Law, Language and Gender by Lucia Morra
Inesa Šeškauskienė (ed) Metaphor in Legal Discourse, 2022
The chapter analyses the origin and evolution of the legal metaphor 'ordre public' through a comp... more The chapter analyses the origin and evolution of the legal metaphor 'ordre public' through a comparative perspective of the legal context of discourse and a cognitive–linguistic perspective of metaphors. The first sections trace the origin of the locution back to an early speech by Montesquieu, and then consider the metaphorical function the expression was meant to serve, and the legal meaning it shaped, through a reconstruction of the semantic fields surrounding the words ordre and public at that time. The middle sections analyse the locution in the Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen (1789), in the Code civil (1804), and finally in the Code pénal (1810) and how these documents polarised the concept, by bringing to the fore different facets of it. The final sections look at how the concept ordre public has evolved in Continental Europe during the Age of Nation States, leading to its present-day use.
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About Gender, 2019
https://riviste.unige.it/aboutgender/issue/view/36
The recent Italian debate upon the wording of... more https://riviste.unige.it/aboutgender/issue/view/36
The recent Italian debate upon the wording of identity documents gives us the opportunity to focus on the relationship between politics and law in issues raised by gender-based discriminations. The essay aims at investigating asymmetries and discriminations entailed by the normative perspectives on identity that the world of politics offers today to the Italian society. At this purpose, once introduced the debate upon the wording of the identity documents, the essay describes how these documents depend on birth certificates,
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Handbook of Communication in the Legal Sphere Ed. by Visconti, Jacqueline In collab. with Rathert, Monika, DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2018
According to Rodolfo Sacco’s theory of legal formants, legal rules found in written constitutions... more According to Rodolfo Sacco’s theory of legal formants, legal rules found in written constitutions, ordinary laws, court adjudications, and customs are composed of both formulated normative beliefs and unformulated assumptions. Legal interpretative practice, then, deals not only with the content of legal rules or with the structures and concepts used by doctrine and legal institutions, but also with competing sources, foundational principles and values, assumptions underpinning them, and with the interaction of socio-economic and political values with the idea of law. Our study combines a functionalist approach emphasising law-as-rules and a hermeneutic approach in which rules and concepts are the signifiers of cognitive structures that support and anchor positive law. Considering the halo of implicit meaning surrounding normative texts as a vehicle through which beliefs and values contribute in shaping the meaning that normative texts assume in adjudication, the essay shows that applying a pragmatic apparatus of textual analysis to statutes and judicial decisions may bring to the surface (and then make critically questionable) implicit beliefs, customs, social practices and rules of conduct (in short, cryptotypes) that guide the actions of the members of a community. The claim is supported by the analysis of some legal texts that show how certain questions raised by same - sex couples proved to be crucial in unveiling fundamental cryptotypes of patriarchy that covertly legal norms enshrine, and the different paths through which legal communities worked at their unveiling.
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Pragmatics and Law: Philosophical Perspectives, 2016
In A. Capone, F. Poggi (eds.), Pragmatics and Law: Philosophical Perspectives, Springer, 2016, pp... more In A. Capone, F. Poggi (eds.), Pragmatics and Law: Philosophical Perspectives, Springer, 2016, pp. 201-229.
Recent attacks on textualism are somehow dismissive of the relevance a Gricean approach to normative texts may have. Before entering the issue, the essay sketches some insights made possible by the analysis of presuppositions and implicatures in statutes and opinions. As an example, the techniques established by Sbisà (2007) for the retrieval of implicit information carried by texts are applied to a statute, to some opinions related to it, and to its final amendment. Cleared that approaching normative texts in this vein purports no theory of legal interpretation (indeterminacy being an essential feature of implicatures), the discussion focuses on the scope Andrei Marmor (2014) attributes to the Cooperative Principle of conversation. Marmor’s interpretation depends on a deviant reading of the adjective ‘cooperative’ as essentially helpful and sincere, whereas Grice meant his principle to cover both collaborative and strategic communicative exchanges, an established interpretation here confirmed by evidence suggesting that Grice’s elaboration of the Principle was partly inspired by the Hart-Rawls Principle of Fair Play, meant to cover expectations arising in both cooperative and strategic interactions. In Grice’s theory, any communicative exchange includes both a strategic and a collaborative component, their balance depending on the amount of purposes shared by the parties. The maxims in force in the conversation and the degree of collaboration the parties may mutually expect their moves to respect are shaped consequently. In conversations in which the parties pursue mostly aligned purposes, expectation of helpfulness and sincere collaboration is high; as a consequence, the moves available to the parties are different from those allowed in conversations in which the parties mutually know to be striving to reach mostly divergent purposes. Finally, the essay inquiries the general form a cooperative principle governing the textual exchange between the legislature and the courts may have, provided that its concretion in each legal community is modulated by the legal and social history of the community.
