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‘Voicing Protest’: Performing Cross-Cultural Revolt in Gambino's ‘This is America’ and Falz's ‘This is Nigeria’
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The paper addresses the dialectics of protest and revolt in Childish Gambino’s musical video ‘This is America’ and its adapted version in Falz’s musical video ‘This is Nigeria’ within the context of Musical Discourse Analysis. In Gambino’s ‘This is America’, the African-American youths become the centre of attention, while America is depicted as a country of racial inequality. Correspondingly, a revolt thematic is further pursued in Falz’s ‘This is Nigeria’ to reflect a devaluation of youths’ lives, and highlight other local conflicts that impinge on Nigeria’s continuity as a sovereign nation. Surprisingly, among the emerging hip hop voices in America, Donald Mckinley Glover Jr., otherwise known as Childish Gambino, most clearly heralds revolt against a longstanding racism that all too often result in the lives of African-American youths been desperately wasted through the high rate of mass shootings. Although relatively new on the list of Nigerian hip hop, Folarin Falana, whose stage name is Falz, has made a controversial but compelling reinterpretation of Nigerian social crises in ‘This is Nigeria’. His innovative adaptation of Gambino’s ‘This is America’ forcefully brings a formal order out of chaos. Apparently, the visual parallelism in their musical videos engages appropriately with metatheatre to clearly challenge conventional assumptions of youths’ lives in America and Nigeria. Suffice it to state that by embracing the path of resistance, both Gambino and Falz have proven that their individual frustrations are the frustrations of youths in their cross-cultural societies. Chaos, marginality and resentment epitomised in the two musical videos undergird the focus of this paper to explore the signification of American and Nigerian youths’ cross-cultural pursuit of protest, conflict and revolt through meta-theater in ‘This is America’ and ‘This is Nigeria’.
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"Speech & Audio in NLP",
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SCOPUS_ID:85070996490
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‘Waiting for my red envelope’: discourses of sameness in the linguistic landscape of a marriage equality demonstration in Taiwan
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At the end of 2016, Taiwan witnessed a string of massive protest demonstrations held by both ends of the ideological debate on marriage equality. These public demonstrations can be seen as linguistic landscapes where the mass employment of signs, banners, flags, and other genres of protest signs discursively construct a highly visible socio-political space for public conversation around marriage equality. This study looks specifically at the protest signs from the 10 December pro-marriage equality demonstration in Taipei and applies critical discourse analysis to examine what identities and ideological positions are represented in the linguistic landscape. I argue that the protest signs construct a linguistic landscape that strongly emphasizes sameness with heterosexuals as a key characteristic of LGBTQ individuals, thereby depicting equality as taking part in the social practices and gender roles of heterosexual relationships and excluding a cross-section of the LGBTQ community who do not support the assimilationist ideology underlying marriage equality.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
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SCOPUS_ID:84945185590
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‘We (don’t) know how you feel’ – a comparative study of automated vs. manual analysis of social media conversations
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The ever-growing volume of brand-related conversations on social media platforms has captivated the attention of academics and practitioners, as the analysis of those conversations promises to offer unparalleled insight into consumers’ emotions. This article takes a step back from the hype, and investigates the vulnerabilities related to the analysis of social media data concerning consumers’ sentiment. A review of the literature indicates that the form, focus, source and context of the communication may negatively impact on the analyst’s ability to identify sentiment polarity and emotional state. Likewise, the selection of analytical tool, the creation of codes, and the classification of the data, adversely affect the researcher’s ability to accurately assess the sentiment expressed in a social media conversation. Our study of Twitter conversations about coffee shows low levels of agreement between manual and automated analysis, which is of grave concern given the popularity of the latter in consumer research.
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"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Sentiment Analysis",
"Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents"
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SCOPUS_ID:85126439868
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‘We all have a role to play’: A comparative analysis of political speech acts on the COVID19 crisis in the South Pacific: Speech acts in crisis political discourse in the South Pacific
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This article compares government communication on the COVID19 crisis in three countries: Australia, Fiji and New Zealand. It analyses six speeches made by each country’s leader, from March to June 2020, using speech act theory and discourse analysis. The study aimed to compare the discursive strategies used, to discuss these in relation to their respective socio-political contexts, and to examine the application of speech act theory to political crisis management, which is currently underexplored. To achieve these objectives, the research used an eclectic combination of crisis communication theory and speech act theory, examining how speech acts were used in crisis ‘base response’ strategies, such as ‘instructing’ and ‘adjusting’ information. The study found some notable differences in the degree of assertiveness, hesitation, and sympathy, which relate to differences in the political ideology of each government. It also found some similarities, especially in inclusion techniques and using media briefings as a promotional tool.
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"Linguistic Theories",
"Speech & Audio in NLP",
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"Multimodality"
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SCOPUS_ID:85058398155
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‘We call this “play”, however…’: Navigating ‘play anxiety’ in early childhood education and care markets
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Neoliberal rationalities predicated on consumer choice and market forces have increasingly positioned parents as consumers in early childhood and care markets. In this context, providers jostle to attract clientele by providing pathways through and around a milieu of parental anxieties and ambitions for their children. This article examines a chief marketing document – the early childhood education and care provider’s website – and reflects on the ways providers address parental ‘play anxiety’ in marketised times. It finds that differing and even contradictory discursive ideals about children’s risky, risk averse and guided play move in and out of the texts in ways that work to appeal to parents’ anxieties and desires. The emergence of a mosaic of differing discourses of play in marking texts highlights the complexities and contradictions that come with early childhood education and care provision, parenting and growing up in marketised neoliberal times.
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SCOPUS_ID:84992602822
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‘We have education, I can say that’: worldview and access to education for adult refugees
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We present a discourse analysis of narratives from two adult Congolese refugees, focused on the influence of worldview (including cultural mindset, personal world, and perspective) on thinking about accessing higher education. We examined narrative structure (Gee 2011), subject statements, and Underhill's (2009) three elements of worldview in the narratives. Both participants held a cultural mindset that highly valued education, but their personal worlds and perspectives differed, perhaps explaining their different decisions about accessing higher education. Findings suggest implications for supporting adult refugee education, particularly their aspirations for accessing higher education.
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SCOPUS_ID:85031085922
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‘We haven’t even buried the dead yet’: Ethics of discursive contestation in a crisis situation
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Disasters are often described as exceptional moments that demand global solidarity. A ‘state of humanitarian exception’ emerges as citizens foreground norms of compassion and cooperation while contestatory discourse – the argumentative, blame-seeking and fault-finding forms of speech – are stigmatized as inappropriate interventions in a society seeking to recover from a distressful crisis situation. This article critically unpacks these representations of post-disaster situations empirically and normatively. By analysing the discussions in the public sphere over the first 100 days after Typhoon Haiyan battered Central Philippines, the article examines the moral force behind the ‘discourse of compassion’ and its ‘ethical boundary work’ that places the ‘discourse of contestation’ outside the scope of acceptable conduct. It proposes that the discourse of compassion’s ethical boundary work is only democratically acceptable when one takes a short view of a crisis situation. Drawing on deliberative democracy theory, the article argues for the importance of contestatory discourse in fostering inclusive discourse formation and ensuring that the state of humanitarian exception does not become the rule.
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"Semantic Text Processing",
"Ethical NLP",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
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SCOPUS_ID:85138352487
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‘We need the money’: how welfare anxiety justifies penal and social reforms in immigration debate
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The response of welfare states to immigration is a topic of concern for scholars of welfare and scholars of crime and society. Yet, debates about immigration, crime and welfare in academic literature often take place in isolation. This paper advances both literatures by studying the mechanisms that drive both welfare chauvinism and penal nationalism in relationship to each other. Rather than assuming an a priori and abstract negative construction of immigration in political debates, this study draws on a large-scale Critical Discourse Analysis of political and media debates in Denmark to show how immigration is constructed in ways that justify welfare and penal policy reforms. The analysis shows that both policy shifts–towards a two-tier exclusionary welfare system, and towards penal nationalism that reserves harsher punishment for immigrants–are driven by a discourse that constructs immigrants as threatening welfare first, and only secondarily as threatening personal safety. Based on the empirical data, the article argues that anxieties about the impact of immigration on the integrity of the welfare state is what drives and justifies the construction of a two-tiered welfare and criminal justice system.
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SCOPUS_ID:85048893487
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‘We no longer live in a time of separation’: A comparative analysis of how editorial and commercial integration became a norm
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The separation between editorial and business activities of news organisations has long been a fundamental norm of journalism. Journalists have traditionally considered this separation as both an ethical principle and an organisational solution to preserve their professional autonomy and isolate their newsrooms from profit-driven pressures exerted by advertising, sales and marketing departments. However, many news organisations are increasingly integrating their editorial and commercial operations. Based on 41 interviews conducted at 12 newspapers and commercial broadcasters in six European countries, we analyse how editors and business managers describe the changing relationship between their departments. Drawing on previous research on journalistic norms and change, we focus on how interviewees use rhetorical discourses and normative statements to de-construct traditional norms, build new professionally accepted norms and legitimise new working practices. We find, first, that the traditional norm of separation no longer plays the central role that it used to. Both editors and managers are working to foster a cultural change that is seen as a prerequisite for organisational adaptation to an increasingly challenging environment. Second, we find that a new norm of integration, based on the values of collaboration, adaptation and business thinking, has emerged. Third, we show how the interplay between declining and emerging norms involves a difficult negotiation. Whereas those committed to the traditional norm see commercial considerations as a threat to professional autonomy, our interviewees see the emerging norm as a new way of ensuring professional autonomy by working with other parts of the organisation to jointly ensure commercial sustainability.
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SCOPUS_ID:85056808498
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‘We throw away our books’: Students’ reading practices and identities
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The aim of this research was to understand university students’ self-reported reading practices. The students attended the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, a historically black institution in a rural and under-resourced setting. A framework of New Literacy Studies (NLS) was used to understand students’ self-reported reading practices and the links between these and their identities. Tools provided by Gee (2005, 2011) were applied to conduct a CDA of focus group discussions. In the ‘We Blacks’ Discourse, interviewees ‘othered’ the idea of reading as not being culturally valued. It was closely allied to the ‘Resistance to Reading’ Discourse, as participants explained that they tended to disregard books and did not enjoy leisure reading. The ‘Better Than Us’ discourse was drawn upon to suggest that reading was associated with attitudes of superiority. These discourses tended to homogenise class and other differences between black students and indicated the ways in which their experiences made adopting academic identities difficult. The analysis suggests that the racism of the past continues to impact students’ reading identities. The article concludes that the effects of these and related discourses require a response across the education sector, and transformative pedagogies might be needed in higher education.
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SCOPUS_ID:84958759606
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‘We'll be fine until our kid goes to school’: biraciality and discourse in Tia & Tamera
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This article offers a Critical Discourse Analysis of an episode of the reality TV show Tia & Tamera. A symbolic interactionist frame provides a lens for focusing on how social interactions impact the ways in which meanings of race are constructed around the topic of biraciality, while critical race theory facilitates an understanding of this construction on a macro-level. Conversations between the biracial title characters and their family and friends comprise the data corpus considered for analysis. Three notable themes emerge from the discourses observed: (1) race talk is avoided; (2) racial understanding varies in public and private contexts; and (3) realities of racial self-concepts based upon past experiences shape expectations of future racial self-concepts. Each theme provides insight into how and why the title character engages in discourse work that serves to establish the racial identity of her yet unborn son within the context of a societal structure that leaves her without a range of choices for how to do so.
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SCOPUS_ID:85082430329
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‘Weekends became something other people did’: Understanding and intervening in the habitus of video game crunch
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‘Crunch’ – a period of unpaid overtime meant to speed up lagging projects – is a common labor practice in the video game industry and persists despite many costs to developers. To understand why, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of Game Developer magazine (2000–2010) to explore how industry members perceive and discuss gamework (1) in a publication for developers, by developers and (2) during the first decade in which serious conversations about labor emerge in the games industry. Our analysis found that many gameworkers treat crunch as ‘inevitable’ due to three specific themes: games as an unmanageable creative industry, an anti-corporate ethos, and a stereotypical developer identity based on passion and perfectionism. These constructions – combined with the industry’s project-based nature and cultures of passion and secrecy – build crunch into the habitus of gamework, helping reproduce exploitative labor practices. However, habitus can and does change over time, providing interested employees, companies, and labor organizers a means to intercede in existing work practices. We suggest a multipronged intervention that could build a healthier, more sustainable habitus of gamework.
