Francesca Gobbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 255682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Gobbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Gobbo |
| SIGNATURE | GOBBO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1748-4921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning
This book advances the growing field of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining its epistemological and theoretical foundations.
More than Relata Refero
Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can be an important element of argumentative discourse. It might, for instance, provide information on the position of another party in the discussion or function as part of the premise of an argument from authority. Whereas existing methods of representing argumentative discourse focus on arguments and their interrelations, this paper develops a method t…
Two Linguas Francas? Social Inclusion through English and Esperanto
New forms of mobility presuppose a technological factor that frames it as ‘topological proximity,’ regardless of the nature of the mobile agent (human being, robot ware, animal, virus, digital object). The appeal of the so-called linguas francas is especially evident in human beings showing high propensity to move, i.e., motility. They are usually associated with transnational communication in multilingual settings, linguistic justice, and global…
Coolification and Language Vitality
Despite experiencing a relatively positive revival in the digital age, Esperanto and the assessment of its language vitality is often problematic and prone to gross errors; therefore, a theoretical reflection is required. Unlike other lesser-used languages, Esperanto is intergenerationally transmitted mainly outside the family, and so Fishman's GIDS and subsequent scales such as the EGIDS cannot be applied straightforwardly for language vitality …
International Auxiliary Languages
International auxiliary languages (IALs) are languages consciously planned for enabling communication between speakers having different native tongues on an equal footing. They are the most developed area of interlinguistics, the science of languages that are constructed or planned on purpose. The term “auxiliary” refers to the fact that IALs are intended to be used as second languages only. In general, IALs are supported by people who are dissat…
Urban Education in Western Europe
Bringing Up the Babies
Beyond the Nation-State? The Ideology of the Esperanto Movement between Neutralism and Multilingualism
Since its launch, Esperanto has attracted people involved in language politics. For them Esperanto provides an equitable solution when international problems are discussed, overcoming the barrier posed by the use of national languages and identities. However, its relation with the nation-state is far from being straightforward. Although a significant majority of the Movement claims Esperanto to be a neŭtrala lingvo , a neutral language, this has …
Claudio Marazzini e Alessio Petralli. La lingua italiana e le lingue romanze di fronte agli anglicismi
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David J. Peterson. The art of language invention
Esther H. Schor. Bridge of words
Educational Justice and Occupational Mobility
Are planned languages less complex than natural languages
On the education of Roma. Interrogating research findings and institutional policies
This special issue results from the awareness that educational and ethnographic research on the education of Roma in a number of European nation-states has, in recent years, been able to interpret
Negotiating Political Identities
The Minimal Levels of Abstraction in the History of Modern Computing
Learning Linguistics by Doing
The teaching of second languages in school classrooms is often conducted through the use of ‘direct’ and ‘immersion’ methods, while grammar is reserved for the first language. However, pupils spontaneously raise important questions for general and theoretical linguistics which could be better addressed through an interlinguistic comparison of first and second language grammars in the pupils’ repertoires. This paper explains the method used in a p…
Rassegna di Mambretti & Bracchi (2011)
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The Case of Correlatives
Since the publication of Volapük, the most important functional and deictic words present in grammar—interrogative, relative and demonstrative pronouns, and adjectives among others—have been described in planned grammars in a series or a table, namely “correlatives,” showing a considerable level of regularity. This article compares the degree of regularity in the correlatives series of International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) with the correlative…
Racism, ‘race’ and ethnographic research in multicultural Italy
This article is divided into two parts: in the first one, after mentioning episodes of violence against immigrants, the author discusses the issues of ‘race’ and racism within the debate on immigration and diversity taking place in Italy. Pointing out a number of relevant indications and reflections that qualify such debate, she argues that the concern of Italian researchers, educators and citizens about the resurgence of racism must be understoo…
On Chinese appositive relative clauses
There is currently no consensus in the literature with the respect to the semantic status of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Some authors (Zhang 2001; Del Gobbo 2003, 2004, 2005) claim that relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese can only be interpreted as restrictives; others (see Lin 2003) instead maintain that relative clauses in this language can be both restrictive and appositive. In this paper, I claim that Chinese relative clauses modif…
Rassegna di Tonkin (2009)
rivolte era una classe con una competenza sull'argomento molto alta, e quindi la traduzione per un pubblico italiano, non necessariamente specialista, è una s da non facile.Difatti, il lo conduttore di tutte le lezioni è costituito dal paradosso sociolinguistico caratterizzato da questa lingua: per usare i termini
The Insetrom project in Turin (Italy)
