Conrad per ragazzi nelle raccolte Vallecchi: un’analisi linguistico-traduttologica

The Pro.Bio.Dic. (Prototype of a Bioethics Dictionary) project: Building a corpus of popular and specialized bioethics texts

This paper reports on an ongoing, long-term research project in the field of medical ethics and bioethics conducted by a multidisciplinary team combining medical, linguistic, IT and philosophical research interests: the Prototype of a Bioethics Dictionary (Pro.bio.dic).Having already outlined (Vicentini et al. 2011) the reasons and needs to both redefine and update the lexicographic material available so as to provide a corpus-based collection of the English terms of contemporary bioethics to...

Shadows over accreditation in higher education: some quantitative evidence

Accreditation systems in higher education are widespread both in the USA and in Europe. However, numerous reservations have appeared in the literature about whether these systems can comprehend and represent the quality of university courses. This study sets out to contribute to this debate by discussing whether the results of the recent university teaching accreditation system in Italy are influenced by the characteristics of degree programmes, their performance, and the characteristics of i...

Corpus-assisted stylistics and translation criticism: a distributional analysis of seven Italian translations of Joseph Conrad’s The Lagoon

This paper explores how corpus-assisted distributional analysis can be used to explore the stylistic features of literary works in relation to the notion of linguistic deviation (Leech 1985: 47), that is, linguistic patterns that are motivated by aesthetic purposes (Simpson 2004: 50). This concept can also be usefulwhen analysing translation styles and to what extent translators are aware of an author’s original choices. A stylistic analysis of Joseph Conrad’s The Lagoonand seven Italian tran...