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Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2011
The ability to compose a piece of argumentative text is important for EFL and ESL learners. Despi... more The ability to compose a piece of argumentative text is important for EFL and ESL learners. Despite its importance, there is a gap in the literature about how Iranian students write essays in this genre that this study intends to fill. Building upon Halliday and Hasan's (1976) cohesion theory, this study intended to investigate Iranian graduate non-English majors' use of cohesive devices in argumentative essays, and also the relationship between the number of cohesive devices and writing quality. An analysis of forty argumentative essays written by forty Iranian graduate non-English majors showed that the students were familiar with various cohesive devices and used them in their writings. Among the cohesive devices used lexical devices had the largest percentage of the total number of cohesive devices, followed by reference devices and conjunction devices. Furthermore, it was found that there was no significant relationship between the number of cohesive devices used and quality of writing. The findings of the study have some important implications for EFL writing teachers and learners.
Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Annali, n. 28, 2020
The paper focuses on the Czechoslovak volunteers commonly known as "legionaries" who fought toget... more The paper focuses on the Czechoslovak volunteers commonly known as "legionaries" who fought together with the Italian Army against the Austro-Hungarian troops in 1918 and then became the basis of the Czechoslovak national Army. In the early months of 1919 they first occupied Slovakia under the command of the so-called "Italian military mission in Bohemia" led by Italian General Luigi Piccione and then fought against Béla Kun's Hungarian Republic of Councils.
During WWI Czechoslovak volunteer armed forces, generally known as Czechoslovak Legions, fought t... more During WWI Czechoslovak volunteer armed forces, generally known as Czechoslovak Legions, fought together with Russian, French and Italian armies against the Austro-Hungarian troops. They fought on the side of the Entente for the national independence of their homelands from the Dual Monarchy. Supported by the political activity of Milan Rastislav Štefánik and of the Committee for Czechoslovak Independence, in Italy the Czechoslovak Legion was officially formed in early 1918 by Czech and Slovak prisoners and deserters with the aim to join the Italian combat units. The creation of the Legion was an important example that attracted to the Italian Army also volunteers of other Slavic nationalities, such as Poles, Serbs and generally Yugoslavs, ready to fight the Austro-Hungarian domination. In the following summer, the Czechoslovak Legion was involved in the battles fought by the Italian troops in the territories between Lake Garda and the Piave River, where the Czechoslovak soldiers proved to be an important element for the Italian army's military strategies. In October the Legion had largely increased the number of its components and was transformed into a Corps, joined to the 6 th Italian Army and composed of the 6 th and 7 th Divisions with a total of 25,000 soldiers. At the beginning of 1919, the Czechoslovak Corps was repatriated to the new Czechoslovak state together with the prisoners released after the Armistice of November 3.
Third Reich was at its peak and temporarily allied with Soviet Union. At the beginning of World W... more Third Reich was at its peak and temporarily allied with Soviet Union. At the beginning of World War II, Yugoslavia remained neutral but Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria were forced to join the Tripartite Pact and pression on Belgrade's Government became irresistible, while Italy had already occupied Albania and was fighting in Greece. After several months of German pressure, Yugoslavia finally signed, on March 25 th , 1941, the Tripartite Pact but a group of pro-British officers made a coup and on April 6 th the Axis Powers invaded Yugoslavia. The Italian Military Intelligence Service provided a valuable record of the period in question allowing detailed analysis.
On April 1941, the Independent State of Croatia was established under the rule of the Poglavnik A... more On April 1941, the Independent State of Croatia was established under the rule of the Poglavnik Ante Pavelić, leader of the Ustasha ultra-nationalist and separatist movement. The State was formally included in the Italian sphere of interest, but de facto it was divided between the German and Italian military occupation forces and Italy exercised a significant influence only in the part of the State directly occupied by the troops of the Italian 2 nd Army. The Historical Archive of the Italian Army General Staff provides a valuable record of the events and allows a detailed analysis.
Yugoslavia 1945: Weiss operation in the documents of the Historic Office archive of the Italian A... more Yugoslavia 1945: Weiss operation in the documents of the Historic Office archive of the Italian Army General Staff On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia. The serious defeat also marked the beginning of a harsher war: the insurgency against the occupying forces. In July, after the German attack on the Soviet Union, the Partisans Resistance started, led by Josip Broz, known as Tito. In 1943 the German General Staff planned a major offensive against Partisans. The operation Weiss began on January 20.
