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Longo, Maria. "Self-esteem, ethnic identity and maintenance of traditions in second generation Italo-Australians /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsl856.pdf.
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Neto, Mayara da Silva. "Pedir em italiano: um estudo sobre a percepção da cortesia por parte de falantes nativos e aprendizes brasileiros." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8148/tde-01032019-122412/.
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O pedido, no âmbito da Pragmática cross-cultural, tem sido estudado por diversos pesquisadores, tanto por ser um dos exemplos mais claros de que é possível fazer coisas com as palavras, como prevê a Teoria dos Atos de Fala (Austin, 1962), quanto por seu potencial de ameaçar a face positiva de quem o profere e negativa de quem o recebe, conforme postularam Brown e Levinson (1987). Tendo em vista esses pressupostos, a pesquisa aqui apresentada teve o intuito de investigar a percepção que aprendizes brasileiros de italiano e falantes nativos dessa língua têm da cortesia linguística presente em pedidos realizados em italiano, a fim de verificar se há semelhanças ou disparidades nas percepções relatadas pelos diferentes grupos e quais são os elementos que podem motivar essas percepções. Para tal, uma amostra de oito pedidos, gravados em áudio e vídeo, foi apresentada aos informantes brasileiros e italianos, que deveriam indicar, em uma escala de 1 a 5, qual o nível de cortesia neles presente, além de indicar, em um conjunto de 19 variáveis, o quanto elas influenciaram a percepção relatada. O corpus coletado é composto por 40 aprendizes brasileiros e 51 italianos e, a partir da análise dos dados, concluímos que i) quatro dos oito pedidos avaliados pelos informantes suscitaram percepções análogas e, consequentemente, outros quatro pedidos causaram percepções diversas; ii) algumas variáveis (modificadores de força ilocucionária e aspectos como a entoação) tiveram impacto significante sobre a percepção da cortesia em geral e, quanto a cada pedido em específico, que nem sempre a presença de modificadores de força ilocucionária influencia a percepção da cortesia, podendo também a ausência desses elementos ter um impacto positivo ou negativo. Também concluímos que uma grande quantidade de modificadores não necessariamente resulta em uma alta percepção da cortesia.The request, in the context of cross-cultural Pragmatics, has been studied by several researchers, both for being one of the clearest examples of the possibility of doing things with words, as predicted by the Theory of Speech Acts (Austin, 1962), as well as for its potential to threaten the positive face of the speaker and the negative face of the hearer, as postulated by Brown and Levinson (1987). In view of these presuppositions, the research presented here was intended to investigate how Brazilians learners of Italian and native speakers of this language evaluate the linguistic politeness in requests made in Italian, in order to verify if there are similarities or disparities in the perceptions reported by the different groups and what are the elements that can motivate these perceptions. To do this, a sample of eight requests, recorded in audio and video, was presented to Brazilian and Italian informants, who were asked to indicate, on a scale of 1 to 5, the level of politeness of those speech acts, besides indicating, in a set of 19 variables, how much they influenced the reported perception. The corpus collected is composed of 40 Brazilians and 51 Italians and, based on data analysis, we concluded that i) four out of eight requests evaluated by the informants presented similar perceptions and, consequently, four other requests caused different perceptions; ii) some variables (modifiers and aspects such as intonation) had a significant impact on the perception of politeness in general. For each specific request, we concluded that the presence of modifiers does not always influence the perception of politeness, and that the absence of such elements may also have a positive or negative impact. Finally, it was possible to notice that a large number of modifiers does not necessarily result in a high perception of politeness.
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Rubino, Antonia. "From trilingualism to monolingualism : a case study of language shift in a Sicilian-Australian family." University of Sydney, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1614.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis analyses language shift in a Sicilian-Australian family, from the parents' use of three languages: Sicilian, Italian and English, to the children's almost exclusive use of English.
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Bufanio, Settimio. "Real Italians and Non-Real Italians - Proposta di sottotitolaggio di un episodio di Italics sul dibattito italo-americano." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020.
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Questo elaborato ha come obbiettivo proporre la traduzione audiovisiva, sotto forma di sottotitoli, di un episodio del programma televisivo Italics, della rete CUNY TV.
La proposta combina due elementi chiave che contraddistinguono la divisione degli insegnamenti in questo corso di laurea, ovvero l’interculturalità e la traduzione.
Nel corso dei tre anni di mediazione linguistica interculturale a Forlì, infatti, i moduli di traduzione ed interpretazione nella prima lingua di studi si alternano a quelli di lingua e cultura, in cui si esplorano vari aspetti della cultura dei paesi della lingua in questione.
Realizzare la traduzione di un episodio di questo programma unisce alla perfezione i due ambiti, in quanto oltre a mettere in atto le tecniche di traduzione apprese e ad iniziare a lavorare su quella specializzata audiovisiva, tocca direttamente il tema forse più “perfettamente interculturale”, nel vero senso della parola, fra cultura italiana e cultura americana, ovvero quello degli italo-americani, che è ciò intorno a cui si svolge questo programma ed in particolar modo la puntata in questione.
L’elaborato è diviso in tre capitoli. Il primo tratterà le basi della traduzione audiovisiva, dal suo percorso di riconoscimento nel campo della traduzione, per poi trattare in particolare il sottotitolaggio; il secondo capitolo tratterà in breve la parte culturale, riassumendo i contenuti del programma e la causa scatenante della riaccensione del dibattito italo-americano; infine, il terzo ed ultimo capitolo comprenderà il commento tecnico alla traduzione, con esempi concreti di problemi e scelte di traduzione.
In appendice sarà allegata la tabella dei sottotitoli completi, affiancati dalle battute originali e dai tempi di entrata ed uscita.
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Carlson, Cumbo Enrico T. "As the twig is bent, the tree's inclined, growing up Italian in Toronto, 1905-1940." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ28136.pdf.
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Sprio, Margherita. "Screening Italians : identity, memory and sexuality in Italian film and culture." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414836.
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Milanese, Alessia. "Italians in South Africa : challenges in the representation of an Italian identity." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7953.
