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Online ESP Learning through H5P© Project Activities: A Digital Opportunity for Organic Enterprises
No full textWithin an increasing use of ITCs in modern language learning and teaching, technology has proven to be particularly appropriate for English for Specific Purposes courses and adult learners. If the Council of Europe emphasized the importance of learners as social agents, the use of ITCs in language learning puts them at the centre of the learning process, allowing the users not only to consume digital contents, but also to produce an output of it: as “prosumers,” digital learners self-determine their autonomy and embrace a new learning environment, where content is shared and knowledge is co-constructed.This article will present a project launched in 2020 by the University of Calabria, where the synergy between the University Language Centre and the H5P© software has created an open-access language-learning opportunity that encourages learners’ autonomy, fostering their motivation and promoting the scaffolding of new knowledge and skills useful for employability
Pantere nere, America bianca. Storia e politica del Black Panther Party. Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
No full textReview of Pantere nere, America bianca. Storia e politica del Black Panther Party by Bruno Walter Renato Toscano.Recensione de Pantere nere, America bianca. Storia e politica del Black Panther Party di Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory. Mena Mitrano
No full textReview of Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory by Mena Mitrano
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No full textPresentación del número 11 (2023) de la revista Historias FingidasPresentazione del numero 11 (2023) della rivista Historias FingidasPresentation of Historias fingidas 11 (2023
Parental Androids: An Analysis of Non-normative Care Discourse in Contemporary Televised Science Fiction
No full textAbout forty years ago, feminist scholars formulated several independent definitions of an ethics of care (Gilligan 1982; Ruddick 1989; Noddings 1984), suggesting the need to reframe human collective and personal interactions. However, care theory fails for the most part to consider the lived experiences and the needs of marginalized subjects (Gary 2022). This study observes care theory from a linguistic perspective in three audio-visual texts featuring examples of non-normative care. The sci-fi TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, and Raised by Wolves will be considered, with a focus on androids acting as caregivers. The linguistic analysis, following a Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA), will focus on discursive strategies relating to the parties involved, their relational ties, care behaviors, and the androids’ adequacy as caretakers. The emerging perspectives may be mapped onto current discourse on minority groups’ access to fostering or adoption and their reproductive rights
De-colonizing the Earth to Re-enact Colonialism on Mars: New Forms of ‘Transplantation’ in Outer Space
No full textIn the current rush to Space ‘colonization,’ a term which moved from Science Fiction to reality in just a few decades, it becomes necessary to (re)define not only the borders of the known ‘world’—which projects itself far beyond the galaxy where we live—but also the lexicon of exploration, invasion, and belonging. The analogies with the ‘conquest’ of the New World—something that, as far as the US is concerned, went down in history under the mythopoeic term ‘Frontier’—are striking.
In my essay I intend to deal with the linguistic and cultural implications of the terms used by those who wish or are planning to organize interplanetary travels aimed at taking human beings onto the Red Planet in the next decades. Such projects are based on a shared vision of ‘new worlds’ waiting to be discovered and occupied: therefore, their lexicon is heavily influenced by such a vision, though at international conferences you may happen to meet someone who prefers the more neutral term ‘settlement’ to ‘colony.’ On the opposite side we find ethic environmentalists, the defenders of post- and de-colonial thought, and the supporters of an equitable future.
Language, which is never neutral, does, in fact, reveal in its choices and in its prefixes (re-, de-, trans-, inter-, post-, neo-, un-, etc.) what really lies behind these projects. Rarely do they concern the safety of the whole human race or a sustainable use of resources: on the contrary, they are more often driven by economic profit, safety just for a few, and total indifference to ecology and ethics
Derealization and Re-instantiation of the Military Experience in American Fiction about the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
No full textThe article proposes a comparative reading and analysis of fictional works about the so-called War on Terror, focusing in particular on the ways in which narratives by former soldiers such as Redeployment by Phil Kley, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers and the short stories collected in Fire and Forget edited by Roy Scraton and Matt Gallagher represent a problematic attempt to fictionalize traumatic experiences. In fact, on the one hand, following the reflections on the idea of derealization as theorized by philosophers and thinkers such as Jacques Baudrillard or Slavoj Žižek, I will argue that novels about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars show an ambiguous relationship to the reality they depict. On the other hand, these novels and stories offer a possible counter-narrative of the events and may function as a potential re-instantiation of the experience itself for the soldiers/writers, who, in recounting or "inventing" their own experience, relive and re-enact the traumatic facts, thus allowing the reader to enter these facts from a challenging position
Nel nome del padre, del figlio e dell’umorismo. I romanzi di John Fante. Emanuele Pettener
No full textRecensione di Nel nome del padre, del figlio e dell’umorismo. I romanzi di John Fante di Emanuele Pettener.Review of Nel nome del padre, del figlio e dell’umorismo. I romanzi di John Fante by Emanuele Pettener
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No full textPresentazione al Numero Speciale 2: "Forme e origini del romanzo" (2023)Presentación al Número Especial 2: "Formas y orígenes de la novela" (2023)Presentation to the Special Issue n. 2 "Forms and origins of the novel" (2023
José Julio Martín Romero, «La caballería: historia, mito y literatura», Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ediciones Monosílabo, 2022
No full textReseña del libro La caballería: historia, mito y literatura (2022) del profesor José Julio Martín Romero (Universidad de Jaén).Recensione del libro La caballería: historia, mito y literatura (2022) di José Julio Martín Romero (Università di Jaén).Review of the book La caballería: historia, mito y literatura (2022) by José Julio Martín Romero (University of Jaén)