In this issue:

A. Cattani – F. H. van Eemeren – M.D. Aeschliman – V. Prencipe – V. Bogushevskaya – C. Naccarato – C. Macagno – G. Giardini

Saggi

 Indice

 Adelino Cattani, Il discorso di commiato del “più prolifico studioso di argomentazione al mondo”

 Frans H. van Eemeren, Sulla ragionevolezza

 M.D. Aeschliman, A Dark Angel and His Masterpiece: Aldous Huxley and Brave New World

 Vittoria Prencipe, Origine e significato delle parole che parlano di cibo

The project aims to trace the semantic of the most commonly used words referred to food, beside ‘food’ and ‘nourishment’, through a prevailing etymological analysis, in order to highlight the differences that got lost in their current use. The second part of the article focuses on the concept of ‘feast’, convivium, a way to spend life together, upon which the Western idea of civilization is based.

Keywords: food, nourishment, banquet, civilization

 Victoria Bogushevskaya, Chinese GRUE: on the original meaning and evolution of qīng 青

One of the peculiarities of Chinese colour vocabulary is that the composite qīng 青category not only denotes green-blue continuum, but also extends into the macro-black area of a colour space. Qīng is one of the five canonical colours in China. Although it has a binary word formation function – as a radical in derived colour lexemes in wenyan and as a morpheme in compounds in Modern Standard Mandarin – it is not a basic colour term in contemporary Chinese, there are separate psychologically salient terms for ‘green’, ‘blue’ and ‘black’. The paper aims to provide semantic analysis of all the existing meanings of the polysemantic qīng, determines the sequence of their emergence and puts forward a hypothesis about the reasons for their syncretism.

Keywords: colour naming, grue, macro-category, qing, colour categorisation

 Chiara Naccarato, I composti verbali in russo

This paper is about verbal compounds in Russian. After a brief description of the main characteristics of verbal compounds and of the criteria used for their identification, Russian verbal compounds are classified on the basis of their morphological structure. Finally, the different types of verbal compounds are identified and the compounds that cannot be regarded as ‘verbal’ are excluded from this category.

Keywords: compounding, verbal compounds, Russian, argument structure

 Claudio Macagno, La poetica di titoli e copertine dei gialli di Dar’ja Doncova

This paper investigates the titles and the covers of Darya Dontsova’s detective novels. Starting from a number of considerations on the importance and function of the title in literary texts in general, the work focuses on the investigation of this phenomenon in mass popular literature, the genre which Dontsova’s novels belong to. The article describes the linguistic and semioic processes on which the choice of the titles and the covers is based. The principal semantic groups, the relationship between the titles of Dontsova’s novels and the series in which they are grouped are also examined. The numerous intertextual references that can be found in the titles on the one hand render the titles more attractive, on the other hand reveal a refined and sophisticated operation, the result of a poetic expression of our times.

Keywords: mass popular literature, detective story, Dar’ja Doncova, titology, intertextuality

 Giorgia Giardini, Il messaggio sociale nel teatro di Miguel Hernández

Ce travail se propose d’illustrer la trajectoire sociale et politique de Miguel Hernández à travers ses pièces de théâtre : nous analyserons sa progressive adhésion au communisme et son activité de propagande pendant la Guerre Civile Espagnole. En même temps, nous décrirons plusieurs choix thématiques de l’auteur, avec une attention particulière à la caractérisation des personnages dans ses pièces engagées.

Keywords: Miguel Hernández, engaged theatre, characters, evolution

 Recensioni

 Giovanni Gobber, Rassegna di Linguistica generale e di glottodidattica

 Enrica Galazzi e Chiara Molinari, Rassegna di Linguistica francese

 Margherita Ulrych e Amanda Murphy, Rassegna di Linguistica inglese

 Anna Bonola, Rassegna di Linguistica russa

 Federica Missaglia, Rassegna di Linguistica tedesca

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