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Bibliography: leaves 72-75.Through a selection of material written by Italians in South Africa, this study aims to discuss the difficulties and challenges faced by Italian emigrant writers in representing their identity. The study places itself in the context of other studies in the field of i/emigrant, minority and ethnic studies in as much as the body of work, similarly to i/emigrant texts written in other parts of the world, has been to date considered of marginal significance or has not been examined at all. This study instead considers the opportunities of analysis that texts such as these represent and offers motivations for the need to engage with them. To analyse these texts offers the possibility to observe the relative status of the reader/critic and also to be open to the process of identity creation which does not exist in a vacuum but rather through the exchange and relations held between people of different linguistic, socio-political, historical and cultural backgrounds. With specific regard to material written by Italians in South Africa, an area in which research has up to now been fairly limited, it is argued that the tendency is for writers to emphasise a nationalistic and patriotic definition of Italian identity. This is in part as a result of the pressure emigrants face when confronted by their new cultural, linguistic and geographic setting. The tendency towards patriotic and nationalistic sentiment has also been encouraged during specific moments of Italy's history, and that is, the years leading up to Italy's unification and declaration of its nationhood status (the Risorgimento) and during fascism. The texts analysed are a letter (dated 1833) of a settler to the Cape, one Rocco Catoggio; the war time diary (published in a literary and political Italian newspaper in 1901) by a certain Camillo Ricchiardi, a volunteer and Boer sympathiser during the South African War (1889 - 1902); newspaper articles published by Italian Prisoners of War in the Zonderwater Camp during the Second World War and the biography and chronology by Adolfo G. Bini on the history of Italians in South Africa.
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LO, GRECO THOMAS GAETANO. "RECIPE FOR ITALIANS THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD IN THE MAKING OF ITALIANS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613232.
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My thesis topic is on the formation of Italian identity through the lens of food in literature. I look specifically at four different works: three literary works, and one film. I demonstrate that Italy is a relatively young nation and it is still divided among its different regions, however, because food is such a deeply rooted piece of the Italian culture it has been an instrumental tool in forming their identity. I analyze how the idea of food has succeeded in forming an Italian identity, while other ideas have failed. I look at the use of food as a tool to shape the Italian’s mind over time, starting from before Italy was a nation, working through its tumultuous history, up until present day.
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Tuart, Adrienne. "Discrimination and Desire: Italians, Cinema, and Culture in Post-War Sydney." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21877.
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This thesis begins with the arrival of thousands of Italian immigrants in Australia during the early stages of Arthur Calwell’s post-war mass immigration program. Their arrival was greeted with widespread anxiety reflecting cultural, racial, religious and economic tensions. The post-war assimilationist policy, which privileged Anglo-Australian culture, language and identity, assumed that Italians and Italian culture would be absorbed into Australian society. These assumptions were challenged through the presence of the new symbols of italianità on the streets of Sydney, as film, design, fashion and cuisine made their mark on society. The screening and reception of Italian film is an important and often overlooked cultural marker at the centre of a period of dynamic cultural exchange in Sydney between 1948 and 1971. This thesis argues that Italian cinema and the diaspora reshaped the nature and culture of post-war Sydney, and in turn, the perception of Italian identity
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Sudatti, Neto Reinaldo. "O Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí na preservação da memória dos imigrantes italianos (1992-2015)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/157176.
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No final dos anos 1980, a comunidade de descendentes de imigrantes italianos vivia um momento de perda gradual da sua memória desagregando-se das suas raízes enquanto grupo cultural, levando alguns membros proeminentes da comunidade de famílias descendentes de imigrantes italianos a se reunirem com o objetivo de fundarem uma instituição que tivesse por alvo a revisitação dessa memória deixada pelos imigrantes, propiciando o seu não desaparecimento e levando à fundação do Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí. Dentre as medidas executadas pelo Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí, para o não desaparecimento das memórias das famílias de descendentes de imigrantes italianos, estão as homenagens feitas baseadas nas narrativas orais. Destaca-se, nesse processo, a participação das mulheres na questão do ato de guardar e repassar estas memórias que são contadas pelas famílias homenageadas, levando à revisitação desta memória e do estreitamento dos laços entre estas famílias e seus ancestrais. O objetivo da pesquisa é o estudo sobre a importância do Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí na revisitação da memória das famílias descendentes de imigrantes italianos, analisando os tipos de memórias escolhidas por esta instituição e estratégias utilizadas na construção e revisitação de uma memória imigrantista italiana em Jundiaí. O recorte temporal abarca os anos entre 1992, quando o Circolo foi fundado, dentro das preocupações com a conservação de uma memória em vias de desaparecimento, e o ano de 2015, quando a instituição termina sua parceria com a Rádio Difusora de Jundiaí. Essa ruptura causa mudanças nas estratégias de conservação e divulgação dessa memória pela Instituição que inicia uma nova fase de suas atividades. As fontes de pesquisa foram diversas, compreendendo os jornais de Jundiaí, depoimentos orais dos fundadores do Circolo, documentos oficiais da Câmara Municipal de Jundiaí, relatos de memorialistas que escreveram sobre a presença dos italianos na cidade em momentos distintos e as fotos que fazem parte do site dessa instituição.
In the late 1980s, the descendants community of Italian immigrants was experiencing a gradual loss of memory, disaggregating from its roots as a cultural group, leading some prominent members of the descendant families community of Italian immigrants to meet with the objective of founding an institution that aimed to revive this memory left behind by the immigrants, propitiating its non-disappearance and leading to the foundation of the Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí. Among the measures implemented by the Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí, for the non-disappearance of the families memories of Italian immigrant descendants, there are homages based on the oral narratives. In this process, the participation of women in the issue of keeping and passing on these memories that are told by the honored families, leading to the reviving of this memory and the strengthening of the bonds between these families and their ancestors. The purpose of this research is to study the importance of Circolo Italiano di Jundiaí in reviving the memory of families descended from Italian immigrants by analyzing the types of memories chosen by this institution and strategies used in the construction and revisiting of an Italian immigrant memory in Jundiaí. The time frame covers the years between 1992, when Circolo was founded, within preoccupations with the conservation of a memory in the process of disappearing, and the year of 2015, when the institution ends its partnership with Radio Difusora de Jundiaí. This rupture causes changes in conservation strategies and dissemination of this memory by the Institution that initiates a new phase of its activities. The research sources were diverse, including Jundiaí newspapers, oral testimonies of Circolo founders, official documents of Jundiaí City Hall, reports of memorialists who wrote about the presence of Italians in the city at different time periods and the photos that are part of this institution’s website.
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Rebane, Gala [Verfasser]. "Re-Making the Italians : Collective Identities in the Contemporary Italian Historical Novel / Gala Rebane." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1042415846/34.
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Fronda, Michael P. "The Italians in the Second Punic War." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1046890420.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 422 p.: ill., maps. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Nathan Rosenstein, Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-422).
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Meggiato, Alessandra <1987>. "Italians in Melbourne: migrants, communities and stereotypes." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4690.
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This work aims to illustrate the development of the profile and perceptions of Italian migrants in Melbourne from the beginning of the 20th century to today.
