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{"title":"“Challenged, but in a positive way”. The experience of a multilingual summer school of remote dialogue interpreting","authors":"María José González Rodríguez, Nicoletta Spinolo","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P311","url":null,"abstract":"Remote dialogue interpreting, via both telephone and videoconference, is rapidly becoming a standard procedure in the provision of language services for the business, social, health and administrative sectors. This calls for a revision of interpreter training practice in order to include remote interpreting abilities in the curriculum. This was the primary goal of the SHIFT in Orality Erasmus+ project, funded by the European Commission, which aimed at producing a comprehensive and research-based training solution on remote interpreting. The training materials produced within the project were tested for the first time during a multilingual summer school organised in June 2018 within the framework of the project with students from the four SHIFT partner Universities (University of Bologna, Italy; University of Granada, Spain;  Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, Spain; University of Surrey, UK), and trainers from the same universities and the two remote interpreting companies in the partnership, Dualia SL (Spain) and VEASYT Srl (Italy). In this paper, the design of the summer school, the infrastructure used and the technological tools employed will be described, as well as the activities carried out with the students. The main results of the evaluation questionnaires and focus groups will also be presented.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"12 1","pages":"311-335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82896732","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":"How gestures facilitate communication among the speakers of English as L2 and the implications for Language Education","authors":"M. Iaco","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P125","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses gestures used among L2 speakers by presenting an interview of two Tamil native speakers which have moved to Italy for short periods of work in a mechanical multi-national company. The aim is to remark how gestures can improve foreign language speaking and can facilitate the comprehension among L2 speakers; and to highlight the necessity to consider culturally specific gestures when someone interacts with a foreign language speaker. The relevance of gestures in human thought and communication, the cognitive advantages in using gestures as a strategy for teaching languages, and the necessity to learn symbolic gestures to get an intercultural competence will emerge.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"110 1","pages":"125-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77456967","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":"El marcador del discurso del español peninsular 'claro' en combinación con otros marcadores y sus posibles traducciones en italiano","authors":"Medina Montero, J. Francisco","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P215","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will examine the combinations between the Spanish discourse marker claro and other discourse markers in Peninsular Spanish, while suggesting possible translations into Italian. The study adds to earlier research carried out by the Author on similar lines, analysing the combinations between two very common markers in Peninsular Spanish, hombre and bueno , as well as the rest of the Spanish discourse markers. Proposed translations into Italian were included in such publications too. There are two underlying reasons for the selection of this topic: on the one hand, few studies exist on the combinations of different Spanish discourse markers; on the other, their proposed translations - into Italian in this case - seem particularly interesting. Although the Italian certo appears as the almost automatic translation proposal, claro actually lends itself to a wide variety of translation solutions in the target language.As regards the structure of the article, a brief introductory reference to the uses and values of claro - as from an earlier work published in 2020 - is presented before moving on to the core topic of the combinations, with special emphasis on the position of claro . The focus will then shift to whether the uses and values of this discourse marker prevail or if they disappear to let new uses and values emerge.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"127 1","pages":"215-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73605346","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":"Une étude empirique des connaissances implicites et explicites des universitaires ivoiriens et français sur la sémantique de deuxième et second","authors":"Giulia De Flaviis","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P111","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the implicit and explicit intuitions in 98 native university students of Cote d’Ivoire and France, concerning the semantics of deuxieme and second. Our purpose is to observe whether all French-speakers optionally apply deuxieme and second or they choose between the two adjectives on the basis of a specific criterion. The results provided by the quali-quantitative method reveal that the principle of optionality is not acceptable to all participants since, within each linguistic community, there seem to be some sub-communities who claim to adopt other rules. From a methodological perspective, this study emphasizes the advantages to take into account the introspective observation along with the empirical analysis in the study of rules underlying linguistic usages.