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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective

Implications for a general language theory

By: Virginia Volterra,Maria Roccaforte,Alessio Di Renzo,Sabina Fontana

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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective

Implications for a general language theory

By: Virginia Volterra,Maria Roccaforte,Alessio Di Renzo,Sabina Fontana

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the past and only recently have been brought to the fore and described. First, the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon, 2004). Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete), also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of ‘duality of patterning’. These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027257841

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9789027257840

The Seigneurial Transformation

Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080-1130

By: Alessio Fiore

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The Seigneurial Transformation

Power Structures and Political Communication in the Countryside of Central and Northern Italy, 1080-1130

By: Alessio Fiore

In The Seigneurial Transformation, Alessio Fiore discusses the transformation of the fabric of power in the kingdom of Italy in the period between the late eleventh century and the early twelfth century. The study analyses the major socio-political change of this period, the crisis of royal and public structures, and the development of seigneurial powers, using as a starting point the structures of power over men and land, and the discourses about the exercise of local power. This period was marked by a rapid reshaping of the structures of local power; while the outbreak of civil wars in the 1080s did not imply a clear-cut rupture with the past, it led to a staggering acceleration of pre-existing dynamics, with a reconfiguration of the matrix of power, in turn expressed in a transformation both of the instruments of local political communications and of the practices of power.

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318

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Oxford University Press

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0192559745

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9780192559746

Fascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism

Searching for a Third Way

By: Alessio Gagliardi

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Fascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism

Searching for a Third Way

By: Alessio Gagliardi

The interwar period was marked in Europe by the rediscovery of corporatism as a possible solution to the crucial problems of modern mass society. This was the result of general changes across industrialised countries in the relationship between the state and social groups. In Italy, it took on a uniquely authoritarian shape. Fascist regime became the cradle of a new model of corporatism, a “third way” alternative to both capitalism and communism, destined to influence both political, juridical, and economic debate and similar legislative experiments undertaken by other countries, be they democratic or authoritarian. The book offers an overview of corporatism in Fascist Italy. It examines not only the ideology but also the acts and real activities of corporative institutions (corporazioni). It dwells upon internal debates, the political and institutional importance acquired by corporative institutions in the Fascist regime, and the behaviour of entrepreneurial organizations and labour unions. At the same time, the book highlights the role of Italy in the transnational circulation of the corporative ideal by reconstructing both the considerable influence of Mussolini’s regime in a range of different political and geographical contexts and the way in which the authorities in Rome turned to coeval international experiences.

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218

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Taylor & Francis

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1003857558

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9781003857556

Shaping the New Man

Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

By: Alessio Ponzio

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Shaping the New Man

Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

By: Alessio Ponzio

Despite their undeniable importance, the leaders of the Fascist and Nazi youth organizations have received little attention from historians. In Shaping the New Man, Alessio Ponzio uncovers the largely untold story of the training and education of these crucial protagonists of the Fascist and Nazi regimes, and he examines more broadly the structures, ideologies, rhetoric, and aspirations of youth organizations in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Ponzio shows how the Italian Fascists’ pedagogical practices influenced the origin and evolution of the Hitler Youth. He dissects similarities and differences in the training processes of the youth leaders of the Opera Nazionale Balilla, Gioventù Italiana del Littorio, and Hitlerjugend. And, he explores the transnational institutional interactions and mutual cooperation that flourished between Mussolini’s and Hitler’s youth organizations in the 1930s and 1940s.

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335

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299305848

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9780299305840

Tunnel Fire Testing and Modeling

The Morgex North Tunnel Experiment

By: Fabio Borghetti,Marco Derudi,Paolo Gandini,Alessio Frassoldati,Silvia Tavelli

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Tunnel Fire Testing and Modeling

The Morgex North Tunnel Experiment

By: Fabio Borghetti,Marco Derudi,Paolo Gandini,Alessio Frassoldati,Silvia Tavelli

This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses. In particular, the authors describe a transient full-scale fire test (~15 MW), explaining how they designed and performed the experimental activity inside the Morgex North tunnel in Italy. The entire organization of the experiment is described, from preliminary evaluations to the solutions found for management of operational difficulties and safety issues. This fire test allowed the collection of different measurements (temperature, air velocity, smoke composition, pollutant species) useful for validating and improving CFD codes and for testing the real behavior of the tunnel and its safety systems during a diesel oil fire with a significant heat release rate. Finally, the fire dynamics are compared with empirical correlations, CFD simulations, and literature measurements obtained in other similar tunnel fire tests. This book will be of interest to all engineers and public officials who are concerned with the nature, prevention, and management of tunnel fires.

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105

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Springer

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3319495178

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9783319495170

Cefalonia 1943: la strage degli italiani

By: Alessio Colacchi

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Cefalonia 1943: la strage degli italiani

By: Alessio Colacchi

il libro accende i riflettori su uno degli episodi meno noti e meno raccontati del secondo conflitto mondiale, ma che oltre 10.000 soldati hanno vissuto drammaticamente in quell'estate del 1943.

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Lulu.com

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1291004920

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9781291004922

Studi Teologici Giovanili

By: Alfredo Alessio Conti

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Studi Teologici Giovanili

By: Alfredo Alessio Conti

Studi di varia natura di Teologia L'alleanza al Sinai analisi di es.24,1-11 Salmo 1 prologo del salterio Profezia e Poesia Il Pastore di Erma Calvino e il protestantesimo riformato Dalla crisi protestante alla riforma cattolica Breve sintesi storico-dogmatica sui sacramenti in genere La tossicodipendenza: cause, rimedi e prevenzione

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1471725936

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9781471725937

Book's by Alessio Di Renzo

Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective

Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective

The Seigneurial Transformation

The Seigneurial Transformation

Fascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism

Fascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism

Shaping the New Man

Shaping the New Man

Tunnel Fire Testing and Modeling

Tunnel Fire Testing and Modeling

Cefalonia 1943: la strage degli italiani

Cefalonia 1943: la strage degli italiani

Studi Teologici Giovanili

Studi Teologici Giovanili

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