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Bridging the language and cultural gaps: the use of blogs
No full textThis article aims to demonstrate how the use of an online journal, a bilingualblog, can contribute tofilling in the language and cultural gaps of foreign lan-guage learners. This case study focuses on the participation, interaction, motiva-tion, language acquisition, feedback and cultural input improved by students ofSpanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Queensland in Australia andstudents of English as a Foreign Language at the Universidad de Las Palmas deGran Canaria in Spain. It demonstrates how this learner-directed instructionalcontext allows intercultural andlanguageexchanges,firstly between partici-pants, as a peer revision exercise and secondly, as collaborative work and a dis-cussion platform in the blogGranCanBrisbaneEspañolEnglish3813610,6020,667Q2Q2SSC
Fallas epistemológicas en la traducción inglesa del pensamiento decolonial y no-colonial latinoamericano
No full textLa manipulación en la traducción es históricamente común y presenta diversas razones ideológicas. El pensamiento decolonial es víctima del epistemicidio en diferentes ámbitos y también ha sido silenciado en el proceso de traducción. En este trabajo demuestro cómo el paradigma de la modernidad se refleja en artículos académicos y especialmente en la traducción al inglés del concepto de Sumak Kawsay/Suma Qamaña o Buen Vivir expresado en los preámbulos de las constituciones ecuatoriana y boliviana traducidas por el Instituto Max Planck. Específicamente, examino cómo la visión antropocéntrica y universalista de la modernidad empaña la postura biocéntrica y localista del pensamiento decolonial.Manipulation in translation is a historically common phenomenon that is brought about for diverse ideological reasons. Decolonial thought is not only victim to epistemicide but has been silenced in the process of translation. In this article, I show how Modernity is reflected in academic articles and especially in the English translation of the concept of Sumak Kawsay/Suma Qamaña or Buen Vivir, as expressed in the preambles of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions translated by the Max Planck Institute. I demonstrate how the anthropocentric and universalist view of modernity does not reflect the biocentric and pluralist proposal of decolonial thought
Fallas epistemológicas en la traducción inglesa del pensamiento decolonial y no-colonial latinoamericano
Get PDFManipulation in translation is a historically common phenomenon that is brought about for diverse ideological reasons. Decolonial thought is not only victim to epistemicide but has been silenced in the process of translation. In this article, I show how Modernity is reflected in academic articles and especially in the English translation of the concept of Sumak Kawsay/Suma Qamaña or Buen Vivir, as expressed in the preambles of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions translated by the Max Planck Institute. I demonstrate how the anthropocentric and universalist view of modernity does not reflect the biocentric and pluralist proposal of decolonial thought.La manipulación en la traducción es históricamente común y presenta diversas razones ideológicas. El pensamiento decolonial es víctima del epistemicidio en diferentes ámbitos y también ha sido silenciado en el proceso de traducción. En este trabajo demuestro cómo el paradigma de la modernidad se refleja en artículos académicos y especialmente en la traducción al inglés del concepto de Sumak Kawsay/Suma Qamaña o Buen Vivir expresado en los preámbulos de las constituciones ecuatoriana y boliviana traducidas por el Instituto Max Planck. Específicamente, examino cómo la visión antropocéntrica y universalista de la modernidad empaña la postura biocéntrica y localista del pensamiento decolonial
The discourse of perceived discrimination: perspectives from contemporary Australian society
No full textThis book offers a way forward toward a better understanding of perceived discrimination from a critical discourse studies perspective. The volume begins with a discussion of quantitative studies on perceived discrimination across a range of disciplines and moves toward outlining the ways in which a discourse-based framework, drawing on tools from cognitive linguistics and discursive psychology, offers valuable tools with which to document and analyze perceived discrimination through myriad lenses. Rojas-Lizana provides a systematic account, grounded in a critical approach, of perceived discrimination drawing on data from discourse from two minority groups, self-identified members of an LGBTIQ community and Spanish-speaking immigrants in Australia, and explores such topics as the relationship between language and discrimination, the conditions for determining what constitutes discriminatory acts, and both the copying and resistance strategies victims employ in their experiences. A concluding chapter offers a broader comparison of the conclusions drawn from both communities and discusses their implications for further research on perceived discrimination. This volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in critical discourse studies, social policy, gender and sexuality studies, and migration studies
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
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