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{"title":"Thomas Christiansen, The Multilingual Roots of English. The Birth of a Lingua Franca, Edizioni dell’Orso, Alessandria 2021","authors":"P. L. Iaia","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"3 1","pages":"381-383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73307686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What consumers really feel about corporate apologies. A discourse analysis of reactions to apologies on economic and financial scandals in tweets","authors":"G. Falco","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P143","url":null,"abstract":"The economic, financial and environmental crises that have involved many international companies over the past twenty years have been the concern of various disciplines, e.g. Genre Studies (Rutherford 2005; Zanola 2010), Critical Discourse Analysis (Howcroft 2012) and Crisis Communication (Coombs and Holladay 2012). Interestingly, the number of studies carried out in these academic areas have paid attention to the linguistic and discursive strategies adopted by managers to persuade their audience to trust them. In particular, they have focused on apologia and apology as activities of trust-building, while neglecting the audience’s actual reactions to corporations’ suasive attempts. These responses are remarkable in blogs, social networks, and other forms of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) genres (Puschmann 2010). Adopting an approach which integrates Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis (Herring 2001; Androutsopoulos, Beiswenger 2008), Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 2003; van Dijk 2006) and Pragmatics (Austin 1962; Searle 1975), the paper focuses on the perlocutionary acts enacted in blogs, tweets and user-generated articles that respond to corporate apologies. In particular, it investigates how corporate scandals and wrongdoings are experienced by readers. To achieve this goal, the paper is carried out on a corpus consisting of tweets disputing the Volkswagen (VW) diesel scandal over the period 2015 to 2017. Findings show that customers tend to react with anger, disappointment and irony to the crisis communicative stances enacted by the VW management.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"24 1","pages":"143-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84512960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"O Livro do Desassossego e a essência literária da escrita","authors":"D. Maior","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P359","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Bernardo Soares’ Book of Disquiet , I will reflect on several issues that I consider central to this work by this semi-heteronymous person: the problem of referentiality; the sense of freedom he finds in the literary sphere; the dialogue (central to this semi-heteronomous person) between the biographical self and the fictional self, taking into account above all the possibilities of reading that they imply on this relationship; the way in which the narrator Bernardo Soares fixes the (re)constitution of a self in the “autobiography without facts” as he himself identifies his Book ; the deconstruction of the autobiographical; the daily complexion that ends up partially determining the process of representation of the Book - not identifiable, however, unilaterally with the indexed record of the empirical reality; its critical positioning in relation to a civilized context \"emptied\" of respect for each individual; the narrator's search for identity, which seeks to reconstruct himself through the aesthetic-literary vigor with which he constantly digresses on thematic nuclei initialed by anguish, skepticism, uneasiness, unrest; Bernardo Soares' position on literary writing as writing.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"45 1","pages":"359-371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83250059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"La cuestión terminológica en torno a los fenómenos de adquisición y aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras (LE). Los ‘lingüismos’","authors":"M. Asensio","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P7","url":null,"abstract":"Getting inside the many areas surrounding the phenomenon of acquisition and learning of foreign language (FL), which is already arduous, may be hindered by the large number of meanings that are attached to the relationship between languages, that is to say ‘lingualisms’. As the world has become interdependent, ethnolinguistic diversity has been reflected in human relations in general and, as a consequence, a multitude of linguistic situations, which previously did not exist or were very rare, need to be recognized and named with their particular specificities. This picture has spread to classrooms in virtually every country where the teaching of FL is a core subject in their education systems. Often, different authors tend to use the same term, but with different meanings, which means that in many cases there is no standard use of many of these terms. The interest in this subject, and all kinds of varieties of languages in contact with each other, has produced a real explosion of terminology, which causes some confusion when talking about the different languages. The aim of this work is to carry out a terminological review of these terms included in the specialized literature, highlighting, on the one hand, the terminological confusion on a linguistic level and, on the other hand, the ideological component as a psycho-sociolinguistic fact that these terms contain. It also considers to what extent it is possible to bring together the scientific community in this respect.