scholarly journals Quantifying and comparing web news portals’ article salience using the VoxPopuli tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duje Bonacci ◽  
Antonija Jelinić ◽  
Jelena Jurišić ◽  
Lucija Vesnić-Alujević
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Web News ◽  
Relative Salience

VoxPopuli tool enables quantification of absolute and relative salience of news articles published on daily news web portals. Obtained numerical values for the two types of salience enable direct comparison of audience impact of different news articles in specified time period. Absolute salience of a news article in a specified time period is determined as the total number of distinct readers who commented on the story in that period. Hence, articlesthat appear on web portals with larger audiences will in general be (absolutely) more salient as there are more potential commentators to comment on them. On the other hand, relative salience of a particular article during a particular time period is calculated as the quotient of a number of distinct readers who comented on that particular story and the number of all readers who in the same period commented on any news story published on the same news portal. As such relative salience will always be a number between 0 and 1, irrespective of the popularity of particular news portal, the (relative) salience of news stories on different news portals can be compared.

scholarly journals Translating Genre of News Stories and the Correlated Grammar in Analysing Student Translation Errors

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-396
Author(s):  
Gyung Hee Choi
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Translation Errors ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In translation studies, genre and grammar have each flourished in their own right as a subject of study by a number of scholars. But research solely dedicated to the complementary relations between genre and grammar has been rare, particularly from the translation education perspective. Neither genre nor grammar can function properly without the other in a text because context (genre) and ‘wording’ (grammar) are inseparable. The aim of this paper is to examine the correlation between genre structure and grammar in the analysis of errors in student translations of news story texts. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), translations of two subtypes of news-reporting texts from English to Korean are analyzed. The main data include two source texts and their translations by nine Masters’students. The findings of this paper show that a large majority of translation mistakes arise from a lack of knowledge of genre structure and its interconnection with logical meaning (how clauses, sentences and paragraphs are combined). The research reported in this paper indicates that genre structure and grammar together constitute useful resources for teaching the translation of news-reporting texts, with more studies of genre structure in other subject fields desired.

scholarly journals Udmurt woman headwear ayshon in descriptions and graphics of the XVI–XVIII centuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 728-738
Author(s):  
E. E. Nechvaloda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time

Introduction: the article is devoted to the analysis of the early sources on the Udmurt ancient woman headwear. The chronological framework of the study is limited, on the one hand, by the very first confirmation of the ayshon (XVI century), and on the other hand, by the era of the first expeditions in Russia (XVIII century), which laid the foundation for future ethnographic research. Objective: to determine the degree of reliability and informativity of descriptions and images of the Udmurt headwear of the XVI–XVIII centuries. Research materials: works of travelers of the XVI–XVIII centuries, containing data about ayshon. Results and novelty of the research: the article provides a comparative analysis of materials about ayshon in the sources of the XVI–XVIII centuries. Texts, engravings with texts, and early sources with ethnographic materials of the end of the XIX – beginning XX centuries are compared. For the first time, all original graphic images and descriptions of this headwear related to the specified time period are published together. The characteristics of the ayshon in the descriptions generally correspond to each other, as well as its known images and later ethnographic data. The materials of the article can be used in ethnographic and source studies.

scholarly journals Den intima ledaren?: Om ledarartiklar, informalisering och språklig förändring

2019 ◽  
Vol NF 28 (2018) ◽  
pp. 78-111
Author(s):  
Sanna Skärlund
Keyword(s):  
Formal Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Public Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period

Public language is generally considered to have become more informal in the Western world in the past few decades. The same holds true for Swedish public language and the language of Swedish newspapers in particular. However, two former studies of opinion articles in five Swedish newspapers revealed that the language used in this genre was surprisingly unchanged during the time period 1945–2000. This article replicates the two former studies by analysing 36 Swedish opinion articles from 2015 from a quantitative perspective. The results of the analysis are then compared to those of the earlier studies to see if, and to what extent, tendencies of informalization have now become noticeable in the opinion articles. It is demonstrated that there are indeed signs of informalization in the articles from 2015. Words and sentences have become shorter, colloquial expressions (such as swear words) are used, and both incomplete sentences and personal pronouns in first and second person are more frequent than before. On the other hand, subordinate clauses are more common in the articles from 2015 than in 1985–2000. Since subordinate clauses in former studies of Swedish have been considered a formal trait, this is quite unexpected. In the article, it is argued that the connection between subordination and formal language is more complex than has sometimes previously been acknowledged –, and that subordinate clauses have different functions, not all of them characterizing a formal style.

