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Vaghezza linguistica e concettuale: ruolo e valore dell’aggettivo nel discorso istituzionale-giuridico dell’Ue sull’integrazione degli immigrati
No full textLe ampie dimensioni assunte dai fenomeni migratori richiedono oggi più che mai un’attenta disamina dei processi d’integrazione degli immigrati che chiedono di insediarsi nelle società di destinazione. In tale prospettiva, lo studio, seguendo un approccio qualitativo-quantitativo, si è prefisso come principale obiettivo l’analisi della rilevanza delle scelte linguistiche per l’efficacia di una normativa atta a tutelare i diritti fondamentali agli immigrati. Assumendo che le scelte linguistiche sono il risultato di selezioni che dipendono da una visione della realtà che induce ad adottare un sistema di valori sulla base di certi assunti culturali specifici del tempo (Cfr. Lantella 1979; Tiersma 1993; Antelmi 2007), l’obiettivo è stato quello di analizzare la presenza e il grado di influenza della ‘vaghezza’ aggettivale sulla efficacia dei diritti garantiti agli immigrati in un corpus di Direttive europee nell’arco temporale 2006-2013. Tale vaghezza è stata osservata per essere confrontata in chiave diacronica con quella risultante da un precedente studio su un corpus di Direttive emanate dal 2001 al 2005 (Polese / D’Avanzo, 2010; D’Avanzo, 2012).
Per l’analisi linguistica del Corpus sono stati presi in considerazione studi su indeterminatezza e opacità lessicale in testi normativi (Endicott 2001; Bhatia/Engberg/Gotti/Heller 2005; Engberg/Heller 2008; Barberis 2014), teorie di semantica degli aggettivi (Pinkal 1995; Fjeld 2005), e studi sul discorso giuridico e ideologia (Fairclough 1992, 2006, 2007, 2011; Tiersma 1993; Antelmi 2007; Polese / D’Avanzo 2010; D’Avanzo 2012).
Pur essendo la vaghezza riconosciuta essere prerequisito necessario per ogni efficiente sistema giuridico atta a garantire all-inclusiveness (Cfr. Bhatia 2005), nel nostro caso specifico, laddove essa concede spazio a negoziazione di significato essa apre anche a interpretazioni soggettive da parte degli Stati Membri. La presenza di aggettivi portatori di vaghezza linguistica e concettuale è stata osservata con distribuzione varia nelle sezioni delle Direttive esaminate ma nessuna sostanziale differenza è stata rilevata nell’uso di tali aggettivi rispetto al precedente studio condotto dagli autori. Ciò porta ad asserire che se è vero che il dibattito sulle dinamiche e tecniche di accoglimento è quanto mai caldo e aperto a nuove possibilità, il processo appare tuttora lento e cauto e tale da problematizzare la tutela dei diritti agli immigrati
CONVENTIONAL AND INNOVATIVE AEROSPACE JOINING TECHNOLOGIES
No full textThe present PhD Thesis was developed in the framework of several Research Programs in which the Department of Aerospace Engineering at University of Pisa was directly involved, with the general aim to characterized the fatigue behavior of conventional and innovative joints typically employed in the production of aeronautical and aerospace structures.
Correct predictions could obviously improve design of optimized structures, maintaining or increasing actual safety levels: but the separate or synergic effects of several parameters must be considered to correctly reproduce structure in-service behavior.
The logic-flow adopted for each aspect analyzed in the present research had his origin on a consistent database of experimental data, ranging from general mechanical properties material characterization to strain gauge evaluations of associated stress fields, moving toward a more comprehensive description of the faced problem by means of Finite Elements simulations, to finally reach, by fracture mechanics codes, a generalized model.
Attention was mainly focused on parameters characterized by a lack of information in literature or unsatisfactory prediction models.
Among others aspects, the effect of Secondary Bending on conventional longitudinal fuselage joints was deeply investigated, bringing to a clear improvement of fracture mechanics software.
Furthermore were analyzed different technologies capable of decidedly improve joint performance in a standard architecture. Processes as Interference Fit, Split Sleeve Cold Working, StressWave and ForceMate were demonstrated to significantly retard crack initiation and propagation in critical points, introducing beneficial stress fields. Besides currently great efforts are made by the aerospace International Community to investigate the possibility of replacing standard joining methodology by new technologies which are expected to provide considerable weight saving and cost reductions, incorporating integral structures in aircraft constructions. The more promising one, the “Friction Stir Welding”, was widely explored during the present activity in different aeronautical and aerospace applications, demonstrating to be a very robust and reliable process
Preface
No full textThis preface briefly illustrates the results of the research project "Tension and Change in English Domain-specific genres" coordinated at national level by Maurizio Gotti (University of Bergamo) and exploring genre-related issues: hybridization, tension, genre variation/evolution, creation of new genres and influences across genres in English domain-specific genres.
