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Echolalia as a Communicative Strategy: A Kleefstra-syndrome Case Study
Get PDFEcholalia – immediate or delayed – is the stereotyped and mechanical repetition of words and phrases produced by others. Experts used to view echolalia as a defect to eliminate; however, current research has shown that often imitation may serve a purpose for children with linguistic deficits. This study’s goal is to assess whether echolalia has communicative value; such purpose is achieved through the analysis of spontaneous speech and delayed echoes uttered by a 13- years-old boy officially diagnosed with Kleefstra Syndrome. Since there are no linguistic studies yet regarding this syndrome, this study may shed new light on a specific linguistic strategy that people with this syndrome might use. Based on the functional categories described by Prizant (1983), we analyzed the echolalic speech produced by this teen with the aim of demonstrating the pragmatic value behind those repetitions
On Subject Pronouns in Finnish-Italian Bilinguals: Effects of Cross-linguistic Influence on Discourse-pragmatics Competence
Get PDFThe distribution of overt pronouns has been the focus of much interest in the last decades as it is considered a typical phenomenon of the syntax-discourse/pragmatics interface, a locus of variability in different kinds of language acquisition (bilingual, L2 advanced learners, SLI) and it has been investigated in null and non-null subject language. In the present paper we discuss the distribution of null and overt pronouns in bilingual language acquisition in Finnish (a partial null subject language) and Italian (a null subject language). Data has been collected through a storytelling task in Finnish and Italian. Results show some optionality in the use of pronominal forms but unexpectedly little overuse of overt pronouns is attested in the null subject language
Corporate Storytelling as an Effective Communication Tool
Get PDFThis paper proposes to highlight the effectiveness of storytelling as a powerful and persuasive communication tool in the corporate context. This peculiar kind of communicative approach allows the creation of a symbolic universe potentially shared by the public, with which not only can it recognize itself, but with which it can actually interact. The fundamental theories of narration and their evolution are taken into consideration, as well as the evolution of the consumer into prosumer and the sociological and economic consequences emerged. In the present paper we will discuss two case studies: Wind: Papà – an example of a short film with a strong emotional impact on the audience and a revolutionary message – and Léon Vivien: Facebook 1914 – a masterful example of how narrative content can be exploited using different mediums and the potential of social networks
A micro-opto-mechanical oscillator in a droplet
Get PDFUn esperimento svolto presso la sezione di Napoli dell’Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO) del CNR ha mostrato la possibilità di eccitare onde di superficie su piccole gocce liquide per mezzo di un fascio luminoso. Il dispositivo così realizzato si comporta come un vero e proprio micro-oscillatore, costituito però interamente da liquido e mantenuto in forma sferica quasi perfetta dalla sola tensione superficiale.An experiment performed at the Naples Unit of the National Institute of Optics (INO) of the CNR, has shown the possibility to excite surface waves on tiny liquid droplets using a light beam. The resulting optical device serves as a micro-mechanical oscillator, entirely made of liquid with an almost perfect spherical shape due to natural surface tension
Investment returns from hybrid poplar plantations in northern Italy between 2001 and 2016: are we losing a bio-based segment of the primary economy?
Get PDFThis work estimated financial returns at aggregate level from hybrid poplar plantations in northern Italy between 2001 and 2016. The results suggest that poplar can represent one of the most profitable investments among forest plantations in Europe, although the range of potential returns is rather large, including negative returns. The decrease of expected returns over the last 15 years has negatively undermined the attractiveness for new investments, increasing the market risk component. We also assessed the effects of external variables such as public subsidies, land cost, opportunity cost, and insurance cost. Land use and opportunity costs appear to be crucial variables, as well as public subsidies, which have undergone substantial changes over the period
Le reti delle mafie. Le relazioni sociali e la complessità delle organizzazioni criminali, di Francesco Calderoni
Get PDFGrotte, bain et jardin: Leur lien dans les châteaux des Wittelsbach pendant la Renaissance
Get PDFWithdrawing to take a bath, during the Renaissance princes and princesses recovered and strengthened their health in order to be able to fulfil their duty as good rulers. Thus, many castles in the Holy Roman Empire had splendid bathrooms and were decorated as grottoes and related to gardens, which were themselves zones for withdrawal. Most courtly Renaissance bathrooms have disappeared and are only known through written sources, but those built for the House of Wittelsbach, which ruled over Bavaria and the Palatinate, left many traces at the castle of Trausnitz in Landshut (Lower Bavaria), at the castle of Neuburg on the Danube and in the Hortus Palatinus in Heidelberg. This article deals primarily with the Trausnitz bath and garden, built for William V duke of Bavaria in the 1570s and which also served as preparation for the famous grotto of the Munich Residenz. Moreover, a drawing by Friedrich Sustris, preserved at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich, is shown to be a study for the decoration of the Trausnitz bath
