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Near-synonyms of Anglo-Saxon and Latinate Origin: The Structure of Semantic Variation and its Representation in Dictionaries
No full textThis article examines the semantic relations holding between pairs of Anglo-Saxon and Latinate near-synonyms in present-day English, such as speed/velocity, sweat/perspire, shy/timid and before/prior. Meaning variation between etymologically unrelated lexical items expressing equivalent concepts has primarily been explained in terms of pragmatic principles, although the differences between them also result from constraints imposed by their denotational semantics. The analysis proposed aims to identify the nature of their semantic proximity not so much by observing meaning construal in specific contexts or the degree of collocational variation, but rather through the observation of how similarity of concepts is conventionally encoded and externalized. This approach has made it possible to provide a preliminary mapping of the areas of overlap and contrast between semantically related items. Eight main scenarios emerge from the analysis of the data: the pairs of words examined are linked by a generic-specific (or specific-generic), literal-figurative (or figurative-literal) or cause-effect relation, but also differ in terms of focus, conventional implicatures or level of iconicity. Some possible lexicographic representations of these meaning relations have been proposed for English monolingual and learners’ dictionaries
Gli studi culturali, il lavoro intellettuale e la pratica politica. Lawrence Grossberg
No full textReview of Gli studi culturali, il lavoro intellettuale e la pratica politica by Lawrence Grossberg.Recensione di Lawrence Grossberg, Gli studi culturali, il lavoro intellettuale e la pratica politica di Lawrence Grossberg
Portrait de George Sand en écrivain
No full textRésumé : Dans les autobiographies d’écrivains, le lecteur attend, autant que des confidences, un aperçu de la carrière littéraire, de comment s’opère la création. Dans Histoire de ma vie, George Sand donne d’elle, jusqu’à 1855, un portrait en écrivain peu conventionnel, qui apparaît à une lecture attentive, et qui se construit par étapes successives, de l’oralité des fictions enfantines avec Corambé à la « littérature clandestine » et aux « récits de vie » au couvent, jusqu’à la conquête de l’écriture ‘professionnelle’. Rares sont les représentations du geste scriptural, à sa table, d’une écrivaine qui se veut un artisan, et dont l’image apparait également dans les Lettres d’un voyageur et dans les écrits sur le théâtre. Ce qui se dessine plutôt, sur le fond de la conception du romanesque, incluant des romans de l’artiste aussi, c’est un acte créateur où sont dépassées les limites de l’individualité pour se perdre « dans la grande conscience de l’humanité ».
Abstract: In writers’ autobiographies, the reader expects not only confidences but also a glimpse of their literary career, of how creation develops. In Histoire de ma vie, George Sand provides a non-traditional portrait of herself as a writer, up to 1855, which reveals itself to a careful reading, and which is created by subsequent stages from the orality of childhood fictions, with Corambé, to the ‘clandestine literature’ and the «récits de vie» in the cloister, up to the conquest of ‘professional’ writing. The representations of the gesture of writing at her table are rare, for a female writer who considers herself as a craftswoman, and whose image appears also in the Lettres d’un voyageur and in her writings about theatre. What emerges instead, in the background of the fictional creation, with some novels of the artist too, is a creative act where the limits of individuality are overcome to plunge «dans la grande conscience de l’humanité ».
Mots clés : George Sand, Histoire de ma vie, autobiographie, portrait de l’écrivain
Key Words : George Sand, Histoire de ma vie, Autobiography, Portrait of the Write
Scrivere la danza. La notazione coreica nella prima metà dell’Ottocento
No full textRiassunto: L’articolo si occupa delle diverse forme di notazione coreica inventate nei primi cinquant’anni circa del XIX secolo. Se nel Settecento si riscontrava prevalentemente una visione dall’alto, che insisteva sugli spostamenti ‘geometrici’ d’insieme nello spazio, nel secolo successivo predomina uno sguardo frontale che pone l’accento sul modo in cui il corpo dei danzatori si muove e si articola. In certi casi, inoltre, si fa attenzione alla relazione della danza con gli altri coefficienti scenici. Le scelte trascrittive, in ogni caso, disvelano una concezione estetica, sia pure probabilmente all’insaputa degli stessi notatori e, su questo in particolare, si sofferma l’Autrice.
