Valentina Pagliai
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 103407 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Valentina Pagliai |
| NOMBRES | Valentina |
| APELLIDO | Pagliai |
| FIRMA | PAGLIAI V |
| AFILIACIONES | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Lands i came to sing
This article on a genre of Tuscan Italian verbal art, the Contrasta, uses performance as a key to look at the connections between ethnic identity and place. The Contrasta takes its name, “contrast”, from its humorous representation of a verbal duel among entities, people or ideas. Structurally, it is formed by a series of chained Octets, in hendecasyllables. After an initial discussion of the current definitions of ethnic identity, the article is…
Singing gender
In this article, we explore the presentation and contestation of discourses of womanhood in verbal art performance. In Tuscan-Italian Contrasto verbal duels the artists, both males and females, may impersonate female characters as they exchange insults between each other. In doing so, they deploy multiple discourses of womanhood to demonstrate their wit and verbal artistry. As a consequence, they often subvert and contest “appropriate” female beh…
Non-alignment in footing, intentionality and dissent in talk about immigrants in Italy
Unmarked Racializing Discourse, Facework, and Identity in Talk about Immigrants in Italy
Drawing from research on racial formation processes in discourse concerning immigrants to Italy, this article argues that when racializing discourses are introduced as unmarked in a conversation, the coparticipant is put in a position of having to readily agree or openly disagree-with the second option endangering face. Racializing discourses introduced as unmarked thus tend to obtain acquiescence from the coparticipant. At the same time, they wo…
Conflict, Cooperation, and Facework inContrastoVerbal Duels
TuscanContrastoverbal duels reveal a subtly complex relationship between conflict and cooperation, and between face and insults. In these duels, the performers use their arguing skills to debate the politics and morality of contemporary Italy, calling attention to contradictions. The artists cooperate in building disagreement and heightening wider social conflicts, while insults may contribute to a successful performance, thus enhancing face. The…
Introduction
Imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way. (Lakoff and Johnson 1980:5
The Art of Dueling with Words
The Art of Dueling with Words:Toward a New Understanding of Verbal Duels across the World Valentina Pagliai (bio) A common view of verbal duels posits that they are a cathartic expression of aggression. This is partially due to the fact that-although a body of cross-disciplinary studies on verbal duels demonstrates their complexity as forms of expression-works intended to summarize and disseminate them have tended to rely on a minor number of sou…
Conversational agreement and racial formation processes
Recent scholarship on the working of racial formation processes underscores the intersection between discursive and structural components in the emergence of "race," and the agency of individuals at the local and global level in articulating its meaning. This article offers a link toward understanding how racial formation processes operate in face-to-face interaction, by highlighting how people do racialization. Based on fieldwork in Italy, it ex…
Verbal Art across Cultures
Verbal Art across Cultures: The Aesthetics and Proto-Aesthetics of Communication Hubert Knoblauch and Helga Kotthoff, eds. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, 2001 297 pp
Poetic Dialogues
can represent politics in way that empowers the audience, transforming the context from one only marginally political into one in which relevant political decisions may be taken. In the Contrasto, Tuscan genre of verbal duel, the constant articulation of dialogue between two points of view allows the artists to dispute social behaviors and political views, while veiling their opinions through the formal structure of the genre. (Verbal art, perfor…
Unmarked Racializing Discourse, Facework, and Identity in Talk about Immigrants in Italy
Drawing from research on racial formation processes in discourse concerning immigrants to Italy, this article argues that when racializing discourses are introduced as unmarked in a conversation, the coparticipant is put in a position of having to readily agree or openly disagree-with the second option endangering face. Racializing discourses introduced as unmarked thus tend to obtain acquiescence from the coparticipant. At the same time, they wo…
The Art of Dueling with Words
The Art of Dueling with Words:Toward a New Understanding of Verbal Duels across the World Valentina Pagliai (bio) A common view of verbal duels posits that they are a cathartic expression of aggression. This is partially due to the fact that-although a body of cross-disciplinary studies on verbal duels demonstrates their complexity as forms of expression-works intended to summarize and disseminate them have tended to rely on a minor number of sou…
Conflict, Cooperation, and Facework inContrastoVerbal Duels
TuscanContrastoverbal duels reveal a subtly complex relationship between conflict and cooperation, and between face and insults. In these duels, the performers use their arguing skills to debate the politics and morality of contemporary Italy, calling attention to contradictions. The artists cooperate in building disagreement and heightening wider social conflicts, while insults may contribute to a successful performance, thus enhancing face. The…
