scholarly journals Pragmatic Hedges in Editorials: A Focus on Vanguard, Guardian and Sun Newspaper Editorials in 2017

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Ikosomi Constance Omo ◽  
Destiny Idegbekwe
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Newspaper Editorials ◽  
Academic Gap

Many studies have been carried out on the operations of hedges in different language discourse especially in scientific reports and academic writing. Amongst these studies, none has focused on the operations, functions and layout of hedges in Nigerian newspapers. It is on this basis therefor that the current study pays attention to the nature and pragmatic functions which hedges are deployed in Nigerian newspaper editorials. It is the academic gap which the present study unravels. The study used the categorisation of hedges provided by Salager Meyer (1994) as the theoretical framework. The study sampled six editorials each from the 2017 editorials of the Vanguard, Guardian and Sun newspapers, making a total of 18 editorials for analysis. At the end, the study present amongst other findings that the shield hedges are the more frequently used hedges in the newspaper editorials as all the newspapers used it. On the other hand, the study found out that no newspaper editorial used the compound hedge as there was none found in the sampled data.

scholarly journals Bias correction for direct spectral estimation from irregularly sampled data including sampling schemes with correlation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Damaschke ◽  
Volker Kühn ◽  
Holger Nobach
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Estimation ◽  
Continuous Distribution ◽  
Discrete Distribution ◽  
Irregular Sampling ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Sampling Schemes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sampling Intervals ◽  
Irregularly Sampled Data

AbstractThe prediction and correction of systematic errors in direct spectral estimation from irregularly sampled data taken from a stochastic process is investigated. Different sampling schemes are investigated, which lead to such an irregular sampling of the observed process. Both kinds of sampling schemes are considered, stochastic sampling with non-equidistant sampling intervals from a continuous distribution and, on the other hand, nominally equidistant sampling with missing individual samples yielding a discrete distribution of sampling intervals. For both distributions of sampling intervals, continuous and discrete, different sampling rules are investigated. On the one hand, purely random and independent sampling times are considered. This is given only in those cases, where the occurrence of one sample at a certain time has no influence on other samples in the sequence. This excludes any preferred delay intervals or external selection processes, which introduce correlations between the sampling instances. On the other hand, sampling schemes with interdependency and thus correlation between the individual sampling instances are investigated. This is given whenever the occurrence of one sample in any way influences further sampling instances, e.g., any recovery times after one instance, any preferences of sampling intervals including, e.g., sampling jitter or any external source with correlation influencing the validity of samples. A bias-free estimation of the spectral content of the observed random process from such irregularly sampled data is the goal of this investigation.

scholarly journals The Effects Of English Citation and International Journal To Indonesian Students In Supporting Lecture Tasks

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Nabilah Putri ◽  
Adinda Apriashinta Salsabila ◽  
Farah Allisya Putri ◽  
Aprilia Cahyaningrum ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Know How ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
Assignment Method ◽  
Other Hand

Background: This research discusses the problem of the use of English citation by some college students in helping with their assignments. There is still no research about this topic, on the other hand, this is actually important for education. From the problem discussed here, the main point is to know, "Do college students often use English citations in their assignments and understand the citations they have taken?" Purpose: This research aims to know how far Indonesian students' comprehension is to the English citation which they used to help their academic writing for their college assignment. Method: The method used in this study is qualitative, the method that focused on observation to obtain a more comprehensive phenomenon study. In this research, we use data that have already been taken and collected from 62 college students and 15 of them have conducted the interview process to take further information from them. Results: It shows that the majority of college students in this research prefer to use Indonesian citations because they can understand more compared with the English one.

