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Pioneers of Consciousness: hypothesis for a Dyptich

2022

The article is a close reading of two short stories in David Foster Wallace's collection "Oblivion", with particular attention to its philosophical implications and hidden features.

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Text Linguistics and Classical Studies: Dressler and de Beaugrande’s Procedural Approach

2017

The work represents a significant scientific advancement on text linguistics from three different viewpoints. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of text linguistics from a broader perspective than usual, offering a complete reference framework. The second chapter presents the procedural approach to the study of text linguistics in a concise way, including a critical comparison with other perspectives. The third chapter constructs a very unusual bridge between theoretical linguistics and classical studies in that it takes a literary text in Latin from the early imperial period as its case study. This combination is rare, as theoretical linguists are usually oriented to mod…

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