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Election '83. Workbook
No full textThe workbook complements a collection of essays on political discourse and multilingua communication (Rossini Favretti eds.). Documents from the UK 1983 General Election are investigated in their specificity and typology. Manifestos, political speeches, newspaper reports and party election broadcasts are analyzed comparatively, highlighting the function of different discursive practices in constituting objects as well as subjects of discourse. Discourse is thus investigated in its representative strategies and its enunciative modalities
Introduction
No full textRecent work on national identity has focused on the ways in which nations can be imagined and traditions invented. Writing against the idea of national identity was something fixed and perennial, scholars have stressed the constructivist nature of national belonging, and the negotiated consent necessary for gluing the different and component parts of the nation together. All, in one way or another, emphasised the power of discourses to construct their objects which lies at the heart of the attempts to create this consent. These considerations form the framework for the research presented in this collection. The essays in this volume trace the different ways in which a sense of national identity can be constructed through cultural processes such as translation, language policy and practice, history, memory and literature, and examine these in national contexts ranging from Russia, Italy, France, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. The contributors elaborate the notions of constructed identities from a number of different perspectives and disciplines, including translation studies, linguistics, literature, history, sociology, political science, film studies, and gender and cultural studies
“Dangerous Borders: The Concept of Identity in David Henry Hwang’s 'M. Butterfly'”
No full textL'articolo analizza l'articolazione complessa dell'identità personale, sessuale, nazionale dei personaggi nello spettacolo di Hwang
Being Italian-American: Mathematical Formula or Creative Process?
No full textIn this paper I will focus essentially on the process, rather than the results, of the development of an Italian-American identity. Like all "hyphenated" identities, Italian-Americanness challenges us with several open questions about its very nature. In particular, is becoming an Italian-American a process of adding something American to an Italian identity, losing parts of this supposedly original identity without becoming fully American? Or is it a growing process, a process of becoming something completely different from the Italian identity without just taking on an American identity through Americanization? The construction of national and/or ethnic identities is an extremely complex process, and its results are often ambiguous and heterogeneous. Not unlike other ethnic identities that have emerged in the U.S., the formation of an Italian-American identity was (and still is) complicated by a number of factors connected to Italian history and culture, the history of Italian immigration to the U.S., and relations with mainstream American society and other ethnic groups
Science Fiction, Nationalism, and Gender in Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild"
No full textScience fiction (sf) can be seen as a relevant genre for the exploration of nationalist discourses. Invasion, or future-war, stories constitute a subgenre of sf that has often justified a conservative, nationalistic discourse. A possible way of reading many of the sf novels, as well as low-budget films, produced during the McCarthy witch-hunts of the early Cold-War period is to see it as a thin disguise to depict the struggle between the free West and the evil East. The giant vegetables and bug-eyed monsters threatening scantily-clad women on the covers of the pulp magazines are none other than representatives of the “Red or Yellow Peril” that valiant heroes from Earth—read the West or, more likely, the United States—are ready to defeat. But sf has come a long way from these stereotypical representations and, in the last thirty years, has offered a more critical look at society. With the development of what has been called an anthropological sf, writers have started to investigate the construction of the “Other” and the developments that come from the encounter—one that can often turn into a clash—with other cultures, nations, groups, or species. Thus, if sf can be one of the privileged genres for a discussion of nationalism, gender is often a relevant category in this discourse, because of the issue of reproduction and its control. A horrific reminder of the link between nationalism, violence, and gender is the growing number of ethnic rapes, where the act is justified by the fact that a woman is perceived as property of the enemy and as the most precious and symbolic extension of the self (read culture, land, and blood) because of the children she has given or can give him (Bimbi 2000: 44-45; use of the male generic is intentional). One text that can help us explore these issues is “Bloodchild,” the 1984 Hugo and Nebula Award-winning story by Octavia E. Butler, a complex and powerful tale about reproductive choices in a coercive situation. The theme of reproduction—a cornerstone in feminist sf—should not only be seen as a way to reconsider gender relations, but as a way to explore the hybridization of different cultures and the power inequality that informs relations
"La Britishness di Alan Bennett nella interpretazione di Anna Marchesini",
No full textArticolo sulla trasposizione di due monologhi di Alan Bennett per la scena teatrale italian
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
Migrazioni e lingue in Romagna. I metodi della fisica nell’analisi del patrimonio etnolinguistico
No full textIn questo studio vengono analizzati alcuni aspetti del patrimonio linguistico della Romagna. In particolare lo studio si concentra sull’identificazione del contributo culturale delle popolazioni migrate nel territorio in età preistorica e protostorica. A tale scopo, viene esaminato il patrimonio linguistico con un’analisi delle distribu
zioni spaziali e temporali dei nomi geografici. Il problema di identificare ciò che ha prodotto tali distribuzioni viene affrontato come ciò che in fisica è noto come problema inverso. La soluzione viene ottenuta formulando una teoria basata su alcune ipotesi. Nella teoria, vengono introdotti concetti comuni in fisica, assimi
landosi i processi di propagazione di una cultura a fenomeni diffusivi e convettivi. Vengono così ricostruite le migrazioni dei popoli che giunsero in Romagna in età preistorica e quelle dei loro discendenti protostorici.
Vengono inoltre analizzati gli scambi culturali tra i diversi popoli e discusse alcune peculiarità delle lingue parlate, evidenziandosi il ruolo svolto nel contesto plurilingue dalle popolazioni di frontiera.In this study, some aspects of the linguistic heritage of Romagna are analyzed. In particular, the study focuses on the identification of the cultural contribution of opulations that migrated to the area in prehistoric and protohistoric ages. To this aim, the linguistic heritage is examined with an analysis of the spatial and temporal distributions of geographic names. The problem of identifying what produced these distributions is approached as what is known in physics as an inverse problem. The solution is obtained by formulating a theory based on certain assumptions. In the theory, concepts common in physics are introduced, assimilating the propagation processes of a culture to diffusive and convective phenomena. The migrations of peoples who came to Romagna in prehistoric age, and those of their protohistoric descendants, are thus reconstructed. Cultural exchanges between different peoples are also analyzed and some peculiarities of the languages spoken are discussed, highlighting the role played in the multilingual context by the frontier populations
"Hybrid identities and migration cultures: the Irish diaspora in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
No full textWork on national identity has eschewed the search for stable, underlying entities but focused attention instead on the processes through which a sense of national belonging can be achieved. But the centripetal pull involved in this creation may overlook the simultaneous centrifugal push to isolate unassimilable elements towards the periphery of, or outside, the nation. A key area in the “forging” of British national identity could also be seen to be Ireland, and the exclusion of the obstinately heterogeneous elements, Jacobites and Catholics, which would not fit into the British story of the coming into being of a historical subject. This article seeks to focus on the phenomenon of pre-1800 Irish migration to Europe within the framework of a notion of multiple identities implicit in migration
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