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Diskussionen af forholdet mellem anatomi og metafor sætter fokus på anatomiens status i psykoanalysen. Kan psykoanalysen blive feministisk ved at udkaste nogle anatomiske metaforer som er alternativer eller suplementer til "fallos"?

This book on Metafore dello spazio, which follows the first dealing with La politica e gli spazi politici, is part of a series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political theory, entitled Figure dello spazio, politica e società, and aimed at exploring the major political and social issues of the modern and contemporary age from the aspect of spaces and their production. - Questo volume su Metafore dello spazio, che fa seguito al primo dedicato a La politica e gli spazi, fa parte della serie dedicata ad illustrare i risultati di un gruppo di studio interdisciplinare, promosso da Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina e Bruna Consarelli, docenti di Storia delle Dottrine politiche, intitolato Figure dello spazio, politica e società, che mira ad indagare i grandi temi politici e sociali dell'età moderna e contemporanea dal punto di vista degli spazi e della loro produzione.

This book on Metafore dello spazio, which follows the first dealing with La politica e gli spazi politici, is part of a series designed to illustrate the results of an interdisciplinary study group, fostered by Lea Campos Boralevi, Vittore Collina and Bruna Consarelli, lecturers in the history of political theory, entitled Figure dello spazio, politica e società, and aimed at exploring the major political and social issues of the modern and contemporary age from the aspect of spaces and their production.

- The topic of this contribution is a sociological analysis of the celiac disease under a perspective which try to overcome the traditionally perspective of illness, considering the impact on the relationships connected to the aspects of socialization referred to dining together. The attention is focused in particular to some phases of the life, when the socialization is made even sitting at the table, in collective rites of eating pizza or pasta all together. From here the necessity of considering a dimension that allows to gather the uneasiness and the social damages connected to the illness: especially because it doesn't need a care in the traditional sense of the term (differently from other autoimmune illnesses like the diabetes, the autoimmune thyroiditis or the psoriasis, in the case of the celiac disease is "enough" to follow a free-gluten diet). Celiac disease deprives the celiac of relational occasions, which could have played an important role in the accumulation of social capital.Key-words: celiac disease, give social, food intolerances, life stories, disease, illness.Parole-chiave: celiachia, danno sociale, intolleranze alimentari, racconti di vita, disease, illness.

The purpose of the present paper is to discuss several metaphorical conceptualizations of the
phenomenon of communication from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Apart from the
purely linguistic and philosophical issues, the article touches upon the questions that concern the
process of teaching and learning a foreign language (especially the so called "radically different
one"). The thesis about our essentially metaphorical understanding of the phenomenon of
communication, widely acknowledged in cognitive linguistics, is supported by empirical data
drawn from Arabic and several Indo-European languages. Subsequently, the thesis is taken as a
point of departure for discussing such issues as the problem of cross-linguistic variation of
metaphors and their biological motivation. The paper consists of three sections: the first one
examines the metaphor of communication as transfer, the second considers the metaphor of
communication as enlightening, whereas the third presents some philosophical observations. The
most important conclusion that is drawn here has it that the potential universality of various
metaphorical conceptualizations is a very useful heuristic and didactic tool, for the existence of a
common ground between languages that are genetically unrelated makes it possible not only to
account for the ease with which certain elements of the target language can be translated into the
source language, but also to hypothesize about the general mechanisms that are responsible for
understanding and acquiring the (radically) different target language. Needless to say, such
hypotheses are of paramount importance for the process of teaching and learning a foreign
(especially radically different) language.