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Raising the Bar in Audiovisual Translation: Developing a Subtitling Competence Framework
Get PDFOver the last decades, audiovisual consumption has been thriving thanks to the emergence of streaming platforms which have triggered the proliferation of media content and the need of large pools of qualified professionals capable of satisfying these new demands in multiple languages. While many scholars have developed translation competence frameworks in recent years, the body of literature focused on audiovisual translation (AVT) in general, and subtitling in particular, is very limited. Inspired by previous work on translation competence and skills, the present paper puts forward a set of core competences, the Subtitling Competence Framework (SCF), that can be used in academic environments and has been implemented in the design of a professional certification in subtitling launched in 2023. This project responds to a desire to raise the visibility of the work carried out by subtitlers, by addressing the lack of a professional framework of reference in the media localisation sector, and to safeguard the professionalism of a field that is expanding at an ever-increasing rate
Di grasso e di magro: cibo e valori
Get PDFIn our society, the distinction between fat and thin signals the difference between two lifestyles, the first based on the consumption of animal food, the other on the prevalent consumption of foods of plant origin. The positive values of sobriety and healthiness are associated with this dietary practice: the success of the Mediterranean diet is combined with the affirmation of these value: olive oil, which is a fat, but vegetable, summarizes them in itself. On the feast of Saint Joseph, which is celebrated in numerous places in southern Puglia during Lent, the preparation of abundant food to offer to the community and, symbolically, to the saint, takes place in compliance with the food prohibitions of the period; they prohibit the consumption of meat, eggs, dairy products, even if some transgressions are considered legitimate: it is a celebration of the lean. In Spongano, near Otranto, on the occasion of the feast of Santa Vittoria, on the eve of the day, the residue from pressing the olives is used to prepare large candles carried in processions: it is a celebration whose fundamental element is the waste of oil olive oil: the value celebrated, in this case, is that of reuse which contrasts with exasperated consumerism
Diritti e doveri morali, attivismo e agency: oltre i confini cronotopici del griko
Get PDFIn this chapter, I address issues of language ideologies that affect agency by presenting the case of Griko, or Salentine Greek, a Greek variety used in the Southern Italian province of Lecce (Salento) in the region of Apulia. I will argue that agency is constantly contested and negotiated among a multitude of social actors and enacted with reference to morality in its dual articulation: as the recognition of the moral right to represent Griko, and as a fulfilment of a perceived moral duty towards the language and its speakers, past and present
L'asino in corpo. Sesso e pazienza tra monaci e santi nel Medioevo
Get PDFThe essay, suspended between history and anthropology, aims to explore the perception of the donkey between the High and Late Middle Ages. The donkey, long mistreated in the popular mind due to ingrained clichés surrounding it, and especially contrasted with the horse, considered a more noble and useful animal than the humble donkey, was instead redeemed when, thanks to Christian and hagiographic literature, it gained a wholly positive charge capable of engendering sentiments of clear evangelical inspiration
The Evolving Political Discourse of Movement-Parties: The Case of La France Insoumise - Nouveau Front Populaire in the 2024 French Legislative Elections
Get PDFThis paper examines the evolving political discourse of La France Insoumise (LFI) during the 2024 French legislative elections, following the unexpected dissolution of the National Assembly by President Macron. These elections led to the creation of the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP), a left-wing coalition that included previously opposed parties like the Parti Socialiste (PS). The study explores whether LFI's discourse, traditionally opposed to mainstream parties, has shifted. Combining visual, content and discourse analysis, the paper analyzes 10 speeches by LFI leaders, focusing on framing and discourse evolution. It finds that LFI's opposition to mainstream parties has softened, emphasizing unity against the far-right Rassemblement National (RN). However, LFI maintains its left-wing populist themes, particularly appeals to the people and national identity. This research sheds light on how movement-parties adapt their rhetoric when institutionalized, offering insights into the dynamics of contemporary populism in Europe
Introduction - Exploring the Kurdish Movement: Power Relations, Historical Dynamics and Theoretical Perspectives
Get PDFThis editorial positions Kurdish politics at a turning point initiated by the PKK's 2025 decision to dissolve its armed wing and by concomitant institutional realignments in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Building on feminist, post-colonial, and transnational scholarship, the special issue advances a three-level framework. First, it traces the historically sedimented repertoires of state coercion and colonial governance that define Kurdish political opportunities. Second, it examines the movement's evolving ideological corpus-especially Democratic Modernity and Jineolojî-which articulates a counter-theory of decentralised authority. Third, it analyses the micro-processes of recruitment, activist identity formation, and disciplined internal hierarchy that embed revolutionary ideas in everyday practice. A state-power cluster, an ideology cluster, and a micro-sociology study show the framework's reach. Two cross-cutting themes structure the issue: power, understood as the intersection of coercive sovereignty, revolutionary decentralisation, and intra-movement organisation; and history, viewed simultaneously as a state instrument of closure and a movement resource for alternative futures. Building on the volume's findings, the introduction sketches three forward research paths: (i) a sociology of mobilisation under post-insurgency transition; (ii) a comparative politics agenda on peace settlements, DDR, and autonomy design; and (iii) a political-theory programme probing how post-statist and decolonial imaginaries can be institutionalised
