Search results for " Writing"

Transizioni. Paradigmi della letteratura tardo-vittoriana e modernista

2008

This article is a review of a volume edited by Mirella Giannitrapani, which welcomes literary essays on English literature from late-nineteenth century to contemporary literature. Among the most famous writers examined in this work: Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Warner.

The role of working memory on writing processes.

2021

Literature has extensively demonstrated the coordination role of working memory (WM) in complex tasks such as writing. However, previous studies mostly concentrated on the relation between passive WM (e.g., WM span) components and specific writing tasks (e.g., dictation). Here, we aimed to investigate the relationship between different writing skills and the performance on a WM updating task measuring the more active components of WM. From a pool of 160 Italian pupils (grades 3–5), we selected 46 children divided in two groups based on their WM updating performance. The first group consisted of 21 children with low WM updating performance (≤10th percentile), the second group consisted of 25…

The impact of deep dysgraphia on graphemic output buffer disorders

2004

This article describes an investigation into the residual writing skills of a severely dysgraphic patient (DA). We found that they were powerfully influenced by a number of lexical variables (lexicality, frequency, imageability, length and geminates). His error pattern was characterized by semantic, lexical, substitution, deletion errors and fragment responses that preserved the first letter. Thus, DA's written spelling was characterized by both deep dysgraphic and graphemic output buffer effects. It is proposed that this pattern of performance represents a new "putative functional syndrome."

Predictors of risk of learning disabilities

2012

Involves all the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are presumed to be precursors of the development of conventional forms of reading and writing (Whitehurst and Lonigan, 1998). It been traced a continuity of development between the first emergent literacy skills, starting from kindergarten, and early reading skills (Phillips BM et al). Children who have difficulty in the early stages of learning to read is very likely continue to present both in later school years further failures in this area (Cornoldi,Tressoldi, 2007) triggered a negative spiral and problematic process (Tressoldi e Vio, 1996). There are numerous empirical confirmation of the importance of early identification of diffic…

The Ambivalence of Revenge and of the Avenger's Role in HAMLET: The Function of Letters and Emblematic Allusions

2011

Rambling in Sicily: Hybrid Mobility and Liminal Identities in Early Nineteenth Century Periodical Writing

2020

The essay focuses on the interaction between the discoursive patterns of Rambles in Sicily, in 1816. By an Artist, a travelogue published anonymously from 1817 to 1818 in The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, and the development of a hybrid travelling identity centred on a concept of mobility that oscillates from seeing to acting. Travelling in Sicily between the decline of the Grand Tour and the birth of mass tourism seems to lead to an identity construction encouraged by the polychromatic nature of the place travelled. The travelogue is deemed «a private account of an authentic and autobiographic experience of mobility in a public space» (Liedke 2018: 6). The concept of the tra…

Un lessico settoriale estinto: la lingua solfaresca nelle scritture

2019

Le voci di questo lessico di fine Ottocento, ormai spento negli usi concreti e persino dei ricordi degli ultimi zolfarai, è rinvenibile – relativamente ai testi scritti – nelle raccolte folkloriche di canti di miniera, nelle testimonianze diaristiche di tre donne straniere (Chapman, Hamilton-Caico; White Mario), in testi socio-economici, nei registri e verbali tecnici, in qualche testo letterario (Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Luigi Pirandello, Alessio Di Giovanni, Giuseppe Giusti Sinopoli, Andrea Camilleri, Angelo Petix). Nell'articolo ci si concentra sul trattamento fonetico e morfologico di alcune voci, a partire dalle diverse tipologie di testo. In particolare sulle voci carusu (tras…

In rete la cucina è politica. Alcuni modelli di analisi e uno studio di caso.

2013

Gastronauti e chowhounds, ghiottoni, gourmand e gourmet, in una parola foodies: l’attuale megatrend culinario deve molto alle pratiche di socializzazione su Internet. Di cibo, in rete, si comincia a scrivere fin da subito (i board di Chowhound, per esempio, aprono i battenti già nel 97), la qual cosa dice anche molto su quanto la “grande conversazione” sia debitrice del discorso gastronomico. Il cibo e le chiacchere su Internet si presentano, infatti, come intrinsecamente legati, classico binomio inscindibile. In tutto il mondo, blogger e storyteller culinari diventano, pertanto, autori di culto, in grado di generare schiere di fedeli lettori pronti a seguire il proprio beniamino ovunque, s…

Pour une écriture universitaire polymorphe : la transcription de héros ordinaires en héros de bande dessinée

2018

During a workshop dedicated to adapting academic articles in comic form, the authors teamed up to produce four pages based on an article written by Sebastien Laffage-Cosnier, which was published in Society and Leisure (Volume 38, 2015 – Issue 3) ntitled “The French Snow Class: How the Focus of a School Innovation Changed from Physical Education to Academic Learning (1953–1981)”. The drawings on the following pages are the result of this common work, the process of which is described by the creators. This experience was also an opportunity to further their reflections on the process of academic writing in comics, which, although marginal, is gathering more and more attention from academics a…

On the relevance of script writing basics in audiovisual translation practice and training

2012

Audiovisual texts possess characteristics that clearly differentiate audiovisual translation from both oral and written translation, and prospective screen translators are usually taught about the issues that typically arise in audiovisual translation. This article argues for the development of an interdisciplinary approach that brings together Translation Studies and Film Studies, which would prepare future audiovisual translators to work with the nature and structure of a script in mind, in addition to the study of common and diverse translational aspects. Focusing on film, the article briefly discusses the nature and structure of scripts, and identifies key points in the development and …