Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...