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SCOPUS_ID:85115108557
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‘We’re equal to the Jews who were destroyed. [..] Compensate us, too’. An affective (un)remembering of Germany’s colonial past?
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Following the globalisation of Holocaust memory in the 1990s, references to National Socialist crimes turned into a practise initiated by postcolonial memory carriers to claim recognition and reparation for colonial crimes – often by taking legal steps to qualify colonial crime a crime against humanity. This article argues that the globalised Holocaust memory established a distinctive emotional order. Consequently, marginalised memory groups align with this order to find a voice in official memory politics. The article examines emotional discourses in the OvaHerero class actions against Germany filed in 2001. It shows how media coverage hindered the recognition of colonial crimes when compared with the Holocaust. However, a diachronic contrast with the analysis of the renewed lawsuit filed this time by representatives of the OvaHerero and the Nama in 2017 shows how emotional discourses changed over time and transformed both colonial and Holocaust memory.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Emotion Analysis",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Sentiment Analysis"
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SCOPUS_ID:84955700108
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‘What Brings Him Here Today?’: Medical Problem Presentation Involving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Typically Developing Children
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Conversation and discourse analyses were used to examine medical problem presentation in pediatric care. Healthcare visits involving children with ASD and typically developing children were analyzed. We examined how children’s communicative and epistemic capabilities, and their opportunities to be socialized into a competent patient role are interactionally achieved. We found that medical problem presentation is designed to contain a ‘pre-visit’ account of the interactional and epistemic work that children and caregivers carry out at home to identify the child’s health problems; and that the intersubjective accessibility of children’s experiences that becomes disrupted by ASD presents a dilemma to all participants in the visit. The article examines interactional roots of unmet healthcare needs and foregone medical care of people with ASD.
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SCOPUS_ID:85038244198
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‘What Do You Think?’ Let Me Tell You: Discourse about Texts and the Literature Classroom
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This article examines the practice of studying texts in secondary school English lessons as a particular type of reading experience. Through a critical stylistic analysis of a popular edition of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the article explores how reading the text is framed by educational editions, and how this might present the purpose of studying fiction to students. The article draws on two cognitive linguistic concepts–figure/ground configuration and narrative schemas–in order to explore how ‘discourse about a text’ can potentially influence how students read and engage with a text. Building on a previous article, the notion of pre-figuring is developed to offer an account of how a reader’s attention can be directed to particular elements of a text, thus privileging some interpretations and downplaying others. The article then reflects more widely on the perceived purposes of studying fiction with young people, exploring in particular the recent rise of support within the profession in England for Hirsch’s ‘cultural literacy’ model, which sees knowledge about texts as more valuable than authentic reading and personal response.
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SCOPUS_ID:84931280630
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‘What was your blood sugar reading this morning?’ Representing diabetes self-management on Facebook
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Social networking sites have swiftly become a salient venue for the production and consumption of neoliberal health discourse by individuals and organisations. These platforms offer both opportunities for individuals to accrue coping resources and a means for organisations to promote their agendas to an online audience. Focusing specifically on diabetes, this article examines the representation of social actors and interactional styles on three organisational Pages on Facebook. Drawing on media and communication theories, we situate this linguistic analysis in relation to the communicative affordances employed by these organisations as they publish content online. Diabetes sufferers are represented as an at-risk group whose vulnerabilities can be managed through forms of participation specific to the respective organisation. More popular diabetes Pages draw on the opportunities for social interaction afforded by Facebook and combine informational and promotional content to foster communication between the organisation and its audience. By encouraging reflexive management of diabetes risks, these Pages contribute to the construction of ‘biological citizens’ who interweave habitual interactions on social networking sites with responsible self-care, consumption of health information and health activism.
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SCOPUS_ID:85119480240
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‘What you’ve got is a right to silence’: Paraphrasing the right to silence and the meaning of rights
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In the Northern Territory of Australia (NT), it has long been recognised that the right to silence ‘caution’ is difficult to communicate, particularly with some Aboriginal suspects. This article reviews paraphrases used by NT police to explain the right, asking how they could be understood by Aboriginal people and offering initial conclusions about the meaning of paraphrases involving choice, rights and force. Meanwhile, the consequences of staying silent are consistently omitted from police paraphrases, highlighting that suspects must recover important meaning from context. This article argues that a significant source of contextual knowledge about the caution is discourses about rights, which are a complex and culture-specific way of thinking and talking. There is every risk that suspects without required contextual knowledge fail to obtain anything useful from many versions of the caution, a situation which likely entrenches disadvantage in the justice system. To communicate the caution across a large cultural gap requires specifying more meaning, but only policy-makers can decide what information the caution is supposed to communicate and what effect it is supposed to have. Evaluation of potential cautions should ask whether they are comprehensible, informative and credible and ultimately what effect they have for relevant audiences.
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SCOPUS_ID:84945293909
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‘When there’s no underbrush the tree looks taller’: A discourse analysis of men’s online groin shaving talk
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It seems many men continue to be obsessed with their penis and especially its size and look. Two-thirds of men in a recent UK study reported some dissatisfaction with their genitals. Arguably much of this anxiety is perpetuated by the media and marketers, but it may also follow more general trends in male body image consciousness. Marketers have been quick to offer both surgical and non-surgical remedies to help change the size, shape and image of the penis, especially online. Stepping aside from more traditional scholarly foci on culture, media, social and personal relationship issues, I focus instead on how men account for pubic hair shaving to enhance image. I use discourse analysis to examine online electronic dialogue in response to an advert promoting male groin grooming showing the complex ways in which men discursively negotiate their interest in this non-typical gender practice. The analysis shows charges of vanity are swept under the carpet in favour of heterosexual pleasure, cleanliness, self-respect and individuality. The implications for understanding traditional and contemporary masculinities are also discussed.
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SCOPUS_ID:85124629550
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‘Who is /ourguy/?’: Tracing panoramic memes to study the collectivity of 4chan/pol/
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This article explores how Internet memes can be traced as nodal points for the study of online groups. Such ‘meme tracing’ is specifically pertinent to the study of anonymous imageboards like 4chan, where inquiry cannot be easily based on the individual. Drawing from actor-network theory, I argue ‘panoramic memes’ – memes that repeatedly paint a totalising picture of a collective – are especially useful to identify what narratives hold such anonymous groups together. To operationalise this, I conducted a qualitative-quantitative case study of ‘/ourguy/’: a meme used to suggest a certain public figure is representative of the beliefs of an entire group. Using text mining methods, I traced this term to the names of public figures on 4chan’s far-right /pol/ board. This reveals that Donald Trump and Robert Mueller were most commonly proposed as an ‘/ourguy/’ between 2016 and 2020, while the meme was entangled with conspiracy creation and far-right mobilisation.
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SCOPUS_ID:85105090873
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‘Who really speaks like that?’–Children’s implicit and explicit attitudes towards multilingual speakers of Dutch
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This study investigates children’s explicit and implicit language attitudes in a highly diverse primary education. Set in the bilingual province of Fryslân, the Netherlands, the current research was carried out in the scope of the 3M-project (‘More opportunities with multilingualism’: Duarte & Günther-van der Meij, 2018a. A holistic model for multilingualism in education. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 5(2), 24–43. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.9.153), wherein pupils’ home languages are used as a resource to promote multilingualism and thereby facilitate learning. We examined socially significant language attitudes and children’s stereotypes towards prevalent minority and migrant languages. Participants consisted of 93 pupils (aged 7–12). They completed questionnaires to assess their explicit attitudes towards majority, migrant and minority languages. Additionally, 137 pupils performed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure the relative attitudes of standard Dutch versus (1) the regional minority language (Frisian) and versus (2) a salient migrant language (Moroccan Arabic). Questionnaire results show significantly lower ratings for Moroccan Arabic and ‘other languages’ compared to Dutch, English and Frisian. Implicit results revealed a larger and significant preference for Dutch over Moroccan-Dutch accents and a smaller, non-significant, preference for Dutch over Frisian accents. Our results suggest a need for primary schools to explicitly address issues related to children’s attitudes towards different languages and accents.
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SCOPUS_ID:85075948748
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‘Why did you become a linguist? Nobody reads your work!’– Academic struggles constructed through humour and laughter
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This paper contributes a discursive perspective on how academics employ self-deprecating humour and laughter to talk about and construct the struggles they faced in academia. Underpinned by ethnomethodological approaches to studying spoken interactions, the paper argues that just as utterances accomplish social actions, academic struggles are discursively constructed. The data came from 30 qualitative interviews with academics working in applied linguistics and related fields in the UK. They ranged from early career researchers to professor emeritus. Drawing insights from higher education studies, pragmatics and interactional linguistics, the paper examines how speakers employed self-deprecating humour and laughter as interactional resources and pragmatic strategies to co-construct understanding, negotiate positioning and enact certain identities in an interview. It also adds a new dimension to higher education studies; in particular, how academics construct their identities through the ways they talked about academic work-related struggles.
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SCOPUS_ID:85060672157
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‘Would it not be better to get someone out workin?’: ‘Safe prejudice’ against Polish workers
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One recurring criticism of immigrant groups is their alleged failure to be employed and contribute to the host society. Here we examine how speakers mobilise a criticism that has attracted less research attention: that through their economic activity immigrant groups usurp others’ employment entitlements. Discourse analysis of data from seven focus group discussions about pre-Brexit Polish immigration into the UK, involving 31 UK nationals, shows that participants accomplish exclusionary outcomes in two divergent ways. The first attributes qualities to Polish workers but also makes explicit the consequences of these attributions for UK nationals, rendering speakers’ investment in such claims visible. The second relies on the production of category pairs, within which claims can be made for the category that excludes Polish workers. This use of categories comprises ‘safe prejudice’, a form of prejudice not previously identified but which is less open to challenge than other forms of prejudiced talk.
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SCOPUS_ID:85073813854
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‘Yes I understand’: language choice, question formation and code-switching in interpreter-mediated police interviews with victim-survivors of domestic abuse
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This article presents the findings of the analysis of authentic interpreter-mediated police interviews with victim-survivors of domestic abuse with a focus on question formation and delivery, language choice and code-switching. It is set against the backdrop of the forces wide inspection of police response to domestic abuse in England and Wales and implementation of EU Directive EU/2012/29 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims. Drawing on conversation analysis and available police interview guidelines, I show how the voice of the victim-survivor can remain obscured even when professional language support provisions are in place, and shed light on interpreting practices that can limit an interviewing officer’s ability to assess risk. I suggest that, while it may not be appropriate for interpreters to be present for the duration of the pre-interview planning phase, it offers a dynamic forum for negotiating approaches to challenges in victim-survivor interviews.
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SCOPUS_ID:84973745278
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‘You Punched Him, didn't You?’ : Versions of violence in accusatory interviews
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This paper explores the management in police-suspect interviews of accusations of violent involvement. Eleven officially taperecorded interviews between police and suspects were transcribed and analysed and a basic grammar of violent accusations was identified. Different ways in which accusations are warranted and contested are discussed and instantiated. It is suggested that the interview participants use two discourses of violence: disorderly and justificatory. The paper explores their localized deployment and raises issues concerning their wider ideological implications. © 1995, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.
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SCOPUS_ID:84929295643
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‘You can speak German, sir’: on the complexity of teachers’ L1 use in CLIL
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Classroom code switching in foreign language teaching is still a controversial issue whose status as a tool of both despair and desire continues to be hotly debated. As the teaching of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is, by definition, concerned with the learning of a foreign language, one would expect the value of code switching to constitute an important part in CLIL research. This paper sets out to argue that the use of the majority language in CLIL by teachers follows an educationally principled approach. It is expressed within an instructive and regulative register, motivated by behavioural, classroom and task management, and knowledge scaffolding considerations. Through a comparative data coding process using MAXQDA, several dimensions of code switching were identified and elaborated on. These dimensions included principledness, contextualisation, conflictuality, domain sensibility, linguistic deficit awareness, language learning, and knowledge construction support, as well as affectivity. Taking this complex web as a reference point, the paper ends proposing six theses on code switching and recommending its relevance to CLIL teacher training.
