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The Teaching of Pragmatics in L2
2019
Abstract The teaching of pragmatics in L2 would be useless, if we consider pragmatics such as the study of the language in use, because this is what is done in the teaching of L2. In reality, apart from the routines, pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that is learned later, especially if we think of facts such as courtesy strategies, which require a rather advanced level of language. Despite numerous studies on the acquisition/learning of languages and on pragmatics, the two factors were not very often studied together. The learning of grammar and pragmatics are not synchronous. Even in a strictly communicative model, apart from greetings, “thanks” and "please", we tend to learn the mo…
Did Pindar’s scheme really exist?
2017
Abstract: A Greek construction in which the verb is in the 3rd sg. form, while the subject is in the 3rd pl. and, in most cases, in post–verbal position, is called Pindar’s scheme inasmuch as it occurs most frequently in the poems of this author. Various explanations have been provided for this construction and it has also been interpreted as an error. The paper is an attempt at an overall syntactic explanation of the available data.
Introduzione a Silvana Grasso, Enrichetta
2016
Anamnesi di un’analoga ossessione è questo volume. Quattro Enrichette, specchio biografico di un’identità impossibile da definire, si susseguono nella scrittura di Silvana Grasso, portando alla riemersione le «cellule staminali» di un mito metamorfico che condanna il personaggio da un lato all’eccezionalità e dall’altro alla solitudine. Quattro forme testuali per riaccendere un ricordo aurorale: un essere anfibio, di confine, metamorfico per natura e/o per scelta, che vive l’essere per sé sul crinale dell’essere per gli altri, che rappresenta, senza sottoporre ad alcun giudizio morale, ciò che l’umanità ‘normale’ rifugge e contemporaneamente cerca.
Pragmatic markers resulting from language contact. The case of sañani in Aymara
2020
This paper explores the pragmatic functions of a previously unattested pragmatic marker (Fraser, 1996, 2006) found in Aymara, i.e. sanani ‘let’s say’. The uses of sanani suggest that this marker is the result of the influence of Spanish on Aymara due to sustained language contact. Sanani seems to be the “replication” (Heine and Kuteva, 2005) of the Spanish pragmatic marker digamos ‘let’s say’. Like digamos (Grande Alija, 2010; Quartararo, 2017a), sanani functions as a pragmatic marker by signaling either an inferential process or the semantic relation between two discourse segments. The original data used for this analysis was gathered through the Family Problems Picture task (San Roque et …
A Conceptual Restructuring of Spatial Motion Expressions in Chinese L2
2018
This paper focuses on the patterns in the encoding of spatial motion events that play a major role in the acquisition of these type of expressions. The goal is to single out the semantic contribution of the linguistic items which surface in Chinese locative constructions. In this way, we intend to provide learners with an account of the spatial representation encoded in the Chinese language. In fact, Chinese grammar is often perceived as idiosyncratic, thus generating a frustration that turns into learned helplessness (Maier and Seligman, 1976). We will analyze Talmy (2000a,b) framework under the light of investigations such as Landau and Jackendoff (1993), Svenonius (2004, 2006, 2007), and…
Conditional connection explored: the case of Sicilian cusà
2022
Abstract Stemming from a wh-question, the Sicilian marker cusà (cu sa ‘who knows’) expresses several epistemic meanings, which can also reach the realm of conditionality. The paper explores the discourse profile of cusà as it emerges from the analysis of diachronic data (from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and present-day informal Sicilian, namely spoken Sicilian and present-day informal Sicilian as written by speakers on the web. These data suggest a possible path of development leading from the wh-question to new functions. We propose that the origin of this development can be explained in the light of the strategy of the “impossible question”, while the diverse functions of cus…
Prefazione
2019
Prefazione al volume
Allotropia e usi morfosintattici: bbellu e bbeddu in Sicilia,
2016
Gli sviluppi di -LL- latino nei dialetti siciliani sono generalmente riconducibili allo svolgimento retroflesso in -dd-. La situazione si presenta, invece, meno stabilizzata relativamente agli esiti di BĔLLU(M), nelle valenze morfologiche di aggettivo e di avverbio, dal momento che le sue realizzazioni si declinano in maniera non sempre prevedibile. Tale oscillazione si manifesta anche nell’aggettivo/avverbio in condizione non univerbata. Si registra, infatti, una forte variabilità della pronunzia, non necessariamente connessa a fenomeni di scarsa competenza dialettale. A tal fine, onde individuare una possibile regola o distribuzioni comprensibili dal punto di vista morfologico e diacronic…
A Grammar of Central Trentino
2020
Central Trentino is a Romance dialect spoken in the North-East of Italy, which shows features belonging to both Gallo-Italic and Venetan dialects. Grammar of Central Trentino aims to present the first comprehensive grammatical description of this dialect, taking into consideration its morpho-syntactic properties and pragmatic phenomena. The book's general approach is synchronic and focused on the language currently in use. The authors discuss a wide range of examples gathered from both oral and written sources. The theoretical reference model is that of generative grammar, but the description of the phenomena is also accessible to a non-specialized audience.
I will not serve: la Stilistica dei Corpora e A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man di James Joyce.
2016
Questo manuale non aspira a fornire un quadro esaustivo della Stilistica dei Corpora, ma a proporre oltre che una sintesi dei più recenti studi sull'argomento, un'ipotesi di lettura di alcuni aspetti di un classico della letteratura di lingua inglese, A Portrait of the Artist as a young Man dello scrittore irlandese James Joyce, sovente inserito nei programmi universitari degli studenti di lingua e letteratura inglese. Essendo la bibliografia critica sul romanzo joyciano piuttosto generosa e sempre in progress, si è cercato di adottare un corpus-based approach, ovvero di partire da orientamenti già consolidati per la formazione di nuove prospettive di lettura. Lo scopo è altresì quello di f…