The paper describes the purpose and the methods of the international project "Teaching in Hi... more The paper describes the purpose and the methods of the international project "Teaching in Higher Education Effectively via Eye-tracking" (THEE) and summarizes its findings. The project studied the eye movements of higher education teachers and students to reflect on how to improve the teaching-learning process. The participants were four professors and twelve students who wore eye tracking glasses during the lessons. The results of the study demonstrate a clear benefit of the approach based on collecting eye tracking data and teachers' self-reflection on their own classroom practice. Concerning the analysis of gaze location and teachers and students' behaviour, we noticed that the teachers looked mostly at the centre of the classroom and that the duration of the fixations depends on the size of the classroom and the type of subjects. Moreover, the teachers of scientific subjects seem to change their fixation duration distribution over the lessons analysed while the...
Il volume presenta i lavori di studiosi nazionali ed internazionali che affrontano una riflession... more Il volume presenta i lavori di studiosi nazionali ed internazionali che affrontano una riflessione sul potere che determinate opere e modalità discorsive esercitano e possono esercitare sugli individui, analizzando come si costruisce questo tipo di relazione sia all’interno della letteratura che nei diversi ambiti che interessano il discorso politico, mediatico e la traduzione. L’approccio interdisciplinare e plurilinguistico caratterizza gli otto contributi presenti nel volume che, scritti in quattro lingue e osservando il fenomeno sotto diverse prospettive, affrontano molteplici ambiti tematici
In a 1996 song called Changes, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, speaking of America, said: “Although... more In a 1996 song called Changes, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, speaking of America, said: “Although it seems heaven sent, we ain’t ready to see a black president”. This was the case until November 2008, when the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States has made Martin Luther King’s dream come true. In the months leading up to the election, many African American rappers have endorsed Obama’s candidacy, giving rise to a new hip-hop genre called Obama Rap. Political endorsement is an unusual conduct of rap music, which, as a genre strongly related to the experience of race and American Blackness in particular, has always been against the Establishment, hence marked by disruptive lyrics, expressing black America’s rage and discontent. Applying the Appraisal Framework (an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances and to manage interpersonal relationships) to a small corpus of rap songs, the present pap...
La cosiddetta Gangsta Lit è un genere letterario che ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni un notevole ... more La cosiddetta Gangsta Lit è un genere letterario che ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni un notevole ampliamento della readership, sia da un punto di vista quantitativo che qualitativo. Oltre che per la scelta di raccontare senza perifrasi la realtà della strada, la Gangsta Lit è degna di attenzione per il tipo di lingua utilizzato, da qualcuno definito “vernacular laced with obscenities” (Jackson 2004), un linguaggio duro, irriverente, sferzante. Il realismo di questo linguaggio è tale che alcuni critici affermano,“not only you can read gangsta, but you can feel it” (Richardson 2005), mentre altri invocano una parental guidance per tutelare i lettori più giovani. La Gangsta Lit deve il suo nome al Gangsta Rap, controverso genere musicale appartenente alla cultura Hip hop. Ed è proprio la dinamica di scambio con la Rap Music che costituisce una delle caratteristiche di questo genere letterario sulla quale vale la pena soffermarsi: la letteratura gangsta attinge dalla musica rap non solo i contenuti ma anche lo stile narrativo: la scrittura diventa quasi “musicale”, rientrando più nell’articolata tipologia dell’oralità africana-americana che nella tradizione della Negro Literature. Interessante è anche indagare se tali strategie narrative tendono ad affermare una visione stereotipata della black identity, come è avvenuto negli anni settanta con il genere cinematografico noto come Blaxploitation, o se invece sottendono un tentativo di resistenza a tali stereotipi
Il s'agit d'une reflexion sur l'importance de la littérature pour l'apprentissage... more Il s'agit d'une reflexion sur l'importance de la littérature pour l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère et le développement de la pensée critique
In 1953 Ian Fleming published his first novel, Casino Royale, introducing 007 agent James Bond to... more In 1953 Ian Fleming published his first novel, Casino Royale, introducing 007 agent James Bond to his readers. The homonymous 2006 film, directed by Martin Campbell, is the third screen adaptation of the novel and is considered to be a prequel of the successful franchise, as it presents an inexperienced and vulnerable James Bond at the beginning of his career. According to semiotic theories, film transposition is a form of translation. The term transposition, in fact, evokes the transition from written to audio-visual narrative, hence the idea of going through and beyond the original text, increasing its semantic potential. The aim of the present paper is a comparative analysis of language uses in the novel and the film, both in a diamesic and a diachronic perspective, as the original 1953 story is recontextualized in the 2000s. James Bond, the fictional British Secret Service agent created by Ian Fleming in 1953, has been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games, and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationa... more The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to examine discursive constructions of solidarity and nationalism through the social representation of inclusion/exclusion of in-, out-, and affiliated groups. The comparative analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis and is informed by argumentation theory and nationalism studies. The results of our analysis suggest that leaders have constructed the virus as the main outgroup through the metaphors of the pandemic-as-war and the pandemic-as-movement which have e...
