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Cracking the code of change in EU legal discourse: signifying practices shaping inclusion for the vulnerable in the digital age
Get PDFThe initiative of the Clear Writing Movement (Kimble 1992), targeting the democratization of communication by simplifying legal documents, has influenced the presentation of law globally. By uniting diverse philosophies of Plain Language and Easy-to-Read under the broad umbrella of text clarity and accessibility (Maaß 2020), this movement has particularly influenced the European Union’s linguistic policy (Foley 2002; Nerelius 2014; Seracini 2019). Notwithstanding this progress and the accelerated shift towards digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union’s efforts to enhance its communication for vulnerable groups (European Union 2013) remain under-examined. This research, leveraging corpus linguistics and multimodal analysis, aims to systematically uncover foundational values and thematic clusters embedded in EU legal and policy documents related to the social inclusion and rights of vulnerable populations. It explores how these features are dynamically communicated through Easy-to-Understand multimedia resources produced by Inclusion Europe and the European Commission (Bernabé and Orero 2020). Findings underscore the pivotal role of digital technology in revolutionizing the creation and interpretation of legal documents, reflecting the European Union’s proactive efforts to forge new avenues for multimodal legal communication marked by innovative signifying practices. The research concludes by highlighting the socio-semiotic and context-specific dimensions of legal discourse. Far from being merely universal and abstract, it can be adapted and reshaped to reflect societal and political stances on regulated issues. This approach can foster a sense of belonging, empowerment, and inclusivity within vulnerable communities, while also nurturing broader societal cooperation and understanding
A fascinating game of ‘what if?’ and ‘why not?’: an out-of-the-chorus proposal to EU legal translation: Review of Legal Integration and Language Diversity: Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking, written by Cornelis J.W. Baaij, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 312.
Get PDFAcademic socialisation and the thesis genre: Reflections on a pilot study
No full textWith increasing recognition of the challenges posed by academic discourse for both native and non-native English speakers, this chapter explores the integration of academic socialisation into university curricula, focusing on a pilot study of thesis writing at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. The course merges English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) and English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) within an English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) context. The methodological framework adopts a multi-lens approach, utilising student feedback, teacher evaluations, and observational data to assess the course's impact on student preparedness in academic writing. Results indicate significant improvements in students' ability to engage with advanced writing tasks, underscoring the benefits of structured support in thesis writing. The study concludes by proposing ongoing refinements in course design, emphasising practical, data-driven activities and a flexible curriculum to optimise learning outcomes in EMI contexts
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
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
Pandemônio ou contexto pandêmico? Primeira conversa com Silvio Tendler
No full textSilvio Tendler (Río de Janeiro, RJ, 1950) es cineasta, investigador y profesor.
En la década de 1960, los clubs de cine fueron la puerta de entrada al universo del
cine. A principios de la década de 1970, estuvo en Chile bajo el gobierno de Allende, registrando en imágenes los diferentes proyectos populares destrozados por el golpe de 197
Exploring metadiscourse and rhetorical structure in Italian EFL learners' Master's Theses: Genre-analysis across learner versus professional writing, L1 versus L2 discourse
No full textOscar Wilde, una voce delle prigioni: Dikaiosyne come valore universale di umanità
No full text“The laws under which I am convicted are wrong and unjust”, partendo da questa citazione autobiografica di Oscar Wilde il presente intervento è volto a indagare l’eterno ritorno del diritto naturale quale giudice e guida di quello positivo nel componimento The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898). In particolare, attraverso la descrizione dello stato di alienazione a cui i detenuti erano sottoposti, privati dal sistema penale di ogni diritto civile compreso quello al nome e alla dignità, l’autore crea uno spazio di riflessione critica, instillando nella coscienza del lettore, come un moderno Prometeo che tanto richiama il mito narrato da Platone nel Protagora, un’idea universale di Dike, identificabile nell’umana compassione che l’uomo dovrebbe trasfondere nella creazione e nell’applicazione della legge
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