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SCOPUS_ID:85125922063
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‘You could win Masterchef with this soup. Can I get some more?’ Request production and the impact of instruction on young EFL learners
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This paper presents a study exploring the impact of concept-based instruction of requests with two intact classes of young learners of English (aged 12–13) in a Norwegian primary school. Based on sociocultural theory, the instruction aimed to promote agentive language use by focusing on two main dimensions: firstly, introducing scientific concepts and language resources related to the pragmalinguistic dimension, i.e. internal and external modification strategies to increase the learners' pragmalinguistic repertoire; secondly, presenting the sociopragmatic dimension, such as the situation, familiarity, and interlocutor age. In this study, learners’ internalisation of pragmalinguistic resources, displayed through increased variation in language use, is viewed as a prerequisite for agency. The learners’ request production was tested through a video-prompted oral discourse completion test (VODCT) in a pre-, post- and delayed post-test. The results reveal an increased variation and use of modal verbs and supportive moves following the instruction. In addition, their distribution varied depending on the interlocutor's age and familiarity. The learners also started using downgraders introduced during instruction. However, except for please, downgraders were not commonly used, which suggests that these require further scholarly attention. Overall, the young learners’ pragmalinguistic development displayed in the present study reveals a potential for teaching pragmatics through concept-based approaches.
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SCOPUS_ID:85046011940
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‘You want to show you’re a valuable employee’: A critical discourse analysis of multi-perspective portrayals of employed women with fibromyalgia
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Background: Advice on fibromyalgia, a chronic illness primarily affecting women, often presents it as incompatible with work and rarely covers how to remain employed. Yet many women do. Objectives: We aimed to understand how these women, their family members, and workmates portrayed employees with fibromyalgia, and how these portrayals helped women retain employment. Methods: We interviewed 22 participants, comprising five triads and three dyads of people who knew each other. Using the methodology of critical discourse analysis, we analysed the interview data within and across the triads/dyads through coding, narrative summaries, and relational mapping. Results: Participants reported stereotypes that employees with fibromyalgia are lazy, malingering, and less productive than healthy workers. Countering these assumptions, participants portrayed the women as normal, valuable employees who did not ‘give in’ to their illness. The portrayals drew on two discourses, normalcy and mind-controlling-the-body, and a related narrative, overcoming disability. We propose that participants’ portrayals helped women manage their identities in competitive workplaces and thereby remain employed. Discussion: Our findings augment the very sparse literature on employment with fibromyalgia. Using a new approach, critical discourse analysis, we expand on known job-retention strategies and add the perspectives of two key stakeholders: family members and workmates.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
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71,
72
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SCOPUS_ID:85088236476
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‘Your pronunciation is really good’: the construction of linguistic identities in ELF interactions among multilingual speakers
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Studies on the linguistic identity of multilingual speakers engaged in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) interactions have continued to grow in the past 20 years. This paper was aimed at contributing to this line of research by studying interactional data to investigate the construction and negotiation of linguistic identities among multilingual speakers of English. Data was collected from 38 ELF interactions in a university classroom located in South Korea. The analysis shows that the students’ linguistic identity in relation to English was made relevant consequent to the interactional exploitation of the two interrelated social constructs of phonology and nationality (i.e. being foreign). The findings suggest that these multilingual students negotiate and build one's linguistic identity by evaluating different ways of speaking English which in turn influence their own linguistic use. The study helps us understand how normative expectations or beliefs are expressed at the level of interaction and underscores the need for ELF awareness and development of related pedagogical tools for empowering these group of students.
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[
"Phonology",
"Syntactic Text Processing",
"Multilinguality"
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[
6,
15,
0
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SCOPUS_ID:85063294051
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‘iPad has everything!’: how young children with diverse linguistic backgrounds in Malta and the U.S. process multimodal digital text
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This exploratory study investigated whether/how kindergartners (ages 5–6) with different linguistic backgrounds in Malta and the U.S. engaged in similar or different reading processes with the same app book But Not the Hippopotamus in English. As part of a broader project, we purposefully sampled children who scored top three and bottom three in their retelling of the book from each of the four linguistic groups: (1) Maltese as the dominant home language in Malta, (2) English as the dominant home language in Malta, (3) a third language other than English/Maltese as the dominant home language in Malta, and (4) monolingual English native speakers in the U.S. Our qualitative analysis of videos of the 27 children reading the app book revealed the distinct patterns of high-comprehension readers processes with multimodal digital features across these linguistic groups, and the potential of digital features to support learners with diverse linguistic backgrounds.
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"Multimodality"
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74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84965054942
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‘¡Hable Bien M’ijo o Gringo o Mx!’: language ideologies in the digital communication practices of transnational Mexican bilinguals
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This article examines Facebook conversations between members of a transnational social network of US- and Mexico-born English/Spanish bilinguals. Extending Bourdieu’s theory of language and symbolic power, the article uses the framework of language ideologies to explore how members establish identity and membership differently depending on whether they communicate primarily in Spanish or English. I argue that they use commonly held ideologies of language as tools to contest identities and establish membership. For example, US-born English-dominant members use Spanish to index language ideologies of standardization, correctness, and separation with other English-dominant members to bolster Mexicanness. However, when faced with Spanish-dominant and Mexico-born members, English-dominant members use an ideology of language elitism to position their English-Spanish bilingualism as more highly valued within their transnational network. The findings of this study also reveal that Facebook is an empowering space where bilingualism is the linguistic capital necessary for full membership in their transnational community.
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"Linguistic Theories",
"Linguistics & Cognitive NLP",
"Multilinguality"
] |
[
57,
48,
0
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85109389433
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’n Vergelykende ondersoek na die Afrikaans-en Zulu-vertalings van “South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects” deur Adam Habib
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In 2013 Adam Habib published South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects. Habib approached the Wits Language School and asked for the translation of a condensed version of the book into Zulu, Northern Sotho and Afrikaans. The translation brief requested that the translations should be very close to the original in as far as the use of terminology was concerned to ensure that the original argument remains shrewd and convincing. The language was to be as plain possible, and the title catchy. In this article the Zulu and Afrikaans translations are compared and it is shown how the two translation teams, due to differences in their respective target audiences, but primarily due to the differences in the possibilities and limitations of the languages into which they translated, made use of different translation strategies resulting in the final products differing from each other substantially. As a result of zero equivalence, the Zulu translators often had to make use of translation strategies such a paraphrase and explitation which resulted in a more accessible text as what was the case with the Afrikaans text. The Afrikaans team was not confronted with zero-equivalence. However, the use of standardised terms made the text less accessible and the Fog Index rating of the final text is 14,2. In terms of the translation brief, the Afrikaans text probably did not succeed in its goal.
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[
"Paraphrasing",
"Machine Translation",
"Text Generation",
"Multilinguality"
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32,
51,
47,
0
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SCOPUS_ID:85137041906
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“A Difficult Balancing Act”: What Planning Involves
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Drawing on verbatim transcriptions of over 200 interviews, the article systematically analyzes the use of the concept of “balance” in what planners and others say about the nature and role of planning and planners. Planning involves managing competing aims and economic interests in processes that are simultaneously political and technical: what many call “a balancing act.” Discourse analysis of the content and form of utterances involving the root balanc* suggests that the words people choose in describing planning can simultaneously reflect and obscure power relations and decision processes.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
https://aclanthology.org//W16-0107/
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“A Distorted Skull Lies in the Bottom Center...” Identifying Paintings from Text Descriptions
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[
"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Question Answering"
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[
11,
27
] |
|
SCOPUS_ID:85072120636
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“A Great School Benefits Us All”: Advantaged Parents and the Gentrification of an Urban Public School
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Middle-class, professional, and White families in gentrifying cities are increasingly choosing neighborhood public schools. As critical consumers of public education, these families frequently bring not only new resources to schools but also new demands. This article examines the process of “school gentrification” by analyzing the discourse of a neighborhood parents’ listserv. I find that as they worked to make their local public school “great,” advantaged parents performed the role of careful investors, defined themselves as the source of the school’s potential value, and marginalized low-income families and families of color. These findings raise important questions about educational equity for both educational researchers and urban school and district leaders.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85128191290
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“A Shameless Ideology of Shameless Women”: Positioning the Other in Social Media Discourse Surrounding a Women’s Rights Movement in Pakistan
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This study analyzes social media (YouTube) discourse related to Aurat March 2019, a women’s rights movement in Pakistan. Using a discourse analytical approach that draws on the premises of Positioning theory, the analysis reveals the following two major storylines from the data: “The women who stray from the path, and the men who will return them to it,” and “Islam under threat from the outside.” Social media platforms allow their users to express opinions in online spaces, often resulting in polarization and clustering of like-minded people in so-called echo-chambers. This study demonstrates how social media users actively participate in the discursive construction of the “other,” and how the women’s rights movement in Pakistan continues to struggle against hegemonic scripts of gender and sexuality.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85115387849
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“A Stressful Unknown” or “an Oasis”?: Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of Assessment in an In-Class and Online English Phonetics Course
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The sudden need to switch from traditional in-class instruction to online teaching and assessment due to the covid-19 pandemic has posed considerable challenges to teachers, but also to learners. The mixed method study reported in this article compared Polish undergraduate students' cognitive, affective, and behavioural responses to assessment provided in two practical English phonetics courses taught during an in-class fall semester and online spring semester. The quantitative data were collected by means of an online questionnaire, which consisted of three categories of semantic differential scales referring to the cognitive, affective, and behavioural responses. The qualitative data consisted of drawings, open-ended surveys, and individual interviews with the students. The t-test results showed significant differences in students' perceptions in terms of cognitive and behavioural aspects. The qualitative data revealed that although the students highly valued formative assessment in the course, the online mode weakened their engagement and interest in receiving feedback. It was also observed that students' perceptions of in-class and online assessment were shaped largely by their individual differences and learning preferences. The study underlies the importance of using anxiety-lowering techniques in both in-class and online classes, and the need for fostering undergraduate students' autonomous learning skills.
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[
"Phonetics",
"Emotion Analysis",
"Syntactic Text Processing",
"Sentiment Analysis"
] |
[
64,
61,
15,
78
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85038373372
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“A great and beautiful wall” Donald Trump’s populist discourse on immigration
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This paper focuses on Trump’s aggressive language on immigration. By analyzing a data set made of public speeches, interviews, and statements from Trump’s official website, the paper will look at how certain lexico-grammatical and intertextual choices in Trump’s representation of immigration display all the typical features of a populist agenda. Trump’s texts will be analyzed according to Wodak’s Discourse-Historical approach: Trump’s own “politics of fear” and language on immigration are evidence of the strong currency held by values associated with right-wing, ethno-nationalist populism, once the core ideological tenets only of certain fringe movements such as the Tea Party, but now firmly established in mainstream politics.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85054012238
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“A human face” of cognitive linguistics
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In this article, I want to put forward the following argument: Cognitive Linguistics – after a long hegemony of Chomskyan formalist linguistics – has offered models of language as “motivated” by general and prior cognitive abilities; as such it has been able to provide representations of a much wider range of linguistic phenomena (both grammatical and lexical); however, the “human face” of Cognitive Linguistics is that of a generic human being rather than that of actual people: members of particular social communities in which languages develop through “figuration” and “articulation”.
