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Parallel Presentation of Positive and Negative Sides of Igbo Culture in Things Fall Apart
Full text linkChinua Achebe s magnum opus Things Fall Apart reflects authentic presentation of the Igbo society Various social political economic religious psychological and personal issues of the Igbo people have been put forward by the author in this ethnographic novel Achebe has depicted these issues from the perspective of both an observer and a critic The ethnographic depiction of the Igbo life indicates that Chinua Achebe has tried to maintain his objective stance in the novel He is not biased at all It is evident in his contrastive presentation of the culture and beliefs of the Igbo in one hand he presents the constructive and rational side of the Igbo on the other hand he highlights their follies and irrational beliefs too Achebe as an original Igbo expectedly presents the riches and potentialities of the Igbo society But at the same time he is not uncritical of the limitations of his society where he belongs to The present study has dealt with Achebe s audacious attempt to present the limitations and follies of Igbo life in Things Fall Apar
Reading Achebeas Things Fall Apart from the Perspective of Cesaireas Discourse on Colonialism
Full text linkThis article attempts to study Chinua Achebe s novel Things Fall Apart from the perspectives put forward in Aime Cesaire s anti-colonial text Discourse on Colonialism For this purpose various thematic key-issues found in Discourse on Colonialism are studied first These thematic key-issues include old African societies representation colonial effects colonial Christianity decolonization flaws of civilization etc In the text Aime Cesaire has strongly dealt with these issues Then in this paper each of these issues is thoroughly attempted on the basis of their having treated in Things Fall Apart Finally this paper shows that Things Fall Apart can well be analyzed by considering all the thematic concerns voiced by Cesair
Exploring Linguistic Impairments of the Patients of Brocaas Aphasia and Wernickeas Aphasia in Bangladesh
Full text linkLanguage performance of human beings is inseparably related to their brain There are some specific areas in the brain that are responsible for language understanding organizing and producing Broca s area and Wernicke s area are two such types of crucial areas of the brain which are if affected or injured responsible for linguistic problems respectively known as Broca s Aphasia and Wernicke s Aphasia Aphasia is a disorder of communication that impairs a person s ability to use and comprehend language Broca s Aphasia is recognizable when the person affected has a difficulty in speech production writing and finding specific words A patient of Wernicke s aphasia may produce normal speeches but they are nearly nonsensical and irrelevant His her difficulty is in comprehending others messages The present study has investigated the linguistic behavior of some patients of Broca s Aphasia and Wernicke s Aphasia in Bangladesh and shows proximity of the empirical findings with the theoretical claim
Comparative Acceptability of GTM and CLT to the Teachers of Rural Secondary High Schools in Bangladesh
Full text linkCommunicative Language Teaching CLT has been innovated in the secondary and the higher secondary level of education in Bangladesh by drastically devaluing the principles of the long-practiced traditional Grammar Translation Method GTM The present study was carried out on some rural secondary high school teachers in Bangladesh about comparative acceptability of GTM and CLT in respects of achieving four skills accuracy fluency translating activity group pair works and classroom language The result of the study reflected their mixed attitude to GTM and CLT though all of them put emphasis on language learning through translating activity in group pair works Their tendency and claims were in favor of the multisyllabus On the basis of the data findings this paper also presents some suggestions for appropriate methodology in ELT in Banglades
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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