Looking back from the centre: Experiences and perspectives of Italian academic living/working abroad
Kapitel i bok, 2014

It seems bizarre to characterize as semiperipheral the homeland of Dante, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Throughout the centuries Italy has enriched the world’s culture in all areas of thought and human knowledge, and the Italian language, culture and way of life now more than ever seem to exert an international fascination with a recognized — if rather stereotyped — identity worldwide. However, Italian culture has also been known for its complexity and contradictions, and as Pirandello in L’Umorismo well realized, it is through these paradoxes that the real nature of things is revealed. Realities, thoughts and lives tend to open themselves to a plurality of interpretations, and Italy is the place where opposites coexist. This may be said also for the situation of Italian academia, caught in a web of contradictions and multi-layered influences, and for the experiences of Italian academics — especially humanities scholars — whose lives are emblematic of the need to juggle contrasts and reconcile seemingly irreconcilable phenomena.

writing for publication

research writing

brain drain

English for Specific Purposes

Författare

Raffaella Negretti

K. Bennett (Ed.), The Semi-Periphery of Academic Writing: discourses, communities and practices

148-162
978-1-349-46870-6 (ISBN)

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Ämneskategorier

Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik

Studier av enskilda språk

Lärande och undervisning

Pedagogiskt arbete

DOI

10.1057/9781137351197

ISBN

978-1-349-46870-6

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2017-10-10