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Computer corpus linguistics (CCL) is a scientific innovation that has facilitated the creation and analysis of large corpora in a systematic way by means of computer technology…
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Computer corpus linguistics (CCL) is a scientific innovation that has facilitated the creation and analysis of large corpora in a systematic way by means of computer technology since the 1950s. This article provides an account of the CCL pioneers in general but particularly of those in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. It is found that Germany and Sweden, due to more advantageous financing and weaker communities of generativists, had a faster adoption of CCL than the other two countries. A particular late adopter among the four was Switzerland, which did not take up CCL until foreign professors had been recruited.
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Jochen Gläser, Enno Aljets, Adriana Gorga, Tina Hedmo, Elias Håkansson and Grit Laudel
The aim of this article is to explain commonalities and differences in the responses of four national educational science communities to the same external stimulus, namely…
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The aim of this article is to explain commonalities and differences in the responses of four national educational science communities to the same external stimulus, namely international comparative large scale student assessments that offered vastly improved comparability of national results from the beginning of the 1990s. The comparison shows the epistemic traditions of educational research in the four countries and properties of the data produced by the international comparative studies to be the central explanatory factors for commonalities and differences of responses to the new studies.
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This paper aims to describe and explain a contemporary phenomenon.
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Purpose
This paper aims to describe and explain a contemporary phenomenon.
Design/methodology/approach
This is an analysis of research reports and fiction texts.
Findings
Universities use mergers and acquisitions to improve their ranking positions, ignoring the effects on research and teaching.
Research limitations/implications
More attention should be paid to current managerial fashions.
Practical implications
An opposition to thoughtless fashion following may lead to positive changes.
Social implications
If you mean “societal implications”, the state of universities is very important to democratic societies.
Originality/value
These are not for the author to judge.
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