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{"title":"Metaphorical headlines in business, finance and economic magazines","authors":"S. Greco","doi":"10.6092/LEF_28_P193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_28_P193","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the identification and analysis of conceptual metaphors which underlie linguistic metaphorical expressions, within the headlines of the business, finance and economic sections in three magazines, The Economist, Time and Newsweek, from 3/5/2004 to 1/1/2007. The magazines share a supranational quality and have an international readership. The linguistic metaphorical expressions within the corpus have been identified and classified onto the related, underlying conceptual metaphoric hierarchical mappings. Findings indicate that all the magazines under discussion employ conceptualizations of the economy and related features as humans, animals and plants, which derive from the ORGANISM conceptual mapping. Other frequently occurring conceptual metaphors are BUSINESS IS A SPORT/GAME, WAR and COMPETITION which are all lower mappings of the conceptual metaphor BUSINESS IS A CONTEST. A significant number of less frequently occurring conceptual metaphors are found to varying degrees in each section of the corpus.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"28 1","pages":"193-211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71268357","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":"’Of Seint Alex of Rome’. A Middle English Version of the Life of the Saint","authors":"A. Andreani","doi":"10.6092/LEF_28_P29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_28_P29","url":null,"abstract":"In addition, a reassessment of the text’s literary merit is proposed, through a broader contextualisation of the narration. On the one hand Of Seint Alex of Rome is dealt with as part of the larger unit in which it is preserved, Ms. XIII B 29; on the other, its significance as literary discourse is analysed in relation to the cultural panorama that characterises the centuries of its diffusion in Western Europe.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"28 1","pages":"29-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71268063","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":"Le glosse “impoetiche” del testimone lipsiense del Heliand","authors":"Concetta Sipione","doi":"10.6092/LEF_29_P151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_29_P151","url":null,"abstract":"The recent discovery of a new fragment of the Heliand (L), found at Leipzig in the binding of a volume, has aroused renewed interest in the Old Saxon poem. L (one sheet) contains lines 5823-5870 relevant to the most part of fit 69 and the beginning of the next one. This section of the Heliand was handed down so far only in the Cottonianus (C), as the Monacensis lacks the corresponding sheets. L contains also some readings, quite different from those of C, perhaps a proof that it retains a much older text than that of C. But the chief interest of L lies in the three vernacular glosses (written perhaps by the same hand of the main text), whose function was apparently to explain difficult or outdated words on the line.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"29 1","pages":"151-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71268168","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":"Declinazione e accentazione degli aggettivi della parlata di Jevšcek presso Livek (dialetto sloveno nadiško)","authors":"Matej Šekli","doi":"10.6092/LEF_26_P259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_26_P259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"26 1","pages":"259-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267689","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":"Scientific Communication and Authorial Identities in Cognitive Neuroscience Handbooks from a Diachronic Perspective","authors":"L. Abbamonte","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P59","url":null,"abstract":"One noteworthy aspect is that the more famous the authors are, the less they tend to conform to generic norms and standard scientific reporting style. The present paper will show, with qualitative data from the Introductions of influential volumes by Christie (1970), Critchley (1970), Dalgleish & Power (1999), Kolb & Wishshaw (2003) Gazzaniga (2004), Goldstein & McNeil (2004), how authors feel free to use a more personal language, constructing a delicate balance between consideration for the canons of scientific reporting and the need for more authentic, holistic interaction with the audience. Far from disguising their personal involvement, they highlight how their research fits into a larger picture, engaging the readers as participants in a disciplinary discourse that functions as situated social interaction. Evidence will be given of the discoursal features these famous authors use to ‘trade’ knowledge from their personal perspectives – explicitly appraising both individual and collective work – in a complex interplay of ‘delayed’ adherence to generic norms and assertion of individual identity.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"59-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267570","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":"Ja ždu avtobus: i verbi intensionali in russo tra norma e uso","authors":"Valentina Benigni","doi":"10.6092/LEF_26_P123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_26_P123","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to verify if the referential ambiguity induced by intensional verbs (xotet’, želat’, trebovat’, prosit’, ždat’, iskat’, bojat’sja …) can be resolved in Russian by grammatical means, assigning accusative case to [+ specific] objects and genitive case to [- specific] objects (Partee 2005), or accusative case to [± specific] objects and genitive case [- specific] objects (Kagan 2005). This hypothesis is verified on the basis of empirical data, by analizing a corpus of 476 concrete occurrences of the VP ždat’ avtobus.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"26 1","pages":"123-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267936","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":"Competenza pragmatica e complessità sintattica in italiano L2: l’uso dei modificatori nelle richieste","authors":"Ineke Vedder","doi":"10.6092/LEF_25_P99","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_25_P99","url":null,"abstract":"Although there is evidence to suggest that the development of pragmatic competence is closely linked to that of grammatical competence, the exact nature of the relationship is yet unknown. In light of the well established fact that even the pragmatic competence of advanced L2 learners is mostly incomplete, in SLA it is generally accepted that grammatical competence does not necessarily imply pragmatic competence. A lack of grammatical competence, however, can seriously affect a learner’s capacity of being communicatively successful. The level of grammatical competence, therefore, seems to act as a constraint on the acquisition of pragmatic competence. The present article discusses the results of an experiment, designed to examine the use of modifiers in requests, in relation to syntactic complexity in Italian L2, carried out among 46 Dutch university students, with a low-intermediate proficiency level of Italian. The linguistic focus of the study is on the use of so-called modifiers, which can be employed to mitigate the illocutionary force of a speech act. For beginning L2 learners the use of modifiers is often particularly difficult. With increasing proficiency, the use of modifiers moves towards native-like use, but hardly ever reaches the L1-norm In the study participants had to perform an interactive oral task, consisting of a video-recorded role-play, based on a short situational description. Syntactic complexity was defined in terms of the number of words, clauses and subclauses per AS-unit. A cloze test was administered to establish the general level of L2 proficiency. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications for further research into the interface between the development of pragmatics and syntactic complexity.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"68 1","pages":"99-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267880","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":"Authorial identity and textual voices in English review discourse across disciplines","authors":"G. Diani","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P181","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, an increasing number of academic discourse studies have placed great emphasis on the concept of identity and the way(s) it is manifested in academic writing. Research on the field has suggested that academic writing is not completely impersonal, but that writers gain credibility by projecting an identity invested with individual authority (Ivanic 1998; Hyland 2001, 2002; Flottum 2005; Bondi 2007). As a further contribution to our understanding of the issue, the present paper explores some linguistic and discursive features that the interacting voices characterising the dialogic and argumentative practice in the genre of the academic book review article use to project their personal identities. Our own interest in this study is to investigate the construction of identity in different academic disciplinary discourses, in the area of the humanities and the social sciences: linguistics, history and economics have been chosen as case studies. Using corpus-based methods, the study tries to establish whether cross-disciplinary variation can be observed in the way the various voices involved in the evaluation of academic research manifest themselves (i.e. the authorial voice of the reviewer and other textual voices like the reviewed author’s voice). Particular attention will be paid to the lexico-grammatical categories of person pronouns, proper names, and verbs lexicalising certain cognitive and verbal processes signalling the argumentative dialogue between the writer-as-reviewer and the reviewed author or the other experts, members of the scientific community. A quantitative analysis of the corpus data reveals significant distributional trends across disciplines, and a qualitative analysis of concordance lines confirms that these trends are motivated by discipline-specific practices.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"181-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71268016","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":"Writer Identity in the Introduction Section of Academic Law Research Articles: Exploring Metadiscourse Strategies","authors":"G. Tessuto","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P39","url":null,"abstract":"Comparisons of individual introductions show that there are linguistic and rhetorical divergences affecting the way in which scholars represent themselves in legal discourse, involving explicit versus non/less-explicit projection of authorial identity by means of self-mentions as well as idiosyncratic features of writing the introduction genre (the latter viewed in terms of Swales’ prototypical rhetorical description of Move analysis). While these divergences result from the incidence of writers’ socio-cultural identities, they nonetheless allow scholars to secure their allegiance to the community discourse practices by negotiating co-operatively the promotion and publication of their academic work in English to the international readers. As a result of the variously configured linguistic/rhetorical contexts, the argument is made for the identity of the genre writers to be a matter of individuality as well as discipline, which accounts for the discursive practices to be linked with “the impact of globalisation on language, as identities are becoming increasingly fluid and negotiable” (Gotti 2006: 45), therefore leading the identity and integrity of the introductory genre to be “a very versatile concept” (Bhatia 2004: 65) in the disciplinary domain.","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"39-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71267969","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":"Argumentative styles as cultural identity traits in legal studies","authors":"Michele Sala","doi":"10.6092/LEF_27_P93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6092/LEF_27_P93","url":null,"abstract":"The main focus of the paper is the expression of identity in academic texts dealing with legal subjects. This represents the final stage of a research project which has investigated authorial ethos primarily in relation to the writers' profession and the juridical system at the basis of their legal expertise, with little focus on eminently culture-based aspects like argumentation styles. The present analysis is intended to fill such a gap by comparing the different argumentative strategies employed by native (NS) and non-native speakers of English (NNS) in discussing legal subjects. This study will be based on a sub-corpus of CADIS (Corpus of Academic Discourse, compiled by the University of Bergamo, cf. Gotti 2006) consisting of 80 articles - 40 authored by NS and 40 by NNS - taken from major publications in legal studies, namely, the European Journal of International Law, the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Harvard International Law Journal, the European Law Journal, the International Review of Law and Economics. These journals are places where different kinds of juridical expertise, rhetorical styles and different levels of linguistic competence meet, thus representing an interesting source of investigation in that authors use English as a common language to discuss legal matters from different perspectives. The analysis of the discourses used by NS and NNS, based on previous studies on identity and discourse (Milton / Hyland 1996, Duszak 1997, Flottum 2006), will focus mainly on the interactive and epistemic level of discourse. On the one hand, the analysis of first person pronouns, of interactional structures like imperative and interrogative forms, and of meta-textual strategies, will provide grounds to measure the different degree of personalisation, of solidarity and of reader-inclusiveness employed by NS and NNS (Nichols 1988, Swales et al. 1998, Hyland 2002). On the other hand, the focus on the different modes of argumentation and of data organization (i.e., through negative and/or concessive constructions), and on the use of mitigation, will provide evidence to discuss the different levels of assertiveness by which the authors balance objective information and subjective evaluation to construct specific authorial ethos (Duszak 1994, Hyland 1998, 2001).","PeriodicalId":40434,"journal":{"name":"Linguistica e Filologia","volume":"27 1","pages":"93-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71268319","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}