Conversational agreement and racial formation processes
Recent scholarship on the working of racial formation processes underscores the intersection between discursive and structural components in the emergence of "race," and the agency of individuals at the local and global level in articulating its meaning. This article offers a link toward understanding how racial formation processes operate in face-to-face interaction, by highlighting how people do racialization. Based on fieldwork in Italy, it ex…
Introduction
Imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way. (Lakoff and Johnson 1980:5
Non-alignment in footing, intentionality and dissent in talk about immigrants in Italy
Poetic Dialogues
can represent politics in way that empowers the audience, transforming the context from one only marginally political into one in which relevant political decisions may be taken. In the Contrasto, Tuscan genre of verbal duel, the constant articulation of dialogue between two points of view allows the artists to dispute social behaviors and political views, while veiling their opinions through the formal structure of the genre. (Verbal art, perfor…
Poetic Dialogues
can represent politics in way that empowers the audience, transforming the context from one only marginally political into one in which relevant political decisions may be taken. In the Contrasto, Tuscan genre of verbal duel, the constant articulation of dialogue between two points of view allows the artists to dispute social behaviors and political views, while veiling their opinions through the formal structure of the genre. (Verbal art, perfor…
Verbal Art across Cultures
Verbal Art across Cultures: The Aesthetics and Proto-Aesthetics of Communication Hubert Knoblauch and Helga Kotthoff, eds. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen, 2001 297 pp
The Art of Dueling with Words
The Art of Dueling with Words:Toward a New Understanding of Verbal Duels across the World Valentina Pagliai (bio) A common view of verbal duels posits that they are a cathartic expression of aggression. This is partially due to the fact that-although a body of cross-disciplinary studies on verbal duels demonstrates their complexity as forms of expression-works intended to summarize and disseminate them have tended to rely on a minor number of sou…
Conversational agreement and racial formation processes
Recent scholarship on the working of racial formation processes underscores the intersection between discursive and structural components in the emergence of "race," and the agency of individuals at the local and global level in articulating its meaning. This article offers a link toward understanding how racial formation processes operate in face-to-face interaction, by highlighting how people do racialization. Based on fieldwork in Italy, it ex…
Conflict, Cooperation, and Facework inContrastoVerbal Duels
TuscanContrastoverbal duels reveal a subtly complex relationship between conflict and cooperation, and between face and insults. In these duels, the performers use their arguing skills to debate the politics and morality of contemporary Italy, calling attention to contradictions. The artists cooperate in building disagreement and heightening wider social conflicts, while insults may contribute to a successful performance, thus enhancing face. The…
Introduction
Imagine a culture where an argument is viewed as a dance, the participants are seen as performers, and the goal is to perform in a balanced and aesthetically pleasing way. (Lakoff and Johnson 1980:5
Unmarked Racializing Discourse, Facework, and Identity in Talk about Immigrants in Italy
Drawing from research on racial formation processes in discourse concerning immigrants to Italy, this article argues that when racializing discourses are introduced as unmarked in a conversation, the coparticipant is put in a position of having to readily agree or openly disagree-with the second option endangering face. Racializing discourses introduced as unmarked thus tend to obtain acquiescence from the coparticipant. At the same time, they wo…
Non-alignment in footing, intentionality and dissent in talk about immigrants in Italy
Lands i came to sing
This article on a genre of Tuscan Italian verbal art, the Contrasta, uses performance as a key to look at the connections between ethnic identity and place. The Contrasta takes its name, “contrast”, from its humorous representation of a verbal duel among entities, people or ideas. Structurally, it is formed by a series of chained Octets, in hendecasyllables. After an initial discussion of the current definitions of ethnic identity, the article is…
Singing gender
In this article, we explore the presentation and contestation of discourses of womanhood in verbal art performance. In Tuscan-Italian Contrasto verbal duels the artists, both males and females, may impersonate female characters as they exchange insults between each other. In doing so, they deploy multiple discourses of womanhood to demonstrate their wit and verbal artistry. As a consequence, they often subvert and contest “appropriate” female beh…
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Linguistics (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras)