Mediterranean Heritage In Transit

Author : Lucia Abbamonte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443889636

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Mediterranean Heritage in Transit by Lucia Abbamonte Pdf

It is mainly within and around Mediterranean itineraries that the European Union seeks its in/tangible cultural heritage, an important component of both individual and collective identities. This volume brings together many different strands of analysis, helping to shed light on the multifaceted entities that constitute the socio-semiotic landscape of the Mediterranean. It views this vibrant scenario from a cross-cultural perspective, and investigates the domains of national identities and stereotypes, advertising and social media, TV series, myths and festivals, landscapes, culture-bound terms, migrating words, and food. More specifically, some chapters revolve around issues of intra-/inter-group identities in the context of itineraries of recent or historical migrations, and how such variegated identities are re-shaped by and through the media, in a dynamic interplay of symbols and clichés. In the same vein, gender issues are also addressed in a dimension suspended between tradition and modernity, with a special focus on Turkish women. The multi-dimensional Turkish culture and landscape are also voiced through an example of blended American/Turkish children’s literature. Other chapters explore the language of tourism in the diverse multimodal representations and textualizations of the tourist experience in Mediterranean destinations, mainly expressed through social media. The contemporary appreciation of the Mediterranean Diet as a global cultural heritage is also explored through the magnifying lens of such media. Given the variety of perspectives and methodological approaches adopted by the contributors, this volume offers useful insights to students and practitioners of discourse analysis alike. From an educational perspective, the book, which also includes practical worksheets, can be used in first- and second-level degrees in Foreign Languages, Communication, Political Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, as well as specific courses in linguistics, multimodal studies, critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. The underlying rationale of the book is its concentration on the prominent role of English in representing the Mediterranean heritage, despite the fact that it is a non-Mediterranean language. At the same time, the volume bridges the gap between academic research and class practice at the university level.

Author : Daniela Francesca Virdis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031106583

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Ecological Stylistics by Daniela Francesca Virdis Pdf

This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse. Firstly, the book presents the ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories applied in this ecostylistic analysis (ecosophy, beneficial, ambivalent and destructive discourses; and foregrounding, point of view, metaphor), and reviews the most recent literature in the field of ecostylistics. Secondly, the book examines the occurrences of five marker words (nature, environment, ecosystem, ecology, sustainability) on the websites of five environmental organisations and agencies (Forestry England, Greenpeace International, National Park Service, Navdanya International, World Wide Fund for Nature). The main research purpose of this study is to identify beneficial discourses in the environet and to investigate the beneficial ecostylistic strategies utilised to produce them. Above all, this book reminds us humans that we do not stand apart from nature: we are a part of it. The book will be of interest to scholars of stylistics, ecolinguistics and ecocriticism, as well as scholars of discourse analysis, environmental communication and environmental humanities.

Author : Daniela Francesca Virdis,Elisabetta Zurru,Ernestine Lahey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027260161

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Language in Place by Daniela Francesca Virdis,Elisabetta Zurru,Ernestine Lahey Pdf

The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from, among others, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, Text World Theory and ecostylistics, the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape, place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of, and the need for, a “stylistics of landscape”, which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a “stylistics of place”, which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a “stylistics of environment”, which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities, able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships.

Author : Anna Trono,Francesca Ruppi,Sara Romano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 8867661264

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Cultural Heritage for the Sustainable Development of Mediterranean Countries by Anna Trono,Francesca Ruppi,Sara Romano Pdf

Author : Anna Franca Plastina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527580497

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Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments by Anna Franca Plastina Pdf

This collection explores the changing nature of health discourse in different digital environments. It offers sustained discourse analyses of a number of interactions generated through the affordances and constraints of these new social contexts, which are affecting health communication in subtle and profound ways.

Author : Rossella Corrao
Publisher : Gangemi Editore
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8849250088

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(I)Heritage by Rossella Corrao Pdf

Author : Lucia Abbamonte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527521469

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'Black Lives Matter' by Lucia Abbamonte Pdf

This volume focuses on the ongoing protest in the US against racial discrimination and racial profiling, which often result in the loss of black lives at the hands of police agents, a phenomenon that has recently attracted unprecedented media attention. The topics dealt with here, such as the relevance of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, are currently included in a variety of education curricula in the US, and, in like manner, this book can be used in first and second level degrees in linguistic and cultural studies, communication, media studies and political sciences. It contains well-developed methodological sections (with tables, figures, graphs and notes), where the tenets of critical discourse analysis are concisely illustrated from its Foucauldian roots up to the more recent developments of multimodal critical discourse analysis and positive discourse analysis, as well as the contribution of the Sidney School with their emphasis on mapping culture through narrative genres and the wealth of resources for discourse analysis provided by the appraisal framework.

