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Federico Gobbo

University of Amsterdam, Taal En Letterkunde, Special Chair holder

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Special Chair in Interlinguistics and Esperanto ĉe University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.
Supervisors: Marco Benini, Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, and Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone
Address: Spuistraat 134, 1012 VT Amsterdam The Netherlands

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Homo Ludens Today (English translation of Umberto Eco's)

Into the Magic Circle, 2024

Umberto Eco – Homo Ludens Today(1) English translation by Joyce Goggin, Federico Gobbo and Léon H... more Umberto Eco – Homo Ludens Today(1) English translation by Joyce Goggin, Federico Gobbo and Léon Hanssen. Umberto Eco, “Homo ludens oggi”, in: Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens. Traduzione di Corinna van Schendel. Saggio introduttivo di Umberto Eco. Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1973, pp. vii-xxvii; Reprinted with the title “Huizinga e il gioco” in: Umberto Eco, Sugli specchi e altri saggi. Milan: Bompiani, 1985, pp. 283-300.

Traduzione e diacronia in esperanto: Dante e Pinocchio

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego eBooks, 2021

Esperanto is the most successful planned language in history in terms of sociolinguistic relevanc... more Esperanto is the most successful planned language in history in terms of sociolinguistic relevance, as a community of practice formed around it since 1887. Esperanto proved its vitality by its diachronic change, limited but still present. Such change can be tested by comparing translations of the Divine Comedy and Pinocchio, published at different historical moments. This comparison illustrates the peculiarities of translating into Esperanto, a language that does not have an ethnic group of reference.

Bonvenon! Un fumetto in esperanto per l’orientamento (meta) linguistico

Representing second-order arguments with Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg)

Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro Technique

arXiv (Cornell University), Feb 18, 2014

Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in dist... more Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in distributed settings. Effective time management helps agile teams to plan and monitor the work to be performed, and create and maintain a fast yet sustainable pace. The Pomodoro Technique is one promising time management technique. Its application and adaptation in Sourcesense Milan Team surfaced various benefits, challenges and implications for distributed agile software development. Lessons learnt from the experiences of Sourcesense Milan Team can be useful for other distributed agile teams to turn time from enemy into an ally.

Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Jan 21, 2021

This is a contribution from Contested Languages. The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Edited by ... more

Review of Myhill (2006): Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East

Language Problems and Language Planning, Jun 6, 2008

Review of Jenkins (2007): English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

Language Problems and Language Planning, Apr 1, 2010

Transnational communication in a 'glocalized' world: in search of balanced multilingualism

Język, Komunikacja, Informacja, 2015

Abstract. After the fall of the Ussr, the use of english between non-native speakers spread even ... more Abstract. After the fall of the Ussr, the use of english between non-native speakers spread even more than it had before. this situation has no precedent in the history of mankind, hence there is no straightforward answer to the question of how to deal with it. On the one hand, english non-native speakers are now more numerous than english native speakers, challenging the relevance of the distinction. On the other hand, local identities aspire to be promoted to national identities in various parts of the world, even if speakers of languages of well-established nation-states are not comfortable with this. I argue that in the 21th century language policy and planning experts as well as language activists cannot deal with the global level (spread of English) without also considering the supranational and national levels, together with all the complexity of local situations. This new situation, often summarized by the motto ‘think globally, act locally’, can be described with the term ‘glocalization’.

Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education?

Contested Languages

This is a contribution from Contested Languages. The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Edited by ... more

Correction to: Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning: Introduction

Springer eBooks, 2023

The original version of this chapter was inadvertently published with an incorrect author name "S... more

Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto

Contested Languages, 2021

Modificare l’immagine linguistica: esperanto e piemontese a confronto

For the maintenance and revitalization of regional and minority languages (RML) new challenges ar... more For the maintenance and revitalization of regional and minority languages (RML) new challenges are posed by today’s multilingual world. This paper discusses possible strategies to improve the linguistic representation of Piedmontese on the basis of the experiences gained by the Esperanto supporters over the last decades. Recent studies compare RMLs and planned languages from different perspectives. In particular, Piedmontese and Esperanto, which will be under investigation here, show interesting similarities from a sociolinguistic viewpoint. The recent revival of Esperanto is fostered by the intensive use of information and communication technologies, along with a deep ideological self-reflection in order to modify its linguistic representations, both internally and externally. Finally, various ways to implement and use the Esperanto model for a better maintenance and revitalization of Piedmontese, as well as other similar RMLs, will be proposed.

An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2018

Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborativ... more Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborative learning through social interactions. However, it tends to ignore the human mental architecture, pillar of cognitivism. A characteristic of cognitivism is that instructional designs built upon it are generally explicit, contrarily to constructivism. This position paper proposes a novel learning task that is aimed at combining both the approaches through the use of trigger questions in a collaborative activity executed after a traditional delivery of instructions. To evaluate this new task, a metric of efficiency based upon a measure of mental workload and a measure of performance is proposed. The former measure is taken from Ergonomics, and two well know subjective self-reporting mental workload assessment techniques are envisioned. The latter measure is taken from an objective quantitative assessment of the performance of learners employing concept maps.

Artificial Languages

The collection aims at proposing a contribution to the academic discussion of themes related to p... more The collection aims at proposing a contribution to the academic discussion of themes related to planned and artificial languages, including both logical-linguistical analyses of morphosyntactical structures and lexicon generation, as well as from a thought-historical perspective, focusing on their underlying epistemological and ontological assumptions. The collection is opened by the mainly philosophical contribution by Paolo Valore. It'sa known fact that planning an artificial language means that, also and mainly, in a laboratory for ...

