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- PublicationAccès libreL’analyse de données à partir de livres des voyageurs : deux études de cas dans les Alpes(2023)
; Le Swiss Guestbook Project a pour objectif de conserver et d’étudier les livres des voyageurs produits en Suisse et en Savoie voisine avant 1914. Se trouvant à l’interface entre une approche qualitative et quantitative, le livre des voyageurs présente une série de problèmes méthodologiques, notamment concernant la fiabilité des données mais également l’importance qui doit être accordée aux textes. Dans cet article, nous présentons brièvement le projet et l’état actuel de la recherche avant d’aborder deux études de cas. La première concerne les hôtels du Monte-Rosa et du Riffelhaus à Zermatt entre 1854 et 1866. Dans la seconde, nous comparons les données croisées de trois livres issus de la vallée de Chamonix en 1854. Le calcul du nombre et de l’origine des voyageurs démontre les apports et les limites de ces documents comme sources statistiques, tandis que l’analyse des textes permet de mieux saisir leur importance dans la construction d’un savoir sur l’alpinisme. - PublicationMétadonnées seulement
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- PublicationAccès librePragmatics of Uncooperative and Manipulative CommunicationThis dissertation tackles the issue of uncooperative and manipulative communication from a cognitive pragmatic perspective and develops and documents the fundamental hypothesis that its success depends on whether the manipulator manages to keep the manipulative intention concealed. Specifically, manipulative communication is conceived here as a twofold process meant to i) mislead the addressee into processing limited sets of contextual information and ii) prevent her/him from processing contextual information that would be detrimental to the success of the manipulative attempt. The dissertation draws on several fields of research in the Humanities and attempts to interface findings from cognitive psychology (mainly research on cognitive biases) and argumentation theory (research on fallacies) into a consistent cognitive pragmatic account of information-processing. To this end, the so-called Contextual Selection Constraint model (CSC) is presented; this model specifies from a theoretical perspective how certain linguistic and argumentative strategies can be used to constrain the comprehension procedure so that targeted assumptions end up partaking in the derivation of meaning and other unwanted assumptions turn out to be disregarded – or unprocessed altogether. These possibilities are conceived as natural potential consequences of our cognitive system’s inherent fallibility.
- PublicationAccès libreMeaning differences between English clippings and their source words: A corpus-based study(2023)
; ; Jennifer RainsThis paper uses corpus data and methods of distributional semantics in order to study English clippings such as dorm (< dormitory), memo (< memorandum), or quake (< earthquake). We investigate whether systematic meaning differences between clippings and their source words can be detected. The analysis is based on a sample of 50 English clippings. Each of the clippings is represented by a concordance of 100 examples in context that were gathered from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. We compare clippings and their source words both at the aggregate level and in terms of comparisons between individual clippings and their source words. The data show that clippings tend to be used in contexts that represent involved text production, which aligns with the idea that clipped words signal familiarity with their referents. It is further observed that individual clippings and their source words partly diverge in their distributional profiles, reflecting both overlap and differences with regard to their meanings. We interpret these findings against the theoretical background of Construction Grammar and specifically the Principle of No Synonymy. - PublicationMétadonnées seulement