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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Chapter 15. The language ideology of Esperanto

Contested Languages, 2021

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

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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.

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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

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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...

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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.

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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

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Aktualeco de la morala filozofio de Zamenhof

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Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning: Introduction

Springer International Publishing eBooks, 2023

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