More than Relata Refero: Representing the Various Roles of Reported Speech in Argumentative Discourse

Languages

Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can ... more 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 that enables the analyst to also include informative elements in the representation, focusing on reported speech. It does so by incorporating the notion of ‘voice’ into the representation framework of Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg). In particular, the paper explains how to formalize the constituents of this notion and illustrates its use in representing (1) an author’s report of the position of another party (including the supporting argumentation); (2) an author’s own position (including the supporting argumentation); and (3) source-base...

The Logic of the Arguer. Representing Natural Argumentative Discourse in Adpositional Argumentation

In this paper, we show how to represent natural argumentative discourse through Adpositional Argu... more In this paper, we show how to represent natural argumentative discourse through Adpositional Argumentation, a uniform framework for expressing linguistic and pragmatic aspects of such discourse on various levels of abstraction. Starting from representing the utterer and the utterance, we expand to claims and minimal arguments, finally focusing on complex argumentation in three different structures: convergent (many premises), divergent (many conclusions), and serial (an argument whose premise is the conclusion of another argument). An innovative feature of the framework is that it enables the analyst to provide a granular description of natural argumentative discourse, thus letting the logic of the arguer dynamically unfold while the discourse is presented without enforcing any particular interpretation.

Corpus at the Core: The Epistemology of Language Planning

Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning

Alle origini dell'interlinguistica : Cartesio e Leibniz

L'esperanto, 2017

Aktualeco de la morala filozofio de Zamenhof

Homo Ludens Today (English translation of Umberto Eco's)

Into the Magic Circle, 2024

Umberto Eco – Homo Ludens Today(1) English translation by Joyce Goggin, Federico Gobbo and Léon H... more Umberto Eco – Homo Ludens Today(1) English translation by Joyce Goggin, Federico Gobbo and Léon Hanssen. Umberto Eco, “Homo ludens oggi”, in: Johan Huizinga, Homo ludens. Traduzione di Corinna van Schendel. Saggio introduttivo di Umberto Eco. Turin: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1973, pp. vii-xxvii; Reprinted with the title “Huizinga e il gioco” in: Umberto Eco, Sugli specchi e altri saggi. Milan: Bompiani, 1985, pp. 283-300.

Traduzione e diacronia in esperanto: Dante e Pinocchio

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego eBooks, 2021

Esperanto is the most successful planned language in history in terms of sociolinguistic relevanc... more Esperanto is the most successful planned language in history in terms of sociolinguistic relevance, as a community of practice formed around it since 1887. Esperanto proved its vitality by its diachronic change, limited but still present. Such change can be tested by comparing translations of the Divine Comedy and Pinocchio, published at different historical moments. This comparison illustrates the peculiarities of translating into Esperanto, a language that does not have an ethnic group of reference.

Bonvenon! Un fumetto in esperanto per l’orientamento (meta) linguistico

Representing second-order arguments with Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg)

Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally Using the Pomodoro Technique

arXiv (Cornell University), Feb 18, 2014

Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in dist... more Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in distributed settings. Effective time management helps agile teams to plan and monitor the work to be performed, and create and maintain a fast yet sustainable pace. The Pomodoro Technique is one promising time management technique. Its application and adaptation in Sourcesense Milan Team surfaced various benefits, challenges and implications for distributed agile software development. Lessons learnt from the experiences of Sourcesense Milan Team can be useful for other distributed agile teams to turn time from enemy into an ally.

Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto

John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Jan 21, 2021

This is a contribution from Contested Languages. The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Edited by ... more

Review of Myhill (2006): Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East

Language Problems and Language Planning, Jun 6, 2008

Review of Jenkins (2007): English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

Language Problems and Language Planning, Apr 1, 2010

Transnational communication in a 'glocalized' world: in search of balanced multilingualism

Język, Komunikacja, Informacja, 2015

Abstract. After the fall of the Ussr, the use of english between non-native speakers spread even ... more Abstract. After the fall of the Ussr, the use of english between non-native speakers spread even more than it had before. this situation has no precedent in the history of mankind, hence there is no straightforward answer to the question of how to deal with it. On the one hand, english non-native speakers are now more numerous than english native speakers, challenging the relevance of the distinction. On the other hand, local identities aspire to be promoted to national identities in various parts of the world, even if speakers of languages of well-established nation-states are not comfortable with this. I argue that in the 21th century language policy and planning experts as well as language activists cannot deal with the global level (spread of English) without also considering the supranational and national levels, together with all the complexity of local situations. This new situation, often summarized by the motto ‘think globally, act locally’, can be described with the term ‘glocalization’.

Chapter 13. Which Sardinian for education?

Contested Languages

This is a contribution from Contested Languages. The hidden multilingualism of Europe. Edited by ... more

Correction to: Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning: Introduction

Springer eBooks, 2023

The original version of this chapter was inadvertently published with an incorrect author name "S... more

Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto

Contested Languages, 2021

Modificare l’immagine linguistica: esperanto e piemontese a confronto

For the maintenance and revitalization of regional and minority languages (RML) new challenges ar... more For the maintenance and revitalization of regional and minority languages (RML) new challenges are posed by today’s multilingual world. This paper discusses possible strategies to improve the linguistic representation of Piedmontese on the basis of the experiences gained by the Esperanto supporters over the last decades. Recent studies compare RMLs and planned languages from different perspectives. In particular, Piedmontese and Esperanto, which will be under investigation here, show interesting similarities from a sociolinguistic viewpoint. The recent revival of Esperanto is fostered by the intensive use of information and communication technologies, along with a deep ideological self-reflection in order to modify its linguistic representations, both internally and externally. Finally, various ways to implement and use the Esperanto model for a better maintenance and revitalization of Piedmontese, as well as other similar RMLs, will be proposed.