... But it is principally upon their own languages that democratic nations attempt to make innova... more ... But it is principally upon their own languages that democratic nations attempt to make innovations.Alexis de Tocqueville Introduction ... Yes, Bush has opened up quite a can of worms. As demonstrated by Lakoff and Johnson †††† , metaphors are an important feature of political ...
The paper describes the purpose and the methods of the international project "Teaching in Hi... more The paper describes the purpose and the methods of the international project "Teaching in Higher Education Effectively via Eye-tracking" (THEE) and summarizes its findings. The project studied the eye movements of higher education teachers and students to reflect on how to improve the teaching-learning process. The participants were four professors and twelve students who wore eye tracking glasses during the lessons. The results of the study demonstrate a clear benefit of the approach based on collecting eye tracking data and teachers' self-reflection on their own classroom practice. Concerning the analysis of gaze location and teachers and students' behaviour, we noticed that the teachers looked mostly at the centre of the classroom and that the duration of the fixations depends on the size of the classroom and the type of subjects. Moreover, the teachers of scientific subjects seem to change their fixation duration distribution over the lessons analysed while the...
Il volume presenta i lavori di studiosi nazionali ed internazionali che affrontano una riflession... more Il volume presenta i lavori di studiosi nazionali ed internazionali che affrontano una riflessione sul potere che determinate opere e modalità discorsive esercitano e possono esercitare sugli individui, analizzando come si costruisce questo tipo di relazione sia all’interno della letteratura che nei diversi ambiti che interessano il discorso politico, mediatico e la traduzione. L’approccio interdisciplinare e plurilinguistico caratterizza gli otto contributi presenti nel volume che, scritti in quattro lingue e osservando il fenomeno sotto diverse prospettive, affrontano molteplici ambiti tematici
In a 1996 song called Changes, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, speaking of America, said: “Although... more In a 1996 song called Changes, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, speaking of America, said: “Although it seems heaven sent, we ain’t ready to see a black president”. This was the case until November 2008, when the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States has made Martin Luther King’s dream come true. In the months leading up to the election, many African American rappers have endorsed Obama’s candidacy, giving rise to a new hip-hop genre called Obama Rap. Political endorsement is an unusual conduct of rap music, which, as a genre strongly related to the experience of race and American Blackness in particular, has always been against the Establishment, hence marked by disruptive lyrics, expressing black America’s rage and discontent. Applying the Appraisal Framework (an approach to exploring, describing and explaining the way language is used to evaluate, to adopt stances and to manage interpersonal relationships) to a small corpus of rap songs, the present pap...
