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L’autonarrazione nelle sequenze di troubles talk
No full textAbstract del paper distribuito al Convegno "Raccontare, ascoltare, comprendere. Metodologia e ambiti di applicazione delle narrazioni nelle scienze sociali". 22-23 settembre 2011, Facoltà di Sociologia, via Verdi 26, Trent
Le sequenze narrative nei discorsi politici: la presentazione di sé
No full textNel nostro Paese, come in molte altre democrazie occidentali, la politica negli ultimi decenni ha iniziato ad occupare spazi di intrattenimento televisivo cambiando il proprio volto e le proprie tecniche espressive. L'esaltazione di sé e la rivelazione di informazioni strettamente private e personali sono diventate un carattere dominante della comunicazione politica, soppiantando in parte la narrazione di fatti pubblici e l'impegno programmatico. In questo contributo presentiamo l'analisi qualitativa di un corpus di 18 discorsi mediatici pronunciati dall'ex Presidente del Consiglio Silvio Berlusconi tra il 2008 e il 2011. Nello specifico, abbiamo focalizzato la nostra attenzione sulle sequenze autonarrative, ossia sui frammenti discorsivi in cui l'ex Premier parla di sé (self presentation) e della sua vita privata (self disclosure), al fine di individuare i temi dominanti e le strategie comunicative impiegati. I risultati dell'analisi mostrano, sul piano della self-presentation, l'uso di una pluralità di immagini, tutte positivamente connotate, temporalmente costanti e riconducibili a qualità relazionali; sul piano della self-disclosure, una predilezione per la narrazione di eventi positivamente caratterizzati e di fatti volti a fornire prove della infondatezza delle accuse a lui rivolte da una parte del mondo politico e giudiziario italiano. Dal punto di vista delle strategie comunicative, si notano ripetuti shift dallo stile assertivo a quello offensivo
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
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