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Investigating Specialized Discourse

By: Maurizio Gotti

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Investigating Specialized Discourse

By: Maurizio Gotti

Maurizio Gotti analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and diversification, as compared to general language. Prior to any analysis of such traits, the notion of specialized discourse and its distinctive properties are clarified.

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3039117327

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Investigating Specialized Discourse

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Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

By: Maurizio Gotti

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Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

By: Maurizio Gotti

This volume explores the relationship between shared disciplinary norms and individual traits in academic speech and writing. Despite the standardising pressure of cultural and language-related factors, academic communication remains in many ways a highly personal affair, with active participation in a disciplinary community requiring a multidimensional discourse that combines the professional, institutional, social and individual identities of its members. The first section of the volume deals with tensions involving individual/collective values and the analysis of collective vs. individual discoursal features in academic discourse. The second section comprises longitudinal investigations of the academic output of single scholars, so as to highlight the individuality in their choices and the reasons for not conforming with the commonality of conventions shared by their professional community. The third part deals with genres that are meant to impose commonality on the members of an academic community, not only in the drafting of specialized texts but also when these are reviewed or evaluated for possible publication.

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Peter Lang

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3034300239

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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England

By: Maurizio Gotti

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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England

By: Maurizio Gotti

The object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spoken by thieves and vagabonds) that appeared in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scholars' attention has mostly concentrated on the earliest publications - particulary those appearing in the Elizabethan period -, while relatively little research has investigated subsequent canting dictionaries and glossaries. The aim of the present volume is to fill this gap. The main works on canting published in the 17th and 18th centuries are analysed in chapters 3 to 10. The first two chapters provide a necessary introduction to the investigation carried out in the subsequent sections, examining the great increase in the numbers of vagabonds and criminals in England in that period from a sociohistorical perspective and reviewing the 16th-century English literature about the underworld. The subsequent eight chapters give a detailed analysis of the main works on canting which appeared in the second part of the 17th century and during the whole of the 18th century. The specific features of each publication are identified, as well as the method adopted by its author in the compilation of his dictionary/glossary and the most likely sources of its entries, in order to determine the degree of novelty and relevance that his contribution has brought to this field. The final chapter deals with the evolution in the meaning of the term 'cant' itself in the period taken into consideration.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110924404

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Mafia Organizations

The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

By: Maurizio Catino

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Mafia Organizations

The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

By: Maurizio Catino

How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many more murders than others? This book makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a collative analysis of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews. Catino presents a comparative study of seven mafias around the world, from three Italian mafias to the American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia. He identifies the organizational architecture that characterizes these criminal groups, and relates different organizational models to the use of violence. Furthermore, he advances a theory on the specific functionality of mafia rules and discusses the major organizational dilemmas that mafias face. This book shows that understanding the organizational logic of mafias is an indispensable step in confronting them.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108750931

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The Italians of New York

By: Maurizio Molinari

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The Italians of New York

By: Maurizio Molinari

An overview of generations of Italians in the Big Apple, weaving together numerous stories from different epochs and different backgrounds. “If you want to learn something about Italian creativity, come to New York. Here, you will find the pride of flying the Italian colors at the Fifth Avenue Columbus Day Parade, the American patriotism of those who perished at Ground Zero, the courage of firefighters and marines on the frontline of the war against terrorism, the babel of dialects at the Arthur Avenue market, portrayals of social change in the writings of Gay Talese, stories of successful business ventures on the TV shows of Maria Bartiromo and Charles Gasparino, political passion in the battles of Mario Cuomo and Rudy Giuliani, creative imagination in the works of Gaetano Pesce, Renzo Piano and Matteo Pericoli, and provocation in the attire of Lady Gaga . . . The Midtown top managers, who arrived in the past twenty years, operate in the XXI century, while on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood the panelle are still prepared according to the Sicilian recipes transmitted from one generation to the next.” —From the Introduction

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New Acdemia+ORM

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1955835276

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Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

By: Maurizio Gotti

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Studies in Specialized Discourse

By: John Flowerdew,Maurizio Gotti

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Studies in Specialized Discourse

By: John Flowerdew,Maurizio Gotti

This volume brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the Language for Specific Purposes Symposium which took place in Bergamo, Italy from 29 August to 2 September, 2005. In selecting from papers on specialized discourse presented at this conference, the editors have tried to create a thematic unity by grouping the papers according to four disciplinary areas: academic and scientific discourse, business discourse, institutional discourse, and legal discourse. Within these fields, a diversity of approaches has been maintained in order to represent the eclectic nature of studies in specialized discourse as they are carried out today. It is no coincidence that the papers fall into these four areas, as these are fields with a very international dimension and hence the use of English, as the increasingly global language, is naturally very important. Indeed, all the papers included in this publication are in English and mainly focus on English. On the other hand, the contributors to this volume come from a range of different countries and mother tongues. This diversity represents the international interest in English as a language of specialized discourse and communication.

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Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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0820483931

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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England

By: Maurizio Gotti

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17th and 18th Century Canting Lexicography in England

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Walter de Gruyter

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Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication

By: Christopher Candlin,Maurizio Gotti

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Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication

By: Christopher Candlin,Maurizio Gotti

This volume explores intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realisations in language for specific purposes. Special attention is given to legal, commercial, political and institutional discourse used in particular workplaces, analysed from an intercultural perspective. The contributions explore to what extent intercultural pressure leads to particular discourse patternings and lexico-grammatical/phonological realisations, and also the extent to which textual re-encoding and recontextualisation alter the pragmatic value of the texts taken into consideration.

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Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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3039103520

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Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration

Issues, Challenges and Prospects

By: Professor Christopher N Candlin,Professor Maurizio Gotti,Professor Vijay K Bhatia

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Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration

Issues, Challenges and Prospects

By: Professor Christopher N Candlin,Professor Maurizio Gotti,Professor Vijay K Bhatia

It is increasingly held that international commercial arbitration is becoming colonized by litigation. This book addresses, in a range of ways and from various locations and sites, those aspects of arbitration practice that are considered crucial for its integrity as an institution and its independence as a professional practice. The chapters offer multiple perspectives on the major issues in play, highlighting challenges facing the institution of arbitration, and identifying opportunities available for its development as an institution. The evidence of arbitration practice presented is set against the background of practitioner perceptions and experience from more than 20 countries. The volume will serve as a useful resource for all scholars and practitioners interested in the institution of arbitration and its professional practices.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409497925

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Investigating Specialized Discourse

Investigating Specialized Discourse

Investigating Specialized Discourse

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Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

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Mafia Organizations

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The Italians of New York

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Commonality and Individuality in Academic Discourse

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Studies in Specialized Discourse

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The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication

Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication

Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration

Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration

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