The Influence of Biased Tax Research Memoranda on Supervisors' Initial Judgments in the Review Process

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Barrick ◽  
C. Bryan Cloyd ◽  
Brian C. Spilker
Keyword(s):  
Review Process ◽  
Confirmation Bias ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Tax Professionals ◽  
Realistic Possibility ◽  
Client Advocacy ◽  
Tax Research ◽  
Staff Level

This study experimentally investigates the effects of confirmation bias underlying staff-level tax research on supervisors' initial assessments and recommendations made during the review process for tax research memoranda. The theoretical framework underlying our hypotheses posits that tax professionals strive to make recommendations that meet both accuracy and advocacy objectives. Participants in our study addressed a client scenario in which both objectives could not be met because the client-preferred position did not have a “realistic possibility” of being successfully defended on its merits. In this context, we find that supervisors are more persuaded by an unbiased memo correctly concluding that the client-preferred position is not appropriate than by a biased memo reaching the same conclusion. This result suggests that when tax research memoranda are not consistent with the client advocacy objective, professionals are more persuaded by memoranda that fulfill their accuracy objective. On the other hand, we also find that supervisors are more persuaded by a biased memo incorrectly concluding in favor of the client's preferred position than by a biased memo correctly concluding that the client-preferred position is inappropriate. This result suggests that, when neither memorandum meets the accuracy objective, supervisors are more persuaded by memoranda that offer encouragement that their advocacy objective might be met than by those that do not. Finally, results also indicate that supervisors act to correct confirmation bias by requesting more rework of staff who prepare biased memos than of staff who prepare unbiased memos.

scholarly journals El género narrativo de Testo yonqui. Aproximación a la deriva ensayística de Paul B. Preciado

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Pau Conde Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Este artículo trata de problematizar la definición taxonómica de Testo yonqui desde una óptica literaria que atiende a su faceta narrativa para dilucidar los cauces por los que se manifiesta en tanto que ensayo queer. Dicha problematización es abordada desde dos lugares: por un lado, desde la propia obra, atendiendo a las autodefiniciones presentes en el texto, que son examinadas a partir del marco teórico de la autobiografía; y, por otro lado, desde la recepción crítica de Testo yonqui. En último lugar, a la luz de lo anterior, se exponen una serie de tensiones relativas a la relación entre narración, referente y representación en la propuesta experimental del principio autocobaya.   This article aims to question the taxonomical definition of Testo Junkie from a literary perspective that considers its narrative aspect in order to elucidate the ways in which it can be regarded as a queer essay. Such questioning is approached from two angles: on the one hand, from the work itself, examining the self-definitions found in the text, which are studied on the basis of the theoretical framework of autobiography; and, on the other hand, from Testo Junkie’s critic reception. Lastly, the principle of the auto-guinea pig is also explored, in reference to the series of tensions arising from the relationship between narration, referent and representation.

scholarly journals Le Système D’information Comptable Des PME Marocaines : Observation Des Pratiques

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (31) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Younes El Bakirdi ◽  
Said Radi
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Système D’Information ◽  
The One

By mobilizing the theoretical framework of the specificity of SMEs, this work tries, through the observation of accounting practices, to answer the question of the relevance (production and use) of the accounting data for the managers of Moroccan SMEs. Indeed, through semi-structured individual interviews with SME managers, accounting and financial directors of SMEs and accountants, it is about to describe the different accounting practices of SMEs on the one hand, and to highlight potential determinants that may explain the differentiation of these practices on the other hand.

Ready for the unexpected: theoretical framework and empirical findings on communication consulting

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Hoffjann ◽  
Karina Hoffstedde ◽  
Franziska Jaworek
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Process Consulting ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time

PurposeAlthough the market for communication consultancies has been booming worldwide for many years now, there are still only a handful of theoretical concepts and empirical findings pertaining to communication consulting. This is the fundamental starting point for this paper, which sets out to answer the following research questions: What is the function of communication consulting? What are the differences between consultants' expectations of consulting and those of clients? How do consultants and clients deal with the contradiction between proximity and distance? What are the potential threats to the autonomy of consulting?Design/methodology/approachThe paper combines a theoretical framework of communication consulting with a survey of German communication consultants and clients.FindingsFirst, a theoretical framework is developed in which communication consulting is defined as follows: First, it opens up decision-related contingency and thus produces additional options for managing communicative relationships with internal and external target groups, before helping to close decision-related contingency. The results of the survey show that the expectations of clients and consultants for communication consulting are largely similar. In the closing dimension especially, most clients share the active role of self-conception of most consultants. On the other hand, in some opening activities, clients wish for more critical, independent and courageous consulting.Research limitations/implicationsThe scope of the empirical material is limited to communication consultants and clients in Germany and may therefore not be valid in other cultural contexts.Originality/valueThe paper closes a gap in both theory building and empirical research in communication consulting. The theory presented conceives of communication consulting as a hybrid of management consulting and process consulting and, in addition to the opening dimension, also takes the closing dimension of consulting into consideration for the first time. The study reveals a certain schizophrenia in clients: on the one hand, clients demand more critical consultants and thus call for more distance; on the other hand, clients prefer to be close to their consultants, particularly if they wish to work with them for the long-term.

