In multilingual Cameroon, 247 indigenous languages live side by side with English and French (the two official languages) and Cameroon Pidgin English (the main lingua franca). While the two official languages of colonial heritage dominate public life in the areas of edu...

Languages differ in the ways they divide the world. This study applies cluster analysis to understand how and why languages differ in the way they express motion events. It further lays out what the parameters of the structure of the semantic space of motion are, based ...

This paper investigates the history of - mente parlando , a construction that can be used in modern Italian either as a style disjunct (e. g. rigorosamente parlando ‘strictly speaking’) or as a domain adverbial (e. g. economicamente parlando ‘economically speaking’). Th...

The paper discusses the presentation of Nazi Germany in products of current Danish popular culture. It analyzes and compares two different, but closely connected types of media: movies and popular history magazines. It is informed by a social identity approach and demon...

Grazia Deledda, insignita del Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1926, è stata generalmente considerata una delle voci maggiori della scrittura al femminile di primo Novecento, sospesa tra Verismo e Decadentismo e spesso tacciata di regionalismo. Tuttavia la critica it...

The discussion in the entire area of "intercultural communication" revolves around the issue of facilitating mutual understanding between members of ethnic and cultural communities. The basic assumption is that once this has been achieved, the fundamental problems have ...

Concurrent auditory stimuli have been shown to enhance detection of abstract visual targets in experimental setups with little ecological validity. We presented 11 participants, wearing an eye-tracking device, with a visual detection task in an immersive audiovisual env...

Il libro di Lia Levi preso in esame si presta a essere letto sia come un documento riguardante la persecuzione degli ebrei in Italia, sia come la testimonianza d’una infanzia negata, in cui la giovanissima protagonista è alla ricerca di sé, in un mondo intriso di retori...

Although much has been written on 'communication strategies' (CS), in the sense of potentially conscious plans for solving problems encountered in reaching particular communicative goals, there still remain large gaps in our knowledge in this respect. One area worthy of...