In this pilot study we present the results obtained in the analysis of two microcorpora about oral narrative in Spanish carried out by two cultural and language different populations, the Italian and the English one, taking ...

This paper addresses the twin issues of “description” and “evaluation” with reference to Victorian discussions of the business ideal. The first section offers a brief overview of novelistic portrayals of businessmen, notable ...

In his work Diario de 360°, published in 2000, the Spanish writer Luis Goytisolo gives birth to one of the best examples of “high” Literature. As the title indicates, it is written in the form of a diary, or better of a ...

This essay analyzes the particular semiotics of film language and proposes a specific approach to film textuality focusing on some films that narrate transnational and transversal stories within the history of German cinema, ...

Starting from the assumption that iconicity, as a means of narration, is prevalent in circumstances in which a new language is invented, the paper investigates the anti-language (Halliday, 1978) of rap music, considered ...

From the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis I will consider the reporting on the subject of immigrants in the Spanish press during the last elections. I will analyze how the reification of actions and actors moves ...

The aim of this paper is to show the difference between narration and argumentation in ancient Greek culture from the point of view of their respective conception of truth. I make reference to Homeric poems and to Gorgias’ ...

In the novel of Eduard Mörike Maler Nolten, published in 1832 on a «threshold era» between the 1800 and 1900 modernity innovations, interesting transforming modalities of narrative techniques develop, creating continuous ...