This paper presents and discusses the theoretical and pedagogical reasons behind the IN‐SErvice Training for Roma Inclusion (INSETRom) project, and results from interviews with teachers, Roma families and children. The focus here is on teaching, learning and communicative experiences in Turin multicultural classrooms attended by Roma pupils, all of which provide relevant indications for teacher‐training course contents and methodology. Teacher ex…
Teacher training for Roma inclusion
On metaphors, everyday diversity and intercultural education
This paper aims to clarify and discuss the reasons and limits of three rather popular metaphors that are used to speak of today’s complex social and cultural fabric, through references to cultural anthropology, biology and genetics. In her analysis, the author considers not only the linguistic and semantic dimension of each metaphor, but also the pragmatic consequences each entails for the field of intercultural education. In her conclusion, she …
Beyond the Nation-State? The Ideology of the Esperanto Movement between Neutralism and Multilingualism
Since its launch, Esperanto has attracted people involved in language politics. For them Esperanto provides an equitable solution when international problems are discussed, overcoming the barrier posed by the use of national languages and identities. However, its relation with the nation-state is far from being straightforward. Although a significant majority of the Movement claims Esperanto to be a neŭtrala lingvo , a neutral language, this has …
More than Relata Refero
Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can be an important element of argumentative discourse. It might, for instance, provide information on the position of another party in the discussion or function as part of the premise of an argument from authority. Whereas existing methods of representing argumentative discourse focus on arguments and their interrelations, this paper develops a method t…
Racism, ‘race’ and ethnographic research in multicultural Italy
This article is divided into two parts: in the first one, after mentioning episodes of violence against immigrants, the author discusses the issues of ‘race’ and racism within the debate on immigration and diversity taking place in Italy. Pointing out a number of relevant indications and reflections that qualify such debate, she argues that the concern of Italian researchers, educators and citizens about the resurgence of racism must be understoo…
The Insetrom project in Turin (Italy)
This paper presents and discusses the theoretical and pedagogical reasons behind the IN‐SErvice Training for Roma Inclusion (INSETRom) project, and results from interviews with teachers, Roma families and children. The focus here is on teaching, learning and communicative experiences in Turin multicultural classrooms attended by Roma pupils, all of which provide relevant indications for teacher‐training course contents and methodology. Teacher ex…
Teacher training for Roma inclusion
Coolification and Language Vitality
Despite experiencing a relatively positive revival in the digital age, Esperanto and the assessment of its language vitality is often problematic and prone to gross errors; therefore, a theoretical reflection is required. Unlike other lesser-used languages, Esperanto is intergenerationally transmitted mainly outside the family, and so Fishman's GIDS and subsequent scales such as the EGIDS cannot be applied straightforwardly for language vitality …
Esther H. Schor. Bridge of words
Educational Justice and Occupational Mobility
Two Linguas Francas? Social Inclusion through English and Esperanto
New forms of mobility presuppose a technological factor that frames it as ‘topological proximity,’ regardless of the nature of the mobile agent (human being, robot ware, animal, virus, digital object). The appeal of the so-called linguas francas is especially evident in human beings showing high propensity to move, i.e., motility. They are usually associated with transnational communication in multilingual settings, linguistic justice, and global…
Are planned languages less complex than natural languages
On the education of Roma. Interrogating research findings and institutional policies
This special issue results from the awareness that educational and ethnographic research on the education of Roma in a number of European nation-states has, in recent years, been able to interpret
Negotiating Political Identities
On metaphors, everyday diversity and intercultural education
This paper aims to clarify and discuss the reasons and limits of three rather popular metaphors that are used to speak of today’s complex social and cultural fabric, through references to cultural anthropology, biology and genetics. In her analysis, the author considers not only the linguistic and semantic dimension of each metaphor, but also the pragmatic consequences each entails for the field of intercultural education. In her conclusion, she …
On metaphors, everyday diversity and intercultural education
This article aims to clarify and discuss the reasons and limits of three rather popular metaphors that are used to speak of today’s complex social and cultural fabric, through references to cultural anthropology, biology and genetics. In her analysis, the author considers not only the linguistic and semantic dimension of each metaphor, but also the pragmatic consequences each entails for the field of intercultural education. In her conclusion, sh…
Along the margins, across the borders
Religious multiculturalism and intercultural education
In this paper the author reflects on the educational experience of students attending the Waldensian high school in Torre Pellice (Italy), drawing on the findings of her own ethnographic fieldwork in the Waldensian valleys. The original research aim was to explore the meaning that education and schooling traditionally have for this religious minority group, and their relevance to the latter's identity construction as minority persons, as well as …
Religious multiculturalism and intercultural education
In this paper the author reflects on the educational experience of students attending the Waldensian high school in Torre Pellice (Italy), drawing on the findings of her own ethnographic fieldwork in the Waldensian valleys. The original research aim was to explore the meaning that education and schooling traditionally have for this religious minority group, and their relevance to the latter's identity construction as minority persons, as well as …