As a consequence of the Immigration Restriction Bill of 1901, Italians replaced the Pacific Islanders working in the cane-field industry, especially in Queensland.
The Italians’ hard work and determination to settle and to find a “better life” in Australia aroused the suspicions of the Government, which started to investigate on Italians, but also saw the rise of racism and discrimination towards them.
The first Australian “Little Italy” was recreated in Carlton, Melbourne, where regional clubs and supporting associations were founded. In this context, the testimonies of the Italians migrants Sir James Gobbo, Ivo Vellar and Giorgio Mangiamele are fundamental in understanding the discrimination that the Italians migrants faced in the 1950s and 1960s in Melbourne.
However, in the last 20 years, thanks to the globalization, Australia has developed into a multicultural country and negative perceptions have moved to other ethnic groups such as Asians and Africans. In contrast, today the “Italian” has become a prestigious label synonymous with a high standard of culture, delicious food, design and good taste.
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Clò, Clarissa. "Italy in the world and the world in Italy : tracing alternative cultural trajectories /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3100380.
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Casella, Antonio. "An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative." Thesis, Casella, Antonio (2006) An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/507/.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
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An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Casella, Antonio. "An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative." Casella, Antonio (2006) An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/507/.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
I
The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
II
An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Fainella, John G. "Ethnicity and housing adaption : the Italians in Montreal." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65545.
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Chezzi, Bruna. "Cultural representations of Italians in Wales (1920s-2010s)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/47524/.
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This thesis aims to enrich academic scholarship by investigating cultural narratives of Italians in Wales from 1920s–2010s. It will make use of sources that have been understudied, such as the photographs of Italians in Wales during the interwar period and local newspapers reporting on the incident of the Arandora Star sinking during the Second World War. It also provides an original contribution to debates on migration, memory and identity drawing on recently emerged sources, such as the accounts generated by second and third generations of Italian migrants about the traumatic experience of the Second World War and the published works by Welsh-Italian authors such as Servini, Pelosi, Spinetti, Emanuelli and Arcari. Finally, this thesis also provides an original approach by comparing these ‘narratives of belonging’ with the representation of the Italian migrant experience in Anglo-Welsh literature.
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McHale, Katherine Jean. "Ingenious Italians : immigrant artists in eighteenth-century Britain." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13854.
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Italian artists working in eighteenth-century Britain played a significant role in the country's developing interest in the fine arts. The contributions of artists arriving before mid-century, including Pellegrini, Ricci, and Canaletto, have been noted, but the presence of a larger number of Italians from mid-century is seldom acknowledged. Increasing British wealth and attention to the arts meant more customers for immigrant Italian artists. Bringing with them the skills for which they were renowned throughout Europe, their talents were valued in Britain. Many stayed for prolonged periods, raising families and becoming active members in the artistic community. In a thriving economy, they found opportunities to produce innovative works for a new clientele, devising histories, landscapes, portraits, and prints to entice buyers. The most successful were accomplished networkers, maintaining cordial relationships with British artists and cultivating a variety of patrons. They influenced others through teaching, through formal and informal exchanges with colleagues, and through exhibition of their works that could be studied and emulated.
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Iuliano, Susanna. "Constructing Italian ethnicity : a comparative study of two Italian language newspapers in Australia and Canada, 1947-1957." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22595.
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This thesis is broadly concerned with how an ethnic group defines itself through the medium of the press. It contends that newspapers do more than simply 'reflect' the experience of ethnic groups, they in fact help to 'construct' ethnic identity.The specific focus of this study is the Italian language press and its attempts to shape the ideals of italianita of Italian migrants in Canada and Australia in the immediate post-war period. This work is based on two newspapers, Montreal's Il Cittadino Canadese and La Fiamma published in Sydney, New South Wales. All available editions from the decade 1947 to 1957 are examined in order to determine which symbols and causes were used to promote Italian ethnic cohesiveness.
In the course of this thesis, it is argued that La Fiamma used religion as the basis of its ideal of italianita, while the Italo-Canadian paper Il Cittadino Canadese made the issue of Italian political representation in Canadian government structures the basis of its quest to unite Italian migrants into an ethnic 'community'. Some possible reasons for the difference in focus between the two newspapers are presented in the conclusion. Also, suggestions are made for future comparative research between Italian ethnic communities in Canada and Australia which may help to better explain the differences laid bare in this paper.
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Fiore, Teresa. "Pre-occupied spaces : re-configuring the Italian nation through its migrations /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3064464.
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Gadler, Yves Carmelo Luciano. ""The education of Italians in Montreal, 1895 to 1960"." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68091.
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The educational habits of Italians in the city of Montreal before the 1960's is a topic that has generally been neglected in the field of social and educational history. This thesis attempts to fill the void and also to identify areas where further research may be conducted. The thesis treats the educational habits of Italian children in the Catholic schools of Montreal between the years 1895 and 1960. The thesis looks at enrolment patterns and language instruction in the Catholic elementary schools of Montreal. It was found that language played an important role in Catholic schools frequented by Italian children. Italian children were educated in the English, French and Italian languages on and off from the beginning of the twentieth century to the late 1950's. Furthermore, a discernible shift in the attendance of Italian children from French to English Catholic schools occurred after World War II. So much so, that by the 1960's nearly 80% of Italian children were attending English Catholic schools.
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Outterside, Amy Louise. "Occupying Puglia : the Italians and the Allies, 1943-1946." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2968.
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In recent years there has been a revival in the study of the civilian experience of war. Compared to other belligerent countries such as Germany, Italy’s experience of Allied bombing and occupation has been neglected. Such an absence from the historiography is unjustifiable; Italians were bombed intensely and endured a long occupation and reconstruction by the Allies. This led to the development of complex relationships between the two groups. This study hopes to contribute to the revival of interest in the social history of the civilian in war, by focusing on the region of Puglia in southern Italy from 1943 to 1946. The south was the first area to experience direct contact with the Allies with the implementation of operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily) in July 1943. Once the Allies began their occupation of the south, they were unable to alter their attitude toward the Italian civilians despite the fact that Italy became from 8 September a co-belligerent. The study of the Allied occupation at a social level can demonstrate how the perception of the occupier and the occupied was constantly in flux, changing and adapting itself to different situations. By focussing on public health, protest, crime, bombing and reconstruction, this study reconstructs the daily life of Allied servicemen and Italian civilians and demonstrates the multifaceted society that developed during the occupation.
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Throckmorton, Julie Ann. "Acculturated music in the Italian and Greek communities of Ambridge, Pennsylvania." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1406.
