scholarly journals Textual and Prosodic Features of an Oral Academic Text

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Velikaya
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Spoken Text ◽  
Text Types ◽  
International College ◽  
The One ◽  
Auditory Analysis

‘Discourse is the way that language – either spoken or written – is used for communicative effect in a real-world situation (Thornbury, 2005, p. 7). Thornbury considers the text as the product and the discourse – as a communicative process that involves ‘language and the record of the language that is used in this discourse, which is ‘text’ (ibid). Although presentations are generally categorized as spoken text types, an academic presentation is a compromise between spoken and written text types: on the one hand, it is given in a classroom as an oral text; on the other hand, it is thoroughly prepared as a home assignment in the form of a written text. This article focuses on the analysis of such linguistic features of students’ presentations as cohesion, coherence, and prosody. For this analysis, data were collected from 60 2nd year students of the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) presentations on various economic topics which were recorded and examined (the time limit for each of the presentations was 10 minutes); out of 60, 10 presentation texts were selected for auditory analysis, and thematic centers (TCs) were examined using acoustic analysis. Measurements of prosodic parameters such as pitch, intensity, and duration (rate of utterance) were obtained using the computer programs Speech Analyzer 3.0.1 and Pratt (v.4.0.53). The results of these analyses show that students’ presentations are cohesive, coherent and contain TCs, which are characterized by specific prosodic parameters that have a certain effect on the comprehension of these texts, their expressiveness and pragmatic value.

scholarly journals Prosodic models of accentuated personalities’ English public speeches

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Prosodic Features ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Auditory Analysis ◽  
Communicative Activity

The paper advances typical prosodic models of the accentuated personalities’ English public speeches. The inaugural and convention speeches delivered by the American presidents and British prime ministers within the second half of the 20th century served as the material of the study. It was found out that the effective realization of any public speech is determined by the rational choice of linguistic as well as the adequate use of prosodic means for its organization. The authors regard the accentuated language personality as a speaker with enhanced traits of his/her character or temperament which are revealed in the process of his / her communicative activity within the range of acceptable psychological norm and beyond it. It is outlined that in order to conduct the study of prosodic features of the English accentuated personalities’ public speaking the authors created the program and methodology of a complex experimental phonetic research which was carried out in four stages. It is singled out that the politicians, whose inaugural and convention speeches were analyzed, belong to four types of accentuation of their character: demonstrative, impulsive, obsessive-compulsive, and paranoid. The determined prosodic peculiarities of the accentuated politicians' public speaking which were gained by means of the auditory analysis are presented. Besides, the results of the acoustic analysis of the experimental material, linguistic interpretation and generalization of the obtained data enabled the authors to figure out the invariant and variant prosodic models of the accentuated politicians’ public speaking.

Effect of leakage and blockage on the acoustic behavior of particle filters

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 483-492
Author(s):  
Seonghyeon Baek ◽  
Iljae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Matrix ◽  
Particle Filters ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Transmission Loss ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Filter System ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Good Agreement

The effects of leakage and blockage on the acoustic performance of particle filters have been examined by using one-dimensional acoustic analysis and experimental methods. First, the transfer matrix of a filter system connected to inlet and outlet pipes with conical sections is measured using a two-load method. Then, the transfer matrix of a particle filter only is extracted from the experiments by applying inverse matrices of the conical sections. In the analytical approaches, the one-dimensional acoustic model for the leakage between the filter and the housing is developed. The predicted transmission loss shows a good agreement with the experimental results. Compared to the baseline, the leakage between the filter and housing increases transmission loss at a certain frequency and its harmonics. In addition, the transmission loss for the system with a partially blocked filter is measured. The blockage of the filter also increases the transmission loss at higher frequencies. For the simplicity of experiments to identify the leakage and blockage, the reflection coefficients at the inlet of the filter system have been measured using two different downstream conditions: open pipe and highly absorptive terminations. The experiments show that with highly absorptive terminations, it is easier to see the difference between the baseline and the defects.