Strategic Arab-Kurdish Alliance: Syria's Support of Kurdish Organisations during the Cold War
Get PDFAll major Kurdish political movements interacted with foreign states in search of resources and support. Besides superpowers, it was the Arab nationalist regime of Syria that cooperated with foreign Kurdish radical groups in the most stable way as well as instrumentalised them. The paper fills the gap in scholarship by focusing on Damascus' relations with the Iraqi Kurdish groups in the 1950s – 1990s and noting their significance for Syria's alliance with Kurdish militants from Turkey. What drove them, how the dynamics of these relations changed, what role did this cooperation play in Kurdish politics and which consequences it had? The most active phase of these relations included the 1970s and the 1980s. The Assad regime's Kurdish policies were closely related to Syria's rise as a regional power enabled by its tapping into external resources. These were provided by a number of states driven by Cold War developments. The paper focuses on the question of Kurdish own agency in such interactions: how the Kurdish groups succeeded or failed in avoiding dependency on the Syrian regime. The research relies on Iraqi, Iranian, Turkish and Soviet media reports and political documents of the time, archival records, memoirs
Come eravamo: lettere alla Società delle Nazioni durante l'aggressione italiana all'Etiopia
Get PDFItAll'indomani della decisione di Mussolini di conquistare l'Etiopia e delle conseguenti sanzioni economiche inflitte all'Italia, la Società delle Nazioni (SdN) fu letteralmente inondata da missive. Una corrispondenza molto varia e composita che è ora disponibile online grazie al Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives Project (LONTAD), la digitalizzazione su larga scala degli archivi dell'organizzazione fondata con il trattato di Versailles. Da un lato, per esempio, vi era chi protestava contro l'aggressione italiana e l'incapacità dell'Organizzazione e delle grandi potenze di intervenire efficacemente, dall'altro chi si scagliava contro la SdN per le sanzioni inflitte, o chi proponeva soluzioni alternative per far terminare il conflitto. Una documentazione davvero imponente, esaminata recentemente da Cherri Wemlinger nella sua tesi di dottorato discussa alla Washington State University nel 2012. Sebbene non pubblicata, essa risulta il primo tentativo di catalogare le migliaia di comunicazioni giunte da tutte le parti del mondo a Ginevra durante la disputa italo-etiopica. Ciononostante, l'analisi si è concentrata soprattutto sulle principali direzioni che emergevano nell'opinione pubblica mondiale, tralasciando scientemente la natura di quella che affiorava in Italia. Il presente studio si propone quindi di indagare ulteriormente sui principali punti di vista esistenti sul tema, nel tentativo di capire meglio la società del tempo, specie quella italiana non al centro del lavoro di Wemlinger. La mole del carteggio ha imposto all'autore la necessità di scegliere i messaggi più significativi, riproponendone alcuni dietro autorizzazione degli League of Nations Archives. La preferenza è caduta su quelle lettere ritenute più indicative e su quelle provenienti da cittadini italiani.EnAfter Mussolini's decision to conquer Ethiopia and the resulting economic sanctions imposed on Italy, the League of Nations was flooded with letters. A very diverse and composite correspondence that is now available online thanks to the Total Digital Access to the League of Nations Archives Project (LONTAD), the large-scale digitization of the archives of the organization founded by the Treaty of Versailles. On the one hand, for example, there were those who protested against Italian aggression and the inability of the Organization and the great powers to intervene effectively, and on the other hand there were those who lashed out at the League for the sanctions imposed, or those who proposed alternative solutions to end the conflict. A truly impressive documentation, recently examined by Cherri Wemlinger in her doctoral dissertation discussed at Washington State University in 2012. Although unpublished, it turns out to be the first attempt to catalog the thousands of communications that came from all parts of the world to Geneva during the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Nevertheless, the analysis focused mainly on the main directions emerging in world public opinion, knowingly leaving out the nature of that emerging in Italy. The present study therefore aims to further investigate the main existing views on the subject in an attempt to better understand the society of the time, especially the Italian society not the focus of Wemlinger's work. The sheer volume of the correspondence forced the author to choose the most significant messages, reproducing some of them with the permission of the League of Nations Archives. The preference fell on those letters considered most indicative and those from Italian citizens
Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies
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Is Abortion Dividing Society? Differentiated Attitudes and Contextual Factors. A Quantitative Vignette Study
Get PDFWe investigated in our quantitative study, based on a factorial survey, whether and how people change their skeptical attitude towards abortions when they are given a vignette and, thus, confronted with further information about the life situation of a person who has an unplanned pregnancy. Our target group was men over 41 years of age living in Western Germany, as this population group is the most critical of abortions, according to the ALLBUS, the German General Social Survey. A computer-assisted telephonic interview survey was conducted with 302 people from the target group. After general questions, such as whether abortion should remain a criminal offense under § 218 of the German Criminal Code and only be exempt from punishment under certain conditions, the participants were randomly assigned to three thematic vignettes: financial burden, eugenics or intimate partner violence. Our results show that, even in the target group, only 24.9% of respondents agree that abortion should remain criminalized. In the face of new information, comprehensibility of the decision to have an abortion increased in all three vignettes