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Speaking (out) of Silence: The burden of womanhood in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata” and William Morris’s “The Defence of Guenevere”
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
An era punctuated by contradictions and uncertainty, the Middle Ages represented a powerful looking
glass for the flawed and highly duplicitous Victorian society. Deeply unhappy with the cultural and
aesthetic chaos ...
French and English languages in contact: The Chiac case
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
This study concerns the language variation and changes across Borders in a bilingual context: the Acadian
French in contact with North American English. In particular, it explores a specific linguistic idiom
called Chiac, ...
Refugee linguascapes: The role of English in Australia-run detention contexts
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
Drawing upon the framework of Critical Sociolinguistics, this paper aims at understanding the role of
English within the Australian mandatory detention system vis-à-vis the material, communicative and
symbolic marginalization ...
Aspetti dell’universo narrativo di Marguerite Yourcenar tra versatilità e fluidità
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
The linguistic specificities of Marguerite Yourcenar’s narrative speech have influenced the translation
approach, which is affected not only by the courtly style of Yourcenar’s work but, above all, by the notion
of ...
The spread of participial clauses in Biblical Greek: The importance of being multilingual
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
In this study, a construction marginally found in Ancient Greek is addressed, the participial clause, i.e. a
clause whose main verb is a participle. This construction displays a considerable increase in usage frequency
in ...
Language contact, variation and change across the Italian communities of Bedford, Peterborough and Loughborough in the post-Brexit era
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
In the wake of previous research about the Italians in the uk (Balirano & Guzzo, 2011; Guzzo, 2014;
Di Salvo, 2012), the present contribution investigates the multi-layered relationship between migration,
identity and ...
Linguistic borders between French and Arabic in the Family Code in Morocco: loanwords and identity issues
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
Several observations have led us to investigate the loanwords used in the variety of French spoken
in Morocco, in relation to an institutional document such as the Family Code i.e., the set of laws
concerning the legal ...
Barbadian English idioms: Challenging linguistic norms in a diasporic context
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
As a typical phenomenon affecting virtually all diaspora Englishes, also throughout the Anglophone
Caribbean the centripetal forces leading to the recognition of a unified norm cohabit with the outward
thrust of linguistic ...
Ogiek and Akie: How many peoples for how many languages? What is their future?
(Roma: Carocci, 2023)
Ogiek and Akie are the names of two African endangered languages belonging to the Nilo-Saharan,
Kalenjin family, originally spoken by scattered groups of hunters and gatherers in a region stretching from
southern Kenya ...