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Questo volume affronta questioni di genere, legate cioè ai mutamenti intercorsi negli ultimi dece... more Questo volume affronta questioni di genere, legate cioè ai mutamenti intercorsi negli ultimi decenni nell’organizzazione sociale e simbolica della sessualità, della riproduzione e della parentela. Quando l’interprete giuridico è chiamato ad applicare norme relative a questioni di genere, la sua precomprensione ha un ruolo cruciale: nel passaggio ermeneutico può tradire una certa posizione ideologica permettendo, ancorché non consapevolmente, a frammenti della sua identità individuale di riaffiorare. Chiamato ad applicare regole giuridiche che attivano emozioni e istinti basilari, deve monitorare con rigore metodologico le tecniche di estrazione dell’implicito, per non inferire dal testo normativo significati che attingono al proprio vissuto personale o alle proprie convinzioni ideologiche, e che il testo “non dice”. I saggi raccolti chiariscono il senso implicito di alcuni enunciati normativi e illuminano le prassi argomentative che conducono a determinate scelte di policy o a decisioni giudiziarie. Analizzano dunque l’attività del legislatore, dei giudici di merito e di legittimità, rivolgendo una particolare attenzione al ruolo di policy-maker del giudice costituzionale.
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Questioni di genere nel diritto: impliciti e crittotipi, Feb 2015
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Questioni di genere nel diritto: impliciti e crittotipi, Feb 2015
The essay proposes a textual analysis of California Family Code sec. 7601 as recently amended. Th... more The essay proposes a textual analysis of California Family Code sec. 7601 as recently amended. The extant section designs a new formal legal concept of parenthood; the unprecedented definition of natural parent it contains both excludes the relevance of a biological connection between parent and child and formally opens to the Courts the possibility of attributing a child more than two parents. Purpose of the present analysis, performed with the tools Sbisà forged in 2007 for a rational extraction of the implicit meaning of a text, is the recovery of information covertly vehicled by the new text of sec. 7601. Making explicit what the text presupposes and suggests contributes both to a deeper understanding of the section (through the appreciation of its possible legal effects in different contexts of intepretation) and to the reconstruction of the communicative interaction between the legislature and the judiciary (via the normative texts they both produce) that led to its amended version.
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Paradigmi, May 2016
The essay applies to judicial decisions the techniques Sbisà (2007) established for the retrieval... more The essay applies to judicial decisions the techniques Sbisà (2007) established for the retrieval of the information that texts implicitly carry with them. In order to consider the functions this kind of information plays in these kinds of texts, excerpts from opinions are analyzed looking for their presuppositions and implicatures. The examples show that when decisions depend on judges’ choice of one amongst the competing implicatures the text of a statute makes available, detecting the chosen implicature may help the interpreter better track down the ratio decidendi; further, they show that making explicit presuppositions and implicatures evoked by the text of opinions may contribute to a deeper understanding of the grounds of the decisions.
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Conversational Implicatures in Normative Texts, in J.L. Mey, A. Capone (eds.) Pragmatics, culture and society, Springer , Jun 2015
The paper considers the occurrence in statutes and codes of law of conversational implicatures, a... more The paper considers the occurrence in statutes and codes of law of conversational implicatures, and their use in judges’ interpretation. Marmor’s ideas on the question are here discussed after a textual analysis of some provisions from the Italian Civil Code and of a subsection of the United States Code framed by their interpretations in the two legal communities. The analysis shows that statutes often suggest a disjunction of conversational implicatures from which interpreters choose the one that best suits their interests, namely, in the case of judges, the one that settles the questions at issue. Conversational implicatures in normative texts have a normative stance: they are possible nuances of meaning from which legislators, acting as a collective agency, more or less consciously authorize interpreters to choose to build their interpretation. The peculiar normative status of implicatures in statutes and the possibility of exploiting them in legal interpretation rest on the fact that the legislature and judges run a peculiar kind of conversation extended in time and mediated by texts which they respectively produce and interpret following minimal conversational maxims that they know their interlocutors follow as well.
