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Il volume analizza strutture ed espedienti del linguaggio comico, segmento del sistema linguistico che da una parte si caratterizza per linee di continuita attraverso il tempo e lo spazio, dall'altra risulta sempre piu condizionato dalle recenti trasformazioni che hanno investito la societa italiana e i moderni mezzi di comunicazione.

On sait bien ce qüon appelle « norme », en linguistique : une pratique de prescription des comportements langagiers. Cette pratique, la linguistique s¿est depuis longtemps habituée à la remiser dans un espace qui n¿était pas le sien. Il a été une fois pour toutes entendu qüil existait, aisément repérable, un certain usage normatif de la « grammaire », qüon connaissait, et qüil fallait bien distinguer de la linguistique. Ainsi, la possible normativité du discours linguistique a souvent fait l¿objet d¿une soigneuse dissimulation. Alors, la norme « tabou » de la linguistique moderne ? Quinze linguistes affrontent ici le problème, en partant de ses enjeux épistémologiques, historiques, sociolinguistiques, et, pour finir, grammaticaux. Cet ouvrage s¿organise en deux parties. La première analyse cette présence paradoxale de la notion de norme dans le discours des linguistes. La seconde approfondit les résonances de la problématique dans le domaine qui s¿y prête le plus, à savoir la syntaxe. Attachement, affect ; lois, règles ; double relation au langage : autant de paramètres desquels le linguiste ne peut pas se permettre de détourner son regard.

The Hour That Breaks is the first biography of Gottfried Benn to appear in English. The author of this study charts in impressive detail the complex paths of Benn's life, through the demands of his medical practice and military involvement in two world wars, his brief political advocacy of Hitler and Nazism in 1933, to his final comeback in post Second World War Germany. The author also engages with Benn's extensive body of poetry which, inventive, challenging and formally wrought, was the product of mind that was both radical and conservative. The same propensity to invention and transformation also informed Benn's personal and professional life, giving rise to a practice of role-playing and dissimulation that the poet termed a double life. As Travers shows in this well-written and informative biography, this was a strategy of survival of which Benn, ultimately, was as much the victim as the master. This biography also offers fresh translations of many of Benn's poems, a number of which appear here in English for the first time.

This book is the first comprehensive study of children's and young adult's digital literary education. It encompasses, in its relevant context and theoretical framework, the characteristics of children's and young adult's digital texts, their readers' effective responses and their reading practices in school and family situations.

This book discusses the Western journey of a contemporary Muslim movement initiated by Fethullah Gulen in Turkey in the 60s. Although its participants are a small and often less visible group among the Muslim minorities in Western countries, they are very active in social life. This study provides a broad presentation of a group of Turkish Muslims.

Questo e il primo libro che esplora sistematicamente le strategie discorsive e le metodologie antropologiche adottate da Pier Paolo Pasolini nei suoi film. L'analisi delle intersezioni tra discorso antropologico, documentario e finzione rivela i modi attraverso cui il cinema di Pasolini sia profondamente correlato all'antropologia visuale, nei modi concettualizzati negli anni Ottanta dalla New Ethnography, sia in termini di pratica che di ricerca teorica. Una delle tesi del libro e che i film di Pasolini contengano ricorsi antropologici che emergono da una discorsivita percettiva che li avvicina a uno dei piu interessanti indirizzi dell'antropologia visuale anglosassone, quello dell'antropologia dei sensi, rendendo manifesto il loro valore pionieristico e visionario. L'analisi delle categorie corporali, topografiche, ritualistiche e identitarie presenti nei film di Pasolini svela inoltre istanze discorsive che si spingono oltre le ideologie coloniali e moderne spesso attribuitegli dalla critica tradizionale.

This book examines digital technologies which are omnipresent in all societies that use them to inform, to educate, to exchange, to entertain, to grow or to communicate. Women and men around the world have taken these tools which organize the daily life and activities, personal, professional as well as social.

The book offers new insights on the impact of wars (namely, but not exclusively, World War I), by underlining its social and psychological consequences, particularly in public health, demography, and mentalities in different countries.

Der vorliegende Band 29 der Zeitschrift Morgen-Glantz enthält die überarbeitete Fassung der Vorträge, die an der 28. Tagung der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit den verschiedenen Formen der Allegorie als einer Epochensignatur der Frühen Neuzeit. Dabei rücken sie das Theater in den Mittelpunkt und hier wiederum die prima vista wohl auffälligste Erscheinung des Allegorischen: die Personifikation (Prosopopoiia).

