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An Agential-Realist Re/configuring of Helen Huntingdon as a Victorian Painter-Heroine
Get PDFThrough mattering discourse, this work attempts to re/configure Helen Huntingdon, the heroine of Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). A diffractive reading is provided through the aegis of Karen Barad’s agential realism by relying on Victorian feminist imaginaries. Helen, the mother and Helen, the romantic partner, stands “together-apart” (Barad, 2014, p. 168) with matter (painting). There are no “absolute separations” now or (n)ever. All future renderings may (not) matter the same. This diffractive re/worlding focuses on the inseparability of Helen, the human, from the non-human thereby emerging a more than-human phenomenon.
Peace Sociolinguistics: A Constructivist Grounded Theory of Pakistani English Newspapers
Get PDFThis paper is a qualitative sociolinguistic study that theorizes the place of English as an official/second language in Pakistan. The data are taken from six Pakistani English newspapers covering the Pak-EU discourse from 2002 to 2018. This investigation uses constructivist grounded theory methodology (an off-shoot of grounded theory methodology) to generate a theory that sheds
light on the peace potential of English language as used in the selected data. It is subsumed under the parameters of peace sociolinguistics, a relatively new field within the broader discipline of sociolinguistics. Peace sociolinguistics acknowledges all languages to be carriers of human values and capable of bringing different peoples together. In the classic style of grounded theory
methodology, primacy is given to language and codes are developed in order to show how English language is used to portray a common reality between two world entities, Pakistan and the EU. This sociolinguistic constructivist grounded theory study is underpinned by social constructionism which takes the view that language does not just describe the world but actively constructs
it, having real consequences. The socially constructed reality presented here is shared and contextual and takes the form of a rigorous theory called “a theory of peace sociolinguistics of the EU-Pak discourse in selected Pakistani English newspapers.'' This theoretical rendering demonstrates the viability of English to be used for peaceful purposes while challenging the current dual status of
English as a colonial legacy and a necessary agent of globalization
Urban Un/Belonging: Translating Pre-Partition Spaces in Old Rawalpindi, Pakistan
No full textIn this article, I propose a transgressive re/inscription of the city spaces of Old Rawalpindi through the lens of Sherry Simon’s integrated translational city theory. In the wake of the 1947 partition of the Indian sub-continent into the Muslim-majority Pakistan and the Hindu-majority India, a large number of Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains living in Rawalpindi migrated to India. The numerous houses and other buildings that they left behind have been variously re/purposed, abandoned, and re/occupied by the Muslims arriving from India. The data for this study consists of documentation of these buildings, official websites and studies, interviews with the im/migrants and locals, and the researcher’s observations. The in/consistencies between the official versions and those of the current and past residents, crucially highlighted by the digital media, suggest multiple identities and a semiotic un/belonging
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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