The preface opens up a volume with contributions by scholars researching in the field of genre, including Norman Fairclough and Srikant Sarangi, who have won world renown for their scientific publications. The contributions have attempted to provide answers to a number of research questions involving current genre-related issues in private and public, institutional and professional communication, such as impact of globalization and the new technologies on discourses / genres, intertextuality and interdiscursivity drawing on corporate/promotional communication practices and strategies in processes of resemioticization and recontextualization across the media
Prefazione
No full textThe preface to the volume describes the purpose of the volume and the types of scientific contributions in it which constitute steps of a journey in time. The journey metaphor is developed in parallel paths and moves from the search for a new political-cultural-linguistic identity for Europe to a number of issues like the search for a new language and identity for Labour or an analysis of consensus building by means of linguistic and discursive devices in Blair’s project on the British press
Il discorso giornalistico tra testualità e lessico: La manifattura del consenso
No full textThis study is a linguistic-pragmatic analysis of Blair's appeal to the people as it was covered by British dailies on 1 October 1997. The news reports aim at constructing consensus on Blair's project for Great Britain as a new and number one nation. Notions like the socio-economic status of the ideal reader and political sympathy of the newspaper appear to be put aside in favour of the pragmatic purpose of the communicative message
Specialized Discourses of Well-Being and Human Development. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
No full textThis volume brings together different kinds of expertise and disciplinary approaches to human development and well-being, crucial issues in today’s world threatened by such diverse problems as climate change, natural catastrophes, unequal distribution of wealth and economic exploitation of developing countries, uncontrolled technological progress, systematic violations of human rights, discrimination and racism,
health emergencies. The language analysis toolkit ̶ e.g., cross-cultural pragmatics, corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics ̶ has been enriched by the analytical tools and frameworks volunteered by scholars in demography, economics, international relations, law and political geography. The analysis of the specialized discourses of well-being and human development has meant to investigate to what extent different communities of practice share approaches and methodologies around these current issues
Il discorso giornalistico tra testualità e lessico: La manifattura del consenso
No full textThis study is a linguistic-pragmatic analysis of Blair's appeal to the people as it was covered by British dailies on 1 October 1997. The news reports aim at constructing consensus on Blair's project for Great Britain as a new and number one nation. Notions like the socio-economic status of the ideal reader and political sympathy of the newspaper appear to be put aside in favour of the pragmatic purpose of the communicative message
Genre(s) on the move in institutional and professional domains
No full textThis paper is a critical introduction to one of the two sections of the volume “Genre(s) on the Move. Hybridization and Discourse Change in Specialized Communication” edited by S. Sarangi, V. Polese and G. Caliendo. The volume is a final product of a government-funded research programme of national interest (PRIN) entitled: “Tension and Change in English Domain-specific Genres”. The project focused on the evolving aspects of private and public, professional and institutional discourses, drawing attention to such phenomena as genre hybridization, creation, resistance and change produced by the impact of the new technologies and globalization. The scientific coordinator of the project, which involved teams from five Italian Universities (Bergamo, Milano, Napoli Federico II, Roma (IUSM) and Torino), was Professor Maurizio Gotti of the University of Bergamo. Both sections of the volume (I. Genre(s) on the Move in Private and Public Domains; II. Genre(s) on the Move in Institutional and Professional Domains) concern phenomena of hybridization, change and forms of contamination as well as resistance and creation of new genres. The contributions have attempted to provide answers to a number of research questions involving current genre-related issues in private and public, institutional and professional communication, such as impact of globalization and the new technologies on discourses / genres, intertextuality and interdiscursivity drawing on corporate/promotional communication practices and strategies in processes of resemioticization and recontextualization across the media. The volume also hosts the contributions of two prominent scholars in the field of discourse: Norman Fairclough and Srikant Sarangi
From Making to Promoting Law: An investigation of the Evolution of Legal Discourse on Food Safety
No full textThe aim of this study is twofold: to investigate the institutional legal discourse of the European Union realized in the Summaries as a form of popularization originating from the specialized genre of Directives, and provide a critical interpretation to the findings. Specifically, a diachronic analysis of EU Summaries vs. Directives has been carried out also taking into account the informative nature of popularization and the ideological implications within forms legitimating EU legal discourse in the Summaries with regard to ‘Food safety’ discourse
Misure e costo della non qualità
No full textTesto della relazione invitata al V� Congresso nazionale " Metrologia e Qualità" del 14-16 /3/2007,in Torin
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