51 research outputs found
Negotiation Policies and Coalition Tools in E-marketplace Environment
No full textThe e-marketplace in Business To Business applications allows enterprises to make economic transactions in a virtual marketplace. Often Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) do not participate to this potential opportunity because of some distrust as: the benefits of e-marketplace participation are not perceived clearly; SMEs doubt that e-marketplace fits the products offered.
The possibility to evaluate the real value added by an e-marketplace can be a driving force to adopting e-marketplace for SMEs. The research proposes negotiation policies, customer’s tactics and coalition tools as a value added services in e-marketplaces. The e-marketplace scenario is a private neutral linear owned by a third part with catalogue based procurement actions. A Multi Agent System methodology is used to implement the architecture of the e-marketplace. Furthermore, the author proposes the use of discrete-event simulation to test the suggested methodologies and to evaluate the economic value of adopting the proposed negotiation and coalition tools in e-marketplaces. The simulations are conducted in a very dynamic environment and a proper statistical analysis is performed. The simulation results show that the proposed methodologies lead to benefits both for suppliers and customers
Infrastrutture dei trasporti e città
No full textIn questo volume sono raccolti gli esiti del 6° Seminario Internazionale di Progettazione "Napoli, architettura e città". Eduard Bru, David Chipperfield, Max Dudler, Adolf Krischanitz, Christoph makler, Walter Arno Noebel hanno guidato i giovani architetti partecipanti nel progetto sulle aree degli svincoli del Vomero e dei Camaldoli della Tangenziale di Napoli. Il volume si conclude con i contributi di Kenneth Frampton e Robert Maxwell
Recensione del volume Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Model for Source Text Analysis di Sara Dicerto
No full textThis volume by Sara Dicerto aims at contributing to a recent development of translation studies, which have started to become interested in multimodality and pragmatics. The author introduces the topic by outlining a state of the art of the research concerning the interaction between those disciplines. She argues that, although some authors have already taken on the challenges of intersecting Translation Studies in these non-verbal directions, the attempts have generally been “scarce and fragmented” (9). Indeed, Dicerto shows that the most innovative contributions to the investigation of multimodal products derive from media studies and semiotics. By reinterpreting the findings in these fields in terms of Translation Studies, Dicerto pursues the goal of understanding the way in which the different modes interact with each other to create a message that contains both explicatures and implicatures. This also allows to infer which mode carries the crucial information and how the others complement the communication process
Acquisizioni e alienazioni di partecipazioni pubbliche, operazioni di partnership ed evidenza pubblica
No full textCon il presente scritto l’Autore, nel prendere in considerazione le disposizioni del Testo Unico in materia di acquisizione di partecipazioni societarie e/o di costituzione di nuove società, da un lato, e di alienazione o dismissione delle partecipazioni, dall’altro, esamina gli strumenti attraverso cui il legislatore ha concretamente perseguito le finalità sottese alla disciplina di tali operazioni (che sono di tendenziale disfavore per le une e di “favor” per le altre).
Alcune riflessioni vengono, infine, svolte in merito a quelle operazioni societarie (di partnernariato con altre società a partecipazione pubblica o altri gruppi pubblici) che, per la loro singolarità, non sono assimilabili né ad acquisizioni né ad alienazioni di partecipazioni societarie e, in quanto tali, potrebbero essere ricondotte a quei “casi eccezionali” di cui all’ art. 10, comma 2, t.u., e quindi giustificare l’applicazione della relativa disciplina.In this article, while taking into consideration the provisions of the Consolidated Law on the acquisition of shareholdings and/or the constitution of new companies on one hand, and the disposal of holdings on the other, the author examines the tools through which the legislator has concretely pursued the purposes underlying the discipline of such operations (which tend to disfavour some and favour others). Finally, a number of reflections are carried out on those corporate transactions (of partnership with other public companies or other public groups), which due to their singularity, cannot be assimilated either to acquisitions or to the disposal of shareholdings and, as such, could be traced back to those ‘exceptional cases’ referred to in art. 10, paragraph 2 of the Consolidated Law, and therefore justify the application of the relative discipline
“Death is a black camel”: Metaphors, similes, and proverbiality in the stereotyped re-presentation of fictional ethnicity
No full textThe paper explores the use of figurative language by Charlie Chan, a fictional Chinese detective protagonist of a series of novels and film adaptations between the 1920s and the 1940s. Chan’s construction as an ethnotype is strongly determined by language choices, including the recurring use of metaphors, similes, and proverbiality. In particular, the research focuses on the classification and analysis of Chan’s figurative speech patterns in the novel The Black Camel (1929), and features both a quantitative survey and qualitative comments on relevant examples. The results show numerous occurrences of figurative language, in a tension between conventional and creative uses, where especially the latter corresponds to a constant effort by the author to create a sense of ‘exotic’ otherness. This confirms that Charlie Chan is mainly constructed with a white orientalist audience in mind, in an attempt to cater for a stereotypical imagery that only occasionally overlaps with faithful ethnic and cultural representation
“Death is a black camel”: Metaphors, similes, and proverbiality in the stereotyped re-presentation of fictional ethnicity
No full textThe paper explores the use of figurative language by Charlie Chan, a
fictional Chinese detective protagonist of a series of novels and film
adaptations between the 1920s and the 1940s. Chan’s construction as an
ethnotype is strongly determined by language choices, including the
recurring use of metaphors, similes, and proverbiality. In particular, the
research focuses on the classification and analysis of Chan’s figurative
speech patterns in the novel The Black Camel (1929), and features both
a quantitative survey and qualitative comments on relevant examples.
