Questo articolo analizza il romanzo di Eva Hoffman Lost in translation, tradotto italiano nel 1996 da Donzelli con titolo Come si dice e ripubblicato 2021 Erickson La lingua del tempo. Dopo aver esplorato i poli identità culturale, intese l’una come strumento l’altra relazione, lo scritto indaga la traiettoria apprendimento della L2 (l’inglese americano) parte dell’autrice, investigando ruolo q...

This article examines two podcasts, Black Coffee and S/Confini, authored by Italian second-generation migrants. Podcasting has recently been recognised as an independent medium that allows unheard minorities’ voices to emerge. The aim of the is twofold. Firstly, it tackles question what extent S/Confini can be understood part a bigger phenomenon online presence migrants counter-narrating tradit...

Lo studio della costruzione discorsiva dell’identità è un campo fecondo ‒ e ancora poco esplorato per comprendere la migrazione. L’integrazione del migrante dei suoi discendenti nella comunità di destinazione collegata a rappresentazioni sé, dell'altro mondo, che possono essere comprese meglio attraverso uno linguistico-discorsivo. Partendo dall’approccio metodologico Storia Orale, il gruppo ri...

This article discusses towns in the inner areas affected by depopulation. It starts with a broad introduction to illustrate critical issues that threaten their very existence, but also potential and hope, planning capabilities sometimes characterise communities inhabit them. then describes methodology which outlines sustainable local development processes based on knowledge, safeguarding enhanc...

This article proposes a revision of the predominant view of southern Italians during the ‘Hot Autumn’ of 1969 in Turin, one of the most remarkable moments of working-class mobilisation in modern European history. The representation of southern Italians as ‘primitive rebels’ and ‘spontaneous’ radicals has its roots in an earlier notion of southerners as social deviants and has obscured a much mo...