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Surnames and Identities
No full textThis paper, based on a survey of 314 Oslo residents, investigates the relationship between surname and identity. The aim was to find out whether the modern individual experiences his or her surname as a part of his or her identity, and what bond exists between surname and locale. Late modern society typically reveals a fragmentation of individuals from family background and place of origin. A hypothesized outcome of this separation, envisages a further breach between the individual and the area their surname denotes. If one's surname is experienced as part of one's identity, what then is the main reason for this? Are there in fact different experiences of identity based on some typology of names borne by individuals
Namn och identitet. Handlingar från NORNAs 46:e symposium i Tammerfors den 21.–23. oktober 2015
Full text linkNORNAs 46. symposium med tema «Namn och identitet» ble holdt fra 21. til 23. oktober 2015 i Tammerfors. Rapporten fra dette symposiet foreligger i en 278 sider lang trykt utgave, og er dessuten tilgjengelig via internett (https://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/101708). Honnør til NORNA for å gi gratis elektronisk tilgang til rapporten, som med sitt brede nedslagsfelt tenkelig vil ha interesse langt utenfor navnemiljøet. Ønsket bak å velge temaet «navn og identitet» var å åpne for et bredt spekter av onomastiske undersøkelser, noe som har blitt oppfylt gjennom de 15 publiserte innleggene
Onomastikkfaget og praksis for vitenskapelig publisering
Full text linkThis article takes as its starting point the fact that onomastics, as well as the other native language fields in Norway, gradually have been phased out from the large universities over the last few years. The aim was to find out if this could be explained by the institutions’ policies on scholarly publishing. Onomastics and the other native language fields’ traditions for scholarly research, publishing and communication proves to be poorly adapted to the bibliometric indicators which have been used to evaluate research in Norway over the last ten years. Moreover, the strong demand for internationalisation in the academic institutions and use of international scientific citation indexing services may have contributed to the decline of impact of the small native language fields. Findings show that the representation of onomastics in one of these citation indexing services is marginal, as is publications in Norwegian. Solutions for how the scholarly research and communication in the native language fields could be more visible, include stronger attention to practices of national and international scholarly publishing, a better knowledge about how to publish with open access, and, preferably, a national strategy with adapted models and solutions for these fields
Naming me, naming you. Personal names, online signatures and cultural meaning
No full textEvery day we talk and speak and chat to people. We write and listen to each other, refer to each other, describe to each other what we and others have done and said. Doing this, we sometimes use our given names, sometimes we go by our nicknames, which often indicate or clarify who we are or are made up by ourselves to draw other people’s attention. Nicknames can be official or informal, known by many or only by a few, real monikers or made up pseudonyms or signatures. Where ever there are people there are names, since names are and have always been part of human life. Sociologist Richard D. Alford states that ethnographic research has not found a single society whose members do not have names (1988:1). Names are cultural universals, something all humans have in common, no matter where or when they live. This article focuses on personal names and naming from a cultural ethnographic perspective. It begins with reflections on the link between name and self, continues with a discussion of how names are used to culturally structure our surroundings and interpret the world, and concludes with an analysis of names used in virtual settings. The virtual field has hitherto not received much interest among name researchers. In online games, chat rooms and web communities, names are not only useful and applicable, as they are in the so called real world; they are even more essential and important as it is mainly through their names participants recognise and identify each other
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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