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From Associative Relationships to the Birth of Stylistics
No full textThe aim of this paper is to reconstruct the historico-theoretical development of stylistics, especially starting from the last decades of the 19th century, when the consideration of language as a natural organism independent from speakers starts to enter a crisis phase and the speaking subject starts to be considered. A new point of view, which would later become typical of modern stylistics, starts
to emerge in Ferdinand de Saussure’s reflections on associative relationships that introduce a psychological and mental dimension that goes beyond the purely linguistic dimension. The issue of
associative relationships is taken into consideration by Bally, the father of modern stylistics as an autonomous discipline. Bally focuses his perspective on the speaking subject who, in each of
his/her expressive acts, feels (unconsciously) that each concept, idea, etc. can be conveyed through expressions of different type. This opens the way to associations, comparisons, assimilations, etc.
so that stylistics has the task of bringing to light the "système expressif" of a language
Saussure, Bühler and Benveniste. Sign and enunciation
No full textFollowing the Saussurean path in semiotic studies, the paper focuses on some excerpts from Karl Bühler’s Sprachtheorie and Émile Benveniste’s Problèmes de linguistique générale. The aim is to discuss certain topics introduced or discussed by Saussure, such as the concept of ‘linguistic sign’, the principle of arbitrariness, and the concepts of ‘value’ and ‘signification’. All these topics were subsequently examined and developed by both Bühler and Benveniste, thus becoming current issues in semiological and linguistic studies
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
Widespread rash in a 45-year-old woman after moxifloxacin administration
No full textA 45-year-old African woman presented with fever, throat pain, and a rapidly deteriorating rash after taking moxifloxacin for ten days. She exhibited extensive erythematous and purpuric macules, blisters, and significant mucosal involvement, covering 40% of her body surface area
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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