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L’autobiografia di Liberale Medici

Aspetti linguistici, espressioni idiomatiche e metafore

Sara Sorrentino    Università degli Studi di Genova, Italia    

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abstract

This paper aims at providing a first research on the autobiography of the Venetian farmer Liberale Medici (1922-2016). The Medici’s work crossed the boundaries of private writing by winning the Premio Pieve in 1988, and, consequently, with its first publication, entitled Schola cantorum (Rome: Edizioni Live, 1989). Recently, it has been also comprehended in the anthology La vita è sogno (Milan: il Saggiatore, 2016). After highlighting the main linguistic features of this autobiography, the analysis focuses on its metaphorical devices, in order to survey its figurative language.

Published
April 21, 2021
Accepted
Dec. 7, 2020
Submitted
Aug. 7, 2020
Language
IT

Keywords: Figurative language • Venetian dialect • Writings of the semi-literate • Metaphor • Autobiography

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/QV/1724-188X/2019/01/005

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