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"27 1","pages":"111-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86125166","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":"Sin tapujos…otra forma de escritura femenina","authors":"K. C. Bravo","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P27","url":null,"abstract":"Since the publication of La Prieta (1981) by the Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua and Language and woman’s place (1995 [1975]) by the North American linguist Robin Lakoff, a large part of the research from sociolinguistics has focused on highlighting the negative connotations of women’s language and trying to highlight its positive aspects. In this article I analyze, in the light of the studies proposed by feminist sociolinguistics, the language used in three works by the argentine writer Fernanda Garcia Lao: the novels Amor Invertido (2015), Nacion Vacuna (2017) and the poetry book Dolorosa (2017). I begin with a brief review of the trajectory that the studies of the feminist sociolinguist have followed from the sixties to today. Later, I analyze the authoress’s works, which are characterized by the abundant use of dysphemisms (offensive language) that breaks social convention. Here I wish to focus on the treatment of sex in Garcia´s language. I try to determine how the characterization described in the abundant bibliography on the language of women as normative of the feminine gender is assumed by the writer. In the end, I conclude that Garcia Lao’s language is presented as a discursive political strategy that tries to enable another form of openly erotic and provocative feminine poetic language that comes out of the masculine feminine binarism that normalizes individualistic people and ultimately misanthropes. I describe and explain how the authoress’s speech is an expression of a dissident feminism that seeks neither the victimization of the feminine nor the relation between post-feminist sexuality and subjectivity, where representations of femininity and female sexuality works to secure the status quo imposed by the neoliberal / consumerist system. And there is more evidence of a marked influence of Chicano feminism that had as one of its greatest exponents the writer Gloria Anzaldua.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"75 1","pages":"27-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81203583","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":"Acquisizione delle vocali L2 dell’inglese americano da parte di apprendenti italofoni: un confronto tra training percettivo e training articolatorio con ecografo","authors":"Immacolata Sonia d'Apolito, Bianca Sisinni, Mirko Grimaldi, B. G. Fivela","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P91","url":null,"abstract":"La realizzazione del contrasto vocalico dell’inglese americano /ɑ-ʌ/ (es. cop-cup ) da parte di apprendenti italofoni risulta essere particolarmente difficile in produzione, poiche le differenze fonetiche-fonologiche dei due sistemi linguistici e le regole di conversione grafema-fonema fanno si che gli apprendenti italofoni realizzino il contrasto L2-/ɑ-ʌ/ utilizzando le vocali native /ɔ-a/ rispettivamente. Lo scopo di questo studio e quello di osservare se un breve training possa aiutare gli apprendenti italofoni a migliorare la produzione delle vocali non native /ɑ-ʌ/. In particolare, si effettuera un confronto tra un training percettivo e un training articolatorio, effettuato con l’utilizzo di un ecografo, al fine di osservare: 1) gli effetti di entrambi i training sulla realizzazione del contrasto L2 /ɑ-ʌ/; e 2) se il training articolatorio comporti risultati migliori rispetto a quello percettivo. Allo studio hanno partecipato nove studentesse salentine che sono state suddivise, in modo casuale, in tre gruppi: i) tre soggetti hanno preso parte al training percettivo della durata di un’ora (ES-P): ii) tre soggetti hanno partecipato al training articolatorio con ultrasuono della durata di un’ora (ES-US); iii) tre soggetti di controllo che non hanno effettuato alcun tipo di training (CS). I primi due gruppi (ES-P e ES-US) hanno ricevuto istruzioni sulle caratteristiche fonetiche sia delle vocali L2 /ɑ-ʌ/ che delle vocali della L1 /ɔ-a/ nonche sulle loro differenze utilizzando una rappresentazione sul piano cartesiano delle formanti F1 e F2. Successivamente, ciascun gruppo ha effettuato il training : i) i soggetti del gruppo ES-P hanno effettuato un test di identificazione basato sulla procedura High Variability Phonetic Training ; ii) i soggetti del gruppo ES-US hanno effettuato un training articolatorio osservando sia un video relativo ai gesti linguali durante la produzione delle vocali /ɑ-ʌ/ da parte di un parlante nativo, sia una visualizzazione dinamica dei movimenti e della posizione della lingua, ottenuta grazie ad una sonda ecografica posizionata sotto il proprio mento. Le partecipanti sono state registrate sia prima che dopo l’addestramento (pre- e post-test) e le loro produzioni sono state analizzate acusticamente misurando il valore delle prime due formanti. I risultati mostrano che nel pre-test tutti le apprendenti realizzano L2-/ɑ-ʌ/ come L1-/ɔ-a/ rispettivamente. Al contrario, nel post-test sono soprattutto le apprendenti che hanno effettuato il training articolatorio riescono a realizzare le vocali L2 in modo differente sia rispetto a quelle realizzate nel pre-test sia rispetto alle vocali della L1. In particolare, un’apprendente produce entrambe le vocali non native in modo piu accurato. Il training articolatorio sembra quindi essere piu efficace del training percettivo.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"24 1","pages":"91-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78224566","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":"Inga Simpson’s undestory, A life with trees. A taxonomy of Australian landscape","authors":"Nunziana Mastrangelo","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P203","url":null,"abstract":"This essay focuses on Inga Simpson’s Understory: A Life with Trees (2017) through which Australian flora and fauna become a powerful expression of her ecological activism and bioregional awareness. This will be analyzed by using Riane Eisler’s biocultural partnership-domination paradigm to highlight the relationship between Australian culture and its natural environment, in particular the threatening impact of human beings and climate change. Simpson’s interest in the ‘cognitive’ functions of plants (recognitions, learning mechanisms and remembrance) will also show significant analogies with Monica Gagliano and Stefano Mancuso’s studies.