Thinking across languages and cultures: Six dimensions of variation

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cliff Goddard
Keyword(s):  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

A multi-dimensional analysis of register variation in Brazilian Portuguese

Corpora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Berber Sardinha ◽  
Carlos Kauffmann ◽  
Cristina Mayer Acunzo
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Analysis ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

In this paper, we present a Multi-Dimensional analysis of Brazilian Portuguese, based on a large, diverse corpus comprising forty-eight different spoken and written registers. Previous research in MD analysis includes multi-register investigations of a range of languages, including English, Spanish, Somali and Korean, among others. At the same time, a large body of literature on text varieties in Brazilian Portuguese exists, but previous research focusses on specific aspects of one, or at the most, a few varieties at a time and, therefore, does not present a comprehensive picture of register use in the linguistic community of Brazilian Portuguese speakers. In this study, we attempt to fill this gap by employing the MD framework, enabling researchers to account for a large number of different registers, based on a wide repertory of linguistic features. The analysis revealed six dimensions of variation, which are presented, illustrated and discussed here.

Text types in Brazilian Portuguese: a multidimensional perspective

Corpora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Berber Sardinha
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
Language Variety ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Dimensions Of Variation

This paper presents a new typology of texts for Brazilian Portuguese, based on a thorough description of the linguistic characteristics of 960 texts in a 5.6 million-word corpus ( Berber Sardinha et al., 2014 ). The typology follows the Multi-dimensional framework proposed by Biber (1989) , which defines text types as linguistic constructs derived from dimensions of variation, or co-occurring sets of linguistic characteristics that underlie register variation in a particular language or language variety. The text types were identified following a cluster analysis that took as input the dimension scores for each text on each of the six dimensions of variation. The clusters were interpreted as nine text types, each representing a typical textual configuration found in Brazilian Portuguese.

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Commitment: An Empirical Exploration

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naval Garg
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Continuance Commitment ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The paper aims to empirically explore the impact of six dimensions of workplace spirituality on three types of organizational commitment. Six dimensions of workplace spirituality used for the study are Swadharma, Lokasangraha, authenticity, sense of community, Karma capital and Krityagyata. Components of organizational commitment are affective, normative and continuance commitment. A sample of 541 employees working in various organizations was given a structured questionnaire. Correlations, regressions and Necessary Condition Analysis(NCA) were carried out. The paper has enriched the field of workplace spirituality by contributing to existing literature via adding one more construct of Indian spirituality i.e. Krityagyata. Paper concludes that workplace spirituality climate helps in promoting organizational commitment. NCA elicited necessity of various dimensions of workplace spirituality for healthy organizational commitment.

scholarly journals Massless finite and infinite spin representations of Poincaré group in six dimensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 136064
Author(s):  
I.L. Buchbinder ◽  
S.A. Fedoruk ◽  
A.P. Isaev ◽  
M.A. Podoinitsyn
Keyword(s):  
Poincaré Group ◽  
Poincare Group ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Spin Representations

Employee Experience: Construct Clarification, Conceptualization and Validation of a New Scale

2021 ◽  
pp. 231971452110125
Author(s):  
Mohit Yadav ◽  
Nitin Simha Vihari
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Design Principle ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Experience Economy ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Organizational Constructs ◽  
Employee Experience

The COVID-19 crisis has drawn broader public interest in how companies treat their workers, so going forward, people management would be of an increasing concern. As we make a transition from a service-based economy to experience economy, where time well saved takes a back seat to time well spent, the notion of employee experience (EX) is set to become a fundamental workplace design principle. EX is about the work, not the office. EX aims for a complete redesign of the workplace practices and environment to fit the employees and not the other way around. This article examines and verifies EX scale as one-dimensional as well as multidimensional constructs with six dimensions, namely cohesiveness, vigour, well-being, achievement, inclusiveness and physical environment. Six dimensions were explored with focus group and open-ended survey and validated with closed-ended survey of 299 employees working in multinational corporations across India. Structural equation modelling is used to validate the proposed latest construct. Establishing the EX scale would help researchers as well practitioners in empirically measuring EX and its relationship with various individuals as well organizational constructs.

scholarly journals Community readiness for collecting stray dogs in Aradan County: a quantitative‐qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahereh Kamalikhah ◽  
Somayeh Mirrezaei ◽  
Tahereh Rahimi ◽  
Leila Sabzmakan ◽  
Safiye Ghobakhloo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
City Council ◽  
Community Readiness ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
Stray Dogs ◽  
Community Readiness Model ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
Community Climate