An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2018

Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborativ... more Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborative learning through social interactions. However, it tends to ignore the human mental architecture, pillar of cognitivism. A characteristic of cognitivism is that instructional designs built upon it are generally explicit, contrarily to constructivism. This position paper proposes a novel learning task that is aimed at combining both the approaches through the use of trigger questions in a collaborative activity executed after a traditional delivery of instructions. To evaluate this new task, a metric of efficiency based upon a measure of mental workload and a measure of performance is proposed. The former measure is taken from Ergonomics, and two well know subjective self-reporting mental workload assessment techniques are envisioned. The latter measure is taken from an objective quantitative assessment of the performance of learners employing concept maps.

Artificial Languages

The collection aims at proposing a contribution to the academic discussion of themes related to p... more The collection aims at proposing a contribution to the academic discussion of themes related to planned and artificial languages, including both logical-linguistical analyses of morphosyntactical structures and lexicon generation, as well as from a thought-historical perspective, focusing on their underlying epistemological and ontological assumptions. The collection is opened by the mainly philosophical contribution by Paolo Valore. It'sa known fact that planning an artificial language means that, also and mainly, in a laboratory for ...

More than Relata Refero: Representing the Various Roles of Reported Speech in Argumentative Discourse

Languages

Reported speech, or relata refero, although not always part of the argumentation tout court, can ... more 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 that enables the analyst to also include informative elements in the representation, focusing on reported speech. It does so by incorporating the notion of ‘voice’ into the representation framework of Adpositional Argumentation (AdArg). In particular, the paper explains how to formalize the constituents of this notion and illustrates its use in representing (1) an author’s report of the position of another party (including the supporting argumentation); (2) an author’s own position (including the supporting argumentation); and (3) source-base...

The Logic of the Arguer. Representing Natural Argumentative Discourse in Adpositional Argumentation

In this paper, we show how to represent natural argumentative discourse through Adpositional Argu... more In this paper, we show how to represent natural argumentative discourse through Adpositional Argumentation, a uniform framework for expressing linguistic and pragmatic aspects of such discourse on various levels of abstraction. Starting from representing the utterer and the utterance, we expand to claims and minimal arguments, finally focusing on complex argumentation in three different structures: convergent (many premises), divergent (many conclusions), and serial (an argument whose premise is the conclusion of another argument). An innovative feature of the framework is that it enables the analyst to provide a granular description of natural argumentative discourse, thus letting the logic of the arguer dynamically unfold while the discourse is presented without enforcing any particular interpretation.

Corpus at the Core: The Epistemology of Language Planning

Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning

Alle origini dell'interlinguistica : Cartesio e Leibniz

L'esperanto, 2017

Aktualeco de la morala filozofio de Zamenhof

Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning

by Federico Gobbo, Michele Gazzola, David Cassels Johnson, and Jorge Antonio Leoni de León

This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the episte... more This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline. Throughout the book, the authors address LPP from different perspectives, exploring the interface between planning in theory and its practical problems in implementation. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in LPP in particular, and educational, social, and public policy more broadly.

Introduction to Interlinguistics FINAL DRAFT

Introduction to Interlinguistics, 2020

This book is the result of the Lecture Notes produced for the class ‘Introduction to Interlinguis... more This book is the result of the Lecture Notes produced for the class ‘Introduction to Interlinguistics’ held at the University of Amsterdam during my first mandate as Special Chair holder there (2014-2019). This means that the intended readers are my students, who may come from the Humanities, such as English Studies or Philosophy, as well as from more formally oriented curricula, such as Logic or Artificial Intelligence.

Tolkien and language planning: imagined words for an imaginary world

Astori, Davide & Sicuri, Elisa (eds). Creating Worlds through Languages Tolkien between Philology and Conlanging. 2019, 2019

Alessandro Bausani, il glottoteta L'eredità interlinguistica tra invenzione e comunicazione

Alessandro Bausani (1921 - 1988) fra Orientalismo, Interlinguistica e Fede Bahá’i Università di Parma, 25 Ottobre 2018

1. Bausani interlinguista Una figura grandiosa e poliedrica quale quella di Alessandro Bausani sf... more 1. Bausani interlinguista Una figura grandiosa e poliedrica quale quella di Alessandro Bausani sfugge a qualsiasi classificazione. Orientalista? Interlinguista? Uomo di scienza? Uomo di fede? La risposta a tutte queste domande è affermativa, l'una non esclude l'altra. Ma un semplice 'sì' non basta: su qualsiasi argomento Bausani si sia applicato nella sua vita, è sempre riuscito a far fare un salto significativo all'àmbito nel quale si applicava. La sua mente lucidissima e penetrante, portava una luce nuova, inedita, inaspettata, penetrante, per analizzare i fondamenti e mostrare quello che agli altri pareva scontato, ma in realtà non lo era. In questo contributo mi limiterò a presentare uno solo di questi àmbiti, vale a dire l'interlinguistica. Prima di addentrarmi nel tema, è opportuna una premessa, di natura personale. Bausani lascia questo mondo nel 1988. In quell'anno io ero un quattordicenne che si affacciava agli studi liceali, senza particolare interesse per le lingue (o almeno così credevo). Di certo, non sapevo nulla né di interlinguistica (anche se, inconsapevolmente, già la praticavo) né dell'opera di Bausani, non certo tra le letture consigliate al biennio del liceo scientifico a Monza negli anni Ottanta. Non ho nemmeno avuto alcuna occasione di incontrarlo di persona. Tuttavia, un legame esiste: si tratta di una filiazione accademica, per così dire, seppur indiretta, di seconda generazione. Alessandro Bausani è stato infatti maestro di Fabrizio Pennacchietti, oggi professore emerito dell'Università di Torino, orientalista e interlinguista come Bausani, che negli anni Novanta mi introdusse per la prima volta allo studio scientifico dell'interlinguistica e dell'esperantologia, quando ero studente di scienze della comunicazione proprio a Torino. Già nel 1993 avevo letto un volume di Umberto Eco allora appena uscito, La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea. Si tratta di un saggio inserito in una nuova collana curata da Jacques Le Goff dal titolo significativo "Fare l'Europa". La novità stava nella collaborazione tra cinque casi editrici prestigiose di cinque Paesi europei, Germania, Francia, Regno Unito, Spagna e Italia: i volumi venivano pubblicati più o meno contemporaneamente in cinque lingue, ed erano tutti di alto profilo. Nel libro Eco fondamentalmente racconta una storia, che parte dall'impatto nella cultura europea della vicenda di Babele per arrivare fino ai temi dell'interlinguistica classica, vale a dire le lingue filosofiche del Seicento e le lingue ausiliarie internazionali dell'Ottocento e del Novecento. Insomma, a partire da Babele per arrivare all'esperanto. Gli anni Novanta sono stato un momento storico che aveva visto la caduta del muro di Berlino, il movimento di massa Solidarność in Polonia e il crollo dell'Unione Sovietica.

