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The working partner in family enterprise : European and national issues
2021
The essay focuses on the discipline of the work done by one partner in the company of the other in cross-border couples and on the problems involved in this case. More specifically the focus is on the hermeneutical problems that arise both at the level of European legislation and at the level of Italian national discipline which is applicable according to European conflict criteria, showing the ambiguities and wide areas of shadow left uncovered by the latter.
¿Quién decide qué y cómo? el conflicto en torno a la participación ciudadana en el contexto del desarrollo de la iniciativa urbana: Cuenca-San Antón …
2018
This article describes the main results of an ethnographic study on citizen participation carried out in the context of the development of the Urban Initiative (2007-2015): Cuenca-Barrio de San Antón. Managed by the City Council of Cuenca and financed by the European Regional Development Funds (FEDER) under the Ministry of Economy and Finance at the Government of Spain The results of the research show how in the context of the application of neoliberal policies, citizen participation becomes the trigger for new conflicts between institutions and citizens. In this sense, it is worth noting how, in practice, institutions in their capacity as experts and not willing to dis-empower themselves, …
Modalità teatrali nelle Confabulationes di Poggio Bracciolini
2014
In un epistola del 1426 indirizzata ad Antonio Panormita, Poggio Bracciolini commenta la lettura dell’Hermphroditus e ne loda la «iucunditatem carminis, iocos et sales» in essa contenuti, elogiando l’amico per aver trattato argomenti tanto impudichi in maniera così elegante e composta; e aggiunge: «ita multa exprimi turpiuscula, ut non enarrari sed agi videantur, neque ficta a te iocandi causa, ut exstimo, sed acta extimari possint». Prendendo spunto da questa notazione poggiana in merito al rapporto fra diegesi e mimesi nella scrittura del Panormita, il saggio si propone di mettere in evidenza le modalità teatrali con cui Poggio costruisce il proprio Liber facetiarum. La ricerca della teat…
What is “showing” in language?
2022
In this squib, I discuss the issue of showing meaning in language. I consider showing to form a continuum with telling (traditional language use with lexico-grammatical units and processes) and define showing in its purest form as a way of signaling meaning through depiction. For this purpose, showing makes use of relatively gradient and non-conventional means which are not typically considered to belong to language proper. I situate showing together with telling in ontology in which language is conceived as being simultaneously a physical, cognitive and social activity on a par with other such types of activities. In mainstream linguistics, showing has been marginalized and set aside from …