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Literal, fictive and metaphorical motion sentences preserve the motion component of the verb: A TMS study
No full textCacciari C, Bolognini N, Senna I, Pellicciari MC, Miniussi C, Papagno C. Literal, fictive and metaphorical motion sentences preserve the motion component of the verb: A TMS study. Brain and Language. 2011;119(3):149-157
The role of idiom length and context in spoken idiom comprehension
No full textTwo cross-modal lexical decision experiments investigated the role of the length of the idiom string (Experiment 1) and of prior sentential context (Experiment 2) in spoken idiom recognition. The idiomatic meaning was activated at the offset of long idioms but not of short idioms when the idiom was preceded by a neutral context. The idiomatic meaning of short idioms was instead activated at the string offset when the idiom was preceded by an idiomatic context. The results support the Configuration Hypothesis (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988)
La vecchiaia nella Bibbia greca
No full textVolume III di una storia della vecchiaia nel mondo classico, biblico e cristiano; i voll. I ("Grecia") e II ("Roma") sono usciti a c. di U. Mattioli sempre per i tipi dell' ed. Pàtron, Bologna
To break the….embarrassment: Text Comprehension Skills and Figurative Competence in skilled and less-skilled text comprehenders
No full textThe aim of the present study was to investigate children’s ability to complete idiom fragments embedded in stories. Previous
studies found that children’s and preadolescents’ ability to comprehend a text was related to their ability to understand an idiomatic
expression (Cain, Oakhill, & Lemmon, 2005; Levorato, Nesi, & Cacciari, 2004; Nippold, Moran, & Schwarz, 2001). Comprehension
and production processes share a vast amount of conceptual and lexical knowledge. Hence, we hypothesized that children’s text reading
comprehension skills also might be related to their ability to produce nonliteral completions. Skilled and less-skilled text comprehenders
(age range from 7.4 to 10.3) were presented with short stories that ended with an idiomatic fragment (e.g., “Paul broke the . . .” for the
idiom “break the ice”) and were asked to complete the story. The children’s completions were coded as Literal, Idiomatic, or Figurative,
as in previous studies (Levorato & Cacciari, 1992, 1995). The results showed that children’s ability to understand a text was related to
their ability to complete idiomatic fragments figuratively. Less-skilled comprehenders provided more literal completions than skilled
comprehenders who, in turn, provided more idiomatic completions
To break the embarrassment: Text comprehension skills and figurative competence in skilled and less-skilled text comprehenders
No full textThe aim of the present study was to investigate children's ability to complete idiom fragments embedded in stories. Previous studies found that children's and preadolescents' ability to comprehend a text was related to their ability to understand an idiomatic expression (Cain, Oakhill, & Lemmon, 2005; Levorato, Nesi, & Cacciari, 2004; Nippold, Moran, & Schwarz, 2001). Comprehension and production processes share a vast amount of conceptual and lexical knowledge. Hence, we hypothesized that children's text reading comprehension skills also might be related to their ability to produce nonliteral completions. Skilled and less-skilled text comprehenders (age range from 7.4 to 10.3) were presented with short stories that ended with an idiomatic fragment (e.g., Paul broke the... for the idiom break the ice) and-were asked to complete the story. The children's completions were coded as Literal, Idiomatic, or Figurative as in previous studies (Levorato & Cacciari, 1992, 1995). The results showed that children's ability to understand a text was related to their ability to complete idiomatic fragments figuratively. Less-skilled comprehenders provided more literal completions than skilled comprehenders who, in turn, provided more idiomatic completions
Tempo das figuras: Agambem, Virno, Cacciari, Rella
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2009Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar quatro figuras da crítica italiana contemporânea que antagonizam e protagonizam o debate sobre estética e política: Giorgio Agamben, Paolo Virno, Massimo Cacciari e Franco Rella. A análise passa, principalmente, pelos materiais esparsos produzidos a partir dos anos 1970 até a entrada do novo século, a fim de observar a montagem das categorias que movimentam as articulações desses pensamentos. Categorias que, carregadas de tempo e de ética, permitem chegar à hipótese de que o pensar filosófico e o fazer poético, artístico e crítico operam de maneira polarmente conjugada na inoperância constituída entre as quatro figuras, de modo a perceber que: pela profanação, Agamben monta as imagens que transitam entre as diversas disciplinas do saber e a arte; pela ambivalência, Virno rearticula a conduta da esquerda, a partir de considerações marxinianas; pelo paradoxo do pensamento, Cacciari explicita filosofia estética e filosofia política; pela noção de figura, Rella passeia pelas imagens da modernidade. Diante das divergências e das semelhanças há algo que os toca: a tarefa dada ao tempo
The creation of new figurative expressions:psycholinguistic evidence in Italian children, adolescents and adults
No full textAccording to a developmental model of figurative language acquisition - the GLOBAL ELABORATION MODEL (Levorato & Cacciari, 1995) the metalinguistic awareness necessary to use figurative language in a creative way is acquired late, and is subsequent to the ability to comprehend and produce figurative expressions. One hundred and eight children aged 9; 6, one hundred and twenty-four children aged I 1; 3, one hundred and twelve adolescents aged 18; 5 and one hundred adults participated in Experiment 1 which studied the development of metalinguistic awareness through an elicitation task. The subjects produced a high percentage of figurative expressions with a clear developmental trend that is concluded in adolescence. In addition, Experiment 2 showed that the production of comprehensible, appropriate and novel metaphors, as they were rated by adult judges, also increased with age. These results show that the ability to use figurative language in a creative and sensible way requires a long developmental time span and is strictly connected with the ability to reflect on language as a complex cognitive and interpersonal phenomenon
«Coincidentia oppositorum». Appunti sul pensiero di Massimo Cacciari
No full textIl saggio studia gli scritti principali del filosofo Massimo Cacciari (1944-) nel tentativo di rispondere a due interrogativi: 1) Cacciari può essere considerato un "postmoderno"?; 2) qual è il suo contributo alla riflessione sui temi della libertà, della giustizia e del bene? Il saggio sostiene, rispettivamente, due tesi: 1) per certi versi Cacciari è stato uno dei teorici più acuti della "crisi dei fondamenti" da cui muove il pensiero postmoderno; 2) la sua posizione in merito però si differenzia da quella di postmoderni italiani come Aldo Gargani (1933-2009) e Gianni Vattimo (1936-) soprattutto per l'idea della costititutiva e ineliminabile antinomicità del reale, che pervade anche l'ambito etico-politico. Il saggio si conclude con alcune osservazioni critiche sulla visione tragica dell'essere propria di Cacciari
Psicologia generale e neuroscienze cognitive. Manuale per le professioni medico-sanitarie.
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