Search results for " lingua"
showing 10 items of 2494 documents
La discussione ortografica tedesca a metà del Novecento: le Stuttgarter e Wiesbadener Empfehlungen.
2008
The twentieth century has been for the German orthography a period of several studies and discussions which gave scientific foundation to the 1996 spelling reform. There were plenty of public and private initiatives which, by involving an constantly increasing number of writers into the debates, tried to simplify the spelling to a more rational regulation. This essay focuses on the discussion in the late Fifties and especially on two reform projects: the Stuttgarter (1954) and the Wiesbadener Empfehlungen (1958). Despite their deeply different historical background from that of the recent successful reform, these projects are of fundamental interest for contemporary studies, since they give…
Seneca. La clemenza
2017
Nell'impianto argomentativo e dialettico del De clementia il princeps senecano si autorealizza, con esplicito riferimento alla teoria platonica, nell'euboulia, la capacità di prendere giuste decisioni politiche (Prot. 318e), nella phronesis (resp. 433b-d) e nell'episteme philakike (resp. 428a), la scienza della difesa e protezione della città. Si tratta di virtù che rendono l'uomo degno di esercitare il potere politico e hanno come fine il bene e l'utile di tutti i sudditi e sulle quali si incentra, nell'opera, il messaggio parentetico del filosofo all'alunno Nerone.
Political Discourse as Culture and Ideology
2009
This book explores the way in which pronominal relations and rhetorical strategies in political discourse determine the relationship speaker/audience, thus conditioning both the discourse organizational structures and the development of ideological content. The texts themselves are analysed from three different points of view: (i) in terms of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); (ii) in terms of rhetorical analysis; (iii) in terms of ideological content. More specifically, the intergration of rhetorical analysis into Critical Discourse Analysis is relevant and allows us to understand the realationship between linguistic structures on the one hand, and how these structures are designed to infl…
Reading figurative images in the political discourse of the British Press
2017
The present work aims to study visual metaphors and multimodal metaphors in the political cartoons published in the British press during the Brexit campaign. The theoretical approach adopted draws upon the theories elaborated by Halliday (), Forceville (; ), Ruiz de Mendoza and Diez (), and Hart (), with the objective of identifying the three analytical steps that lead to the conceptual frames structuring the political event under investigation. Results show the extent to which the visual representation of the Brexit campaign proposes novel and original perspectives of interpretation, and further evidence of the relevance of metaphors and metonymies in the narration of e…
Deeds not words’: Emmeline Pankhurst and the vote for women
2013
Women born in the nineteenth century had little chance of escaping the role that was considered their destiny - to marry young, stay home and raise a family. Campaigners like Millicent Fawcett and Elizabeth Garret Anderson carried out a personal and largely peaceful struggle to improve chances of an education and open professions like medicine to women. In the early part of the century ‘the suffragists’ were unsuccessful in their immediate objective, although they still exist in the form of one of the British main research and lobbying groups working on behalf of women, the Fawcett Society. In 1889, an English woman Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Franchise League, which fought to al…
Sémiotique et pandémie : journal intime
2020
Au lieu d’une réflexion a posteriori sur la période de la pandémie Covid-19, je présente ici quelques extraits d’un journal que j’ai tenu pendant les mois plus tragiques (jusqu’à ce moment) du confinement. L’épiphanie du virus a modifié presque tout dans notre vie quotidienne, et une bonne partie de ce « tout » concerne spécifiquement la signification. D’où l’intérêt du sémioticien. Du point de vue médiatique, l’épidémie est une aubaine. La bad news qui est une good news. La malchance foudroyante qui rapporte énormément. Une nouvelle appétissante qui attire l’attention du public blasé, qui multiplie l’audience et avance – bien davantage que son objet – par contagion immédiate : tout le mond…
The Web Participatory Environment: a New Genre in Health Exchange
2014
The Internet has provided new and expanded means of communication, incorporating all forms of discourse and registers, including that of medical discussion. Certain sites, in fact, specialise in healthcare and provide information, offering direct access to counsellors (medical professionals qualified to provide advice) and forums in which the role of participants is that of potential nonspecialists who share opinions, gather information on healthrelated issues and ambiguous medical meanings. The benefits of a healthrelated online forum lie in its ability to quickly and conveniently connect people to both important information and to other people with knowledge regarding a specific health…
“A simple and popular description”: Popularization of Natural Science in the Natural History Rambles of J.G. Wood
2010
Managing Relations: a study of positioning strategies in British international discourse
2008
This work deals with corpus-assisted research into speaker ideological positioning in the language of diplomacy. It concentrates on the resources used by the foreign minister Margaret Beckett to construe the speaker “orientation” (Lemke 1992) through the analysis of the main participant in the discourse that is international community and the subject matter being debated namely terrorism. The findings have shown assertiveness and determination from the speaker by the use of contractive mechanisms. The image of the international community is based on cooperation and unity just like a family and it is appraised mainly through judgements of tenacity. These are the resources required to fight t…
Translation and bilingualism in Monica Ali's and Jhumpa Lahiri's Marginalised Identitties
2012
This study, drawing upon contemporary theories in the field of migration, postcolonialism, and translation, offers an analysis of literary works by Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri. Ali and Lahiri epitomize second-generation immigrant literature, play with the linguistic concept of translating and interpreting as forms of hybrid connections, and are significant examples of how a text may become a space where multi-faceted identities co-habit in a process of deconstructing and reconstructing their own sense of emplacement in non-native places. Each immigrant text becomes a hybrid site, where second- and third generations of immigrant subjects move as mobile, fluctuating and impermanent identitie…