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Worlds of words: complexity, creativity, and conventionality in english language, literature and culturevolume II - Literature and culture. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv.   -  Pisa University Press, 2019  - 

Inspired by the papers presented at the 28th biennial Conference of the Italian Association of English Studies, held in Pisa in September 2017, the essays collected in the Literature Section of this volume intend to contribute to a reflection on complexity and creativity in literary works, focusing both on the diachronic development of these two concepts through different ages and literary periods, and on their synchronic occurrence within texts and across genres. The wide time span covered by the essays, ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary, enables an extensive charting, as well as an inclusive and in-depth understanding, of an extremely rich phenomenology. The papers included in the Culture Section draw together multiple strands which expatiate on a variety of issues and fields, such as the far-reaching project and latest developments of Cultural Studies, trauma and ethnicity, globalisation and cyberspace, the politics of intermediality and communication patterns in social networks. An up-to-date and stimulating cartography is thus offered in which the paradigms of complexity, creativity and conventionality are crucially addressed and investigated in connection with their material contexts.

Worlds of words: complexity, creativity, and conventionality in english language, literature and cultureVol. I - Language. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv.   -  Pisa University Press, 2019  - 

The volume collects articles which discuss complexity, conventionality and creativity in the English language from perspectives as diverse as specialised discourse, language teaching and learning, language varieties, lexical creativity, stylistics, knowledge dissemination through the media and audio-visual translation. It offers a multifaceted picture of the ways in which opposing forces exerted by conventionality and creativity contribute to shaping all levels of the linguistic system. The interpretive paradigm is offered by the theory of complex systems, a rich research framework attempting to describe and explain the dynamics which emerge in the many forms of situational adaptation of natural systems. Norms and conventions are, in fact, constantly exploited and manipulated through the creative behaviour of language users. This may lead to unpredictable synchronic effects and variation and, ultimately, to diachronic innovation.

International Prospects: English for International Relations. E-book. Formato PDF Roy Boardman   -  Liguori Editore, 2012  - 

"International Prospects", utilizzando la metodologia del Task-Based Learning, mira allo sviluppo delle competenze linguistiche e comunicative necessarie per operare nel campo delle relazioni internazionali. Diviso in tre parti collegate tra di loro da dieci tematiche di importanza fondamentale per la comunicazione internazionale, il libro presenta alcune caratteristiche innovative, tutte tese alla capacità di interagire nella lingua inglese parlata e scritta. Nella prima parte, lo studente apprende il contenuto delle tematiche assieme agli elementi linguistici e le abilità - parlare, ascoltare, leggere e scrivere - che permettono un buon livello di comprensione e produzione. La seconda parte invita gli studenti a compiere dieci tasks, mettendo in pratica le competenze acquisite. La terza parte, New Utopia, consiste in una simulazione in cui è richiesto agli studenti di risolvere i problemi di una importante situazione internazionale, creando un mondo virtuale parallelo a quello reale e producendo testi di varia tipologia. Le attività vengono proposte in una forma che permette interazioni costanti tra gruppi di studenti nella stessa classe, di qualsiasi numero di componenti, ma possono essere svolte con profitto anche dallo studente che studia autonomamente.