Pattern analysis of Scleropyll trees aggregated to different degrees

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
WE Westman ◽  
DJ Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
New South ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Eucalypt Forest ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Sclerophyll Forest ◽  
The One ◽  
Block Sizes

Pattern analysis data are presented for a number of tree species populations sampled from two sites located in dry sclerophyll forest within the Ku-ring-gai Chase park of New South Wales. The distributions proved to be predominantly contagious or random, with regularity occurring only occasionally. Observed variations in the degree of aggregation exhibited by a species were taken into account in interpreting pattern analysis curves. The relation of pattern analysis data to sample quadrat data fitted to known mathematical models is extremely variable, and it is shown that pattern at block sizes other than the one under consideration may suppress the appearance of deviations from randomness at block sizes which do show contagion when sampled with randomly placed quadrats. The possible origins of contagious distributions in eucalypt forest are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Applying Corpus Data to Define Needs in Web Localization Training

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 998-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel ángel Jiménez-Crespo ◽  
Maribel Tercedor
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
Learner Corpus ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
University Level ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Localization is increasingly making its way into translation training programs at university level. However, there is still a scarce amount of empirical research addressing issues such as defining localization in relation to translation, what localization competence entails or how to best incorporate intercultural differences between digital genres, text types and conventions, among other aspects. In this paper, we propose a foundation for the study of localization competence based upon previous research on translation competence. This project was developed following an empirical corpus-based contrastive study of student translations (learner corpus), combined with data from a comparable corpus made up of an original Spanish corpus and a Spanish localized corpus. The objective of the study is to identify differences in production between digital texts localized by students and professionals on the one hand, and original texts on the other. This contrastive study allows us to gain insight into how localization competence interrelates with the superordinate concept of translation competence, thus shedding light on which aspects need to be addressed during localization training in university translation programs.

scholarly journals An Approach to Study of Tasavvuf in Albanian Literature: From Conception to the Tasavvuf Attendance

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Adem Balaban ◽  
Bünyamin Çağlayan ◽  
Rahım Ombashı
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Fantasy Literature ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Spoken Text ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Real Size

Hafiz Ali Korça had singled Islamic mysticism and its poetics, the tasavvuf, Oriental Sufi literature of Omar Khayyam. Nezim Berati, author of the Divan, the names mutesavvif. The form and manner of spiritual cleansing, uplifting, lighting internal and external, in order to obtain the agreement of God and eternal bliss, has singled out the Eqrem Çabej to Naim Frashëri poetic beginnings. Religious feelings helped him strengthen ethnic sense. The Divan, in complex form of oriental supplied popular culture, written text spoken text (sung text). Paid the debt that had to Albanian oral literary culture. The study will argue that the Albanian literature is added value. Our history of the spiritual culture of literary monuments go 4. The Divan first Albanian has pure literary discourse. It is a way of being self-sufficient. The truth of gazellas, his kasidas possible. Marked what could happen. The event provided the writers figured through the process of story, description or image. Real size of fables not lose, time and space are not fantasy. Therefore this is not fantasy literature, but the tassavvuf. Its hero acts in the domain of spirituality. As a combination of spiritual requirements for completing their dream. It is poetry as a separate value and beauty. Austrian researcher Han author make antonymyzation Anakreont of Albania. The Divan in Albanian literature was a unified stylistic formation, which served the Islamic aesthetic purpose. Her literary theoretical codification is tasavvuf. Is more universal than the national poet, despite the trend towards national.

scholarly journals Mere fugl end fisk. Sproglige ligheder og forskelle bag typologisering af tekster

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Lita Lundquist
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Contrast Model ◽  
Text Types

The work reported here explores a cognitive-communicative hypothesis of text ty-pology that text types defined on external communicative criteria also exhibit typical constellations of linguistic features text-internally. Inspired by Tversky's (1981) math-ematical "contrast model of similarities", a French contract, a law and a judgment were analyzed using the computer program 'Cohérelle' into sets of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and textlinguistic features. Subsequent computations showed that reliable similarities (in the linguistic expression of cognitive content) and differences (in the use of communicative grounding expressions) could in fact be distinguished among the linguistic features of the three text exemplars, thus permitting the postulation of dif-ferent types on text-internal linguistic grounds.