Pubblicato in: Centro di Studi Russi -CEMAS (a cura di), Forum italo-russo di storia. Prospettive... more Pubblicato in: Centro di Studi Russi -CEMAS (a cura di), Forum italo-russo di storia. Prospettive comuni di ricerca Italia e Russia tra modernizzazione e stagnazione, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2012, pp. 51-70
The dissolution of the multinational State of Yugoslavia after a half century of Socialistic regi... more The dissolution of the multinational State of Yugoslavia after a half century of Socialistic regime and its violent transformation into several independent States during the 90's renewed the debate about the origins and the development of the "Yugoslav national question". The paper describes how the foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the WWI was an unsuccessful attempt to create a modern and unitary Nation-State for the Croats and the other Yugoslav nationalities.
Books by Alberto Becherelli
Stato, nazione e nazionalismo sono categorie che nascono nell'alveo della modernità occidentale e... more Stato, nazione e nazionalismo sono categorie che nascono nell'alveo della modernità occidentale e caratterizzano la storia successiva anche del resto del mondo. Con la fine della Guerra fredda, tuttavia, nel dibattito scientifico di sovente sono state presentate come strumenti d'analisi superati dal tempo. A distanza di un quarto di secolo, la verifica empirica ci dice che, nonostante alcune trasformazioni, rimangono centrali nel vocabolario politico e si innestano all'interno di processi complessi che abbracciano anche le sfere dell'economia, della società e della cultura. La sovrapposizione con le contemporanee dinamiche di integrazione sovranazionale e di interdipendenza economica, infatti, non ne hanno segnato il tramonto. Piuttosto ne hanno favorito un'evoluzione che assume caratteristiche e contenuti specifici nei differenti quadranti geopolitici, rendendo inutilizzabile il concetto di "globalizzazione" e favorendo il ricorso a quello di "regionalizzazione".
La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima ... more La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima (peer-review).
Il volume è stato sottoposto alla procedura di valutazione e accettazione double blind peer revie... more Il volume è stato sottoposto alla procedura di valutazione e accettazione double blind peer review Copertina: Legione croata (Lako prevozni zdrug) per il fronte russo, aprile 1942 E' vietata la riproduzione non autorizzata, anche parziale, realizzata con qualsiasi mezzo, compresa la fotocopia, anche ad uso interno o didattico.
La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima ... more La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima (peer-review).
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2011
The ability to compose a piece of argumentative text is important for EFL and ESL learners. Despi... more The ability to compose a piece of argumentative text is important for EFL and ESL learners. Despite its importance, there is a gap in the literature about how Iranian students write essays in this genre that this study intends to fill. Building upon Halliday and Hasan's (1976) cohesion theory, this study intended to investigate Iranian graduate non-English majors' use of cohesive devices in argumentative essays, and also the relationship between the number of cohesive devices and writing quality. An analysis of forty argumentative essays written by forty Iranian graduate non-English majors showed that the students were familiar with various cohesive devices and used them in their writings. Among the cohesive devices used lexical devices had the largest percentage of the total number of cohesive devices, followed by reference devices and conjunction devices. Furthermore, it was found that there was no significant relationship between the number of cohesive devices used and quality of writing. The findings of the study have some important implications for EFL writing teachers and learners.
Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Annali, n. 28, 2020
The paper focuses on the Czechoslovak volunteers commonly known as "legionaries" who fought toget... more The paper focuses on the Czechoslovak volunteers commonly known as "legionaries" who fought together with the Italian Army against the Austro-Hungarian troops in 1918 and then became the basis of the Czechoslovak national Army. In the early months of 1919 they first occupied Slovakia under the command of the so-called "Italian military mission in Bohemia" led by Italian General Luigi Piccione and then fought against Béla Kun's Hungarian Republic of Councils.
During WWI Czechoslovak volunteer armed forces, generally known as Czechoslovak Legions, fought t... more During WWI Czechoslovak volunteer armed forces, generally known as Czechoslovak Legions, fought together with Russian, French and Italian armies against the Austro-Hungarian troops. They fought on the side of the Entente for the national independence of their homelands from the Dual Monarchy. Supported by the political activity of Milan Rastislav Štefánik and of the Committee for Czechoslovak Independence, in Italy the Czechoslovak Legion was officially formed in early 1918 by Czech and Slovak prisoners and deserters with the aim to join the Italian combat units. The creation of the Legion was an important example that attracted to the Italian Army also volunteers of other Slavic nationalities, such as Poles, Serbs and generally Yugoslavs, ready to fight the Austro-Hungarian domination. In the following summer, the Czechoslovak Legion was involved in the battles fought by the Italian troops in the territories between Lake Garda and the Piave River, where the Czechoslovak soldiers proved to be an important element for the Italian army's military strategies. In October the Legion had largely increased the number of its components and was transformed into a Corps, joined to the 6 th Italian Army and composed of the 6 th and 7 th Divisions with a total of 25,000 soldiers. At the beginning of 1919, the Czechoslovak Corps was repatriated to the new Czechoslovak state together with the prisoners released after the Armistice of November 3.
