Text Production Research Articles

Approaches to the kangaroo method in the humanization of newborns: A systemic review

Introduction: Due to technological advances in Neonatal Units not being sufficient to provide humanized care and not meeting the needs of newborns, the Kangaroo Method was created by the Ministry of Health with the aim of providing newborns with quality care. Objective: To describe the approaches of the Kangaroo Method in the humanization of the newborn, through a qualitative systemic review. Methods: Using the terms "kangaroo method", "humanized care" and "newborns", publications were selected from the PUBMED, LILACS and SCIELO databases, as well as dissertations and manuals from 2017 to 2023. Results: 45 materials were found, of which 25 were excluded after applying the criteria defined for the textual production of this article, 5 because they were not related to the topic, leaving 6 articles selected to read the abstracts, leaving 9 studies. Final considerations: The Kangaroo Method has stages that aim to promote humanized care for the NB by establishing a bond between the NB and the mother through contact with the mother's or father's body, as well as providing humanized care for health professionals in terms of reducing morbidity and mortality in premature neonates.

Calendars, Compliments, and Computations

Various studies in recent times have shown how sociohistorical proclivities played an important role in the acceptance or rejection of cross-cultural ideas in Mughal scientific discourses. The cultural patronage of the Mughal courts financed the production and propagation of certain scientific texts deemed intellectually and politically expedient. Among such texts were two seventeenth-century astronomical table-texts, Mullā Farīd's Persian Zīj-i Šāh Jahānī and its Sanskrit translation in Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu, both produced at the court of the Mughal Emperor Šāh Jahān. In this paper, we present, for the very first time, a comparative survey of the canon (text) of these two works to reveal the intimacy between the translated Sanskrit and its Persian original. The paper includes brief biographies of both astronomers, a summary of the salient features of the canons, a description of the manuscripts utilised and our transcription and transliteration schemes, along with a detailed comparison of the individual chapters in these canons. We also provide separate appendices with discussions on select aspects from these chapters. We note that this paper forms the first part in a two-part study, with a second forthcoming paper surveying the tables in these two texts (accompanied with mathematical annotations).

Investigating students’ cognitive processes in generative AI-assisted digital multimodal composing and traditional writing

Recently, generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bing Chat have garnered increasing attention on a global scale. Previous studies have focused mostly on the influence of generative AI on writing while few researchers have investigated how generative AI can facilitate students' multimodal writing process. To fill in this gap, we explored the generative AI-assisted composing processes of two groups of English as a foreign language (EFL) writers over two weeks in this qualitative study. One group completed a multimodal PowerPoint (PPT) project, and the other group completed a traditional argumentative essay project. Our data consist of students’ screen recordings with think-aloud protocols, final multimodal texts, and post-project interviews. Our analysis showed different patterns in text production across the two groups. Students in the PPT group tended to construct more bridge texts and examples to corroborate their sub-claims in the hierarchical order. They also inclined to borrow the summarized search results from the Bing Chat to expand texts for their PPT slides. With regard to image generation for PPT slides, descriptions of AI images from ChatGPT were used as effective prompts to generate AI images from Bing Image Creator. Moreover, students were interested in producing and refining AI images following the recommended prompts by Bing Chat. They also evaluated these AI images from different perspectives. We conclude the study with a discussion on the pedagogical implications and suggestions for further study.

Do typing skills matter? Investigating university students’ typing speed and performance in online exams

ABSTRACT In response to COVID-19, universities worldwide experienced drastic and sudden changes including the need to shift to online teaching and assessment. Following previous research suggesting that individual differences in typing skills could influence text quantity and quality, we investigated whether university students’ typing speed is related to their performance in an online written exam, considering that low typing skills could potentially be disadvantageous. To this end, first-year university students participated in a copy-typing task immediately after completing a graded online exam. Results show a trend toward a triangular relationship between typing speed, text length and exam performance. Despite coefficients being small, this approach allows unique insights into externally valid data of university students’ typed free text production in an authentic online exam situation. Our findings emphasize the need for more research into this highly variable skill in order to understand and minimize unwanted interindividual differences that could possibly influence exam outcomes.

From Stone Canal to Orchid Terrace: Libraries and Archives in the Two Han Capitals

Abstract Recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of the Han dynasty’s most important textual repositories, including the distinctions between libraries and archives and the roles they played in early manuscript culture. There is no comprehensive survey in English, however, of the main facilities where different manuscripts were stored in the two Han capitals, Chang’an and Luoyang. This article seeks answers to key questions: Where were these facilities located? Who worked there and how was one appointed? What kinds of activities took place in them? I confirm the findings of scholars who have shown that there is scant evidence for editing or scholastic activity in the main textual repositories before late Western Han, and that even after Emperor Cheng’s reign, textual production, curation, and instruction were distributed between multiple centers that were often in competition with one another.

