Search results for "Orality"

A dynamic performance management approach to frame corruption in public procurement: a case study

2021

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to frame the causal relationships between corruption in public procurement and performance of local governments. Design/methodology/approach An outcome-based dynamic performance management approach is adopted to explore a representative case study of a small Italian municipality. The model is based on three sources: qualitative primary data generated by face-to-face convergent interviews; secondary data retrieved from documents describing legal cases linked to procurement and open-access repositories; and an extensive literature review. Findings Emphasizing the role of community civic morality systemically may help to understand some counterintuitive re…

Quando il diritto diventa morale

2018

This paper is divided in two parts. In the first one Damiano Canale’s description of practical conflicts between law and morality is revisited and some criticisms proposed. The second part is devoted to a short exploration of the varieties of ways of understanding morality particularly in relation with the moral nature of law itself.

Oralidad en las bitácoras de viaje 2.0

2014

El objetivo de este trabajo es el análisis de los rasgos típicos de la oralidad en un determinado tipo de texto escrito: el de los blogs turísticos, usando un corpus de 25 bitácoras digitales en español. En este estudio se tratará el estilo, el léxico, las características morfosintácticas propias del lenguaje oral y coloquial, así como estrategias comunicativas de las nuevas tecnologías para suplir la oralidad. The aim of this paper is to analyze the typical features of orality in a specific type of written text, that is digital travel blogs, by using a corpus of 25 weblogs written in Spanish. In this article, we will study the style, vocabulary and morphosyntactic characteristics of spoken…

Representing Time: An Essay on Temporality as Modality

2009

The Rhetoric of Healthcare Inequality in Capitalist Classed Societies: Blomkamp’s and Romanek’s Dystopian Visions

2018

The future of democratic societies has been widely debated among futurologists, including the possible ways medicine could advance, changing the lives of individuals and communities. Yet, what seems a reasonable question to ask is – how the unequal access to healthcare might perpetuate social and economic divisions and turn democracy into tyranny. This paper advances a rhetorical analysis of the reciprocal relations between healthcare and the classed capitalist system as portrayed in two dystopian pictures: Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go (2010) and Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (2013). The realities depicted in these movies, as well as their narratives, vary considerably; however, they both pres…

Dislocated Temporalities : Immigration, Identity, and Sexuality in Najat El Hachmi?s «L?últim patriarca»

2018

Recent Catalan criticism has focused on place and space, as well as immigration, but has overlooked temporality. Yet migrations are not only a matter of space (of demographic movements and geographical relocations), but also of time: immigration questions the idea of origins and the possibility of a shared future, and problematizes the rhythms of everyday life. Temporality, in fact, is a key axis in the formation of identities and in cultural conflicts, not just regarding the uses of the past and the projection of societies towards the future, but also in relation to the normative uses of the body. The coexistence of asynchronous temporalities provoked by immigration is a factor in both cul…

A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English. The role of (in)formality and (in)directness

2013

This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicative (in)directness – within broader politeness orientations – of speakers of different languages, specifically an orientation towards directness in Peninsular Spanish vis-à-vis indirectness in British English. The aim of this paper is thus to invest…

Traducir a Shakespeare : la palabra del actor

2017

En este artículo ofrecemos algunas de las reflexiones que desde hace años nos suscita nuestra experiencia en el proceso de traducción —al castellano y al catalán, a la página y a la escena— de los textos teatrales del dramaturgo inglés. La traducción de Shakespeare es una actividad fundamentada en la conciencia estética, dramatúrgica, escénica, fonoestilística, lingüística, bibliotextual, cultural, ideológica, del texto objeto de trabajo. Tomamos decisiones de traducción en función del valor que atribuimos al texto de partida, de los recursos y posibilidades que nos ofrece nuestro idioma, del contexto en que se utilizará el texto meta, de nuestras ideas sobre lo que es una buena traducción,…

Aristotelian Cross-References Network

2014

In this paper, I suggest to use the cross-references that can be found in Aristotle's works as hyperlinks. Drawing a map of Aristotle's works on the basis of these cross-references, it will possible to build an interface to navigate inside Aristotle's corpus and to reconstruct a network of the connections among several layers of his philosophical and scientific project.

Tempo lembrado, lido e experienciado no texto virtual

2015

In this article I will scrutinize Screen (2002, by WARDRIP-FRUIN & al.), a literary work set and experienced in a CAVE Virtual Reality environment, especially from the perspective of its temporal aspects. There are obvious themes of remembering, forgetting and textually constructing the past in this work, but most notably, Screen emphasizes the temporality of the reading act itself. I will analyze this highly special work in relation to the remembered, read, and bodily experienced time, and thus, attempt to better understand both the notion of fictive time and the temporality of fiction. Neste artigo vou examinar Screen (2002, por Wardrip-Fruin & al.), uma obra literária experimenta…