Language Games Children Play: Language Invention in a Montessori Primary School

This chapter illustrates the main results of a language laboratory held in a Montessori primary s... more This chapter illustrates the main results of a language laboratory held in a Montessori primary school in Milan, Italy, during seven years. Pupils (age: 9-11) are guided in the collective invention of a secret language, using all their linguistic repertoire present in classincluding minority and home languages. The structure of the language is highly influenced by the language of instruction (in our case, Italian) but, at the same time, it differs from that because its aim is to be secret. In other words, the invented language is shared among the class members only, who know how to decipher its alphabet and grammar, unlike other schoolmates. Secrecy permits the inventor to insert elements from other languages, resulting in an a priori language contact. During the process of invention participants increase their metalinguistic awareness, and thus their understanding of the languages they are studying formallyin our case, Italian and English. The Montessori method fosters a 'learning-by-doing' approach and an active interdisciplinary cross-fertilization (called 'Cosmic Education'). In fact, pupils may use the secret language to create an imaginary countryusually an islandand conceive a utopian society, putting together notions of natural sciences (for instance, orography) and social sciences, in particular, to describe the ideal human society speaking their secret language. The chapter also includes reflection on how this language laboratory can be applied in other educational contexts, maintaining its original character of being a serious game for learning.

L'esperanto e il federalismo europeo

Es Patrida Gaian, 2019

Capitolo de: Lala, Riccardo (acd). Es Patrida Gaian: Lingue per la patria europea. Torino: Diàlex... more

Introduction to the Philosophy of Information

by Patrick Allo, Phyllis Illari, Andrew Iliadis, Eric Kerr, Christoph Schulz, Nir Fresco, Federico Gobbo, Carson Grubaugh, and Hector Zenil

This book introduces key topics in the philosophy of information, written by the PI research netw... more

Lingue inventate - versione pre-stampa

Quando la lingua non è 'naturale'

Il metodo Montessori oggi (indice)

Laureata in Filosofia, insegnante di scuola primaria a indirizzo montessoriano e formatrice. Dal ... more

Lingua, politica, cultura Serta gratulatoria in honorem Renato Corsetti

Prefazione a Caligaris, Irene (2016) Una lingua per tutti, una lingua di nessun Paese, Aracne.

Fare sociolinguistica dell'esperanto è davvero possibile? Questa domanda mi è stata rivolta di re... more Fare sociolinguistica dell'esperanto è davvero possibile? Questa domanda mi è stata rivolta di recente da un collega sociolinguista, alquanto perplesso che si possa studiare il rapporto tra lingua, cultura e visione del mondo in una lingua 'artificiale' quale l'esperanto. Ma allora l'esperanto avrebbe una sua cultura propria? Ma non era un codice asettico, culturalmente 'neutrale'? Come fa una lingua ausiliaria ad avere una sua visione del mondo, vale a dire non riconducibile al mondo esterno all'esperanto stesso? Tutte queste perplessità verranno fugate dal volume che state tenendo in mano: ebbene sì, si può fare sociolinguistica dell'esperanto. Anzi, si deve. Perché per troppo tempo la letteratura, anche specialistica, del fenomeno esperanto ha trascurato la fonte della vitalità di questa lingua: i suoi parlanti, le loro attitudini linguistiche, l'uso che ne fanno, le loro speranze e anche le loro disillusioni, in un mondo che spesso li ignora o a volte, purtroppo ancora oggi, li deride.

Constructive Adpositional Grammars - highlights

TOC, Lists, Legenda, Index

Constructive Adpositional Grammars: Foundations of Constructive Linguistics

Abstract This book presents a new paradigm of natural language grammar analysis, based on adposit... more Abstract This book presents a new paradigm of natural language grammar analysis, based on adposition as the key concept, considered a general connection between two morphemes–or group of morphemes. The adpositional paradigm considers the morpheme as the basic unit to represent morphosyntax, taken as a whole, in terms of constructions, while semantics and pragmatics are treated accordingly.

Review of Peterson's book "The art of language invention" (proof version)

Review of Esther Schor's "Bridge of Words" (Proof version)

Jennifer Jenkins. English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

Ulrich Ammon and Grant McConnell. English as an Academic Language in Europe: A Survey of its Use in Teaching. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture 48.

