Il linguaggio della violenza: Il peso che ha la lingua su cultura e genere

Questa tesi è un'analisi del linguaggio in relazione alle questioni di genere, con un focus finale sulla rappresentazione dei femminicidi da parte delle testate giornalistiche italiane, diviso in quattro parti. Il primo capitolo è sull'origine della misoginia in Occidente. Il secondo parla della Critical Discourse Analysis, un approccio all'analisi critica del discorso che fa capire quanto il linguaggio influenzi la società e possa essere usato per farlo. Il terzo capitolo parla dell'intreccio tra lingua e ideologia, la prima parte si focalizza sulla linguistica e la seconda sul sessismo della lingua italiana. La quarta parte è un'analisi del linguaggio di molti articoli di giornale dell'anno 2016 su due casi di femminicidio in Italia, in particolare sulle rappresentazioni (che risultano stereotipate) di vittime e carnefici.

Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy: a critical analysis

In this work, I will try to provide an insightful and accessible analysis of Funny Boy, a coming-of-age novel by Sri Lankan Canadian author Shyam Selvadurai. I will provide a brief biography of the author and a concise outline of the historical context. Subsequently, after discussing the novel's structure and its main characteristics, I will proceed to analyze the significance of the novel's title and the role played by ethnicity and sexuality as equivalent sources of alienation, both individually and through their combined agency. To that end, I will focus on what I consider to be the most salient episodes of the novel that, in my opinion, best exemplify the sense of alienation that any individual belonging to a minority group experiences at some point in their lives in mainstream society.

Multi-scalar critical theories: first steps for a non perturbative functional renormalization group analysis

In this work the fundamental ideas to study properties of QFTs with the functional Renormalization Group are presented and some examples illustrated. First the Wetterich equation for the effective average action and its flow in the local potential approximation (LPA) for a single scalar field is derived. This case is considered to illustrate some techniques used to solve the RG fixed point equation and study the properties of the critical theories in D dimensions. In particular the shooting methods for the ODE equation for the fixed point potential as well as the approach which studies a polynomial truncation with a finite number of couplings, which is convenient to study the critical exponents. We then study novel cases related to multi field scalar theories, deriving the flow equations for the LPA truncation, both without assuming any global symmetry and also specialising to cases with a given symmetry, using truncations based on polynomials of the symmetry invariants. This is used to study possible non perturbative solutions of critical theories which are extensions of known perturbative results, obtained in the epsilon expansion below the upper critical dimension.