John U. Ogbu
The article presents a portrait of the late anthropologist John U. Ogbu through the author’s personal recollections of him as a social scientist, a teacher, a colleague and a longtime friend
The European Union’s Need for an International Auxiliary Language
In the last few years, debate has centered around European Union language policy. Many people, language specialists and laymen alike, argue that the European Union should adopt a common tongue for practical purposes, at institutional and educational levels, while respecting the cultural richness of other languages. Although English, or sometimes Latin, has been proposed, an International Auxiliary Language (IAL) would seem to accomplish this aim …
Along the margins, across the borders
Rassegna di Broccatelli & Nino (2004)
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On metaphors, everyday diversity and intercultural education
This article aims to clarify and discuss the reasons and limits of three rather popular metaphors that are used to speak of today’s complex social and cultural fabric, through references to cultural anthropology, biology and genetics. In her analysis, the author considers not only the linguistic and semantic dimension of each metaphor, but also the pragmatic consequences each entails for the field of intercultural education. In her conclusion, sh…
Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East
Rassegna di Minnaja & Ricorda (2007)
The Insetrom project in Turin (Italy)
This paper presents and discusses the theoretical and pedagogical reasons behind the IN‐SErvice Training for Roma Inclusion (INSETRom) project, and results from interviews with teachers, Roma families and children. The focus here is on teaching, learning and communicative experiences in Turin multicultural classrooms attended by Roma pupils, all of which provide relevant indications for teacher‐training course contents and methodology. Teacher ex…
Teacher training for Roma inclusion
On metaphors, everyday diversity and intercultural education
This paper aims to clarify and discuss the reasons and limits of three rather popular metaphors that are used to speak of today’s complex social and cultural fabric, through references to cultural anthropology, biology and genetics. In her analysis, the author considers not only the linguistic and semantic dimension of each metaphor, but also the pragmatic consequences each entails for the field of intercultural education. In her conclusion, she …
On Chinese appositive relative clauses
There is currently no consensus in the literature with the respect to the semantic status of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese. Some authors (Zhang 2001; Del Gobbo 2003, 2004, 2005) claim that relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese can only be interpreted as restrictives; others (see Lin 2003) instead maintain that relative clauses in this language can be both restrictive and appositive. In this paper, I claim that Chinese relative clauses modif…
Rassegna di Tonkin (2009)
rivolte era una classe con una competenza sull'argomento molto alta, e quindi la traduzione per un pubblico italiano, non necessariamente specialista, è una s da non facile.Difatti, il lo conduttore di tutte le lezioni è costituito dal paradosso sociolinguistico caratterizzato da questa lingua: per usare i termini
The Case of Correlatives
Since the publication of Volapük, the most important functional and deictic words present in grammar—interrogative, relative and demonstrative pronouns, and adjectives among others—have been described in planned grammars in a series or a table, namely “correlatives,” showing a considerable level of regularity. This article compares the degree of regularity in the correlatives series of International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) with the correlative…
Racism, ‘race’ and ethnographic research in multicultural Italy
This article is divided into two parts: in the first one, after mentioning episodes of violence against immigrants, the author discusses the issues of ‘race’ and racism within the debate on immigration and diversity taking place in Italy. Pointing out a number of relevant indications and reflections that qualify such debate, she argues that the concern of Italian researchers, educators and citizens about the resurgence of racism must be understoo…
Rassegna di Mambretti & Bracchi (2011)
Preview this article: Emanuele Mambretti e Remo Bracchi. Dizionario etimologico-etnografico dei dialetti di Livigno e Trepalle DELT, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lplp.36.2.06gob-1.gif
Learning Linguistics by Doing
The teaching of second languages in school classrooms is often conducted through the use of ‘direct’ and ‘immersion’ methods, while grammar is reserved for the first language. However, pupils spontaneously raise important questions for general and theoretical linguistics which could be better addressed through an interlinguistic comparison of first and second language grammars in the pupils’ repertoires. This paper explains the method used in a p…
The Minimal Levels of Abstraction in the History of Modern Computing
On the education of Roma. Interrogating research findings and institutional policies
This special issue results from the awareness that educational and ethnographic research on the education of Roma in a number of European nation-states has, in recent years, been able to interpret
Negotiating Political Identities
Urban Education in Western Europe
Bringing Up the Babies
Beyond the Nation-State? The Ideology of the Esperanto Movement between Neutralism and Multilingualism
Since its launch, Esperanto has attracted people involved in language politics. For them Esperanto provides an equitable solution when international problems are discussed, overcoming the barrier posed by the use of national languages and identities. However, its relation with the nation-state is far from being straightforward. Although a significant majority of the Movement claims Esperanto to be a neŭtrala lingvo , a neutral language, this has …
Claudio Marazzini e Alessio Petralli. La lingua italiana e le lingue romanze di fronte agli anglicismi
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David J. Peterson. The art of language invention
Sociology (20 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)