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Exploring web-mediated communication: A genre-based linguistic study for new patterns of doctor–patient interaction in online environment
2016
This paper questions the nature of the communicative event that takes place in online contexts between doctors and web-users, showing computer-mediated linguistic norms and discussing the nature of the participants’ roles. Based on an analysis of 1005 posts occurring between doctors and the users of health service websites, I analyse how doctor–patient communication is affected by the medium and how health professionals overcome issues concerning the virtual medical visit. Results suggest that (a) online medical answers offer a different service from that expected by users, as doctors cannot always fulfill patient requests, and (b) net consultations use aspects of traditional doctor–patient…
Shall We (Math and) Dance?
2019
Can we use mathematics, and in particular the abstract branch of category theory, to describe some basics of dance, and to highlight structural similarities between music and dance? We first summarize recent studies between mathematics and dance, and between music and categories. Then, we extend this formalism and diagrammatic thinking style to dance.
Collective Reasoning over Shared Concepts for the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily
2013
In this chapter, collective intelligence principles are applied in the context of the Linguistic Atlas of Sicily (ALS - Atlante Linguistico Siciliano), an interdisciplinary research focusing on the study of the Italian language as it is spoken in Sicily, and its correlation with the Sicilian dialect and other regional varieties spoken in Sicily. The project has been developed over the past two decades and includes a complex information system supporting linguistic research; recently it has grown to allow research scientists to cooperate in an integrated environment to produce significant scientific advances in the field of ethnologic and sociolinguistic research. An interoperable infrastruc…
Pre-conventions. A fragment of the Background
2016
In this paper I argue that there exist conventions of a peculiar sort which are neither norms nor regularities of behaviour, partaking of both. I proceed as follows. After a brief analysis of the meaning of ‘convention’, I give some examples of the kind of phenomena I have in mind: bodily skills, know-how, taste and style, habitus (P. Bourdieu), “disciplines” (M. Foucault). Then I group some arguments supporting my claim: (i) considerations about the identity conditions of precedents (D. Lewis) and about the projectibility of predicates in inductive inference generally (N. Goodman); (ii) thoughts about rule-following (L. Wittgenstein); (iii) an examination of some of J. R. Searle’s ideas ab…
Argomentare oralmente e in dialetto. Analisi dei dati dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS)
2012
Autobiografie linguistiche in uno scritto colto del terzo millennio: Disìo di Silvana Grasso
2008
Il saggio è un'analisi linguistica e testuale del romanzo Disìo di Silvana Grasso. Vengono utilizzati gli strumenti dell'autobiografia linguistica.
L’apprendistato dell’artigiano e la lezione dell’ALS. Come le lingue e gli spazi ci raccontano il mondo
2016
Il saggio, ospitato nel volume curato dal gruppo ALS dedicato alla figura della sociolinguista Mari D'Agostino, focalizza con particolare attenzione le procedure deittiche rilevate nel corpus dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia. In particolare vengono sottoposte ad analisi le risposte degli informatori alle domande del questionario finalizzate ad indagare la percezione e la rappresentazione della differenza linguistica. Nelle procedure deittiche un ruolo fondamentale viene riconosciuto alle 'dicotomie oppositive e interazionali', atti di rappresentazione prodotti dal parlante le cui modalità ruotano intorno alle coppie stereotipiche "italiano vs. dialetto", "mare vs. montagna", "evoluti …
Strategies for conservation of a minority language. Between convergence and hybridization
2019
The Arbëresh linguistic varieties constitute a rich field of investigation for interesting phenomena of language attrition and contact. Because of the ancient and prolonged situation of bilingualism between Albanian and Italo-Romance varieties an interesting set of phenomena of code-switching, loan, convergence and hybridization has presented itself. This research concerns the Arbëresh linguistic minority of Greci, a small town in the Campanian region of southern Italy. Within Arbëria, the widespread archipelago of Albanian-speaking communities which occupies a vast territory in southern Italy, the preservation of Arbëresh presents very different sociolinguistic situations. Inside Arbëria G…
Peculiarità nel lessico dei giochi fanciulleschi tradizionali delle comunità siculo-albanesi
2012
Il dialetto nel web: segnale di vitalità o museificazione digitale?
2013
Il saggio si occupa di una particolare manifestazione della presenza del dialetto nel web: le versioni in dialetto di Wikipedia. In particolare, il saggio analizza la versione in siciliano dell'enciclopedia libera. Vi viene messa in evidenza la natura ideologica dell'operazione,che risulta chiara dall'analisi del siciliano che viene utilizzato: una sorte di koinè artificialmente creata, che finisce paradossalmente per fare del siciliano non più un codice autonomo sul piano sistemico dall'italiano, sia pur subordinato ad esso all'interno delle dinamiche repertoralim ma un suo dialetto 'secondario'-