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“Swansea and Dylan Thomas: the City Text and the Tourist Reader”
No full textL'articolo analizza le specificità del linguaggio del turismo attraverso l'esempio di materiali autentici della città di Swansea e la rappresentazione dell'opera dell'autore gallese Dylan Thoma
The nucleotide sequence of the PRI1 gene related to DNA primase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
No full textThe Challenge of Communicating in a Changing Tourism Market
No full textIn the tourism market today, growing numbers of tourists represent a range of cultural backgrounds, while new technologies such as the Internet have had a major impact on the way travellers from around the world obtain information on destinations and plan their trips. These and other changes imply that even if one or two "English speaking cultures" are considered prime targets of tourist brochures in English available at a destination, the readership of English texts may in fact consist of members of a range of cultures, especially when material is in two languages only, the local language and English, and tourists come from a range of countries. Since visitors do not share the same knowledge of local geography, culture, specialties and so on, communicating such local elements – in English – becomes especially challenging. This paper explores the notion of common ground, examining the presuppositions behind the use of specialized lexis in multilingual, bilingual and monolingual tourist brochures for Valtellina, a major alpine valley in Lombardy, Italy. The paper examines evaluation (Thompson and Hunston 2000) and discusses the linguistic choices that contribute to increasing shared knowledge about features and specialties of the area. It shows that in a number of cases, a single Italian term takes on a variety of forms in the texts in English and in other languages. The paper discusses the implications of these differences in terms of building a particular image for and awareness of the area and its specialties. It also discusses the issue of coordinating visitor materials, especially linguistic choices in non-Italian texts, when a number of organizations produce them. Finally, the paper considers the implications of the increasing use of the Internet to communicate aspects of the area to both visitors and local residents
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
A contact zone in seventeenth century England: The case of Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew
No full textVariations 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
Transformative Touches in Tunis: Imaginary Contact Zones in Two Early Modern English ‘Turk’ Plays
No full textThe concept of the ‘contact zone’, first articulated by Mary Louise Pratt, has not been extensively used in early modern literary studies. This essay aims to test if the framework it provides can profitably cast a light on the representation of the multicultural life in Mediterranean cities as staged in early modern English ‘Turk’ plays
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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