The results show numerous occurrences of figurative language, in a
tension between conventional and creative uses, where especially the
latter corresponds to a constant effort by the author to create a sense of
‘exotic’ otherness. This confirms that Charlie Chan is mainly constructed
with a white orientalist audience in mind, in an attempt to cater for a
stereotypical imagery that only occasionally overlaps with faithful ethnic
and cultural representation
Lenguas Criminales: Chicano English and Italian dubbing of Chicano gangsters in the movie Training Day (2001)
No full textThis study is an investigation on the role of the Chicanos in gangster movies. Its main purpose in a linguistic and translational product-based analysis of the dubbing of Chicano English, with particular focus on its Spanish elements (e.g. emblematic code-mixing, code-switching, phonology). An analysis of the translational strategies adopted in the dubbed version may point the way to an exploration of the possible ideological implications of specific linguistic choices. In particular, the hypothesis is that a subtle link is established between "Mexicanness" and criminal behaviours by the original as well as the dubbed version of a movie starring Chicano villains, although in different ways and to different extents. The choisen audiovisual text for this analysis is Training Day (2001) and its Italian homonymous dubbed version. Although containing only one scene with Chicano gangsters, this movie was selected (from a broader study conducted by the author) due to its significant and emblematic load, for the pivotal role that the gangsters have in the plot - which makes the scene one of the main moments in the whole movie - and for its worldwide success
Intersubjective politeness in a Charlie Chan detective story : a case of intercultural faceWork
Get PDFThis paper explores the representation of cultural identities in fictional dialogic interactions, focusing on a famous (and controversial) detective from the 1930s novels by E.D. Biggers, Charlie Chan, linked to the model minority Chinese stereotype, which implies traits like modesty and self-representation. Chan’s (stereo)typical politeness is expressed in the dialogues that represent the backbone of the novels, involving the main character and his suspects. The fictional nature of the dialogues makes them particularly interesting, as the intercultural exchange is conceived by a Western author, who stages his characters complying with stereotyped models and with a view to the expectations of his intended (Western) audience.
The dialogic interactions examined in this paper are from Bigger’s novel The Black Camel (1929), and involve Chan and Tarneverro, an ambiguous character who offers his assistance to Chan, while remaining a suspect. In the dialogues, the two resort to recurring strategies which will be analyzed in the framework of intercultural politeness theories, with specific attention to their relevant linguistic traits. On the one hand, facework depends on their different roles in the investigation; on the other, different stereotypical cultural traits may lead to the exploitation of a different set of strategies
Lenguas Criminales: Languages in contact and dubbing of the Chicano villains in the movie Training Day (2001).
No full textThis study is an investigation on the role of the Chicanos in gangster movies. Its main purpose in a linguistic and translational product-based analysis of the dubbing of Chicano English, with particular focus on its Spanish elements (e.g. emblematic code-mixing, code-switching, phonology). An analysis of the translational strategies adopted in the dubbed version may point the way to an exploration of the possible ideological implications of specific linguistic choices. In particular, the hypothesis is that a subtle link is established between "Mexicanness" and criminal behaviours by the original as well as the dubbed version of a movie starring Chicano villains, although in different ways and to different extents. The choisen audiovisual text for this analysis is Training Day (2001) and its Italian homonymous dubbed version. Although containing only one scene with Chicano gangsters, this movie was selected (from a broader study conducted by the author) due to its significant and emblematic load, for the pivotal role that the gangsters have in the plot - which makes the scene one of the main moments in the whole movie - and for its worldwide success
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