Abstract: This paper deals with the different forms of dance notation invented approximately in the first half of the nineteenth century. If the eighteenth century was mainly characterised by a vision ‘from above’, which insisted on the overall ‘geometric’ displacements in space, in the following century a frontal view predominates, which emphasizes the way in which the dancers’ bodies move and articulate. Moreover, in some cases the attention is focused on the relationship between dance and the other scenic components. The transcription choices, in any case, disclose an aesthetic conception, albeit probably without the awareness of the notators, and the Author will dwell on this peculiar aspect.
Parole chiave: notazione della danza ; scrittura della danza; scrittura romantica; coreografia.
Key words: Dance Notation; Dance Writing; Romantic Writing; Choreography.
Immagini dell’Ucraina nella letteratura contemporanea di lingua tedesca sulla migrazione
No full textL’articolo offre una panoramica di alcuni principali modelli di rappresentazione dello spazio ucraino nelle opere di alcune autrici contemporanee di lingua tedesca provenienti dall’Europa orientale. In particolare, sulla base dei romanzi Aller Tage Abend di Jenny Erpenbeck, Sie kam aus Mariupol di Natasha Wodin e Vielleicht Esther di Katja Petrowskaja si discutono alcuni casi esemplari allo scopo di stabilire quali elementi topografici, storico-culturali ed estetici svolgono un ruolo centrale nelle immagini dell’Ucraina nel discorso letterario contemporaneo.This article offers an overview of some main representation models of the Ukrainian space in the works of contemporary German-language authors with an Eastern European migration background. Building on a reading of the novels Aller Tage Abend by Jenny Erpenbeck, Sie kam aus Mariupol by Natasha Wodin and Vielleicht Esther by Katja Petrowskaja, specific examples are taken into consideration to explore topographical, cultural-historical and aesthetic elements which are central to the images of the Ukraine in contemporary literary discourse
Über Ukrainer und Russen: Sie waren doch wie Brüder / Ukrainians and Russians: Yet They Were Like Brothers
No full textSi presenta la traduzione integrale dell’articolo Über Ukrainer und Russen: Sie waren doch wie Brüder apparso il 4 marzo del 2022 nella sezione «Spectrum» del quotidiano austriaco «Die Presse».We present the full translation of the article Über Ukrainer und Russen: Sie waren doch wie Brüder that appeared on 4 March 2022 in the «Spectrum» section of the Austrian newspaper «Die Presse»
Character recognition systems and hispanic printings of the Modern Age. The creation of two HTR models for the automatic transcription of documents in gothic and round scripts (XV-XVII Centuries)
No full textEl trabajo presenta los recientes logros en el campo del reconocimiento de textos llevado a cabo en 2021 gracias a la colaboración entre los siguientes proyectos: Progetto Mambrino (Univ. de Verona), BIDISO (Univ. de A Coruña) y COMEDIC (Univ. de Zaragoza). En concreto, en la primera parte del artículo se describe el estado de la cuestión de los sistemas de transcripción automática en relación con los textos impresos de la Edad Moderna, se relatan las primeras experiencias llevadas a cabo con la plataforma Transkribus (READ Coop) y los resultados preliminares obtenidos. En la segunda parte se presentan dos modelos de HTR que consienten la transcripción automática de textos en letra gótica y redonda de la Edad Moderna (siglos XV-XVII). En dos apéndices finales se describen según las normas tipobibliográficas actuales los documentos empleados para la creación de ambos modelos.The work presents the recent achievements in the field of text recognition carried out in 2021 thanks to the collaboration between the following projects: Progetto Mambrino (Univ. of Verona), BIDISO (Univ. of A Coruña) and COMEDIC (Univ. of Zaragoza). Specifically, the first part of the article describes the state of the art of automatic transcription systems in relation to the recognition of printed texts of the Modern Age, the first experiences carried out with the Transkribus platform (READ Coop) and the preliminary results obtained. In the second part, we present two HTR models that allow the automatic transcription of early printed texts in gothic and round scripts of the Modern Age (15th-17th centuries). In two final appendices, the documents used for the creation of both models are described according to current typobibliographical standards
Linguistic analysis in the global evolution of communication media