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Thesis (M.M.)--West Virginia University, 2000.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 96 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), music Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93).
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Battiston, Simone. "History and collective memory of the Italian migrant workers' organisation FILEF in 1970s Melbourne /." Access full text, 2004. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20070823.143852/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--La Trobe University, 2004.Research. "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, [to the] School of European and Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-197). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Aramaki, Michiko. "Family, paesani and networks : politics and economy of Montreal Italians." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28413.
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Focusing on Montreal Italian social networks, this thesis examines the ideological nature of ethnicity, and its functioning in political processes in urban Quebec. The ideological dynamics of ethnicity are revealed in the process of the creation and re-creation of belief in "Italian family", as a distinctive 'Italian' culture. This first separates Italians into different families and regional groups of paesani, but then brilliantly unites Italians into one group according to necessity. In political processes, various Italian associations and presidents are connected to formal politics through the mediation of Italian political brokers. The extensive construction of suburban residences created Italian economic elites and affected other sectors of the economy. Significantly, Italians attempt to keep business within Italian networks. This 'nationalistic' aspect of networks aims to maximize interests within the group. Such dynamic Italian politico-economic networks extend to the further level of formal politics in which federalist Liberals and separatist Parti Quebecois are principal rivals.
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Mezzano, Michael John. "'Not the race of Dante': Southern Italians as Undesirable Americans." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/708.
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Thesis advisor: James M. O'TooleThis dissertation argues that the movement to restrict European immigration to the United States in the early 1900s was critically supported by a set of ideas that the dissertation refers to as "classic racialism." Derived from several intellectual traditions - such as anthropology, biology, criminology, eugenics and zoology - classic racialism posited that differences in human population groups were biologically determined and hereditary, and because of this fact, American nativists held that the "new" immigration to the United States had to be curtailed in order to save the American Anglo-Saxon racial stock. The dissertation uses Italian immigration to the United States as a case study for understanding the fluidity of racial and biological thought. While classic racialism played a key role in supporting nativists' calls for immigration restriction, advances in methods of scientific research were revolutionizing the fields of biology, genetics and anthropology. Research in these fields cast doubts on the veracity of intellectual claims made by classic racialists, which were increasingly untenable in the light of advancing scientific knowledge. The tensions between these competing intellectual paradigms of classic racialism and modern experimentalism in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries reveal the esoteric nature of scientific revolutions, in that the uncertainty and complexity of the developing biological and genetic sciences kept knowledge of scientific advances in these fields restricted to a narrow audience of professional scientists and academics. While modern experimental biology raised significant scientific doubts about the principles of classic racialism, it was the latter that influenced American immigration policy in the 1920s because of classic racialism's simplicity and the broad public recognition that "like produces like."
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Wilkins, Wendy. "Images of Italy and Italians in the modern English novel." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27857.
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The English literary imagination has been nourished on the experience and idea of Italy for centuries, at least since Chaucer's Italian visits in 1372 and 1378. A combination of survey, critical analysis and theory, the thesis examines the idea of Italy and the Italians in fiction in English from Henry James to the present. The thesis provides an inclusive account of literary themes and motifs about Italy and the Italians in the modern English novel, defining the modem tradition of fiction about Italy established by James, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence, and describing the continuities and discontinuities which extend to postmodern, international fiction in English about Italy and Italians.
No single theoretical model is employed. An eclectic approach is favoured in order to draw together cultural history, literary history, discourse analysis, literary criticism and biography. In addition, the aim has been to recapture and examine the sense of flux and the idea of selfrealisation through art which characterise the Italianate impulse in past and present English fiction. In terms of method and focus, the thesis converses with ideas about Italy and the Italians, literary tradition, recent theories about the representation of place, and the notion of Italy as a favoured site for the development of literary identity and style.
An introduction traces the early development of the Italian image and establishes themes which appear in the succeeding chapters: otherness cultural and self identity; the 'gaze'; 'seeing' as a metaphor for self-knowledge; the importance of place in the formation of identity; and the connections between artistic representation and place. The second chapter, on Henry James, defines some of the main terms of the recent tradition, including the relationship between Italy and the act of imaginative creation. The James chapter examines the influence of Romanticism on his Italian work; the 'Italian' contradictions in his fiction; and his search, expressed in traditional Italianate tropes, for a transcending equilibrium. James's Italian tales are given equal consideration with the novels, and both are discussed in relation to the travel essays collected as Italian Hours. The third chapter, on E.M. Forster, focuses on the conflict between chaos and order in Forster's Italian fiction, and his concern with further perennial 'Italian' themes, including paganism, the Edenic myth, and the importance of art in self-becoming. The Italian motifs in Forster's stories are compared with those in his Italian novels Where Angels Fear to Tread and A Room with a View. A shorter chapter on D.H. Lawrence outlines his problematic place in the tradition. The final section deals with Italianate postmodernism. A lengthy introduction raises general issues and is followed by closer readings of texts which demonstrate the relevance of 'Italy' to postmodern writing in English. The English, American and Australian
authors chosen for closer comment include Robert Coover, Robert Dessaix, Michael Dibdin, Ian McEwan, Michele Roberts, William Trevor and Jeanette Winterson. The final section illustrates
the continuity of the image of Italy, especially the way its reputation as artifice lends itself to elaborate, postmodern metafiction.
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Fumagalli, Chiara. "Bringing italians SME’s to Brazil: the case of GM Venture." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17579.
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The Italian business presence in Brazil has been characterizing, since years, the economic landscape of Brazil. More than 1300 Italian companies, from the biggest to the smallest one, are acting in Brazil, exploiting the overall potential of this country and contributing with the excellence they can bring. Noting the consistency of the Italian presence and wondering how those companies have entered such a complex country and, a recurring name has been GM Venture, which became the protagonist of this dissertation. The thesis in fact aims at studying how GM Venture Company has been able to create value for Italian SMEs, contributing to their success in Brazil during the last ten years. Therefore this analysis focuses firstly on the literature dealing with the key success factors for the internationalization of small-medium enterprises. The second part of the literature goes deep in the specific case of the Brazilian context, trying to understand the major problems that this particular environment poses to small-medium companies internationalizing here and some specific factors Italian companies should pay attention to. Given this introduction, the analysis centers on the core topic of this dissertation. In fact the investigation regarding the GM Venture case looks specifically at how this company has been able create value despite those problems and create a business model able to successfully support SMEs entering Brazil. The inquiry on the case and the conclusion reports how GM Venture, through its operations, has been able to respond to the Brazilian rtise, and positively contribute to the growth and value of the Italian economic reality in this country. Moreover looking at the literature findings, this specific case introduces some novelty in the emerged factors, such as a new way of conceiving the Network, as well as new factors or undervalued ones for success such as promptness in the response and trustworthiness, which are essential in the Brazilian economic environment.
