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The variability of Compliment Responses: Italian and German data. Chapter XVI
No full textThis study aims firstly to analyse differences and analogies between Italian and German in terms of answering to compliments. The investigation is based on a wide corpus of Italian and German compliment responses, classified on the base of a typologization we postulated for our research. A second goal of the study is to demonstrate how compliment varies along the axes of the so-called dia-levels, because CRs are sensitive to geographical area, gender, topics, illocutionary force; for this purpose we use authentic data we have collected in these last years. We start by presenting our corpora, defining the speech act of complimenting and describing our CRs categorization framework used to analyse and classify our data. As a second step, we compare German and Italian native speakers’ reactions to compliments according to their degree of acceptance and their topic. A particular attention has been deserved to the diatopic variation in Italy. In the last paragraph we summarize the most relevant findings of our study
Objekt- und adressatenorientierte Aspekte der Museumskommunikation
No full textArt communication is a functional and specialized form of social communication constituting the meaning of art. It includes museum communication, understood not only as a transfer of individual and social knowledge about exhibits, but also as an opportunity to encounter art. The museum is thus a learning place as well as a space for experiences, emotions and relational exchanges.Thisthematic issue deals withthe role of language in museum communication concerningfig-urative art,in its relation bothtoother expression modesand to the target audienceswith their different languages and cultures. Within this framework the active role of museum visitors in the reception of exhibited works, stimulated by the use ofnew technological formats, is dis-cussedtoo.In particular, the papers focuson three main aspects: the interaction between iconic and verbal language, the need for a target-oriented (multimodal) museum communication, and the inves-tigation of multilingual and culture-specific knowledge transmission strategies
Quale intonazione per le domande wh-?
No full textL’intonazione delle domande rappresenta uno dei temi più indagati nel vasto panorama delle ricerche dedicate alla prosodia. All’interno di questo vasto e variegato filone di ricerca, lo spazio dedicato all’intonazione della domanda wh- è stato per molti anni minore rispetto a quello riservato alle domande polari. In realtà, l’intonazione di questa interrogativa contiene diversi aspetti cruciali tra cui la definizione dell’andamento finale, la prominenza della parola wh-, l’individuazione dell’accento nucleare. Si tratta di aspetti interrelati, poiché dipendenti da restrizioni che operano sulla domanda modificandone la struttura su più piani. In questa sede, ci occuperemo in primo luogo della prominenza della parola wh- e dell’andamento intonativo finale. L’analisi di un corpus di parlato televisivo permetterà di verificare le tendenze in atto in un modello di pronuncia meridionale e di porre in evidenza eventuali criticità interpretative
Museumskommunikation als Dimension der Kunstkommunikation.: Objekt- und adressatenorientierte Facetten
Full text linkArt communication is a functional and specialized form of social communication constituting the meaning of art. It includes museum communication, understood not only as a transfer of individual and social knowledge about exhibits, but also as an opportunity to encounter art. The museum is thus a learning place as well as a space for experiences, emotions and relational exchanges.
This thematic issue deals with the role of language in museum communication concerning figurative art, in its relation both to other expression modes and to the target audiences with their different languages and cultures. Within this framework the active role of museum visitors in the reception of exhibited works, stimulated by the use of new technological formats, is discussed too.
In particular, the papers focus on three main aspects: the interaction between iconic and verbal language, the need for a target-oriented (multimodal) museum communication, and the investigation of multilingual and culture-specific knowledge transmission strategies
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
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
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