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[
"Cognitive Modeling",
"Linguistics & Cognitive NLP"
] |
[
2,
48
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85021308208
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“A magical little pill that will relieve you of your womanly issues”: What young women say about menstrual suppression
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Perceptions of menstruation by media discourses portray this bodily function to be messy, inconvenient, and as an unnecessary phenomenon to be controlled or possibly eliminated. Commercials shown on YouTube targeted toward young women suggest that having a monthly period is not healthy and a lifestyle that is menses free is both pharmacologically available and recommended in order to live a fuller life.We explored the meanings attached to online menstrual suppression commercials with 10 women aged between 18 and 25. In-depth open-ended interviews were conducted over a 10-month period in 2014 after each participant viewed three menstrual suppression online advertisements. Feminist critical discourse was used for analysis with both authors coding for inter-rater reliability recognizing how our age difference and relationship as mother and daughter informed our interpretation. An overarching theme of tension emerged from the interviews with participants feeling detached due to the gendered stereotypes the commercials used to frame menstruation as compared to their own lived experience. Meanings associated with the menstrual suppression commercials were contrary to the participants’ lived experience of menstruation as a healthy process not a detrimental one to their well-being as suggested by the commercials. Subliminal messages within the advertisements were identified as reinforcing gender bias and prejudices, including those associated with femininity. Despite attempting to emulate popular culture, the menstrual suppression advertisements were largely dismissed by this group of participants as undermining their intelligence and of intentionally creating divisive binaries between groups of women. This study suggests that historical bias and stereotypical prejudices were identified by this group of young women within the marketing of menstrual suppression products and, as such, were dismissed as inauthentic to the menstruation experience reflecting a form of menstrual activism.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85063933936
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“A rose by any other name”: On ways of approaching discourse analysis
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Discourse analysis offers an extremely diversified landscape, spanning time and disciplines far beyond the field of international relations (IR). With a rich lineage, it comes as no surprise that under the label “Discourse Analysis” (DA) one cannot find a unified theoretical family within IR but rather a plurality of heterogeneous ways of approaching discourse analysis. By leveraging the wealth of discourse analytical works accumulated over more than three decades, this article intends to discuss some of the main theoretical tenets of three competing perspectives on discourse analysis (PDAs): constructivism, critical realism and poststructuralism. It does so by tracing their links to their respective putative philosophical referents. Distinct from Milliken (1999), who consciously stresses the commonalities between various PDAs, this contribution identifies the differences between them. The paper proceeds as follows. First, it locates IR PDAs in the framework of debates over the core branches of the philosophy of social science. Constructivist, poststructuralist and critical realist PDAs will be located along both a foundational/nonfoundational ontological continuum and a positivist/post-positivist epistemological continuum. Secondly, it retraces the main tenets of post-structuralist, constructivist, and critical realist PDAs to discourse by identifying the relevant debates that have characterized the approach to discourse analysis in IR. Finally, it presents some methodological guidelines and provides examples on how DA endeavors have been practiced.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85103978994
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“AI news anchor” with deep learning-based speech synthesis
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Deep learning-based text to speech (TTS) is used in various situations, and the sound quality is close to that of humans. We previously developed a news-specific deep learning-based TTS (DL-TTS) system and implemented it with our AI news anchor for live broadcast programs and automatic news-speech distribution services. We also developed our DL-TTS system for the control of speaking style and speech rate, pitch, intonation, and volume to facilitate the creation of various programs. More specifically, this method enables the changing of specific speaking styles, such as news style, which mimics the style of news reporters, and conversation style. The purpose of creating this system was to eliminate the discomfort due to differences in speech and speaking styles. Controlling speaking style is important in news speech because a mismatched speaking style does not appropriately convey news articles. For this study, we conducted an evaluation experiment on the conveying of simple news articles for language learners regarding speaking-style control and found appropriate speaking styles for automatically generated news speech. We conducted another evaluation experiment on whether synthetic speech generated from our system for “easy news” for Japanese language learners can help people understand the news in Japanese. We also discuss practical applications of our system. Our news-specific deep neural network-based TTS system was found to effectively provide news services to broadcast stations. In the future, we will consider various use cases of flexible production by using a cloud system. The coronavirus pandemic has forced broadcasters to adopt new working styles. Thus, we will explore a new production system, such as a cloud-based system, for news-speech automation for this new normal.
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[
"Programming Languages in NLP",
"Speech & Audio in NLP",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
55,
70,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85110817484
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“Abeg Na! We write so our comments can be posted!”: Borrowed Nigerian Pidgin pragmatic markers in Nigerian English
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This paper examines three borrowed pragmatic markers from Nigerian Pidgin into Nigerian English, abeg, sef and na, with a view to exploring their meanings, frequencies, spelling adaptability, syntactic positions, collocational patterns and discourse-pragmatic functions in Nigerian English. The data which were extracted from the International Corpus of English-Nigeria and the Nigerian component of the corpus of Global Web-based English were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively, using the theory of pragmatic borrowing. The results indicate that the three pragmatic markers differ distinctly in their frequency across text types, syntactic position, the range of pragmatic meanings, the number of spelling variants and their collocations: abeg is used as a mitigation marker which can also function as an emphasis marker, sef is an emphasis marker but has additive and dismissive functions, while na is used purely as an emphasis pragmatic marker. The study shows the influence of Nigerian Pidgin on Nigerian English.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Syntactic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72,
15
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84993698290
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“Aboutness” and other problems of text retrieval in the pharmaceutical industry
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In-house text databases of biomedical publications, as used by medical information departments in the pharmaceutical industry, are described in terms of their general features and styles of use. Problems in their upkeep include loss of precision in searching as the volume of publications grows, inconsistency in contents and in indexing philosophy, thesaurus maintenance, and the handling of newly emergent concepts or terms. The need to capture implicit information and the “aboutness” of documents impose heavy requirements for intellectual effort, but are essential for effective retrieval. Another conflict is between the need to identify specific documents and the need to create syntheses of state-of-the-art information in the form of knowledge bases. The extraction of meaning as opposed to the identification of possibly relevant documents remains a central task for information retrieval in the pharmaceutical industry. © 1997, Drug Information Association. All rights reserved.
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[
"Knowledge Representation",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Information Retrieval"
] |
[
18,
72,
24
] |
https://aclanthology.org//W93-0212/
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“Act promptly, make your god happy”: Representation and Rhetorical Relations in Natural Language Generation
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[
"Language Models",
"Low-Resource NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Representation Learning",
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Text Generation",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
] |
[
52,
80,
72,
12,
71,
47,
4
] |
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SCOPUS_ID:85114448924
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“Add up all my Black”: understanding race and genetic ancestry through critical interpersonal and family communication
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Critical interpersonal and family communication (CIFC) contributes a context and lens for analyzing the intersections of race, communication, and genetic ancestry tests (GATs). This essay presents a discourse analysis of GAT reveal videos by Black content creators. Interpersonal communication—between the people in the videos and between them and online audiences—is a vehicle through which people narrate into meaning complex ideas of genetics and race. Results of this analysis show that Black content creators situate genetic ancestry within ongoing communication about identity. The videos work to “prove” Blackness and mark the significance of naming the self, often by conflating ideas of Blackness and genetic ancestry. CIFC as an analytic uncovers the paradox in which GAT discourse is both liberating and oppressive within relational spheres.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
71,
20,
72,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85096700584
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“Against a sharp white background”: How Black women experience the white gaze at work
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Whiteness is a pervasive context in (post)colonial organizations that maintains its enduring presence through everyday practices such as the white gaze: seeing people's bodies through the lens of whiteness. The white gaze distorts perceptions of people who deviate from whiteness, subjecting them to bodily scrutiny and control. Understanding how the white gaze manifests is therefore important for understanding the marginalization of particular bodies in organizations. We therefore center Black women's narratives to examine the following research question: How is the white gaze enacted and experienced at work? We conducted a critical discourse analysis of 1169 tweets containing the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork and identified four mechanisms of the white gaze whereby whiteness is imposed, presumed, venerated, and forced on Black women's bodies. We conclude with a discussion of the white gaze as an apparatus to enforce gendered racialized hierarchies vis-à-vis the body and how foregrounding whiteness deepens our understanding of marginalization at work.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85097565797
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“Aggressive Refugees, Violent Hooligans, Concerned Citizens”: Reinterpreting Multiple Processes of Difference-Making in Mediatizations of Migration and Conflict in East Germany in the German Media<sup>1</sup>
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While feminist postcolonial literature provides valuable insight into the intersectional effects of race, gender and sexuality, other dimensions of difference-making like region or class often remain invisible. Combining postcolonial and post-socialist perspectives, this paper explores the intersections of multidimensional frontiers in the social production of “otherness”. Using a sociology of knowledge approach to discourse, we analyze how current mediatizations of migration and conflict in East German cities link ethnosexual with spatio-cultural-historical frontiers. This interplay of multifaceted frontiers constitutes internal and external images of a cultural “other” and contributes to internal coherence within the sexually and racially imagined nation.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Explainability & Interpretability in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
] |
[
71,
81,
72,
4
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85092924981
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“Alexa in the wild” - Collecting unconstrained conversations with a modern voice assistant in a public environment
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Datasets featuring modern voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others allow an easy study of human-machine interactions. But data collections offering an unconstrained, unscripted public interaction are quite rare. Many studies so far have focused on private usage, short pre-defined task or specific domains. This contribution presents a dataset providing a large amount of unconstrained public interactions with a voice assistant. Up to now around 40 hours of device directed utterances were collected during a science exhibition touring through Germany. The data recording was part of an exhibit that engages visitors to interact with a commercial voice assistant system (Amazon's ALEXA), but did not restrict them to a specific topic. A specifically developed quiz was starting point of the conversation, as the voice assistant was presented to the visitors as a possible joker for the quiz. But the visitors were not forced to solve the quiz with the help of the voice assistant and thus many visitors had an open conversation. The provided dataset - Voice Assistant Conversations in the wild (VACW) - includes the transcripts of both visitors requests and Alexa answers, identified topics and sessions as well as acoustic characteristics automatically extractable from the visitors' audio files.
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[
"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Multimodality",
"Speech & Audio in NLP",
"Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents"
] |
[
11,
74,
70,
38
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85103206641
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“Alignment is all you need”: Analyzing cross-lingual text similarity for domain-specific applications
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Cross-lingual text similarity provides an important measure to adjudge the contextual and semantic similarity between documents across different languages. Extraction of similar or aligned multi-lingual texts would enable efficient approaches for information retrieval and natural language processing applications. However, diversity of linguistic constructs coupled with domain specificity and low resources pose a significant challenge. In this paper, we present a study analyzing the performance of different existing approaches, and show that Word Mover's Distance on aligned language embedding provides a reliable and cost-effective cross-lingual text similarity measure to tackle evolving domain information, even when compared to advanced machine learning models.
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[
"Cross-Lingual Transfer",
"Multilinguality"
] |
[
19,
0
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85121047067
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“All Kids Matter”? Catholic Institutional Advocacy for Federal COVID Relief Funding for Non-Public Schools
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This article explores the policy interests expressed by the largest private educational system in the United States, American Catholic schools, during the first four months of the COVID-19 crisis. Critical discourse analysis is applied to public texts produced by the Catholic Church between March 1 and July 1, 2020, in order to understand the discursive strategies through which this institution constructs meaning in the policy arena. This analysis illustrates how Catholic leaders use language to make racialized and low-income students “discursively invisible.” The author documents a significant change in policy discourse, from neoconservative logics to neoliberal ones, which corresponds directly to political signaling from the Trump Administration. Drawing on critical race theory, the author suggests implications for policymakers and stakeholders.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
https://aclanthology.org//2022.nlp4pi-1.14/
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“Am I Answering My Job Interview Questions Right?”: A NLP Approach to Predict Degree of Explanation in Job Interview Responses
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Providing the right amount of explanation in an employment interview can help the interviewee effectively communicate their skills and experience to the interviewer and convince the she/he is the right candidate for the job. This paper examines natural language processing (NLP) approaches, including word-based tokenization, lexicon-based representations, and pre-trained embeddings with deep learning models, for detecting the degree of explanation in a job interview response. These are exemplified in a study of 24 military veterans who are the focal group of this study, since they can experience unique challenges in job interviews due to the unique verbal communication style that is prevalent in the military. Military veterans conducted mock interviews with industry recruiters and data from these interviews were transcribed and analyzed. Results indicate that the feasibility of automated NLP methods for detecting the degree of explanation in an interview response. Features based on tokenizer analysis are the most effective in detecting under-explained responses (i.e., 0.29 F1-score), while lexicon-based methods depict the higher performance in detecting over-explanation (i.e., 0.51 F1-score). Findings from this work lay the foundation for the design of intelligent assistive technologies that can provide personalized learning pathways to job candidates, especially those belonging to sensitive or under-represented populations, and helping them succeed in employment job interviews, ultimately contributing to an inclusive workforce.
