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The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of interactional pragmatic markers in a multilingual corpus of child language in the Ladin valleys in South Tyrol (Italy). It has been argued that in contact-induced contexts speakers tend to prefer the set of elements of the pragmatically dominant language, in order to reduce the cognitive pressure they are exposed to, in particular in a minority language (cf. Matras 2000). Yet, very little is known about the use of pragmatic markers in child language, even though the pragmatic competence, i. e. the appropriate use of language as well as the proper realization of speech acts in a particular situational context, is one of the key competences children need to acquire during the language acquisition process. The present study was carried out within the sociolinguistic framework of the Ladin valleys, which is characterized by a varied multilingualism on the institutional level and in family contexts. The corpus contains approximately eight hours of spoken data from eight children aged three to six across the three official languages Ladin, German and Italian. This work aims at analysing the micro-functions of interactional pragmatic markers and at investigating how the use of these elements is linked to the linguistic and cognitive development of preschool children. It also contributes to the study of contact-induced phenomena that emerge in a multilingual context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an overview of the varieties of Cisalpine Occitan. From a sociolinguistic perspective, these varieties may be regarded as both second-degree and endangered languages, though they have been involved into promotion policies for several decades. From a linguistic standpoint, the varieties of Cisalpine Occitan display features that can be traced back to an Alpine Occitan diasystem, though showing some structural similarities with Francoprovençal and Piedmontese. Some selected features of Cisalpine Occitan, belonging to different linguistic levels (phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary), are presented and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work aims to provide a description of the sociolinguistic and linguistic reality of the hamlet of Timau in the municipality of Paluzza. In contrast to the other villages of the Municipality, the population of Timau has been speaking for centuries, alongside Italian and Friulian, the Timavese code, a Carinthian based variety that nevertheless displays distinctive linguistic characteristics at all levels. In the paper we will present the origins of the village, the sociolinguistic position of Timavese in the community’s repertoire, the similarities and differences between Timavese and Carinthian and the corpus and status planning created for this variety after its recognition by the national law 482/1999 (“Norme in materia di tutela delle minoranze linguistiche storiche”), aimed at protecting the historical linguistic minorities recognized in the national territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italy shows a multitude of languages and dialects bound to different areas, language communities, ethnicities and personal identities. Many of the historical minority languages of Italy are not known to everyone, not even to all Italians though living on the same territory. This special issue aims at describing such language varieties to be found in the Northern pat of Italy, dealing first of all with the history of a certain language variety. Each paper also describes the main linguistic charactericics, mainly at phonological, semantical and morphosyntactic level. Then some of the most important intiatives to preserve such valuable inheritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper focuses on the contribution of the lexicon of material culture of seafaring origin in the irradiation of the idiomatic language in Italian. After a basic overview of some tools of the sea (hook, anchor, net, oars) from which very common figurative expressions stem, the paper deals with abboccare all'amo, from which interesting historical-etymological features with many semantic implications appear. The investigation shows the lexical and semantic evolution that characterises the passage from material culture word of the seafaring field (concrete sense) to figurative language, with a special focus also on the semantics of verbs frequently used not only in the idiom under investigation (abboccare all'amo), but also in other idiomatic expressions of Italian. By comparing the earliest occurrences of phraseological uses related to amo in lexicographic repertories, such as TLIO and GRADIT, but also in sectorial dictionaries on idioms, some interesting diatopic and diachronic information on lexical and synonymic variants occurs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The topic of the paper is the comparative and contrastive study of some selected paremiological units in the field of foreign language teaching. The starting point is the paremiological minimum (PM), which is one of the key concepts of current paremiodidactics and a useful tool in teaching L1 as well as L2/FL. The attention is focused on Italian and Slovak, two languages having different origin, but sharing a common European geographical and cultural context, including the most important literary sources. Since Italian does not currently have (apart from some partial attempts) a PM, the PM available for Slovak is taken as a starting point. The goal of the paper is to examine a group of animal proverbs and identify the most appropriate correspondences in Italian. Study contributes to a deeper knowledge of proverbs as well as cultural knowledge in Slovak - Italian perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper takes into account two objections often raised to those who foster the use of the feminine form of job titles when they are referred to women. The first objection