A two-step procedure to identify lexical elements of stance constructions in discourse from political blogs

Corpora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Simaki ◽  
Carita Paradis ◽  
Andreas Kerren
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Political Blogs ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Category Type ◽  
Opposite Point

The Brexit Blog Corpus (bbc) is a collection of texts extracted from political blogs, which, in a recent study, was annotated according to a cognitive–functional stance framework by two independent annotators (Annotator A and B) using semantic criteria ( Simaki et al., 2017 ). The goal was to label the stance or stances taken based on the overall meaning of a set of utterances. The annotators were not instructed to identify the lexical forms that were used to express the stances. In this study, we make use of those stance-labelled utterances as a springboard to approach stance-taking in text from the opposite point of view, namely from how stance is realised through language. Our aim is to provide a description of the specific lexical elements used to express six stance categories (i.e., contrariety, hypotheticality, necessity, prediction, source of knowledge and uncertainty). To this end, we followed a two-step experimental procedure. First, we performed a quantitative analysis of the stance-labelled utterances in order to identify the lexical realisations of each stance category. Second, we carried out a meta-annotation of the data. Annotator B was instructed to single out the actual lexical forms of the constructions that triggered his semantic stance category decisions. This meta-annotation procedure made it possible for us to sift out the most salient lexical realisations of the constructions of each of the six category types on the basis of the qualitative assessments made by Annotator B. We then compared the results of the quantitative and the qualitative approaches, and we present a list of shared stance expressions for each stance category type.

scholarly journals THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN RETELLING A MOVIE

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
DESTRI WAHYUNINGSIH
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Score Test ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Internal Factor ◽  
Study Habit ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Test Result

The objective of this research were to know the factors that influence the students’ difficulties in retelling a movie. The subject of this research consists of 14 students at second semester STKIP Insan Madani Airmolek. The method used in this study was Descriptive Analysis Research. The data of this research was gathered through retelling a movie test and giving questionnaire. The techniques of data analysis used quantitative and qualitative analysis. The quantitative analysis was used to count the percentage of student’s score test and students answer the questionnaire. On the other hand, the qualitative analysis used to describe or interpret the result of quantitative analysis result. The researcher obtained the scores of the test result were 43, 57%. It was categorized less. And then the factors that influence students’ difficulties based on indicators of retelling a movie are English movie media, limited educational background to watch English movie and students’ less practice.The factors that influence difficulties from the internal factor was intelligence got 54%, interest got 78% and fatigue got 3%. The most factors that influence is interest. It got 78% of the students felt uninterested to watch the movie and retell it. The factors that influence difficulties from the external factors were family (56%), school (24%), society (57%). Society factors most influences the students’ difficulties in retelling a movie because the students have more interaction with it. The result of the research showed the factors that influence students’ difficulties occurred because of inappropriate media, students’ bad study habit, students’ point of view, laziness, and bad action negative activities inside and outside them.

Value co-creation in services for animal companions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hendricks ◽  
Gertrud Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Customer Value ◽  
Customer Participation ◽  
Order Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Characteristics ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Animal Companion ◽  
Service Ecosystem ◽  
Human Actors

Purpose As other actors in the service ecosystem often have a pivotal role in value creation for actors experiencing vulnerability, this paper aims to explore caregiving customer value co-creation in services for animal companions. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 follows a two-step procedure, using two different qualitative approaches (interviews and observations) to identify caregiving customer value co-creation activities. Study 2 serves to empirically test a higher-order structure of caregiving customer participation behaviour in value co-creation and test for differences regarding customer and service characteristics (questionnaire survey; n = 680). Findings The results reveal the existence of various value co-creation activities towards the service provider (e.g. cooperation under consideration of the animal companion’s needs) and animal companion (e.g. emotional support). Significant differences in individual caregiving customers’ activities were found regarding gender, age, type of service and animal companion. Caregiving customer value co-creation is influenced by emotional attachment and has a positive effect on value outcomes for both the caregiving customer and the animal companion. Originality/value This study extends and enriches customer value co-creation literature by providing innovative findings on various such caregiving activities and value outcomes in services for (non-human) actors experiencing vulnerability. It also adds knowledge by showing differences in customer value co-creation behaviour regarding specific customer and service characteristics.

The Use of Hermeneutic Approach in Translation Classroom – Advantages from Translation Students’ Point of View

2018 ◽  
pp. 291-317
Author(s):  
Beata Piecychna
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Competence Acquisition

Based on an empirical study involving novice translators, this article discusses the advantages of hermeneutic approach to translation teaching (Stolze 2011) as seen from translation students’ point of view. Fifteen translation students participated in a pre-experimental procedure during which they were asked to translate a few texts of children’s literature from English into Polish. The aim of the procedure was to check and verify the influence of the hermeneutic approach on novice translators’ translation competence acquisition. Afterwards, the participants were given a special questionnaire and were asked to fill it in. The questions that they were asked to answer were concerned with their opinions relating to the hermeneutic approach to translation teaching. In the paper, opinions concerning the advantages of the approach are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Visual semiotics and automatic analysis of images from the Cultural Analytics Lab: How can quantitative and qualitative analysis be combined?

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (230) ◽  
pp. 121-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Giulia Dondero
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Visual Semiotics ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Peircean Semiotics

AbstractIn this article we explore the relationship between semiotic analysis of images and quantitative analysis of vast image corpora, in particular the work produced by Lev Manovich and the Cultural Analytics Lab, called “Media Visualization.” Media Visualization has been chosen as corpus because of its metavisual operation (images are visualized and analyzed by images) and its innovating way of conceiving analysis: by visual instruments. In this paper semiotics is used as an approach to Media Visualization and taken as an object of study as well, especially visual semiotics. In this sense, a comparison between visual semiotics (close reading of small corpora) and quantitative analyses of images (distant reading of vast collections) are conducted from a semiotic point of view. Post-Greimassian semiotics guides this study with respect to the issue of the image-within-an-image and metavisual visualization; Peircean semiotics is employed to explain and develop the notion of diagram.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Translator’s Visibility: Does Visibility Bring Rewards?

