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RILA - Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata - CLAVIER 09 Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation
No full textGo on an Art Adventure: Popularizing Art for Children through Museum Websites
No full textFreed from its elitist connotations, art has recently become a key
focus in children’s non-fiction. Books on artists’ lives and art movements
proliferate in the market addressed to children, thus opening the doors of
art history to very young aesthetes. Conversely, art in the World Wide Web
is still mainly limited to “arts and crafts activities” for kids. This tendency
seems to be exceptionally overridden by a counter-tendency led by few
museums and galleries. As a matter of fact, museums are no longer
“cultural islands” but active cultural agents (Bondi 2009) that market and
popularize themselves through their websites. With regard to children,
most museum websites briefly present workshops and events they organize
for children with a marketing intent (Sabatini 2017). However, few of them
offer online materials and sections explaining the art and life of the
protagonists of their collections, hence relegating the promotional
discourse in the background and giving prominence to art popularization.
An interesting case is Tate Kids, the website of the Tate Gallery family
entirely dedicated to children. In the context of research on specialized
knowledge dissemination to adults (e.g., Ciapuscio 2003; Calsamiglia, van
Dijk 2004) and children (e.g., Myers 1989), we shall therefore concentrate
on the different strategies that Tate Kids adopts in order to market itself
and, most importantly, to disseminate art knowledge among children, who
do not only lack specialist knowledge but also have a different stage of
cognitive development (Myers 1989)
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
From corporate websites to consumer blogs: Analyzing recontextualization of brand identity in fashion discourse
No full textThis study focuses on the linguistic expression of brand identity and how it is recontextualized from the producer’s to the consumer’s perspective across two digital genres: corporate websites and consumer blogs. The analysis is situated in the discourse of the fashion community, where brands are often identified with iconic personalities and the world of luxury, and thus offer richly articulated descriptions. The methodological approach integrates quantitative text-mining and qualitative textual analysis. Small specialized corpora were compiled from the websites of three fashion brands. Three parallel corpora were then compiled from fashion blog posts that discussed the same brands. The software WMatrix was used to extract all adjectives from the six corpora, which were then manually analyzed to identify those that encoded various attributes of brand identity (e.g., modern, elegant, light). The results showed that brand identity as communicated on corporate websites is often recontextualized within the social community of fashion bloggers, who add new and creative meanings that expand on those originally defined by companies. The findings can be useful in the context of brand management to determine which attributes are perceived most favourably by consumers and should thus be reinforced
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
Titolo del progetto nazionale: Punto di vista e parole-chiave nel discorso persuasivo Titolo specifico del programma svolto dall'Unità di Modena: Punto di vista e parole chiave nel discorso accademico: prospettive cross-linguistiche, cross-generiche e cross-disciplinari
No full textIl programma di ricerca si pone una pluralità di obiettivi, non solo a livello di ricerca teorico-descrittiva (con particolare riferimento alla lingua inglese) e di riflessione metodologica (sulla ricerca linguistica applicata), ma anche di produzione di strumenti per l'analisi e la didattica linguistica.
Obiettivi teorico-descrittivi-metodologici
1) Il programma si propone di indagare in primo luogo la nozione di "parole chiave" da diversi punti di vista, teorici e applicati, offrendo una rassegna degli approcci al tema.
1.a. Si propone in particolare di proporre strumenti di identificazione delle parole chiave a livello di testo e di discorso, secondo procedure che si basano su di una combinatoria di criteri esterni e interni e su di una utilizzazione dei dati statistici di frequenza che non tenga solo conto dei dati relativi ai singoli elementi linguistici, ma piuttosto della rete di relazioni collocazionali e lessico-semantiche che si stabiliscono fra i singoli elementi.
1.b. Si propone inoltre di indagare la relazione fra la definizione di parole chiave e contesto d'uso.
2) Altro obiettivo fondamentale del programma è quello di indagare il rapporto tra parole chiave ed espressione di un punto di vista del parlante nel testo e nel discorso specialistico. In questo senso la nozione viene indagata in particolare nelle sue relazioni con l'espressione di una valutazione e dunque con il sistema(/i sistemi) di valori di cui la specifica comunità di discorso si fa portatrice.
2.a. Si propone in primo luogo di studiare il modo in cui i diversi gradi di esplicitezza/implicitezza delle diverse forme della valutazione coinvolgono la definizione delle parole chiave e si inseriscono in una rete di relazioni collocazionali e lessico-semantiche.
2.b. Si propone infine di indagare alcuni ambiti di discorso specifici, enucleandone divergenze e convergenze. In particolare interessa esplorare i modi in cui parole chiave e punto di vista del discorso contribuiscono alle forme della persuasione presenti in diversi casi di discorso specialistico quali: i) il discorso accademico visto in una varietà di contesti disciplinari, ii) ambiti di discorso specialistico caratterizzati da grande varietà di situazioni comunicative come quello economico ed artistico (nelle forme accademiche, giornalistiche, professionali ecc.), iii) forme del discorso professionale come quelli della corrispondenza e delle presentazioni aziendali.
3) A livello più ampiamente metodologico, il programma si propone di:
a. approfondire strumenti di studio del fenomeno della collocazione, guardando in particolare alle reti di connessione fra collocazioni e patterns collocazionali, nonché al ruolo che il punto di vista del parlante (o della comunità di discorso) può assumere nella definizione di meccanismi quali quello normalmente identificato come prosodia semantica;
b. approfondire una definizione delle possibilità/necessità di integrazione di metodologie di analisi della linguistica dei corpora e dell'analisi del discorso.
Produzione di strumenti per l'analisi e la didattica linguistica
Il programma si propone inoltre di produrre:
a. un software per l'identificazione delle parole chiave improntato al modello di "aboutness" di Philips (1983), basato sull'analisi di associazioni fra lemmi collegati da patterns di intercollocazione dei collocati;
b. una serie di materiali per l'autoapprendimento rivolti tanto alla utilizzazione delle parole chiave per lo sviluppo di abilità comunicative in relazione a specifici ambiti e generi di discorso, quanto alla riflessione su strumenti di indagine lessico-semantica in prospettiva di auto-formazione e verifica di ipotesi descrittive o traduttive
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