is that the majority of job titles can only be in the unmarked masculine form and are not connected to the gender of the person referred to; the second objection is that feminist movements have only recently called for the use of feminine job titles, and this claim is unprecedented in the history of the Italian language. The study of some feminine job titles (avvocata, architetta, sindaca, ministra, deputata, direttrice, studentessa, dottoressa e professoressa) shows that they have always been present -- albeit more or less frequently -- during the whole history of the Italian language. In particular, the use of feminine forms was quite common between the end of the 1800s and the early 1900s, while they were replaced by unmarked masculine forms mostly in the second half of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The number seven is, since ancient Eastern cultures, the one that most clearly expresses philosophical, religious, astrological and Kabbalistic symbolism. It is considered the symbol of value and balance. This paper aims to reconstruct the vicissitudes of the phraseology underlying the number seven in Italian and its dialects [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on Italian idiomatic expressions (i.e.) fare le corna and avere le corna as a symbol of cheating. The i.e. are enquired in databases of written and spoken Italian starting from real use and evaluating occurrences. This analysis sheds light on the lexical and syntactic flexibility of the expressions highlighting their possible changes in context, the semantic relevance of every element and the productivity of the i.e. both on the level of single utterances and on that of discourse. The analyses lead to considerations about the pragmatic value of the use of fare and avere le corna and their possible modifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Behind many Italian's idioms are hidden mythological figures and stories coming from Greek Mythology. Today, the so-called Gen Z seems to be more and more distant from a well-balanced knowledge of the classical world -- partly because the study of epics is not deep enough during school term, partly because models and cultural references have changed. Have these idioms become opaque to them or are they still transparent? By means of a questionnaire to a sample of two High School classes of IIS Carlo Urbani (Roma), the aim of the present intervention is therefore to test the students' figurative competence regarding ten E.I. related to the classical universe. Based on their answers and hypotheses, this paper then reflects on the frequency of use and intelligibility of these E.I. and suggests different ways to approach young people to the epic while studying. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine, in the context of various types of idiomatic phrases and proverbs of Promessi sposi (1840-1842), the so-called somatic idioms, in particular those that contain lexemes referring to parts or organs of human anatomy. Examples are given, especially, of two categories of somatic idioms: first of all, those that have little attestation in the literary tradition prior to the novel, and of which vocabularies identify as the first example the Promessi sposi. Secondly, are analysed some of those found by the Author in vocabularies and writers, as documented in Manzoni's marginalia and linguistic works. The arguments given can help reveal Manzoni's idea of an Italian language formed with the common background of all dialects and prove that his novel convey the expressions examined in the current Italian phraseology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the presence of phraseological expressions in Alfredo Panzini's Dizionario Moderno, considering the first edition (1905) and the last edition edited by the author (1935). The rich phraseological variety of the dictionary reveals itself in various aspects: spoken and dialectal language, literary quotations, co-presence of various modern and ancient languages, specialist languages in their relationship with the common language. In the last paragraph, the essay analyses the role of phraseology in the light of Panzini's linguistic ideas: according to the author, phraseological expressions are a vital and fundamental element of every language. Their presence in the Dizionario Moderno thus shows Panzini's attention to the evolution of the Italian language in the first decades of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the educational project «dal dialetto alla lingua», promoted by Lombardo Radice and institutionalized through the reform by minister Gentile (1923), many volumes dedicated to teaching Italian to dialect-speaking students have been characterized by the presence of proverbs widespread in the reference areas. This paper proposes to investigate the characteristics of the paremiological heritage transmitted in the dialect-Italian bilingual volumes, which also present differences in the production intended for the same area determined by the choices of the individual authors. Through the analysis of a large sample of volumes addressed to different Italian areas, we will try to hypothesize which translation were most functional to the objectives proposed by the method, between a type of translation close to the dialect text, an explanatory translation, or a translation that transmits an Italian-Tuscan language model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the diachronic development of two Italian idioms originated in the Bible: gettare le perle ai porci ('to cast pearls before swine') and vedere la pagliuzza e non vedere la trave ('a beam in your eye', literally 'to look at the splinter and not at the beam'). In particular, it focuses on the spread, among variants, of the most common forms today, those with the nouns perle and porci, and pagliuzza and trave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The polyrhematic male d'arcu corresponds to the evil of the rainbow. It belongs to the