SED-ML Script Language

The Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language (SED-ML) is a XML format describing simulation experiments, so that they can be easily exchanged independent of software tools that created them. This document describes the SED-ML Script, a Python based shorthand that makes it easy to create / edit SED-ML documents

Requisiti linguistici e testing linguistico per l’immigrazione e l’integrazione: Sintesi della letteratura scientifica

Il presente documento è il risultato di uno studio della letteratura esistente sui recenti sviluppi nel campo dei requisiti linguistici e del testing linguistico per l’immigrazione e l’integrazione. Lo studio fa parte del programma di ricerca ordinario per il triennio 2011- 2014 del Centro scientifico di competenza per il plurilinguismo

Adding a temporal dimension to the analysis of argumentative discourse: justified reframing as a means of turning a single-issue discussion into a complex argumentative discussion

This paper seeks to extend existing models of argumentation by considering an important dimension of real-life argumentative discourse: how complex argumentative discussions evolve over time. We define a complex argumentative discussion as a multi-issue discussion, in which the different issues are interrelated in the form of a hierarchy. We claim that justified reframing might be used to transform a single-issue argumentative discussion into a complex argumentative discussion. To illustrate this, we examine the Facebook discourse of the Rhodes Must Fall movement in South Africa. We analyse how reframing is justified by means of arguments, allowing the protagonists to claim as legitimate their reframing of a single issue into a complex argumentative discussion. Our findings complement existing sociological research on social movements by highlighting how their goals are achieved by means of argumentative discourse