Ahab, Ulysses, and the white whale: Vittorio Gassman’s adaptation of Moby-Dick

Il saggio analizza alcuni aspetti e problemi sollevati dall'adattamento teatrale del capolavoro di Melville da parte di Vittorio Gassman, con particolare attenzione all'accostamento proposto tra la figura di Ulisse e quella del capitano Ahab.The essay investigates some features and issues raised by Vittorio Gassman's adaptation for the stage of Melville's masterpiece. Specific attention is paid to the conjunction of the figures of Ulysses, on the one hand, and of Captain Ahab, on the other

"Language at Work: Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and Museum Contexts", Edited by Helen de Silva Joyce Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2016, pp. 277

The reviewed volume "Language at Work" explores the language used in a variety of workplace contexts ranging from call centres through secondary schools and hospitals to museums. Written, spoken and/or multimodal texts are analysed, with a view to investigating how professionals communicate with their colleagues, costumers, students, patients or visitors. The majority of the thirteen contributions concern private or public contexts in Australia. Eleven of them draw on the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The book consists of four parts. Part 1 refers to three different workplace contexts, Part 2 to education contexts, Part 3 to medical contexts and Part 4 to museum contexts

Pace a Beirut dal mio cuore

Illustration for InCONTRI • Letteratura e alberi. Una tavola rotonda intorno e incontro agli alberi nelle letterature di lingua tedesca e di lingua inglese, a cura di Carmen CONCILIO.Illustrazione per InCONTRI • Letteratura e alberi. Una tavola rotonda intorno e incontro agli alberi nelle letterature di lingua tedesca e di lingua inglese, a cura di Carmen CONCILIO

Diachronic Development in Isolation: The Loss of V2 Phenomena in Cimbrian

This paper deals with the syntactic development of Cimbrian, a German dialect, which was spoken for centuries in some enclaves in northern Italy. In particular, we argue that the ‘dismantlement’ of the V2 phenomenon is connected with a change concerning the ‘nature’ of specific word order patterns: from ‘allowed’ V2 exceptions to ‘unmarked’ and frequent constructions, i.e., from hanging topic (freies Thema) in WH clause to ‘new’ left dislocation modalities, which finally bring to generalized V3 in the declarative clause