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Text Linguistics and Classical Studies: Dressler and de Beaugrande’s Procedural Approach
2017
The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete reference framework. The second chapter presents the procedural approach to the study of text linguistics in a concise way, including a critical comparison with other perspectives. The third chapter constructs a very unusual bridge between theoretical linguistics and classical studies in that it takes a literary text in Latin from the early imperial period as its case study. This combination is rare, as theoretical linguists are usually oriented to mod…
Thomas Krefeld, Wulf Oesterreicher, Verena Schwägerl-Melchior (eds.), Reperti di plurilinguismo nell’Italia spagnola (sec. XVI-XVII). Pluralisierung …
2014
Semiotic Textology as the "Grundlagenwissenschaft" for Philology. János S. Petőfi’s scientific inheritance
2014
This paper is addressed to philologists and literary critics and it examines the relationship between Literary Criticism/the Science of Literature and Text Linguistics. Natural Text Processing is an interdisciplinary operating module that describes, analyses, explains, and evaluates texts. From a chronological perspective, literary criticism is the last discipline of the module, and text linguistics plays the role of Grundlagenwissenschaft. In the field of text linguistics, J. S. Petőfi, by combining different types of logical systems, has advanced the most complete theory, one which constitutes the convergence between the two areas of research on natural language, analytic philosophy, and …
How Did Text Research Lead To Semiotic Textology?
2011
The intention of this paper is to show how Semiotic Textology, the theory elaborated by the Hungarian linguist János Sándor Petőfi, can be considered the acme in the development of text research. In order to perform this task, firstly text research is presented and its historical genesis is shown. Secondly the disciplinary status of text linguistics is discussed. The development of text linguistics can be distinguished in three different periods: 1) the period of transphrastischen Untersuchungen (hereafter denominated "broader dimension sentence studies"), 2) the elaboration of text gram-mars; 3) the foundation of textual theories. Intersecting the second and the third period, a more compre…
Alle Wege Führen Zum Text
2016
The intention of this chapter is to review the development of linguistic research during the twentieth century in Europe and the United States, in order to show that the genesis of text linguistics as a comprehensive theoretical framework was necessary, considering the events from a post-eventum perspective. Firstly, structural linguistics is presented as well as its main exponents; secondly, generative linguistics is discussed; thirdly, the genesis and the development of text linguistics is presented. Concerning the structural linguistics, the key issues investigated by 4 linguists (namely, de Saussure, Benveniste, Hjelmslev and Bloomfield) are summarized. Concerning the generative linguis…
Theognis of Megara and the Divine Creating Power in the Framework of Semiotic Textology: An Application of János Sándor Petöfi’s Theory to Archaic Gr…
2012
This paper is a demonstration of an application of Semiotic Textology to a limited case study. The main aspects of Semiotic Textology, the theory elaborated by Petöfi, are presented; secondly the linguistic aspects of the interpretation of lines 133-134 of the Theognis of Megara's poem, analysed in the framework of said theory, are presented. All the relevant syntactic, semantic, pragmatic information involved in text processing have been considered. Through fixed steps, it is shown that text processing is not exclusively a grammatical activity, because within a theoretical interpretation an Interpreter needs a number of contextual hypotheses, in order to understand the author's ontology. ©…
Sergio Audano, Giovanni Cipriani (ed.), Aspetti della Fortuna dell’Antico nella Cultura Europea: atti dell’Undicesima Giornata di Studi, Sestri Levan…
2016
Massimo Gioseffi (ed.), Uso, riuso e abuso dei testi classici. Colloquium. Milano: LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2010. Pp. …
2011
La definizione “miscellanea” si adatta in senso stretto al volume presente: esso contiene lavori molto diversi, per metodo e qualità, uniti da un filo conduttore. L’idea sottostante la pubblicazione è dichiarata nella prefazione: “nella storia della cultura occidentale due fattori sembrano avere assunto un peso decisivo. Il primo è l'adozione, fino alla nostra più stretta contemporaneità, della lettura diretta degli autori – gli auctores – all'interno della scuola, accanto, e qualche volta addirittura al posto, dei «manuali» nati per le specifiche esigenze didattiche. Il secondo è la mancata sostituzione del canone degli autori.”
Salvatore Nicosia, Ephemeris: scritti efimeri. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2013. Pp. 514. ISBN 9788849834741
2015
Salvatore Nicosia ha insegnato lingua e letteratura greca dal 1965 al 2012 ed è stato Preside della Facoltà di Lettere, Direttore di Dipartimento (per due volte), membro del Senato Accademico. Questo volume segna l’ingresso nel ruolo di “professore emerito”. Agli “scritti minori” di grecista sono affiancati “scritti vari”.
Elton Prifti, Italoamericano. Italiano e inglese in contatto negli USA. Analisi diacronica variazionale e migrazionale. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für …
2014
Compared to many other studies that are more or less based on particular situations of contact between the Italo-Romance of immigrants and the dominant American English, Prifti’s study is something new and motivates us to pay attention to conserving a sense of wholeness, of completeness, across time and space. In this perspective, Italian-American is seen not as a unique variety, but rather as a diachronic succession and a synchronic coexistence of different varieties, in which a set of varieties can be identified. An analysis of this set, portions of which speakers are aware of in varying degrees, reveals a certain internal order: it appears to be an articulated set of varieties related t…
Demosthenes and the Greek Oral Culture in the Framework of Semiotic Textology. An Application of János Sándor Petőfi’s Theory to Classical Greek Lite…
2011
The intention of this paper is to show how Semiotic Textology, the theory elaborated by the Hungarian linguist János Sándor Petőfi, can be applied to a determinate case study. In order to perform this task, firstly the main aspects of the theoretical framework are presented and some specific aspects concerning the application to verbal texts are noted. Secondly an ancient text of Classical Greek Literature is analyzed within the above-mentioned framework. The text is the "On the Peace" speech (Περὶ τῆς Εἰρήνης) composed by the Attic orator Demosthenes. Of the 25 paragraphs of the speech (divided in 3 different sections) only paragraphs 1-12 are considered, in order to evidence some interest…
The Procedural Approach to Texts
2016
The intention of this chapter is to show the peculiarities of the point of view of Dressler and de Beaugrande, expressed in their work. The position taken by the two authors in their Introduction is a veiled criticism against van Dijk and Petőfi, which are accused of excessive rigour. Dressler and de Beaugrande’s procedural approach avoids the use of logical bases and they propose a point of view closer to cognitive science. According to Dressler and de Beaugrande, the heart of the procedural approach is semantics. In their view, knowledge and meaning are sensitive to the situation in which they are used. So, the two authors believe that framing the texts and the knowledge about the real wo…