Anna Felder è stata insignita nel 2018 del massimo riconoscimento letterario della Svizzera, il Grande Premio Svizzero di Letteratura, per l’insieme della sua opera. Pubblichiamo in italiano il testo della laudatio pronunciata da Silvia Ricci Lempen parzialmente in francese alla cerimonia di premiazione, il 12 maggio 2018, nel quadro delle Giornate Letterarie di Soletta.
A significant amount of research exists on how the media cover environmental disasters and thus articulate climate concerns. However, there is a lack of studies on how news media outlets discursively presented the 2023 earthquake that took place in Turkey and Syria. To address the existing gap, the study seeks to investigate how the selected news media vocalised the climate concerns during the seismic event. For this purpose, we scrutinised the news pieces published by prominent news outlets. The study implemented mixed-methods tools to correlate the specific climate concerns and their representation. We qualitatively examined the obtained keywords earthquake, quake, and rubble, focusing on nomination and predication strategies employed for their discursive framing. Our research reveals a general trend exhibited by the three media outlets to place their discursive emphasis on a more immediate scale of repercussions (casualties, destruction, rescue efforts). The more global, climate-related issues might require more attention.
Lusinete Vasconcelos de Souza, Mirene Fonseca Moulin, Sônia Santana Costa
Este artigo tem por objetivo descrever um conjunto de práticas de letramento escolar baseadas no interacionismo sócio-discursivo (ISD) e nos gêneros do discurso. Nele são relatadas as práticas de letramento escolar e suas transformações. Também é mostrada uma grade curricular, como sugestão, para o trabalho com gêneros do discurso no ensino fundamental de primeira a quarta série.
Palavras-chave: interacionismo sócio-discursivo (ISD), gêneros do discurso, letramento, ensino fundamental.
Amirabbas Majd, M. Vahidi-Asl, A. Khalilian
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Abstract Reproducible research relies on well-designed benchmarks. However, evaluation on a single benchmark increases the risk of overfitting; that is, an optimization to reach a certain performance. In recent years several well-designed benchmarks have been constructed for different subfields of program analysis. However, they often involve real-world industrial projects in few languages such as C or Java. We provide Code4Bench, a benchmark comprising 3,421,357 programs totaling of 306,053,105 lines of code in 41 versions of 28 programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, and Kotlin. We have constructed this benchmark from Codeforces, a famous programming competition website, which is widely used by international programmers. Code4Bench advances the state-of-the-art in conducting reproducible and comparative experiments. It helps mitigate the bias and increase the generality and conclusiveness of the results. We present our methodology in construction of Code4Bench and give various descriptive statistics. We have also conducted an online survey on the users of Codeforces’ website whose code is included in the benchmark. The survey is concerned about the user's demographic information and programming habits, whose results are also provided in the benchmark. Finally, we leveraged an automatic process by which we localized faults within the faulty versions and categorize them according to a coarse-grained classification. In addition to its usage in empirical studies, Code4Bench can be used to teach programming and evolve algorithmic problems. We release Code4Bench in database format to allow researchers to extract other data of the benchmark by arbitrary queries. Code4Bench version 1.0.0 is publicly available at https://zenodo.org/record/2582968 , with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2582968, under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Although journalistic translation research has been quite successful over the past 15 years, from a methodological point of view many scholars struggle with the total or partial absence of a traceable source text. As a consequence, parallel corpora are rare and the researcher often has to rely on multilingual sets of texts that are comparable. This contribution deals in detail with that essential methodological problem. It relates the multi-source and multi-author situation of translation in journalism to this non- (or only partially) identifiable character of the source text–target text relationship. We argue that the triangulation of comparative text analysis with fieldwork adds value to this type of research. This argument is illustrated with a study triangulating textual analysis in three languages with interviews and non-participant observation. Such a triangulation also responds to earlier calls for a more elaborated contextualization of the production process and the socio-historical circumstances in journalistic translation research.
Abstract The adoption of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) is regarded as an approach to reduce the accidental complexity of software systems development. The availability of sophisticated language workbenches facilitates the development of DSLs making them increasingly more popular. The adoption of DSLs at large comes at the risk that a poorly designed DSL can be too hard to adopt by its domain users. As such, Usability is one of the essential characteristics to mitigate this risk as it has an important impact on the productivity achieved by DSL users. The current state of practice in Software Language Engineering (SLE) neglects the Usability of DSLs. A pertinent research question in SLE is how to engineer Usability into DSLs systematically. We argue that a timely systematic approach based on User Interface experimental evaluation techniques should be used to assess the impact of DSLs during their development process, while the cost of fixing the usability problems is relatively small, when compared to fixing them at the end of the development process. For that purpose, we introduce a conceptual framework, called USE-ME, which supports the iterative incremental development process of DSLs concerning the issue of their Usability evaluation. We illustrate the feasibility of the approach on a case study of the development of a DSL meant for children to program robots.
We explore the design and implementation of Frank, a strict functional programming language with a bidirectional effect type system designed from the ground up around a novel variant of Plotkin and Pretnar's effect handler abstraction. Effect handlers provide an abstraction for modular effectful programming: a handler acts as an interpreter for a collection of commands whose interfaces are statically tracked by the type system. However, Frank eliminates the need for an additional effect handling construct by generalising the basic mechanism of functional abstraction itself. A function is simply the special case of a Frank operator that interprets no commands. Moreover, Frank's operators can be multihandlers which simultaneously interpret commands from several sources at once, without disturbing the direct style of functional programming with values. Effect typing in Frank employs a novel form of effect polymorphism which avoid mentioning effect variables in source code. This is achieved by propagating an ambient ability inwards, rather than accumulating unions of potential effects outwards. We introduce Frank by example, and then give a formal account of the Frank type system and its semantics. We introduce Core Frank by elaborating Frank operators into functions, case expressions, and unary handlers, and then give a sound small-step operational semantics for Core Frank. Programming with effects and handlers is in its infancy. We contribute an exploration of future possibilities, particularly in combination with other forms of rich type system.