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Coetzee’s Style in Disgrace
Get PDFIn this paper, I contend that reading and analyzing the style of great authors is at the root of writing and being. Writing and style are part and parcel in the style of Coetzee in Disgrace. Thanks to the use of an impersonal Deleuzian style “pushing language to its limits”, the Beckettian and Kafkaian author (involuntarily) gives a stylistic adaptation of Barthes’s concept of “The Neutral”. Coetzee’s “neutral style” addresses many issues for all those interested in the interaction between literature, language and style, but also in writing, thinking and being in an ever-changing and terrifying world.Cet article défend la thèse selon laquelle la lecture et l’analyse du style de grands auteurs est l’enfance de l’écriture et de l’être-au-monde. L’écriture et le style sont intimement liés dans le style du roman Disgrace de Coetzee. Grâce au recours d’un style impersonnel qui, selon Deleuze, « pousse le langage à sa limite », l’auteur beckettien et kafkaïen opère une adaptation stylistique (involontaire) du concept de « Neutre » chez Barthes. Le style neutre de Coetzee s’attaque à de nombreuses questions qui intéressent tout autant les spécialistes (et les amateurs) de littérature, du langage et du style, que ceux qui s’interrogent sur les rapports entre écriture, conceptualisation et être-au-monde dans un monde terrifiant, sans cesse en cours de remaniement
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
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
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
Négation et (re)construction identitaire positive : quelques paradoxes rushdiens
No full textDans ses fictions comme dans ses non-fictions, Rushdie est hanté par deux concepts appelés à l’être après la fatwa, unbelonging et disorientation qui sont au cœur de sa problématique sur la question de l’identité postmoderne/postcoloniale.J’étudierai la construction d’une revendication identitaire rushdienne positive à la lumière du concept développé dans Step Across This Line que je considère, avec Imaginary Homelands, comme l’œuvre d’un philosophe humaniste. Retravaillant le traditionnel concept de la Frontière, Rushdie se fait le chantre de la transgression de toutes les frontières : physiques, littéraires, culturelles, linguistiques ou philosophiques.À partir d’une étude linguistique, stylistique et pragmatique, je montrerai que la construction d’identité passe par le recours paradoxal à la négation transfigurée en valeur positive. Ainsi, malgré une dénotation négative construite linguistiquement par la présence du suffixe négativant -less dans frontierless, Rushdie met en place une connotation positive en raison de la requalification de la notion de Frontier. Les formes de la négation paradoxale rushdienne seront envisagées dans leur aspect tant onomasiologique que sémasiologique
De quoi la transparence est-elle le nom ? Le cas de The Suspicions of Mr Wicher
Get PDFL’étude du “Style du Commun” dans l’essai documentaire de Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House permet de montrer ce qu’est la macrostylistique. Inspirée de la linguistique de l’énonciation et d’une philosophie du langage prenant en compte les interactions Langage ↔ Monde, la macrostylistique repose sur l’étude du langage dans son contexte large. Elle mène à une meilleure compréhension et à une interprétation des deux sociétés dont il est ici question : la société du XIXe siècle et celle du XXIe siècle. Cet essai documentaire mène l’enquête du meurtre du petit Saville Kent à Road Hill House en 1860. Du point de vue thématique, cette histoire vraie, racontée comme une fiction, présente pratiquement tous les traits d’un roman policier. Du point de vue linguistique, le style semble « plat » et s’apparente à un style neutre ou commun. L’enquête linguistique des traits grammaticaux saillants, principalement syntaxiques, montera que le style, tout comme le genre de cette enquête à succès est hybride. Le livre se compose d’un grafting de citations innombrables. La syntaxe est principalement hypotactique. L’enquête stylistique contextualisée de ce genre hybride mènera au paramétrage du « Style du Commun » du XXIe siècle.The study of the “style of the Common” in Kate Summerscale’s non-fiction The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House will give an illustration of what macrostylistics is. Derived from the French school of enunciative linguistics and from a philosophy of language envisioning the two-way interaction between Language and the World (Language ↔ World) macrostylistics consists in the strong reading of a whole text, by studying its language within its broad context. Such an approach thus leads to a better understanding and interpretation of the two societies considered here, the 19th and the 21st century societies. This 21st century non-fiction investigates the widely talked about “murder at Road Hill House” of young Saville Kent, aged 3, in 1860. Thematically, this true story is told in the manner of a fiction and bears practically all the features of a detective novel. Linguistically, the style is apparently flat and could be considered as neutral or common. A linguistic investigation of the grammatical features, mainly syntactical, will show that the style, as well as the genre, of this much acclaimed investigation is hybrid. The book is composed of the grafting of innumerable quotations. The contextualised linguistic investigation of this actually puzzling grafted style will lead to the stylistic mapping of 21st century’s “Style of the Common”
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