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Enjoying sameness and difference – competition and convergence of Latin American telenovelas and Swahili video films in Tanzania

2018

Since the early 2000s Latin American telenovelas have become a very popular and widely received genre in Tanzania. At the same time, a huge video film industry has developed with local films made i...

Review of Peräkylä & Sorjonen (2012): Emotion in Interaction. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

2014

Review of Völkel (2010): Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language

2011

Review of Dancygier (2012): The Language of Stories, A Cognitive Approach

2012

'The sisters did her every imaginable injury': Power and violence in Cinderella

2012

The main aim of this article is to discuss the results achieved after investigating the presence of violence in the Grimm brothers’ <em>Cinderella</em> with the intention of finding out what kind of processes predominate in this tale and whether they can be related to violent actions. The analysis involved firstly, a study of the frequency and concordances of some words belonging to the semantic field ‘violence’, surveying in detail the context in which they appear and secondly, the analysis of transitivity processes. The method proved to be a good strategy to check whether each character’s identity and social position (power) were somehow related to the infliction of violence w…

Towards a lexicogrammatical pattern in Swedish crime novels

2013

The success of Swedish crime novels has been noted and discussed at length. Much of this commentary refers to a salient characteristic atmosphere which seems to be a common feature of most if not all Scandinavian crime novels. In this paper the potential of some recurring lexicogrammatical features to construct this characteristically gloomy and sombre atmosphere is presented and discussed. It will be shown that the vague feeling of unease which is perceived while reading these fictional texts is linguistically attestable. The analysis is conducted within the framework of M.A.K. Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar (SFG) which will be applied to three contemporary Swedish crime novels by …

Cultural Values and Impolite Behaviour. The Case of Spaniards and North-Americans

2016

This paper explores the influence of the individualism index (Hofstede 1991) of Spaniards and North-Americans on verbal impoliteness behaviour following Kaul de Marlangeon’s (2008) taxonomy of impolite acts. The level of social distance and affect between the interlocutors are considered as potential factors impacting on the use of impoliteness types and strategies. The corpus consists of scripts from a small sample of six movies (three from Spain and three from the US) and we follow an observational and a quantitative analysis. The findings reveal remarkable statistical differences as a result of the impact of cultural values on the verbal impoliteness behaviour of speakers from each count…

Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation. Die Wurzeln des Konflikts vom 18. Jh. bis 1924

2021

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli alla luce della tecnica narratologica

2016

Queste pagine cercano di rispondere a un insieme di domande circa l’opera Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, presa in considerazione in quanto testo letterario. Si tratta, fra le altre, di domande quali: in quale modo sono assemblati i (disparati) materiali che lo compongono? Quali sono le tecniche narrative adoperate? Qual è il rapporto fra narratore-protagonista e autore? Quale ruolo ha l’autore nel testo? È un ruolo unitario? L’opera è un romanzo? Come agisce la commistione di generi? Come cresce il libro? Nelle risposte si cerca di aprire nuovi spiragli alla critica leviana.

"22. juli." Litterære konstruksjoner av et nasjonalt traume.

2016

Following the right wing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik’s terrorist attacks on Norway, July 22, 2011, we observe an instant need for literature. These literary responses may be grouped into four main stages. The first is dominated by a collective use of canonical lyrical texts, sung and performed at public ceremonies and funerals. In the second stage, professional authors write and publish newly written poems in newspapers and on the net addressing the grief and the acute call for words in this shocking situation. The third stage represents a short distance response, including the anthology Respons 22 / 7, where authors publish poems and essays as an immediate reaction to the catastrophe. I…