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Demosthenes and the Greek Oral Culture in the Framework of Semiotic Textology. An Application of János Sándor Petőfi’s Theory to Classical Greek Literature
No full textThe intention of this paper is to show how Semiotic Textology, the theory elaborated by the Hungarian linguist János Sándor Petőfi, can be applied to a determinate case study. In order to perform this task, firstly the main aspects of the theoretical framework are presented and some specific aspects concerning the application to verbal texts are noted. Secondly an ancient text of Classical Greek Literature is analyzed within the above-mentioned framework. The text is the "On the Peace" speech (Περὶ τῆς Εἰρήνης) composed by the Attic orator Demosthenes. Of the 25 paragraphs of the speech (divided in 3 different sections) only paragraphs 1-12 are considered, in order to evidence some interesting mechanisms of suasion technique employed by the Classical Greek politician. Furthermore the Canonical Represen-tation of paragraphs 1-4 is shown, in order to deal with the so-called Vertical Compo-sitional Organization and to discuss the stringency relation of the text. Due to this, it appears clear that Semiotic Textology tries to investigate texts by means of an ap-propriate and intersubjectively verifiable methodology which makes use of fixed steps. It is shown that theoretical text processing according to Petőfi’s view is an at-tempt to put at the centre of the interpretation process the "text": it is an activity that is not an exclusively grammatical task, because an Interpreter needs many contextual interpretation hypotheses dependent on the communicative situations and the culture of the historical period of the textual author
Studies in Semiotic Textology in Honour of János S. Petőfi
No full textThe present special issue is a Festschrift in honor of the Hungarian professor János Sándor Petőfi. 2011 is a special year for him. He was born in Miskolc in 1931, received his degree at Debrecen in 1961, obtained his Ph.D. at Umeå in 1971 and was proclaimed "Doctor Honoris causa" at Pécs in 1991. He is therefore celebrating his 80th birthday, the 50th anniversary of his degree, the 40th anniversary of his Ph.D. degree, the 20th anniversary of his "Doctor Honoris causa" honor
Salvatore Nicosia, Ephemeris: scritti efimeri. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2013. Pp. 514. ISBN 9788849834741
Full text linkSalvatore Nicosia ha insegnato lingua e letteratura greca dal 1965 al 2012 ed è stato Preside della Facoltà di Lettere, Direttore di Dipartimento (per due volte), membro del Senato Accademico. Questo volume segna l’ingresso nel ruolo di “professore emerito”. Agli “scritti minori” di grecista sono affiancati “scritti vari”
Massimo Gioseffi (ed.), Uso, riuso e abuso dei testi classici. Colloquium. Milano: LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2010. Pp. 417. ISBN 9788879164283
Full text linkLa definizione “miscellanea” si adatta in senso stretto al volume presente: esso contiene lavori molto diversi, per metodo e qualità, uniti da un filo conduttore. L’idea sottostante la pubblicazione è dichiarata nella prefazione: “nella storia della cultura occidentale due fattori sembrano avere assunto un peso decisivo. Il primo è l'adozione, fino alla nostra più stretta contemporaneità, della lettura diretta degli autori – gli auctores – all'interno della scuola, accanto, e qualche volta addirittura al posto, dei «manuali» nati per le specifiche esigenze didattiche. Il secondo è la mancata sostituzione del canone degli autori.
Elton Prifti, Italoamericano. Italiano e inglese in contatto negli USA. Analisi diacronica variazionale e migrazionale. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 375. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. Pp. 447. ISBN: 9783110297584
No full textCompared to many other studies that are more or less based on particular situations of contact between the Italo-Romance of immigrants and the dominant American English, Prifti’s study is something new and motivates us to pay attention to conserving a sense of wholeness, of completeness, across time and space. In this perspective, Italian-American is seen not as a unique variety, but rather as a diachronic succession and a synchronic coexistence of different varieties, in which a set of varieties can be identified. An analysis of this set, portions of which speakers are aware of in varying degrees, reveals a certain internal order: it appears to be an articulated set of varieties related to each other within a hierarchical structure. Indeed, the entire set gives evidence of dynamism, graduality in its internal succession, and the coexistence of distinct varieties within migrant communities
Numerical expressions in everyday language
Full text linkThis interesting volume was published by the Laterza in 2011 and is the product of fruitful collaboration between three internationally renowned scholars, each with different research perspectives. They are respectively Carla Bazzanella, who teaches General and Cognitive Linguistics at the University of Turin; Rosa Pugliese, who teaches Italian as a foreign language at the University of Bologna; Erdling Strudsholm, who teaches Italian linguistics at the University of Copenhagen
Thomas Krefeld, Wulf Oesterreicher, Verena Schwägerl-Melchior (eds.), Reperti di plurilinguismo nell’Italia spagnola (sec. XVI-XVII). Pluralisierung & Autorität Vol. 38. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. Pp. 337. ISBN: 9783110300178
No full textSergio Audano, Giovanni Cipriani (ed.), Aspetti della Fortuna dell’Antico nella Cultura Europea: atti dell’Undicesima Giornata di Studi, Sestri Levante, 14 marzo 2014. Echo 17. Foggia-Campobasso: Edizioni Il Castello, 2015. Pp. 260. ISBN 9788865721469
Full text linkJohn H. McWhorter, Linguistic simplicity and complexity: Why do languages undress? Language contact and bilingualism, Vol. 1. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. Pp. 332. ISBN: 9781934078372
No full textHow Did Text Research Lead To Semiotic Textology?
No full textThe intention of this paper is to show how Semiotic Textology, the theory elaborated by the Hungarian linguist János Sándor Petőfi, can be considered the acme in the development of text research. In order to perform this task, firstly text research is presented and its historical genesis is shown. Secondly the disciplinary status of text linguistics is discussed. The development of text linguistics can be distinguished in three different periods: 1) the period of transphrastischen Untersuchungen (hereafter denominated "broader dimension sentence studies"), 2) the elaboration of text gram-mars; 3) the foundation of textual theories. Intersecting the second and the third period, a more comprehensive framework arises, within which all the relevant syntactic, semantic, pragmatic (i.e. semiotic) information involved in any human communication process can be dealt with. This theory is now called Semiotic Textology. Petőfi’s theoretical work has been an attempt to put the segnic object gen-erally called "text" at the centre of research activity and investigate the text through means of an always appropriate and intersubjectively verifiable methodology
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