Book review: Pontrandolfo, G. y Piccioni, S (2022) Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus

[ES] Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus es el fruto de la amplia experiencia investigadora en el campo de la lingüística de corpus y de los discursos de especialidad en español y de una consolidada reflexión acerca de los temas objeto de análisis por parte de Sara Piccioni de la Universidad G. D Annunzio de Chieti-Pescara y de Gianluca Pontrandolfo de la Universidad de Trieste.[EN] Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus is the appreciable result of the extensive research experience in the fields of corpus linguistics and of specialized discourse by Sara Piccioni (Università degli Studi "Gabriele D'Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara) and Gianluca Pontrandolfo (Università di Trieste).Colantonio, C. (2023). Reseña de Pontrandolfo G. Piccioni S. (2022) Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red. Aproximaciones basadas en corpus. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas. 18:163-166. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2023.184471631661

Los procesos léxico-genéticos del español de la salud: una panorámica español-italiano después de la pandemia de COVID-19

This paper belongs to the field of Spanish language lexicogenesis in the field of healthcare, during the international health crisis caused by Coronavirus expansion from March 2020, which needed to be named by new terms and words, known as “Nuevo Lenguaje Covídico” (NLC, Rodríguez-Ponga, 2020). A comparative analysis has been carried out among Spanish and Italian, which lead to understand language processes of word formation adopted in order to respond to linguistic urgency of naming the new reality. The result is a number of new terms, as well as semantic expansion.El presente artículo se enmarca en el ámbito de la lexicogénesis del español médico, a lo largo de la crisis sanitaria ocasionada por la eclosión del coronavirus en 2020, la cual ha necesitado de un léxico nuevo para ser designada, de tal manera que se hable de Nuevo Lenguaje Covídico (NLC, Rodríguez-Ponga, 2020). Se ha llevado a cabo un análisis comparativo entre el español y el italiano tomando como punto de partida un abanico de expresiones y términos nuevos, además de palabras que han ampliado su contenido semántico o que han dejado de formar parte exclusivamente de la comunicación especializada

L’uso di Twitter da parte dei Ministeri della Salute nell’era COVID-19. Analisi delle strategie di creazione e innovazione lessicali

La ricerca, che si colloca nel filone dell’analisi del discorso mediato dal computer (Pano Alamán y Moya Muñoz, 2016) e della pragmatica, si propone l’obiettivo di analizzare l’impatto dell’epidemia scatenata dal COVID-19 nel social network Twitter, con uno sguardo qualitativo o naturalista del fenomeno. L’analisi dei tweet prende in considerazione le strategie e le pratiche discorsive degli account dei Ministeri della Salute di cinque paesi (Cile, Colombia, Messico, Perù e Spagna) durante il 2022, mettendone a fuoco creazioni ed innovazioni lessicali, oltre agli hashtag. Il caso analizzato mostra la produttività della lingua spagnola che costantemente recepisce e produce materiale lessicale

Los géneros discursivos y los textos en el español para la salud.

El presente estudio se propone explorar las características textuales y discursivas de las tipologías de textos en el español para la salud. Por lo tanto, se recurre a una gama de géneros discursivos y tipologías textuales que remiten al ámbito de la medicina con un comentario que pueda vislumbrar los rasgos definitorios del texto, además de los elementos que los convierten en parte de la comunicación especializada y/o divulgativa. El resultado es un análisis de las prácticas discursivas de la divulgación con las del discurso especializado, relacionadas con el ámbito de la salud

Las reseñas de TripAdvisor: ¿un nuevo género de discurso turístico?

In this paper we present the results of a descriptive-interpretative analysis of some reviews about Spanish hotels and restaurants published on one of the most prominent travel review sites, TripAdvisor. The aim of the study is to examine linguistic common features that appear in guests’ opinions and hotel responses. In the same time, we try to emphasize the most important features of a review in order to find out if it can be considered part of tourist discourse and, if so, to generate a new specialized form of communication. Qualitative data from corpora denote that TripAdvisor reviews fulfil the typical functions of tourist discourse (informative, prescriptive and persuasive), with a special prominence of the last one. In addition, the tourist review seems to be the ideal framework to underline the most common pragmalinguistics strategies to describe and to advice the users’ tourist experience.En este artículo nos proponemos presentar los resultados de un análisis descriptivo e interpretativo del estilo comunicativo de algunas valoraciones que aparecen en la página web TripAdvisor, que serán analizadas desde la perspectiva de la pragmalingüística. El propósito es identificar los patrones lingüísticos comunes que aparecen en las opiniones de los usuarios y en las respuestas de los gerentes de las empresas hoteleras y gastronómicas. Asimismo, se pondrán de relieve las características esenciales de la reseña para averiguar si se puede considerar parte del género de discurso turístico y de esta manera generar una nueva forma de comunicación especializada. Los resultados cualitativos del análisis de los córpora demuestran que la reseña en TripAdvisor cumple con las funciones propias del discurso turístico (informativa, prescriptiva y persuasiva), con un patente protagonismo de la última. Además, ésta parece ser el marco ideal para subrayar las estrategias pragmalingüísticas más comunes a la hora de describir y de (des)aconsejar la experiencia turística vivida por turistas que se convierten inconscientemente en toroperadores y expertos de turismo

AI for Health and Well Being @SI Lab

This presentation was delivered in the framework of a bilateral meeting between CNR and IVI on September 5, 2023

Assessing the value of the housing schemes through the sustainable return of investments : a path towards sustainability-led evaluations?