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[
"Question Answering",
"Explainability & Interpretability in NLP",
"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Ethical NLP",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
] |
[
27,
81,
11,
17,
4
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84966693483
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“And she does it all in heels”: mothers in contemporary Israeli TV commercials
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Although numerous studies have examined the image of women in advertising, the current study is exceptional in looking at the representations of motherhood and mothering practices in contemporary Israeli TV commercials, in an attempt to shed light on the ideological messages they reflect and promote. Sixty-four TV commercials were analyzed using critical discourse analysis. In many ads the mother is depicted as aesthetically pleasing and shapely. This inclusion of the beauty myth in all its cruel demands into the can-do mother myth, could lead Israeli women to a sense of failure as they compare themselves to the glamorous image in the ads and invariably fall short. The hetero-couple-headed nuclear family shown in many ads seems to be a conservative manifestation of the assumption that the “good mother” exists only in the framework of the normative family unit. It seems that in the context of the advertising genre, these are products that lie at the heart of family and couple relationships, and that it is therefore possible to speak of the commodification of the family. The study also found progressive images of the clever, resourceful mother alongside the pathetic, ridiculed one—a new kind of a “bad mother.”
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Multimodality"
] |
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71,
20,
72,
74
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SCOPUS_ID:84970021659
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“Animanazo”. Song and memories. Cultural expressions and movements in the reconstruction of the past inside a north Argentinian town
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This article analyses the context of production and local situations of appropriation and resignification related to the folk song “Fire on Animaná” as well as the request and mobilization (“The animanazo”) provoked by this song in order to examine different mechanisms and foundations by which a population connect with an event from its community past, identifying with this and taking it in a specific way. In this article we combine discourse analysis of the song and of interviews to participants in this event with the reconstruction —through ethnographic observation— of how to use this song.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85117239131
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“Anyone? Anyone?”: Promoting inter-learner dialogue in synchronous video courses
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Previous discussions of synchronous modalities for online writing instruction have suggested the interpersonal benefits of this mode could minimize the isolation and transactional distance students can experience in online education. However, previous research on synchronous video courses (SVCs) has noted challenges for communication in this modality. This study examined these tensions between affordance and practice in SVCs, exploring how and why students participated and interacted in certain ways in these courses. A triangulated methodology of discourse analysis of class interactions and thematic analysis of interviews with students and instructors from the observed courses was used to present the prevalent discourse patterns within these courses and to contextualize these patterns within students’ and instructors’ experiences. Drawing on the findings of this study, this article presents recommendations for instructional practices faculty can use in SVCs to leverage the affordances and mitigate the challenges of teaching and learning in this modality.
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[
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents",
"Multimodality"
] |
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20,
72,
71,
11,
38,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84948823140
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“Are you saying she’s mentally ill then?” Explaining medically unexplained seizures in clinical encounters
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Bodily phenomena that are difficult to identify, localize, explain and cure with the aid of modern biomedical knowledge and technology leave ample room for cultural influence. That makes them a perfect case for studying the cultural dimension of medical knowledge and practice. Building on this assumption we qualitatively explore the communication between neurologists and women with seizure disorders of uncertain etiology, often labeled psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), in a specialist clinic in England. Based on an interpretation of film-recordings of eight naturally-occurring clinical consultations we discuss the following questions: How do neurologists explain the name, the cause and the treatment options to these patients? How do patients and their companions respond to these explanations? And finally, what makes these interactions so difficult? Our interpretation of the data is inspired by critical discourse analysis, and framed within a social constructionist perspective on medical knowledge and practice. We found that the neurologists presented the diagnosis and its cause—inappropriate stress management—through objective language that conveyed a high degree of certainty. Patient-parties often disagreed, and found it hard to believe that these physical symptoms had a psychological origin. Companions often acted as advocates for the patients in negotiations with the doctors. The polarized debate between psychogenic and somatic understandings of the seizures that emerged illuminates how the Cartesian dualism between body and mind complicates clinical encounters—a dualism doctors explicitly reject, but presumably accept. We argue that it is impossible to overcome this polarization without acknowledging the cultural dimension of medical knowledge and practice.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Explainability & Interpretability in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
] |
[
71,
81,
72,
4
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85147384000
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“As Reliable as a Kalashnikov Rifle”: How Sputnik News Promotes Russian Vaccine Technologies in the Turkish Twittersphere
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Established in 2014, SputnikTR (a localized version of Sputnik News) is the most popular pro-Russian media outlet active in Turkey. The news content published by SputnikTR’s Twitter account currently attracts the highest engagement rates among the international public broadcasters active in Turkey. SputnikTR’s official Twitter account has more followers (1M) than Sputnik News English (326K). This article argues that SputnikTR’s Twitter account is used to promote Russian vaccine technologies in Turkey. We believe that it is also a conduit for the dissemination of pro-Russian as well as anti-Western narratives to the Turkish online public. Using a computational methodology, we collected 2,782 vaccine-related tweets posted by SputnikTR’s Twitter account between April 2019 and April 2021. We deployed framing as well as critical discourse analysis to study the contents of our dataset. Our findings suggest that SputnikTR uses (a) disinformation as well as misinformation in vaccine-related news and (b) unethical communication techniques to maximize engagement with content posted on Twitter. Our findings are significant insofar as they are the first documented instances of Russian propaganda efforts on Turkish Twitter. These efforts seem to be focused on promoting the Russian vaccine while encouraging public hesitancy toward Western vaccine technologies.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85040914605
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“Aspirations of people who come from state education are different”: how language reflects social exclusion in medical education
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Despite repeated calls for change, the problem of widening access (WA) to medicine persists globally. One factor which may be operating to maintain social exclusion is the language used in representing WA applicants and students by the gatekeepers and representatives of medical schools, Admissions Deans. We therefore examined the institutional discourse of UK Medical Admissions Deans in order to determine how values regarding WA are communicated and presented in this context. We conducted a linguistic analysis of qualitative interviews with Admissions Deans and/or Staff from 24 of 32 UK medical schools. Corpus Linguistics data analysis determined broad patterns of frequency and word lists. This informed a critical discourse analysis of the data using an “othering” lens to explore and understand the judgements made of WA students by Admissions Deans, and the practices to which these judgments give rise. Representations of WA students highlighted existing divides and preconceptions in relation to WA programmes and students. Through using discourse that can be considered othering and divisive, issues of social divide and lack of integration in medicine were highlighted. Language served to reinforce pre-existing stereotypes and a significant ‘us’ and ‘them’ rhetoric exists in medical education. Even with drivers to achieve diversity and equality in medical education, existing social structures and preconceptions still influence the representations of applicants and students from outside the ‘traditional’ medical education model in the UK. Acknowledging this is a crucial step for medical schools wishing to address barriers to the perceived challenges to diversity.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85127430166
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“Average” Approximates “First Principal Component”? An Empirical Analysis on Representations from Neural Language Models
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Contextualized representations based on neural language models have furthered the state of the art in various NLP tasks. Despite its great success, the nature of such representations remains a mystery. In this paper, we present an empirical property of these representations-“average” ≈ “first principal component”. Specifically, experiments show that the average of these representations shares almost the same direction as the first principal component of the matrix whose columns are these representations. We believe this explains why the average representation is always a simple yet strong baseline. Our further examinations show that this property also holds in more challenging scenarios, for example, when the representations are from a model right after its random initialization. Therefore, we conjecture that this property is intrinsic to the distribution of representations and not necessarily related to the input structure. We realize that these representations empirically follow a normal distribution for each dimension, and by assuming this is true, we demonstrate that the empirical property can be in fact derived mathematically.
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[
"Language Models",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Representation Learning"
] |
[
52,
72,
12
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85063196867
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“BOMEST” a vital approach to extract the propitious information from the big data
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Cost-effective, innovational methods to extract information and to provide analytic solutions for intensify perspicacity is one of the biggest challenge of big data. So an effective system to extract the accurate information is required for big data. Thus, in this paper, an efficient system to extract the propitious information from the raw big data (BOMEST) is proposed. Proposed BOMEST works by taking the raw data, preprocesses it, and extracts the accurate information based on polarity assigned using POS tagging. BOMEST is applied on the twitter dataset. BOMEST algorithm enhances and improves the accuracy of results by 78% as compared to existing lexicon approach.
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[
"Polarity Analysis",
"Sentiment Analysis"
] |
[
33,
78
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85104949044
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“Back to Where They Were”: The Socio-Discursive Representation of Transgender Sex Workers and Urban Space in a Television News Report
|
Despite significant advances in recent years, Argentina’s transgender community still faces structural social exclusion. For a vast majority of transvestites and transgender women, early expulsion from the family home and the educational system results in having to resort to prostitution as their only option for surviving. Police edicts and other similar devices are used to penalize prostitution and persecute transgender people in public places, showing that prejudice and violence against their identities also manifest in the control of urban space. Here I present the results of an in-depth qualitative linguistic analysis of a 2018 television news report about the temporary relocation of the transgender sex workers from their usual location in the Bosques de Palermo, the biggest public park in the City of Buenos Aires. The theoretical frame is Critical Discourse Analysis and the methodology is inductive and qualitative. The analysis centers on the linguistic resources that define the socio-discursive representation about the transgender sex workers in relation with urban space and the city’s government. The bases of the analysis are the Synchronic-Diachronic Method for the Linguistic Analysis of Texts and the Method of Converging Linguistic Approaches. These methods revealed, in the first place, that the transvestites and transgender women are represented as mere occupants of public space through their close association with the discursive category of Space. In the second place, they are represented as fundamentally passive in relation to the Government of the City of Buenos Aires; while, at the same time, the government’s responsibility for their displacement is systematically mitigated. Finally, the lack of work alternatives to prostitution for the transgender community is naturalized through the persistent association of the discursive categories connected with transgender people, prostitution and urban space. If we compare these results with those of previous research, we can see that these discursive features—none of which challenge the status quo—remain one of the basic components of the socio-discursive representation of transgender people elaborated by the mainstream media.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Representation Learning"
] |
[
71,
72,
12
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85145886777
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“Batting” around Ideas: A Design/Development Study of Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge of Text Difficulty and Text Complexity
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This study reports the knowledge of text complexity held by preservice teachers prior to coursework. The goal of this research is to determine what strengths and what learning needs preservice teachers have related to text selection with the intention of informing programmatic redesign. In this preliminary component of a design-development study, we report findings from the Text Complexity Task, a verbal protocol task administered to 31 preservice teachers. Findings show that when evaluating text complexity, preservice teachers noted word and text-level features, but attended less to phonemic patterns, multisyllable words, and sentence-level features. Additionally, participants differed in their arguments about how some text features (e.g., unknown vocabulary, rhyming patterns) influence text difficulty. Preservice teachers also differed in their views of how a reader’s prior knowledge influences text difficulty, vocabulary knowledge, and word solving. The article concludes with recommendations for teacher educators interested in improving preservice teachers’ text selection for reading instruction.