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Implicature conversazionali nei testi di legge, Esercizi filosofici, 6 (1), pp. 214-231 , 2011
L'articolo considera la funzione nei testi di legge delle informazioni convogliate dalle implicat... more L'articolo considera la funzione nei testi di legge delle informazioni convogliate dalle implicature conversazionali e il loro ruolo nell'interpretazione giuridica.
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The essay deals with the mechanism of interpretation for legal metaphorical expressions. Firstly,... more The essay deals with the mechanism of interpretation for legal metaphorical expressions. Firstly, it points out the perspective the cognitive approach induced about legal metaphors; then it suggests that this perspective gains in plausibility when a new bilateral model of language understanding is endorsed. A possible sketch of the meaning-making procedure for legal metaphors, compatible with this new model, is then proposed, and illustrated with some examples built on concepts belonging to the Italian Civil Code. The insights the bilateral model of understanding provides are compared with the practice followed by legal communities for dealing with the metaphorical expressions they coin and use.
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Representing Sovereignty in Renaissance England. Pictorial Metaphors and the Visibility of Law. In R. Sherwin, A. Wagner (eds.) Law, Culture and Visual Studies, Springer Netherlands: 79-103, 2013
This chapter investigates some of the multifarious ways used to represent and to communicate what... more This chapter investigates some of the multifarious ways used to represent and to communicate what the body of law is and how the law has to be understood. The analysis is based on an interdisciplinary approach, aimed to interpret political concepts and legal practices according to the more recent results of cognitive science. Pictorial metaphors are described as the outcomes of a general mode of thought operating in various spheres of human cognition expressed through pictorial languages. In the background to the recognition theory of depiction and to pragmatic research about contextual factors of evaluation, the cognitive characteristics of pictorial metaphors as well as a sketch of their understanding are given, and their persuasive potential and their role in shaping organizations are hinted at. Examples of pictorial metaphors in the Renaissance England iconography of law are then examined through these analytical tools. In particular, dress of law and allegorical portraits of sovereignty are considered. The purpose of this study is to discover the bulk of symbols and signs used to shape the English Legal Tradition and to justify the inner structure of its proper narrative. The aesthetics of Renaissance Common Law is scrutinized beyond the conventional accounts with the aim to bring to the surface the contending images sustaining antagonistic claims to sovereignty.
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Metaphor in legal language: clarity or obscurity? 2006. In Anne Wagner, Sophie Cacciaguidi eds., Clarifying Legal Drafting: Practice and Tools, Peter Lang, Berne., 2006
In this chapter we discuss the role metaphors have in legal language and what they mean for the t... more In this chapter we discuss the role metaphors have in legal language and what they mean for the task of clarification. Following a brief explanation of the concept of cognitive metaphor, we will examine the use and function of metaphors in legal language, and more specifically in normative texts. Here, our primary aim is to demonstrate that metaphors are strictly unavoidable in legal language because they are constitutive of legal reasoning; and only a cognitive linguistic analytical approach can highlight the hidden metaphorical value some normative texts may have.
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Considerazioni sul “buon padre di famiglia” 2002, Rivista critica del diritto privato XX (4), 529-563., 2002
Il saggio analizza da un punto di vista linguistico l’espressione buon padre di famiglia, usata n... more Il saggio analizza da un punto di vista linguistico l’espressione buon padre di famiglia, usata nel codice civile per delineare il parametro della diligenza. Ne esamina la radice storica, la funzione che ha assunto nei codici moderni, e il significato che gli conferiscono i tre principali formanti del diritto, e cioè il codice, la giurisprudenza e la dottrina. L’analisi mostra che l’espressione funziona nel senso assegnatole dal codice quando è intesa come una metafora e non come uno stereotipo. Si delineerà cos’è una metafora dal punto di vista cognitivo, e perché l’espressione buon padre di famiglia può dirsi tale. Ciò implica che la metafora è presente non solo nel linguaggio ‘extra normativo’ ma anche in quello ‘formale’ del codice, dove ha una funzione costitutiva. Infine si valuteranno pro e contro per la scelta di una metafora diversa.
