scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Lexical and Grammatical Properties of Arabic Abstracts in Social Sciences Articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa’ Mohammad Smadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The Body ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Quantitative Results

This study aims to analyze quantitatively and quantitatively Arabic journal articles’ abstracts written within the field of social sciences. It mainly aims to analyze the lexical and grammatical qualities of the abstracts in the five academic disciplines; Economy, Geography, Psychology, Sociology, and Law,. To achieve the goal of the study, a corpus consisting of 500,000 words was collected from various well-known Arabic journals, and then it was divided into five sub-corpora each of which represented one academic discipline. The Corpus Linguistics approach was applied to this study and the data were analyzed through using WordSmith tools (version 0.7). The quantitative results show that the abstracts in all disciplines show a similar word mean length, i.e. all of them is around (5). Qualitatively speaking, the results show that each discipline has its list of lexical words that are suitable for each discipline's genre. The results also reveal a small amount of variation in terms of the tense of the reporting verbs specifically those which are used in the introductory part of the abstracts. However, the reporting verbs used in the body and the concluding parts of all abstracts are characterized by the past tense, third person, and active voice.

scholarly journals More journal articles and fewer books: publication practices in the social sciences in the 2010’s

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Savage ◽  
Anthony J. Olejniczak
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Publication Output ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Publication Practices

Over the past few years, the rate of journal article publication has increased in most academic disciplines - in some cases more than doubling in the past decade. While journal articles are the de facto currency of knowledge production in many science disciplines, social science scholars routinely publish books as well as journal articles. The social sciences have also undergone a rapid transformation towards more quantitative methodologies, thus representing a unique opportunity to study the increased rate of journal article publication in an area where books are also an important mode of dissemination. We studied the publishing activity of social sciences faculty members in 12 disciplines at 290 Ph.D. granting institutions in the United States between 2011 and 2019. In all disciplines, journal articles per person increased between 2011 and 2019 by between 3% and 64%, while books per person decreased by at least 31% and as much as 54%. Overall, early career researchers show the largest increase in rates of journal article production, while senior scholars show the greatest increase in participation in journal article production. Younger scholars appear to have greater publication output, while growing numbers of older scholars turn towards journal articles as a means of disseminating their work in the social sciences. We observe growing uniformity in the disciplinary literatures of the social sciences, which increasingly resemble the physical and biological sciences in terms of publication practices.

scholarly journals LEXICAL BUNDLES IN JOURNAL ARTICLES ACROSS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Deny Arnos Kwary ◽  
Dewantoro Ratri ◽  
Almira F. Artha
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Referential Expressions

This study focuses on the use of lexical bundles (LBs), their structural forms, and their functional classifications in journal articles of four academic disciplines: Health sciences, Life sciences, Physical sciences, and Social sciences. The corpus comprises 2,937,431 words derived from 400 journal articles which were equally distributed in the four disciplines. The results show that Physical sciences feature the most number of lexical bundles, while Health sciences comprise the least. When we pair-up the disciplines, we found that Physical sciences and Social sciences shared the most number of LBs. We also found that there were no LBs shared between Health sciences and Physical sciences, and neither between Health sciences and Social sciences. For the distribution of the structural forms, we found that the prepositional-based and the verb-based bundles were the most frequent forms (each of them accounts for 37.1% of the LBs, making a total of 74.2%). Within the verb-based bundles, the passive form can be found in 12 out of 23 LB types. Finally, for the functional classifications, the number of referential expressions (40 LBs) is a lot higher than those of discourse organizers (12 LBs) and stance expressions (10 LBs). The high frequency of LBs in the referential expressions can be related to the needs to refer to theories, concepts, data and findings of the study.

Turkey and Europe, Reflections and Refractions: Towards a Contrapuntal Approach

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanos Pesmazoglou
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
European Union ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
The Body ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Post War

Turkey’s association over the past thirty years with what is now known as the European Union has further stimulated the debate about the nature of European-Turkish relations. This debate began early in the nineteenth century, intensified after the modern Turkish state was founded, and has continued throughout the post-war period.Because it derives from a conceptual heritage developed within a cohesive world of academic reviews, political journals, research projects, institutes, and other bodies and organizations, the body of literature accumulated during the last two decades, particularly during the 1980s, can be deciphered and its overt as well as latent reasoning sketched. The basic elements of this conceptual heritage come primarily from students of Turkish-European relations and Turcological historians, but also from public officials (such as diplomats and bureaucrats), military personnel, and researchers in social sciences.

scholarly journals Jeszcze o aoryście w staropolszczyźnie

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Deptuchowa
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Person

An analysis of examples of the past perfect tense composed of a singular and plural past tense participle and an aorist form of the ‘to be’ verb in the singular third person form used as an auxiliary word is given in the article. The author, referring to the research of W.R. Rzepka, presents three consecutive examples from the mediaeval court oaths, where the aorist by has the meaning of ‘był’ (past form of the to be verb in Polish).

