Search results for "Vernacular"
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The development of African American Vernacular English in two fiction texts: a case study
2009
Afroamerikkalainen englanti on Pohjois-Amerikassa ristiriitaisessa asemassa. Kielitieteilijät eivät ole yhteisymmärryksessä kielen syntyperästä ja näin koko kieli ja sen oikeellisuus on kyseenalaistettu Amerikassa. Kielen käyttäjät ovat useimmiten mustia amerikkalaisia, joista useat ovat joutuneet pilkan kohteiksi puhetyylinsä vuoksi. Nykyään monet mustat jopa pitävät kieltään vain slangina tai muuten virheellisenä. Siksi lisää tutkimuksia afroamerikkalaisesta englannista tarvittaisiin. Tässä tutkimuksessa vertailtiin kahta fiktiivistä afroamerikkalaista tekstiä toisiinsa, jotta nähtiin millaisia eroja ja yhtäläisyyksiä kirjailijoiden kielenkäytössä oli. Näistä eroista tehtiin myös johtopä…
Vernacular and bioclimatic architecture and indoor thermal comfort implications in hot-humid climates: An overview
2018
Abstract Sustainable urban development, especially in disadvantaged regions, has increasingly gained a major strategic priority. New settlements and urban regeneration programs have to achieve an improvement of social life quality, promote economic growth and increase environmental protection practices and proper use of local resources. In this framework, building environment development must exploit natural resources with responsible approach by using local materials and traditional techniques. In this end, indoor comfort and energy consumption have to match the territories needs. Low energy and passive heating/cooling techniques should be considered as a valid option in many building proj…
La lettre galante et l'esprit géométrique : expression métaphysique et métaphysique des langues, ou la philosophie du discours de Fontenelle
2015
International audience; Il n'est paradoxal qu'en apparence d'affirmer que Fontenelle est un philosophe pour qui la question du style ne se pose pas. Pour le dire simplement, Fontenelle est pour une large part étranger à l'idée que la philosophie puisse constituer un corpus distinct d'objets et de thèses à propos duquel se poserait spécifiquement la question de son écriture ou de son expression. Fontenelle ne pose pas tant la question de savoir comment il convient d'écrire la philosophie, ni telle philosophie, y compris la sienne propre, qu'il ne défend par sa pratique scripturaire l'idée d'une écriture ou d'une récriture philosophique de tout ce qui s'écrit : oeuvres drama-tiques, lettres g…
SMS Messages in a Daily Finnish Newspaper : The Contect of Proverb Performances
2017
The article focuses on Finnish proverbs as a part of contemporary colloquial written language in everyday use and context. The article offers a view on what is happening with proverbs in the vernacular in Finnish everyday life. Most traditional Finnish proverbs originate from an agrarian context and still use agrarian language, even if nowadays they live in a new context with a new meaning. As empirical material this article uses a special case that demonstrates the use of proverbs in one Finnish newspaper: proverbs in SMS messages published as a letter to the editor in a newspaper. *** Avtorica se osredinja na finske pregovore kot del sodobnega pogovornega pisnega jezika v vsakdanji rabi i…
Commenting on Historical Writings in Medieval Latin Europe : A Reconnaissance
2015
Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars’ attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of such commentaries. It examines various types of evidence including not only a few commentaries proper (Nicolas Trevet’s on Livy and John of Dąbrówka’s on Vincent of Cracow), but also different apparatus consisting of more or less systematic interlinear and marginal glosses and commentary-like additions to vernacular translations, mostly of Italian and French origin. It begins by considering various consultation-related signs and annotations, such as cross-references. Then, it…
The satirical press and the struggle for cultural hegemony in Spain: a case study on <em>La Traca</em>, 1884-1938
2019
La Traca was a weekly magazine published in Valencia between 1884 and 1892 and between 1909 and 1938, with periods during which it was not published because of governmental censorship. Because it was written in Valencian, the vernacular language of where it was published, it did not go beyond being a magazine of local, or at most regional, interest, circulation and importance. However, its editor, Vicente Miguel Carceller, made the decision in 1931 to edit the magazine in Spanish and he thus conquered the country’s market, resulting in circulation figures that no other publication had ever reached. La Traca was the most loved and hated of all satirical publications. This article explores it…
Translating the Classics into the vernacular in sixteenth-century Italy
2015
Whilst early- and mid-fifteenth-century Italian humanism had concentrated on ambitious new translations from Greek into Latin, rather neglecting the vernacular, the sixteenth century is characterized by a proliferation of vernacular works in all fields and, especially from the 1530s on, intense activity in translating classical works into Italian. This article discusses some material features of the original and translated publications under consideration, but especially explores linguistic choices and translation techniques used by three translators in a variety of classical texts: Antonio Brucioli (1487–1566), who translated among other things the texts discussed here, the Rhetorica ad He…
“I be da reel gansta”—A Finnish footballer’s Twitter writing and metapragmatic evaluations of authenticity
2015
This article explores the ways in which ‘gangsta’ English features are deployed, evaluated and adopted in two types of social media, the web forum and Twitter, within the domains of hip hop culture and football (soccer) culture, from the dual perspective of authenticity and normativity. Empirically, we aim to break new ground by investigating the intricate interconnections between two social media formats and combining two highly popular but previously seldom connected cultural forms—football and hip hop. Our theoretical aim is to contribute to the current debate on authenticity, normativity, popular culture and social media, and the complex ways in which they are connected. We focus, first…
Recensione a: La porta del sapere. Cultura alla corte di Federico II di Svevia, Roma, Carocci, 2019
2020
Recensione a Fulvio Delle Donne, La porta del sapere. Cultura alla corte di Federico II di Svevia, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 270. Il volume esamina le varie forme di cultura che si svilupparono alla corte di Federico II di Svevia (produzione letteraria in latino e in volgare, produzione artistica e giuridica, etc.). Review to Fulvio Delle Donne, The door to knowledge. Culture at the court of Frederick II of Swabia, Rome, Carocci, 2019, pp. 270. The volume examines the various forms of culture that developed at the court of Frederick II of Swabia (literary production in Latin and in the vernacular, artistic and legal production, etc.).
SINGING THE SELF: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN SINGER AND COMPOSER JOHANNES VON SOEST
2010
The German singer, composer and writer Johannes von Soest (1448–1506), also referred to as Steinwart or Steinwert, is the author of a vernacular autobiography in verse. One of the very few such documents written by a musician, it gives a highly personal insight into his career, which extended from his training as a chorister in Soest to the ducal chapel in Cleves and afterwards to Bruges (in the company of two unnamed English musicians), Aardenburg (Overijssel), Maastricht, possibly Cologne, Kassel and finally Heidelberg, where he was appointed as Kapellmeister. He subsequently decided to become a physician. The article includes a complete transcription of the text, whose original was destr…