L'esperanto in Italia. Alla ricerca della democrazia linguistica

Language Problems & Language Planning, 2008

Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East

Language Problems & Language Planning, 2008

English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

Language Problems & Language Planning, 2010

Umberto Broccatelli (con la collaborazione di Vessella Nino). Dizionario Esperanto-Italiano Italiano-Esperanto

Language Problems & Language Planning, 2006

A Constructive Mathematic approach for Natural Language formal grammars

A mathematical description of natural language grammars has been proposed first by Leibniz. After... more A mathematical description of natural language grammars has been proposed first by Leibniz. After the definition given by Frege of unsaturated expression and the foundation of a logical grammar by Husserl, the application of logic to treat natural language grammars in a computational way raised the interest of linguists, for example applying Lambek's categorial calculus.

May European Union adopt a Lingua Franca? English vs. International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) pros and cons

The Adoption of Urban Public Space as a Driving Force for Third Places in the Remediation of Democracy

by Federico Gobbo, Daniele Leombruni, and Pasquale Caianiello

In an urban setting, third places (i.e., different from home and working places) are the natural ... more In an urban setting, third places (i.e., different from home and working places) are the natural environment where the new generation of users of digital, mobile-based devices can find a physical environment where to re-mediate their participation to their city life as citizens of a democratic society. This paper explores the integration of different existing social networks supporting e-government through a system of public space adoption, voting and sharing. The aim of this integration is to form a crowd-computed politic agenda, so that it can be embraced at either a local or regional level, eventually resulting in a data-driven smart city governance.

From Structural Syntax to Constructive Adpositional Grammars

by Federico Gobbo and M. Benini

The importance of the research made by Tesnière (1959) for the concepts of de- pendency and valen... more The importance of the research made by Tesnière (1959) for the concepts of de- pendency and valency cannot be underestimated. However, his Structural Syntax remains still uninvestigated in most part. In this paper, a formal grammar model that follows Tesnière’s intuitions and concepts as much as possible is proposed. This model is called constructive adpositional grammar. This paper explains the linguistic and formal reasons behind such a research plan.

A Constructive Mathematics approach for NL formal grammars

The translation game

Blogs, politics and ethics the case of Beppe Grillo

The emergence of blogs as new media has recently lead the attention of the public opinion. In par... more The emergence of blogs as new media has recently lead the attention of the public opinion. In particular, it seems that blogs may stimulate topics in ethics and politics often ignored by the broadcasting media agendas. Blogs may be used as a vehicle to alternative point of views, sometimes identified with citizen journalism. In this paper, I examine the special case of Beppe Grillo’s blog. In 2005, Beppe Grillo, former a comic actor, started a blog as an “experiment of direct democracy”, about topics such as alternative energy sources, freedom of speech, new technologies for the quality of life and a wailing wall for generic despairs. Less than a year later, Grillo’s blog is one of the 20 most read blogs in the world, and his ideas were even put into the official agenda of some political parties in Italy. Furthermore, his blog has started to get real: some Italian bars publish daily printed copies of some blog’s pages as dazebao, and there are over 80 groups of fans arose around the world, using the Meetup system. How information and computing ethics relate each other through blogs? In this paper I propose a framework for analysis of a new political dimention of blogs as ICTs in the globalization process.

A wiki-based active learning system how to enhance learning material in epistemology of computer science and computer ethics

Informal certification based on authentic trus

The emergence of social networks supported by web 2.0 technologies is changing the way informatio... more The emergence of social networks supported by web 2.0 technologies is changing the way information is shared among organizations and in particular companies. In this pup"r un analytical framework is proposed, based on the notion of Technological Framework ) and the concept of authentic trust, by ). The model proposed gives an explanation to the open ethical question of how power and leadership change when social network participants become aware of their roles and their built-in possibilities. Two contrasting case-studies are provided as proof.

La laika kaj la religia perceptoj en la esperanto-idento

La laika kaj la religia perceptoj en la esperanto-idento Prelego prezentita en KCE, La Chaux-de-F... more La laika kaj la religia perceptoj en la esperanto-idento Prelego prezentita en KCE, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Svislando, 28/11/1998. Mi volas danki la estraron de KCE por l'okazon prezenti ĉi tie prelegon pri miaj esperantologaj studoj. Dum ĉi tiu prelego mi intencas prezenti kelkajn aspektojn de mia diplomiĝa disertaĵo kiun mi verkis en la itala, kadre de la kurso pri Esperantologio en la Torina Universitato. Miaplezure ĝi jam vekis intereson en esperanto-rondoj.

La laika kaj la religia perceptoj en la esperanto-idento

La laika kaj la religia perceptoj en la esperanto-idento Prelego prezentita en KCE, La Chaux-de-F... more La laika kaj la religia perceptoj en la esperanto-idento Prelego prezentita en KCE, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Svislando, 28/11/1998. Mi volas danki la estraron de KCE por l'okazon prezenti ĉi tie prelegon pri miaj esperantologaj studoj. Dum ĉi tiu prelego mi intencas prezenti kelkajn aspektojn de mia diplomiĝa disertaĵo kiun mi verkis en la itala, kadre de la kurso pri Esperantologio en la Torina Universitato. Miaplezure ĝi jam vekis intereson en esperanto-rondoj.

