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La forma fonica e grafica della lingua: ideofoni nei fumetti
No full textQuesto lavoro prende le mosse dagli studi sull’iconismo linguistico di Jakobson, specialmente dalle sue originali considerazioni in The Sound Shape of Language, rileggendo in ottica jakobsoniana i più recenti studi sugli ideofoni.
In particolar modo, nel lavoro viene condotta l’analisi di un corpus di 619 tipi di ideofoni (con 983 occorrenze) presenti in 3282 vignette di fumetti tratti da quattro album di tipologia molto diversa tra loro: Lupo Alberto, i Peanuts, The Amazing Spiderman, Yamada-Kun e le sette streghe. Il lavoro mostra i vari tipi di iconismo presenti nella formazione degli ideofoni del corpus sui diversi livelli linguistici: sul livello fonetico è stata analizzata la capacità fonosimbolica dei foni che costituiscono gli ideofoni; per quanto riguarda il livello fonologico l’analisi mostra come gli ideofoni del corpus esibiscano un inventario fonematico esteso, violino costraint fonotattici e non rispettino la struttura canonica della sillaba in italiano; sul livello morfologico si nota come regni incontrastata la reduplicazione, il processo di formazione delle parole più iconico di tutti (come del resto aveva già fatto notare Jakobson). Dal punto di vista lessicale, possiamo vedere quanto la formazione di ideofoni nei fumetti sia debitrice all’inglese, ma anche come questa lingua abbia funto da modello nella creazione di nuovi ideofoni a partire da parole italiane. La semantica degli ideofoni del corpus, infine, percorre tutti i gradini della scala implicazionale indicata da Dingemanse, arrivando ad esprimere anche sentimenti e stati emotivi
La negazione in swahili. Un viaggio nel labirinto della grammatica
Full text linkVerbal negation in Kiswahili. A journey in the labyrinth of grammar. This
work presents a description of negation in Kiswahili. After a short exposition of the
morphological patterns of negation in Kiswahili, explained in the frame of the Proto-
Bantu reconstruction, an analysis of possible grammaticalization paths will be attempted
in order to explain: 1) the formal identity of the post-initial negation morpheme, of the
negative copula and of the first person agreement marker of pre-initial negation (si); 2)
the presence of a double paradigm of conditional; 3) the negative future morpheme -toin
the Zanzibar variety of Kiswahili
Le risposte ai complimenti tra donne moldave in Italia. Sistemi pragmatici a confronto in un contesto plurilingue.
No full textThe aim of this study was to compare compliment responses among Moldavian women living either in Moldavia or in Italy. The corpus consisted of 120 speech acts containing complimenting, half for each sub-group of participants. When compared to Moldavian women living in Moldavia, those living in Italy consider compliments more dangerous in terms of face-balancing; therefore, they adopt a different pragmatic behavior and tend to respond using limited acceptance. This pragmatic change is probably due to hypercorrectness, in an attempt to follow the idealized Italian model of the pragmatic management of the compliment.
Moreover, responses with limited acceptance tend to contain code-switching phenomena, from Russian (the language in which the compliments are offered) to Moldavian, as a renegotiation of the language of the conversation. This way, participants use the bilingualism at their disposal as a tool to protect their positive face
Reduplicazione in swahili. Iconismo e oltre
No full textThe aim of this article is to deal with the semantics of reduplication in Swahili, on the
basis of a list of 562 reduplicative words. In the first part of the work we will focus on
the iconic values of reduplication, shared by most of the world languages; afterwards
we will see how reduplication is applied beyond its iconic ground, spreading by semantic
extension to some lexical fields. Notwithstanding what previous works on this subject
claim, reduplication seems not to be used to express diminution
Chicchi, semi e semolini in Swahili. Categorie di genere e reduplicazione
No full textParlare di alimentazione in terra swahili non può prescindere dall’importanza alimentare attribuita ai semi e alle pietanze che su di essi si basano. I semi, anche se piccoli, hanno infatti il pregio di unire l’economicità a un forte valore nutrizionale e, in una comunità che tuttora si basa su una economia agricola, corrispondono a una risorsa importante. L’analisi linguistica che sarà tentata in questo lavoro ha lo scopo di indagare la rappresentazione mentale di questi cibi per i parlanti swahili a partire dalla categorizzazione dei nomi di semi (e delle pietanze a base di semi) all’interno
di un sistema nominale a classi
Le risposte ai complimenti in Italia: questioni di gender
No full textThis work investigates the gender differences in complimenting strategies in a corpus
of 840 Italian compliments subdivided into different sub-corpora. This study summarizes
the gender-based differences in complimenting behaviour sketched by the literature,
and then it explores the correlation of gender with age and topics. To this purpose,
there have been analyzed the compliment responses in two sub-corpor
Il rapporto tra uomo e natura attraverso lo specchio del lessico in Kiswahili
No full textThis work aims at showing that in Swahili world, and in Swahili language as well, there is no separation from the human being and his environment, so there is no need at all for words like “nature” and “landscape”. The man did not receive from God the power to govern the world, to transform and even ruin it at his wish. On the contrary, the human being is a part of nature, as it is well shown by the lexical organization of Kiswahili language: the names for body parts are very often the same for human beings and animals, including fishes and insects: mdomo stays for “lip” and “beak”, kucha means “nails”, “hoofs” and “claws”, and even a handsome young guy is referred to as jana, exactly as the grub of an insect.
Most natural elements are included in a specific morphological class, the class 3 (the respective plurals are in class 4), devoted to categorize entities displaying a special vitality other than human beings and animals: it is the case of trees and plants (almost half of the names categorized in this class), natural but also supernatural phenomena, powerful things like medicines, aphrodisiacs and religious objects, as well as it is the case of the intrinsically active things as some parts of the body (e.g. the tail or the heart). No surprise if men have no control of the objects categorized in this class: class 3 is the class of the nature, that is the class in which we find the name for God
La moda africana in Europa parla un'altra lingua: il caso del kanga
No full textThis work is dedicated to kangas, a peculiar and colorful garment that is the traditional dress amongst Swahili women and East-Coast African women; it is in someway considered a symbol of the African style fashion and way of living. Yet, this printed wrap cloth is not just a garment but it constitutes a complex communicative sign, as it contains a printed inscription: by this inscription a woman dressing her kanga can send a message to the whole community (and then the message exhibits the formal structure of a proverb) or to a specific member of the community not explicitly mentioned, but easy recognizable by everybody. Yet, by dressing a message instead of pronouncing it, the woman can deny any responsibility on the message’s content, and even her intention to communicate. Once in the western world, kangas loses their communicative potentiality because they are detached from the context; kanga’s micro-system of communication becomes disrupted, as it does not belong any more to the shared knowledge of the speakers and to their pragmatic competence about the management of proverbs, insults, and other linguistic acts
Quaranta sfumature di grigio, di rosso, di nero: l'organizzazione dei termini di colore in turco tra lessico e morfologia
No full textThis work describes the linguistic processes in Turkish morphology to form color terms expressing intensification or diminution. There will be shown four patterns of reduplication, three of which are devoted to express intensification and the fourth works as a sort of attenuation, as it extends the denotation of a word to express “X and the like”. On the level of affixation, this work introduces six different suffixes (-ce, -(i)msi, -(i)mtrak, -rek, -cil,-li ) that, when applied to the adjectives of colours, tone down the colour or diminish it in different ways: approximation, similarity or attenuation, variegation, dispersiveness
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