Search results for " Comparative"

The hidden side of adverbs

2018

This paper will address the predicative nature of manner adverb(ial)s and of three types of sentence adverbs (subject-oriented, modal, and evaluative) in Italian. Predication often becomes overt by means of morphological correlates. Is it possible to find any such evidence with invariable adverbs? To unveil their predicative nature, a procedure will be suggested in which two sentences, one with a -mente adverb, the other with its cognate adjective (a) share the content morphemes (identity of the signifiant) and (b) entail each other (identity of the signifié as regards semantic roles). A number of such pairs will be discussed, examples of which include: Intelligentemente, Leo intervenne ‘Cl…

Genus im DaF-Unterricht in Italien: Was sagen Lehrwerke und Grammatiken?

2011

For foreign language students gender seems to be a great problem. This article about the teachability and learnability of German gender wants to show what Italian students learn about it and how they do so (and also how they could do it better).

Emotions and Autonomy in Foreign Language Learning at University

2018

<div> <p>This article explores the role of emotions in foreign language learning at university level. Drawing on the recent literature regarding the affective dimension in language learning, it illustrates the ways in which students experience emotions in foreign language learning. Particular emphasis is given to the way in which students’ emotions, both positive and negative, emerge and change during their learning process. The article presents a study conducted among university students learning English in a co-directed and autonomy-inspired environment. Following a qualitative approach, students’ emotional expression was investigated, by means of individual advising sessions …

Recensione a: Jacopo Gesiot, Romanzi tiranni. La prosa iberica di cavalleria nel primo Cinquecento padano. Roma, Aracne editrice, 2018.

2019

Pistolesi, Elena; Pugliese, Rosa; Gili Fivela, Barbara (eds) (2015). «Parole, gesti, interpretazioni. Studi linguistici per Carla Bazzanella»

2016

Pistolesi, Elena; Pugliese, Rosa; Gili Fivela, Barbara (eds) (2015). Parole, gesti, interpretazioni. Studi linguistici per Carla Bazzanella

Consolo, Vincenzo (2014). «Conversación en Sevilla»

2016

Consolo, Vincenzo (2014). Conversación en Sevilla

Ezio Raimondi, Camminare nel tempo.Una conversazione con Alberto Bertoni e Giorgio Zanetti

2018

Raimondi, Ezio (2015). Camminare nel tempo.Una conversazione con Alberto Bertoni e Giorgio Zanetti. (Juan Carlos de Miguel y Canuto).

Content-Specific Learning in CLIL

2018

<div> <p>The research investigates the effects of two learning contexts, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and traditional learning (non-CLIL), upon content-specific outcomes, an aspect less explored than language-specific achievements in CLIL. Specifically, the study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of English CLIL applied to Physics in Italian high school. Two different levels of student competence are examined: selecting answers for content-specific issues, and content-related argumentative skills, in order to measure how learners comprehend and discuss content. The comparison between CLIL and non-CLIL classes in pretest, posttest and delayed posttest acco…

Bioy Casares: neo-fantástico y deconstrucción

2016

The complex dynamics of space and time present in some of the stories of Adolfo Bioy Casares have their roots in the interstitial that separates the genres of fantasy and neo-fantasy, and most of all in the suggestion of ontological ideas and doubts that characterise the latter. Deeply rooted in the unknown land of a reality that is full of doubts, the literature of Bioy Casares seeks to restore, through the multiple games of fiction, the perception and perceptions of a continuous changes that end with generating parallel worlds. The neo-fantastic passes the crucial limit of traditional fantasy, the stable and certain dichotomy between the real and the imaginary, and to do this it relies on…

“Let Me Have Claudio’s Head”

2016

<div> <p>In an attempt to produce a reconstruction of the genealogy of the sources, this essay investigates the relationship between <i>Measure for Measure</i> and the <i>Gospel</i> of Matthew, examining in particular the possibility that the episode related to Claudio’s supposed beheading is somehow associated with the death of John the Baptist, as recorded in Matthew 14:1-12. In Shakespeare as well as in the Evangelist’s text, the request for the head is charged with a highly symbolic value: it is a visualization of the triumph, the gift that the instigator makes to his own superiority, a narcissistic gratification. It is an expression of personal affir…