Desde muitos anos a presença Italiana no Brasil foi caracterizante do panorama econômico brasileiro. Mais de mil trezentos empresas italianas, das maiores ate as menores, são presente hoje no Brasil, aproveitando inteiramente do potencial Brasileiro e levando no Brasil uma contribuição relevante no sistema econômico, por meio da excelência que caracteriza estas empresas Italianas. Olhando ao tamanhão da realidade das empresas italiana no Brasil, e como todas essas corporações podia ter entrado em um pais muito complexo, ponto central foi a GM Venture, que se tornou o protagonista da minha dissertação. Esso TCC tem o escopo de entender melhor como esses deis anos GM Venture conseguiu em criar valor econômico por muitas media e pequena empresas Italianas, levando eles ao sucesso no novo país. Por isso a dissertação se focaliza inicialmente sobre a literatura da internacionalização e dos fatores essenciais de sucesso por uma pequena e media empresa em general. O secundo fator de analise nela literatura para o caso especifico do contexto Brasileiro, foi a compreensão dos problemas principais que o Brasil põe para pequenas-medias empresas estrangeiras, e algumas atenções que são necessárias em particular para empresários italianos. Para evoluir no tema, depois de essa introdução ao tema e ao contexto, o tópico mais importante é discutido. Então a investigação de esse trabalho se focaliza sobre o tema de como a GM Venture tem capacidade de responder com uma solução para os problemas presentados criando valor, e como ela criou um modelo de business que seja capaz de levar ao sucesso as empresas clientes no Brasil. A analise e conclusão do caso vão elaborar como a GM Venturo contribuiu ao resolver e evitar a complexidade Brasileira com meios legais e experiência, cooperando em positivo no crescimento da realidade econômica italiana em Brasil. Olhando ainda mais na analise da literatura e comparando o caso, parece evidente como o caso da GM Venture introduziu algumas novidades nos fatores já individuados, como uma ideais nova de network, e no mesmo tempo foi capaz de presentar fatores novos o subestimado, como a pronta velocidade e a confiança nos relacionamento de business que são muito importantes especialmente no Brasil.
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Franzoi, Anna <1990>. "Buying behavior and consumption of Italians women of cosmetic products." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/5049.
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The main aim of the thesis is to investigate the buying and consumption behavior of cosmetic products of Italian ladies, with a particular focus on the relationship between mass cosmetic and premium/luxury products. The thesis will deep the reason why ladies prefer one category rather than the other and the reasons for their choice: i.e. show off desire or perceived higher quality. A relevant aspect that will be investigated is the “mix and match” phenomena in the cosmetic usage.
The effect of the brand equity and brand loyalty in cosmetic products will be deepen. In the make-up field the brand is relevant especially because distinguishing among luxury and mass products is difficult for customers, so that brands play a great role as guarantee. The “mix and match” phenomena in makeup industry is also interesting to be compared with the same phenomena in the label industry, because in the former the show off reason is more hidden than in the latter industry.
The expected output of the thesis is a segmentation of consumers based upon their purchase behavior ( who uses just mass cosmetic products, who matches mass and premium products and who prefers just premium products) and a perceptual maps of different brands.
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Urbani, Martina. "The Pitch Range of Italians and Americans. A Comparative Study." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423603.
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Linguistic experiments have investigated the nature of F0 span and level in cross-linguistic comparisons. However, only few studies have focused on the elaboration of a general-agreed methodology that may provide a unifying approach to the analysis of pitch range (Ladd, 1996; Patterson and Ladd, 1999; Daly and Warren, 2001; Bishop and Keating, 2010; Mennen et al. 2012).
Pitch variation is used in different languages to convey different linguistic and paralinguistic meanings that may range from the expression of sentence modality to the marking of emotional and attitudinal nuances (Grice and Baumann, 2007). A number of factors have to be taken into consideration when determining the existence of measurable and reliable differences in pitch values. Daly and Warren (2001) demonstrated the importance of some independent variables such as language, age, body size, speaker sex (female vs. male), socio-cultural background, regional accents, speech task (read sentences vs. spontaneous dialogues), sentence type (questions vs. statements) and measure scales (Hertz, semitones, ERB etc.). Coherently with the model proposed by Mennen et al. (2012), my analysis of pitch range is based on the investigation of LTD (long-term distributional) and linguistic measures. LTD measures deal with the F0 distribution within a speaker’s contour (e.g. F0 minimum, F0 maximum, F0 mean, F0 median, standard deviation, F0 span) while linguistic measures are linked to specific targets within the contour, such as peaks and valleys (e.g. high and low landmarks) and preserve the temporal sequences of pitch contours.
This investigation analyzed the characteristics of pitch range production and perception in English sentences uttered by Americans and Italians. Four experiments were conducted to examine different phenomena: i) the contrast between measures of F0 level and span in utterances produced by Americans and Italians (experiments 1-2); ii) the contrast between the pitch range produced by males and females in L1 and L2 (experiment 1); iii) the F0 patterns in different sentence types, that is, yes-no questions, wh-questions, and exclamations (experiment 2); iv) listeners’ evaluations of pitch span in terms of ±interesting, ±excited, ±credible, ±friendly ratings of different sentence types (experiments 3-4); v) the correlation between pitch span of the sentences and the evaluations given by American and Italian listeners (experiment 3); vi) the listeners’ evaluations of pitch span values in manipulated stimuli, whose F0 span was re-synthesized under three conditions: narrow span, original span, and wide span (experiment 4); vii) the different evaluations given to the sentences by male and female listeners.
