Silvia Bruti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1365303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Bruti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bruti |
| SIGNATURE | BRUTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pisa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9327-1114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Introduction to Informal Pathways to English Learning
Over the last decade, Italian university students have come to encounter English increasingly outside formal instruction, through a broad and fast-changing media ecology that includes traditional and digital formats, platforms and everyday communicative practices. This introduction frames the monographic issue Informal Pathways to English Learning within the national PRIN project on media-driven informalisation of English learning in Italy, which…
English for Sports
This study examines Italian university students’ knowledge of English for Sports as a specialised subset of ESP, exploring how general proficiency, personal engagement with sport and exposure to English-language sports media shape both general and domain-specific lexical competence. 87 students (MA Languages; BA Economics) completed a questionnaire on media habits, a General Vocabulary Size Test, and a 60-item Sports VST. Moreover, a longitudinal…
Compliments as supportive moves in social media conflicts
This study examines how Italian learners of English use compliments when responding to criticism on social media to support others in online conflict. While previous research has shown that learners can often recognise positive evaluation but struggle to identify compliments accurately, less is known about how they produce them in confrontational interaction. To address this, the study discusses written responses to scenarios based on real Facebo…
Vulgarization or non-vulgarization in dubbing from English into Italian? Insights from Netflix TV series
This paper explores the representation and translation of swearwords in a corpus of English Netflix series dubbed into Italian. The TV series selected for this study encompass the most popular genres on the platform, including teen, dramedy, action, and mystery, making them representative of widely consumed content. The analysis begins with a comprehensive examination of the occurrence, extent, and function of swearwords in the original soundtrac…
In fact and infatti
The term "connective" appears more useful in that it stesses the general relational function that this category usually performs
Looking behind the scenes
In this article we consider the process involved in creating foreign language versions of feature films by describing and analysing paratextual elements in the dialogue list for the audiovisual source text Ocean's Eleven. We aim to assess the potential translational impact of this accompanying material on the final product and to offer insights into the complex mediation process that lies at the heart of the linguistic transfer in audiovisual tra…
Paolo Virzì’s glocal comedy in English subtitles
Paolo Virzì’s film production is deeply rooted in Italian (often Tuscan) contemporary society, with a focus on the daily lives of ordinary people and the difference between their true selves and their public persona. The language spoken by his colourful characters, which includes regionalisms, slang, colloquialisms and a vast array of idiosyncratic traits, is the quintessence of Virzì’s world and of his bittersweet irony. In this contribution, we…
The Language of Pop Culture
The potential of audiovisual material in language teaching (Rodríguez Martín 2006; Kaiser 2011; Pavesi 2012; Bruti 2015, 2016a, 2016b), has been recognized, although there are still some reservations, mainly about its authenticity, that is, its comparability with spontaneous conversation (Baños Piñero and Chaume 2009; Rodríguez-Martín and Moreno-Jaén 2009; Al-Surmi 2012). By way of a case study, this contribution investigates (im)politeness in a …
Corpus linguistics and Audiovisual Translation
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translatology entitled ‘Corpus linguistics and Audiovisual Translation: in search of an integrated approach’. The purpose of the volume is to illustrate and discuss the use and limits (if any) of corpus-based investigation into audiovisual dialogue and audiovisual translation. This special issue also seeks to investigate the development of corpus-based approac…
The Language of Pop Culture
The potential of audiovisual material in language teaching (Rodríguez Martín 2006; Kaiser 2011; Pavesi 2012; Bruti 2015, 2016a, 2016b), has been recognized, although there are still some reservations, mainly about its authenticity, that is, its comparability with spontaneous conversation (Baños Piñero and Chaume 2009; Rodríguez-Martín and Moreno-Jaén 2009; Al-Surmi 2012). By way of a case study, this contribution investigates (im)politeness in a …
Paolo Virzì’s glocal comedy in English subtitles
