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This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the interactional meanings expressed by different forms of address in these two languages, which are compared adopting the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The forms analyzed include greetings, titles and opening and closing salutations used in letters and e-mails in the two languages. Noticeably, the book presents the first complete categorization of Italian titles used as forms of address ever made o...
An invaluable sourcebook on the complex relationship between psychosis, trauma, and dissociation, thoroughly revised and updated This revised and updated second edition of Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation offers an important resource that takes a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the multifaceted relationship between trauma, dissociation and psychosis. The editors – leaders in their field – have drawn together more than fifty noted experts from around the world, to canvas the relevant literature from historical, conceptual, empirical and clinical perspectives. The result documents the impressive gains made over the past ten years in understanding multiple aspects of the interface betwe...
Der gegenwärtige Buchmarkt Italiens ist mit einem einzigen Diskurs, nämlich dem postmodernistischen, nicht mehr zu erfassen. Erneut manifestieren sich Tendenzen realistischer Literatur, das heißt ›ernster‹ Literatur mit dem Anspruch, eine aktuelle extratextuelle Welt im Rückgriff auf tatsächliche Geschehnisse oder in einer wahrscheinlichen Ausformung möglicher Begebenheiten zur Darstellung zu bringen und Kritik zu üben. Realistische Literatur bleibt jedoch Literatur und damit Kunst, die metaphorisch, symbolistisch oder selbstbezüglich sein darf, um Darstellungsweisen zu optimieren, einen Erkenntnisfortschritt zu erzielen oder poetologische Grundlagen zu formulieren. Die verschied...
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