Brand transcreation as multimodal configuration

AbstractThis article aims at revisiting some key concepts in translation studies by taking into account a new translation or multimodal practice called brand transcreation. Unlike translation proper or brand design proper, brand transcreation involves interlingual and multimodal production in the target culture. It relies on verbal instructions rather than the source text, and intersemiotically, transforms verbal messages into polished multimodal products. Using the systemic-functional sociosemiotic framework, this study delves into the types and dynamic orchestration of semiotic modes involved in two successful brand transcreations from a producer-researcher perspective. The findings reveal that brand transcreation can be defined as a goal-oriented textual production that configures multiple modes and serves specific communicative purposes. In this regard, the concepts of texts, contexts, meaning, and particularly (the categorization of) translation have evolved and require reconsideration.

Performative Print: A Printing Anomaly in The Coblers Prophesie

Signature F2r of The Coblers Prophesie (1594) by Robert Wilson brings the reader to an abrupt halt – it contains a page-stopping stage direction in gargantuan type. This article examines whether the outsized print was a botched job by the printer Thomas Scarlet or an intentional ploy to engage the reader. The anomaly suggests that printers exercised agency in textual production and collaborated in the creative impact of printed material. Play-texts exist at the intersection of print and performance, and this case study poses larger questions about the complex relationship between the theatre and the printing house in early modern England.

Translating Islam(ism) for a Muslim society: a novel ‘Intra-Ummah translation paradigm’ for Islamist translations in Turkey

ABSTRACT This study aims to explore previously uncharted translational areas of Turkish Islamism between 1960 and 1980, a period of deep-rooted ideological tensions in social, political, and ideological spheres of life in Turkey. The analysis starts by providing a theoretical framework that formulates Islamist translational activities as a particular form of culture planning. It primarily focuses on the translation-oriented domestic repertoire construction, which experiences minimal cultural filter, censorship, and interruption despite its heavy dependence on varying sources worldwide. The investigation continues by providing initial premises that shed light on why Islamism resorted to translation to create an Islamic (intellectual) repertoire in Turkish. It is followed by a discursive analysis that demonstrates the functioning of translation in the context of Turkish Islamism. To this end, a case study on the representative Islamist journal Hilal (1958–1993) is conducted to provide concrete insights. Finally, the study introduces a novel perspective, the ‘intra-ummah translation paradigm’, to offer a deeper understanding of the translational resurgence of Islamism in particular and the translation tradition that governs East-oriented text productions in Turkey.

Textual Alchemy: AI, Authorship and the Shifting Paradigms of Interpretation

Artificial intelligence is overhauling the publication and textual production. Textual production with Large Language Models (LLMs) is more sophisticated and closer to human knowledge production thanks to its autoregressive nature. AI models by OpenAI such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) and its iterations use deep learning to produce more human-like text. Such texts invite all kinds of problems that are not new to the human text-production system. Research shows that the output of such models tends to be biased toward a particular gender, race and ethnicity. This paper explores substantial texts produced by AI including articles, fiction, columns, opinion pieces etc. published in major journals and magazines to understand the nuances of such texts. Moreover, the paper will attempt to understand such features of AI-generated text by presenting the results of a particular set of instructions (prompt) to the LLM. These text outputs will be studied to demonstrate how AI-generated texts pave the way for a “post-post author” era, echoing Barthes’ notion of the “Death of the Author”. The scope, usability and limitations of the AI’s textual production will also be investigated.

Explicitation and (In)directness in Literary Translations from Japanese into English and Romanian: A Contrastive Analysis

Abstract A complex process that necessarily goes beyond the surface level of words and phrases, (literary) translation is also a means to understand the cultures whose products the translated texts are. In this article, I look at the English and the Romanian translations of two Japanese novels in an attempt to identify those elements that prove that the texts carry the load of the specific type of culture that both the translators and the readers belong to. More specifically, I analyse the way in which the discourse is reconstructed in English and Romanian in light of Edward T. Hall’s high-context culture vs. low-context culture distinction. This article does not focus on the translation of culture-specific realities, as is the case with most studies that compare textual products belonging to different cultures, but on the way in which ordinary realities are rendered in English and Romanian. I look at the degree to which the context created by the Japanese authors is explicitly specified and the level of directness of the discourse in the two languages, as representative features of the high-context vs. low context cultures dichotomy. The examples analysed here suggest that the English translations tend to employ more strategies for an explicit specification of the context and to create a more direct discourse than the Romanian ones, which is consistent with the fact that English is a language considered typical of low-context culture spaces. Romanian translations are generally closer to the Japanese original, showing a more high-context culture perspective, confirming the existence of a continuum between the two extreme ends in Hall’s dichotomy.

