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The European Flag According to Paolo Fabbri
2021
Too often we consider symbols in our cultures to be indivisible monoliths that can only be interpreted through the connotations they take on over time. This is due, on one hand, to their compact nature, the correspondence between the planes of expression and content that make them appear solid, impossible to break down. However, it is also true that in the majority of cases we inherit ready-made symbols that seem to have been born with their current shape, with no hint as to the processes that have made them this way. As a rule, there are so many, varied meanings of the word “symbol” that, in the absence of a clear, consensual hypothesis on what a symbol is, they can be difficult to read. A…
A Dominant Global Translation Strategy in Thai Translated Novels: The Translations of Religious Markers in Dan Brown’s Thriller Novels
2020
When translation is considered as an integral part of larger social systems (Even-Zohar 1990), the ways in which translations are produced to serve readers’ specificity could be affected. This paper examines whether there is a preference for a specific global translation strategy due to a readership that is specialized in terms of education level. Adopting Venuti’s (1995/2008) division of global translation strategies into exoticizing and domesticating translation, it examines the frequency of local translation strategies, which are part of a global translation strategy, used in translating English-Thai religious markers in Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, …
IL SINDACO DEL RIONE SANITÀ – MIT WŁOSKIEGO GUAPPO OCZAMI LUIGIEGO PIRANDELLA
2015
The article proposes an analysis of one of the main plays written by Eduardo De Filippo, Il sindaco del rione Sanita, considered here in a wide context: the literary and artistic representation of Neapolitan criminality. Understood by a part of the critics and later by sociological studies focused on the camorra as the “personification of the myth” of the guappo, often in opposition to the parodistic and disenchanted version of the character offered by Raffaele Viviani, Eduardo’s Sindaco actually maintains with this topos an extensively ambiguous connection. In this essay, using the proper methods of textual analysis in a dialogue with some contributions taken from historiography and sociol…
Bestiality: Animal Cultures
2018
Multinaturalism shouldn’t be viewed solely as the paradigmatic existence of multiple natures in different cultures – or “ontologies” as Descola refers to them – but also and most importantly as the syntagmatic presence, and the resulting contrast, of various ontologies within the same culture. From a semiotic point of view, then, the so-called ontologies are considered to be effects of meaning derived from precise discursive dispositifs. Describing such dispositifs is the aim of this paper.
Obels simbolis latvių liaudies dainose: nuo formulės iki ženklo
2006
Pats gausiausias ir ryškiausias latvių folkloro žanras – tai keturių eilučių posmai, vadinamieji klasikiniai ketureiliai. Tradicinių ketureilių visuma sudaro atskirą kalbos sistemos porūšį. Pavienių žodžių reikšmės čia išryškėja daugiausia viso ketureilio semantikos kontekste, per tematiniu požiūriu susijusias dainas arba visuose panašias formules turinčiuose tekstuose. Toks kupletas laikytinas pamatiniu latvių liaudies dainų tradicijos vienetu. Jis sudaro ir poetinių paralelizmų pagrindą, o šios konstrukcijos vaidina labai svarbų vaidmenį liaudies dainų poetikoje. Mokslinė dainų tekstų analizė atliekama ne tiktai pasitelkiant formulių teoriją, bet ir remiantis ženklo samprata bei atsižvelg…
A Controllable Text Simplification System for the Italian Language
2021
Text simplification is a non-trivial task that aims at reducing the linguistic complexity of written texts. Researchers have studied the problem by proposing new methodologies for addressing the English language, but other languages, like the Italian one, are almost unexplored. In this paper, we give a contribution to the enhancement of the Automated Text Simplification research by presenting a deep learning-based system, inspired by a state of the art system for the English language, capable of simplifying Italian texts. The system has been trained and tested by leveraging the Italian version of Newsela; it has shown promising results by achieving a SARI value of 30.17.
Design e narrazioni
2022
Il testo nasce dall’esigenza di mettere a fuoco le implicazioni cognitive, metodologiche e progettuali del concetto di narrazione, sempre più ricorrente nella nostra esperienza quotidiana soprattutto per le molteplici forme di comunicazione e di produzioni culturali che vi si ispirano; si tratta di un concetto che anche nella riflessione teorica e nella progettualità del design sta alimentando dimensioni fortemente innovative ed evolutive nella costruzione, comunicazione di significati, contenuti immateriali, esperienze e valori emozionali che si sovrappongono e s’intrecciano all’espressione tangibile e funzionale degli oggetti, degli artefatti comunicativi, degli spazi. Si propone un perco…
Theognis of Megara and the Divine Creating Power in the Framework of Semiotic Textology: An Application of János Sándor Petöfi’s Theory to Archaic Gr…
2012
This paper is a demonstration of an application of Semiotic Textology to a limited case study. The main aspects of Semiotic Textology, the theory elaborated by Petöfi, are presented; secondly the linguistic aspects of the interpretation of lines 133-134 of the Theognis of Megara's poem, analysed in the framework of said theory, are presented. All the relevant syntactic, semantic, pragmatic information involved in text processing have been considered. Through fixed steps, it is shown that text processing is not exclusively a grammatical activity, because within a theoretical interpretation an Interpreter needs a number of contextual hypotheses, in order to understand the author's ontology. ©…
Our Thoughts and Their Objects
2015
This chapter is about how we as adults use language to represent these qualified things. I first show that the objects of our true thoughts are what Chrysippus called obtaining propositions, which is what we now call facts. Then I look at four kinds of thought and the kinds of fact they represent. I start with two kinds of thought that are unique in that they are guaranteed to be true, according to Chrysippus, namely sense perceptions and preconceptions. I argue that sense perceptions represent so-called simple facts and that all conceptions represent the sort of non-simple facts that can be captured in conditionals. I then look at two kinds of thought that are indispensable when we engage …