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Job-hunting in Italy : Building a glossary of “English-inspired” job titles
Get PDFThis paper reports on a study of “English-inspired” job titles retrieved from a specialized corpus of job advertisements posted on Italian web pages. This corpus was created using the WebBootCat tool in the Sketch Engine, following the methodology described by Baroni and Bernardini (2004) and Baroni et al. (2006). The aim is to build a glossary of English job titles to be published online as a tool for prospective job applicants. Checking their status in English and Italian dictionaries, we will establish whether the titles collected are current English terms, false Anglicisms, or “English-inspired” creations. The preliminary findings consist of a list of 30 job titles which are analyzed in terms of form and meaning, and grouped into categories depending on whether an Italian equivalent is available or not. The corpus of job postings is used to analyze the lexical profile of job titles, their meaning and/or possible covert manipulative intent. In fact, data shows that some English job titles may be preferred to Italian equivalents to attribute greater status to the actual job designation and description. Moreover, some job titles are characterized by complex pre-modification which may confuse the ultimate users, i.e. job hunters themselves
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No full textThis paper examines the concept of error in reference to electronic corpora of language learner data, arguing that in the light of current trends in research on Interlanguage Pragmatics and on English as a Lingua Franca it becomes essential to develop different models of corpus analysis and annotation from those currently employed
Remarks on the frequency and phraseology of A/AN in Modern English
No full textThis paper gives a corpus-based account of the frequency and functions of the indefinite article in modern English, concentrating especially on its participation in phraseological units of one sort or another. The research behind the results was based on the analysis of several very large samples of concordance lines downloaded from the British National Corpus. Findings are presented both for the whole corpus and for the spoken components
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
Media studies and media discourse(s) in English: one term, many identities
No full textThis paper provides some insights into the terminology and related contents and methods in the studies pertaining to the Media, with special focus on English language-related research. To do so, in the first place, I touch on the shift from mono-modal to multimodal forms of communication; then I illustrate the state of the art in Media Studies, highlighting their increasingly wide-ranging scope; finally, I focus on Media Discourse and posit that it has widened its scope so much that it needs to be revisited as a plurality of fields, giving voice to a plurality of language varieties, each one with its own identity
Anglicisms in the discourse of Alitalia's bailout in the Italian press
No full textThe chapter describes a corpus study of the Anglicisms and false Anglicisms used by two major Italian newspapers (Repubblica and Corriere della Sera) in their representation of the bailout and privatization of the Italian airline Alitalia. The aim is to establish if and to what extent the use of new non-adapted Anglicisms in news reports of Alitalia’s crisis and privatization, especially in the domains of economics and aviation, had an impact on the transparency of the information provided. The results show that, in the coverage of this news story, new Anglicisms are often left undefined, or provided with an inappropriate Italian equivalent. This may make it more difficult for readers to develop a thorough understanding of Alitalia’s crisis and privatization
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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