Search results for " Writing"

Fiesta pública y memorialística en la Barcelona barroca

2018

Una de les eines més efectives per poder conèixer amb més detall els esdeveniments de la història és la memorialística. Mitjançant l’estudi d’aquests testimonis de primera mà, ara som capaços d’esbrinar els interessos i les preocupacions del conjunt de la societat en cada període històric. Aquest article pretén descriure el funcionament general de la memorialística i les característiques dels dietaris més concretament. A través de l’estudi de dietaris institucionals catalans però també d’altres de caire privat, duts a terme per autors particulars, desgranem els detalls de la festa barroca de la ciutat comtal i entenem com els esdeveniments més rellevants afectaven la seua quotidianitat i la…

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, N 6

2016

Immigrant Writing: Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali

2009

This paper investigates the importance of second-generation immigrant writing in America and England. The main focus is on a theoretical framework concerning the most typical features in migrant literature and on a literary analysis of Lahiri's collection "Interpreter of Maladies" and Ali's famous novel "Brick Lane".

Brancati su Pirandello e il pirandellismo

2019

Nel romanzo breve "Sogno di un valzer" uscito a puntate su “Quadrivio”, dal 5 giugno al 14 agosto 1938, Vitaliano Brancati mette in scena, tra osservazione dei luoghi e rilevamento di costume, un’umanità fuori misura, continuamente in bilico tra realtà e sogno. A Caltanissetta (Nissa) la città nel cui Istituto magistrale lo scrittore, voltate le spalle alla Roma fascista, è venuto a insegnare, personaggi non appariscenti, insignificanti, che tuttavia covano desideri, si arrovellano in domande metafisiche. Prende così forma il leitmotiv delle critica al pirandellismo che più volte con ironia sottile affiora negli scritti brancatiani. Il saggio mostra come esso si intrecci con la comicità sul…

Online reading as an individual and social practice

2012

Postcolonial Intersections: Transnational Women Voices from Minor Italy

2017

The rising corpus of Italian postcolonial literature, mainly by women writers originally from the Horn of Africa, is urging Italian letters to engage with other contemporary transnational productions, thus challenging the notion of national canons and vertical power relations, in favor of a writing seeking for horizontal, minor connections unmediated by the center, as suggested by Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, whose work on Minor Transnationalism draws from Deleuze & Guattari and Edouard Glissant. As a case of point, the article offers a reflection on Ubax Cristina Ali Farah's narratives and their use of language.

Sex, Gender And Desire in Jeanette Winterson's "The Passion"

2012

Multilingual Students´ Self-reported Use of their Language Repertoires when Writing in English

2015

Recent research suggests that multilingual students tend to use their complete language repertoires, particularly their L1, when writing in a non-native language (e.g. Cenoz & Gorter 2011; Wang 2003). While there is some international research on the L2 and L3 writing process among bilinguals, the L2/L3 writing process of bilingual and multilingual individuals in the Swedish context remains unexplored (Tholin 2012). This study, carried out in a Swedish secondary school, focuses on 131 bi- and multilingual students’ (age 15-16) self-reported languages of thought while writing an essay in English, which is a non-native language. Drawing on the translanguaging framework (Blackledge & Creese 20…

Proper use of medical language: Main problems and solutions

2015

[EN]: Medical language should be characterized by its precision, emotional neutrality and stability. The effective communication of results of scientific studies depends on compliance with current standards of drafting and style; texts with defects can hinder interest in the findings. In this study, we discuss some of the most common problems and errors in medical language, including the abuse of abbreviations and foreign words, the use of improper words, syntax errors and solecisms, the most common errors in titles and the abuse of capital letters and the gerund. Investigators have effective tools for dealing with these problems, such as quality texts, critical dictionaries of questions an…

Comparing the outcomes of two different approaches to CEFR-based rating of students’ writing performances across two European countries

2018

This study investigated to what extent two teams of experienced raters from different European countries (Finland and Austria), using their own CEFR-based rating scale (one holistic and one analytic), agreed on the CEFR level of students’ writing performances. Both teams rated one hundred performances written by Austrian secondary school students based on two tasks. The Finnish raters (N = 3) applied a holistic CEFR-linked rating scale consisting of verbatim CEFR descriptors developed in Finland, while the Austrian team (N = 6) used an analytic CEFR-linked rating scale consisting of four criteria developed in Austria. The ratings were analysed using the Rasch model. Although there were indi…