L’imprenditorialità circolare per lo sviluppo dei territori in ottica green

Being a Contemporary Woman Writer. Il saggio sulla scrittura: Deborah Levy, Jeanette Winterson e Zadie Smith

Since the publication of Montaigne’s Essaies in 1580, the essay’s tendency to escape definitions as well as its ability to take on several forms, have epitomised it as protean. Among its features is also the ability of being self-reflexive and of lending itself to exploring issues that merge the personal and the political, together with the professional aspects of the craft of writing. This thesis addresses these aspects within the more specific context of essays by writers such as Deborah Le...

Teaching Japanese Pragmatics: ne, yo, and yone in Italian University Classrooms

This dissertation addresses a persistent challenge in Japanese as a Foreign Language: the acquisition and teaching of interactional particles ne, yo, and yone, which are crucial for pragmatic nuance in everyday talk. Despite their centrality in interaction, textbooks often reduce them to simplified, prescriptive meanings, leaving learners with incomplete understandings. The study adopts the Place of Negotiation framework (Maynard, 2002) to conceptualize these particles across three interrelat...

SACRED LANDSCAPES IN THE PELOPONNESE: ACHAIA AND NORTHERN ARCADIA

This work examines the sacred landscapes of Achaia and Northern Arcadia from the Early Iron Age (10th century BC) to the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeology, history, and advanced digital tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the study systematically catalogues cultic sites and explores their spatial, environmental, and social contexts. The research reveals that sanctuaries in this region were deeply embedded in both na...

Corpus Linguistics and Digital Environments in English: from Academic Research to English Language Learning, Testing and Assessment

This study is collocated in the field of Corpus Linguistics, English Language Teaching and English for Academic Purposes. It investigates the potential of corpus-based techniques to analyse students’ written productions in digital environments and to offer insights for e-assessment tools and syllabus development in both general and academic English. The research adopts a corpus-informed approach to online language learning and testing, combining linguistic analysis, assessment practices, and ...

Queer languages in subtitling, translation, and social media: a lexicological and sociolinguistic comparison between Polari and modern camp talk in the UK

Pensare ecologie. Articolazioni del dualismo nell'opera di Donna Haraway

Shaping Communities Through Language Practices, Ideologies, and Mobility: The Diaspora language of the Arab-descent Communities in Surakarta, Surabaya, and Jakarta.

Shaping Communities Through Language Practices, Ideologies, and Mobility: The Diaspora language of the Arab-descent Communities in Surakarta, Surabaya, and Jakarta. Luigi Sausa - Ph.D. Student l.sausa@unior.it Supervisors: Antonia Soriente - University of Naples “L’Orientale” Aurora Donzelli - Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Riccardo Contini - University of Naples “L’Orientale” Abstract Amid extensive scholarly discussions on Indonesia's Islamization and Arabiz...

Adramón: estudio y edición

Questa tesi di dottorato presenta lo studio letterario e l'edizione critica di Adramón, un romanzo cavalleresco spagnolo, anonimo e manoscritto dei primi anni del XVI secolo. La tesi è articolata in due volumi, con il primo dedicato allo studio e il secondo all'edizione del manoscritto. Lo studio è suddiviso in sette capitoli o sezioni. Nell'introduzione, il lettore troverà i principali problemi relativi a Adramón, e nel secondo capitolo un riepilogo degli approcci critici di questo romanzo c...