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[
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Text Complexity"
] |
[
72,
42
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85124506783
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“Be a better version of you!”: A corpus-driven critical discourse analysis of MOOC platforms' marketing communication
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This study examines the representation, reconstruction, and promotion of the 'ideal subject' of the job market in the promotional materials of the online/life-long learning platforms known as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We take a corpus-driven critical discourse analysis to investigate the marketing language in the subscription e-mails and websites of six English-medium MOOC platforms. The analysis shows that the platforms use an array of promotional persuasion strategies, including advice-giving, autonomization and responsibilization of individuals and reinforce a self-betterment discourse to create marketable employees. Through the use of a distinct blend of higher education, marketing, and self-help discourses, the skills-oriented language explicitly references job insecurity and urges the individual to (re)build oneself tirelessly to remain demandable/marketable, neglecting an intellectual advancement angle. This ideology legitimizes the neoliberal demands for the enterprising-self and employability and feeds into one's fear of failure, ranking individuals in the society based on a value-adding/detracting practice.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85027951620
|
“Because youre worth it”: A discourse analysis of the gendered rhetoric of the ADHD woman
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Drawing on the traditions of discursive psychology and critical discourse analysis this study examined the presentation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in women in a sample of the most commonly identified online YouTube videos on this topic. The video material selected represented a combination of first-person testimonies from the “sufferer” and the sharing of “expertise” by “professionals.” Analysis involved the identification of common rhetorical devices and evaluation of the role of these devices in conveying various key meanings or themes. The categories generated by this method told a story of the construction of an “ADHD product” presented to women by other women, and unproblematically positioned within the biomedical discourse. Stimulant medication was endorsed for its ability to improve performance at work and in the domestic sphere. Women sufferers in the videos appear as “active consumers” promoting the ADHD diagnosis for its ability to enable them to fulfil the “superwoman” ideal. The medicalisation of underperformance witnessed in the videos is discussed in relation to literature on modern-day “discourses of femininity.
|
[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
71,
20,
72,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85090085374
|
“Believe My Word Dear Father that You Can’t Pick Up Money Here as Quick as the People at Home Thinks It”: Exploring Migration Experiences in Irish Emigrants’ Letters
|
This paper aims to investigate the conceptualisation of migration experiences in the personal correspondence exchanged between Irish emigrants to the United States, Australia and New Zealand and their significant others in Ireland between 1840 and 1930. In doing so, the study proposes a corpus-pragmatic examination of the words land and situation in order to elucidate the various ways in which the concepts of migration, enhancement of social standing and belonging are linguistically and pragmatically constructed in epistolary discourse. Using the Word Sketch function on Sketch Engine corpus tool, the quantitative analysis involves examining the collocational behaviour of land and situation in both datasets. Secondly, a qualitative examination of the linguistic patterns is conducted in order to compare and contrast migration experiences in Australia/New Zealand and USA and ascertain the extend to which specific migration experiences influenced Irish emigrants’ emotional attitudes towards departure and life abroad. The collocational analyses of land(s) and situation(s) highlight two main themes in the Australian letters: (1) settlerism and the search for restoration of social status and (2) the role of letter writing as a means for sense-making. In contrast, the USA data unveils a contradictory and rather negative image of America that couples with an acute homesickness. Finally, the study discusses the pragmatic functions homesickness may have served to encourage or discourage emigration in rural Ireland.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85062739390
|
“Bent and Directed Towards Him”: A Stylistic Analysis of Kircher’s Sunflower Clock
|
In this article, I explore the potential of style concepts, and especially the concept of the baroque, for the history of science. I argue for a pragmatic theory of style that avoids the traditional problems of essentialist or idealist style concepts. A pragmatic style concept is very useful for describing larger cultural structures, based on resemblances between different practices, especially if evidence of concrete circulations of knowledge is lacking. Style concepts such as the ‘baroque’ are not only relevant for discerning large scale structures, but they can also be an indispensable tool for historians of science to make sense of particular practices or objects. I illustrate this by analysing one of the most striking marvels of the baroque: a clock made from a sunflower plant. The historiography has analysed this object as part of the controversy around copernicanism. In order to come to grips with this object, however, it is important to embed it in its baroque context. From studying the meanings of clocks, magnetism and sunflowers in different practices, certain resemblances come to the fore. These resemblances point at a broader ‘baroque culture’, which in its turn helps us to better contextualise and understand the sunflower clock.
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[
"Stylistic Analysis",
"Sentiment Analysis"
] |
[
67,
78
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85044032594
|
“Bitch, You Got What You Deserved!”: Violation and Violence in Sex Buyer Reviews of Legal Brothels
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In this article, we use feminist critical discourse analysis to examine online brothel reviews (148 reviews and 2,424 reply posts) of sex buyers in the context of debates surrounding harm minimization. Our findings show that sex buyers actively construct and normalize narratives of sexual violation and violence against women in licensed brothels through their language, referencing objectification, unsafe sex practices, and, in more extreme cases, rape to create a sense of community with other punters. Through this analysis, we challenge existing assumptions about harm minimization in systems of prostitution, which are legalized or fully decriminalized.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85126090335
|
“Bolsonarism” on Facebook from the perspective of discursive formulas
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This article offers an analysis of the term “bolsonarismo”, considering its genesis and its uses at three different moments on digital social networks, to evaluate its correspondence to a discursive formula (Krieg-Planque, 2010). We extracted Facebook posts for September 27, 2018, November 16, 2020 and February 18, 2021. We rely on data science tools and Digital Discourse Analysis (Paveau, 2014, 2017) to outline a discursive timeline (Malini et al, 2020) that shows disputes over meaning, in addition to the term's circulation and occupation in the digital space. Regarding the elements of the formula that arose from the relations/interactions of “bolsonarismo” with other terms, we can understand how social actors are discursively organized online.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85061611778
|
“Both Sides Now”: Articulating Textiles and Fashioned Bodies in the Works of Joni Mitchell, 1968–1976
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The singer–songwriter–artist Joni Mitchell (née Anderson, born on November 7, 1943) is recognized in the worlds of music and fashion alike for her creative influences since the late 1960s. In this article, we share the findings from a critical discourse analysis of the lyrics and album art produced by Mitchell between 1968 and 1976. We consider how she represented a philosophy of “Both Sides Now” (i.e., both/and thinking) as she articulated—in words as well as visual art—three dynamic and unresolvable contradictions that provide new insights for fashion theory: (a) domesticity and worldliness, (b) bourgeois capitalism and bohemianism, and (c) beauty and destruction. In the process of articulating ambivalences and contradictions, Mitchell reveals how cultural power relations associated with gender, sexuality, age, and class (and their intersectionalities) intervene through textiles, clothing, and fashioned bodies.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85138915006
|
“Broadcast your gender.” A comparison of four text-based classification methods of German YouTube channels
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Social media platforms provide a large array of behavioral data relevant to social scientific research. However, key information such as sociodemographic characteristics of agents are often missing. This paper aims to compare four methods of classifying social attributes from text. Specifically, we are interested in estimating the gender of German social media creators. By using the example of a random sample of 200 YouTube channels, we compare several classification methods, namely (1) a survey among university staff, (2) a name dictionary method with the World Gender Name Dictionary as a reference list, (3) an algorithmic approach using the website gender-api.com, and (4) a Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB) machine learning technique. These different methods identify gender attributes based on YouTube channel names and descriptions in German but are adaptable to other languages. Our contribution will evaluate the share of identifiable channels, accuracy and meaningfulness of classification, as well as limits and benefits of each approach. We aim to address methodological challenges connected to classifying gender attributes for YouTube channels as well as related to reinforcing stereotypes and ethical implications.
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[
"Information Retrieval",
"Text Classification",
"Information Extraction & Text Mining"
] |
[
24,
36,
3
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85045638581
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“But I Don't Want to Tell Them the Answer”: Preservice Teachers’ (mis)understandings about literacy instruction
|
The purpose of this study was to notice and name the beliefs 33 preservice teachers had about literacy teaching/learning. The beliefs were noted by using evidence from their ‘language-in-use’ during supported, literacy planning sessions with a teacher educator. Critical discourse analysis revealed that the preservice teachers believed (1) assessment is instruction, (2) literacy teaching/learning is inauthentic, and (3) children are not intellectually motivated. The findings are discussed through the lenses of figured worlds and the apprenticeship of observation. Implications for teacher educators are offered.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85033442786
|
“Can we borrow your phone? Employee privacy in the BYOD era”
|
Purpose: This paper aims to (a) summarize the legal and ethical foundations of privacy with connections to workplace emails and text messages, (b) describe trends and challenges related to “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD), and (c) propose legal and nonlegal questions these trends will raise in the foreseeable future. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a review of legal cases and scholarship related to workplace privacy, implications for BYOD practices are proposed. Findings: Primarily due to property rights, employers in the USA have heretofore been granted wide latitude in monitoring employee communications. The BYOD trend has the potential to challenge this status quo. Originality value: BYOD programs present discernable threats to employee privacy. Attention is also directed toward contributing elements such as wearable technology, cloud computing and company cultures.
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[
"Ethical NLP",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
] |
[
17,
4
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84920520046
|
“Can we get there from here?” Negotiating the washouts, cave-ins, dead ends, and other hazards on the road to research on Africa
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This introduction to Africana reference describes the populations of researchers, the kinds of questions they ask, and how librarians– both specialist and generalist–may respond. It explores issues in “known-item” searches, including name authority and access to material in collected works and series. Choices made by authors, publishers, indexers, librarians, and researchers themselves have an impact on topic searches. Terminology for African languages, ethnic groups, place names, and topics cause problems for novice researchers, but library policy decisions can also impede access. Errors of all kinds–minor or major–can block access to information. The speed of electronic desktop publishing seems to have encouraged reduced care with proofreading, indexing, and verification of quotations and citations. The need for accurate information about Africa is great, but the market for publications and electronic resources focused on Africa is relatively small. This low market share can result in less coverage of Africa in indexes and reference tools. Despite the difficulties encountered in researching Africa, researchers and the librarians who assist them benefit from the tools, services, and initiatives of specialist Africana librarians and from a number of commercially produced resources.
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[
"Indexing",
"Information Retrieval"
] |
[
69,
24
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85123431556
|
“Can you beat your wife, yes or no?”: a study of hegemonic femininity in Kazakhstan’s online discourses
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This study investigates how standards of hegemonic femininity in Kazakhstan are utilised by the public in online spaces to police Kazakh women’s bodies, glorify national culture, and normalise violence against women who do not conform to these standards. Drawing upon discourse analysis as the primary method for examining available comments on Facebook and Instagram, this paper is one of the first studies of modern Kazakh nationalism from a critical gendered perspective that situates discourses about Kazakh women in the context of sexual violence and demonstrates the “weaponisation” of women’s bodies and the normalisation of violence against them in online spaces.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85128314690
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“Can you read my mind?” Conventionalized indirect requests and Theory of Mind abilities
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Recent proposals in pragmatics identified two types of pragmatics: linguistic-pragmatics and social-pragmatics, as comprehension seems to rely on linguistic and Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities to different extents depending on the phenomenon. In this respect, a clear picture of indirect requests (IRs) processing is lacking. Experimental works suggest non-conventionalized IRs are processed by means of a conversational implicature based on metarepresentation of the whole utterance, therefore belonging to social-pragmatics. However, it is unclear whether this applies to conventionalized IRs, which are globally processed faster than non-conventionalized IRs. Conventionalized IRs are either conversational implicatures requiring ToM, though “short-circuited” (but still derived globally); or a linguistic-pragmatics phenomenon whose processing is triggered locally. Our study investigates to what extent mentalizing is involved in their comprehension. Ninety-one Italian adults (mean age = 35.85(9.85)) performed a self-paced region-by-region reading task where Can you…? forms were presented in a directive, non-directive, and sarcastic condition. Reading times were calculated per sentence and per sentence-region. ToM abilities were also tested. Results suggest that conventionalized IRs processing starts locally, triggered by the Can you. Individual ToM differences had an impact, but mainly on the Can you sentence-region. These findings seem to support a view of conventionalized IRs as a linguistic-pragmatics phenomenon.
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[
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Linguistics & Cognitive NLP",
"Linguistic Theories",
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents"
] |
[
72,
48,
57,
71,
11,
38
] |
https://aclanthology.org//W19-1806/
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“Caption” as a Coherence Relation: Evidence and Implications
|
We study verbs in image–text corpora, contrasting caption corpora, where texts are explicitly written to characterize image content, with depiction corpora, where texts and images may stand in more general relations. Captions show a distinctively limited distribution of verbs, with strong preferences for specific tense, aspect, lexical aspect, and semantic field. These limitations, which appear in data elicited by a range of methods, restrict the utility of caption corpora to inform image retrieval, multimodal document generation, and perceptually-grounded semantic models. We suggest that these limitations reflect the discourse constraints in play when subjects write texts to accompany imagery, so we argue that future development of image–text corpora should work to increase the diversity of event descriptions, while looking explicitly at the different ways text and imagery can be coherently related.
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[
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Captioning",
"Text Generation",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
20,
39,
47,
74
] |
https://aclanthology.org//W19-3519/
|
“Condescending, Rude, Assholes”: Framing gender and hostility on Stack Overflow
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The disciplines of Gender Studies and Data Science are incompatible. This is conventional wisdom, supported by how many computational studies simplify gender into an immutable binary categorization that appears crude to the critical social researcher. I argue that the characterization of gender norms is context specific and may prove valuable in constructing useful models. I show how gender can be framed in computational studies as a stylized repetition of acts mediated by a social structure, and not a possessed biological category. By conducting a review of existing work, I show how gender should be explored in multiplicity in computational research through clustering techniques, and layout how this is being achieved in a study in progress on gender hostility on Stack Overflow.
