Browsing by Subject "Italian"
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321via.ch: design di una piattaforma per lo sviluppo di competenze linguistiche, interlinguistiche e interculturali dell’italiano in Svizzera
(2017-05-31)Italian is one of the four national languages of Switzerland and, with German and French, its official language. Although protected by law, in the last two decades Italian in schools has suffered a number of attacks that ... -
The aesthetics of challenge: Mario Perniola and Dandyism
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-06)This thesis compares the work of the Italian philosopher and writer Mario Perniola and the phenomenon of dandyism. Specifically, it focuses on Perniola’s aesthetic and philosophical thought in order to develop and explore ... -
Blanchot and ambiguity
(Purdue University Press, 2010-09)In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's ... -
Dante Alighieri from absence to stony presence: building memories in nineteenth-century Florence
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-12)The Dante narrative is one of the key narratives of nineteenth-century Italy in the self-fashioning of Italian patriotism. This article looks at the momentum behind the project to commemorate Dante in Florence in the early ... -
Emanuel Carnevali's cultural translation: an Italian in Modernist America
(2016-02-09)The thesis investigates translingual writing – that is, writing in a language which is not the native one – at the intersection between culture, identity, and translation. The focus is here on Italian American writer Emanuel ... -
La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nell acquisizione dell italiano da parte di parlanti anglo celti
(Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (AItLA) and Officinaventuno, 2019)Although research on intonational phonology plays a crucial role in second language acquisition, scientific contributions investigating prosodic features in a contrastive perspective are scarce. This study aims at ... -
Literature of Indistinction: Blanchot and Caproni
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Making the most of multimedia learning: evaluating the impact of combined audiovisual translation tasks on the acquisition of L2 multiword expressions
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-16)The use of audiovisual material in the Italian L2 classes in the last decades has acquired an increasingly important role, especially since the communicative approach has identified spoken language as the main objective ... -
Prosodic training in foreign language: a study with Hiberno-English learners of Italian
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-28)Mastering prosodic features is deemed as one of the most important objectives in language learning. The Council of Europe has recently published the New Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for ... -
Renunciation: Heidegger, Agamben, Blanchot, Vattimo
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009-02)In the essay Das Wort (Words) in On the Way to Language, Martin Heidegger speaks of 'renunciation' (Verzicht) as the necessary route towards experiencing that which remains otherwise invisible and unsayable. Heidegger ... -
Subtitling New Media: Audiovisual Translation and Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
(2013-08)Promoting language learning is a long-term objective of the European Union with a view to fostering a comparable and improved proficiency among European citizens. To this end, European institutions have recognised the ... -
The Threshold and the Topos of the Remnant: Giorgio Agamben
(Taylor & Francis, 2008-04)In this article I will follow Agamben as he conceptualises the space of the threshold. The next section will be devoted to investigating Agamben's reading of Paul, with particular attention to hope and love. I will show ... -
Triumphant failure: the return of the Irish Papal Brigade
(Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009)In early 1860, Italian unification was gaining momentum and Pope Pius IX, the temporal ruler of large parts of central Italy, feared an invasion of his extensive territories by the troops of Victor Emanuel of Piedmont ...