COGNITIVE APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE LITERARY TEXT

The article deals with the cognitive linguistics is the study of language in its cognitive function, where cognitive refers to the crucial role of informational structures in the human mind and language. Cognitive linguistics focuses on the processes of literary text production, interpretation, and evaluation.

PENGEMBANGAN TEKS CERITA BERGAMBAR PADA KETERAMPILAN MEMBABACA SISWA TEMA 7 KEBERSAMAAN SUBTEMA 1 KEBERSAMAAN DI RUMAH PEMBELAJARAN KE 1

Picture story text is a text that contains a story accompanied by pictures or illustrations to support the contents of the story. Reading is a useful activity that can provide various information. In Indonesia reading skills are still relatively low. This study aims to obtain a picture story text product Theme 7 Togetherness Sub-theme 1 Togetherness in the 1st Learning House in class II SDN Cibeureum 02 with a total of 20 students. This development uses the ADDIE model (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation). The research results from the validation tests of linguists, material experts, and media experts show that illustrated story texts are valid and very feasible to use by obtaining an average percentage of 89%. In the limited trial phase, as many as 20 students gave a positive response to the illustrated story text used. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that the illustrated story text developed in this study proved to be valid, interesting, and very appropriate for use during the learning process.

Academic essay writing in an English medium instruction environment: Indonesian graduate students’ experiences at Hungarian universities

Academic writing is a key indicator of academic success in higher education, and high-quality academic text production may pose a great challenge to L2 English students within the framework of English-Medium Instruction (EMI). In Higher Education, one of the genres students are most frequently required to master is the academic essay. This small-scale qualitative study focuses on Indonesian graduate students' challenges when writing high-stakes academic essays in Hungarian EMI environments. The investigation aims to discover what challenges this environment poses to Indonesian students, with a specific focus on in-class and out-of-class support. The participants were four Indonesian graduate students required to write academic essays at Social Sciences Faculties of Hungarian universities. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed by applying the technique of qualitative coding. Findings indicate that the extent and quality of support students receive at institutional and subject course levels has a profound influence on academic essay writing achievements. A major implication is that offering courses in English academic writing and providing access to e-library, ensuring subject teachers' sufficient English proficiency levels and pedagogical skills, clarifying the content and requirements of essay assignments as soon as possible, and providing guidance and training regarding secondary research and online writing tools can effectively contribute to the development of students’ English academic essay writing skills.

Theoretical Considerations on AI-based Business Models for Lexicography

Abstract AI-generated text production is on the rise Zandan (2020), and AI writers seem to be playing an increasingly important role in marketing, L2 text production, lexicography and language teaching, cf. Simonsen (2020b; 2021a; 2022a; 2022b; Sharples/Pérez Y Pérez 2022; ChatGPT 2023; RYTR 2023; Writewithlaika 2023). In addition to that large national language datasets are being developed in many countries, cf. for example Kirchmeier et al. (2020), and these national word registers are expected to become an important backbone in AI-based lexicographic services. On this background, there seems to be a need for AI-based business models for lexicography. This article draws on a literature review focussing on business models and business-related considerations of relevance for lexicography. The insights from the literature review led to the development of a number of theoretical considerations on AI-based business models for lexicography. The article suggests three AI-based business models for different types of lexicography and demonstrates how these business models could be implemented in three concrete projects.

Language practices in multilingual writing processes – Supporting reflection in a complex modern world

This article presents and discusses a model for the reflection of language practices in (academic) writing processes: The Resources Interrelations Model (RIM) aims at a deeper understanding of the functional application of language resources in (demanding) text production. It addresses influence factors that interfere with individual language practices and locates them on four layers: First, the writing process and its situational demands, second, individual attitudes, goals, and motivation, third, individual language and writing biographies and fourth, societal background (including the ongoing technology development and AI tools). The RIM is a theoretical model; however, it is inspired by empirical research in the PROSIMS project. In my article, I present and describe the RIM and its four layers, sketch its points of departure, and locate the model in its interdisciplinary discursive context, in particular referring to process-oriented writing research and research on multilingualism (including poststructuralist criticism of language categories). Additionally, I outline the relevance of such a model as a starting point for further research and a base for the (self-) reflection of writing processes. As the model focuses on the interrelation of influence factors (instead of specific writing strategies), it is open for individual and situational variation and for the dynamic changes in a complex modern world, while at the same time providing a framework for systematic analysis.

