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Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Multiracial Heritage Speakers and the Denial of Racial Authenticity
No full textM.A.This study examines the role raciolinguistic ideologies play in the racial exclusion and denial ofracial authenticity of one-white parent mixed-race individuals through the qualitative
sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of three interviews. The findings show how monoglossic,
essentialist, and monoracist ideologies deny multiracial heritage speakers’ claims to racial
authenticity through constant racial invalidation and contestation. First, results demonstrate how
monoglossic notions of a ‘perfect speaker’, ‘language purity’, and ‘proper’ education for
proficiency deny them access to their racial identities. Second, findings demonstrate how the
porosity of MHRSs’ ‘ambiguous’ racial ascriptions result in failed racial reductivity. Lastly, they
show how the reinforcement of monoracial identities grounded in monoracist principles result in
mixed-race guilt, exclusion, and the need to prove racial legitimacy. The importance of this study
lies in the clear implications and consequences that connections of race and language ideologies
have for multiracial individuals and their sociolinguistic identities
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From Aha Moments to Ethnomethodology: A Conversation with Hugh Mehan
No full textOn April 1, 2015, Professor Hansun Waring’s doctoral seminar had the great pleasure and honor of being joined over Skype by Dr. Hugh (Bud) Mehan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego and author of the 1979 classic Learning Lesson: Social Organization in the Classroom. Dr. Mehan has done extensive research on classroom organization and interaction, educational testing, tracking and untracking, construction of student identities in the classroom, and so on. He has managed to achieve the delicate and yet crucial balance that so many educators and education researchers aspire to—the balance between doing research and improving the world. He has not only shaped the academic discourse on education issues but has been directly working with the most vulnerable members of our society in overcoming and amending those issues. His work has been an inspiration to so many of us whose research passions and real-life concerns lie in education, classroom interaction, and social inequity
From Aha Moments to Ethnomethodology: A Conversation with Hugh Mehan
Get PDFOn April 1, 2015, Professor Hansun Waring’s doctoral seminar had the great pleasure and honor of being joined over Skype by Dr. Hugh (Bud) Mehan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego and author of the 1979 classic Learning Lesson: Social Organization in the Classroom. Dr. Mehan has done extensive research on classroom organization and interaction, educational testing, tracking and untracking, construction of student identities in the classroom, and so on. He has managed to achieve the delicate and yet crucial balance that so many educators and education researchers aspire to—the balance between doing research and improving the world. He has not only shaped the academic discourse on education issues but has been directly working with the most vulnerable members of our society in overcoming and amending those issues. His work has been an inspiration to so many of us whose research passions and real-life concerns lie in education, classroom interaction, and social inequity
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
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Being a Woman: Membership Categorization in Interaction
Get PDFMCA has aspired to underscore the significant influence categorization can have on the way members of a culture experience their social reality and assume their roles in it. By following such aspirations, analysts inevitably run the risk of projecting “common-sense” assumptions onto their data and having their work characterized as “wild and promiscuous” (Stoke, 2012). So as to avoid these pitfalls, analysts have searched for ways of making assertions based on the data alone, by treating membership categorization as analytically pertinent only when it is demonstrably relevant and procedurally consequential to the interaction. The trouble with this approach, however, is that the relevance of a certain category might not always be obvious in a single turn or even a single segment of talk. Categories and category-bound predicates may be unpacked throughout an entire interaction and explicitly named only in passing, if at all. This paper aims to show how one category—that of ‘girls/women’—could be demonstrated as relevant via the participants’ invocation of and orientation to other, connected categories and category-bound activities. The analysis shows that participants build a shared understanding of categories throughout their conversation, and that the demonstrable relevance and procedural consequentiality of these categories becomes evident only gradually as the interaction progresses. Almost an entire hour before they explicitly mention it, the participants seem to orient to the ‘girls/women’ category by invoking the related category of ‘men/guys/boys’ and its category-bound predicates. They seem to treat the ‘men’ and ‘women’ categories as a standardized relational pair (as having duties and moral obligations to one another), and, by invoking the ‘men’ category, the speakers appear to make potentially relevant their (unstated) orientation to and membership in the ‘women’ category
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