90 research outputs found
Introducing Views of Well-Being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposals
No full textIntroduction 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
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
Views of Well-Being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposals
No full textViews of Well-Being in Academia: Case Studies and Proposal
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
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
A Woman’s Voice in Economics: The Dialogic Nature of Vernon Lee’s Writing
No full textVernon Lee, a well-known cosmopolitan intellectual and prolific author, reviewed Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Women and Economics for The North American Review in 1902 in order to inform and stimulate ‘Anglo-Saxon readers’ to read Gilman’s book. “I believe that ‘Women and Economics’ ought to open the eyes and, I think, also the hearts, of other readers, because it has opened my own to the real importance of what is known as the Woman Question” (Lee 1902: 71). Writing is for Vernon Lee not a monologue but a form of conversation with her readers, who are taken into great consideration. Following the tradition of Discourse Analysis, this study will identify the linguistic features typical of spoken face-to-face interaction that occur in her review. By focusing on stance and engagement (Hyland 2005), I will verify the ways in which the author constantly exploits conversational linguistic resources such as hedges, questions, directives, personal pronouns, in order to interact with her readers. Moreover, by bringing to light intertextual and interdiscursive elements, the analysis will show how Vernon Lee converses with Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also giving birth to a metaphorical cross-cultural dialogue. Finally, the study will investigate whether the dialogic nature of the review becomes an instrument of political propaganda to support and spread Lee’s ‘radical’ ideas and publicise her views as widely as possible
Guest Editors’ Introduction
No full textIn the last few years, we have witnessed changes in democratic processes and institutional communication, apart from the radicalisation of public debates and campaigns (pro-Brexit/no Brexit, pro-vax/no vax, pro-green pass/no green pass, among others), nationalism, (right-wing) populism, and hate speech in the digital sphere.
In order to fight against this “toxic environment” (Murthy/Sharma 2018: 192) and foster ways of democratic dialogues, it is fundamental to question the legitimacy of dichotomy-based ways of debates, promote environments that can stimulate productive online and offline interpersonal interactions, and encourage the development of new emerging hybrid dialogues
Power relations in digitally-mediated communication. Exploring inequalities, discrimination, and new forms of injustice
No full textThe plastic and highly pervasive nature of digitally-mediated communication has been shaping and affecting interpersonal communication at all levels and in all contexts of human interaction (Herring 2004). In the last few decades, the construction of power relations in digital media has shifted from traditional configurations observable, for instance, on television, radio, and newspapers, making asymmetries and imbalances in the relation between dominant and dominated groups subtler and less visible (KhosraviNik 2017). As a consequence, new modes of perpetrating social injustice, as well as discrimination and hate speech have emerged (Balirano and Hughes 2020), also informed by the controversial assumption “that cyberspaces are intrinsically different from real interactions” (KhosraviNik and Esposito 2018: 47).
The present volume gathers papers dealing with theoretical, methodological, and experimental aspects in the analysis of new power relations and dominance frameworks in digital narration and communication. In line with critical approaches (Wodak and Meyer 2016; Page et al. 2022), the papers should engage in harmonious discussion about present realities and future perspectives, ideally providing original contribution to existing interdisciplinary literature on the subject
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
Human Rights Discourse and the Environment. Empowering Young Generations through Old and New Media
No full textOver the past decade, it has become more and more important for international organisations such as the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (COE) to bridge the knowledge gap between experts and laypeople in order to open a debate about environmental protection as a fundamental human right. By using different media, in particular the Internet, the two organisations have been generating a variety of informative materials in a form that can be easily understood by non-expert citizens, particularly the young generations, to mitigate conflicts and legal disputes and foster a multidirectional dialogue on sensitive issues such as the promotion of a sustainable environment framework.
Following the tradition of Social Semiotics and research on Positive Discourse Analysis, this study has analysed a range of different resources related to the environment available on the EU’s and COE’s websites, aimed at explaining citizens the two institutions’ policies in an understandable and attractive way. The analysis has tried to detect the main verbal and visual discursive strategies of knowledge communication and dissemination in order to communicate the institutional/legal discourse on environmental protection and human rights to non-specialists and develop eco-friendly consciousness, especially among the young
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