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"6 1","pages":"7-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73156544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking metaphors in COVID-19 communication","authors":"G. Garzone","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P159","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses metaphors used in communication in English about COVID-19 in the light of the critical debate on war-related metaphors that has taken place both in the academia and in the press since the outbreak of the pandemic, as various scholars have argued that such metaphors may have counterproductive effects under various viewpoints. Proposals have also been put forward to replace them with alternative less potentially harmful metaphors (e.g. FOOTBALL, FIRE, STORM, TSUNAMI). In this paper the discussion is based on the analysis of a corpus of print and online news and opinion websites dealing with COVID-19, and aims at verifying the actual use and frequency of both war-based metaphors and non-war alternative metaphorical expressions. At the same time, it intends to evaluate the potential adverse effects of the former and the advantages of the latter as claimed by the scholars involved in the debate. It also shows that in articles and posts dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, WAR metaphors and their entailments are virtually still prevalent, indeed ubiquitous, while the alternative metaphors proposed by scholars appear far more sporadically, with only few instances for each of them or none at all. This high frequency of war-related metaphorical expressions, which is found also in various other domains and in spontaneous speech, mostly in recurrent (and therefore predictable) phraseological configurations, suggests that they have now become conventional and lost their resonance, thus reducing their potential impact.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"24 1","pages":"159-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77410484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the vortex of words. The metanarrative dimension of Philip Roth’s Deception","authors":"Francesca D'alfonso","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P81","url":null,"abstract":"This paper intends to offer a reading of Philip Roth’s Deception by examining the exceptional narrative strategy adopted by the writer who plays a sort of “game of words” with the reader unknowingly implicated both in the form and content of the novel. The adoption of frequent and chaotic dialogues produces a vortex of significant and apparently insignificant conversations able to deceive (hence the title) the reader and the characters involved in an ambiguous reality. In many respects, the “deception” is not only connected with marital infidelity but also with narrative art and the way our lives are conditioned by our and others’ lies. Significantly, the story of a betrayal is staged by a protagonist named Philip and his female interlocutor. Their talks seem to reproduce a dialogue based on the same strategies of a drama, whose main objective is that of convincing the reader of the coincidence between fiction and reality in an unending verbal circularity. At the same time the novel’s metanarrative drive seems to shed light on Roth’s skepticism as to the possibility of an authentic truth in the interpersonal relationship.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"22 1","pages":"81-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85283222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mariaconcetta Costantini, Mrs. Henry Wood, Edward Everett Root, Brighton 2020","authors":"Salvatore Asaro","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"18 1","pages":"375-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90686505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metaphors as evidence of depression. Investigating the mental representation of depressive disorders","authors":"C. Tonon","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P337","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims at investigating the metaphorical expressions stemming from the experience of depression to deepen our comprehension of this mental disorder and its consequences. To this end, four online fora dealing with mental illness were selected to gather data concerning the metaphorical description of depression as offered by online users who suffer from it. The personal accounts of 71 users were chosen to qualitatively analyse the most recurrent metaphorical patterns employed to conceptualise depression. The results were interpreted by means of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the Embodied Cognition Theory (ECT). According to the CMT, linguistic metaphors are a reflection of our innate capacity to think metaphorically in order to create mental models of reality based on analogical and associative mode of thinking, two powerful mental forces of the human cognitive system. This is the reason why metaphors, due to their cognitive power, are able to shape our mental comprehension of the world by organising and constructing a cognitive representation of reality. Moreover, as claimed by the ECT, metaphors stem from our daily interactions with the world which are unconsciously internasalised and later used as a conceptual basis to