Agile and Enterprise 2.0

Specimenoj el Zamenhofaj Originalaj Verkoj

Rimarko. Ĉiu Zamenhofa specimeno legebla en ĉi tiu teksto estis originale verkita en Esperanto,... more Rimarko. Ĉiu Zamenhofa specimeno legebla en ĉi tiu teksto estis originale verkita en Esperanto, krom alia indiko. Specimenoj estis ordigitaj laŭ la eldon-tempo: la plej fruaj antaŭe, la plej malfruaj laste. Ĉi tiu dokumento estas atribuita tutmonde al Federico Gobbo, la kompilinto, laŭ la sekva uzkondiĉa permesilo: Kreiva komunaĵo 4.0. Pri la elekto de la specimenoj respondecas nur la kompilinto. La krajonigita portreto (tuj sube) troviĝis iam en interreto kaj nun verŝajne ne plu aperas; indiko pri kopirajto do mankas. Male, la bildo de la Zamenhofa subskribo (plej sube) estas publika propraĵo

Il metodo diagonale di Cantor

Il paradosso di Russell

Fondamenti di Interlinguistica ed Esperantologia

Grammatiche adposizionali

Aspetti psicologici del problema linguistico mondiale

Si può affrontare il problema linguistico mondiale su prospettive molto diverse, per esempio poli... more

Aspetti psicologici del problema linguistico mondiale

Si può affrontare il problema linguistico mondiale su prospettive molto diverse, per esempio poli... more

Klopodu organizi, ne vane!

aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ez... more aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ezoteran fonon. Laŭ impreso, ĝi povas preni karakterojn de internacia Aperta Forumo. La kreskanta grado per kiu lingvistoj, matematikistoj kaj sciencistoj estis pripensantaj la problemon, estas signo bone promesanta por la estonto. Estas bona fakto, ke la ideo de internacia lingvo ne estas plu prezentata en idealismaj terminoj, sed pli kaj pli ĝi prenas la aspektojn de praktika kaj teknologia problemo kaj de ekzerco purigadi la pensoprocezon." Edward Sapir, 1925 Enkonduko.

Klopodu organizi, ne vane!

aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ez... more aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ezoteran fonon. Laŭ impreso, ĝi povas preni karakterojn de internacia Aperta Forumo. La kreskanta grado per kiu lingvistoj, matematikistoj kaj sciencistoj estis pripensantaj la problemon, estas signo bone promesanta por la estonto. Estas bona fakto, ke la ideo de internacia lingvo ne estas plu prezentata en idealismaj terminoj, sed pli kaj pli ĝi prenas la aspektojn de praktika kaj teknologia problemo kaj de ekzerco purigadi la pensoprocezon." Edward Sapir, 1925 Enkonduko.

Klopodu organizi, ne vane!

aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ez... more aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ezoteran fonon. Laŭ impreso, ĝi povas preni karakterojn de internacia Aperta Forumo. La kreskanta grado per kiu lingvistoj, matematikistoj kaj sciencistoj estis pripensantaj la problemon, estas signo bone promesanta por la estonto. Estas bona fakto, ke la ideo de internacia lingvo ne estas plu prezentata en idealismaj terminoj, sed pli kaj pli ĝi prenas la aspektojn de praktika kaj teknologia problemo kaj de ekzerco purigadi la pensoprocezon." Edward Sapir, 1925 Enkonduko.

Klopodu organizi, ne vane!

aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ez... more aktualigita versio: 2005-05-12 "La movado por internacia lingvo havis, ĝis nun, iel klikan kaj ezoteran fonon. Laŭ impreso, ĝi povas preni karakterojn de internacia Aperta Forumo. La kreskanta grado per kiu lingvistoj, matematikistoj kaj sciencistoj estis pripensantaj la problemon, estas signo bone promesanta por la estonto. Estas bona fakto, ke la ideo de internacia lingvo ne estas plu prezentata en idealismaj terminoj, sed pli kaj pli ĝi prenas la aspektojn de praktika kaj teknologia problemo kaj de ekzerco purigadi la pensoprocezon." Edward Sapir, 1925 Enkonduko.

Saper scrivere un testo argomentativo tecnico

Saper scrivere un testo argomentativo tecnico Saper scrivere è:

Saper scrivere un testo argomentativo tecnico

Saper scrivere un testo argomentativo tecnico Saper scrivere è:

ADPOSITIONAL TREES IN L A T E X

Grammatiche adposizionali Introduzione agli aspetti linguistici

La Amsterdama Katedro nro 26

Enterprise 2.0 Adoption: Technological and non-technological factors.

Fondamenti delle grammatiche adposizionali

L’interlinguistica come disciplina scientifica può essere ricondotta alla ricerca scientifica di ... more L’interlinguistica come disciplina scientifica può essere ricondotta alla ricerca scientifica di Leibniz. Questo articolo mostra come il percorso di ricerca di matematizzazione della conoscenza linguistica abbia una importante valenza cognitiva che viene resa esplicita tramite il formalismo delle grammatiche adposizionali.

Resumo. Interlingvistikon kiel scienca fako oni povas rilatigi al la scienca esplorado de Leibniz .Chi tiu artikolo montras kiel la esplor-itinero pri matematikigo de la lingvistika konaro havas gravan konivan valoron kiu eksplicitas per la formaligho nome adpoziciaj gramatikoj.

InKoj Stylesheet/Stilfolio por InKoj

Questo documento fornisce le istruzioni per gli autori che riguardano le proposte di contributi p... more

TIGER (Telepresence Instant Groupware for Higher Education in Robotics) è un progetto FIRB avviat... more TIGER (Telepresence Instant Groupware for Higher Education in Robotics) è un progetto FIRB avviato dal Ministro dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca nel 2003 (RBAUM01BZMK). Il progetto è volto alla realizzazione di una piattaforma comune per la gestione e lo sviluppo di laboratori didattici di robotica avanzati fruibili da remoto, detti telelaboratori. Un telelaboratorio è composto da quattro elementi: server di laboratorio (Lab Server), simulatore (Simulator), archivio (Repository) e server web (Web Server).