scholarly journals Resistansi terhadap Objectification dalam Novel Mash-Up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies dari Novel Klasik Pride and Prejudice

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Cindy Belinda Ramadhanty
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This study deals with objectification, especially towards Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy), in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) and the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) which were written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. This study aims to examine how the resistance towards objectification is pictured in the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies using Nussbaum’s theory of objectification. As a comparative study, there are some things that will be compared in this study, such as the different time period when both novels were first published, the way the authors pictured objectification, and the addition of zombie in the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This study uses qualitative method with comparative literature as the approach. The result of this study concludes that Lizzy is objectified by Mr. Collins in terms of instrumentality, fungibility, ownership, and denial of subjectivity. The addition of zombie in the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies implies as if there is a resistance towards objectification, with Lizzy having the skills of a warrior, while in fact the objectification is real as experienced by Lizzy. In the perspective of comparative literature, mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tends to have ambivalence even though it is published in postmodern era. On one hand, Lizzy is able to defend herself from zombie, on the other hand, she still falls victim to the objectification done by Mr. Collins. In other words, the resistance towards objectification in the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is not able to protect Lizzy from the objectification done by Mr. Collins.

Audience engagement in the discourse of TV news kernels: The case of BBC News at Ten

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Debing Feng
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Values ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Print News ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Audience Interaction ◽  
Journalistic Practice

Existing studies have extensively explored audience engagement in TV news, but not enough attention has been paid to the discursive (re)presentation of this phenomenon in the discourse of TV news kernels. Based on a pool of news items collected from BBC News at Ten, this article aims to investigate how the discourse of news kernels is constructed and presented to engage the audience. The analysis shows that news values and (simulated) journalist–audience interaction are two main ways employed by the journalists to achieve audience engagement in presenting TV news kernels. On one hand, a news kernel tends to cover the most newsworthy information of the news story, and the news text; on the other hand, it is often styled as newsworthy, too. In the meanwhile, the presentation of the news kernel tends to create a sense of (simulated) interaction between the journalist and the audience by practices such as pre-opening remarks, introducing the reporter and alerting the audience, among others. The findings reflect quite different journalistic practice of TV news kernels from that of print news leads.

scholarly journals An assessment of the wind power dynamics in the European coastal environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 01002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugen Rusu ◽  
Alexandra Diaconita ◽  
Alina Raileanu
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Wind Power ◽  
Coastal Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Future Time Period

The objective of the proposed work is to assess the possible wind power dynamics along the European coastal environment in the context of the very predictable future development of the offshore wind energy extraction. From this perspective, 15 reference points have been selected in the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black seas, representing 5 representative locations for each sea, respectively. The proposed analysis is based on the wind fields provided by a Regional Climate Model (RCM) for the future time period 2021-2050. These data are processed and analysed considering the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios 4.5 and 8.5. In the first RCP scenario (4.5), an enhancement of the greenhouse gas emissions until 2040 is considered followed afterwards by a decline. On the other hand, the second scenario assumes that the greenhouse gas emissions enhancement will continue during the entire 21st century and after. The first scenario is considered as the most realistic approach, while the second as the most pessimistic. Furthermore, in order to complete the picture an analysis of the historical wind data coming from the same RCM for the past 30-year period 1976-2005 is also carried out. In this way, a more comprehensive image of the wind power dynamics in the some relevant locations from the European coastal environment is provided. In order to enlarge the perspective, the analysis of the historical data is also extended for some locations in the North Sea, where wind farms already operate. The results indicate a slight enhancement of the average wind power in most of the locations considered. This enhancement appears to be stronger for RCP8.5 than for RCP4.5. On the other hand, the maximum wind power is expected to have much higher peaks for RCP8.5 and this especially concerns the western side of the Black Sea. The work is still on going and the analysis will be extended in both space and time covering more coastal locations and the time period until the end of the 21 st century.

