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Miti politici e attori collettivi. Orlando e lo spettacolo dell'antimafia
2022
From the 1980s to 2022, the role of mayor of Palermo is inextricably linked to the name of Leoluca Orlando. The hegemony of his political narrative is such that commissionerships and defeats are considered, in this period, mere parentheses in the history of the Municipality. In this contribution, we analyze the semantic device that, at the end of his first, glorious term as 'anti-mafia mayor', avoided Orlando’s discharge to be perceived as a defeat. A book-interview, in particular, had a strategic role in this resemantization. It’s a text by Michele Perriera (1988), journalist for L’Ora and theatre author, that operates a narrative shift of the political scene of Palermo from a fabulous to …
How to read a recipe: the semiotic point of view
2020
Writing a recipe is no easy task. It requires great care to render those various steps clearly, placing them in order, explaining the reasons for their importance in achieving the final result. However, over time the technique for writing a recipe, and consequently for composing an entire recipe book, has not just been perfected, but has reached fairly stable standards that, when reproduced, make teaching others to cook using the written word a fairly common practice. So, this article try to answer to the answers: How are recipes structured? What order do they follow when describing a culinary procedure?
Postfazione a Barthes
2019
There is a very significant passage in this long unpublished interview by Paolo Fabbri with Roland Barthes: if only because it clearly indicates one of the main theoretical opponents of the structural analysis of narrative. It is the moment when Barthes argues that it is necessary to get rid of certain 'false signifiers' of the narrative text, which are then the traditional categories of literary criticism.
Barthes, le récit, la saisie esthétique. Petite relecture du « Sarrasine » de Balzac
2019
Roland Barthes has written a lot about narrative. But can we say that he was really interested in it? that he grasped its profound formal articulation and its anthropological values? who perceived the theoretical interest, beyond literary narrative itself, of its methodological consequence, narrativity? The answers are not as obvious as they may seem. On the one hand, thanks also to his writings, in the paradigm of the humanities - despite the continuous epiphanies of a resurgent positivism - no one doubts that the narrative form is hermeneutic model essential to the general understanding of social and anthropological phenomena. On the other hand, Barthes' attitude towards narrative is far …
Audience involvement in creative media for development: Making sense of the semiotic interface
2017
This article explores the role that semiotic communication plays in the generation of narrative affect. It also draws on Suruchi Sood’s concept of audience involvement as being capable of increasing self-efficacy and collective-efficacy, both of which are crucial to behaviour change. It therefore, demonstrates how semiotic tropes are used in creative media narratives to elicit affect and in turn generate authentic audience involvement with the subjects of those narratives, a process which eventually has positive consequences for behaviour change communication. Hence, these narratives fueled by semiotics, become the threshing floor where potential audiences are drawn into pro-social discours…