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Soggettività comunitarie in cucina: il “potere” di saper cucinare delle donne Ikoots di San Mateo del Mar (Oaxaca-Messico)
No full textThe article reflects on the experience of the Ikoots women of San Mateo del Mar, grappling with the word description of their dishes’ preparation (Cuturi 2009). These words unveil perspectives on the meaning of women’s subjectivity and community knowledge in an ega litarian society. Knowing how to cook “successfully” does not enact competitiveness, or logic
of power over people and things, for the benefit of one’s social prestige. This know-how is based on a principle of aggregation, the redistribution of knowledge, and the responsibility towards it. Sharing practices around food preparation, while not without tensions and impositions, is yet central to gendered expectations and is a tool of social homogeneity. In
this article, I focus on the utterances and discursive uses of an Ikoots woman expert in food preparation at the center of social and gender dynamics, to reflect on various declinations of the concept of power. Indeed, the article intends to engage in a dialogue with the de bate about the relationship between power and egalitarian societies, starting from a thick
analysis on their daily life practices and their efforts to reject the authoritarian policies, historically opposed to them
“‘Vaccinate or Terminate’: A CDA of US and Italian Online Petitions on COVID-19 vaccines
No full textIn the contemporary crisis of representative democracy, the increased availability and interactivity of the Internet have favored new forms of civic engagement. On e-petition websites, such as Change.org, anyone can start campaigns addressing decision-makers to drive solutions to specific issues, exploiting the web to sensitize the public and gain support.
In the last years, the COVID-19 pandemic has centralized public attention, with debates often estimating its impacts and criticizing the solutions adopted by governments. In particular, the anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaigns have generated strong contrapositions between those who have confidently awaited, welcomed and required a more extensive distribution of vaccines, and those who, for multiple reasons, have rejected them. The vaccines, authorized in a relatively short period and mandatory in some contexts, have indeed been a source of fear and suspicion, feelings skilfully exploited by those wishing to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories.
The present study analyzes a corpus of online petitions in favor of and against COVID-19 vaccinations, published on the United States and Italy versions of Change.org. The study focuses on the persuasive strategies and motifs exploited in the user-generated discourse in the two countries to gain support for the causes. Specifically, the investigation analyzes the way e-petitioners raise public awareness about the pros and cons of COVID-19 vaccines and appeal to the citizens’ beliefs in the two countries. Persuasive discursive strategies entail appealing to emotions, establishing the author’s credentials, and providing supporting information. In both countries, pro-vaccine arguments include the prioritization of human health by protecting vulnerable
groups and waiving COVID-19 vaccine patent rights. Arguments against mandatory vaccines involve a ‘populist’ distrust of political elites and medical experts. The corpus is also examined from a genre analysis viewpoint to uncover the rhetorical structures in the texts. A recurring number of optional rhetorical sequences was identified, revealing a mixture of features from different genres, from political propaganda to fundraising letters to popular science, enriched with the interactive capabilities of the web
Un ricordo di Alfredo Mario Cadonna (1948-2020)
No full textA memoir about Alfredo Cadonna life and work
Prefazione a ChiShona neMufaro. Introduzione alla grammatica shona con elementi di storia della lingua e analisi contrastiva shona/swahili, di ELENA BERTONCINI ZÚBKOVÁ E ROBERTO GAUDIOSO
No full textQuesto volume è una pubblicazione postuma della prof.ssa Elena Bertoncini Zúbková di cui Roberto Gaudioso è curatore e co-autore. Si tratta di una grammatica introduttiva alla lingua shona, con elementi contrastivi rispetto alla lingua swahili, appartenente alla medesima famiglia linguistica bantu. Il carattere contrastivo rende questo lavoro particolarmente adatto a studentesse e studenti di swahili. Il volume, con il contributo del co-autore, arricchisce la parte di grammatica contrastiva shona/swahili con un’introduzione storico-linguistica che ricostruisce contatti e scambi tra questi due mondi e situa le due lingue nell’ampia famiglia delle lingue bantu. Questa nutrita sezione introduttiva fa del libro un utile strumento per chi si accosta per la prima volta allo studio delle lingue bantu. Prima della descrizione morfologica della lingua shona, inoltre, il co-autore ha inserito un approfondimento sulle diverse riforme ortografiche shona, in modo da dare a chi legge gli strumenti per avvicinarsi ai testi stampati prima dell’ultima (terza) riforma ortografica del 1967. La descrizione grammaticale della lingua shona è basata soprattutto sugli aspetti morfologici della lingua, alcuni dei quali descritti nel dettaglio come il capitolo sulle classi nominali e quello sul verbo. La grammatica, infine, è arricchita da diverse tabelle riassuntive e da illustrazioni dello Zimbabwe antico e moderno, il principale paese in cui si parla la lingua shona
Somnul raţiunii naşte monştri: Ionesco şi „panica politică”
No full textStarting from the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, this article
aims to investigate the “political panic” that arises at the crossroads of identification and
narcissism. These redefine the place of the Other in the formation of society, from the
intersection between the individual psyche and collective life, where life appears to be
committed to defending itself, in an autoimmunizing movement, which (to the extent
that it defends itself) tends to reverse itself into its opposite. The radicalization of the
self-preservation drives coincides in Freud works with the “death drive”, whose
movement appears regressive, aimed at restoring the restlessness of life to its original
state of rest. Instead of opening itself to the Other, life closes itself and chooses death.
Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe were able to grasp in the “political panic” the fragile relationship between the “withdrawal of the politician” and the beginning of politics,
and this particular aspect of life in common also concerns the play of Ionesco, Rhinocéros.
The Romanian writer denounces in France the fascist ideological contagion of a whole
generation of writers, between the two wars, highlighting the “death drive”, which
moves the coryphes of political totalitarianism in Romania towards the spasmodic
competition, fanaticism, cynicism, and, in some cases, towards crime. It is imaginatively
cloaked in religious idealism understood as an all-encompassing “spiritual” knowledge,
free of stretch marks
Subjectivity in post-attack presidential speeches : Hollande’s and Macron’s speeches
No full textIn this paper, we propose a linguistic analysis of the post-attack speeches of Presidents François
Hollande and Emmanuel Macron, which were delivered in the aftermath of the international terrorism
wave that has challenged Europe since 2015. The discourse analysis here conducted demonstrates that
the political and social activities following these murderous events are based on a highly emotionallycharged
language, both at the micro-textual and macro-textual level. The analysis shows that the
presidential utterances contain discourse markers, such as personal pronouns or deictic elements, that
trace the speaker's presence as well as a subjective modality expressed by adverbs, modal verbs, and
subjective words that communicate the ethos and pathos of the speaker to the addressee. The paper aims
to highlight not only the discursive aspects common to both post-attack official speeches; but also the
differences in the ethical approach of the two Presidents
