The development of the novel form is an exploration of the possibilities for realistic
representation which is increasingly informed by an understanding that distortion and
fabrication are inevitable consequences of the mediating process of narrative. The search
for alternatives to…

In this survey, we have focussed our attention on the first part of the novel David Copperfield and analyzed how the child hero's natural dispositions are crushed by faulty training. Through his early schooling and youthful experiences, David gains a…

This paper deals with determining the linguistic competence of university students in EFL
classes that are part of an English Studies degree. It suggests a language deficiency
analysis (i.e., a combination of their target situation and their actual situation) to…

This article offers an interpretation in terms of metapoetic theory of The Wanderings of
Oisin, Yeats's first important work. Our purpose is to prove that an analysis of the poem
upon this basis can be useful to solve the semantic…

In recent research, it is claimed that deviant features of interlanguage grammars arise only
from the users' knowledge of the rule system of the target language. This paper examines
the relative contribution of the rule system of each of the…

This article explores the stylistic devices and narrative techniques that the late 19th-century
great American satirist employed to subvert and ridicule his contemporaries'
understanding of language and of its relationship to reality. According to Bierce, language
is not merely a…

Sometimes, the presence of objects difficult the observation of other neighboring objects. This is because
part of the surface of an object occludes partially the surface of another, increasing the complexitiy in the
recognition process. Therefore, the information which is…

The underlying assumption of this study is the understanding of a specialized term as a summary of disciplinary knowledge, formalized at a textual level in the contextual relations which structure disciplinary lexical knowledge and are therefore essential for the successful…

This paper presents a proposal enabling the modelling of manufacturing processes independently of the structure and composition of the industrial plant where these processes will ultimately be implemented. The rationale for the proposal is in the incorporation of knowledge, supported…

The topic of this research is about the exploration of the actual colour scenario, from an Italian perspective analysis to an international one, with the aim to understand the characteristics and the needs of a complex system of disciplines and…