SEEING DEMONS: AUTOPSY IN MAXIMUS OF TYRE'SORATION9 AND ITS ABSENCE IN APULEIUS’ON THE GOD OF SOCRATES

Ramus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey C. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Consensus View ◽  
Maximus Of Tyre

Apuleius’On the God of Socrates(De Deo Socratis), a lecture on Platonic demonology and Socrates’daimonionthat dates to the second half of the second century CE, is a critical work in the assessment of Apuleius’ Platonism, but it also should play a larger role in our reconstruction of his public image than it has. This popular philosophical lecture focuses on the same theme as two Greek works from roughly the same time period: Plutarch's dialogueOn the Daimonion of Socrates(περὶ τοῦ Σωϰράτους δαιμονίου) and Maximus of Tyre'sOrations8-9 (Διαλέξεις). Discussion ofOn the God of Socrateshas centered on its relationship with these other texts, with the aim of comparing Apuleius’ argument aboutdaimoneswith Plutarch's and Maximus’. The consensus view is that Plutarch's treatment of demonology has little in common with Apuleius’ (I present further evidence supporting the consensus near the end of this essay). On the other hand, many scholars assert Apuleius’ closest Greek model is Maximus of Tyre, a sophist with a Platonic orientation who wrote forty-one brief lectures on ethics and other philosophical subjects in the second century CE.

Hostile Media or Hostile Source? Bias Perception of Shared News

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gi Woong Yun ◽  
Sung-Yeon Park ◽  
Sooyoung Lee ◽  
Mark A. Flynn
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Organization ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
User Comments ◽  
News Bias ◽  
Hostile Media

An experiment was conducted with college students to examine the effects of source and user comments on the perceptions of a shared news story embedded in a blog post. When the shared news was credited to a news organization source incongruent with the participants’ political orientation, it was perceived to be biased against the participants’ issue position. When credited to a congruent source, the same news was perceived to be biased in favor of the participants’ position. In addition, the shared news from an incongruent source was perceived to have greater influence on others’ issue position than the same news from a congruent source, although perceived reach of the shared news was not different between the two conditions. A subsequent regression analysis identified source and perceived influence, but not perceived reach, as predictors of news bias perception. On the other hand, the second factor, user comments either agreeable or disagreeable to the participants’ issue position, did not influence how the shared news was perceived. In the discussion, theoretical implications of these findings are elaborated, and suggestions are made to refine the methods of shared news research.

scholarly journals Deaths due to COVID-19, Lockdowns, Vaccinations and Weather Temperatures: The Case of Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-216
Author(s):  
Gregory T. Papanikos
Keyword(s):  
Functional Relation ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Weather ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Full Effect ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Lagged Effect

The aim of this paper is to present Greek daily descriptive statistics on confirmed deaths due to COVID-19, the days of lockdown and their effect on the number of deaths, the outcomes of vaccinations and the influence of weather temperatures. Do lockdowns work in bringing the number of deaths down? The descriptive evidence shows that this is the case even though there is a considerable lagged effect. On the other hand, vaccinations, during the time period of examination, do not seem to have diminished the number of deaths, but the reason might be that it takes time for their full effect to occur. Finally, this paper also examines the hypothesis that during the summer months the daily deaths from COVID-19 are relatively lower than during the winter months. Using average daily weather temperatures, this hypothesis cannot be falsified. Simple calculations of the functional relation between weather temperatures and deaths show that temperatures above 28.5 degrees Celsius (°C) were associated with zero deaths. Keywords: COVID-19, deaths, Greece, lockdown, pandemic, vaccinations, weather temperatures

scholarly journals Lessons learned from an entrepreneurial career in workforce learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Clark
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Instructional Methods ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Friend ◽  
Short Time Period ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Getting Lost ◽  
Short Time

Excerpt: Life and TradeoffsWhen I returned from a three-week tour of Spain, a good friend asked: “How did you like traveling on a tour rather than on your own?” My response reflected one of my life’s lessons learned: “It was a tradeoff. From La Familia Sangrada to the local saffron farm, we were able to experience the unique wonders of Spain in a short time period. No waiting in line to get tickets. No getting lost. No unpleasant surprises. On the other hand, if you wanted to sleep in later or spend another day in a place you loved—too bad.” In short, like many of life’s decisions and paths, there were tradeoffs.Just as there is no one set of instructional methods that are universally effective for all learners in all contexts, likewise the paths I have taken are not necessarily routes and decisions that will work best for you. [Download the full-text and read more...]

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