class of nominal and prepositional polyrhematic expressions. This work examines the main features of same diseases names' in the Salento dialect; also this paper presents the results of a short comparison between the complex words male d'arcu, male de Santu Dunatu/Tunatu and focu/fuecu de Sant'Antoni. In conclusion, we will study how the use of polyrhematics responds to a dramatic attempt to deal with the experience of pain or illness, in a way that is as acceptable as possible, so if we dedicate ourselves to the saint in question we can it alleviate our disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, which is part of the field of studies on Roman dialectal and regional phraseology, analyzes the idiomatic expression tre ppigne e 'na tenaja and its variant tre ppinze e 'na tenaja. This phraseological unit is documented in the 19th century: it is found in a roman poem of G.G. Belli (L'arma de Papa Grigorio, 1836). The aim is to reconstruct the history of this phraseologism and relate it to other expressions of the same semantic area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, there are not comprehensive studies on the idioms used by Pier Paolo Pasolini in his vast literary and non-fiction production. There is only one essay, although rich in data and starting points, on a proverb cited in an article published in the weekly «Il mondo» in 1975 (Rondinelli 2017). This paper, therefore, essentially has three objectives: 1) to trace the idioms used by the Emilian writer, also referring to other interesting phraseology for the purposes of the research; 2) to provide information on the identified idioms, retracing the most significant elements of their history; 3) to identify the clues that explain their use in Pasolini. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on some aspects of quotations and pseudo-quotations appearing in memes. The intersection between memes and quotations or snowclones represents an interesting linguistic element, especially from the point of view of the diffusion of phraseology or of single syntagmas in Italian. It is also a fundamental element to understand some cultural dynamics of cultural communication through the social media and the web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the Italian multiword expression fuga dei cervelli (en. 'brain drain'), used since the 1960s and, nowadays, pivot of an ideologically oriented storytelling. This work aims to shed some light, in particular, on the following points: frequency evolution (in comparison to English, French, Spanish and German synonimes); lexical integration strategies and paths; transformations (variants, derived collocations, parodic reformulations, etc.); used synonimes; referential scope (who fugge 'runs away' from where?); conclusions are dedicated to outline future steps of the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mogol and Battisti's lyrics belong to the collective heritage of our country. They have a multigenerational scope as they are known by their peer generation and by younger people, including the so-called Generation Z. This paper analyzes the popularity of a number of song titles and lines written by Mogol and Battisti that have entered common usage, not only in newspapers but also in everyday digital communication. Some of their common sayings are used in memes that can be defined as new communicative replicators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the idiomatic expressions involving an insect as a source and a human being or their activities as a target across three languages -- Latin, Italian, English. To scan their development through time we have opted for the use of three historic dictionaries as our reference, i.e. TLL, GDLI and OED. The analysis pursues several purposes: to determine and quantify the number of insects and idiomatic expressions synchronically and diachronically; to establish a comparison between the uses in the different languages; to discover common and culturally specific traits in how the three languages perceive the nature of insects, which have an impact on the sentiment regarding them; finally, to prove if there are anthropological, psychological and cognitive facets responsible for the sentiment entertained about insects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to analyze some of the issues affecting the study of artificial intelligence applied to the work of jurists, seeking to highlight how the results obtained today, although less satisfactory than those achieved in other disciplines, depend mainly on the implementation of learning algorithms. At the same time, the essay tries to “take stock” of the latest landfalls of artificial intelligence applied to law, noting how the main goal today has become predictability rather than understanding of legal experience. The contribution offers some opening paragraphs, in which the author clarifies the meaning of the terminology adopted; the concluding ones are about the relationship between legal methodology and the technology produced by artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the European Union, the marketing of timber and timber products has long been subject to compliance with the legality requirements set out in EU Timber Regulation 995/2010 (EUTR), which introduces for the first time forest due diligence into EU environmental legislation. The even more innovative EU Regulation 2023/1115 (EU Deforestation Regulation - EUDR), which will enter into force on 30 December 2024, adds to the well-established due diligence procedures, the obligation to geolocate timber harvesting areas and to verify the absence of deforestation and forest degradation. Forest plantations unrelated to these phenomena contributes to alleviating anthropogenic pressure on natural forests, producing quantitatively and qualitatively significant shares of raw material. In the future, given the growing global demand for wood, plantation forestry is set to play an increasingly strategic role, provided it is balanced with other land uses and respects natural ecosystems. Subject to these conditions, the regulatory compliance of plantation timber is easier to prove than that of material from natural forests, which are subject to suitably more limiting utilization restrictions. This implies a de facto simplification of the compulsory due diligence required to minimize the environmental and legality risks considered in the current EU legislation, and this paper aims to demonstrate the reasons why. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is customary to think of utopia as a genre that deals mostly with socio-political issues and that takes a revolutionary approach to a status quo. This paper reflects on the impossibility of identifying a common and original aim behind the utopian genre, especially that of cognitive estrangement, if understood as a critical-dialectical, liberating and dubitative epistemological approach. The analysis of a utopian novel by Argentinian writer Eduardo Holmberg shows that the presence of estranging procedures does not necessarily lead to scepticism about the 'normality' of social facts. On the contrary, it can serve the purpose of persuading about the existence of a more valid and normal social order compared to the existing one. The paper proposes then a key to interpret utopian texts in relation to the problem of evil and suggests expanding the meaning of the word 'estrangement' to take into account the different aims which can coexist within the same literary procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism communication, especially since the digital turn, has registered several attempts to open to new forms of multilingualism. For instance, the traditional multilingual experience offered by guided tours and audio guides has now been enhanced by social networking tools. Recent research points to the need of interdisciplinary work at the crossroads of linguistics, media sciences and museum studies to investigate communication strategies and linguistic devices by means of which an international audience of tourists can be addressed and get involved in museums in the digital age. The present paper illustrates the first findings of the project "Museo poliglotta", a project run by two universities in the Italian towns of Bergamo and Brescia in cooperation with local museums with the goal of producing digital multilingual contents for international museum visitors. The empirical part of the paper describes a workshop activity in which students developed Instagram reels in Italian, German and English on the figure of the well-known Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. A number of observations lead to the conclusion that synergies between language research and foreign language teaching on the one hand and museum institutions on the other can bring about important benefits for all parties involved, in particular the possibility to offer professionalising training in the academic world and stimuli to innovate and improve multilingual communication in the museum sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The general tendencies regarding the gender of nouns are dealt with in the paper with the specific aim of building a contrastive microtypology of German, Italian and English. In particular, up to six different types and functions of gender will be distinguished and will be tested against the background of empirical data drawn from the three languages. Interesting phenomena of convergence and divergence at all levels of the respective linguistic systems pop out from the contrastive analysis, starting from the phonological level up to the pragmatic and cognitive dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to explore the intertwining of utopia, reality, and politics in the construction of a more socially just, free, and inclusive world through 21st-century Chilean working-class literature. Utopia understood as a means of expressing desires and hopes, finds its generative core in thorough reflections on the problems of the present. Diamela Eltit's novel Sumar, which explores the pressing issues of the Chilean working world and the utopian collective reorganization of marginal, dissident, and liminal subjectivities, is an example of this dialogical relationship between the factual and the fictional. Sociosemiotic analysis will provide the methodological and speculative basis for presenting, on the one hand, the wasting relationships that shape the world of the neo-working class; on the other, Gramscian political action of the subaltern classes, understood as class alliances for mobilization against capitalism and the bourgeois state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paolo Zanotti, an appreciated scholar of the romance tradition and a brilliant reader of Calvino, was also (and above all) a storyteller. This contribution focuses on first posthumous novel, Il testamento Disney, to show how he managed to unfold his erudition on the page, and to transfigure it by counting on an his imaginative ability and a refined technique. This paper will state accurate references to his contemporary essays, in order to identify the theoretical coordinates within which the novel should be framed: alongside the aforementioned Calvino, also Celati, Jameson, Auden, as well as his beloved Stevenson could be named. Just like his favourite writer Cortázar, Zanotti narrates the digressions of a gang of funny and unkempt flâneurs who try to enchant a city that pushed them to the fringe. To achieve it, they resort to any means, through continuous apparitions, nostalgia, ecstasy, rituals, coincidences and interference from other dimensions. Thus, this essay aims to emphasize Zanotti's visionary ability, worthy of the best fantastic tradition: like Ariosto invoked by Calvino in the face of the cold Machiavelli, Zanotti knows how to hover above the reality, and to glimpse a lively world in a desolate desert. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]