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Students’ Perception of Teaching English Linguistics at University Level. A case study
Full text linkThis paper presents a case study on the teaching of a 30-hour module of English Linguistics for two courses in the first-cycle degree programme in Modern Cultures and Languages. Data gathered through students’ evaluation forms have been contradictory: the module scored high as far as students’ satisfaction was concerned but it scored low regarding interest. This paper shows how students’ feedback has helped us introduce changes. These are illustrated in the main part of this paper. They engage with pedagogical knowledge, methodologies and practices, as well as linguistic approaches specifically chosen to unpack the potential of the content of the module, improving students’ language awareness and language skills
Book Review "John Lockwook Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London" ed. by Julius Bryant and Susan Weber. (Bard Graduate Centre Gallery and Yale University Press)
No full textReview of a volume published in conjunction with the exhibition "Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in Punjab and London" hosted by the V&A (London) and the Bard Graduate Center Gallery (New York
Melancholic History: Memory, Loss and Visualization in the Works of Shimon Attie
Full text linkThis article discusses the way in which the public art installations by Jewish American contemporary artist Shimon Attie have addressed the issue of the representation of history. Like many artists of his generation, also Attie has conceived his work as a reaction against traditional commemorative art and its treatment of the historical past. Whereas this celebrated the aspirations, heroism and triumphs of the nation State, Attie’s work challenges historical and political myths in order to re-surface histories that have been misrepresented, occluded, marginalized or overlooked by the dominant value system. Unlike the typical form of the monument – symbolic, elevated, larger than life, soaring upward – Attie’s works uses new media and radical formal strategies to counteract the hermetic and private character of traditional forms of commemorative art. His work does not dominate, but aims at engaging public spaces and creating a dialogue between past and present, art and communities. As the works discussed in this article show, the historical representations that emerge from these are heterogeneous, plural, controversial and complex in the way that defies simple classifications and avoids closure. This article begins with an illustration of Attie’s early and much discussed projects on the representation of histories of the Holocaust – namely The Writing of the Wall, Berlin (1991- 1993) and Trains: Dresden (1993). It then focuses attention on his later and still less discussed – but not less significant and challenging – projects. Portraits of Exile, Copenhagen (1995) sets a disturbing comparison between Danish Jewish exiles and contemporary immigrants from Eastern Europe. In Between Dreams and History (1998) and The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village (2006) Attie shifts attention to collective memories and micro-histories to give voice to migrant’s fears and dreams and the way entire communities have come to terms with traumatic events
Linee parallele. Renato Serra e Rudyard Kipling
No full textQuesto articolo focalizza l'attenzione sul saggio giovanile di Renato Serra dal titolo "A proposito di premi Nobel. Rudyard Kipling" (1922) alla luce dell'autobiografia dello scrittore inglese pubblicata nel 1937 e di recenti ricezioni critiche di eminenti studiosi anglosassoni. Sovente liquidato come un esperimento di scarso valore critico, questo articolo cerca di dimostrare l'originalità e il valore critico del saggio di Serra
Multimodal crossings: An analysis of a family portrait in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family
No full textThis essay provides a close reading of a group photograph included in Sri Lankan Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje’s fictional biography Running in the Family. The method for reading this portrait is taken from multimodal theory and applies the framework for reading images illustrated by Kress and van Leeuwen. Results of this analysis show the central role of this family photograph for articulating the social and political position of the Burghers in pre and post independence Sri Lank
Translating Heritage Tourism in Italy. Churches and Palaces of the Ducato Estense
Full text linkThis work reports on an ongoing Italian-English translation project that began in 2018. This project aims at compiling a learner corpus and involves a Government Department as client and a selected group of MA students as translators. Texts to be translated focus on cultural heritage and are targeted to the international tourism market. This chapter centers on a sub-corpus that focuses on churches and palaces of the House of the Estense. This chapter draws attention to the target texts of our corpus. Starting from the extraction of specific terms in the source texts, target texts are analysed quantitatively and qualitatively in order to identify translation strategies and frequent mistakes with the aim of contributing to the translation of art and architecture for heritage tourism
Translation Teaching and Methodology: a Linguistic Analysis of a Literary Text
No full textAgorni makes it clear from the start that she sees an inextricable interrelationship between theory and practice, recognising the role that research on translation, but also research on translation teaching and training, is playing today in the modelling of theory. The models being generated within the applied area can
actually be seen to be dialoguing with, and even exerting a specific
influence on, the theoretical and descriptive branches of the discipline.
As far as her own methodological preference is concerned, she argues
for what she calls a comparative approach, in place of the contrastive
one that, she says, has recently come under scrutiny. The reasons for
her choice are also interconnected. In the first place, she argues that the
method is better able to collaborate with an interest in the reception of
translated texts and a belief in translation as more properly belonging to
the target (rather than to the source) culture. Secondly, this comparative
method pairs more satisfactorily with a conception of the translation as
being at least a partially autonomous text, and the translator as playing
a fundamental mediating role in its making. Hence, her refusal to see
divergences between Source Text (ST) and Target Text (TT) as losses
which could somehow have been avoided with a better translation.
Indeed, the method seems to be particularly useful to the translation of
literary texts and the vital mediation performed by their translators. It
achieves an even-handed emphasis, on one side, on the degree of freedom
they enjoy, as well as, on the other, the responsibility they are called to
Il Testo letterario nell'apprendimento linguistico: esperienze a confronto
Full text linkNel maggio del 2016 il Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali, Ricerca – Prassi – Formazione (CeSLiC) del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne dell’Università di Bologna ha promosso una Giornata di studi sul tema “Il testo letterario nell’apprendimento linguistico: Esperienze a confronto”. Scopo dell’iniziativa era quello di avviare una riflessione interdisciplinare sul ruolo del testo letterario nello sviluppo delle competenze linguistico-culturali, nella convinzione che, come scrive Hasan (1989 [1985]: 91), “nell’arte verbale il ruolo della lingua è centrale. [...] la lingua non è come l’abbigliamento per il corpo, ma è il corpo stesso”. La Giornata ha visto la partecipazione di relatrici e relatori provenienti da scuola e università, i quali hanno illustrato diverse proposte e modelli di analisi e uso del testo letterario, partendo dalle proprie esperienze di insegnamento e ricerca
Ideology and identity representation in the British Fascist Press of the 1930s
No full textThis paper aims to investigate patterns of identity construction and ideological discursive practises of far-right parties that can also be found in populist communication. In particular, I will focus on the British fascist communication of the 1930s, best represented by the British Union of Fascists (BUF), founded by Oswald Mosley, to examine its distinctive features and commonalities with continental fascism (Sinatra, 2015). The underlying assumption of this study is that British Fascism, like other totalitarian nationalist languages, represents a type of populist communication characterised by an antagonistic rhetoric (us versus them) and an exaggerated anti-elitism, i.e. a rejection of the existing system that leads to the exclusion of the out-group (Reinemann et al., 2017)
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