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The Covid-19 pandemic within a global linguistic landscape: A comparative case study
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our lives profusely and irreversibly and has changed the way we experience public spaces. This study aims at portraying instances of linguistic landscapes (LLs) of the pandemic by comparing three very different cities, a provincial Greek town, a developing city in Serbia, and a world metropolis in the U.S. Due to restricted mobility and limited possibilities to carry out fieldwork, the photographic data have been collected by the researcher and trained informants, followed by interviews about opinions/impressions of Covid-19 related language in public spaces. The results show that the three LLs share the expected universal characteristics but also reflect different political, socioeconomic, and cultural idiosyncrasies. My findings also show that (a) LLs seem to lag behind other sources when sharing information and communicating meanings and (b) we appear to rely less on them to guide us as we navigate our cities
Towards Automatic Definition Extraction for Serbian
No full textThe paper presents preliminary results of the automatic extraction of candidates for dictionary definitions from unstructured texts in the Serbian language with the aim of accelerating dictionary development. Definitions in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) dictionary were used to model different definition types (descriptive, grammatical, reference-based and synonym-based) having different syntactic and lexical features. The research corpus consists of 61,213 definitions of nouns, which were analysed using Serbian morphological e-dictionaries and local grammars implemented as finite state transducers in an open-source corpus processing suite Unitex. The 21 models developed up to the present moment cover 57% of dictionary definitions, 83% of which were fully recognized. The analysis has shown that many definitions have a structure that can be modelled, as evidenced by the statistics of definitions grouped by type. These models were used to retrieve noun definitions from a 1.4-million-word corpus containing 25 primary and secondary school textbooks covering various domains. The obtained results were thoroughly analysed, and guidelines were offered for their improvement
New words in old sources: Additions to the lemma list of a historical scholarly dictionary
No full textLanguage learning strategy profile of monolingual and multilingual EFL learners
Get PDFThe present study investigates possible differences in language learning strategy (LLS) use between monolingual (L1 Greek) and multilingual (L1 non-Greek) early adolescent learners. The participants were junior high school learners (932 monolinguals and 307 multilinguals) who completed an adapted self-report questionnaire. Both groups responded to the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) Version 7.0 (Oxford, 1990) about their language learning strategies when learning English. The multilingual group then completed another SILL reporting on the strategies they used when learning/using Greek. The data were analyzed via descriptive statistics and t-tests. The findings showed statistically significant differences between monolinguals and multilinguals concerning individual strategies and strategy categories in favor of multilinguals as well as multilinguals’ transfer of strategies from Greek to English and vice versa
Building a Paralympic, frame-based dictionary : towards an inclusive design for Dicionário Paraolímpico (Unisinos/Brazil)
Get PDFThis paper presents some theoretical and methodological issues emanating from the building of Dicionário Paraolímpico (Paralympic Dictionary), an online lexicographical resource that will describe the lexicon of Paralympic sports in Portuguese and English, structured according to the notion of semantic frame. It follows the lead of previous works published by the SemanTec research group (Unisinos/Brazil), such as Dicionário Olímpico (Olympic Dictionary, 2016). For the current project, some features from the previous works were kept, such as the basic microstructure of scenarios and the megastructure. There are, however, significant changes to be introduced in the Paralympic Dictionary. Some of them are the result of the Olympic Dictionary’s revision, and address issues such as content multiplicity of the sport and scenario definitions, and the absence of relevant information in the microstructure of lexical units. In addition, some of the changes concern the features that distinguish the Paralympic Dictionary from the Olympic Dictionary, since Paralympic sports have specific frames. Another important issue to be addressed refers to the accessibility of the dictionary itself by people with disabilities. After discussing these issues, the paper concludes by outlining future plans, including further developments for the Paralympic Dictionary and its broader implications in the context of the SemanTec research group
Predictors of language learning strategy promotion by teachers in dual-immersion schools
No full textThis paper reports on results of a quantitative study investigating Language Learning Strategies (LLS) that teachers of Greek L2/Turkish L1 in dual-immersion primary schools promote as well as the possible effect of gender, teaching experience and education level on their LLS promotion. The particular schools are separate schools for bilingual children (L1 Turkish/L2 Greek) in Thrace, Greece. Their societal and educational aims are language maintenance, pluralism and enrichment whereas the linguistic aim is bilingualism and biliteracy. However, the students’ Greek language proficiency and their general academic achievement are low. The study was conducted as part of in-service teacher training aiming to provide teachers with teaching methodology on LLS. It examines 102 self-evaluations of the strategies L1 and L2 teachers promote in class. Our findings show that the teachers reported high frequency of strategy promotion. There were significant differences on individual strategies between L1 and L2 teachers. Lastly, gender, teaching experience, and education level appeared to be predictors of LLS promotion
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
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