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They think the world of you. Analisi di un romanzo di J.R. Ackerley
2017
Analisi del famoso romanzo di J.R. Ackerley
Ripensare gli oggetti, riprogettare la società
2021
The essay introduces a series of classical essays by Bruno Latour on design and techniques, showing the relationships between Actor Network Theory and semiotics. In particular, the theoretical convergences and problematic nodes on the methodological level concerning the application of certain semiotic notions, such as that of actant and that of enunciation, within Bruno Latour's anthropology are discussed.
Ibridi in città: corpi, spazi, tecnologie
2009
The Interplay Between Gesture and Discourse as Mediating Devices in Collaborative Mathematical Reasoning:A Multimodal Approach
2008
This article aims to identify the mathematical reasoning strategies expressed through gestures and speech used by two groups of sixth-grade pupils when solving a task related to the transition between two semiotic representations: figure and Cartesian diagram. The article also identifies the difficulties the pupils meet in the solution process. The analyses of the group dialogues focus particularly on the gesture dimension of deixis. The pupils in both groups have used the following deictic gestures: pointing, held-point, linear point-slide, and circular point-slide in their solution process, while repeated pointing has been identified only in one of the groups. These pointing gestures are …
Going in Homer: The Role of Verb-Inherent Actionality Within Self-Propelled Motion-Event Encoding
2019
The paper aims at investigating the encoding of self-propelled motion events in Homeric Greek in the light of the typology of motion events, taking into account the case of to go. The verbal class of the self-propelled motion refers to those verbs expressing the idea of a simple translational motion, such as to go, to move, without any information about the manner of motion (see, by contrast, the class of the manner-of-motion verbs, such as to run, to swim) or about the path of motion (see, by contrast, the class of the path verbs, such as to enter, to exit). According to Talmy (2000), world languages can be distinguished depending on whether they prototypically express the semantic compone…
Figure di città. Spazi urbani e discorsi sociali
2013
Questo libro dialoga con le altre discipline che nell’epoca contemporanea indagano sui problemi scottanti della metropoli e della megalopoli, dello sprawl urbano e degli slums, delle reti mediatiche e della sfera immaginaria che esse generano. E nello stesso tempo prova a individuare i momenti chiave – e i punti critici – che sono via via emersi negli studi semiotici sulla città. Lo scopo del libro è appunto quello di dissodare un campo entro cui si innestano e proliferano una serie di figure di città, immagini e segni d’ogni tipo che, nel loro intreccio, vanno a costituire lo spessore della nostra vita quotidiana. Sorvegliato da una intelaiatura teorica tanto rigorosa quanto dinamica, lo s…
Trend
2012
Articolo inserito nel dossier Anni 80 di Doppiozero sulla nozione di trend nelle scienze umane e nel senso comune del periodo.
Uno sguardo semio-antropologico sul treno: frontiere della comunicazione in Sciascia e Solinas Donghi
2014
Post-it
2020
The history of the invention of post-it, the famous small piece of yellow paper with a re-adherable strip of glue, help us see how designing can be a way of redesigning more than a creation ex nihilo. A designer is who works on the meaning of things, focusing on the relations an artifact creates with humans and non humans. Standing in front of an object, then, the question changes: not what is design but when.
Aesthetics of Nutrition, Ethics of Animality: the Packaging of Vegan and Vegetarian Products in the Italian Organised Distribution Market
2018
The topic of this paper concerns the packaging of vegan and vegetarian products in the Italian organised distribution market. Large-scale organised distribution and vegetarianism's choice of packaging is related to current dietary trends which, as is often the case with eating choices and habits, intertwine as they massively spread. Which are the visual and verbal strategies that are adopted to give meaning, in the Italian culinary landscape, to vegan and vegetarian foods sold through large-scale distribution? The aim is to outline, through the methodology of Semiotics, the sensorial mechanisms and cultural grids that shape this food universe, and the way it interacts with other categories …