Abstract Background Paying more attention to free-roaming dogs’ population control seems to be necessary because of public health and environmental problems. The present study used the community readiness model to determine the readiness of Aradan County in terms of collecting stray dogs. Methods This study is a quantitative-qualitative research study conducted in Aradan County in Semnan Province of Iran. The semi-structured questionnaire uses the six dimensions of the Community Readiness Model as guideline, with 36 items used for the interview. The interviews lasted 45 to 100 minutes with 11 key members including the governor, prefect, mayor’s assistant, city council chairman, key trustees, officials responsible for environmental health network, officials responsible for environmentalism of the city, and governors of a rural district. In quantitative part two, assessors read the interviews carefully and assigned scores based on the rating-scale form suggested by the guideline itself for scoring each dimension. A qualitative directed content analysis with deductive approach was used for analyzing the collected qualitative data. Results The study involved 11 key members of Aradan County, all of whom were male. Most of the participants were over 40 years old and with five years of work experience (73.6 %). The mean score of each six dimensions in Aradan County were: Community efforts (4.78), Community knowledge of efforts (4.28), Leadership (4.90), Community climate (4.38), Community knowledge about the issue (4.20) and Resources related to the issue (3.29) respectively. Community readiness in Aradan County and Aradan City was generally estimated to be in the preplanning stage, whereas vague public awareness was found in the rural areas. In the qualitative part, 870 initial open codes, 589 refund codes, 19 subcategories and 6 themes emerged, including (a) community efforts, (b) community knowledge of the efforts (c) leadership, (d) community climate, (e) community knowledge of the issue, and (f) resources related to the issue. Conclusions For improving the process of collecting the stray dogs, it is necessary to focus on holding educational sessions for the public to increase their partnership and justify the responsible organizations’ activities to collaborate and provide the necessary financial resources.

scholarly journals Six Dimensions of Criminal Procedure

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 181-213
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos ◽  
Frank Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Six Dimensions

scholarly journals $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = (1, 0) anomaly multiplet relations in six dimensions

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clay Córdova ◽  
Thomas T. Dumitrescu ◽  
Kenneth Intriligator
Keyword(s):  
Six Dimensions

scholarly journals Validity and reliability testing of the Toddler and Infant (TANDI) Health Related Quality of Life instrument for very young children

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Verstraete ◽  
Lebogang Ramma ◽  
Jennifer Jelsma
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Spearman's Rho ◽  
Spearman’S Rho ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Six Dimensions ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Despite the high burden of disease in younger children there are few tools specifically designed to estimate Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in children younger than 3 years of age. A previous paper described the process of identifying a pool of items which might be suitable for measuring HRQoL of children aged 0–3 years. The current paper describes how the items were pruned and the final draft of the measure, Toddler and Infant (TANDI) Health Related Quality of Life, was tested for validity and reliability. Methods A sample of 187 caregivers of children 1–36 months of age were recruited which included children who were either acutely ill (AI), chronically ill (CI) or from the general school going population (GP). The TANDI, an experimental version of the EQ-5D-Y proxy, included six dimensions with three levels of report and general health measured on a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) from 0 to 100. The content validity had been established during the development of the instrument. The TANDI, Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ), Faces, Leg, Activity, Cry, Consolabilty (FLACC) or Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) and a self-designed dietary information questionnaire were administered at baseline. The TANDI was administered 1 week later in GP children to establish test-retest reliability. The distribution of dimension scores, Cronbach’s alpha, rotated varimax factor analysis, Spearman’s Rho Correlation, the intraclass correlation coefficient, Pearson’s correlation, analysis of variance and regression analysis were used to explore the reliability, and validity of the TANDI. Results Concurrent validity of the different dimensions was tested between the TANDI and other instruments. The Spearman’s Rho coefficients were significant and moderate to strong for dimensions of activity and participation and significant and weak for items of body functions. Known groups were compared and children with acute illness had the lowest ranked VAS (median 60, range 0–100), indicating worse HRQoL. The six dimensions of the TANDI were tested for internal consistency and reliability and the Cronbach’s α as 0.83. Test-retest results showed no variance for dimension scores of movement and play, and high agreement for pain (83%), relationships (87%), communication (83%) and eating (74%). The scores were highly correlated for the VAS (ICC = 0.76; p < 0.001). Conclusion The TANDI was found to be valid and reliable for use with children aged 1–36 months in South Africa. It is recommended that the TANDI be included in future research to further investigate HRQoL and the impact of interventions in this vulnerable age group. It is further recommended that future testing be done to assess the feasibility, clinical utility, and cross-cultural validity of the measure and to include international input in further development.

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