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"Identity and the Linguistic Construction of Space and Place in Diasporic Films: the DesiCorpus"
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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
Integrating migrants in Europe: the EU’ s ‘viewpoint’ from a legal perspective
No full textThe main aim of the study is to investigate the concept of evaluation
applied to a corpus of legislative instruments in favour of migrants’
rights.
In particular, attention has been paid to some evaluative lexical
choices found in association with two key-words – integration and protection.
More specifically, evaluation has been investigated taking into
account the phrases and the grammar patterns most frequently found
with these words in the corpus.
The corpus includes some EU Directives in the time span 2001-
2013 aimed at integrating migrants (see Appendix A). The Directives
include rights such as family reunification, equal opportunities to men
and women, international protection, the conditions of entry and residence
of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment,
granting and withdrawing international protection. In short,
all the Directives are aimed at integrating migrants, granting them some
rights and promoting common procedures among the Member States in
order to better protect them
Il multilinguismo nella società dell’informazione
No full textLa trasformazione della società, tuttora in atto, verso una dimensione multilinguistica e multiculturale ha determinato in Italia e, in generale, in Europa una pressante richiesta di strategie e competenze atte a far fronte alle esigenze di una comunicazione multilinguistica, facendo con questo riferimento sia i.) all’uso di lingue diverse per lo sviluppo di pratiche sociali ed il conseguimento di fini comuni, sia ii).alla crescente presenza di cittadini multilingui che usano più lingue per la realizzazione dei loro fini.
In questa prospettiva, rinnovata attenzione si è concentrata sul rapporto tra lingua e cultura e sull’apporto che una gamma sempre più ampia di tecnologie può fornire ad un uso rafforzato di tutte le lingue. In considerazione dell’alto potenziale che le tecnologia presenta per “assicurare uno spazio sociolinguistico a tutte le lingue europee” l’articolo prende in esame il contributo che può essere fornito dalle tecnologie digitali ai fini di una comunicazione e di un’informazione multilingustica e interculturale.
Nell’esplorazione di corpora, la lettura interpretativa di alcune concordanze si rivela indicativa di scelte non solo linguistiche, ma anche significativamente radicate, a livello culturale, nei vari contesti storico-geografici
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
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