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CADIS - A Corpus of Academic Discourse
No full textThe volume is a tribute to Maria Teresa Prat and to her long and outstanding career at the University of Turin
Weakness and Fear: A fragment of corpus assisted discourse analysis
No full textThe paper makes a brief illustration of how the methods of corpus linguistics, when applied to small specialised corpora can be profitably combined with discourse analysis. The corpus used is a collection speeches made by US Presidents between 1960 and 2004, and the node words initially investigated are the two antonymous pairs weakness and strength and fear and courage. The discourse analysis is carried out on a stretch of text in which these words cluster together
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
The perception of citizenship in the English press
No full textThis paper reports research conducted by the two authors for the European Union-financed project IntUne (Integrated and United: A Quest for Citizenship in an ever closer Europe) involving 29 European institutions across Central and Western Europe involved. The project is multidisciplinary in nature and calls on scholars and practitioners from different fields of study: political science, sociology, public policy, media, linguistics and socio-psychology.
The aim of the project is to study the changes in the scope, nature and characteristics of citizenship which result from the political and geographical enlargement of the European Union. The project focuses on how processes of integration, at both national and European levels, affect the three major dimensions of citizenship: identity, representation and the scope of governance. Problems of citizenship are addressed under this threefold approach
by looking at the relationship between the general public and elite groups – politicians and senior civil servants – and between the European and the domestic dimensions of political life. In this paper we consider how the question of European citizenship is projected in a number of UK newspapers
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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