structure abstract, subjective and intangible domains of experience. By combining these two frameworks of reference, the study re-constructs a view of the conceptual world of depression. Not only does this analysis offer an insight into the depressive disorder, but it also contributes to show that the conceptual world of depression is not only thought and conceptualised , but it is also intensely experienced and lived , in line with the hypothesis that conceptualisation entails simulation. Il presente studio si propone di individuare ed analizzare le principali concettualizzazioni metaforiche che governano la comprensione concettuale della depressione. Per raggiungere tale scopo, sono stati scelti quattro fora online dedicati alle malattie mentali e dai quali sono stati selezionati 71 utenti che descrivessero il loro disturbo depressivo in termini metaforici. I dati raccolti sono stati interpretati secondo i principi della Teoria della Metafora Concettuale (TMC) e della teoria dell’Embodied Cognition (TEC). Secondo la TMC, le metafore linguistiche riflettono l’innata capacita umana di pensare in termini metaforici per creare modelli mentali della realta. Tale capacita affonderebbe le sue radici nelle abilita analogiche e associative tipiche del sistema cognitivo umano. Pertanto, considerata la loro natura essenzialmente cognitiva, le metafore sono in grado di plasmare la nostra comprensione mentale del mondo organizzando e costruendo una rappresentazione cognitiva della realta. Inoltre, come sostenuto dalla TEC, le metafore emergono come conseguenza delle nostre interazioni quotidiane con il mondo, le quali verrebbero inconsciamente interiorizzate e successivamente sfruttate come base concettuale per strutturare","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"64 1","pages":"337-357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74696934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estudio del refrán 'aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda' desde la perspectiva paremiológica","authors":"J. S. Muñoz","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P235","url":null,"abstract":"With the aim of delving deeper into a genre of oral literature, the proverbs, this paper contains the study of the Spanish proverb  Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda (the correspondence to  You can't make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear ) from a paremiological perspective. After analysing the formal features of a proverb, its key idea is specified and its meaning is explained, to then find out what variants exist in lexicographical, paremiographical and literary sources, without forgetting the variants provided by oral sources. Afterwards, the semantic relations that this proverb establishes with other proverbs are dealt with, not only in terms of synonymy, but also in terms of antonymy and hyponymy. Finally, the identification of correspondences with paremias from other languages will allow us to have a better knowledge of the life of this proverb and to reach results of interest for the comparative study with other proverbs. Thus, this paper provides a method for analysing proverbs based on research conducted on the complex nature of proverbs.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"4 1","pages":"235-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79156161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"You are kidding right? The English present progressive as a stance marker in film dialogue","authors":"Elisa Ghia","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P183","url":null,"abstract":"Telecinematic discourse is a highly involved and emotionally loaded register (Quaglio 2009; Forchini 2012) in which stance and emotionality are conveyed via a variety of linguistic structures, including intensifiers (Tagliamonte, Roberts 2005; Banos 2013), expletives (Azzaro 2018; Bednarek 2019), vocatives (Formentelli 2014; Zago 2015) and emotionally charged lexical bundles (Freddi 2011; Bednarek 2012). The current study focuses on the present progressive in English film dialogue as an additional stance marker, especially when used in non-aspectual functions. Following Leech et al. (2009)’s model, different uses of the present progressive are investigated in a corpus of filmic speech, the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue . After categorizing all the occurrences of present progressives in the corpus by their specific function (aspectual, futurate, stative, attitudinal), items are further classified based on their affiliative or disaffiliative stance. The focus is then narrowed down onto attitudinal, particularly interpretive, present progressives. The most common verbs used in interpretive patterns are singled out and analyzed in greater detail, by looking at the clusters or n- grams they appear in and drawing comparisons with spontaneous spoken language data. Findings show that interpretive present progressives are used extensively in film dialogue and often associate with a stance-marking, primarily disaffiliative function. The trend is especially evident in a set of verbs that appear in recurring patterns and n -grams throughout the corpus and act as privileged interpretive predicates. Data also suggest that multiple features cluster together to convey interpersonal meaning and display disalignment and conflict on screen.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"54 1","pages":"183-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82313688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}