La cosiddetta Gangsta Lit è un genere letterario che ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni un notevole ... more La cosiddetta Gangsta Lit è un genere letterario che ha conosciuto negli ultimi anni un notevole ampliamento della readership, sia da un punto di vista quantitativo che qualitativo. Oltre che per la scelta di raccontare senza perifrasi la realtà della strada, la Gangsta Lit è degna di attenzione per il tipo di lingua utilizzato, da qualcuno definito “vernacular laced with obscenities” (Jackson 2004), un linguaggio duro, irriverente, sferzante. Il realismo di questo linguaggio è tale che alcuni critici affermano,“not only you can read gangsta, but you can feel it” (Richardson 2005), mentre altri invocano una parental guidance per tutelare i lettori più giovani. La Gangsta Lit deve il suo nome al Gangsta Rap, controverso genere musicale appartenente alla cultura Hip hop. Ed è proprio la dinamica di scambio con la Rap Music che costituisce una delle caratteristiche di questo genere letterario sulla quale vale la pena soffermarsi: la letteratura gangsta attinge dalla musica rap non solo i contenuti ma anche lo stile narrativo: la scrittura diventa quasi “musicale”, rientrando più nell’articolata tipologia dell’oralità africana-americana che nella tradizione della Negro Literature. Interessante è anche indagare se tali strategie narrative tendono ad affermare una visione stereotipata della black identity, come è avvenuto negli anni settanta con il genere cinematografico noto come Blaxploitation, o se invece sottendono un tentativo di resistenza a tali stereotipi
Il s'agit d'une reflexion sur l'importance de la littérature pour l'apprentissage... more Il s'agit d'une reflexion sur l'importance de la littérature pour l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère et le développement de la pensée critique
In 1953 Ian Fleming published his first novel, Casino Royale, introducing 007 agent James Bond to... more In 1953 Ian Fleming published his first novel, Casino Royale, introducing 007 agent James Bond to his readers. The homonymous 2006 film, directed by Martin Campbell, is the third screen adaptation of the novel and is considered to be a prequel of the successful franchise, as it presents an inexperienced and vulnerable James Bond at the beginning of his career. According to semiotic theories, film transposition is a form of translation. The term transposition, in fact, evokes the transition from written to audio-visual narrative, hence the idea of going through and beyond the original text, increasing its semantic potential. The aim of the present paper is a comparative analysis of language uses in the novel and the film, both in a diamesic and a diachronic perspective, as the original 1953 story is recontextualized in the 2000s. James Bond, the fictional British Secret Service agent created by Ian Fleming in 1953, has been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games, and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationa... more The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to examine discursive constructions of solidarity and nationalism through the social representation of inclusion/exclusion of in-, out-, and affiliated groups. The comparative analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis and is informed by argumentation theory and nationalism studies. The results of our analysis suggest that leaders have constructed the virus as the main outgroup through the metaphors of the pandemic-as-war and the pandemic-as-movement which have e...
... But it is principally upon their own languages that democratic nations attempt to make innova... more ... But it is principally upon their own languages that democratic nations attempt to make innovations.Alexis de Tocqueville Introduction ... Yes, Bush has opened up quite a can of worms. As demonstrated by Lakoff and Johnson †††† , metaphors are an important feature of political ...
La crise de la couronne est un phénomène discursif. Les représentants des États, des institutions... more La crise de la couronne est un phénomène discursif. Les représentants des États, des institutions et des organisations, les acteurs tels que les journalistes, les hommes politiques, les professionnels de la santé, les scientifiques, les économistes et les profanes discutent tous de la pandémie dans leurs propres termes. Sa signification est négociée chaque jour dans les différents domaines de la production linguistique et les divers moyens de communication. Dans ce contexte, les chercheurs du discours sont chargés à la fois de démêler les pratiques discursives par lesquelles les acteurs donnent un sens à la pandémie actuelle et d'analyser quelles nouvelles réalités sociétales sont impliquées dans ces discours.
Le DiscourseNet Association Covid19 e-Workshop (#DNACVD19) cherche donc à recueillir des idées, des réflexions et des discussions sur les multiples aspects de la crise de la couronne en cours du point de vue de la recherche sur le discours et de la théorie du discours.
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Le DiscourseNet Association Covid19 e-Workshop (#DNACVD19) cherche donc à recueillir des idées, des réflexions et des discussions sur les multiples aspects de la crise de la couronne en cours du point de vue de la recherche sur le discours et de la théorie du discours.