The Italian migration to the United States spurred a particularly dynamic and multifarious language contact between Italian varieties and American English. This lasted for more than 400 years and is characterized by wide ...

In this pilot study we present the results obtained in the analysis of two microcorpora about oral narrative in Spanish carried out by two cultural and language different populations, the Italian and the English one, ...

Literature as an event, as mise-en-scène, results from the encounter of intrinsically performative literary texts with their performance. This can be said not only of films and theatrical transpositions of written texts ...

Our paper analyses the way English and Spanish speaking informants build textual cohesion in a narrative task involving a non-prototypical information flow. The results are compared with those of Dimroth et al. (2010) ...

The article examines the rediscovery of Boccaccio over the decade 1795-1805, which lays the groundwork for modern criticism on the Italian author. Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, the two most influential Romantic ...

Language variation in its diamesic and diatopic dimensions represents a multi-faceted field of research in audio-visual translation, frequently generating issues of language censorship and sanitization when a film undergoes ...

At the outbreak of the First World War, Charles Masterman, head of the War Propaganda Bureau, invited a number of leading British writers to support the national cause with their works. The essay analyses some of the ...

Il presente lavoro ha lo scopo di introdurre e descrivere brevemente due progetti e software di annotazione dell’errore, il primo di natura “commerciale” – Cambridge Learner Corpus – e il secondo di natura “accademica” – ...