Seit einiger Zeit ist Brasiliens Neokonkretismus in Ausstellungen, Katalogen und Publikationen in Europa präsent. Die Autorin nimmt erstmals auf Deutsch umfassende Werkanalysen vor und stellt den Schlüsselcharakter der neokonkreten Praktiken dar. Die Kunst- und Lyrikproduktion der Bewegung führte, so die Autorin, zu einer Umwertung und Neuauslegung des konkret-konstruktivistischen Gedankenguts der europäischen Avantgarden des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese Umwertungen schufen in Brasilien erst die Voraussetzungen dafür, haptische und sensorielle Komponenten ästhetischen Erlebens zum zentralen Ausgangspunkt künstlerischer Praxis zu erheben, für welche die späteren Arbeiten der brasilianischen Avantgarde-Ikonen Lygia Clark und Hélio Oiticica bekannt sind. Die Arbeit ist ein wichtiger Beitrag dazu, moderne und zeitgenössische künstlerische Praktiken aus Brasilien zu dekolonisieren, denn die Analysen zeigen auf, dass haptisch und plurisensoriell erfahrbare Kunstwerke aus Brasilien eben nicht auf einer angenommenen genuin sensorisch-sensiblen Konstituierung des Menschen in Brasilien beruhen, sondern vielmehr auf einer eigenwilligen, lokalen Rezeption europäischer Avantgardepraktiken.

Seit 1982 kreiert das Theater Sgaramusch inhaltlich wie asthetisch anspruchsvolle Stucke fur Kinder, die sich auch an Erwachsene richten. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet verschiedene Facetten seines Schaffens, das immer poetisch sein will, nie didaktisch.

This volume is the product of a joint effort to bring together critical views "from the Old World" on the field of American Studies. All in all, this book provides the critical gaze of the "expert outsider" who is able to offer a somewhat different but complementary point of view, which can only enrich the general appreciation of American Studies.

The volume Learning second language pragmatics beyond traditional contexts is a collection of studies dealing with the acquisition of second language pragmatic competence in different learning contexts.

The book explores the concept of "interartistic phenomenon" in the semiotic field of intermedial researches. The semiotic analysis is concentrated on the works of Michel de Montaigne focusing the research on his "Essays" and "The Diary of Montaigne's Travels".

Only in France is demography essentially the population science: it is taught at school, newspapers feature the evolution of fertility rates in their headlines and the subject sparks ideological debates in the media. How did demography become a national identity issue?The French exception is attributable to a political history that reached fulcrums during the Second World War under the racist Vichy regime and then after the Liberation, with the development of population policies and the creation of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The book is the first to retrace its controversial genesis and analyze its ramifications for the following decades. It shows how theories, institutions and demographic policies developed simultaneously in France. Its reflection on the links between ideologies, science and the state offers a model that could be applied to the history of many other scientific disciplines.Paul-André Rosental¿s indispensable study examines the emergence of demography as an autonomous discipline and its association with the state in mid-twentieth-century France. Demography¿s success in the immediate post-war years came in part from its dual concern with both "science" and "action," which allowed policy makers to claim both knowledge and expertise in addressing social problems. Rosental¿s measured tone hides a provocative argument that should serve as both a model and a foil for others working in the history of the human sciences.Joshua Cole, University of Michigan.

Even though the democratic decline has been deemed a global phenomenon, the question of how it manifests itself in the postcommunist world and how it varies across different regions with divergent levels of democratic consolidation has not been sufficiently addressed yet. This book tries to fill the gap and examines the causes and nature of the deteriorating quality of democracy in Central Europe as well as the reversal or stagnation of democratization processes in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. The political elite plays a key role in initiating legislative changes that may lead to democratic backsliding. Its constant commitment to the rule of law and to the practice of selfrestraint in securing the independence of judiciary and the rights of political opposition appears hence indispensable for sustainable liberal democracy.

The book investigates the Romantics' fascination with the character of Richard III and explores his iconic centrality from the historical, the textual and the theatrical points of view. The multiplicity of Romantic-period Richards mirrored the age, as it was related to the cultural and ideological multiplicity of the Romantic era itself.

Este libro tiene como objetivo el estudio de una selección de unidades y construcciones de la gramática del español que plantean problemas de demarcación. Se trata de una obra colectiva, formada por nueve capítulos organizados en tres secciones: I. Límites intramorfológicos; II. Límites entre morfología y sintaxis; III. Límites entre construcciones sintácticas. Los fenómenos elegidos como objeto de estudio o bien constituyen problemas de demarcación que podemos considerar «clásicos» en la gramática del español (como los adverbios en -mente o las cláusulas adverbiales), o bien plantean problemas de límites entre unidades o construcciones que han recibido escasa atención en la bibliografía especializada (como, por ejemplo, los adverbios concordados). Para cada fenómeno seleccionado, se presentan los problemas gramaticales que plantea y se discuten las principales propuestas de análisis desarrolladas en la bibliografía, con el fin de ofrecer al lector los argumentos que apoyan cada uno de los análisis alternativos.

Using the Devil with Courtesy analyses Renaissance forms of (im)politeness through Shakespeare. Adopting a historical pragmatic perspective drawing in particular on Brown and Levinson (1987), Jucker (2010) and Culpeper (2011), the book focuses specifically on Hamlet (c. 1601) and The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1594).

The main objective of this book is to describe how educational initiatives are emerging that are hopeful in terms of strengthening democracy in a real way in a convulsive world like the current one.