The grammar of legal language. Comparative analysis of selected varieties of a regional law

According to the Italian legal system, regions may intervene on social and administrative questions with their own laws. The aim of this paper is to analyse varieties of the same law in different Italian regions and cities. The quantitative and qualitative approach is aimed to show the efficiency of each text, taking into consideration linguistic factors and their use in legal writing, such as syntax and lexis as well as intertextuality and relations between hyper- and hypotext (European directives and national norms vs. local norms). The comparison between five similar texts on the same subject will show how the interpretation of a norm may deeply differ one from another and how the quality of a norm may negatively influence it’s comprehension.

A blue dress, the language of the proprieties, and juvenilia in translation. some remarks on the “Frasi all’innamorata” by Cesare Pavese

The main purpose of the essay is to present one of the juvenilia by Cesare Pavese as a coherent text worth of being diffused. For this reason, the poem “Frasi all’innamorata” (1930), in its original version, opens the essay. the interpretation of the text is undertaken to show both its literary and cultural inspirations (W. Whitman, G. Gozzano, psychoanalysis) and dominant artistic strategies (transforming poetry into prose, playing with colloquial speech and linguistic clichés). Moreover, the presentation of possible difficulties in translation of the poem leads to a reflection on the themes of Pavese’s poetry such as solitude, a lack of love, anxieties caused by human physicality, alienation, and disapproval of superficiality in interpersonal relations. the Polish version of the poem acts as a final proposal of its reading.