Third Reich was at its peak and temporarily allied with Soviet Union. At the beginning of World W... more Third Reich was at its peak and temporarily allied with Soviet Union. At the beginning of World War II, Yugoslavia remained neutral but Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria were forced to join the Tripartite Pact and pression on Belgrade's Government became irresistible, while Italy had already occupied Albania and was fighting in Greece. After several months of German pressure, Yugoslavia finally signed, on March 25 th , 1941, the Tripartite Pact but a group of pro-British officers made a coup and on April 6 th the Axis Powers invaded Yugoslavia. The Italian Military Intelligence Service provided a valuable record of the period in question allowing detailed analysis.
On April 1941, the Independent State of Croatia was established under the rule of the Poglavnik A... more On April 1941, the Independent State of Croatia was established under the rule of the Poglavnik Ante Pavelić, leader of the Ustasha ultra-nationalist and separatist movement. The State was formally included in the Italian sphere of interest, but de facto it was divided between the German and Italian military occupation forces and Italy exercised a significant influence only in the part of the State directly occupied by the troops of the Italian 2 nd Army. The Historical Archive of the Italian Army General Staff provides a valuable record of the events and allows a detailed analysis.
Yugoslavia 1945: Weiss operation in the documents of the Historic Office archive of the Italian A... more Yugoslavia 1945: Weiss operation in the documents of the Historic Office archive of the Italian Army General Staff On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia. The serious defeat also marked the beginning of a harsher war: the insurgency against the occupying forces. In July, after the German attack on the Soviet Union, the Partisans Resistance started, led by Josip Broz, known as Tito. In 1943 the German General Staff planned a major offensive against Partisans. The operation Weiss began on January 20.
Pubblicato in: Centro di Studi Russi -CEMAS (a cura di), Forum italo-russo di storia. Prospettive... more Pubblicato in: Centro di Studi Russi -CEMAS (a cura di), Forum italo-russo di storia. Prospettive comuni di ricerca Italia e Russia tra modernizzazione e stagnazione, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2012, pp. 51-70
The dissolution of the multinational State of Yugoslavia after a half century of Socialistic regi... more The dissolution of the multinational State of Yugoslavia after a half century of Socialistic regime and its violent transformation into several independent States during the 90's renewed the debate about the origins and the development of the "Yugoslav national question". The paper describes how the foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the WWI was an unsuccessful attempt to create a modern and unitary Nation-State for the Croats and the other Yugoslav nationalities.
Stato, nazione e nazionalismo sono categorie che nascono nell'alveo della modernità occidentale e... more Stato, nazione e nazionalismo sono categorie che nascono nell'alveo della modernità occidentale e caratterizzano la storia successiva anche del resto del mondo. Con la fine della Guerra fredda, tuttavia, nel dibattito scientifico di sovente sono state presentate come strumenti d'analisi superati dal tempo. A distanza di un quarto di secolo, la verifica empirica ci dice che, nonostante alcune trasformazioni, rimangono centrali nel vocabolario politico e si innestano all'interno di processi complessi che abbracciano anche le sfere dell'economia, della società e della cultura. La sovrapposizione con le contemporanee dinamiche di integrazione sovranazionale e di interdipendenza economica, infatti, non ne hanno segnato il tramonto. Piuttosto ne hanno favorito un'evoluzione che assume caratteristiche e contenuti specifici nei differenti quadranti geopolitici, rendendo inutilizzabile il concetto di "globalizzazione" e favorendo il ricorso a quello di "regionalizzazione".
La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima ... more La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima (peer-review).
Il volume è stato sottoposto alla procedura di valutazione e accettazione double blind peer revie... more Il volume è stato sottoposto alla procedura di valutazione e accettazione double blind peer review Copertina: Legione croata (Lako prevozni zdrug) per il fronte russo, aprile 1942 E' vietata la riproduzione non autorizzata, anche parziale, realizzata con qualsiasi mezzo, compresa la fotocopia, anche ad uso interno o didattico.
La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima ... more La collana adotta un sistema di valutazione dei testi basato sulla revisione paritaria e anonima (peer-review).