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"10 1","pages":"203-214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84221649","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":"Polar contagion. Ecogothic anxiety across media in the twenty-first century","authors":"Mariaconcetta Costantini","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V44P67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V44P67","url":null,"abstract":"Concerns about climate change have seen increased attention across virtually all media after 2000. In addition to raising ecological awareness, these concerns have inspired numerous gothic fictions, in which the polar thaw consequent on global warming becomes a source of paranoia, fear and horror. This article explores a specific group of twenty-first-century cultural products that associate polar melting with epidemics triggered by pathogens or infectious insects released after lying dormant in the ice. Often called “zombie” viruses or bacteria, these pathogens appear in a wide range of fictions as well as in sensational articles that use gothic paraphernalia to describe the spread of terrible diseases. Like spectres, these agents of contagion return from the past to haunt the present; they also cast a dark shadow upon the future, as they become the invisible protagonists of “dystopian ecological visions” in which humankind and other species are at risk of annihilation. Four types of products are analysed to demonstrate that they convey similar anxieties by combining images of environmental disaster with pandemics. Different though they are in genre and medium, novels like Thaw’s Hammer (2010), films like The Thaw (2009) and TV series like Fortitude (2015-18) not only interrogate the epistemological limits of science; they also shed light onto dangerous socioeconomic dynamics while posing ethical dilemmas about the human meddling with nature. Mostly produced before the spread of coronavirus, these fictions are made more appealing by the current pandemic, which has encouraged speculation over new potential sources of contagion. Their appeal is confirmed by the 2020 proliferation of newspaper/magazine articles focusing on “zombie” pathogens. By merging objectivity with sensationalism, these articles turn pathogens into spectral agents that seek revenge for human crimes against nature.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"21 1","pages":"67-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86475593","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":"Oltre l’accessibilità. I teatri inclusivi","authors":"Elena Di Giovanni","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V43P15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V43P15","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to define and discuss the concept of inclusive theatre-making , from a theoretical, methodological and practical standpoint. Moving from previous research on accessible filmmaking, participatory accessibility and accessibility as a human right, the article proposes a paradigmatic shift from the somewhat privative notion of accessibility to the more comprehensive and equalitarian concept of inclusion. Drawing from drama studies, behavioural psychology and inclusive design theory, the article offers a set of key notions to be further defined and to be applied to the analysis of instances of inclusive theatre-making across Europe and beyond.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"1 1","pages":"15-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75726076","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 valutazione dell’esperienza del pubblico. Accessibilità e studi di ricezione al Macerata Opera Festival","authors":"F. Raffi","doi":"10.1285/I22390359V43P33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1285/I22390359V43P33","url":null,"abstract":"This essay discusses an audience reception study carried out in the framework of media accessibility in order to evaluate the experience of blind/partially sighted patrons and their (sighted) accompanying persons in the context of Macerata Opera Festival (MOF), 2018 edition. Adopting a qualitative analytical approach, in which the main interest is on individuals (i.e. the samples under investigation), and relying on post-hoc self-report questionnaires, three interdependent variables were measured: (1) comprehension and recall , (2) cognitive load , and (3) psychological immersion . This analytical approach was then combined with a descriptive approach including the collection of attitudinal data for the evaluation of appreciation and preferences . Results reveal that there was no substantial divergence in the levels of the variables under investigation between the two samples: blind/partially sighted and sighted (accompanying) patrons. Additionally, audio description and tactile tours did not provoke cognitive overloading and they even increased psychological immersion. Furthermore, it is possible to find a correspondence between the high levels of appreciation and preferences and the results related to comprehension and recall, cognitive load, and psychological immersion. This confirms the effectiveness of audio descriptions and tactile tours in enhancing audience’s experience and increasing blind/partially sighted users’ empowerment.","PeriodicalId":30935,"journal":{"name":"Lingue e Linguaggi","volume":"3 1","pages":"33-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75527910","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}