The results of this investigation supported the following generalizations. First, pitch span more than level was found to be a cue for non-nativeness, because L2 speakers of English used a narrower span, compared to the native norm. What is more, the experimental data in the production studies indicated that the mode of sentences was better captured by F0 span than level. Second, the Italian learners of English were influenced by their L1 and transferred L1 pitch range variation into their L2. The English sentences produced by the Italians had overall higher pitch levels and narrower pitch span than those produced by the Americans. In addition, the Italians used overall higher pitch levels when speaking Italian and lower levels when speaking English. Conversely, their pitch span was generally higher in English and lower in Italian. When comparing productions in English, the Italian females used higher F0 levels than the American females; vice versa, the Italian males showed slightly lower F0 levels than the American males. Third, there was a systematic relation between pitch span values and the listeners’ evaluations of the sentences. The two groups of listeners (the Americans and the Italians) rated the stimuli with larger pitch span as more interesting, exciting and credible than the stimuli with narrower pitch span. Thus, the listeners relied on the perceived pitch span to differentiate among the stimuli. Fourth, both the American and the Italian speakers were considered more friendly when the pitch span of their sentences was widened (wide span manipulation) and less friendly when the pitch span was narrowed (narrow span manipulation). This happened in all the stimuli regardless of the native language of the speakers (American vs. Italian).Questa ricerca si basa sullo studio delle melodie intonative prodotte degli americani e dagli italiani ed esamina le differenze tonali dell’inglese e dell’italiano. In particolare, è interessante indagare quali siano le reazioni dei parlanti madrelingua rispetto alle produzioni orali realizzate dai parlanti di una seconda lingua. Nell’analizzare i contorni melodici, si tratta di misurare il livello (level) e l’ampiezza (span) dei movimenti intonativi. Da un punto di vista acustico, l’oggetto dell’indagine sperimentale è la frequenza fondamentale (F0) delle produzioni vocali dei parlanti. F0, ovvero la prima armonica della forma d’onda, è una caratteristica fisica del segnale acustico che può essere misurata in hertz (Hz) o semitoni (ST). Mentre il livello generale di F0 viene misurato solitamente in Hz, l’ampiezza del movimento (calcolata come la differenza tra il picco massimo e il picco minimo) viene di norma calcolata in ST. Da un punto di vista percettivo, l’orecchio umano ha un campo di udibilità che oscilla dai 16 Hz ai 20.000 Hz. Inoltre è molto più facile percepire un innalzamento o abbassamento della F0 a basse frequenze che ad alte frequenze. Questo è dovuto alla particolare conformazione della coclea, all’interno dell’appartato uditivo. Dal momento che anche un minimo scarto di F0 può essere agilmente individuato alle basse frequenze mentre risulta magari impercettibile alle alte frequenze, è necessario considerare le variazioni di F0 a livello percettivo. Per questo, F0 acquisisce anche una valenza percettiva e viene indicata con il termine altezza tonale. L’altezza tonale identifica quindi una caratteristica percettiva del suono che viene valutata attraverso un giudizio uditivo e non acustico. Data la complementarietà del fattore acustico e percettivo nello studio di F0, il tipo di analisi condotto in questo studio si articola su due livelli. Nel primo livello, vengono esaminate le differenze di tipo acustico nel parlato letto in inglese e in italiano da italiani e da americani. Le produzioni orali sono divise per tipologia di frase e vengono registrate da un gruppo di maschi e un gruppo di femmine. Lo scopo dei due studi produttivi è quello di riscontrare se ci sono differenze di F0 riguardanti: 1) la lingua in esame (inglese o italiano, 2) il fattore prima o seconda lingua (inglese parlato dagli americani e inglese parlato dagli italiani), 3) il sesso dei soggetti (valutazione delle differenze di F0 tra maschi e femmine), 4) la natura del materiale utilizzato e la tipologia di frase (le frasi vengono analizzate secondo la loro diversa tipologia: domande polari, domande k, e affermazioni). Per quanto riguarda il secondo livello, i dati raccolti negli studi di produzione vengono testati con uno studio percettivo. Ad un gruppo di studenti americani ed italiani, viene chiesto di valutare una selezione di frasi prodotte in inglese da parlanti americani e italiani. Lo scopo di questa indagine è di esaminare la correlazione tra livello/ampiezza dell’altezza tonale e la valutazione positiva/negativa degli enunciati. Le valutazioni si articolano su giudizi di tipo qualitativo e quantitativo, in riferimento a diversi gradi di interesse, credibilità, e coinvolgimento.
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Budden, Michael John. "British policy towards Fascist Italy in the early stages of the Second World War." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/british-policy-towards-fascist-italy-in-the-early-stages-of-the-second-world-war(b0b9cb23-fc13-491d-b466-309c0cf49ee4).html.
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Shlala, Elizabeth H. "Mediterranean migration, cosmopolitanism, and the law a history of the Italian community of nineteenth-century Alexandria, Egypt /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/459742089/viewonline.
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Morani, Marina. "'New Italians' and digital media : an examination of intercultural media platforms." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/104335/.
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This thesis presents a critical investigation of ‘intercultural digital media’ in Italy from 2000 to 2016. In this, it focuses on the diverse digital media platforms (largely web-portals and collective blogs) that have offered alternatives to mainstream media discourses of immigration and cultural diversity in Italy, and which have involved people of immigrant background as media producers. Through a focused, in-depth study of website content mainly published in 2014, including mission statements, thematic structures and discursive strategies, as well as the contextual and organisational structures, processes and roles of content producers and editors, the thesis offers a critical insight into the discourse of intercultural digital media in practice. Combining Critical Discourse and Multimodal Analysis approaches with Cultural Studies and digital citizenship theories of identity, representation and belonging, the research aims to explore the possibilities for constructing alternative, ‘intercultural’ discourse through these platforms. In investigating how intercultural discourse can be variously articulated within different modes such as journalism, self-representation and citizenship advocacy, the analysis engages closely with the strategic, organising idea of the ‘new Italians’, and raises broader questions about the cultural politics of under-represented groups seeking inclusion and recognition as ‘citizens’ in increasingly diverse societies.
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Celozzi, Carlotta. "Interethnic relations between Italians and Moroccans : it takes two to tango." Thesis, University of Bath, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558872.
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Over the past decades, the pronounced increase of international migration has led many nations to confront themselves with the pressing issue of how to ameliorate and make more harmonious the engagement among people with different cultural backgrounds. The present thesis enters this debate focusing on the mutual relations between Italians and Moroccan immigrants living in Turin (North-West Italy). By means of this case study, this research demonstrates that the support and valorisation of cultural diversity do not damage social cohesion, as some scholars believe, but rather they may contribute to positive intergroup relations if they are well balanced by the adaptation of immigrants to the host country’s culture and by the development of a sense of belonging with the new country. In order to test my assumption I analyzed the impact of a preference for the integration strategy of acculturation (rather than assimilation or segregation) and the extent to which Moroccans and Italians share this preference. These analyses build on the distinction between acculturation in the public and in the private domain and between the concepts of culture and identity. A total of 281 respondents, of whom 136 were Moroccans and 145 Italians, participated in a questionnaire study. Both groups clearly expressed their preference for the integration strategy in the public and in the private domain, and for a dual identity, where migrants identified with both their own ethnic group and with Italy. In addition, these findings revealed that both acculturation strategies and identity patterns were predictive of intergroup relations, with the latter having the strongest impact. These findings were deepened through qualitative interviews, which aimed to explore whether for the specific context of this study the conditions were such that the dual identity could realistically develop. Results indicated that while culture diversity is encouraged and supported, Moroccans still experience a degree of discrimination. Such situation delineates a reality characterised by a ‘segmented pluralism’, that is, a reality where the recognition of cultural and ethnic differences coexist with the persistence of structural inequalities.
