University of East Anglia
Language and Communication Studies
https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.81.03vio This article explores how the internal conflict between the Italian Northern and Southern regions' ideologies is linguistically apparent in the use of the discriminating words polentone... more
DuFLOR is a parallel corpus which collects the links to the script of 15 dubbed films from English distributed in Italy between 1964 and 2003 alongside their original English version. The films are: Mary Poppins (1964), Dr Strangelove... more
To appear on Journal of Historical Pragmatics In Italian, the adjective giusto ‘right’ has performed the discourse function of response marker since at least 1613 (DELI, 2008: 671). This article argues that, in contemporary Italian, the... more
Revue Romane This study aims to find out if the Italian expression non c’è problema is a case of language change. If on the one hand, the expression was reported to be a neologism by Radtke in 1990, a careful exploration of the relevant... more
This study develops an innovative method to researching translation interference and language change through dubbing and it takes the Italian language as a case study. By employing an empirical methodology, this research overcomes some of... more
Digitally available repositories are becoming not only more and more widespread but also larger and larger. Although there are both digitally-born collections and digitised material, the digital heritage scholar is typically confronted... more
In Italian, grazie ‘thanks’ and ringraziare ‘to thank’ historically introduce an object by means of the preposition di ‘of’ (Renzi, Salvi & Cardinaletti 1991: 545–548); when grazie and ringraziare introduce a subordinate infinite clause,... more
While it is not surprising that English would influence certain domains such as international trade, information technology, and academia, to name a few, the impact of English on non-domain specific elements remains less vigorously... more
Crisis narratives shape public understanding and, consequently, the response to the crisis itself. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, when in February 2020 Italy was experiencing more cases than any other country, the Italian... more
For the past twenty years, digital tools, technologies and infrastructures have been playing an increasingly determining role in framing how heritage is understood, preserved, managed, maintained, and shared. Perhaps the most official... more