scholarly journals Linguistic effects on news headline success: Evidence from thousands of online field experiments (Registered Report Protocol)

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257091
Author(s):  
Kristina Gligorić ◽  
George Lifchits ◽  
Robert West ◽  
Ashton Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Large Scale Dataset ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Competing Hypotheses

What makes written text appealing? In this registered report protocol, we propose to study the linguistic characteristics of news headline success using a large-scale dataset of field experiments (A/B tests) conducted on the popular website Upworthy comparing multiple headline variants for the same news articles. This unique setup allows us to control for factors that can have crucial confounding effects on headline success. Based on prior literature and a pilot partition of the data, we formulate hypotheses about the linguistic features that are associated with statistically superior headlines. We will test our hypotheses on a much larger partition of the data that will become available after the publication of this registered report protocol. Our results will contribute to resolving competing hypotheses about the linguistic features that affect the success of text and will provide avenues for research into the psychological mechanisms that are activated by those features.

scholarly journals Tilbake til det neumiske: Fortolkning og dialektikk hos Adorno og Harnoncourt

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-242
Author(s):  
Emil Bernhardt
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Musical Interpretation ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

My aim in this article is to develop a possible understanding of Adorno’s thoughts on musical interpretation as they appear in a collection of fragments posthumously published in 2001 under the title of Zu einer Theorie der musikalischen Reproduktion [Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction]. I do this by using an actual sounding example, with emphasis on the dialectical relationship between the written text and the sounding realization. On the one hand, I use a passage by Beethoven (Symphony No. 1, First Movement) that is characterized by some philological uncertainties regarding articulation, explained in slightly different ways in three so-called Urtext-editions of the score. On the other hand, I use a recorded interpretation of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Austrian Nikolaus Harnoncourt. I will argue that, in this performance, Harnoncourt’s articulation of the actual passage provides a useful illustration of the tension between text and sound. Moreover, as the interpretation is also musically intriguing, it seems to function as a thought-provoking example of the dialectical relationship which for Adorno characterizes a successful musical interpretation. Thus, the article aims to shed light on both Adorno’s somewhat intricate speculations and Harnoncourt’s personal practice of interpretation.

scholarly journals La competencia textual y mediática en el aula de ELE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Ulloa Saceda ◽  
Bernd Tesch
Keyword(s):  
Task Design ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Traditional Conception ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Bidimensional Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Textual Competence ◽  
The One

Resumen: La habilidad de comprender y producir textos es una de las competencias básicas en la sociedad de la información y de la comunicación (OECD, 2000). Sin embargo, el concepto texto ha evolucionado adquiriendo una versatilidad que rebasa la concepción tradicional de texto escrito. Para superar este desfase al que la competencia lectora o las destrezas en la comprensión y/o expresión oral no llegan, se propone desde Alemania el término competencia textual y mediática[1]. La finalidad de esta comunicación es reflexionar sobre la importancia de esta nueva competencia y dotar al profesorado de herramientas en el tratamiento de la competencia textual en el aula de ELE. Para ello, presentaremos un modelo bidimensional de competencia textual y mediática: la que el alumnado debe adquirir y la competencia didáctica que el profesorado debe poseer.Palabras clave: texto, competencia textual y mediática, elaboración de tareas Abstract: The ability to understand and produce texts is one of the basic competences in the information and communication society (OECD, 2000). However, the concept text has evolved beyond the traditional conception of written text. In order to overcome this gap, a new competence, the textual and medial competence is proposed. The purpose of this communication is to reflect on the importance of this new competence and to provide the teaching staff with tools in the treatment of the textual competence in the classroom. For this we present a bidimensional model of textual and medial competence: the one that students must acquire and the didactic textual competence that teachers must have.Keywords: text, textual and medial competence, task design[1] En alemán, Text- und Medienkompetenz.

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