Search results for " Italian language"
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Discontinuity as defocusing. A cognitive interpretation of the so-called discontinuous reciprocal constructions
2011
I intend to analyze a peculiar kind of reciprocal construction, in which the natural symmetry of the complex event is split due both to the defocusing of one participant (O), coded as a comitative, and the foregrounding of the other one (A), coded as a subject controlling the agreement with the verb. This construction (“discontinuous reciprocal construction”, Dimitriadis 2004), involves a “natural reciprocity” (Kemmer 1993) or “mutual configuration” (Haspelmath 2007) of the event (kissing, marring, meeting). Found in many languages, it is well attested in Italian too, both at standard level and at the informal one (1), alongside the prototypical reciprocal one (2): 1. Gianni si sposa/incont…
A Software System for Automatic Signed Italian Recognition
2006
The paper shows a system for automatic recognition of Signed It alian sentences. The proposed system is based on a multi-level architecture that m odels and manages the knowledge involved in the recognition process in a simple and robust way, integrating a common sense engine in order to deal with sentences in their context. In this architecture, the higher abstraction level introd uces a semantic control and an analysis of the correctness of a sentence given a sequence of previously recognized signs. Experimenta tions are presented using a set of signs from the Italian Sign Language (LIS) and a sentence template usef ul for domotic applications, an d show a high recognition rate that encou…
La lingua di mamma Felicia. Oralità e scrittura nella narrazione civile e testimoniale di una donna contro la mafia
2021
La narrazione orale di Felicia Bartolotta Impastato è analizzata con gli strumenti della sociolinguistica e nel quadro teorico del concetto di "popolarità della poesia". A tal fine vengono utilizzati gli apporti scientifici più importanti a partire dalla secondo metà del Novecento per giungere alla considerazione dei fenomeni che interessano l'italiano contemporaneo, soprattutto nell'ambito delle relazioni tra norma e uso. Viene presa in considerazione anche la teoria della linguistica del testo a quale, anche in questa fattispecie di ricerca, si rileva di grande efficacia, soprattutto in relazione al tema della ‘tutela’ della circolazione e della ricezione di testi a vocazione dialettale, …
A system for sign language sentence recognition based on common sense context
2005
The paper proposes a complete framework for sign language recognition that integrates common sense in order to deal with sentences. The proposed system is based on a cognitive architecture allows modeling and managing the knowledge of the recognition process in a simple and robust way. The final abstraction level of this architecture introduces the semantic context and the analysis of the correctness of a sentence given a sequence of recognized signs. Experimentations are presented using the Italian sign language (LIS), and shows that the system maintains the recognition rate high when set of sign grows, correcting erroneous recognized single sign using the context
What Gender-Neutral Legislation Owes to Grammar: The Concept of ‘Gender’ in Legal English and the Italian Guidelines for Use of Gender-Sensitive Lang…
2022
Gender-neutral language, also called non-sexist, genderinclusive, or non-gender-specific language, refers to language that includes words or expressions that cannot be taken to refer to one gender only. As a matter of fact, languages vary widely in terms of gender systems showing differences in the number of classes, underlying assignment rules and how and where gender is marked. In everyday speech, the word gender is usually associated with the biological and social differences between men and women (as in the case of Italian), and the view that grammatical gender mirrors natural gender is still evident in the terms masculine, feminine, and neuter that are used to label individual gender d…
Prospettive dell’insegnamento dell’italiano nelle università cinesi nel contesto della riforma delle discipline umanistiche
2022
In 2018, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China proposed the establishment of the Xin Wenke, the so-called ‘New Humanities Disciplines’, emphasizing interdisciplinary interaction, improvement of teaching, and integration between education and technology. Before the Xin Wenke reform, some Chinese universities had already practiced interdisciplinary integration, but these individual attempts still needed further improvement. In the context of the Xin Wenke reform and the Belt and Road Initiative, the importance of teaching Italian in China is becoming increasingly prominent. To achieve the goals of Xin Wenke reform and improve interdisciplinary integration, Chinese univer…