Ieskats Virgas izloksnes fonētikā un morfoloģijā

2020 ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Liene Markus-Narvila
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Primary Material ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Third Person

Virga subdialect is one of the subdialects of Southwestern Kurzeme, which belongs to Semigallian subdialects of the Middle Latvian dialect. The characteristics of Virga subdialect can be traced by using mostly three sources: materials of Latvian folklore, the compiled answers to the questions of the Dialectal Atlas of Latvian collection programme, and collected texts of the subdialects, including the materials of expeditions in Virga subdialect collected in the 21st century. These three sources are the primary material for the article. The phonetic and morphological features of Virga subdialect are generally consistent with the phonetical and morphological features typical throughout the Southwestern Kurzeme region. The sections of the article focus on the typical and most representative features in phonetics and morphology of Virga subdialect and reveal their relationship with the typical features of the subdialects used in the whole area. Phonetics of Virga subdialect is characterised by the use of broad e, ē in infinitives, palatal consonant ŗ, assimilation of ln to ll, the loss of sounds in different positions, anaptyxis, and vowel extension before the consonant r. Morphology of Virga subdialect is characterised by the abbreviation of verbs (ne)būt, (ne)iet in the past tense, the third person; ē-stem substantives; āio-stem verbs; the use of suffix ūz-. In the future, further research of Virga subdialect is important in order to determine the stability of the use of the registered features and register other features of the subdialect. Studies of the nearest neighbouring subdialects should also be carried out to allow a wider scientific in-depth analysis of the subdialects used in the area.

Grade Expectations as a Function of Sex, Academic Discipline, and Sex of Instructor

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 380-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cole ◽  
Kraig King ◽  
Andrew Newcomb
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Women Students ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
College Experience ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Very High

Twelve hundred and fifty college students starting introductory courses in thirteen academic disciplines were asked to predict their grade in the course. Results showed that overall, males predicted higher grades for themselves than did females ( p < .001). This held true for entering freshmen as well as for those with previous college experience. The phenomena was noted in 26 of 37 classes tested, including 7 of 9 in the natural sciences, 11 of 13 in the social sciences, but only 8 of 15 in the humanities. Sex of the instructor was irrelevant, raising the question of whether female instructors as role models have the positive effect upon women students that has been claimed. The differences found were slight, but persistent. Both sexes predicted very high grades. The data suggest that sex differences in prediction were not based on a female sense of incompetence, but upon a greater willingness among males to make highly positive predictions.

American History in Comparative Perspective

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Walter Hugins
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
American History ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Past Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
States History

Comparative history is as old as Herodotus, but only in the past quartercentury has it come into its own as an academic discipline. Yet historians, scholars of American history in particular, have generally fallen behind their colleagues in the other social sciences in developing and applying comparative methodology or models which could illuminate their teaching or open new vistas in their research. As a result, teaching and scholarship in United States history tend to be characterized by parochialism, ethnocentricity and an emphasis upon American uniqueness or “ exceptionalism.” Political scientists, sociologists and economists have increasingly studied the process of development and modernization since the end of World War II, doing more to stimulate comparative studies than all of their predecessors during the past century. While many of these social scientists have demonstrated only a superficial knowledge of history, leading them often to deal statically with the societies they are studying, some of them have at least made the effort, avoided by most American historians, to apply the comparative method to American history.

Environmental Health and Anthropology in a County Health Department

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Roberta Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
County Health Department ◽  
Participant Observer

I became a participant observer long before I learned much about the academic discipline of anthropology. I have held a variety of unusual jobs over the past twenty years, from working as a deck hand on shrimp boats in Florida to harvesting tobacco in Kentucky. When I enrolled in graduate school, my early experiences in the fishing industry drew me to fisheries issues as they are related to the social sciences, particularly anthropology.

The development of suppletive and affixal tense and agreement morphemes in the L3 English of Basque-Spanish bilinguals

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
María del Pilar García Mayo ◽  
Izaskun Villarreal Olaizola
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Surface Morphology ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Third Language ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Spanish Bilinguals

This article examines the third language (L3) developing morphology of 78 Basque—Spanish bilinguals following a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) program and a mainstream English as a foreign language (non-CLIL) program. The analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal oral data shows that (1) the omission of inflection in the L3 English interlanguage of these groups of learners is due to problems with the realization of surface morphology, (2) there is a dissociation in frequency of suppliance between suppletive inflection (copula and auxiliary be) and affixal inflection (the third person morpheme -s and the past tense morpheme -ed) already attested in L2 data, and (3) no significant differences were found between the two groups tested as far as the development of suppletive and affixal tense and agreement morphemes. The overall findings seem to support full-UG explanations for the variable use of morphology in the acquisition of non-native systems.

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