scholarly journals CDESACL Conception and Development of Educational Scenarios for an Adaptive Online Training Device Based on Collaborative/Cooperative Learning: Work Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zargane Kawtar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

The objective of this work is twofold, on the one hand, it concerns the definition of the basic concepts of our theoretical framework which touches the adaptive e-learning, the pedagogical scenario, and collaborative/cooperative learning. On the other hand, it concerns the proposal of a work methodology to lead to the design and realization of educational scenarios based on collaboration for adaptive online training.

scholarly journals Title Identity of Name(s) As a Crucial Problem in Name Studies, or: Towards the Recognition of Onymic Identity As a Principal Onomastic Concept

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Brendler
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Identity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Crucial Problem ◽  
Criterion Of Identity

In general, identity plays an increasingly important role in name studies. People consider their personal name(s) to be part of their identity, after all. And no less importantly from the onomastic perspective, cultural, social, ethnic or national identity is at least to some extent related to names. So name students utilize names as markers of cultural, social, ethnic or national identity. On the other hand, name studies have in particular neglected to deal explicitly with identity of name(s). As a problem it has, however, been implicitly present from the very beginning of modern name studies. So this paper introduces identity of name(s) as a crucial problem of name studies that is worth, and indeed in need of, being explicitly recognized as a principal onomastic concept. Nomematics, an identity-theoretical framework based upon a dynamic model of language, is applied to achieve this purpose. It is shown that only the various manifestations of one and the same name are identical, with the nomeme serving as an identification schema. Onymic entities (the various manifestations of names) are identical if and only if they match the identification schema (criterion of identity).

Technical forms in teaching karate and taekwondo

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Wojciech J. Cynarski ◽  
Jong-Hoon Yu ◽  
Zbigniew Borysiuk
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Master Teachers ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Training

Background. A theoretical framework (perspective) for taken deliberations and analysis gives a humanistic theory of martial arts and martial arts anthropology. Aim. The aim of the study was to analyze the usefulness of technical forms for teaching martial arts on example karate and taekwondo. The problem is: Are the forms (kata, poomsae) required to properly teach karate or taekwondo today? Method. Consideration will be given by expressions of Grand Masters, recognized master teachers, experts of karate practice, and study all appropriate literature. It is a broad analysis of the discourse and authors own long-term participant observation over the last thirty years. Results. Most experts agree that the technical forms are still the appropriate method of teaching karate and similar martial arts. On the other hand, kata/poomsae exercise only hamper full mastery of the martial arts. An analysis of five forms karate Idokan style was presented as well. Conclusions. The ratio of trainees to fighting, technical forms and training varies. Similarly diverse are the opinions of experts on the forms - their meaning and current relevance. Most authorities, experts and authors recognize that training in these traditional technical forms is the important, permanent value, as a method of teaching and learning karate, taekwondo and other, similar martial arts.

scholarly journals A’ingae (Cofán/Kofán) Operators

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 328-355
Author(s):  
Kees Hengeveld ◽  
Rafael Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Analysis ◽  
Underlying Representation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Discourse Grammar ◽  
The One

Abstract The aim of this paper is to show how the TAME system of A'ingae, a language isolate spoken in Colombia and Ecuador, can be captured within the theoretical framework of Functional Discourse Grammar. An important prediction in this theory is that the surface order of TAME expressions reflects the scope relations between them in their underlying representation. An initial analysis reveals that, with three exceptions, the A'ingae TAME system confirms this prediction. Closer inspection of the three exceptions, which concern basic illocution, evidentiality, and quantificational aspect, then reveals that on the one hand, the theoretical model has to be adapted, while on the other hand some of the A'ingae facts allow for an alternative interpretation.

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