Paolo Virzì’s film production is deeply rooted in Italian (often Tuscan) contemporary society, with a focus on the daily lives of ordinary people and the difference between their true selves and their public persona. The language spoken by his colourful characters, which includes regionalisms, slang, colloquialisms and a vast array of idiosyncratic traits, is the quintessence of Virzì’s world and of his bittersweet irony. In this contribution, we…
Corpus linguistics and Audiovisual Translation
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translatology entitled ‘Corpus linguistics and Audiovisual Translation: in search of an integrated approach’. The purpose of the volume is to illustrate and discuss the use and limits (if any) of corpus-based investigation into audiovisual dialogue and audiovisual translation. This special issue also seeks to investigate the development of corpus-based approac…
Corpus linguistics and Audiovisual Translation
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translatology entitled ‘Corpus linguistics and Audiovisual Translation: in search of an integrated approach’. The purpose of the volume is to illustrate and discuss the use and limits (if any) of corpus-based investigation into audiovisual dialogue and audiovisual translation. This special issue also seeks to investigate the development of corpus-based approac…
Paolo Virzì’s glocal comedy in English subtitles
Paolo Virzì’s film production is deeply rooted in Italian (often Tuscan) contemporary society, with a focus on the daily lives of ordinary people and the difference between their true selves and their public persona. The language spoken by his colourful characters, which includes regionalisms, slang, colloquialisms and a vast array of idiosyncratic traits, is the quintessence of Virzì’s world and of his bittersweet irony. In this contribution, we…
The Language of Pop Culture
The potential of audiovisual material in language teaching (Rodríguez Martín 2006; Kaiser 2011; Pavesi 2012; Bruti 2015, 2016a, 2016b), has been recognized, although there are still some reservations, mainly about its authenticity, that is, its comparability with spontaneous conversation (Baños Piñero and Chaume 2009; Rodríguez-Martín and Moreno-Jaén 2009; Al-Surmi 2012). By way of a case study, this contribution investigates (im)politeness in a …
Looking behind the scenes
In this article we consider the process involved in creating foreign language versions of feature films by describing and analysing paratextual elements in the dialogue list for the audiovisual source text Ocean's Eleven. We aim to assess the potential translational impact of this accompanying material on the final product and to offer insights into the complex mediation process that lies at the heart of the linguistic transfer in audiovisual tra…
In fact and infatti
The term "connective" appears more useful in that it stesses the general relational function that this category usually performs
Vulgarization or non-vulgarization in dubbing from English into Italian? Insights from Netflix TV series
This paper explores the representation and translation of swearwords in a corpus of English Netflix series dubbed into Italian. The TV series selected for this study encompass the most popular genres on the platform, including teen, dramedy, action, and mystery, making them representative of widely consumed content. The analysis begins with a comprehensive examination of the occurrence, extent, and function of swearwords in the original soundtrac…
An Introduction to Informal Pathways to English Learning
Over the last decade, Italian university students have come to encounter English increasingly outside formal instruction, through a broad and fast-changing media ecology that includes traditional and digital formats, platforms and everyday communicative practices. This introduction frames the monographic issue Informal Pathways to English Learning within the national PRIN project on media-driven informalisation of English learning in Italy, which…
English for Sports
This study examines Italian university students’ knowledge of English for Sports as a specialised subset of ESP, exploring how general proficiency, personal engagement with sport and exposure to English-language sports media shape both general and domain-specific lexical competence. 87 students (MA Languages; BA Economics) completed a questionnaire on media habits, a General Vocabulary Size Test, and a 60-item Sports VST. Moreover, a longitudinal…
Compliments as supportive moves in social media conflicts
This study examines how Italian learners of English use compliments when responding to criticism on social media to support others in online conflict. While previous research has shown that learners can often recognise positive evaluation but struggle to identify compliments accurately, less is known about how they produce them in confrontational interaction. To address this, the study discusses written responses to scenarios based on real Facebo…
Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)