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2. LADDER: UN CORPUS DI SCRITTURE DIGITALI PER L’INSEGNAMENTO DELLA PRAGMATICA IN L2. UN ESEMPIO DI ANALISI DI DISDETTE IN WHATSAPP
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Nicola Brocca
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Language and Literature ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
Molte recenti ricerche hanno sottolineato come sia utile la creazione ed analisi di corpora per la didattica della pragmatica che, a differenza di altri livelli linguistici, come ad esempio la sintassi, non possono essere spiegate con regole ma con il riferimento a valori tendenziali o scelte più o meno adeguate in un certo contesto. Questo vale a maggior ragione per le interazioni attraverso media digitali, come e-mail e servizi di messaggistica, per il cui apprendimento i parlanti non nativi hanno pochi modelli di riferimento in quanto scritture private che trovano scarso spazio in manuali o corsi di L2. Dal febbraio 2020 nell’Istituto di Didattica disciplinare dell’Università di Innsbruck viene condotto per tre semestri un seminario in cui gli studenti contribuiscono alla raccolta e analisi del corpus LADDER (LeArners’ Digital communication: a DatabasE for pRagmatical competences). Nella prima fase del corso gli studenti sono impegnati nella raccolta di un corpus di scritture digitali attraverso questionari online rivolti a apprendenti di italiano tedescofoni dei livelli A2-C1 e a parlanti nativi. I questionari vertono a elicitare, attraverso Discourse Completion Task, atti linguistici della richiesta e della disdetta in livelli crescenti di distanza sociale e diversi media. Nella seconda fase il corpus viene analizzato dagli studenti secondo un’ottica pragmatica, annotato e i dati raccolti vengono elaborati secondo modelli statistici. Il corpus taggato sarà reso disponibile in formato Excel e XML open access. Questo contributo mostra alcuni risultati delle analisi condotte con il corpus LADDER in ottica contrastiva L1/L2 durante i seminari di didattica. Oltre ad illustrare un modo di produzione di strumenti per la conoscenza dell’italiano L1 e L2 attraverso tecnologie digitali il contributo si profila come modello di didattica basata sui corpora. LADDER: a corpus of digital writings for teaching pragmatics in L2. An example of analysis of cancellations in WhatsApp Many recent studies have underlined how useful the creation and analysis of corpora for the teaching of pragmatics is. Unlike other linguistic levels, such as syntax, pragmatics cannot be explained by rules but by reference to tendential values or choices that are more or less appropriate in a certain context. This is all even truer for interactions through digital media, such as email and messaging services, where non-native speakers have few models of reference since personal writing finds little space in manuals or L2 courses. Since February 2020, a seminar where students contribute to the collection and analysis of the corpus LADDER (LeArners' Digital communication: a DatabasE for pRagmatical competences) has been conducted for three semesters at the Institute for Discipline Teaching at the University of Innsbruck. In the first phase of the course, students are engaged in the collection of a corpus of digital writings through online questionnaires addressed to A2-C1 German-speaking Italian learners and native speakers. The questionnaires aim at eliciting, through Discourse Completion Tasks, linguistic acts of requesting and cancellation in increasing levels of social distance and different media. In the second phase, the corpus is analyzed by the students from a pragmatic perspective, annotated and the collected data are processed according to statistical models. The tagged corpus will be made available in Excel and XML open access formats. This contribution shows some results of the analyses conducted with the LADDER corpus in an L1/L2 contrastive perspective during the teaching workshops. In addition to illustrating a way of producing tools for the knowledge of Italian L1 and L2 through digital technologies, the paper presents a model of corpora-based teaching.
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- 2021
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3. IMPACT OF MEDIA IN VOCABULARY LEARNING AND TEACHING-LEARNING SETTINGS: A QUASI-EXPERIMENT IN ITALIAN AS HERITAGE LANGUAGE CLASSES
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Nicola Brocca
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Language and Literature ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
Heritage language classes comprise a favorable environment for the application of innovative methods sustained by new technologies for foreign learning acquisition. This preliminary study describes an experiment in classes of Italian as heritage language in Germany. The involved teachers employ, during the input-phase, didactical videos as opposed to traditional written material on paper. Through a small-N quantitative analysis, the groups taught by videos demonstrate a lexical improvement marginally higher than the groups taught by paper. From the qualitative analysis, significant changes in the learning environment emerge: in the groups taught by videos, higher interactions were registered and the learning process showed numerous elaborations (from an audiovisual input to written notes, which are rewritten in the working sheets). The observations confirm multifactorial implications within the didactical setting (Calvani & Vivanet, 2014) previously never studied within heritage languages classes in Germany. Impatto dei media nell’apprendimento del vocabolario e nel setting di insegnamento-apprendimento: un esperimento in classi di italiano come lingua d’origine Le classi di lingua d’origine offrono un ambiente particolarmente favorevole per l’applicazione di nuove tecnologie didattiche. Questo studio preliminare descrive un esperimento in classi di italiano come lingua d’origine in Germania dove gli insegnanti hanno usato video didattici in sostituzione di materiali cartacei tradizionali nella fase di introduzione delle informazioni. Nonostante un campione ristretto l’analisi quantitativa mostra che i gruppi che hanno fatto ricorso ai video registrano un apprendimento del lessico leggermente migliore dei gruppi che si sono basati sulla lettura. L’analisi qualitativa dimostra che l’apprendimento avviene in modo notevolmente diverso: nei gruppi che ricevono istruzioni attraverso i video le interazioni sono maggiori e il processo di apprendimento passa per numerose elaborazioni (da input audiovisivo a appunti scritti, per venire poi nuovamente trascritto nei fogli di lavoro). L’osservazione conferma l’esistenza di conseguenze multifattoriali delle tecnologie sul setting didattico (Calvani & Vivanet, 2014) anche in un ambiente mai precedentemente analizzato sperimentalmente come le classi di lingua d’origine in Germania.
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- 2021
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4. Linguistic politeness across Austria and Italy: Backing out of an invitation with an instant message
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Nicola Brocca, Elena Nuzzo, Diego Cortés Velásquez, Maria Rudigier, Brocca, N., Nuzzo, E., Cortes Velasquez, D., and Rudigier, M.
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Linguistics and Language ,Politeness orientation, Last-minute cancellation, Austrian German, Italian, Instant messages, Cross-cultural pragmatics ,Artificial Intelligence ,Language and Linguistics - Abstract
The study compares how native speakers of German from the area of Innsbruck (Austria) and native speakers of Italian from the area of Rome (Italy) perceive the communicative act of backing out of an invitation for dinner at the last minute, in a situation of low social distance. The purpose of the study is twofold: to shed light on the orientation of Austrian German and Italian languages/cultures in terms of linguistic politeness, and to expand empirical cross-cultural research to a less-commonly investigated speech act. Data collected by means of a discourse completion task (DCT) are triangulated with responses to an assessment question and metapragmatic comments, and analyzed following a quantitative approach. The analysis of the DCT findings shows some cross-group differences in the choice of speech act realization strategies and internal modifiers. However, the overall results reveal more similarities than differences between the two populations regarding the informants’ perception of face threat in last-minute cancellations. This seems to disprove the idea that the two groups belong to different cultural frameworks in terms of politeness orientation, at least as far as it concerns the specific speech act under investigation.
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- 2023
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5. Is implicit communication quantifiable? A corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets
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Davide Garassino, Nicola Brocca, Viviana Masia, University of Zurich, and Garassino, Davide
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320: Politik ,Linguistics and Language ,Corpus linguistics ,Pragmatics ,470 Latin & Italic languages ,Twitter ,Interrater agreement ,401.4: Terminologie, Diskursanalyse, Pragmatik ,410 Linguistics ,1702 Artificial Intelligence ,800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism ,Language and Linguistics ,3310 Linguistics and Language ,Political communication ,Artificial Intelligence ,460 Spanish & Portuguese languages ,Implicit communication ,450 Italian, Romanian & related languages ,Presupposition ,1203 Language and Linguistics ,440 French & related languages ,10103 Institute of Romance Studies - Abstract
Twitter is nowadays a powerful means of political propaganda. Its effectiveness can be easily appreciated in the large amounts of messages exchanged by politicians every day. This wealth of data, together with the interactive nature of the social medium, provides an ideal basis for the analysis of a striking feature of political messages, i.e., their implicitness, often achieved using presuppositions, among other strategies. The present work proposes a comparative analysis of British and Italian politicians' use of Twitter by focusing on implicit communication (notably, presuppositions) and the pragmatic functions of tweets. Based on a sample of about 400 tweets, our analysis shows that some of these functions tend to associate either with presuppositional or non-presuppositional communicative devices. Moreover, a critical methodological discussion is offered in order to address the main challenges of quantitative corpus-based pragmatics.
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- 2022
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