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[
"Ethical NLP",
"Responsible & Trustworthy NLP"
] |
[
17,
4
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85062468523
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“Cool! Bikini and lingerie instead of Burka!”–the discursive representation of Muslim women in Austrian women’s magazines
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Within “Western” controversies, the headscarf is stylised as a symbol of “oppression” and “backwardness” while “unveiling” is simultaneously associated with “self-determination” and “modernity”. As object of a critical discourse analysis, this dichotomisation was also found in Austrian women’s magazines; “the veiled” Muslim woman was constructed as “traditional” and appeared mostly as an “object” of speech. “The unveiled” woman, however, was more frequently featured directly in interviews, typically thematising “modern”—i.e., “Western” assimilated—lifestyles and ways of dressing. Strikingly however, by drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of subalternity, we conclude that also the more “visible” or “hearable” discourse position—even if it seems to provide Muslim women with agency at first glance—similarly colludes in a further silencing of Muslim women.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Representation Learning"
] |
[
71,
72,
12
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85131760103
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“Cultural Connotations and Phraseological Units of Umbrella in Chinese”
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The umbrella plays an important role in Chinese society and is widely used everywhere. Throughout history, it has been used for a variety of purposes, which led to the development of a special symbolism. In this paper, based on the Conventional Figurative Language Theory by Dobrovol'skij and Piirainen (2005) from a linguo-cultural perspective, we focus on analysing the symbolism of the umbrella in Chinese culture and in its phraseological units (both in Mandarin and in Cantonese). This study demonstrates the productivity of the cultural image of the umbrella, reflecting its particular connotations and symbolism in China. Besides, the symbolism and metaphors of the umbrella demonstrate some beliefs, concepts, as well as social and cultural practices of China, by means of the interaction between language and culture in general, and between phraseology and culture in particular.
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[
"Linguistics & Cognitive NLP",
"Linguistic Theories"
] |
[
48,
57
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85126044199
|
“Cute Goddess is Actually an Aunty”: The Evasive Middle-Aged Woman Streamer and Normative Performances of Femininity in Video Game Streaming
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In this paper the focus is on the representations of “middle-aged” or “aging” women streamers in western media. I analyze discussions in Western online media around a case of Chinese DouYu live-streamer. “Qiaobiluo Dianxia,” as her streamer name goes, became a topic in Western media after a glitch in her live stream revealed her to be a middle-aged woman, rather than young woman she was assumed to be. The discussions are analyzed with critical discourse analysis. It is argued that the aging bodies of women, both their presence and absence, should be read and understood through toxic gaming culture and geek masculinity and the hegemonic discourse they constitute.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
71,
20,
72,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85104084527
|
“Daddy, Can You Speak Our Language?” Multilingual and Intercultural Awareness through Identity Texts
|
The premise of the present paper is that an intercultural approach to multilingualism in schools generates inclusion and a construction of cultural and linguistic identity that respects the diversity of society and classrooms. Students, teachers, and families participated in an action research project conducted in four schools with the presence of varied home languages. One of the objectives of the project is to foster intercultural education by introducing home languages in the school through identity texts. The process was documented through questionnaires, interviews with families and educators, and classroom observations. Results show that the texts and the curricular activities designed around them have provided spaces for the recognition and valuation of diversity. The self-esteem of alloglot students has improved and the collaborative relationship between school and families has increased. Conclusions point at the potential of multilingualism as a way to enrich the curriculum and to promote equality from diversity in the school context.
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[
"Multilinguality"
] |
[
0
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85093119594
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“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”: Women’s accounts of feigning sexual pleasure
|
Faking orgasm has been identified as a common practice among women and feminist scholars have probed the connections between the socio-cultural meanings associated with faking and heterosex. Expanding on this line of inquiry, feigning sexual pleasure was explored in interviews with 14 women who reported having sex with men. Using a feminist critical discourse analytic approach, we attend to the dilemma that was frequently evoked in women’s accounts. Participants explained that feigning sexual pleasure was done in order to protect their partners’ ego. However, participants also talked about faking orgasm as being problematic in the sense that it was “deceitful” and “dishonest”. These contrasting discursive patterns created a dilemma whereby faking was situated as “necessary” but “dishonest”. As a way of negotiating this dilemma, participants made a distinction between exaggerating sexual pleasure and faking orgasm. We posit that exaggeration can be interpreted as a form of material (during the sexual encounter) and discursive (during accounting of the encounter) disruption of dominant discourses of heterosex such as the orgasmic imperative. Drawing on Annamarie Jagose’s and Hannah Frith’s problematizations of the prevailing tendency to position orgasm as either “authentic” or “fake”, we discuss women’s negotiation of the limited constructions of “real” pleasure.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
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71,
72
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SCOPUS_ID:85041575381
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“Despite these many challenges”: The textual construction of autonomy of a corporatised South African University
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The paper critically discusses how the notion of autonomy is textually constructed in the neo-liberal discourses of a corporatised public South African higher education system. By employing the methods of critical discourse analysis (CDA), I analyse two selected texts written by various leaders connected to the University of Johannesburg between 2013 and 2014. This includes a newspaper article written by the vice chancellor and a strategic document produced by the University of Johannesburg in 2014. The strategic document, the focus of this article, is a governance text that operationalises neo-liberal ideas and encourages academics, through its understanding of autonomy, to conform to the values of global competition, entrepreneurship and performance as ends in themselves. The operationalisation of these values leads to a denial of the social which I argue renders the the problems of unemployment, poverty and inequality as rhetorical tropes in these texts. The paper implicitly argues that the concept of autonomy is highly problematic.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
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71,
72
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SCOPUS_ID:85061199762
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“Devil’s Lure Took All I Had”: Moral Panic and the Discursive Construction of Crystal Methamphetamine in Australian News Media
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Crystal methamphetamine (“ice”) has been a fixture in Australian newspapers since the early 2000s. This study explores discourses at work in constructing the ice “problem” in recent Australian media, possible implications for how people who use ice are discursively positioned, and the resulting significance for drug policy. Twenty-seven articles were selected for discourse analysis, sampled from a larger study of Australian ice-related news items. By critically engaging with sociological concepts of “moral panic” and the “risk society,” we demonstrate how three media discourses produce the subject of the “young person” as both victimized by ice and a catastrophic threat in and of themselves: (1) “ice traps and transforms youth,” (2) “ice does not discriminate,” and (3) “ice perverts sanctuary.” These discourses illustrate the tensions between the meanings of ice use and understandings of safety and risk, speaking to current anxieties in Western, neoliberal societies. Ice use is further constructed as a form of abjection, threatening traditional social boundaries and institutions. However, the agency and determinism simultaneously granted to ice the substance troubles the notion we are witnessing yet another “drug scare” that polices social behavior. Instead, we observe how these discourses mirror those in the biomedical literature, which construct ice as a uniform, agentic, and uniquely dangerous drug. With use attributed to entrapment and/or naturalized as addiction, the drug is constituted as engineering its own, always harmful, consumption. This limits conceptions of any “safer,” “rational,” or “pleasurable” forms of ice use and further justifies state intervention on its users. Overall, these discourses rationalize prohibitionist interventions around ice and singularize drug consumption as a behavior requiring institutional management.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
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71,
72
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SCOPUS_ID:85085191469
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“Digital storytelling” in teaching: Lessons learned at WUT
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The paper contains reflections on the course “Digital Storytelling” held as transdisciplinary discipline for 2nd and 3rd-year students of the West University of Timisoara (WUT). We started from the ideas that: ▪ Through a transversal course, one student enrolled in a faculty of the WUT have the opportunity to attend 3-7 transversal courses offered by the 10 other faculties from the university. By doing this they have the possibility to gather more skills necessary for their academic path, but also for developing new skills that are required in the nowadays interconnected society. ▪ Storytelling as a method to teach is accessible, dynamic, and can attract students’ interest in deepening their understanding of the subjects taught. ▪ If there were a negative review of a teacher and a positive review of the course taught by said teacher, would the student enroll to the course? Would the student need an additional opinion before enrolling to the course? How can one determine whether the next review is positive or negative? And how would that influence one? Thus, we applied an online questionnaire to gain insights from the students enrolled in the " Digital Storytelling” course about the quality of the training, the acquired skills, the utility and the applicability of the course. Based on the questionnaire, we performed a quantitative analysis combined with a sentiment analysis and described the educational challenges encountered during the course. Overall, the students appreciated the Digital Storytelling course as a positive experience.
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"Sentiment Analysis"
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78
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SCOPUS_ID:85017541805
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“Discord melted away”: Metaphors of emotions in swahili literary texts
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Metaphors are pervasive in both our everyday speech and literary language. They are particularly effective for codifying complex emotional experiences. In a literary context, the question arises of what makes literary metaphorical expressions different from the ones used in everyday speech. In Swahili literature, which is extremely rich in images of emotions, we can distinguish between conventionalized metaphors (e.g., “kujua kwa moyo” ‘to know by heart’) and less conventionalized/literary metaphors (e.g., “kuwasha moto moyoni” ‘to light a fire in the heart’). This paper analyzes the description of emotions, with a particular focus on metaphors of love and anger, in extracts from the novels Kiu [Thirst], by the Zanzibarian author Mohamed Suleiman (1972), and Dar es Salaam Usiku [Dar es Salaam by Night] by the Tanzanian author Ben Mtobwa (1989). Additional examples from a Swahili literary corpus established at University of Naples “L’Orientale” (NaSwaLi), mainly composed of contemporary prose, will also be taken into account.
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[
"Emotion Analysis",
"Multimodality",
"Speech & Audio in NLP",
"Sentiment Analysis"
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78
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SCOPUS_ID:85128180956
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“Discoursing sectarianism” approach: What and how to analyse in sectarian discourses
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This article puts forth ‘discoursing sectarianism’ as an approach helping overcome gaps in essentialism, instrumentalism and constructivism as the three main lines of analysing sectarianism. The approach takes language as a point of departure, showing how it can dually describe reality as a ‘neutral’ medium of communication and also create reality as constitutive component of practices sectarianisation. The approach also focuses on workings of ideology and power relations as part of linking language, texted in variable formats such as written speeches, monuments or images, with contexts shaping or being shaped with them. Thus, we have to study manifestations or articulations sectarianism, e.g. a speech or an image, within the broader process of their actualisation or materialisation (e.g. the context in which these articulations are enforced, transformed, challenged or falsified). This broader process of discoursing sectarianism within language and beyond can thus accommodate elements predominating analyses in the three other lines of enquiry such as religion and history. The final section of the paper maps a practical and analytical toolkit for researchers and analysts seeking to investigate sectarian discourses by offering the three mutually inclusive levels of textual practices, discursive practices and political practices.
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"Visual Data in NLP",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Speech & Audio in NLP",
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Multimodality"
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70,
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74
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SCOPUS_ID:84953637489
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“Do you want an idea of what they’re doing?” Transgressive data generation and analysis within a bilingual writers workshop
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We consider how research participants engage alongside researchers as choreographers of data generation and highlight the everyday practices of researchers and participants in motion within and across time and space. Data for this case analysis were generated during a two-year qualitative study investigating multimodal literacies, multilingualism, and literacy teacher development. We utilized microethnographic discourse analysis to analyze a video excerpt from a classroom observation during writers workshop in a fourth-grade bilingual classroom. We sought to understand how the teacher’s and students’ discursive moves during the event tactically disrupted the researchers’ agenda in the moment and complicated attempts at data analysis. Our analyses illustrate how the teacher multiply situated herself in ways that trouble dichotomous framings of teachers’ work, such as traditional or nontraditional, as well as dominant conceptualizations of qualitative research, such as data “collection.” We end with implications for interpreting and representing research findings.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Multilinguality"
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71,
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0
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SCOPUS_ID:85140152223
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“Doing the math”: Word problems in the primary grades - solve “take-from with change unknown” story problems with grade 1 (6- and 7-year-old) students
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“The teacher needs to ‘do the math’ in order to make the classroom a true math community.” A powerful summary, gleaned from student input at the end of a lesson and guided by the teacher’s plan, has the potential to imprint the new learning metacognitively for students, making it readily accessible for future work. The team wondered how they could slow students down enough for them to make sense of a problem first and then choose an operation that matched the context of the problem. The team began to think of word problems as complex texts. Drawing on their literacy work, the team decided to try explicitly teaching students to use visualization with their word problems, just as they did in their reading. In the post-lesson discussion, observers noted hearing students refer to the pictures in their discussions, which seemed like good evidence that they were making use of the comprehension support the pictures provided.
