Navigating Maritime Languages and Narratives

The book collects scholarly essays in the fields of English and French maritime terminology and sea literature. Interdisciplinarity and dialogism inform the volume, which invites its readers to set sail on a journey across different disciplinary and linguistic seas, and to explore the protean nature of maritime terminology and imagery.

Auteur

Raffaella Antinucci is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Naples «Parthenope». Maria Giovanna Petrillo is Tenured Lecturer in French Literature at the University of Naples «Parthenope».

Contenu

Contents/Contenu: Maritime Terminology: Contemporary Issues in English and French Carolina Diglio: L'extension sémantique des termes du vocabulaire maritime: une étude lexicographique dans le français de référence Claudio Grimaldi: L'art de naviguer entre astronomie et mathématiques: une étude lexicographique en diachronie des dénominations des instruments de navigation Silvia Domenica Zollo: Une excursion terminolinguistique dans la géomorphologie côtière Virginia Formisano: «Ship Ahoy!»: Mastering Yachting Terminology Agnese Daniela Grimaldi: Tagging the World of Tugs: A Corpus-driven Study of Marine Towing English Terminology Nunzia Lavezza: The Vital Importance of Maritime Terminology: The Case of the SOLAS Convention Treaty Antonio Taglialatela: «Taming the Meanest Beast»: Plain Language and the Use of Acronyms in Maritime Communication Michele Martucci: Negotiated Terms in Maritime Transport of Goods in Bulk Vittoria Massaro: Marnavi's Fleets: A Terminological Analysis Carmen Fiano and Agnese Daniela Grimaldi: NATO Brevity Words for Military Maritime Operations: Metaphors and Unpredictable Meanings Jacopo Varchetta: Naming the Sea: Spanish Loanwords in English Nautical and Maritime Terminology Narrating the Sea in Anglophone and Francophone Cultures Raffaella Antinucci: A Passage to Iceland: Lord Dufferin and the Re-fashioning of the Arctic Sea in Mid-Victorian Travel Literature Marina Niceforo: Italian Fishermen, American Sea: Fishing Language in Lorenzo Madalena's Confetti for Gino (1959) Francesco Nacchia: Singing Sailors and Nautical Singers: A Lyrics-based Analysis of Sea-Folk Music Gabriele Basile: Chasing the Great Red Whale: Nautical Knowledge and Characterization in Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October (1984) Maria Giovanna Petrillo: Hector Malot et les marins normands: une lecture de Romain Kalbris (1869) Sergio Piscopo: La vision de la mer dans Georges (1843) d'Alexandre Dumas père Micol Forte: La terminologie maritime dans l'oeuvre de Jules Verne: le cas d' Une ville flottante (1871) Antonella Guarino: L'homme et la mer: métamorphose et introspection dans les récits de voyage de Bernard Moitessier.