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Catalan fiction in the 15th century
2018
Catalan fiction in the 15th century is framed within the context of the expansion of the Crown of Aragon around the Mediterranean, the emergence of Valencia as the cultural capital of the Crown, the crisis in the prevailing mediaeval values, the consolidation of a monetary economy, and fertile contacts between Catalan culture and Castile, France, Burgundy and especially Italy. This is perfectly illustrated by the five most important fictional pieces from that era: Història de Jacob Xalabín, which refers to the Ottoman Empire; Curial e Güelfa, which is set in Italy, France, the German Empire, the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa; Tirant lo Blanc, by Joanot Martorell, which focuses on E…
Second language comprehensibility and accentedness across oral proficiency levels : A comparison of two L1s
2021
Second language comprehensibility and accentedness are highly complex phenomena, and numerous studies have been conducted to better understand these constructs. However, research has seldom addressed L2 comprehensibility and accentedness in relation to speakers' proficiency in the target language. This study explores L2 English comprehensibility and accentedness across three proficiency levels. The speakers were 60 teenaged Finns, half of them speaking Finnish as their L1 and half speaking Finland-Swedish as their L1. Using 20-s speech samples, the comprehensibility and accentedness of the speakers were rated by 34 English-speaking teenagers on a 9-point scale. Comparisons were made regardi…
Investigating Syntactic Complexity in EFL Learners' Writing across Common European Framework of Reference Levels A1, A2, and B1
2019
Abstract The study investigates the linguistic basis of Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels in English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing. Specifically, it examines whether CEFR levels can be distinguished with reference to syntactic complexity (SC) and whether the results differ between two groups of EFL learners with different first languages (Sindhi and Finnish). This sheds light on the linguistic comparability of the CEFR levels across L1 groups. Informants were teenagers from Pakistan (N = 868) and Finland (N = 287) who wrote the same argumentative essay that was rated on a CEFR-based scale. The essays were analysed for 28 SC indices with the L2 Syntactic Co…
Dealing with viewers’ complaints: Role, visibility and transparency of PSB Ombudsmen in ten European countries
2017
The article shows the results of a comparative analysis of the complaints management mechanisms offered by ten European Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) systems on their corporate websites. Using a qualitative methodology, it maps the procedures and evaluates the visibility, transparency and dissemination of results. The findings show, firstly, great diversity in terms of responsible election and management, despite the converging media governance. Also noteworthy is the margin of substantial improvement in the transparency and dissemination possibilities, specially relating to the interaction offered by the digital environment. Among the ten public corporations analysed, the BBC is the be…
Il giudice amministrativo e l’applicabilità diretta della CEDU all’indomani dell’entrata in vigore del Trattato di Lisbona in Diritti umani e diritto…
2010
Nuovi equilibri nella tensione tra primato del diritto europeo e tutela dei diritti fondamentali. Criticità e spunti nella giurisprudenza della Corte…
I confini della restorative justice nella più recente normativa europea a tutela della vittima: ragionevole attuazione di una victim-centred justice …
2015
La c.d. restorative justice (RJ) si inserisce a pieno titolo e in modo significativo nel processo di “riscoperta della vittima” nel sistema penale. Eppure, nonostante l’indubbia vocazione vittimo-centrica della RJ, in alcuni recenti interventi normativi europei sembra delinearsi un atteggiamento di cautela, se non di sfiducia, verso l’applicazione “su larga scala” della RJ, specie qualora il reato riguardi soggetti vulnerabili. Si tratta di apportare ragionevoli correttivi ai modelli di RJ, affinché questi possano armoniosamente congiungersi al sistema di giustizia penale e realizzare un’equilibrata victim-centred justice? O forse le cautele introdotte comportano, alla stregua di Sisifo, un…
I Rimedi
2007
Il lavoro propone una lettura organica del sistema delle tutele degli interessi privati: specola privilegiata è il diritto privato di derivazione europea, con un apparato bibliografico essenziale ed un riferimento costante alla giurisprudenza interna e comunitaria, nonché alle fonti di c.d. soft law (PECL, Principì Unidroit).
Immigrati e diritti sociali
2016
Il saggio analizza in chiave critica i problemi più attuali della protezione socia¬le degli immigrati. Dopo avere ricostruito il quadro normativo attualmente vigente, l’A. esamina le pronunce giurisprudenziali più significative in materia di parità di trattamento e divieto di discriminazione, valutandone l’impatto con riferimento ai diversi status di immigrato. L’ultima parte è dedicata alla questione della condizionalità delle prestazioni di assistenza sociale a causa dei vincoli di bilancio imposti agli Stati dalla nuova governance europea. The paper proposes a critical view of the most actual problems concerning social protection of migrant people. On the one hand, it presents the in for…