Decolonizing resilience: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Indigenous Australian social media activism

Climate change has historically had a great impact on discussions of the goals and pathways of Australian development (Beeson and Macdonald 2013). In particular, recent climate-induced environmental disasters, such as the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire crisis, have called for the need to bring clarity to the concepts used to negotiate these discussions. This is especially the case of terms such as resilience and vulnerability. In particular, the neoliberal use of the term resilience and the re...

LE TENDE, IL SILENZIO E LA PORPORA. Spazi, oggetti e rituali nel palazzo imperiale (260-400 d.C.)

Relitti linguistici nella Longobardia: lo studio di una lingua senza testi

Il longobardo è una lingua senza testi. Le fonti linguistiche dirette consistono in parole isolate in testi tardo-latini, in glosse, in antroponimi e toponimi. Ma sono soprattutto i relitti lessicali nelle varietà italoromanze che forniscono le più numerose e interessanti testimonianze del longobardo. In questo tipo di ricerca la quantità di materiale lessicale disponibile acquista un enorme rilievo. Per questo motivo le schede lessicografiche preparate per la stesura di articoli del Lessico ...

Glances from the back shop of a lexicographical project

The "Lessico Etimologico Italiano" is a lexicographical project conceived by Max Pfister (and now directed by Wolfgang Schweickard and Elton Prifti, University of Saarland) aiming to describe the history of Italo-romance vocabulary in all its dialectal varieties. A separate section is devoted to words of Germanic origin, which represent an interesting research field for scholars both of Romance and Germanic linguistics and philology. The majority of Germanic loanwords in Italian varieties wer...