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L’approccio cognitivo alla metafora nel linguaggio giuridico, in Caterina Raffaele ed., Fondamenti cognitivi del diritto¸ Milano, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori, 157-175., 2008
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Diritto e metafore: a che punto è la notte?, Pólemos, 1, pp. 155-175., 2009
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Wittgenstein by Lucia Morra
Nordic Wittgenstein Reveiw, 2024
https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3697/66
Amongst the attendees at Wittgenst... more https://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/article/view/3697/66
Amongst the attendees at Wittgenstein’s lecture to the Heretics Society in November 1929, there was also Alethea Graham, a student in her fourth year at Girton College who attended also his lectures in Lent Term 1930. Excerpts from her diary mentioning the philosopher are here transcribed and commented upon. A sharper focus on the audience of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics and his first academic class is then added.
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Paradigmi, 2023
During his long scholarly life, Brian McGuinness did substantial research into the intellectual r... more During his long scholarly life, Brian McGuinness did substantial research into the intellectual relationships which Ludwig Wittgenstein established with Piero Sraffa and Raffaello Piccoli respectively during his first years back in Cambridge. The essay runs through McGuinness’s works on both topics, then it illustrates a few outcomes of the research we performed together in the last years of his life. Finally, the paper sketches out some lines of investigation about both Wittgenstein’s biography and his movement of thought which our research further suggests.
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Wittgenstein and Marx. Marx and Wittgenstein, 2021
The essay chronicles how Ludwig Wittgenstein, Piero Sraffa and Raffaele Piccoli got acquainted in... more The essay chronicles how Ludwig Wittgenstein, Piero Sraffa and Raffaele Piccoli got acquainted in 1929, and reconstructs their friendships; then it considers how the three relationships had separate but interrelated dynamics, and finally it highlights how Wittgenstein’s political perspective was in 1929-1931 more in tune with that of Piccoli than with that of Sraffa.
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Wittgenstein-Studien, 2020
In 1929 Ludwig Wittgenstein met Raffaello Piccoli, the Serena Professor of Italian, with whom he ... more In 1929 Ludwig Wittgenstein met Raffaello Piccoli, the Serena Professor of Italian, with whom he arranged several meetings in the following terms. For a long time their intellectual friendship was suggested only by the occurrences of Piccoli’s name in Wittgenstein’s Cambridge Pocket Diaries, then a paper about Piccoli including hypothesis on his meetings with Wittgenstein was published (Marjanović 2005), and more recently, the diaries of a student of both Piccoli and Wittgenstein in 1929–1930 were discovered. The new material, on the background of data now available about Piccoli’s life and works, throws new light onto his relationship with Wittgenstein, and hypothesis on the topics of their conversations are also advanced. Piccoli’s perspective on the difference between ethics, religion and philosophy on the one hand and science on the other was in tune with Wittgenstein’s view and similar was also their aversion towards scientism; furthermore, Piccoli had read many of the authors for which Wittgenstein showed an interest in 1930 –1931 – Freud, Spengler, Frazer, Augustine, and also James.
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Law, Language and Gender by Lucia Morra
The recent Italian debate upon the wording of identity documents gives us the opportunity to focus on the relationship between politics and law in issues raised by gender-based discriminations. The essay aims at investigating asymmetries and discriminations entailed by the normative perspectives on identity that the world of politics offers today to the Italian society. At this purpose, once introduced the debate upon the wording of the identity documents, the essay describes how these documents depend on birth certificates,
Recent attacks on textualism are somehow dismissive of the relevance a Gricean approach to normative texts may have. Before entering the issue, the essay sketches some insights made possible by the analysis of presuppositions and implicatures in statutes and opinions. As an example, the techniques established by Sbisà (2007) for the retrieval of implicit information carried by texts are applied to a statute, to some opinions related to it, and to its final amendment. Cleared that approaching normative texts in this vein purports no theory of legal interpretation (indeterminacy being an essential feature of implicatures), the discussion focuses on the scope Andrei Marmor (2014) attributes to the Cooperative Principle of conversation. Marmor’s interpretation depends on a deviant reading of the adjective ‘cooperative’ as essentially helpful and sincere, whereas Grice meant his principle to cover both collaborative and strategic communicative exchanges, an established interpretation here confirmed by evidence suggesting that Grice’s elaboration of the Principle was partly inspired by the Hart-Rawls Principle of Fair Play, meant to cover expectations arising in both cooperative and strategic interactions. In Grice’s theory, any communicative exchange includes both a strategic and a collaborative component, their balance depending on the amount of purposes shared by the parties. The maxims in force in the conversation and the degree of collaboration the parties may mutually expect their moves to respect are shaped consequently. In conversations in which the parties pursue mostly aligned purposes, expectation of helpfulness and sincere collaboration is high; as a consequence, the moves available to the parties are different from those allowed in conversations in which the parties mutually know to be striving to reach mostly divergent purposes. Finally, the essay inquiries the general form a cooperative principle governing the textual exchange between the legislature and the courts may have, provided that its concretion in each legal community is modulated by the legal and social history of the community.
