Search results for "Semiotics"

Molecular analysis of genes encoding CFTR interactors of SLC26 family in CF patients: preliminary results

2008

Cracking the Code : The Impact of Orthographic Transparency and Morphological-Syllabic Complexity on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia

2019

Reading is an essential skill in modern societies, yet not all learners necessarily become proficient readers. Theoretical concepts (e.g., the orthographic depth hypothesis; the grain size theory) as well as empirical evidence suggest that certain orthographies are easier to learn than others. The present paper reviews the literature on orthographic transparency, morphological complexity, and syllabic complexity of alphabetic languages. These notions are elaborated to show that differences in reading acquisition reflect fundamental differences in the nature of the phonological recoding and reading strategies developing in response to the specific orthography to be learned. The present paper…

Codici trapanesi: busiate (con il pesto) e cuscus (di pesce)

2020

Se ogni gastrosfera, come ogni semiosfera, è inserita all’interno di un gioco di scatole cinesi, tali per cui può essere considerata come parte inglobata in una gastrosfera più ampia o parte inglobante di una più ristretta, in questo contributo si propone un’incursione in una porzione della gastrosfera siciliana, andando a considerare due piatti tipici della zona del trapanese, molto diversi tra loro, ma per certi versi anche molto simili: il cuscus (la cui variante più tipica è quella con il pesce) e le busiate (un formato di pasta che trova il suo accompagnamento migliore nel pesto locale). Ripercorriamo brevemente le due ricette a partire dalle istruzioni per la preparazione fornite dai …

Recipe Books and the Structure of Recipes

2020

Learning to cook is no easy task. It takes time and patience, hard work and plenty of passion. Sometimes it can take years and a certain predisposition is necessary. As a result, many give up and few are truly successful. But teaching to cook is equally difficult. In the kitchen, when the teacher and their apprentices are in direct contact working together, things are relatively simple. The teacher carefully demonstrates the various steps to follow when preparing a particular dish or stock or sauce. The appren tices listen and, most importantly, play close attention. Then, slowly, tasting as they go, and - most importantly - imitating the teacher’s movements and gesture, they are able to at…

Keywords and lexical bundles within English pharmaceutical discourse: A corpus-driven description

2015

Abstract Little attention has been paid so far to keywords and lexical bundles used in the English language typical of the pharmaceutical field. Conducted from a register-perspective (Biber & Conrad, 2009), this exploratory and descriptive research is intended to fill in the gap in corpus linguistics studies on phraseology and register variation within written English pharmaceutical discourse. More specifically, this empirical study presents a corpus-driven description of the use and functions of keywords (top-50 by keyness) complemented by a similar description of lexical bundles (top-50 by frequency) used across samples of patient information leaflets, summaries of product characteristics…

Le culte en quête de signes. Une lecture de la campagne du « Denier de l’Église »

2010

Using a semiotic approach, this article analyses the communication actions of the Catholic Church, from a de-centred point of view. Indeed, rather than focusing on the communicational values of the evangelical message, we examine the way that the Church communicates outside its institutional and spiritual sphere, in the profane world of the media, through the example of the "campagne du Denier" fundraising campaign. This is both a fundraising activity, and a message aimed at Catholics, in a sector - public charity and donations - which is highly competitive. As a result, the Church must (re)define its position, the public that it constructs through its discourse, and its discourse itself, i…

Postfazione a Barthes

2019

There is a very significant passage in this long unpublished interview by Paolo Fabbri with Roland Barthes: if only because it clearly indicates one of the main theoretical opponents of the structural analysis of narrative. It is the moment when Barthes argues that it is necessary to get rid of certain 'false signifiers' of the narrative text, which are then the traditional categories of literary criticism.

Barthes, le récit, la saisie esthétique. Petite relecture du « Sarrasine » de Balzac

2019

Roland Barthes has written a lot about narrative. But can we say that he was really interested in it? that he grasped its profound formal articulation and its anthropological values? who perceived the theoretical interest, beyond literary narrative itself, of its methodological consequence, narrativity? The answers are not as obvious as they may seem. On the one hand, thanks also to his writings, in the paradigm of the humanities - despite the continuous epiphanies of a resurgent positivism - no one doubts that the narrative form is hermeneutic model essential to the general understanding of social and anthropological phenomena. On the other hand, Barthes' attitude towards narrative is far …

Chapter 9. Scalar implicatures and the semantics of wh-indefinites in Vietnamese

2019

Drawings, Gestures and Discourses: A Case Study with Kindergarten Students Discovering Lego Bricks

2020

This paper presents a study aimed at investigating the didactic potentiality of the use of an artefact, useful to construct mathematical meanings concerning the coordination of different points of view, in the observation of a real object/toy. In our view, the process of meaning construction can be fostered by the use of adequate artefacts, but it requires a teaching/learning model, which explicitly takes care of the evolution of meanings, from those personal, emerging through the activities, to the mathematical ones, aims of the teaching intervention. The main hypothesis of this study is that the alternation between different semiotic systems, graphical system, verbal system and system of …