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Colour terms and intensifying constructions in Italian
No full textThis investigation proposes a corpus-based description of Italian intensifying constructions including colour terms. Colour terms may be employed as intensification markers in intensifying colour constructions, i.e. ready-made syntactic patterns which specialise in conveying the intensifying value. The chapter aims at identifying and classifying different patterns of Italian intensifying colour constructions according to syntactic/semantic parameters. It is demonstrated that these units can convey different types and degrees of intensified meanings and can be distributed along an intensification cline. Taking into account data gathered from the ITTenTen16 corpus, the analysis identifies the abstract semantic schemata underlying intensifying colour constructions (e.g. the metonymic/metaphoric scale association), and explores the relation between colour terms and schemata, in terms of degrees of lexicalisation/constructionalisation and pattern productivity
Synchronic and diachronic analysis of prepositional multiword modifiers across Romance languages
No full textLexicological and lexicographical studies on multiword expressions in Romance languages have significantly increased in recent years. Even though some attention has been paid to Multiwords functioning as adjectives and adverbs, the structural and the functional relation between them has not been clarified yet.Employing both a qualitative and quantitative approach, this corpus-based investigation aims at exploring the diatopic distribution and the evolution of Romance multiword lexemes having the form of a prepositional phrase and the function of an adjective or/and an adverb (or both functions). According to data taken from corpora of Latin, Old Italian, Old Spanish and Middle French, this contribution investigates the relationship between the different degrees of schematicity and the productivity of this kind of multiword lexemes in order to highlight the evolutional path and the diachronic/diatopic principles engaged in the multiword modifying system across the different Romance languages taken into consideration
Body part metaphors in lexical and phraseological constructions. A comparative survey of Italian, Spanish, French and English
No full textThe paper addresses the employment of body part nouns in the creation of phraseological expressions of some European languages, a topic at the crossroads of language, cognition and culture. In particular, the contrastive analysis explores the common linguistic representation of meanings through body part metaphorical expressions in Italian, French, Spanish and English. While several efforts to gauge the existence of a “European linguistic type” (cf. Haspelmath, 2001) have been largely devoted to the study of grammatical structures, a systematic account of the lexical component of the major European languages has not been attempted yet. Among the lexical units, phraseological expressions (e.g. compounds, multiword units, idiomatic expressions, as well as light verb and light noun constructions) represent a relevant ground to inquire into, since they are the most transparent and authentic vehicle of common ideas and experiences gradually rooted in European communicative realities
La Grammatica di Categorie e Costruzioni e i sistemi di allineamento
No full textIn questo lavoro viene proposta un’applicazione del modello della Grammatica delle Categorie e Costruzioni (GCC, Simone 2006, 2007) allo studio della realizzazione dei sistemi di allineamento nelle lingue del mondo
(Dixon 1979; Comrie 1978; Mereu 2004). I tre livelli di rappresentazione individuati nella GCC (livelli cognitivo-concettuale, rappresentazionale e linguistico) vengono impiegati per descrivere le alternanze strutturali a partire da un’unica matrice cognitivo-semantica (il formato verbale). Viene, inoltre, mostrato
come i costrutti teorici di Discorso e Sistema possono essere impiegati per illustrare la relazione tra i fenomeni di uso e la caratterizzazione strutturale dei sistemi di allineamento
Pensiero linguistico e passione civile. Scritti scelti di Raffaele Simone
No full textLa raccolta contiene una selezione di importanti articoli di carattere scientifico in ambito linguistico e socio-politico ritenuti significativi dell'opera di Raffaele Simone. La raccolta è preceduta da un'introduzione in cui si presentano le direzioni di ricerca rappresentate dagli scritti selezionati nel volume.The volume contains a selection of Raffaele Simone's important papers in the linguistic and socio-political fields. In the introduction the editors present the research directions represented by the articles selected in the volum
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
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