Wittgenstein by Lucia Morra
Amongst the attendees at Wittgenstein’s lecture to the Heretics Society in November 1929, there was also Alethea Graham, a student in her fourth year at Girton College who attended also his lectures in Lent Term 1930. Excerpts from her diary mentioning the philosopher are here transcribed and commented upon. A sharper focus on the audience of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics and his first academic class is then added.
The recent Italian debate upon the wording of identity documents gives us the opportunity to focus on the relationship between politics and law in issues raised by gender-based discriminations. The essay aims at investigating asymmetries and discriminations entailed by the normative perspectives on identity that the world of politics offers today to the Italian society. At this purpose, once introduced the debate upon the wording of the identity documents, the essay describes how these documents depend on birth certificates,
Recent attacks on textualism are somehow dismissive of the relevance a Gricean approach to normative texts may have. Before entering the issue, the essay sketches some insights made possible by the analysis of presuppositions and implicatures in statutes and opinions. As an example, the techniques established by Sbisà (2007) for the retrieval of implicit information carried by texts are applied to a statute, to some opinions related to it, and to its final amendment. Cleared that approaching normative texts in this vein purports no theory of legal interpretation (indeterminacy being an essential feature of implicatures), the discussion focuses on the scope Andrei Marmor (2014) attributes to the Cooperative Principle of conversation. Marmor’s interpretation depends on a deviant reading of the adjective ‘cooperative’ as essentially helpful and sincere, whereas Grice meant his principle to cover both collaborative and strategic communicative exchanges, an established interpretation here confirmed by evidence suggesting that Grice’s elaboration of the Principle was partly inspired by the Hart-Rawls Principle of Fair Play, meant to cover expectations arising in both cooperative and strategic interactions. In Grice’s theory, any communicative exchange includes both a strategic and a collaborative component, their balance depending on the amount of purposes shared by the parties. The maxims in force in the conversation and the degree of collaboration the parties may mutually expect their moves to respect are shaped consequently. In conversations in which the parties pursue mostly aligned purposes, expectation of helpfulness and sincere collaboration is high; as a consequence, the moves available to the parties are different from those allowed in conversations in which the parties mutually know to be striving to reach mostly divergent purposes. Finally, the essay inquiries the general form a cooperative principle governing the textual exchange between the legislature and the courts may have, provided that its concretion in each legal community is modulated by the legal and social history of the community.
Amongst the attendees at Wittgenstein’s lecture to the Heretics Society in November 1929, there was also Alethea Graham, a student in her fourth year at Girton College who attended also his lectures in Lent Term 1930. Excerpts from her diary mentioning the philosopher are here transcribed and commented upon. A sharper focus on the audience of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics and his first academic class is then added.
Sraffa e Wittgenstein: gli incontri tra febbraio 1929 e giugno 1930, in G. Cospito (ed.) Sraffa e Wittgenstein a Cambridge, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, 2016, pp. 77-112.
