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Recensione del libro: La lengua de los nuevos españoles
No full textTodo hablante de español conoce, consciente o inconscientemente, las últimas ten- dencias del español actual, aunque no las reconozca como novedades ni, en algunos casos, como desviaciones de la lengua normativa. En La lengua de los nuevos espa- ñoles, Félix San Vicente nos da una visión general de la lengua española, como siste- ma de sistemas orgánico y como objeto cultural sujeto a las transformaciones y a la historia del pueblo que la habla y que la transforma día a día
Proximities of Design: Social Design Practice in the Context of Contemporary Oaxaca, Mexico
No full textThis research adopts ethnographic methods to locate and document a practice on social design undertaken in the context of Oaxaca in Mexico. The concept of social design in this context should be understood as an action of ‘making together’. Thus, the practice is aimed at understanding local identity and exploring ways in which social design practice may generate changes, in socioeconomic and political contexts, that could support local identities within artisan communities in relation to the global markets.Through the practice of social design, the making of communities’ cultural artefacts aims to favour the exchange of knowledge and values between communities and design practitioners so that, in a context of equality, this dialogue – as a practice of correspondence – may be assimilated by their social, economic and, perhaps, their political structure.Through creative process and correspondence, workshops take place in two different indigenous artisan communities from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where the socio-political context, values, and cultural heritage are also studied. As part of the practice, a group of artisans and six designers acting as facilitators participate in workshops, which take place two or three times a year over a three-year period. During this time, the relationships of trust, the exchange of knowledge and the techniques undergo a transformation until paths of common approach are reached, uncovering an exchange through the practice of design. Developing a greater awareness of the experience of the design process was important, as it relates to the need to develop adequate ways of framing such experiences in the realm of the social action and the building of environments for design which I termed ‘proximities of design’, referring to the situations during the practice which describe a given framed environment based on my own reflections and knowledge of design.Conversations between the design practitioners and the artisans, as well as the conflicts and debates among the designers, have been documented. The use of video, audio, photographs, transcriptions and notes that capture ‘the making’, the different gestural languages, attitudes and conversations have been used to record the process.The research finds that social design practice can manifest itself in the approach and understanding of local communities, establishing an exchange of knowledge that may open new ways of supporting local communities and influence their markets on a global level. Moreover, this process opens new research avenues and joins a crossroads between collaborative work and the work of social design practice together with the field of material culture.I structure the thesis by framing the work around social design practice and how, within this context, social design represents a possible tool for building resilient identities. In Chapter 1, I will outline my objectives and my practice, introducing key terms for my research. In Chapter 2, I situate my research in the concept of globalization and examine its consequences for community needs, in Chapter 3, I examine, in the context of Mexico, the social political factors that shapedthe indigenous narrative and policy in Mexico and establish my humanistic approach to the people and objects involved in this research. In Chapter 4, I will describe how methodology was deployed through workshops explaining research and the development of fieldwork. In Chapter 5, I offer a more specific account of the practice itself, which involves a form of reflective communication for social design, developing collaborative interactions framed by the process ofmaking things together: between people with different cultural backgrounds, economic systems and core beliefs. I structure transformative situations during the design process that I termed ‘proximities of design’. The situations were undertaken with respect to people, places and materials, exchanging techniques and materials among participants. In the conclusion, I reflect on the thesis, delivering my final remarks and upholding the overall thesis with wider insights into the future of research in this field
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
ELE para fines específicos: el español de la economía, el comercio y la empresa ELE for Specific Purposes: Spanish for economy, trade and enterprise
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En este trabajo se analizan y comparan cuatro estilos para enseñar y aprender español como lengua extranjera en el ámbito de la economía, la empresa y el comercio. Realizamos esta presentación a través de 5 manuales concretos, cada uno de ellos representativo de un estilo de aprendizaje diferente. Veremos cómo están estructurados, cómo presentan el vocabulario específico, cuáles técnicas se ponen en marcha para enseñar este léxico, las ventajas e inconvenientes de cada uno de ellos.
Abstract
We analyze 4 styles of textbooks for the teaching and learning of spanish as a foreign language (ELE) within the economy, the enterprise and the trade. The presentation is performed through 4 particular examples of textbooks, each one representative of a type. We will see how they are organized, which techniques they use to teach the vocabulary, the defects and the and the advantages of each of them
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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