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ItemMissing the point! Misprints, mistranslations, & transformations(University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, 2003)The translation of literary works necessitates a process of linguistic and cultural transfer. This paper analyzes French translations of twentieth century Australian children’s fiction and highlights the variety of translational tendencies and interpretive choices at work in moving texts from one culture to another. While ‘mistakes’ in translation represent an undesirable yet inevitable side effect of the translation process, they offer choice moments of insight into constraints of culture and language. These constraints account for the important distinction between simple error, reinterpretation, and the appropriation of cultural content to reflect a preferred set of images.
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ItemL’email per imparare l’italiano: aspetti linguistici e contenutistici della comunicazione telematica in italiano L2(Flinders University, 2003)The integration of electronic communication into the teaching and learning of languages has opened up new horizons. This paper discusses a project involving the use of email exchanges in the Italian program at the Australian National University. Approximately eighty students participated in the project which consisted of two iterations of a one-to-one email conversation. This article examines the language and content of the messages constructed by students in terms of the following features: • the implications of the physical, psychological and temporal distance inherent in email communication • the differences between email communication of native speakers and learners • the dialogic nature of email communication and its relationship to both written and spoken communication • the importance of “empty” messages • the creativity of expression and the relationship between form and content.
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ItemThe Gorgia Toscana and the phenomenon of spirantization in Tuscany(University of Trier, 1996)A detailed overview of the development of the Gorgia Toscana (GT 'Tuscan Throat') over time and space. It reexamines earlier work and considers competing hypotheses (including Etruscan substratum) about the source of the phenomenon. It concludes that there is little evidence of substratal effects. While GT continues to spread across Tuscany, the appearance of unusual fricative type outcomes is not unique to this region as is often assumed.
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ItemSurvival of the suffix -unz(a) in Northern Italian and Romantsch( 1988)The suffix -unz(a) is restricted in distribution and disappearing in Northern Italian dialects, whereas it is thriving in Romantsch spoken in Switzerland. This difference suggests the suffix is increasingly used by Romantsch speakers as emblematic of their distinctive language and culture.