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Conservation and recovery of dune priority habitats among sites of Cagliari, Matera and Caserta provinces.
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The organization of questions and answers in the thematic phases of hostile examination: Turn-by-turn manipulation of meaning.
No full textThe article studies the manipulation of meanings between legal professionals and witnesses as it unfolds turn by turn in a hostile examination. Eleven hours of video-recording of the Italian criminal trial against Sergio Cusani were fully transcribed, resulting in 3700 turns of talk (1850 question turns and 1850 answers), which were analyzed on the basis of the conversational and discursive approach. Besides identifying the basic feature of the question and answers turns, our qualitative and quantitative data show how legal professionals and witnesses use different strategies to impose their own line of argument. In general, the more frequently the lawyers use a question the more it is coercive. Witnesses, on their side, prefer to provide elaborate answers. Moreover, the study provides evidence of the interconnection between the use of the strategies during the blame-implicative ‘thematic phases’ and the sequential organization of turns
From oral to written language; preschool children dictating stories
No full textThe study, part of a larger longidutinal research project, examined the process and product of story dictation of beginning readers. The subjects were 14 six year old italian school children from low socio-economic backgrounds who were interviewed four times (March, May, December and May of the following year) over a period of 16 months. In the interviews, the subjects were asked to construct and dictate a story in response to a picture stimulus, to reflect on their own stories, and to respond to questions from the scribes. The product (the stories) were analyzed for story structure elements, variety of verbal tenses, use of connectives and Anaphoric references. The process (metatextual elements of interaction with the scribe) were anlyzed according to variations in dictation speed, text segmentation, terminal signaling and indications of revision. Results support an emergent literacy perspective, provide direction for further research and are related to the needs of the early childhood curriculum
Recent developments in the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation: signals of an emerging ‘due diligence jurisprudence’
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