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  • The French borrowings in the Oxford English Dictionary - A lexicographical, linguistic and cultural analysis.

    Autore: Chiara Letizia Pernigotti

    Abstract: What Mario Pei affirms brings us back to the idea that almost nothing in language is created ex novo, that the majority of the words comes from somewhere. Not all of the words are borrowings, but it is true that borrowings are taken from another language and subsequently combined and adjusted into a new one. It is fascinating to see how words carry with them a combination of linguistic and cultural characteristics. Languages, in fact, are made up of concepts, concepts become alive through »

  • The danger of a single story: contemporary Nigeria and the new African diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck"

    Autore: Jessica Tomasin

    Abstract: The work of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has become, in the last few years, one of the most interesting phenomena coming from the African literary scene. Despite her being still a young author, her first two novels became a worldwide success, thus drawing the world's attention on her life and production, and leaving every reader with great expectations and curiosity about her third publication: the collection of short stories The Thing Around Your Neck, which is the main object of discussion of »

  • Black English & Standard English

    Autore: Giovanni Particco

    Abstract: L’elaborato analizza il Black English (BE), una varietà d’inglese associata alle comunità afro-americane nate nel nuovo continente in seguito al commercio degli schiavi del diciassettesimo secolo, e il percorso che tale gruppo etnico ha attraversato durante il Novecento, superando violenza e discriminazione con dignità, fino ad ottenere un riconoscimento politico, sociale e più concretamente legislativo, attraverso l’ottenimento dei diritti civili. Una prima analisi storica ripercorre le tappe »

  • The English of Politics - The Language of Barack Obama and John McCain

    Autore: Fabrizia Ianieri

    Abstract: According to Orwell, the most striking example of bad habits in the English language is political writing. It is artificial, pompous, filled with Latin words falling “upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details” (Orwell, 1946, p.166), never fresh, vivid, sincere. Political language consists largely of euphemism, question-begging and, above all, vagueness. Orwell stated that “political speech and writing are the defence of the indefensible”, in that »

  • The role of Euro-English as a new potential variety in the multilingual European institutions: a social and linguistic study

    Autore: Veronica Simeone

    Abstract: This thesis wants to provide an analysis of some linguistic and social aspects of the Euro-English phenomenon, which has been concerning the European continent for several years. Euro-English is an expression used to denote an independent potential variety of English, which is supposed to be developing in Continental Europe and has emerged in a number of articles and publications dealing with English in Europe, English as a lingua franca (ELF), as well as with varieties of English (the »

  • Translating Culture in films: Three cases of dubbing

    Autore: Elisa Debora Tamborino

    Abstract: My dissertation focuses on the idea of losing culture in dubbed films. Like literary translation, film translation may be a problematic process, because it is not easy to keep the exact meaning of the original version. This difficulty is often due to the fact that the “meaning” to be kept involves not only the language, but also the culture of the original version. Dubbing a film means creating a passage from one linguistic community to another one who neither speak the same language nor share »

  • Training and development in the hospitality business: the Holiday Inn London – Kensington Forum

    Autore: Omar Rossi

    Abstract: Training and development of personnel inside a company are a fundamental tool to increase satisfaction and productivity of both the employees and the company itself. This thesis started from an important work experience at Intercontinental Hotels Group in London, UK. Step by step I show how international Anglo-Saxon companies plan their employees’ growth, investing time and resources in the appraisal and communication with the employees, setting up a customized development plan. My thesis was »

  • Pension Plans: a focus on Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

    Autore: Matteo Abeni

    Abstract: The purpose of pension schemes is to provide people with a suitable income level during retirement in order to allow them live with dignity until their death. In most countries both state and private pension schemes exist and depending on the country regulations, they are more or less widespread. Private pensions are called "supplementary pensions" as well and are non-state pensions. They can operate on either a personal (single) or occupational (group) basis. With demographic, economic and »

  • Politiche del bilinguismo e riscontri nel mondo del lavoro nelle Western Isles

    Autore: Anna Rita Cabras

    Abstract: Le Ebridi Occidentali, arcipelago al largo della costa nordoccidentale scozzese, con una popolazione di poco più di 25.000 abitanti, restano il luogo simbolo di conservazione e di promozione del gaelico scozzese, lingua dal futuro precario, parlata da appena 50.000 persone in Scozia, che sta cercando di resistere e di non scomparire, migliorando gradualmente il suo status e ampliando quelli che sono i suoi àmbiti d’uso. Il rapporto col territorio e le attività ad esso collegate caratterizzano »

  • Gibilterra: l'uso degli articoli nella pratica del code-switching

    Autore: Francesco Cabras

    Abstract: La lingua, in questo caso potremmo dire ‘le lingue’, è uno dei fattori determinanti nella costruzione dell’identità socio-culturale e nazionale di questa comunità. Si è detto ‘le lingue’ in quanto a Gibilterra, poco più di 7 kmq di superficie e meno di 30.000 abitanti, si parla inglese, che ha lo status di lingua ufficiale, ma è diffusissimo l’uso dello spagnolo; sono parlati anche l’arabo e l’ebraico, e quasi tutta la popolazione è accomunata dall’uso di un dialetto locale alla cui »