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Identiteetistä sosiolingvistiikan tavoittein ja keinoin
Get PDF[Omoniyi, Tope & White, Goodith (toim.): Sociolinguistics of identity
Guernsey French, identity and language endangerment
Get PDFThis chapter looks examines the effects of identity on revitalization efforts in the context of a small and dwindling language community. It discusses the nature and inter-relationship of identity, ethnicity and culture, and their roles in language choice and attitudes, relating these to the ethnolinguistic vitality of the indigenous language in Guernsey. It is often assumed in discourse on language endangerment that language plays an significant part in identity, but this view is not necessarily consistent with the language shift taking place in many places around the world. This paper considers to what extent language shift entails the loss of part of speakers' identity, and the role of identity in language maintenance
4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora
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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
Standard English and standards in English in a changing world : a case study - Irish Standard English
No full textTHESIS 7745This study investigates the question ?Does such a phenomenon as Irish Standard English exist, and if it does, what are some of the characteristics of its forms and use?? The research question is investigated in three ways. A distinction is drawn between ?language standards?, which are defined as the rules which prescribe what is considered to be standard in a language, and which encompasses both attitudes towards the standard variety and prescriptive statements about the linguistic norms to which it should conform, and ?standard language? which is concerned with the actual linguistic forms which standard language users employ. It is argued that all three approaches, that is, attitudes, prescriptions and instances of actual standard language use have something to contribute to the construction of a case for the existence of Irish Standard English, although the third approach may have the most to offer
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
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