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Taking stock and moving forwards: new spaces, agency, authenticity and critical perspectives
No full textThe concept of internationalisation at home (IaH) is relatively new in Italian universities, not least in the institution where the projects recounted in this book take place. As mentioned in the introduction, definitions of IaH “shift the focus of internationalization away from mobility” (Leask, Marantz-Gal, introductory chapter), which has traditionally been the focus of internationalization activities. Patterns of student mobility were already reshaping alongside geopolitical change and the impact of the global pandemic has accelerated the need to rethink Internationalisation as mobility (Mok and Montgomery, 2021; Mok, Xiong, Ke and Cheung, 2021). As the external and internal environment of globalised higher education transforms, Italian universities are responding with innovation in curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment (Giovannetti & Poggiolini 2018; Mair, 2021 and this volume; Mastellotto and Zanin 2021). The chapters of this book have presented notable examples of this. We highlight the new spaces, which are being constructed, the agency and authenticity in student-led learning and the need for critical perspectives on internationalisation
English as a Lingua Franca, YouTube and the Rise of the Lyrics Video
No full textPop music has been dominated by the English language for decades, with many artists writing songs in English to reach global audiences (Crystal, 2003). Today the internet offers an easy solution for audiences seeking song lyrics and has partly led to the development of a new genre, the lyrics video. The emergence of Web 2.0 and writable web have given rise to the creation of a number of content-sharing platforms like YouTube, a dynamic space in which ordinary people become media producers (Burgess & Green, 2009). The lyrics video first emerged as amateur content, but recently mainstream artists have embraced lyrics videos, investing in their production.This paper argues that the emergence of English as a lingua franca has contributed to the rise of the lyrics video genre, and that the desire to understand song lyrics has been a motivational factor for English language learners worldwide. Although lyrics videos are individual texts with heterogeneous elements, they share common purposes and some aspects of structure, style, content and audience, enabling their classification as ‘genre’ (Swales 1990: 58). The genre contributes to shaping discourse communities and generates EFL interactions, as seen in the comments area of YouTube
The development of English legal language: changes in the use of deontic modality in UK Statutory Instruments and European Union legislation
No full textResearch has indicated that EU legal English is today a language variety distinct from British legal English (Garzone 2000; Koskinen 2000; Catenaccio 2008; Robertson 2010; Mattila 2013; Sandrelli 2018). The present paper investigates how EU legal English has evolved over the years and aims to shed light on the origin and development of certain linguistic features that set this variety apart from British legal English. The analysis was carried out on two purposely-built monolingual comparable corpora in English: EU LAW comprises EU secondary legislation in English adopted between 1957 and 2019, while UK LAW comprises UK Statutory Instruments adopted in the same time frame. Based on the relevance that deontic modality has in legislative texts, and on its high frequency in the two corpora, the study takes modal and semi-modal verbs of obligation, permission and prohibition into consideration. The analysis was carried out with a corpus-based approach in seven successive periods in the 62-year span in order to determine how frequently the expressions of modality were used in each time frame considered in EU LAW and UK LAW. Different patterns in their development were identified and possible reasons behind the trends observed in EU and UK legislative texts are discussed in the paper
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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