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Isa the Prophet: some Turkish anecdotes not found in the Arabic tradition. Part 1: The long-living worshipper
No full textThis article is a first outcome of a long-term research project, aiming to gather and classify those Osmanlı narrative texts, both prose and verse, which deal with the “Muslim” Jesus, and which seem to have no counterpart in Arabic tradition, according to repertories.1 In the course of my survey of the Turkic ʿİsà corpus, I have detected a number of “Märchen-Typen” that will be discussed in a series of publications. In this first instalment, I would like to present the story of the Long-living worshipper
ʿİsà the Prophet: some Turkish anecdotes not found in the Arabic tradition. Part 2.1. Talking objects and animals. Part 2.2. Miscellanous topics
No full textThe text below is the second instalment of a series devoted to the various “Märchen-Typen” in the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. While in the first part, which appeared in the previous issue of the COMSt Newsletter, I dealt in detail with the Long-living Worshipper story (s. also Appendix for some additional observations on this topic), the second is devoted to a series of stories featuring talking objects and animals, namely the Talking Frog and the Talking Mountain. It also includes two additional short miraculous narratives
ʿİsà the Prophet: Some Turkish Anecdotes not Found in the Arabic Tradition. Part 3: A Context-based Approach: Central Asian Collections
No full textThe text below is the third instalment of a series of research notes concerning the Turkic ʿİsà corpus. The first two parts (published in the COMSt Newsletter issues 2 and 3, 2011), dealt with the particular “Märchen-Typen” found in the Turkic tradition, including the Long-living Worshipper story, the stories of the Talking Frog and the Talking Mountain (s. also Appendix below for some additional observations). In the third instalment, I change the approach from looking at particular motifs to looking at text collections in which these and other similar stories are transmitted. The occasion is used to introduce more previously unstudied texts to the broad academic community. For a general introduction on the popular motifs in the Turkic ʿİsà tradition, as well as for an explanation of the transliteration convention used in this article, s. COMSt Newsletter 2, July 2011, p. 25
A tentative (graphemically-based) reconstruction of the vowel phonology of an early 18th-century Turkish-ġaršūnī text from Edessa (present-day Șanhurfa)
No full textOn the phonetic unpredictability denoted by some old Turkic texts written in Syriac script. Or the encoding ambiguity intrinsic to the Aramaic writing
No full textOn some graphotactic rules exhibited by the Old Turkic Irk Bitig text: a case of incipient degraphemization?
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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
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