Summary: 1. Premessa - 2. Maynard il Magnifico - 3. Keynes, Ramsey, Sraffa, Wittgenstein - 4. Ramsey, Wittgenstein, Sraffa - 4.1 Indipendenza delle proposizioni elementari - 4.2 Pensieri discreti - 4.3. Interlocutori più e meno congeniali - 5. Oltre Ramsey: Sraffa, Wittgenstein e Raffaello Piccoli - 6. Dopo Ramsey: grammatica, gesti e tentazioni
La schematica ricostruzione che segue della riflessione analitica sulla traduzione nella prima metà del Novecento ha proprio lo scopo di mostrare che Quine non rese ex abrupto centrale una questione fino ad allora ignorata dai suoi colleghi, quanto piuttosto le diede un’importanza maggiore e strategicamente diversa; lascia inoltre intravedere che il movimento attraverso il quale la traduzione diventò una questione di importanza centrale nella filosofia analitica fu di progressiva astrazione. Sorto all’inizio del Novecento come problema tecnico in seno a un obiettivo specifico (ridurre la matematica alla logica, e cioè un dato linguaggio formale ad un altro linguaggio formale dato), il problema della traduzione si mutò negli anni Trenta in quello di trovare un metodo generale per tradurre linguaggi formalizzati e dalla fine degli anni Cinquanta diventò infine quello di delineare le condizioni generali della traduzione, indipendentemente dal tipo di linguaggi coinvolti in essa. Prima di allora, condizione del tradurre era saper identificare il significato, un’analisi che con il procedere della riflessione si era fatta sempre più sofisticata: con l’esperimento della traduzione radicale, Quine rovesciò tale pilastro concettuale. Mostrò che condizione del tradurre non può essere saper identificare il significato, indeterminato in linea di principio, e dunque che la teoria della traduzione va indagata prima di e indipendentemente da quest’ultimo. Con tutto ciò, anche Quine non delineò la sua teoria in base alle caratteristiche della traduzione fra lingue naturali, perché considerò tale pratica solo in quanto banco di prova per confutare un modello teorico concepito per spiegare la traduzione tra linguaggi formalizzati. Questa è probabilmente una delle ragioni per cui, applicata a tale pratica, la teoria dell’indeterminatezza della traduzione di Quine sembra innaturale, e, in fondo, inadeguata.
An extended and updated version of the article is published on Contributions to Political Economy, 40 (1), 53-77, available at: https://academic.oup.com/cpe/article-abstract/40/1/53/6231738
For the sake of simplicity, let us take a specific example, well, which is a very common DM in English, and which has been studied by several linguists
and pragmaticians (cf., to quote a few, Owen 1983, Pomerantz 1984, Schiffrin 1987, Svartvik 1980, Carlson 1984, Jucker 1993, Watts 1986; for a review, cf. Bazzanella 1999).
Well has an Italian lexical (or semantic) ‘equivalent’, bene, which is not used as a DM in the same functions as the English well. The main differences are that it cannot be used as a turn-taking device, and it cannot carry out partial or complete disagreement. In the latter cases, Italian resorts to be', which has lexicalized this particular meaning, while the English well contains both of these opposite functions.
Let us refer to a literary text, Brothers and Sisters, by Ivy Compton Burnett, and its Italian translation, Fratelli e Sorelle, published by Garzanti, Milan (1982). The translation is by A. Micchettoni.
In conclusion of the analysis, words used in a DM function are ‘indeterminate’ per se and one can determine them only with regard to the specific usage, starting from their “core meaning”. Furthermore, DMs, though an apparently peripheral phenomenon, constitute a crucial and stimulating area for translation theory. Leaving aside the sense of 'naturalness' they give in a literary text (i.e. the interactional feature of language), they contribute to what could be called ‘pragmatic compositionality’, which has to be achieved in the target language by exploiting the various levels involved.
The aim of my article is to discuss this specific and problematic proposal, framing it within the reflections produced by the analytical philosophy of language during the second half of the last century. However, before coming to this, it is necessary to introduce the structure of Hornung’s argument more extensively.
The twelve papers on the Egyptian hieroglyphic script have been written by philosophers and Egyptologists. The first of the two sections in which the volume is articulated constructs a sketched history of Western philosophical reflections on hieroglyphic writing. This history, starting from Neoplatonism and ending with Deconstructionism, passes through the Renaissance, Hegel’s age and analytical philosophy. The second section is dedicated to some of the latest Egyptolinguistic perspectives on hieroglyphic writing, and questions different pillars of standard Egyptolinguistics, namely the primeval ‘descriptive’ function of hieroglyphic writing, the neat distinction between ideograms, phonograms and determinatives or classifiers and the purely iconic role of the latter. In the new perspective, Egyptian writing is no longer conceived as a mirror of language, but as something that contributes to shaping the language and reflects thought models in evolution.
Coordinata da Monica Centanni, Simona Morini, Barbara Pasa
intervengono: Ruben Baiocco, Antonia Anna Ferrante, Anna Fressola, Alessandro Grilli, Gabriele Monti, Lucia Morra, Simone Rossi, Alessandra Vaccari.