Author : Maria Grazia Sindoni,Ilaria Moschini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000505436

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Multimodal Literacies Across Digital Learning Contexts by Maria Grazia Sindoni,Ilaria Moschini Pdf

This collection critically considers the question of how learning and teaching should be conceived, understood, and approached in light of the changing nature of learning scenarios and new pedagogies in this current age of multimodal digital texts, practices, and communities. The book takes the concept of digital artifacts as being composed of multiple meaning-making semiotic resources, such as visuals, music, and design, as its point of departure to explore how diverse communities interact with these tools and develop and explore their understanding of digital practices in learning contexts. The first section of the volume examines different case studies in which involved participants learn to grapple with the introduction of digital tools for learning in children’s early years of schooling. The second section extends the focus to secondary and higher education settings as digital learning tools grow more complex as do students, parents, and teachers’ interactions with them and the subsequent need for new pedagogies to rethink these multimodal artifacts. A final section reflects on the implications of new multimodal tools, technologies, and pedagogies for teachers, such as on teacher training and community building among educators. In its in-depth look at multimodal approaches to learning as meaning-making in a digital world, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, English language teaching, digital communication, and education.

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Luisa Passerini,Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus,Iris van Huis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030114640

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Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe by Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Luisa Passerini,Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus,Iris van Huis Pdf

This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projects related to European heritage, museums, and cultural memory networks, while having to take dissonant heritages into account. These processes in their combination offer an interesting dynamic and form the complex puzzle that poses challenging questions for anyone involved in academic research, heritage practices, and policy debates. With this puzzle at its core, this book explicitly focuses on slippery and transforming notions of Europe and critically discusses ongoing and transforming power structures of heritage and memory in today’s Europe. The book combines theoretical and methodological contributions to the debates on European heritage and memory studies and in-depth analyses of empirical case studies. Its main aim is to bring research fields concerning memory and heritage into a closer dialogue and thus explore the cultural and political dynamics of contemporary Europe.

Author : Hocine Bougdah,Antonella Versaci,Adolf Sotoca,Ferdinando Trapani,Marco Migliore,Nancy Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030173081

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Urban and Transit Planning by Hocine Bougdah,Antonella Versaci,Adolf Sotoca,Ferdinando Trapani,Marco Migliore,Nancy Clark Pdf

A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands. This book, not only discusses environmental challenges of the world today, but also informs the reader of the new technologies, tools, and approaches used today for successful planning and development as well as new and upcoming ones. Chapters of this book provide in-depth debates on fields of environmental planning and management, transportation planning, renewable energy generation and sustainable urban land use. It addresses long-term issues as well as short-term issues of land use and transportation in different parts of the world in hopes of improving the quality of life. Topics within this book include: (1) Sustainability and the Built Environment (2) Urban and Environmental Planning (3) Sustainable Urban Land Use and Transportation (4) Energy Efficient Urban Areas & Renewable Energy Generation (5) Quality of Life & Environmental Management Systems. This book is a useful source for academics, researchers and practitioners seeking pioneering research in the field.

Author : Aomar Boum,Thomas K. Park
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442262973

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Historical Dictionary of Morocco by Aomar Boum,Thomas K. Park Pdf

A historical reference work on Morocco must take as its subject al-maghrib al-aqsa (the far west) as the Arabic scholars have generally referred to the approximate region of present-day Morocco, roughly the north-west corner of Africa but at times including much of the Iberian peninsula, because the modern nation-state is a relatively recent creation owing much to events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. External influences on Morocco tend to come across the narrow straits of Gibraltar to the north, from the east along the Mediterranean litoral, or up from the Sahara. In each case, access is constrained by geography and continued control from outside the region has been difficult to manage over the long term. Although many of the dynasties that came to power in Morocco conquered much broader regions, history and topology have so conspired that there is still more coherence to an historical focus on al-maghrib al-aqsa than is the case for most modern nation-states. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Morocco contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Morocco.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : International law
ISBN : UVA:35007001445398

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The Law of the Sea with Emphasis on the Mediterranean Issues by Anonim Pdf

Papers presented at the Institute's 1986 session.

Author : Carlos Fiolhais,José Eduardo Franco,José Pedro Paiva
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802071337

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The Global History of Portugal by Carlos Fiolhais,José Eduardo Franco,José Pedro Paiva Pdf

For thousands of years, Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event, interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (João Luís Cardoso, Carlos Fabião, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Catia Antunes and António Costa Pinto) and ninety Contributors offer a critical and analytical synthesis of the history that originated in Portuguese territory or passed through it, stimulating the process of encounter and dis-encounter in todays global world. The history presented gives special attention to the world that moulded Portugal and the Portuguese, and to the ways Portugal configured the world. It seeks to identify and understand the transversal entanglements of historic impact and the impulses these gave to the construction of Portugal and the world. Contemporary reflection and academic scholarship on the global history of leading nations has stimulated a rethinking of the past and a more comprehensive recognition of legacy. Historians can no longer overlook the wider world with which their country of investigation has interacted. Portugal's role in the dynamic circulation of peoples and ideas makes it global history not only unique by way of what took place but also in terms of a potential academic template for better understanding of how the past shapes the present, and more particularly the importance of acknowledging a country's past historic mis-steps and how these are dealt with by contemporary populations.

Author : Y. Tzvi Langermann,Robert G. Morrison
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 0271071095

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Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean by Y. Tzvi Langermann,Robert G. Morrison Pdf

A collection of essays using historical and philological approaches to study the transit of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period. Examines the nature of texts themselves and how they travel, and reveals the details behind the transit of texts across cultures, languages, and epochs.

Author : Council of Europe,European Conference of Ministers Responsible for Regional Planning
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287143536

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Towards a Spatial Development Strategy for the European Continent by Council of Europe,European Conference of Ministers Responsible for Regional Planning Pdf