Promenadeto tra la poezio pri esperantismo

Premiso. Laŭ PIV, specimeno estas ‘skizo de ia afero destinita veki scivolon k atenton de tiuj, ... more Premiso. Laŭ PIV, specimeno estas ‘skizo de ia afero destinita veki scivolon k atenton de tiuj, kiuj povas interesiĝi pri tio.’ La espero estas, ke la leganto deziros pliprofundiĝi en la studado(n) de nia originala literaturo kaj aparte de poezio post la gustumado per la specimenoj kiujn mi proponas ĉi tie. La celo estas instigi fluparolantojn pripensi kio estas esperantisteco kaj esperantismo, sur la bazo de la poetoj kiuj starigis al si la demandon en la pasinteco. Ĉi tiu dokumento estis pretigita por samtitola supernivela Esperanto-kurso kiun mi gvidis en la naturdomo Krikkenhaar en la regiono Almelo, Nederlando, okaze de la studsemajnfino organizita de Esperanto Nederland. Mi volas diri dankvorton al Davide Astori kaj Nicola Ruggiero, kun kiuj mi pasis agrablajn horojn parolante pri esperantismo (Davide) kaj poezio (Nicola) tra la lastaj jaroj. Ĉi tiu dokumento estas atribuita tutmonde al Federico Gobbo, la kompilinto, laŭ la sekva uzkondiĉa permesilo: Kreiva komunaĵo 4.0. Pri la elekto de la specimenoj kaj eventualaj preseraroj respondecas nur la kompilinto. La kopirajto de ĉiu specimeno apartenas al ĉiu poeto.

La du Lazaroj: du vivoj, du lingvoj (MALNETO)

Esperanto, 2015

Publikigita ĉi tie: Gobbo, Federico (2015). La du Lazaroj; du vivoj, du lingvoj, n-ro 7. Esperan... more

Prezentado de la KD de Piero Nissim: La kantado de la komenco

La Esperantista publiko jam havis la oportunon koni la muzikan artesploron de Piero Nissim, kanti... more La Esperantista publiko jam havis la oportunon koni la muzikan artesploron de Piero Nissim, kantisto kaj pupisto, per lia antaŭa disko dediĉiita al la tradiciaj jidaj kantoj, Mayn Lidele, t.e. miaj kantoj. Tie la jida, Esperanto kaj la itala interplektiĝis en senĉesa dialogo sur la bazo de la aŝkenaza muzika tradicio, aparte ligita al Litovio kaj Vilno, al kiu Piero ligiĝas familie. La originalaj jidaj tekstoj transportiĝis en la Esperanta prozodio preskaŭ senbar. La jida fono de Esperanto, ekzista ekde la origino de la lingvo, ĉar la jida estis la patrina lingvo de Zamenhofdum la rusa la patraiĝas travidebla enhave kaj emocie al ĉiuj Esperanto-parolantoj, eĉ sen juda fono aŭ aparta kono de la jida, kiel mi. En ĉi tiu nova disko kiun vi tenas enmane, la arta uzo de multlingveco ja konfirmiĝas, sed kun alia celo kaj efekto. Ĉi tie, la artista personeco de Piero Nissim pli gravas ol antaŭe, ĉar du trionoj de la muzikaĵoj estas aŭtorigitaj de li mem. La lingvoj aŭdeblaj tra la albumo estas ĉefe Esperanto kaj la itala, sed ne mankas la hispana kaj la germana, respektive en la muzikaĵo de Tereza el Avilo kaj en tiu de Johano Volfgango Goeto. Evidentas, ke la artaj lingvoj de la artisto estas Esperanto kaj la itala, ĉar ofte la kantotekstoj estas perfekte paralele dulingvaj. Kiel Esperanto-parolanto kaj italo, mi povas ĝui ambaŭ versiojn, kiuj donas al mi diversspecajn emociojn. Pli solemna, antikveca, formala, racia, mistera, la Esperanta versio, pli flua, melankolia, eĉ splena, la itala. Aparte gravas la unua parto de la albumo, kiu donas la sencon al la titolo rekte per la unua muzikaĵo, Bereshit, t.e. la komenco, kie la aŭskultanto estas transportata en la formiĝo de la universo per ideala eĥo de recitar cantando, reciti kantante, la itala tekniko proponi enmuzikitan poezion en la kortoj de la deksesa jarcento, aparte en la Florenco de la familio de' Medici. Nehazarde, unuela muzikaĵo de la albumo estas la fama kanto Kiel bela la junaĝo, de Lorenzo de' Medici. La interpreto de Piero Nissim tre malsimilas al la gaja, ĝojplena, leĝeranima interpreto kuntima, sed male, ĝi instigas la aŭskultanton al meditemo, danke al la seriozeca timbro de la fortepiano kiu majstre akompanas ĉiujn kantojn. Sed, kiel dirite antaŭe, la plej gravaj muzikaĵoj estas la unuaj ses, kiujn la artisto aŭtoris. Fakte, oni povas konsideri tiun sesopon memstara koncepta albumo pri la multaj facoj de la komenco. Unue, komenco de la universo mem, en Bereshit. Due, komenco de la vivo, en la Ĝardeno (ĉu Edeno?) jam vivigita de la bestoj, antaŭ la apero de la homo. Trie, aperas la kontrastaj sentoj kiuj vivas en la komenco de la homa korovivo. Kvare, priskribiĝas la komenco de la maturiĝo, kiam la homo sin demandas pri sia propra indenteco. Kvine, venas la komenco de la oldiĝo, kiam ĉiutagaj etaĵoj komencas sufiĉi en la homa vivo. Sese, aperas la komenco de la vivofino, kiam oldulo rigardas la mienon de la morto. La kvar tradiciaj kantoj kiuj sekvas aalbumon ludas preskaŭ la rolon de intermezo, por pretigi la auskulton de la lastaj mesaĝoj de la artistoj, kiuj prias la poeziecon kiu nature loĝas en la amikeco, kiu akompanas lulkante la esencon de la homa vivo. Ĝuu la aŭskultadon.

