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The Author/Translator Interactional Process. A Case Study
No full textSee Naples and Kill (1988) is a lively and colourful novel by the con-temporary English writer, Gregory Dowling, translated into Italian in 2015.
Following the tradition of translation studies (Venuti 2000, Bass-nett 2002, Cronin 2006), this paper analyses the rewriting process of literary translation, considering in particular the fruitful but sometimes tense and even conflictual relationship between writer and translator.
The translation of the novel See Naples and Kill was an ongoing rewriting process entailing a constant dialogue between the writer and the translator. Therefore, the study aims at answering two main ques-tions: what happens if the rewriting process of translation is constant-ly questioned by the author? What happens if the author has a good mastery of the target language and s/he is her/himself a translator?
By exploring the relationship between translation and re-creation, the research focuses on the differences and similarities between the primary creation (source text) and the secondary creation (target text), and aims to verify in which way the dialogic encounter of two different personalities and cultures does not make them merge but, by retaining their own uniqueness, leads eventually to their mutually en-riching each other. A comparative analysis of the source text and the different drafts of the translated version accompanied by the author’s comments will shed light on the tense author-translator relationship in the specific case under investigation and how both actors handle this tension in order to create a new work resulting from the (dis)agreement of the two parties
Positive Multimodal Analysis of EU Learning Materials to Promote Ecoliteracy for Young People
No full textIn recent years, in order to promote environmental awareness and sustainability, the European Union (EU) has increased the number of action programmes and activities aimed at improving the well-being and health of its citizens. By combining the theoretical frameworks of Social Semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen 2021) and Positive Discourse Analysis (Stibbe 2017, 2021; Bartlett 2018; Hughes 2018), the chapter aims at investigating a sample of informative and didactic materials suitable for an age range from nine to over fifteen, retrieved from the EU’s website Learning Corner. The first phase of the research was devoted to the analysis and identification of the most significant verbal and visual strategies that can contribute to encouraging positive discourses on ecology in a class of undergraduate students. Then, an empirical study was conducted with groups of students in order to observe their response to the EU resources and their capability to propose alternative local green actions
The Joy of Stats and Dancing Statistics: The Popularization and Dissemination of Statistical Science in Multimodal and Multimedia Genres
No full textMany people have no familiarity with the language of statistics, with the result that frequently they are unable to comprehend correctly the meaning of the figures measuring economic, political and social phenomena. Since government decisions and actions are increasingly based on statistics, understanding statistical concepts more easily can be a way to diminish information asymmetries and contribute to the growth of a democratic knowledge society (Barbieri and Giacché 2006). Today more and more national and international bodies and statistical offices have been producing multimodal and multimedia materials to provide citizens with the appropriate tools to read, understand and analyse statistics.
The videos “The Joy of Stats”, broadcast by BBC Four, and “Dancing Statistics”, provided by the British Psychological Society, were investigated from a multimodal discourse analysis perspective (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996, 2001) in order to identify the linguistic and visual discursive strategies used to familiarize viewers with different statistical issues and popularize statistics. In addition, by focusing on the intertextual and interdiscursive elements which come out of the linguistic and semiotic investigation, this study explored how statistical concepts are recontextualized through the interaction and combination of different modes. Consequently, the analysis verified whether the transfer from specialized language to popularizing texts involves any contamination in discursive practices, thus leading to the birth of new text-type
Professional development and well-being: promoting the practice of statistics in Amstat News
No full textThe paper emphasises the need for job satisfaction as a major ingredient of people’s well-being and also suggests that different jobs require different job skills (for example, statisticians resort to creativity and problem-solving). By investigating a sample of Amstat News issues, the American Statistical Association’s monthly magazine, the linguistic analysis has foregrounded the persuasive strategies employed by the organisation to promote the practice and profession of statistics by eradicating some misconstructions about statistics and prioritizing work-life balance and well-being
Single-parent Families in Canada: A Positive Discourse Analysis of Non-profit Organizations' Websites
No full textFamily patterns have diversified considerably in the last sixty years going beyond the married nuclear family (a married couple with children) and single-parent families are a now widely recognised phenomenon and family assemblage (UN 2017). Yet, single parents face not only several financial and practical challenges, but also social stigma and stereotyping (Sussman and Hanson 1995; Zartler 2014).
In the context of Canada, despite the fact that the proportion of families with children has remained rather stable over the decades, the types of families with children have changed consistently, and over one-fifth of Canadian children are being raised by a lone parent.
Against this backdrop, charities and associations are supporting single parents through a series of actions to reduce social stigma and make services more accessible to them. This study specifically aims to investigate how new concepts of family are discursively construed and conveyed, to frame single-motherhood from a different and more positive perspective.
Following the tradition of Social Semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen 2021) and research on Positive Discourse Analysis (Martin 2004; Bartlett 2012), this work analyses a range of multimodal resources available on the websites of three Canadian non-profit organizations. In particular, it focuses on how single-parent families are represented assuming that the resulting discursive construal can work to eradicate persistent cultural and social stereotypes
Introduction
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, 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 our colleagues specialists 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
Beyond Binary Thinking through Inclusiveness: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Perspectives
No full textThe main goal of this Special Issue is to offer readers interdisciplinary studies in which the contributors used a wide range of theoretical and
analytical tools to explore recurrent dichotomous discursive patterns in online and offline dialogues, in different socio-cultural contexts and
across communities of practices (e.g. education, politics, health sector, tourism) and make suggestions to go beyond binary thinking and overcome societal divisions and barriers
Instagram as a Pedagogical Tool to Enhance Undergraduate Students' Critical Thinking on Specialized Knowledge: A Qualitative Experiment
No full textSocial media have become part of students’ daily routines. Using social media for educational purposes can be attractive, given that it is becoming more and more difficult to engage new generations with traditional teaching techniques and methodologies.
Following social semiotic studies of social media (Jones 2009; Adami 2014; Zappavigna 2013, 2016; Zhao / Zappavigna 2017), this paper describes a qualitative and empirical study aimed at exploring how university students can improve their critical thinking on specialized knowledge via social media.
As Instagram is one of the most popular sharing devices in the word, in particular among young generations, a four-month experiment was conducted on 130 undergraduate students from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Italy). The study aims at verifying whether the use of Instagram in class can affect students’ learning process and improve their critical skills of specialized discourses and whether this platform can be exploited as a pedagogical tool to apply the theoretical concepts discussed in class.
Academic implications of including Instagram in undergraduate English language curricula are explored, and entail suggestions for using social media to enhance skills in English and thematic development such as the language of advertising and tourism, apart from challenging learners creatively by using the theoretical frameworks studied in class
Specialized Discourses of Well-Being and Human Development. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Full text linkThis 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
Introducing Views of Well-Being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposals
Full text linkIntroduction to the special issue "Views of Well-being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposals", edited by Cristina Pennarola, Federico Gaspari, and Sole Alba Zollo.Introduction to the special issue "Views of Well-being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposals", edited by Cristina Pennarola, Federico Gaspari, and Sole Alba Zollo
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