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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Italian language"”.
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Empathetic Text Style Transfer Layer for Conversational Agents a modular architecture and new resource for the italian language
… attenuation. Despite advances in natural language generation, current conversational agents rarely exhibit genuine empathetic behavior, often producing neutral or affectively inadequate responses. This limitation is even more evident for the Italian language, where the development of …
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A triple case study of two Saudi and one Italian language learners' self-perceptions of target language (TL) speaking proficiency
… the diverse ways in which two Saudis and one Italian English language learner (ELL) came to speaking proficiency according to his or her own perceptions and observations. The researcher conducted interviews of the two Saudi ELLs face-to-face and the one Italian ELL through Skype by asking 15 …
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Dynamics and Diversity Within Non -English Language Neighborhoods: Changes Over Space and Time
Moreover, during the 1990s, all non-English language neighborhoods (except for German- and Italian-language neighborhoods in Chicago) grew particularly in the suburbs. Moreover, contrary to the model of spatial assimilation, some of the language neighborhoods in the central city shrunk while …
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Two Weeks to the Italian Renaissance: A Guided Tour of the Painting, Sculpture, and Architechture of Italy
… Marin Catholic High School, who, as part of the Italian language program, take academic educational trips to Italy every two years. The guidebook has been created to serve as a reference for the painting, sculpture, and architecture that the students will study while on their tour. The guide is …
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Towards an empirical approach to the study of dubbing-induced language change in Italian
… to researching translation interference and language change through dubbing and it takes the Italian language as a case study. By employing an empirical methodology, this research overcomes some of the limitations of previous approaches to the subject and identifies the object of study with …
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Gli alunni italiani a Malta : sistemi e risultati nella scuola italiana e nelle scuole maltesi
This research analyses mainly the Italian educational system. Initially, I focused my work on three Maltese schools which cater for the education of Italian foreigners residing in the island. These students were interviewed and a short analyses about them and about the approaches adopted in these …
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Gli anglicismi nella comunicazione politica su Twitter
This work investigates the use of anglicisisms in Italian political communication as developed in the microblogging website Twitter. After having briefly outlined a theoretical framework, referring to grounded studies in the field of language contact and language imperialism, we present an analysis …
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L'attrazione sessuale: processi psichici e strumenti di indagine. L'adattamento italiano del Cuestionario de Atraccion sexual
… (Fernández ET to, 2006a; 2006b; 2006c) to the Italian language; the second study is aimed to assess the attitudes towards the sexual attraction in a sample of university students, in order to establish if some differences or association with some psychological dimensions (attachment stiles and …
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Il lessico in corsi universitari di italiano l2
… and especially its role in teaching and learning Italian as a foreign language. In recent decades, in fact, the crucial importance of vocabulary has been repeatedly reaffirmed within the disciplines that deal with the learning of second languages as well as in language teaching, although in the …
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Dante’s Hapax Legomena in the Commedia: A Study of Poetic Singularity
… in terms of the poet’s contribution to the Italian language. Hapax are defined in these works as words whose only occurrence in fourteenth century Italian literature is in the *Commedia*. My thesis shifts the focus from the field of historical linguistics to that of lexical poetics, instead …
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Le Rime di Giovanni De'Mantelli di Canobio, detto Tartaglia (Cod. Grey 7.b.5)
This thesis presents, in a critical edition, the poems contained 1n Grey Ms. 7.b.5 of the South African Library in Cape Town. It is the fruit of the first serious investigation to be undertaken of this manuscript and of its contents. Before a reconstruction of the text could.be attempted, problems …
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Maria Messina : her works
In this thesis I examine the work of the tum-of-the century Sicilian writer, Maria Messina (1887-1944). Relatively prolific, she received attention from some of the major critics of her day. But her works were forgotten after her death until the early 1970s. Messina's works are significant for …
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L'imperialismo, come la lebbra, si cura con la morte": intesecting narratives in Ennio Flaiano's Tempo di uccidere
In 1947 Ennio Flaiano published what was to become his only full-length novel, Tempo di uccidere. Set in Abyssinia during the 1935-1936 Italo-Ethiopian War, it is a work that, notwithstanding its ostensibly "realist" subject matter, displays a palpable dissonance with the coeval cultural and …
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L’economia della natura e il respiro del mondo. La filosofia della natura di Swedenborg tra Herder e Schelling (1770-1810)
… writings (some of which are not available in Italian language yet), in order to make a comparison and show the connections among their ideas, which still partially need a thorough consideration.
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The Italianate Wordsworth
The Italianate Wordsworth is a study of William Wordsworth's enduring interest in Italian literature and culture -- an important aspect of his intellectual life and creativity to which no previous book has been devoted. Of all the first-generation Romantics, Wordsworth was the most influenced by …
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Dark humour as a culture specific phenomenon: a study in screen translation
… involved in dubbing humour from English into Italian as observed in the English- and Italian-language versions of ten British and American dark comedies from the 1940s to the 2000s. In an attempt to identify some of the main mechanisms of the dark humour genre, the humorous content of the …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… and the sense of nationhood as expressed in Italian literature set in the Alpine border regions from the 1980s to the present. It explores how the presence of the national border, along with its related geopolitical, cultural, and social dynamics, influences Italian-language literary …
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INTER-COMPARISON AND VALIDATION OF GLOBAL AND REGIONAL REANALYSES PRODUCTS FOR THE STUDY OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS OVER ITALY
… Since this contribute was originally in Italian language, an English version is provided in this thesis (Paper V). The final phase of my PhD focused on precipitation extremes over Italy. Building on the awareness of reanalysis strengths and limitations acquired in the previous studies, I …
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