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fung-Ming Christy Liu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

There has been a huge revival of interest in the role of translators and their visibility. Some Translation Studies scholars have mobilized French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theorical concepts of field, habitus and capital to carry out empirical research studies in an attempt to understand how translators or interpreters perceive their roles and what kind of capital they pursue. This article presents part of the findings from a large empirical study in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in an attempt to carry out a thorough investigation of translators’ visibility, understood as the capacity to communicate directly with clients and/or end-users. The present article reports on the quantitative analysis of the relationship between translator’s visibility and the amount of capital that they say they receive. The analysis is based on 193 Chinese translators in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. The findings suggest that visibility is rewarding in terms of social exchanges and learning experience, but not in terms of pay and prestige. In addition, the analysis shows that some social variables including sex, level of education, region that the translator lives in, the translator’s major field of study and the time spent on translation are not related to visibility or capital received. Meanwhile, the appearance of the translator’s name on translations is significantly related to the capital received.

Chemical Aspects of Vulcanization

1937 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-213
Author(s):  
Avan Rossem
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Sulfide ◽  
Principal Factor ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Adsorption Theory ◽  
Chemical Theory ◽  
Chemical Combination ◽  
Opposite Point ◽  
Vulcanization Process

Abstract C. O. Weber was the first to give an elaborate theory of vulcanization. It is well known that he considered the hot vulcanization process as an addition of sulfur to polyprene (C10H16)n on account of the fact that no large amounts of hydrogen sulfide were evolved during the process. Wo. Ostwald, starting from quite the opposite point of view to Weber, put forward in 1910 the adsorption theory of vulcanization, considering it from an entirely colloidal standpoint, the sulfur being adsorbed by the rubber. It soon became clear that vulcanization was much more complex, and that neither of the two theories was able to explain the facts. Since then many investigations have been carried out, and many views, hypotheses, and theories on vulcanization put forward. If one tries to classify these, it becomes apparent that at the present time there is still a chemical theory and a colloidal theory of vulcanization. The chemical theory of vulcanization may be divided in two opposing hypotheses, viz.: (a) Polymerization of the rubber molecule, combination with sulfur being incidental. (b) Chemical combination of sulfur with rubber as the principal factor. To support this statement a few references and quotations from various investigators are given below.

scholarly journals USOS DE LA EVALUACIÓN EN LOS DIFERENTES MOMENTOS DE UNIDADES DIDÁCTICAS COOPERATIVAS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Verónica Jiménez Perales ◽  
Mila Naranjo Llanos
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Educational Assistance ◽  
Learning Contexts ◽  
First Approximation ◽  
Opposite Point ◽  
Independent Process

Abstract:ASSESSMENT USES AT DIFFERENT MOMENTS OF COOPERATIVES DIDACTIC UNITSThe traditional conception of learning assessment has been conceived, often, as an independent process of teaching and learning process, but assessment and, more concretely, inclusive assessment has an opposite point of view and it is considerate as an inherent element of this process. This research focus on inclusive assessment in cooperative learning contexts, in schools that implement the CL/LC Program: cooperate to learning, learning to cooperate, developed by the GRAD’s members (Diversity Attention Research Group) of University of Vic. Considering the methodology that propose that program, and the planning and development of didactic units at different moments they can be divided through cooperative structures the hypothesis on the study are linked to a first approximation of the use of evaluation along the process of teaching and learning by teachers. The research results support the hypothesis that implement the CL/LC Program in classrooms should be go according to an inclusive assessment that allow regulate and adjust the educational assistance to students.Keywords : inclusive assessment, learning regulation, cooperative learning,

scholarly journals THE EFFECTS OF DISSOLUTION OF THE SOLID NICKEL IN LIQUID ALUMINUM

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Blagoj Rizov ◽  
Dafinka Stoevska Gogovska ◽  
Ruzica Manojlovic
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Effects ◽  
Liquid Aluminum ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Numerous Investigation ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Heat Effects ◽  
Master Alloys ◽  
Solid Nickel ◽  
Solid Liquid

<p class="Adressess">The preparation of a large number of materials trough the propagating exothermic reactions has been the objective of numerous investigation. Self-propagating reactions are typically associated with high temperatures and extremely steep thermal gradients and thus offer the opportunity to investigate the formation of intermediate and metastable phases. Such reactions are also of interest from a practical point of view since, as has been described in numerous literature accounts, they provide the opportunity to prepare materials with unique properties.</p><p class="Adressess">In this study the thermal effects of dissolution on the solid nickel in liquid aluminum and formation intermetallic phases was studied by simple experimental procedure. The thermal effects generated by exothermic solid-liquid metal interaction was judged by the rise of temperature in the system. Depending on experimental conditions, two different regimes of behavior were found: solid-liquid interaction leading to the considerable rise of the temperature in the system, and characterized by continuos decrease of the temperature in the system with time. The results of the experiments on the heat effects during the interaction of solid nickel with different particle size and liquid aluminum, with and without external mixing, are presented. It has been shown that, depending on experimental conditions, the evolved heat may influence the structure of a zone near to the solid-liquid interface. The experimental procedure correlates with the practical conditions of semi-industrial production of aluminum-nickel master alloys with relatively high percentage of nickel.</p>

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document