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La Amsterdama Katedro 1-2/2016 n-ro 30-31

La Amsterdama Katedro 3/2015 n-ro 29

Erster Weltkongress über Sprachenrechte

by Federico Gobbo and Michele Gazzola

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La Amsterdama Katedro 2/2015 n-ro 28

En ĉi-tiu numero estos prezentita la periodo ekde Februaro ĝis Majo 2015. La plej grava evento de... more En ĉi-tiu numero estos prezentita la periodo ekde Februaro ĝis Majo 2015. La plej grava evento de la periodo laŭ la vidpunkto de komuniko certe estis la inaŭgura parolado, kiu okazis en Marto. La parolado ricevis konsiderindan atenton de la nederlandaj amaskomunikiloj ĉar ĝi estis parte en Esperanto. Je la fino de la sama monato finiĝis la du kursoj instruitaj de la katedrulo, kaj aparte la unua kurso de Esperanto. Krome, kelkaj seminarioj kaj invititaj prelegoj estis donitaj en la Universitato, kaj krome okazis partopreno al internacia kongreso pri lingvaj rajtoj.

La Amsterdama Katedro 1/2015 n-ro 27

En ĉi-tiu numero estos prezentita la fina periodo de la jaro 2014 kaj la unua monato komence de 2... more En ĉi-tiu numero estos prezentita la fina periodo de la jaro 2014 kaj la unua monato komence de 2015, t.e. Januaro. Tiam la katedrulo komencis intense labori por la EU-financita projekto MIME. Tiu agado estas flanka kaj komplementa al la ordinaraj taskoj de la katedro, ĉefe la pretigado kaj donado de la kursoj. Alia eksterordinara agado estis la pretigado de la inaŭgura parolado okazonta en Marto. Bedaŭrinde, trista novaĵo kortuŝis la vivon de esperantistoj: Amsterdamano s-ro Hans Bakker forpasis la 21-an de Januaro 2015.

La Amsterdama Katedro 3/2014 n-ro 26

En ĉi-tiu numero estos prezentita la periodo post la fino de la unua kurso pri Interlingvistiko k... more En ĉi-tiu numero estos prezentita la periodo post la fino de la unua kurso pri Interlingvistiko kaj post la komenco de la dua kurso de Interlingvistiko. Fakte, dum la dua semestro de la Akademia Jaro (de nun, A.J.) 2013-4,
inkluzive la someran periodon, la agado estis direktita ĉefe al la establigo de esploraj linioj kiel kadetrulo de Amsterdamo, kaj aparte al
la plilarĝigo de la samrangula reto danke al la katedro mem. Ekde Sep komenciĝas la A.J. 2014-5, kun konsiderinda pligrandiĝo de la studenta partopreno. Krome, oni pritraktos aliajn aspektojn, ĉefe rilate al informado.

La Amsterdama Katedro 2/2014 n-ro 25

En ĉi-tiu numero la unua periodo de mia katedruleco estas prezentita (Feb-Apr 2014). Kiel ofte ok... more En ĉi-tiu numero la unua periodo de mia katedruleco estas prezentita (Feb-Apr 2014). Kiel ofte okazas kiam nova sperto komenciĝs,
multaj praktikaj aferoj devis esti solvitaj. Ĉiukaze, la bulteno prezentas faktojn kaj rezultojn de la agado mem, preteratentante praktikaĵojn. La prezentado sekvos la skemon kiu estis enkondukita en n-ro 24: unue
agado ĉe la Universitato (didaktike, esplorade kaj informade) poste la agado Movade, ĉiam rilate al la katedro. Aparta atento estos dediĉiita al mia unua kurso pri Interlingvistiko.

La Amsterdama Katedro 1/2014 n-ro 24

En ĉi-tiu unua numero kompilita de mi la ĉefa celo estas informi pri la sekvaj eventoj: unue, la ... more En ĉi-tiu unua numero kompilita de mi la ĉefa celo estas informi pri la sekvaj eventoj: unue, la transiro de la taskoj de la antaŭulo Wim
JANSEN al la kompilanto (ekde Apr 2013); due, la ekstarigo de UEA kiel sponsoro de la Amsterdama Katedro (ekde Nov 2013) kaj laste
sed ne malgrave la akcepto de mia kandidateco flanke de Universitato de Amsterdamo (Okt–Dec 2013) kaj mia aktivigo en la Universitaton mem (Jan 2014). Sekvas la priskribo de la agadoj faritaj ĉe la Universitato
je didaktika, esplora kaj informada niveloj dum la transira periodo (Apr 2013–Jan 2014). Aparta atento estas donata al la planoj pri la unua kurso donota en Feb–Apr 2014.

Europo, la lingvejo por ni?

by Federico Gobbo and Domenico Marini

matteo.vaccari.name

Adpositional Grammars. A Multilingual Grammar Formalism for NLP.

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Il dilemma dell'esperanto

Globalizzazione linguistica: lingue locali nei mercati globali Linguistic globalisation: local languages in global markets

Perioda Tabelo de Argumentoj 2.5

by Jean H.M. Wagemans and Federico Gobbo

Esperanto translation of Periodic Table of Arguments 2.5