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Josephus Vicentini de Arquato Italia Un medico dell'Ottocento
No full textOn the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the national unity of Italy it was decided to give honour the first mayor of Arquà: Giuseppe Vicentini (1805-1877). We talk about a critical, counter-current, against the tide figure, characterized by many different in political, religious and cultural interests. After his studies about Philosophy he also started to study Medicine, with a new interest for Botany. Here are mentioned Vicentini’s knowledge of Mons. Sichirollo and people of Polesine that were strictly connected to Garibaldi. After the Polesine’s area of Rovigo annexation in 1866 as a consequence of the Third War of Independence, he strongly believed as an anti-Austrian in the Italian ideals (we can see examples in the famous and peculiar garden of his home, the Casino di caccia Estense). Here is reported a large documentation both own by the family and conceded by the University of Padua
Maria José Vicentini Jorente: entrevista 1807
No full textEntrevista com Maria José Vicentini Jorente, autora do livro Ciência da informação: mídias e convergência de linguagens na web, publicado pela Editora Unesp.Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Departamento de Ciência da Informação, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC), Maríli
Medicine(s) and science(s) in the globalised era: the case of western vs. Indian traditional medicine as represented on the web
Full text linkWhile in the West the notion of medicine is strictly associated with the term and concept of ‘science’, Indian traditional medicine generally substitutes or integrates it with words like ‘practice’, ‘alternative’, ‘traditional’.
This poster proposal intends to show how different cultural perspectives influence such linguistic choices and the respective underlying theories. It will also consider how this once clear-cut distinction is not valid any longer due to the economic and social changes brought forth by globalisation. This holds true especially for India, which has undergone a real revolution in several fields in the last ten years. In particular, it will focus on institutional healthcare websites and their communicative and linguistic strategies to reach out to users/potential patients.
Here, digital technology now cohabits shoulder to shoulder with traditional medicine. Indeed, the former has contributed to exporting the latter to the rest of the world. But globalisation points in all directions: Indian healthcare websites now deal with typically Western issues such as the environmental impact of drug testing, while Western healthcare websites have started showing an interest in approaches like holism and vegetarianism.
This multi-faceted relationship between science, health and the web will be studied through the analysis of selected Western and Indian websites, following a framework for English medical discourse analysis and genre studies that was developed at the Universities of Milan and Varese (Italy) (see Grego 2010; Vicentini-Grego 2009; Vicentini-Grego 2011; Vicentini et al. 2012)
La storia e le immagini della storia. Prospettive, metodi, ricerche
No full textIl rapporto tra immagini e storia, nella duplice prospettiva dello studio delle immagini come documenti del passato e del loro ruolo nell’ambito della ricostruzione di avvenimenti storici, rimanda a una tradizione consolidata e variegata, a partire dagli studi di Haskell sulla funzione delle testimonianze visive come «fonti storiche e chiavi di accesso a epoche remote». Ed è lungo tale sentiero che il volume vede intrecciarsi gli interessi di storici della cultura, storici della società e della politica, e storici dell’arte in senso stretto, nel comune intento di confrontare e far convergere i diversi filoni di ricerca. Il risultato di questo esperimento è un testo nel quale le singole discipline dialogano costantemente, nel continuo sforzo di affinare i differenti “attrezzi del mestiere”, al di là di ogni steccato: l’unica linea guida del percorso è, volutamente, il parametro cronologico, in un arco temporale che va dal tardo medioevo alla contemporaneità
Discriminaging. Discourses of health discrimination based on age
No full textThis special issue of Journal of Language and Discrimination brings together research on how people can be and are discriminated in the health and medical fields based on their age, and how such bias emerges linguistically from the discourse(s) expressing or surrounding it
Introducing Age.Vol.A: digital tools to promote communication between seniors, foreign caregivers and families
No full textThis presentation introduces Age.Vol.A.– Ageing, Volunteers, Assistants. Multilingual tools for
Assisting the Ageing, a research project on ageing issues focusing on the demographic and social
situation of Varese, an 80,000-inhabitant city in North-West Italy, with 13% of its population over 65
and foreigners representing over 8% of the province’s population, a significant proportion of whom
is employed as caregivers to assist elderly people at home. Age.Vol.A. starts from the assumption
that, between home-assisted Italian seniors and their non-Italian caregivers, there exists a linguistic
and cultural barrier as well as a digital divide, which tends to increase the physical and social
isolation of the elderly population (Russo et al., 2019; Vicentini & Grego, 2019; Vicentini et al.,
2020).
The paper intends to offer an overview of the output of this research project, i.e. a multilingual
website and a multilingual smartphone application aimed at providing the foreign caregivers with
terminology and practical information related to their assisted and the institutions aimed to assist
those who assist the elderly, from health and healthcare to administrative issues. The terminology is
divided into three macro areas – health, institutions, daily life – with secondary fields according to
various communicative situations. The concept of the digital tools rests on the notions of
translanguaging in migrant communities (Canagarajah, 2013; Hafner & Jones, 2015; Schreiber,
2015) as a means to deploy communication practices which digital tools can support through
adaptive moves through linguistic, textual, and audiovisual media.
References
Canagarajah, S. (2013) “Negotiating Translingual Literacy: An Enactment.” Research in the
Teaching of English 48(1):40–67.
Hafner, C. A., & Jones, R. H. (2015). Digital literacies and language learning. Language Learning &
Technology, 19(3), 1–7.
Russo, D., Luraschi, M., Grego, K., Vicentini, A., Pasquaré Mariotto, F., Rovelli, G. (2019)
“Designing a Survey for Care Workers, the Elderly and Their Families”, presentation at the
conference Seniors, foreign caregivers, families, institutions: Linguistic and multidisciplinary
perspectives, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy, 9-10/04/2019.
Schreiber. B. R. (2015). “I am what I am”: Multilingual identity and digital
translanguaging. Language Learning & Technology, 19(3), 69–87.
Vicentini, A., Grego, K. (2019) (eds) “Linguistic perspectives on ageing issues, ethics and ideology”,
Expressio, 3.
Vicentini, A., Grego, K., Russo, D., Grechi, D., Pasquaré-Mariotto, F. & Rovelli, G. (2020).
“Sociolinguistic and statistical methods to improve health communication between the elderly,
caregivers and institutions: The Age.Vol.A. research project”. presentation at the conference
Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference (COMET) 2020, Aalborg (DK), 01-03/07/2020
L’effimero di marmo. Retorica ed immagini nel monumento funebre di Ghiron Francesco Villa fra Este e Savoia
No full textIl monumento funebre di Ghiron Francesco Villa nella chiesa di San Francesco di Ferrara, eretto nel 1671, presenta aspetti stilistici e compositivi che riflettono due tradizioni differenti: quella proveniente dalla corte dei Savoia, presso la quale il defunto prestò servizio per gran parte della sua vita, e quella veneta, dove i monumenti dei "capitani da mar" divennero veri e propri modelli. Il grande mausoleo, probabilmente realizzato dall'equipe di Giusto le Court, racconta così la biografia del nobile impegnato in prima linea nella crociata contro i turchi, ma anche la storia di una nobiltà che, sul finire del XVII secolo, spostandosi fra le diverse corti italiane, portò con sè tradizioni culturali e predilezioni artistiche differenti
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