Italian Discourse - A Cultural Semantic Analysis

Farese presents a comprehensive analysis of the most important Italian cultural keywords and cultural scripts, which reflect the salient aspects of Italian culture and society. This book illuminates ways in which the Italian language is related to Italians' character, values, and way of thinking.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Parlami e Ti Dirò Chi Sei
Chapter 2. Che Bello!
Chapter 3. Una Brutta Storia
Chapter 4. Italiani, Brava Gente
Chapter 5. Italiani Sapientoni
Chapter 6. Italiani Attori
Chapter 7. Italiani Comandanti
Chapter 8. Conclusione
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

By Gian Marco Farese

Summary

Farese presents a comprehensive analysis of the most important Italian cultural keywords and cultural scripts, which reflect the salient aspects of Italian culture and society. This book illuminates ways in which the Italian language is related to Italians' character, values, and way of thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Gian Marco Farese
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781793603166
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-316-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Italian, Italian, Language teaching and learning, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Semantics, discourse analysis, etc