Ira Torresi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1623910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Torresi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Torresi |
| SIGNATURE | TORRESI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna, Forlì, Italy |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4479-9646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The role of gender in the professional practice of mediation
In Italy, community interpreting and public service interpreting are often subsumed under the label of mediazione (“mediation”). In official documents, mediazione appears to be a form of conflict management, heavily dependent on the empathy and trust stemming from a shared language, culture, country of origin, age, and gender between mediators and migrants. Informed by gender and queer studies, this article aims at investigating the role of the g…
Non-binary language in consecutive interpreting from English into Italian
Italian is a gender-marked binary language with masculine and feminine as the only possible grammatical genders. One strategy that was recently put forward to deconstruct the gender dichotomy and to allow for non-binary individuals to be linguistically acknowledged is to replace gendered endings (-a,-o,-e,-i) with a schwa (ə), both in writing and speech. While some authors and media outlets have started adopting this solution in written texts, qu…
Advertising
In the world of the printed page, pictures and graphic layout are generally taken to be mere complements or exemplifications of the verbal part of the text. This is not only against the principles of semiotics, it is against the very rules of communication, as the text is not perceived by the reader as a sum of different dimensions (i.e., verbal, visual, tactile, etc.) but as a whole where all components are connected and interdependent. Thus, sp…
Advertising
In the world of the printed page, pictures and graphic layout are generally taken to be mere complements or exemplifications of the verbal part of the text. This is not only against the principles of semiotics, it is against the very rules of communication, as the text is not perceived by the reader as a sum of different dimensions (i.e., verbal, visual, tactile, etc.) but as a whole where all components are connected and interdependent. Thus, sp…
Advertising
In the world of the printed page, pictures and graphic layout are generally taken to be mere complements or exemplifications of the verbal part of the text. This is not only against the principles of semiotics, it is against the very rules of communication, as the text is not perceived by the reader as a sum of different dimensions (i.e., verbal, visual, tactile, etc.) but as a whole where all components are connected and interdependent. Thus, sp…
Non-binary language in consecutive interpreting from English into Italian
Italian is a gender-marked binary language with masculine and feminine as the only possible grammatical genders. One strategy that was recently put forward to deconstruct the gender dichotomy and to allow for non-binary individuals to be linguistically acknowledged is to replace gendered endings (-a,-o,-e,-i) with a schwa (ə), both in writing and speech. While some authors and media outlets have started adopting this solution in written texts, qu…
The role of gender in the professional practice of mediation
In Italy, community interpreting and public service interpreting are often subsumed under the label of mediazione (“mediation”). In official documents, mediazione appears to be a form of conflict management, heavily dependent on the empathy and trust stemming from a shared language, culture, country of origin, age, and gender between mediators and migrants. Informed by gender and queer studies, this article aims at investigating the role of the g…
History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Bespoke (1 works) · Casual (1 works) · Component (thermodynamics) (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)