The Efficacy of Process-Tracing Technologies for Supporting Academic Writing Instruction: A Lesson Learned from Vietnam

Writing-process research has undergone a transformative shift from relying on methods that were impractical for classroom settings, such as direct or video-based observations and concurrent verbal reports, to adopting less-obtrusive techniques like keystroke logging and eye tracking. The latter methods have become increasingly feasible due to the resolution of software and cost-related concerns, making them more accessible for pedagogical applications. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the efficacy of process-tracing technology for supporting academic writing instruction at a middle school in Vietnam. To carry out the research process, the researchers applied qualitative study. The participants in this study comprise a group of learners attending a middle school in Vietnam. Their involvement in the research revolves around the meticulous tracing of their writing process as they engage in the production of argumentative texts, with a particular focus on the utilization of technology during this endeavor. Data collection involved the application of both interviews and observations to gather comprehensive insights into the phenomenon under investigation. The findings of the study showed that process-tracing technology is able to help teachers and learners to control their academic writing achievement. The conclusion showed that the integration of process-tracing technology, combining keystroke logging and eye tracking, has proven to be a highly effective and valuable tool for supporting academic writing.

Text structure as an indicator of the writing development of descriptive text quality

Composing a well-written text is a prolonged and challenging process. The present study explored the incipient stages in descriptive texts written (pen and paper) or dictated by 283 Hebrew-speaking Israeli children in second to fifth grades. This study aims to better understand the interplay between age, literacy-related abilities, and descriptive text quality by exploring developmental aspects across grade levels regarding text structural quality, length of text and literacy related abilities, and by analyzing the relation between text structural quality and literacy related abilities (cognitive, transcriptional, linguistic, and reading), beyond length of text and grade level. Regarding the developmental aspects, the results indicate that text structure quality becomes more sophisticated and complete with age, attaining high-quality descriptive text structure from third grade on in the production of autonomous texts with genre-driven elaborate features. Length of text and literacy related abilities also increase with age. Regarding the relation between text structural quality and literacy related abilities, we found in 2nd grade, for P&P text, a significant total effect of syntactic lexical ability on text structure rank, partially mediated by length of text, and a weaker but still significant direct effect of syntactic lexical ability on TS rank, when controlling for length of text. We also found in 5th grade, for DICT text, a significant total effect of reading high ability on TS rank, not mediated by length of text.

La rellevància i la creativitat en la traducció de material turístic multimèdia

The notions of relevance and creativity are two key textual resources when promotional material is translated and, in particular, in the context of tourism. In the first case, relevance as a pragmatic principle helps ensure texts travel through different lands and audiences, posing challenges to translators, or language-and-culture experts, who use their expertise to opt for some content material or for format changes. Likewise, creativity is a highly demanded skill, given the nature of the process of (trans)creating advertising texts, especially audiovisual and multimedia ones, and considering the persuasive dimension of the process that takes place for these texts to cross cultural frontiers.
 In the paper these two principles will be theoretically presented, making special reference to promotional translation and international marketing, and a few real cases from international tourism campaigns will be analysed in order to draw some conclusions about the impact of these two principles for a better production of relevant and creative promotional texts in the field of tourism.

Warum Schreiben nicht gleich Prosa ist

Abstract Analytical descriptions of literature are often based on the general presupposition according to which literature is mostly constituted as prose, giving privilege to the book as its form. This very premise is also definitive for Caroline Amlinger’s seminal study titled Schreiben. Eine Soziologie literarischer Arbeit (2021). This article aims at examining how this restriction can amount to crucially marginalising and reducing literature’s diversity. Amlinger’s praxeological account leads to emphasizing the processual character of text production; it is also able to elaborate on how the dynamics of the economic business have an impact on the literary result. However, the practices and forms of, particularly, German speaking contemporary theatre literature as well as the radio play indicate that a less restrictive definition of literature is required in order to consider the diverse conditions of literature’s appearance in different genres in a fertile manner.

Study Protocol: Text Performers—Using Speech-to-Text Technology to Support Students With Dyslexia During Text Production

This protocol article describes the background, theoretical framework, and methods for two intervention studies using assistive technology to produce text. The participants will be 15 10–12-year-old students with dyslexia from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The first study aims to examine how an intervention focusing on using speech-to-text technology influences texts written by students with dyslexia, and the second study aims to investigate the writing process when students with dyslexia use speech-to-text technology. Study 1 uses a multiple baseline design, whereas Study 2 uses verbal protocols.