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Winestock, James Benjamin. "The Effects of Plunder on Non-Elite Italians, 200-167 BCE." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23726.
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This thesis examines the effects of plunder and spoils on the wealth of non-elites in Roman Italy in the Second Century BCE with a particular focus on soldier bonuses. It is often taken for granted that Roman soldiers were able to secure considerable riches for themselves as Rome expanded throughout the Mediterranean. I test that assumption by focusing on the quantitative evidence provided by Livy’s triumph records. The thesis compares the donatives handed out at triumphs between 200 and 167 BCE with price data and average incomes from the period. The picture that emerges is one of winners and losers, but also of a generally wealthier peasantry thanks to the donative.
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Cosco, Joseph Peter. "Eying Italians: Race, romance, and reality in American perception, 1880--1910." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623965.
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This dissertation explores how American representations of Italians and Italian Americans engaged, reflected and helped shape the United States' developing concepts of immigration, ethnicity, race, and national identity from 1880 to 1910, when masses of Italian and other "new immigrants" rigorously tested the country's attitudes and powers of assimilation. In a larger sense, the research examines how the process of constructing the modern Italian/Italian American was part of the process of America constructing for itself a modern national identity for a new century.;The dissertation looks at a variety of "texts," including journalism, travel literature, autobiography, fiction, and photographs and illustrations of the period, but concentrates on a handful of American writers and their works. Chapter 1 compares the reportage and photography of the immigrant journalist Jacob A. Riis with the reporting of the "new" immigrant journalist Edward A. Steiner. Chapter 2 examines Henry James's The American Scene in the context of his other writings on Italy and Italians, including travel essays, short stories, and The Golden Bowl . Chapter 3 focuses on Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad and I. Also part of the discussion are two works by William Dean Howells, Venetian Life and A Hazard of New Fortunes .;The research showed that these writers alternately supported and subverted America's often conflicting and confused attitudes and ideas about Italy and Italians, a tangle of discourses related to the romance of artistic, heroic, picturesque Italy and the reality of the Italian "Other" arriving in the form of masses of immigrants on American shores.
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Sarno, Stefania <1986>. "The genetic history of Italians: new-insights from uniparentally-inherited markers." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6527/1/Sarno_Stefania_Tesi.pdf.
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Genetic differences among human groups can be ascribed both to the broad-scale extents of pre-historical and historical migrations and to the fine-scale impacts of socio-cultural and geographic heterogeneity. In this thesis, the genetic information provided by uniparental markers were exploited to address different aspects of the Italian population history, by combining macro- and micro-geographic investigations at different spatial and temporal scales.
To firstly assess the overall Italian variability, Y-chromosome and mtDNA markers were deeply typed in ~900 individuals from continental Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. Sex-biased patterns and contrasting demographic histories were observed for males and females. Differential European and Mediterranean contributions were invoked to explain the paternal genetic sub-structure observed in peninsular Italy, compared to the homogeneous maternal genetic landscape. If Neolithic showed to be one principal determinant of the detected paternal structure, local insights into specific Italian regional contexts highlighted the importance of Post-Neolithic contributions. Among them, migrations from the Balkans (particularly Greece) during late Metal Ages, played a relevant role in the cultural and genetic transitions occurred in Sicily and Southern Italy.
On a finer geographic and temporal perspective, the more recent layers of Italian genetic history and some aspects of the gene-culture interaction were assessed by exploring the genetic variability within two “marginal populations”: Arbereshe of Southern Italy and Partecipanza in Northern Italy. The Arbereshe are Albanian-speaking communities settled in Sicily and Calabria since the end of Middle Ages. Despite sharing common genetic and cultural backgrounds, these groups revealed diverging micro-evolutionary histories, implying different founding events and different patterns of cultural isolation and local admixture. Partecipanza is an idiosyncratic institution of Medieval origin aimed at sharing and devolving collective lands. This case-study exemplified that socio-economic stratification within the same population may induce sex-biased genetic structuring and the maintenance of otherwise hidden historical genetic traces.
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Sarno, Stefania <1986>. "The genetic history of Italians: new-insights from uniparentally-inherited markers." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2014. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6527/.
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Genetic differences among human groups can be ascribed both to the broad-scale extents of pre-historical and historical migrations and to the fine-scale impacts of socio-cultural and geographic heterogeneity. In this thesis, the genetic information provided by uniparental markers were exploited to address different aspects of the Italian population history, by combining macro- and micro-geographic investigations at different spatial and temporal scales.
To firstly assess the overall Italian variability, Y-chromosome and mtDNA markers were deeply typed in ~900 individuals from continental Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. Sex-biased patterns and contrasting demographic histories were observed for males and females. Differential European and Mediterranean contributions were invoked to explain the paternal genetic sub-structure observed in peninsular Italy, compared to the homogeneous maternal genetic landscape. If Neolithic showed to be one principal determinant of the detected paternal structure, local insights into specific Italian regional contexts highlighted the importance of Post-Neolithic contributions. Among them, migrations from the Balkans (particularly Greece) during late Metal Ages, played a relevant role in the cultural and genetic transitions occurred in Sicily and Southern Italy.
On a finer geographic and temporal perspective, the more recent layers of Italian genetic history and some aspects of the gene-culture interaction were assessed by exploring the genetic variability within two “marginal populations”: Arbereshe of Southern Italy and Partecipanza in Northern Italy. The Arbereshe are Albanian-speaking communities settled in Sicily and Calabria since the end of Middle Ages. Despite sharing common genetic and cultural backgrounds, these groups revealed diverging micro-evolutionary histories, implying different founding events and different patterns of cultural isolation and local admixture. Partecipanza is an idiosyncratic institution of Medieval origin aimed at sharing and devolving collective lands. This case-study exemplified that socio-economic stratification within the same population may induce sex-biased genetic structuring and the maintenance of otherwise hidden historical genetic traces.
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Cardin, Giacomo <1990>. "Beyond Korean working system: how Italians relate to the Asian context." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12652.
