Legitimising (Note 1) Alternative Voices in Sustainable Development (SD) Discourse: The Case of Scientist Rebellion (SR)

This paper investigates the language of legitimation considering a number of open letters published by the pressure group Scientist Rebellion (SR) to address sustainability issues. The questions this paper seeks to address include the following: Which legitimation strategies did the authors of the open letters examined make use of to buttress their arguments? Did these resources serve a legitimatory function, a delegitimising function against adversaries, or both? Are the open letters under investigation characterized by legitimising mechanisms that are specific to this genre? Using van Leeuwen‟s theoretical framework, a number of legitimation strategies are identified, which were put in place by SR representatives to raise awareness of questions concerning sustainable development (SD) and to seek public consent in relation to their proposals

Occupational Health and Safety during COVID-19: A Cross-National Comparison of Discursive and Communication Practices in Italy and the US

This paper examines legal communication in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) discourse and investigates the rhetorical strategies implemented at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the paper focuses on a dataset of legal provisions introduced as emergency legislation – measures adopted to tackle unprecedented circumstances – in Italy and the US, in order to identify commonalities and differences when informing the general public of the measures laid down particularly to protect workers in the workplace. This paper is intended to contribute to research in discourse analysis in OHS, an area of expertise which has been given fresh momentum since the onset of the pandemic. The decision to examine Italian and US emergency legislation was made in consideration of the cultural and legal differences between the two countries, which give rise to a number of discursive approaches to emergency management

PRACUJĄC W ŚWIETLE KSIĘŻYCA: TŁUMACZENIE TERMINU „MOONLIGHTING” W DOKUMENTACH WIELOJĘZYCZNYCH. PRZEGLĄD.

This paper examines the notion of ‘moonlighting’, which in industrial relations discourse refers to secondary employment performed in addition to the employee’s main job. As this concept might lend itself to different interpretations in English, the aim of this paper is to consider whether the ambiguous nature of this wording in source texts is also reflected in target texts, exploring how translators deal with it when rendering this concept in other languages. To this end, documents published by international institutions in English and their translations in French, Italian and Spanish  were compared and contrasted, investigating the strategies put in place by translators to convey the meaning of “moonlighting” in other languages. Artykuł analizuje pojęcie „moonlighting”, które w dyskursie o stosunkach pomiędzy pracodawcą i pracownikami odnosi się do dodatkowego zatrudnienia wykonywanego poza główną pracą pracownika. Ponieważ koncepcja ta może podlegać różnym interpretacjom w języku angielskim, celem tego artykułu jest rozważenie, czy dwuznaczny charakter tego sformułowania w tekstach źródłowych znajduje również odzwierciedlenie w tekstach docelowych, badając, w jaki sposób tłumacze radzą sobie z tym przekładając to pojęcie na inne języki. W tym celu dokumenty opublikowane przez instytucje międzynarodowe w języku angielskim oraz ich tłumaczenia na francuski, włoski i hiszpański zostały porównane i skontrastowane, badając przy tym strategie stosowane przez tłumaczy tak, aby oddać znaczenie „moonlighting” w innych językach

The Prevention System and Insurance Coverage in the Context of the IV Industrial Revolution

La presente pubblicazione è stata realizzata nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca “Il Testo Unico di salute e sicurezza sul lavoro e la tutela assicurativa alla prova della IV rivoluzione industriale” (BRIC 2018 – ID 08 – CUP E96C18002110003), cofinanziato dall’Inail nell’ambito della linea di finanziamento BRIC e commissionato al Centro studi internazionali e comparati DEAL dell’Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia con partner Fondazione ADAPT. Il progetto si è svolto tra aprile 2019 e aprile 2021

BCR-ABL residues interacting with ponatinib are critical to preserve the tumorigenic potential of the oncoprotein

Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in whom tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) fail often present mutations in the BCR-ABL catalytic domain. We noticed a lack of substitutions involving 4 amino acids (E286, M318, I360, and D381) that form hydrogen bonds with ponatinib. We therefore introduced mutations in each of these residues, either preserving or altering their physicochemical properties. We found that E286, M318, I360, and D381 are dispensable for ABL and BCR-ABL protein stability but are critical for preserving catalytic activity. Indeed, only a "conservative" I360T substitution retained kinase proficiency and transforming potential. Molecular dynamics simulations of BCR-ABLI360T revealed differences in both helix αC dynamics and protein-correlated motions, consistent with a modified ATP-binding pocket. Nevertheless, this mutant remained sensitive to ponatinib, imatinib, and dasatinib. These results suggest that changes in the 4 BCR-ABL residues described here would be selected against by a lack of kinase activity or by maintained responsiveness to TKIs. Notably, amino acids equivalent to those identified in BCR-ABL are conserved in 51% of human tyrosine kinases. Hence, these residues may represent an appealing target for the design of pharmacological compounds that would inhibit additional oncogenic tyrosine kinases while avoiding the emergence of resistance due to point mutations.This work was supported by an investigator grant to P.V. from Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) and by funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/I023291/1 and BB/H018409/1 to AP and FF). P.B. is the recipient of an AIRC - Marie Curie fellowship

Book review: Capitalism’s last stand: deglobalisation in the age of austerity

"Capitalism’s Last Stand: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity." Walden Bello. Zed Books. July 2013. --- In Capitalism’s Last Stand, Walden Bello seeks to emphasize the ever more pressing need to engage in a radical process of ‘deglobalization’. Taking in revolutions and protests, the place of China’s economy in the world, and Europe’s ‘tragic spiral’, those who are concerned with a just society and a more balanced distribution of global financial resources may find what they are looking for, writes Pietro Manzella

Book review: Union voices: tactics and tensions in UK organising

"Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organising." Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery. Cornell University Press. September 2012. --- In Union Voices, three industrial relations scholars evaluate how labour unions fared in the political and institutional context created by New Labour. Drawing on extensive empirical evidence, Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery present a multilevel analysis of what organizing means in the UK, how it emerged, and what its impact has been. Pietro Manzella finds that this book is successful in its attempt to provide a different research focus by which organising activity is investigated

Book review: Digital interactions in developing countries: aneconomic perspective

"Digital Interactions in Developing Countries: An Economic Perspective." Jeffrey James. Routledge. January 2013. --- Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions, this book looks not only at the digital divide but also at issues such as digital preparedness, leapfrogging and low-cost computers. Pietro Manzella thinks that although this book is targeted towards practitioners and experts in the field, the general reader and those grappling with this topic for the first time will also gain some valuable insights from this work

Book Review: Trade unions in western Europe: hard times, hard choices

"Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices." Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman. Oxford University Press. October 2013. --- In this book the authors attempt to provide an account of how trade unionism has evolved in ten west European countries, the main recent challenges that unions have faced, and their responses. This work will certainly make a fundamental contribution to the debate about the future role and functions of unions as the authors provide key insights in their attempt to identify how unions can learn to attract new members and enhance their strategic capacities, writes Pietro Manzella

“DEAR EMMA…”. GENRE OVERLAPPING AND REGISTER VARIATION IN THE ENGLISH AND ITALIAN VERSION OF SERGIO MARCHIONNE’S LETTER TO CONFINDUSTRIA

The aim of this paper is to examine whether genre overlapping and register variation have implications on the translation outcome. To this end, the English and the Italian version of the letter sent by Sergio Marchionne to the President of Confindustria – Italy’s most important employers’ organisation – will be analysed. The decision to investigate Marchionne’s statement is based on the fact that this is a letter disseminated in the form of a press release, which also contains highly-technical terminology pertaining to Employment Relations (ER) discourse. Consequently, a number of issues might arise when deciding which strategy should be used in terms of genre analysis and register when translating specialised texts