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The Ambivalence of Revenge and of the Avenger's Role in HAMLET: The Function of Letters and Emblematic Allusions
2011
Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie
2014
Il volume Natural Limits and other stories/Limiti naturali e altre storie costituisce la prima edizione italiana dei racconti di cinque dell'autrice britannica Marina Warner, con testo a fronte e introduzione critica.
Rambling in Sicily: Hybrid Mobility and Liminal Identities in Early Nineteenth Century Periodical Writing
2020
The essay focuses on the interaction between the discoursive patterns of Rambles in Sicily, in 1816. By an Artist, a travelogue published anonymously from 1817 to 1818 in The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, and the development of a hybrid travelling identity centred on a concept of mobility that oscillates from seeing to acting. Travelling in Sicily between the decline of the Grand Tour and the birth of mass tourism seems to lead to an identity construction encouraged by the polychromatic nature of the place travelled. The travelogue is deemed «a private account of an authentic and autobiographic experience of mobility in a public space» (Liedke 2018: 6). The concept of the tra…
Un lessico settoriale estinto: la lingua solfaresca nelle scritture
2019
Le voci di questo lessico di fine Ottocento, ormai spento negli usi concreti e persino dei ricordi degli ultimi zolfarai, è rinvenibile – relativamente ai testi scritti – nelle raccolte folkloriche di canti di miniera, nelle testimonianze diaristiche di tre donne straniere (Chapman, Hamilton-Caico; White Mario), in testi socio-economici, nei registri e verbali tecnici, in qualche testo letterario (Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Luigi Pirandello, Alessio Di Giovanni, Giuseppe Giusti Sinopoli, Andrea Camilleri, Angelo Petix). Nell'articolo ci si concentra sul trattamento fonetico e morfologico di alcune voci, a partire dalle diverse tipologie di testo. In particolare sulle voci carusu (tras…
In rete la cucina è politica. Alcuni modelli di analisi e uno studio di caso.
2013
Gastronauti e chowhounds, ghiottoni, gourmand e gourmet, in una parola foodies: l’attuale megatrend culinario deve molto alle pratiche di socializzazione su Internet. Di cibo, in rete, si comincia a scrivere fin da subito (i board di Chowhound, per esempio, aprono i battenti già nel 97), la qual cosa dice anche molto su quanto la “grande conversazione” sia debitrice del discorso gastronomico. Il cibo e le chiacchere su Internet si presentano, infatti, come intrinsecamente legati, classico binomio inscindibile. In tutto il mondo, blogger e storyteller culinari diventano, pertanto, autori di culto, in grado di generare schiere di fedeli lettori pronti a seguire il proprio beniamino ovunque, s…
Pour une écriture universitaire polymorphe : la transcription de héros ordinaires en héros de bande dessinée
2018
During a workshop dedicated to adapting academic articles in comic form, the authors teamed up to produce four pages based on an article written by Sebastien Laffage-Cosnier, which was published in Society and Leisure (Volume 38, 2015 – Issue 3) ntitled “The French Snow Class: How the Focus of a School Innovation Changed from Physical Education to Academic Learning (1953–1981)”. The drawings on the following pages are the result of this common work, the process of which is described by the creators. This experience was also an opportunity to further their reflections on the process of academic writing in comics, which, although marginal, is gathering more and more attention from academics a…
Do symmetrical letter pairs affect readability?
2005
Our everyday experience shows that we have problems in recognizing objects which only differ in their symmetry properties (street signs with two arrows in different directions or mathematical signs such as 〈 and 〉). Perception is closely correlated with an inner comparison: the perceived object with its surrounding, the perceived object with former experience and so on. The brain has evolved different constancy abilities (e.g. colour constancy) and one of them is object constancy. This object constancy makes it possible to perceive an object regardless of its orientation in space. Symmetric letter pairs with different sound representations (such as 〈b〉 and 〈d〉) are, due to object constancy,…
Two-dimensional filters for structured text
1997
The paper introduces a method for defining filters for structured text. In the method, the text structure is originally defined by a grammar consisting of a set of productions. To describe the information interests, a two-dimensional template is first created interactively from the grammar to show the structure of a set of textual elements, at a chosen level of detail. The template depicts the hierarchical structure of the elements and indicates also optionality, alternatives, and iteration in the structure. Then, the template is filled by constraints and annotations. The constraints allow giving conditions to the content of parts, to the position of parts in an ordered set of parts, and to…
On the relevance of script writing basics in audiovisual translation practice and training
2012
Audiovisual texts possess characteristics that clearly differentiate audiovisual translation from both oral and written translation, and prospective screen translators are usually taught about the issues that typically arise in audiovisual translation. This article argues for the development of an interdisciplinary approach that brings together Translation Studies and Film Studies, which would prepare future audiovisual translators to work with the nature and structure of a script in mind, in addition to the study of common and diverse translational aspects. Focusing on film, the article briefly discusses the nature and structure of scripts, and identifies key points in the development and …
Topical Depth and Writing Quality in Student EFL Compositions
1992
ABSTRACT This study tests a method to describe the relationship between coherence and writing quality by using topical structure analysis. Originally the method was used to examine short professional texts written in the mother tongue (L1) but in the present study it is applied to short compositions written in English by students learning this foreign language (EFL). The analyses showed that what characterized good writers was the ability to develop the topics in their compositions more evenly across several topic levels than mid‐quality writers and especially the poor writers. Good writers were more homogeneous (measured by the size of standard deviation) as a group in handling topics at h…