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In the second half of the 19th century, the city of Naples underwent impressive urban and social transformations, which were foreshadowed and documented by a wide constellation of literary and nonfiction texts. This essay aims to investigate the ways in which literary and nonfiction texts described and produced the urban transformations of Naples in those years. This story, in fact, can be seen as an example of how literature and urban space are the outcome of a dialectical relationship. [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]

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]

«Why create a work when it is so beautiful to just dream about it?». Pasolini's Decameron ends with this question; and 'dream' is the keyword that summarizes the meaning of the artistic-cultural operation carried out by the first act of the Trilogy of Life. Among the ancient Italian phrases recorded in Francesco Serdonati's paremiographic collection we find «A dream: A vain thing. Somnium». In Pasolini's Decameron the dream is an expression of the poetics of the unfinished, in some respects connectable to the history - sometimes very ancient - of the idiomatic components of current (and recurring) language: fragments of an interminable «force of the Past» of which the poetdirector felt part and expression. Starting from the screenplay, I intend to propose a summary of Decameron's sentences, accompanied by reflections on their typology and reuse techniques, always keeping in mind the comparison, on the one hand, with Boccaccio's model and, on the other, with Serdonati's collection. What emerges leads to new considerations on Pasolini's style, on his relationship with literary models, as well as with erudite paremiography, with the history of the Italian language, with popular tradition and with dialects. There will be no shortage of comparisons with the transcription of the film's speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on the Linguistic Landscape (LL) have become a particularly prolific object of study and research in the last fifteen years. The most recent research perspective has led to new categorizations for the LL, which not only form the basis for further empirical research, but are also of great use in foreign language teaching (Malinowski/Maxim/Dubreil 2020). Indeed, working with the LL that is also interculturally specific fulfils one of the primary goals of foreign language teaching, as the close relationship between language and culture also promotes intercultural communicative competence. Our paper will examine in particular the great potential of this tool in the context of teaching German as a Foreign Language in Italy, in order to stimulate greater language awareness and linguistic reflection in the processes of learning and teaching German in which learners are involved. By means of the administration of didactic sheets prepared by us, we will consider the possibility of applying to a didactic context data on both the German language and culture, taken from the observation of the LL of Alto Adige/Südtirol and collected on several occasions within a corpus, the LLSÜDTIROL, which will be discussed below. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Giornali of the saddler Giuliano Passaro, completed around 1526, have not yet received the attention they deserve. The chronicle, which describes in the Neapolitan vernacular the historical situation of the Realm of Naples, is of considerable interest both from a historiographical and historical-linguistic point of view. Up to now, the printed edition of 1785 has mainly been used for historiographical and linguistic research. However, it presents considerable differences and errors with respect to the manuscripts. A critical edition therefore remains an urgent need. In the present state of our knowledge, the ms. 13324 of the Biblioteca Nacional de España seems to be the closest version to the lost original. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper deals with the particular linguistic variety spoken by some servants in Stefano De Franchi's comedies (1714‒1785). After briefly hinting at some fundamental aspects of his production (§1), we examine the text of his comedies (§2) and analyze the servants' language. This variety presents numerous traits which do not belong to Genoese (§3), some others which will spread in the urban variety only between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (§4) and many others which had been expelled from it between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries (§5). Finally (§6), the linguistic analysis of Gerusalemme Liberata's Genoese translation (1755) will allow us to order chronologically the linguistic relics of §5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Convegno Internazionale Università degli Studi di Milano, 22-23 novembre 2016 a cura di Massimo Prada e Giuseppe Polimeni contributi di Dalila Bachis, Monica Barsi, Lucia Berti, Paola Cantoni, Sandra Covino, Margherita De Blasi, Nicola De Blasi, Silvia Demartini, Cecilia Demuru, Matteo Grassano, Beatriz Hernan Gomez Prieto, Giovanni Iamartino, Ludovica Maconi, Elisa Marazzi, Claudio Marazzini, Carla Marello, Giuseppe Patota, Massimo Prada, Luisa Revelli, Alessio Ricci, Paolo Silvestri, Francesco Vaucher De La Croix Joel.

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