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How rude! Teaching impoliteness in the second-language classroom
No full textEnglish language teaching tends to deal with the pleasanter side of second-language interaction such as making friends, relating experiences, and expressing likes/dislikes while ignoring such everyday communicative realities as rudeness, disrespect, and impoliteness. While neglected in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom, impoliteness is likely to be experienced by second-language (L2) users in the target-language context or when interacting with other L2 users. By drawing on the experiences of 84 L2 users in Mexico, I identify impolite situations encountered in second-language interaction and discuss how L2 users can be prepared for such everyday communicative realities. In this paper, I argue that L2 users need to be given choices when confronted with rudeness so that they decide how they want to react. � The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved
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No full textForeign language (FL) users often come head-to-head with potentially difficult face-threatening situations in the target language (TL) where they have to respond immediately and appropriately. Sociocultural and linguistic misunderstandings often mean that FL users misconstrue speaker intention and wrongly judge a given interaction to be either polite or face-threatening. Impoliteness/rudeness is essentially a subjective assessment and FL teachers are often faced with the daunting task of trying to understand students' perceptions of impolite behaviour and prepare them for future scenarios involving inappropriate language use. In this paper, I explore how FL users view, respond to and contend with the face-threatening act (FTA) in the TL. First, I examine whether impoliteness/rudeness in FL contexts is best understood through theorybased approaches or through lay perceptions i. e., the FL users' own definitions. Secondly, I propose a different terminology which may be more relevant when describing FL users' perceptions of inappropriate language use. Thirdly, I consider how FL users identify impoliteness/rudeness within a given situation by examining their evaluations of inappropriate language use, assumed conversational objectives and interactants' communicative intentions and responses. Finally, I examine how FL users employ pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic resources when responding to an FTA in the TL. " Walter de Gruyter.",,,,,,"10.1515/pr-2012-0011",,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/42024","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84871463186&partnerID=40&md5=ebdca5305330eb82de0cdcfd3265b547",,,,,,"2",,"Journal of Politeness Research",,"19
I wouldn't say that if I were you: Face-to-face with foreign-language impoliteness
No full textForeign language (FL) users often come head-to-head with potentially difficult face-threatening situations in the target language (TL) where they have to respond immediately and appropriately. Sociocultural and linguistic misunderstandings often mean that FL users misconstrue speaker intention and wrongly judge a given interaction to be either polite or face-threatening. Impoliteness/rudeness is essentially a subjective assessment and FL teachers are often faced with the daunting task of trying to understand students' perceptions of impolite behaviour and prepare them for future scenarios involving inappropriate language use. In this paper, I explore how FL users view, respond to and contend with the face-threatening act (FTA) in the TL. First, I examine whether impoliteness/rudeness in FL contexts is best understood through theorybased approaches or through lay perceptions i. e., the FL users' own definitions. Secondly, I propose a different terminology which may be more relevant when describing FL users' perceptions of inappropriate language use. Thirdly, I consider how FL users identify impoliteness/rudeness within a given situation by examining their evaluations of inappropriate language use, assumed conversational objectives and interactants' communicative intentions and responses. Finally, I examine how FL users employ pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic resources when responding to an FTA in the TL. © Walter de Gruyter
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
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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