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[
"Reasoning",
"Numerical Reasoning"
] |
[
8,
5
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SCOPUS_ID:85120866894
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“Don’t Neglect the User!” – Identifying Types of Human-Chatbot Interactions and their Associated Characteristics
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Interactions with conversational agents (CAs) become increasingly common in our daily life. While research on human-CA interactions provides insights into the role of CAs, the active role of users has been mostly neglected. We addressed this void by applying a thematic analysis approach and analysed 1000 interactions between a chatbot and customers of an energy provider. Informed by the concepts of social presence and social cues and using the abductive logic, we identified six human-chatbot interaction types that differ according to salient characteristics, including direction, social presence, social cues of customers and the chatbot and customer effort. We found that bi-directionality, a medium degree of social presence and selected social cues used by the chatbot and customers are associated with desirable outcomes in which customers mostly obtain requested information. The findings help us understand the nature of human-CA interactions in a customer service context and inform the design and evaluation of CAs.
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[
"Natural Language Interfaces",
"Dialogue Systems & Conversational Agents"
] |
[
11,
38
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85097224413
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“Driving wedges” and “hijacking” Pride: Disrupting narratives of black inclusion in LGBT politics and the Canadian national imaginary
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This paper analyzes public debate pertaining to a demonstration by the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLMTO) at the city’s 2016 Pride parade. The movement’s actions, and ultimately the organization itself, have been widely condemned for disrupting the event and calling attention to anti-Black racism within the Toronto Police Service and queer spaces. A critical discourse analysis of mainstream media content reveals the emergence of three major themes repeated across Canadian news outlets in the denouncement of BLMTO. Central to this process is the myth of multiculturalism, which effectively displaces the phenomenon of racism onto previous centuries and other countries. By scrutinizing the parameters of the Canadian national imaginary, this paper reveals the ways in which anti-Black racism has become compounded by the mainstream LGBT movement.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85148518626
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“Easy” meta-embedding for detecting and correcting semantic errors in Arabic documents
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Word-Embedding models have enabled massive advances in natural language understanding tasks and achieved state-of-the-art performances in multiple natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we present an original method based on an “easy” meta-embedding to automatically detect and correct Arabic real-words errors that are semantically inconsistent with the context of the sentence. Due to the lexical proximity of words in Arabic, the risk of having this type of errors in documents is relatively high compared to other languages. Our method uses three word embedding techniques and their combination, namely SkipGram, FastText and BERT for both detection and correction. It checks the semantic affinity of words with the immediate context in a collocation and the near context of the sentence. Experiments have shown that the proposed meta-embedding improves the overall performance of our system.
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[
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Representation Learning"
] |
[
72,
12
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85113780381
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“Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go”: Socialising a newcomer-celebrity and co-constructing relational connection on Twitter Nigeria
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The paper is a case study on socialising a Nigerian celebrity new to Twitter and the co-construction of relational connection among the interactants on Twitter Nigeria. The data comprise tweets retrieved from the Twitter timeline of the celebrity and subjected to interactional pragmatics analysis. The analysis reveals that the Twitter users deployed the interactional practices of joint fantasising, intertextual allusions and ethnolinguistic repertoire to orient to the newcomer-celebrity's identity, mark their own regular users' identity and co-construct the need for caution by the celebrity. The paper argues that socialising celebrities new to Twitter might include emphasising that their statuses as celebrities might expose them to more savage replies and targeted bullying in the form of ‘dragging’, perhaps more frequently and at a much larger scale than an ‘ordinary’ Twitter user; and that they need to be cautious in their deployment of micro-celebrity strategies targeted at amassing followers/fans on Twitter and in their overall interactional and relational behaviours on Twitter as celebrities. Concerning relational connection, as the architecture of Twitter is not built around people who have prior connections, it is argued that relational connection may need to be co-constructed from scratch by interacting Twitter users who may be total strangers.
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"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85130825016
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“El Mofongo Deli Restaurant”: Advertising Discourse, Language Ideology, and Shop Signs in the Village of Ossining, New York
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According to the US Census Bureau, the 2019 population of the Village of Ossining, New York, was 24,812. Officially, “Hispanic or Latino” residents were 44.3% of the population—a percentage that has grown steadily since at least 1980, when it was less than 9%. One way this change is reflected is through the composition of the enterprises in Ossining’s main commercial district; in particular, through each store’s faҫade sign. This billboard-like display serves to identify and advertise the store. But what is it advertising, really? Why are some of the signs monolingual and others multilingual? Can diverse nationalities stake out a place for themselves through their signs? By analysing both their language(s) and paralanguage, some conclusions can be made about their (intended) meaning, their (intended) audience, and about the shifting language ideology in the village. The faҫade signs capture the diverse ethnic make-up of this village, constructing a particular public space and revealing a dynamic linguistic landscape.
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"Multilinguality"
] |
[
0
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84958165733
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“Elimination of Handwitten Penciling from Used Drill Texts”
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Drill texts are used with the aim of iterative practice. But drill texts are usually used by directly penciling. So repetitive using is difficult. This paper proposes the method to eliminate penciling from used drill texts. Mounting such function in photocopiers will solve above problem. Proposed method uses image feature of writing materials to eliminate penciling. Distinction of penciling by image feature materializes the elimination whatever their shapes. Experimental results show that penciling could be eliminated using proposed method with above 99% accuracy. And there was little false elimination of machine printing with proposed method. © 2010, The Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan. All rights reserved.
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[
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
20,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85129293221
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“Enemy image” and the atmosphere of “cold confrontation” in the foreign cinema in the 1960-1970s
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In an article based on the materials of foreign, mostly Anglo-American, media texts of the 1960s-1970s, an attempt is made to attribute the internal and external threat, danger and alienation as the main complex factors that generate an atmosphere of “cold confrontation”. The main types and forms of visual-cognitive manifestation and interpretation of otherness in the cinematic “hyper-reality” are analyzed in the historical-philosophical, cultural and cinematographic foreshortening. The author comes to the conclusion that the deduced conditional types of manifestations of alienness - the “alien-in-itself”, the “enemy-false-hero”, the “enemy-pragmatist» and their combinations can be used to reconstruct the national-state mutual perception and dynamics of collective memory in modern stage.
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[
"Visual Data in NLP",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
20,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:84961391698
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“Environmentally Friendly Oil and Gas Production”: Analyzing Governmental Argumentation and Press Deliberation on Oil Policy
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This article exemplifies an approach to analyzing political arguments and press deliberation on the issue of climate change and oil policy. I apply political discourse analysis to examine an oil minister's press conference presentation of the key official document on Norway's future oil policy, and evaluate how he attempted to reconcile the country's expansive petroleum policy with its self-proclaimed ambition of being world leading in responsible climate policy. The analysis displays how the minister's argumentation served to legitimate an expansive oil policy by projecting an altruistic motivation and invoking the authority of the tradition of the industry. This is supplemented by an analysis of newspaper editorials and commentaries on the speech, identifying a major split in viewpoints between local and national newspapers. The analyses evaluate arguments in an explicit manner, for example by critically questioning their value premises, thus suggesting an approach that could benefit critical research on environmental communication.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85114266138
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“Es porque tienen ganas de aprender”: How a Non-profit Teacher Creates a Learning Environment to Help College-Aged Syrian Displaced Students Adapt and Learn Spanish in México
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This chapter draws from an ethnographic study of Syrian displaced young adults living in México, who are commencing their university studies. Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, many of these young adults spent several years in refugee camps or in cities under siege before arriving in México through special arrangements made by a non-governmental organization (NGO). Using an ethnographic and discourse analytic approach (Rymes B, Classroom discourse analysis: a tool for critical reflection. Routledge, 2016; Wortham S, Reyes A, Discourse analysis beyond the speech event. Routledge, 2015), this chapter looks at how a Spanish language arts teacher is able to foster a learning environment where Syrian displaced students are engaged and willing to participate in their new educational environment. Although today many language education programs for migrants are dominated by monolingual ideologies and practices, there is a growing concern among educators and administrators about how to best promote academic success among the refugee and transnational student population (Cummins J, Can J Appl Linguist 10:221–240, 2007; García O, Kleyn T, Translanguaging with multilingual students: learning from classroom moments. Routledge, New York, 2016; Naidoo L, Int Educ 26:210–217, https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2015.1048079, 2015; Warriner D, Curric Inq 47:50–61, https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2016.1254501, 2017). This chapter argues that understanding the pedagogical practices enacted by language instructors can give educators and administrators an insight into advancing the language goals of displaced students.
|
[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85121614754
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“Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade”: Exploring LGBTI+ digital activism in Turkey
|
This article analyses the #HerYürüyüşümüzOnurYürüyüşü (Every Parade of Ours is a Pride Parade) hashtag campaign for 2019 Pride month in Turkey, expressing the collective frustration of the LGBTI+ community against long-lasting bans for LGBTI+ events and public assembly. Drawing on a digital ethnography from Twitter, the article explores networked resistances within the complexity of online and offline entanglements of activism during Istanbul Pride 2019. The multimodal discourse analysis conducted in this article focuses on the interactions of digital affordances and embodied street actions in rearticulating queer political places. The study emphasizes the important role of hashtag activism in the (re)making of place as a trans-located experience, as well as affording emergent LGBTI+ resistances.
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[
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Semantic Text Processing"
] |
[
71,
72
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85016293927
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“Face the music!” The Daily Sun's representation of adolescent sex in the Jules High sex scandal
|
Rather than being merely a physiological stage, adolescence is variously constructed through social institutions. The media plays a significant role in such constructions, including that of adolescent sexuality. In the recent past there have been several cases of sexual acts involving adolescents that have received prominent media coverage as they have been considered shocking. The Jules High School sex scandal related to sex acts between a single adolescent girl and two adolescent boys. It was recorded on mobile phones by their peers and circulated on their mobile networks, or ‘went viral’ as the media continuously noted. The press coverage surrounding this incident and the legal process that ensued is the focus of this Article which undertakes a critical textual analysis of the coverage in the popular tabloid, the Daily Sun, in order to make explicit the contesting sets of discourses around adolescence and sexuality that were articulated in this popular public sphere. The Article uses a Foucauldian framework in order to probe the discourses of sexuality that are articulated and contested in this space. As the most widely read newspaper in South Africa it serves as a powerful site of definition of teen sexuality. The analysis suggests that, rather than allowing for teen sexuality, it is disavowed by villainising teen sex and responsibility for such ‘deviance’ is directed to various adult and social adult actors.
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"Semantic Text Processing",
"Speech & Audio in NLP",
"Representation Learning",
"Discourse & Pragmatics",
"Multimodality"
] |
[
72,
70,
12,
71,
74
] |
SCOPUS_ID:85055112833
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“Factual” or “emotional”: Stylized image captioning with adaptive learning and attention
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Generating stylized captions for an image is an emerging topic in image captioning. Given an image as input, it requires the system to generate a caption that has a specific style (e.g., humorous, romantic, positive, and negative) while describing the image content semantically accurately. In this paper, we propose a novel stylized image captioning model that effectively takes both requirements into consideration. To this end, we first devise a new variant of LSTM, named style-factual LSTM, as the building block of our model. It uses two groups of matrices to capture the factual and stylized knowledge, respectively, and automatically learns the word-level weights of the two groups based on previous context. In addition, when we train the model to capture stylized elements, we propose an adaptive learning approach based on a reference factual model, it provides factual knowledge to the model as the model learns from stylized caption labels, and can adaptively compute how much information to supply at each time step. We evaluate our model on two stylized image captioning datasets, which contain humorous/romantic captions and positive/negative captions, respectively. Experiments shows that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches, without using extra ground truth supervision.
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"Visual Data in NLP",
"Language Models",
"Semantic Text Processing",
"Captioning",
"Text Generation",
"Multimodality"
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