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La ricerca mira a far comprendere al lettore quali siano state le cause del prodigioso sviluppo economico Sud Coreano. A seguito di una breve panoramica della sua moderna storia economica, verranno analizzati i modelli di HRM messi in atto dai manager Coreani nel perseguimento delle loro attività. Verrà quindi analizzato il profilo culturale Coreano e si tratterà di come il Confucianesimo abbia fortemente influenzato non solo la società asiatica, ma anche il suo sistema lavorativo. Infine, verranno riportate le esperienze lavorative di professionisti Italiani che lavorano nel contesto coreano.
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De, Agostini Annalisa <1996>. "Managing cross-cultural negotiations: a bargaining experiment between Chinese and Italians." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21468.
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The main goal of this master thesis is to prove the significance of negotiation and to evaluate the importance of cultural differences in business. First, the research is devoted to building upon the main elements involved in negotiations, including approaches to negotiation, typologies and biases. Thereafter, the concept of culture and its influence on business negotiations are examined and described in detail. The practical research is realized through an experiment between 5 Chinese and 5 Italian students, who I have arranged into 5 couples in order to make them negotiate one against the other.
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au, Casella2@westnet com, and Antonio Casella. "An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel) ; and The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070427.120048.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative ( Research thesis)
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An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Stanaway, Fiona. "Health and ageing in older male Italian-born immigrants." Thesis, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13154.
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Bligh, Lisa. "The settlement of Romans and Italians in the Iberian Peninsula to AD14." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28299.
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The settlement of Romans and Italians in Spain between the Second Punic War and the death of Augustus has attracted much interest and confusion over the last two centuries. Study in this field has been impeded by a shortage of evidence, combined with a tendency to approach the topic with preconceived ideas concerning its place in both Roman history and society. The present study seeks to understand the chronological evolution of the settlement process and the politico-juridical patterns of settlement status produced as a result. New light will be shed on this complex subject by exploring aspects of the settlement process which have previously been ignored or dismissed. The recognised, but rarely applied, division between 'formal' and 'informal' settlement types will be used to provide a framework for the study of the settlement process as a whole. Through this the wider effects of the circumstances in which individual acts of settlement took place can be better understood. This framework also allows the question of the motivational factors affecting settlers, as well as those influencing settlement founders, to be raised. These factors had a powerful ability to affect the way in which the settlement process evolved. The study is structured as follows: chapter 2 explores the current state of the evidence available and depicts the geographical background against which settlement took place; chapters 3 and 4 respectively examine the formal settlement of the peninsula during the Republic and under Caesar and Augustus; chapter 5 investigates the factors which may have influenced veterans of the Roman army in their choice to settle in Spain; chapter 6 covers similar ground with reference to the urban poor of Rome who settled in Spain during the Caesarian period; chapter 7 attempts to identify possible participants in informal settlement and examines the question of motivation among these independent migrants; chapter 8 assembles the available evidence for concrete instances of informal settlement; finally, chapter 9 draws together the general conclusions arising from the study.
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Graham, Kay S. "The mobility of elderly Italians in the Paris region : a biographical approach." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268278.
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Giudici, Marco. "Migration, memory and identity : Italians and nation-building in Wales, 1940-2010." Thesis, Bangor University, 2012. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/migration-memory-and-identity-italians-and-nationbuilding-in-wales-19402010(a96d8824-e385-4e27-867d-4b16801257b9).html.
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Despite being a numerical minority, Italians have become one of Wales’ most noticeable migrant groups, their narratives figuring prominently in Welsh popular culture and collective memory. Yet, like other ethnic minorities in Wales, they have been neglected in academic enquiry, with the history of immigration to Britain being traditionally addressed in an Anglocentric perspective. This thesis aims to fill this academic gap and provide an original historical contribution to migration studies. In so doing, it primarily aims to disclose two under-investigated areas of investigation; firstly, small-town, rural and geographically dispersed patterns of migration and, secondly, migration to stateless nations. This thesis shows that, despite their numerical marginality, geographically dispersed migrants can resist assimilation and maintain distinct cultural identities. They can even culturally influence their receiving society, being incorporated in its process of nation-building; Italian migrant narratives have ideally served a reinforcement of Wales’ tolerant and inclusive image. Thus, this thesis illustrates that, contrary to popular belief, national(istic) claims are not necessarily in contrast with immigration. It shows that stateless nations aiming to gain increasing autonomy can use their immigration history to construct and disseminate a tolerant and inclusive national image, one that aims to foster both indigenous people and migrants’ sense of national belonging.
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Nucciarone, Albert P. "A handbook for church growth in urban Italy." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Colpi, T. "The social structure of the Italian community in Bedford with particular reference to its places of origin and migration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234282.
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Volante, Carol. "Identities and perceptions : gender, generation and ethnicity in the Italian Quarter, Birmingham, c1891-1938." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/90755.
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Corgatelli, Pietro. "Tapes and testimony : making the local history of Italians in the Western Cape in the first half of the 20th century." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17177.
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Bibliography: pages 258-271.The history of long distance immigrant communities, particularly those with few or no written documentary records, is often cited as an obvious example for oral historical enquiry. Such groupings would be represented by the Greek, Portuguese and Jewish as well as the Italian population in South Africa, and by similar settler communities in Great Britain and the USA. The advantages of an orally-derived community history is surely shown by the potential richness of information found in interviews where people's history is offered in their own words, in which migrants consider the life they have lived as basically their own formations. The Italian community was selected because there are only very thin and fragmentary records of its local history and because of the author's own origins. Through interviews, one has been able to expand on the existing sparse historical picture and to gather fresh material concerning a range of active individuals who, through their business lives and practices, established successful new industries and other local economic enterprises. Sample interviews have been transcribed and edited, to illustrate the range of oral testimony. Through them one hears something of the history of men such as Oreste Nannucci who started a laundry business, Giuseppe Rubbi, who was one of the most prominent builders in Cape Town before the Second World War, and Amedeo Traverso who, with his partners, developed the sea front in Sea Point, among many other speculative ventures. Through the examples of Mrs Ida Peroni's and Antonio Introna's testimony we move away from the historical voice of male petty entrepreneurs to obtain a new insight into the fortunes of the Sicilian fishing community. Wherever possible, attempts have been made to check the information generated by oral testimony by consulting census reports, migration figures, consular and parliamentary reports, books, documents, newspapers and personal correspondence both in South Africa and Italy. Written documentary sources are utilised in relevant chapters. By piecing together this disparate range of source material, the present study shows the dimensions of Italian migrant economic and social experience not simply as generalities but as something to be glimpsed in the uniqueness inherent in every life history.