RISULTATI RICERCA

Toute organisation socioreligieuse est l’objet d’un procès de transformation du à l’interaction sociale. Le rapport avec le milieu environnant est, en effet, très important dans la détermination de la nature des changements. La confrérie sénégalaise muride, qui adhère avec souplesse aux replis de la réalité sociale est survécue jadis a de graves crises, démontre une extraordinaire capacité d’adaptation même au cours dés procès migratoires. Mais elle n’est pas tout à fait indemne des tensions que ces procès mêmes provoquent dans son organisations socioreligieuse. La comparaison avec l’expérience de la modernité occidentale et dé la sécularisation, la difficulté des spécialistes du sacré, les marabouts, dans la légitimations de leur rôle dans le nouveau contexte, la baisse du contrôle social et l’apaprition de nouvelles dimensions de l’appartenance, des relations conflictuelles avec les autres composantes de la communauté islamique ; ce sont des facteurs qui démontrent que l’expérience migratoire en Occident, relativement au cas analysé en Italie, peut amorcer un défi que peut mettre à l’épreuve la tenue de cette confrérie qui s’est depuis toujours caractérisée par sa souplesse et sa capacité d’adaptation.

An ISEW application to Lombardy: merits, limits and policy implications - This study analyses the evolution of well-being in Lombardy for the period 2000-2004. Methods and Results In order to measure well-being in Lombardy we used the ISEW (Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare) in the version produced by the New Economics Foundation. The ISEW is an index derived from a series of corrections and amendments to GDP, made with the aim of obtaining a comprehensive measurement which takes into account income distribution, environmental sustainability, and wealth stocks, and is immediately comparable with the indicator of regional income. Economic quantification of the components of the ISEW necessitated the use of discrete methodologies, in particular for determining the shadow prices of resources. The results also depend at least in part on these discretional elements. Over the period studied the ISEW for Lombardy was found to outperform per capita GDP, though this performance was not evenly distributed across all the components considered. Conclusions The analysis shows that economic growth achieved during 2000-2004 was not at the expense of sustainability; on the contrary, the development model looked carefully at the most crucial factors affecting sustainability itself. The study concludes by presenting some considerations on the possible use of this index for monitoring the impacts of regional policies.

JEL: I31, R11

The Translator’s Irredeemable Dilemma - This paper will try to show that there are not only de facto, but also de jure reasons as to why a translation cannot keep all the aspects of the original that it should, intuitively speaking, preserve in order for it to ideally be a good translation. For instance, if you preserve figurativity in translation you can hardly preserve the truthconditional meaning of the original; if you preserve self-reference in translation you can hardly preserve the lexical meaning of the original, and so on. Yet, such an impossibility result is not so negative as it may seem. For it allows translation to work as a test in order to identify, among all phenomena that generically contribute to the signification of a sentence, which are the genuinely semantic ones. Hence, it strengthens Kripke’s criterion for telling semantics from pragmatics, which is precisely based on permeability vs. impermeability to translation.

Parole chiave: Semantica, Pragmatica, Traduzione, Dilemma, Risultato di impossibilità, Aspetti della significazione.

Keywords: Semantics, Pragmatics, Translation, Dilemma, Impossibility result, Aspects of signification.

Il volume mira a costruire un modello conoscitivo relativo alla natura dei fenomeni psichici, della loro genesi e del loro sviluppo. L’autore rintraccia le esperienze psichiche che si verificano nelle condizioni molto precoci dello sviluppo: viene sostenuta – sviluppando alcune intuizioni di Rank e di Freud – una continuità tra un’attività psichica primordiale nella situazione endouterina e quella riferibile alla condizione neonatale, che può avere esiti diversi, dal normale sviluppo all’insorgere di patologie psichiche precoci.

Il volume affronta il tema della comprensione dell’ironia dalla prospettiva psicologica. Dopo alcune riflessioni sul concetto di ironia e sul suo ruolo nella comunicazione, il testo affronta le principali prospettive teoriche riguardanti la comprensione dell’ironia, gli approcci che indagano i processi mentali a essa sottesi e le principali tappe di sviluppo di tali processi dall’infanzia all’età adulta. Propone infine uno sguardo sull’ironia negli artefatti artistici e nel design, a conferma del valore sociale e culturale che questa tipologia di comunicazione non letterale riveste nell’esperienza umana.

IRAP is a tax on the net value added of firms, introduced in Italy with two main objectives, that of substituting the health care payroll taxes, in order to reduce the cost of labour and increase occupation, that of providing the Italian regions with a an authonomous tax. However, at a close inspection, none of these objectives was full filled, since in best case the cost of labour will remain constant or increase by little and since the tax does not accomplish with the principles a regional tax should respect according to the literature. Finally, the tax seems to benefit mainly the large enterprises and those located in the Northern part of Italy, and to increase the administrative compliance costs of firms. JEL Classification: H2, H7, J3