Richardson’s New Dictionary, Beal (2004), Dolezal (1989, 2000), Fowler (2004), Sacerdoti-Mariani (1994) and Zgusta (1986, 1989), who have dedicated time to studying it, seem to agree that it is the most substantial work of English lexicography produced between Johnson’s Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. In the history of lexicography, Richardson’s work in fact represents the “remoulding and reforming of the old” Dictionary of Dr. Johnson (Richardson 1836-7: Preface), but also stands as the precursor of the greatest historical dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary (from now on OED), acknowledged as such in its Preface. In several ways, Richardson’s work acts as a link between Johnson’s Dictionary and the OED. This work intends to demonstrate this through the brief comparison of the entries abominate, abominable and abominably in the three dictionaries
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
Converted to God: Bernardino Ochino’s Sermons Translated into English by Anne Cooke
Get PDFAnne Cooke Bacon’s literary fame rests on her translation of the
Prediche written by Bernadino Ochino, the Italian Protestant reformer. She was
highly praised by her English and continental contemporaries as the books dedicated
to her clearly demonstrate. Her first anonymous publication of Ochino’s Prediche
dates back to 1548. Notwithstanding her young age, she was twenty years old at the
time, Anne Cooke evidently felt ready to face such a difficult task as that of
translating one of the most popular reformers of the time. Indeed, «she was actively
involved in the religious controversy of the day, and her translations position her as a
strong advocate for the Protestant cause» (Wayne 2000: ix). All in all, Anne Cooke
puts her translations in a via media. Opting for a compromise, at times she displays
subordination to the source text and its original author whilst on other occasions, in
the attempt to domesticate Ochino’s sermons, she has inevitably been tempted to
recreate a work which satisfies her readers’ expectations and the stylistic devices of
her time
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
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