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The Linguistics of Speech di William A. Kretzschmar Junior
No full textThere is an internal conflict in any language: the one between rule and use. The rule tends to preserve the structures, while the use to change them. The language is the product of this conflict. This differentiation, already well known to the Greek-Latin world, has found its modern codification in the reflection of Saussure (1916) who distinguished the system (Langue) from the product (Parole) and delimited the areas of competence of the science of the speech. Thus it is talked about the linguistics of Langue and the linguistics of Parole
L’arabo giuridico in prospettiva didattica. Un caso di studio
No full textArabic for Specific Purposes (ASP) has received some attention internationally,
though it remains underexplored in Italy. This gap affects both the description
of ASP and its impact on teaching Arabic as a foreign language at the university
level. To address this, the current study focuses on legal Arabic, providing
a descriptive analysis of key features relevant to pedagogy. The case study
examines transcripts of police and medical reports following a fatal traffic
accident, offering a foundation for discussing the teaching of legal Arabic in
academic settings
The Embryo Development in Quranic Verses
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to answer two questions: is there a section in the Quran that describes the human embryo development? Second, if such a case existed, could it be compared to the Greek theories of generation?
The answer to both questions is affirmative. In the first part of this paper, we discuss some Quranic verses talking about the embryo development.
We also outline how the terminology (nufah, alaqah, mughah) used for expressing the embryo development in these verses involves complex translation challenges. In the second part, we compare the Quranic verses to two Greek theories of generation. Finally, we highlight a little-known aspect of the Quranic text worthy of study
Denominazione e definizione di vocale e consonante nel Primo Trattato Grammaticale Islandese
No full textThe paper examines the naming and definition of vowel and consonant in the First Icelandic Grammatical Treatise. It compares the Icelandic metalanguage with the Latin metalanguage and offers a comprehensive view of the text starting from its terminology
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Le parole di Homo faber nella preistoria. Dalla lavorazione del legno alla navigazione in mare
No full textThis contribution is inspired by the recent publication of two works by Carlo Ruta. The first is entitled "La lunga età del legno" (Ruta, 2020) and presents an extremely suggestive working hypothesis: prehistory should be rethought as the 'long age of wood'. Without eliminating traditional scansions, Ruta argues that it is necessary to speak of the age of wood, as the development in the manipulation of stone and metals is not separate from the use of wood which in many situations is a preparatory material for the creation of other objects.
The second work mentioned here is "Homo faber e civiltà. Tecnologie, manualità e conquista del mare tra protostoria e storia" (Ruta, 2023). Ruta's hypothesis is that the technological explosion in the period from the late Neolithic to protohistory was so large that it determined a decisive leap for humanity. The label Homo faber is used here to emphatically show this passage. The question this work intends to answer is what contribution linguistic research can make to a deeper understanding of the period in which the evolutionary leap of Homo faber occurred, defined as above and inserted within the long wood age
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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