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Pop song Lyrics through the Lens of Sociolinguistics. A case study of Bob Dylan’s Lyrics
Get PDFPop song lyrics are unique communicative artifacts within contemporary culture on account of their distinctive semiotic properties, characterized as they are by a close relationship between music and words which imposes substantial constraints on text constitution and song structure, involving special rhetorical, rhythmic and phonic features, sometimes accompanied by some “poetic” (in Jakobson’s sense) stylistic devices. But lyrics are also unique for their ability to mirror many important themes of contemporary culture and capture socio-cultural moods and changes. This means that the language of pop song lyrics tends to be socially connoted and may bear traces not only of the author’s linguistic background, but also of diatopic and diastratic variation. This is why lyrics can be seen as ideal objects to be investigated by means of sociolinguistic analytical tools. This study aims at testing this idea, by applying a sociolinguistic approach to a case study, Bob Dylan’s song lyrics (1961-1970). In the article, an analysis of their most meaningful linguistic features is presented, discussing their phonological, morphological and syntactic peculiarities also in the light of quantitative data obtained through corpus linguistics. Their significance is discussed in the perspective of the artist’s linguistic identity, but also as documents of authentic usage of spoken AmE. The findings confirm that interesting results can be attained by taking a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of pop song lyrics
The Performative and Transformative Site of Homosexuality in Call Me by Your Name. Translating Queer Fuck into Chinese
Get PDFAndré Aciman’s highly acclaimed English queer novel, Call Me by Your Name (Call 2007), won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction in 2007. The novel has been translated into four Chinese editions; two editions in simplified Chinese published by two publishing houses in the Chinese mainland and two in traditional Chinese issued by a Taiwanese publisher. Applying the descriptive framework of verbal camp (Harvey 2000) and incorporating the three modes of translation proposed by Marc Démont (2017) in queer literary texts, the article conducts a textual comparative study of the term fuck across six instances in the four Chinese editions published in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in 2009, 2012, and 2018. This article seeks to answer the following questions: How is the term fuck rendered differently in the four translations? In what ways are these translations shaped by social and political contexts? What are the socio-political implications of these renditions? The comparative study will highlight shifts in translations across various cultural and political contexts and discuss their ideological implications
ALESSIO STEFÀNO, La perduta chiesa e il culto di San Giovanni Elemosiniere nella storia di Casarano
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Le espansioni semantiche dell'indefinito locativo in messinese
Get PDFItI dialetti siciliani nord-orientali presentano una serie di pronomi indefiniti d'uso colloquiale formata a partire dai pronomi interrogativi e dal verbo 'essere', tra cui unn=è 'da qualche parte'. In questo articolo s'indagano le espansioni modali e aspettuali del menzionato pronome locativo. L'introduzione delinea il carattere pronominale di unnè per venire alla sua funzione evidenziale/epistemica. La seconda sezione è dedicata al valore aspettuale prospettivo che unnè assume in presenza (e, talvolta, in assenza) del complementatore chi/ca. Infine, si presenta la semantica apprensiva di unnè in unione col morfema IRREALIS mi. Un questionario fornisce dei dati sull'uso e sulla diffusione geografica dei fenomeni. Per ciascuna parte vengono discussi gli aspetti e i problemi della forma linguistica e si offre una possibile trafila diacronica ricorrendo a confronti tipologici.EnNorth-Eastern Sicilian dialects exhibit a colloquial set of indefinite pronouns formed from interrogative pronouns and the verb to be, including unn=è 'somewhere'. This article investigates the modal and aspectual extensions of this locative pronoun. The introduction outlines the pronominal nature of unnè, leading to its evidential/epistemic function. The second section focuses on the prospective value unnè acquires with (and sometimes without) the complementizer chi/ca. The third section explores the apprehensional semantics of unnè when combined with the IRREALIS morpheme mi. A questionnaire provides data on the usage and geographic distribution of these phenomena. Each section also discusses the formal issues and proposes a possible diachronic pathway within a typological framework
Verso un vocalismo tonico siciliano nella sinecìa novarese? Analisi sperimentale del mutamento in atto nelle vocali medio-alte
Get PDFItIl contributo esamina l'evoluzione fonologica delle vocali toniche medio-alte ([e̝], [o̝]) e alte ([i], [u]/[y]) nel dialetto galloitalico della sinecìa novarese (Novara di Sicilia e Fondachelli-Fantina). Attraverso un'analisi acustica sperimentale di dati recenti raccolti sul campo lo studio documenta un livellamento del contrasto tra questi due gradi di apertura vocalica. Un sistema più tradizionale - con un numero di opposizioni fonemiche più elevato ma privo di vocali anteriori arrotondate - è ancora attestato in alcuni parlanti conservativi, specie a Fantina, ma in gran parte perso tra i parlanti più sicilianizzati, in particolare a Novara centro. Tale cambiamento investe sia l'inventario fonemico sia la morfologia verbale. I dati indicano una transizione verso un sistema pentavocalico analogo a quello dei dialetti siciliani viciniori.EnThis paper explores the phonological evolution of stressed mid-high ([e̝], [o̝]) and high vowels ([i], [u]/[y]) in the Gallo-Italic dialect of the sinecìa novarese (Novara di Sicilia and Fondachelli-Fantina). Based on an experimental acoustic analysis of recent fieldwork data, the study documents a leveling of the contrast between these two degrees of vowel height. A more traditional system - characterized by richer phonemic oppositions but lacking front rounded vowels - is still attested among some conservative speakers, especially in Fantina, but has largely disappeared among more Sicilianized speakers, particularly in Novara centro. This change affects both the phonemic inventory and verbal morphology. The findings suggest a shift toward a five-vowel system, modeled on that of neighboring Sicilian dialects
Quando il dialetto "tace": lessico, memoria e discontinuità d'uso e di parlanti in Sicilia
Get PDFItIl contributo analizza la vitalità del lessico tradizionale siciliano a partire dai dati raccolti tramite il quesito onomasiologico dell'Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS). Lo studio si concentra, in particolare, sulla relazione tra età, livello di istruzione e competenza lessicale in dialetto, rilevando una netta correlazione tra età e conservazione di arcaismi, a fronte di una limitata incidenza della scolarizzazione. Tuttavia, l'integrazione dell'analisi quantitativa con una prospettiva qualitativa rivela come l'istruzione influenzi significativamente l'uso effettivo del dialetto e le modalità di recupero lessicale. Tale assetto consentirà di cogliere una chiara polarità interna al dialetto: da un lato, un codice ancora attivamente impiegato dai parlanti meno istruiti; dall'altro, un sistema conservato in forma latente e "riattivabile" da parte dei soggetti più colti. Sulla base di questa dicotomia, si propone una riflessione volta a definire nuove categorie di parlanti, che rispecchiano, a loro volta, mutamenti linguistici ancora in atto.EnThis paper examines the vitality of traditional Sicilian vocabulary based on data collected through the onomasiological questionnaire of the Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia (ALS). In particular, the study focuses on the relationship between age or educational level and lexical competence in the dialect, revealing a strong correlation between older age and the preservation of archaisms, alongside a limited impact of formal education. However, the integration of quantitative analysis with a qualitative perspective shows that education significantly influences both the actual use of the dialect and the strategies of lexical retrieval. This framework reveals a clear internal polarity within the dialect: on one hand, a code still actively used by less-educated speakers; on the other, a system preserved in latent form and potentially "reactivable" by more educated individuals. Based on this dichotomy, the paper offers a reflection aimed at defining new categories of speakers, which in turn reflect ongoing linguistic change