No full textEl artículo «L’analisi linguistica nell’evoluzione mondiale dei mezzi di comunicazione» de Padre Roberto Busa, pionero de las Humanidades Digitales, fue publicado en origen en el volumen Almanacco Bompiani: Le applicazioni dei calcolatori elettronici alle scienze morali e alla letteratura de 1962. A pesar de que el texto fue escrito en una fase preliminar de tales estudios, en que la aplicación de la informática al análisis de las lenguas y literaturas parecía todavía un sueño inalcanzable, la lúcida mirada del jesuita italiano constituye a nuestra manera de ver aún hoy en día un punto de interés para valorar la evolución y los retos futuros en el campo de las Humanidades Digitales. Presentamos aquí la traducción española del artículo con el fin de rescatar las palabras de Padre Busa y ponerlas nuevamente al alcance de un amplio número de lectores.The article «L’analisi linguistica nell’evoluzione mondiale dei mezzi di comunicazione» by Fr. Roberto Busa, a pioneer of the Digital Humanities, was originally published in the volume Almanacco Bompiani: Le applicazioni dei calcolatori elettronici alle scienze morali e alla letteratura of 1962. Despite the fact that the text was written in a preliminary phase of such studies, in which the application of informatics to the analysis of languages and literatures still seemed an unattainable dream, the lucid gaze of the Italian Jesuit in our opinion constitutes even today an observation point of interest to assess the evolution and future challenges in the Digital Humanities field. We present here the Spanish translation of the article with the intention of rescuing the words of Fr. Busa and making them available to a broader number of readers
Humor as a pre-Cervantine element of the Castilian books of chivalry
No full textEn este artículo, se estudia algunos episodios de las obras que conforman el ciclo de Espejo de príncipes y cavalleros, donde existen aspecros y elementos narrativos que puden identificarse como pre-cervantinos, en cuanto al manejo del humor, y que habrían sido antecedentes obligados de Miguel de Cervantes para la recreación de los mismos en el Quijote y otras obras.En este artículo, se estudia algunos episodios de las obras que conforman el ciclo de Espejo de príncipes y cavalleros, donde existen aspecros y elementos narrativos que puden identificarse como pre-cervantinos, en cuanto al manejo del humor, y que habrían sido antecedentes obligados de Miguel de Cervantes para la recreación de los mismos en el Quijote y otras obras.This article studies some episodes from romances of chivalry belonging to the Espejo de príncipes y cavalleros cycle. In these episodes, it is posible to identify some narrative features defined as pre-cervantine, in terms of the handling of humor. These works and the use of these humoristic features may be considered as antecedents for Miguel de Cervantes an his writing in Don Quixote, and other of his works
Figures and counterfigures of the Annunciation in the first romances of chivalry: bedroom scenes and angelic notices of extraordinary conception
No full textThe article examines the significant role of domestic elements in the Annunciations painted by 14th and 15th century artists. Among these objects Thalamus Virginis stands out for its Mariological and Christological meaning. The drawing of Gabriel\u27s announcement to Mary, keeping the bed in the background, could serve as a model to illustrate other announcements or warnings of spirits or angels in sentimental and chivalric fiction. The outstanding illustrations of the first Castilian prints of the Baladro del sabio Merlín or Tristán de Leonís, among others, are examined. We propose that the counterfigures of the Annunciation could also be transmitted in other sacred-profane episodes of other fictions, such as La Celestina and Tirant the Blanc.El artículo examina el papel decisivo que tuvieron que ejercer las Anunciaciones pintadas durante los siglos XIV y XV sobre escenas de alcoba descritas y, a veces, iluminadas en textos de ficción, doctrinales o científicos. Entre los enseres pintados de la habitación de la Virgen María destaca el lecho (thalamus Virginis) por su significado mariológico y cristológico. De manera que la imagen del anuncio de Gabriel a María, con el trasfondo de ese thalamus, sirvió también como modelo para imaginar e ilustrar anuncios o avisos de concepción extraordinaria efectuados por espíritus, ángeles o demonios. Se examinan algunos de los casos más destacados de estos textos e imágenes en los primeros impresos castellanos del Baladro del sabio Merlín o Tristán de Leonís, entre otros, y se propone que las contrafiguras de la Anunciación pueden captarse también en episodios sacro-profanos de otras obras de ficción, como La Celestina y Tirant lo Blanc.The article examines the significant role of domestic elements in the Annunciations painted by 15th-century artists. Among these objects Thalamus Virginis stands out for its Mariological and Christological meaning. The drawing of Gabriel\u27s announcement to Mary, keeping the bed in the background, could serve as a model to illustrate other announcements or warnings of spirits or angels in sentimental and chivalric fiction. The outstanding illustrations of the first Castilian prints of the Baladro del sabio Merlín or Tristán de Leonís, among others, are examined. We propose that the counterfigures of the Annunciation could also be transmitted in other sacred-profane episodes of other fictions, such as La Celestina and Tirant the Blanc