The New 2016 UN Urban Agenda clearly reaffirms the concept that sustainable cities require intertwined environmental and social sustainability. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 - Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable - sets as primary target the provision of sufficient affordable housing. Despite the central role played by housing in ensuring sustainability and the importance of both environmental and social pillars in ensuring sustainable development, still current evaluative methods that support decision making on social housing interventions fail in capturing all the socio-environmental spillovers. The paper addresses this issue by demonstrating how Sustainable Return Of Investment allows successfully capturing a range of externalities, related to the broader concept of sustainability also in social housing regeneration schemes. To achieve this goal, a single case study strategy has been chosen. Two extant projects - a high rise housing scheme and an environmental-led program developed by the City West Housing Trust - a nonprofit housing association based in the Manchester area - have been assessed in order to monetise their externalities through different methods. Findings show that the environmental and social spillovers are largely disregarded because of a gap in the evaluation methods and that room for significant improvements exists

Peri-operative red blood cell transfusion in neonates and infants: NEonate and Children audiT of Anaesthesia pRactice IN Europe: A prospective European multicentre observational study

BACKGROUND: Little is known about current clinical practice concerning peri-operative red blood cell transfusion in neonates and small infants. Guidelines suggest transfusions based on haemoglobin thresholds ranging from 8.5 to 12 g dl-1, distinguishing between children from birth to day 7 (week 1), from day 8 to day 14 (week 2) or from day 15 (≥week 3) onwards. OBJECTIVE: To observe peri-operative red blood cell transfusion practice according to guidelines in relation to patient outcome. DESIGN: A multicentre observational study. SETTING: The NEonate-Children sTudy of Anaesthesia pRactice IN Europe (NECTARINE) trial recruited patients up to 60 weeks' postmenstrual age undergoing anaesthesia for surgical or diagnostic procedures from 165 centres in 31 European countries between March 2016 and January 2017. PATIENTS: The data included 5609 patients undergoing 6542 procedures. Inclusion criteria was a peri-operative red blood cell transfusion. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The primary endpoint was the haemoglobin level triggering a transfusion for neonates in week 1, week 2 and week 3. Secondary endpoints were transfusion volumes, 'delta haemoglobin' (preprocedure - transfusion-triggering) and 30-day and 90-day morbidity and mortality. RESULTS: Peri-operative red blood cell transfusions were recorded during 447 procedures (6.9%). The median haemoglobin levels triggering a transfusion were 9.6 [IQR 8.7 to 10.9] g dl-1 for neonates in week 1, 9.6 [7.7 to 10.4] g dl-1 in week 2 and 8.0 [7.3 to 9.0] g dl-1 in week 3. The median transfusion volume was 17.1 [11.1 to 26.4] ml kg-1 with a median delta haemoglobin of 1.8 [0.0 to 3.6] g dl-1. Thirty-day morbidity was 47.8% with an overall mortality of 11.3%. CONCLUSIONS: Results indicate lower transfusion-triggering haemoglobin thresholds in clinical practice than suggested by current guidelines. The high morbidity and mortality of this NECTARINE sub-cohort calls for investigative action and evidence-based guidelines addressing peri-operative red blood cell transfusions strategies. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT02350348

La situazione linguistica a Gibilterra. Due casi studio a confronto

In un mondo in continua e rapida evoluzione, i diversi eventi storici e politici hanno sempre avuto la capacità di influenzare la vita quotidiana delle persone, andando ad incidere anche sulla concezione stessa che vi è alla base dell’identità culturale di un popolo. È questo il caso di Gibilterra, una società cosmopolita e multiculturale situata sulla punta meridionale della Spagna, nelle cui vie sventola fieramente l’Union Jack. Intrappolato nel mezzo di una contesa secolare mai risolta tra Spagna e Regno Unito, questo piccolo territorio britannico vanta un mosaico variegato di codici linguistici tra i quali figurano lo spagnolo, l’inglese e il yanito, frutto della storia e delle peculiari vicende politiche che hanno caratterizzato il popolo gibilterrino. Questo volume intende analizzare gli effetti di tale compresenza, tramite l’osservazione degli atteggiamenti linguistici e del comportamento messo in atto dagli abitanti di Gibilterra

La desterminologización de ámbito médico en programas de televisión. El caso de Check up y Saber vivir

According to the latest FECYT survey results (2022), television is one of the main source for a no professional audience to inform themselves about science and technology. This research aims to explore the main de-terminologisation processes which an Italian and a Spanish tv programmes (Check up and Saber Vivir) use in order to overcome language boundaries in healthcare. The sample consists of twenty-one episodes and a case study methodology will be implemented: it was carried out a descriptive-analytical and a content analysis of the episodes. Results show some common strategies, such as definitions and analogies, but Saber Vivir needs to be highlighted for its more informal and informative communication