Search results for "LINGUA"

Accordo e Disaccordo

2012

L'aceto nel cuore

2012

In Plautus' theatre, a widespread element of the Roman material culture, as vinegar, becomes part of a well-structured metaphorical plane: from the image of sourness in feelings, which is long-running in the comic tradition, to the acetum as a metaphor of wit and cunning intelligence, lined with the meaning offered afterwards by Horace. In the Plautine comedy, vinegar, with effect from the gastronomic level, is connected with the representation of an acutus person, able to handle a situation full of unexpected events: in Pseudolus it results as a suitable synthesis of an effective simulatio. At the end we examine a passage of Rudens, in which 'salt' and 'vinegar' are conceived as necessary …

Acquisition ou acquisitions? Une étude empirique sur l'acquisition de la grammaire du fle par des apprenants italophones adultes en contexte guidé

2014

L’acquisizione delle categorie morfologiche in apprendenti adulti analfabeti o bassamente scolarizzati: un’indagine sperimentale.

2016

L’incremento dei flussi immigratori verso l’Europa ha da qualche anno riportato alla ribalta il tema dell’analfabetismo. Molte realtà (tra queste, alcune universitarie) impegnate nella didattica dell’italiano a stranieri sono chiamate a raccogliere la sfida posta dalla presenza di apprendenti adulti analfabeti (in lingua madre) o bassamente scolarizzati. L’alfabetizzazione di apprendenti scarsamente scolarizzati costituisce un nuovo campo d’intervento didattico, che ha alle spalle un orizzonte teorico piuttosto consistente (cfr. LESLLA). La ricerca acquisizionale suggerisce non solo che le abilità orali e di scrittura si condizionano vicendevolmente (per esempio, le capacità astrattive conn…

Two ways to metaphor comprehension in comparison: towards a bidimensional account of metaphor comprehension - poster

In this paper we will discuss the role of literal meaning and mental imagery in metaphor comprehension, showing their link and the problematic nature of these notions in pragmatics (Wilson & Carston 2019). We will try to overcome these problems by putting in dialogue the typology of metaphors offered by Carston (2010, 2018), based on the parameter of literal meaning, and the typology offered by Green (2017) based on the parameter of mental imagery. Carston (2018) recognizes the existence of two kinds of metaphors: (1) local metaphors such as “Giulio is a professor” in which a single lexical item - PROFESSOR - is modulated pragmatically; (2) metaphors such as “The yellow fog that rubs it…

How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm

2014

The involvement of the sensorimotor system in language understanding has been widely demonstrated. However, the role of context in these studies has only recently started to be addressed. Though words are bearers of a semantic potential, meaning is the product of a pragmatic process. It needs to be situated in a context to be disambiguated. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that embodied simulation occurring during linguistic processing is contextually modulated to the extent that the same sentence, depending on the context of utterance, leads to the activation of different effector-specific brain motor areas. In order to test this hypothesis, we asked subjects to give a moto…

Measures of native and non-native rhythm in a quantity language.

2005

The traditional phonetic classification of language rhythm as stress-timed or syllable-timed is attributed to Pike. Recently, two different proposals have been offered for describing the rhythmic structure of languages from acoustic-phonetic measurements. Ramus has suggested a metric based on the proportion of vocalic intervals and the variability ( SD) of consonantal intervals. Grabe has proposed Pairwise Variability Indices (nPVI, rPVI) calculated from the differences in vocalic and consonantal durations between successive syllables. We have calculated both the Ramus and Grabe metrics for Latvian, traditionally considered a syllable rhythm language, and for Latvian as spoken by Russian l…

The assesment of relationship between the angulation of impacted mandibular third molar teeth and the thickness of lingual bone: A prospective clinic…

2018

Background Our purpose was to investigate the relationship between the angulation of mandibular third molars and the thickness of the lingual bone, which can affect the risk of lingual nerve damage during lower third molars surgical extraction. Material and Methods This study consisted of 104 patients (42 males and 62 females), aged between 18-42 years (24.67 ± 6.11 years). Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) images were taken for preoperative assessment. The teeth were divided into four groups according to their positions: mesioangular, distoangular, vertical and horizontal. Lingual bone thickness around impacted teeth were measured at three points: cementoenamel junction (CEJ) of the man…

Sublingual administration of captopril in patients with acute myocardial ischemia.

1991

Summary: To investigate the anti-ischemic capability of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor captopril, 10 patients with acute myocardial ischemia (angina pectoris >1 h, ST-segment depression ±0.1 mV, no rise in creatine phosphokinase) received 25 mg captopril sublingually after being treated with an intravenous infusion of nitroglycerin (3 mg/h) and heparin (1200 IU/h) for 1 hour. A control group of 10 patients received placebo instead of captopril. Results showed a decrease of the initial ST-segment depression from 0.25±0.04 to 0.2±0.03 mV (p>0.01) with nitroglycerin for the captopril group and from 0.26±0.05 to 0.21±0.05 mV (p>0.01) for the control group. An additional decrease to…

Sublingual administration of captopril versus nitroglycerin in patients with severe congestive heart failure.

1990

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition has proven to be a successful approach for the long-term treatment of patients with congestive heart failure. This investigation compared the acute hemodynamic changes after sublingual administration of the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor captopril with those after nitroglycerin. A total of 24 patients with severe left heart failure (New York Heart Association classes III and IV) were given 25 mg captopril and 0.8 mg nitroglycerin sublingually in this randomized, cross-over study. Hemodynamic monitoring revealed a clear improvement in pre- and afterload parameters for both drugs (P less than 0.01 and P less than 0.001), while captopril induce…