La traduzione di humour e language-play: analisi contrastiva di un episodio di Modern Family

L’elaborato analizza forme di humour e di language-play, valutandone uso e traduzione in un episodio della serie Modern Family, sitcom famosa per la sua comicità che mescola ironia, giochi di parole e elementi culturali tipici del panorama americano. L’elaborato si articola in quattro capitoli: nel primo si presenta una descrizione della serie, dei suoi personaggi e delle motivazioni del suo successo; il secondo tratta invece di humour, di language-play e della loro traduzione; nel terzo, dopo un breve accenno alle difficoltà del doppiaggio, si affronta la traduzione di Verbally Expressed Humour on Screen (VEH); infine, il quarto capitolo è dedicato all’analisi contrastiva della versione originale e di quella doppiata dell’episodio, articolata secondo tre categorie: language-play, non-specific Verbally Expressed Humour e riferimenti culturali. In appendice, la trascrizione della versione originale e di quella doppiata con i relativi tempi di entrata e di uscita.

Shear behaviour of reinforced cconcrete slab under concentrated load: an investigation through non-linear and sequentially linear analysis

English: The assessment of safety in existing bridges and viaducts led the Ministry of Public Works of the Netherlands to finance a specific campaing aimed at the study of the response of the elements of these infrastructures. Therefore, this activity is focused on the investigation of the behaviour of reinforced concrete slabs under concentrated loads, adopting finite element modeling and comparison with experimental results. These elements are characterized by shear behaviour and crisi, whose modeling is, from a computational point of view, a hard challeng, due to the brittle behavior combined with three-dimensional effects. The numerical modeling of the failure is studied through Sequentially Linear Analysis (SLA), an alternative Finite Element method, with respect to traditional incremental and iterative approaches. The comparison between the two different numerical techniques represents one of the first works and comparisons in a three-dimensional environment. It's carried out adopting one of the experimental test executed on reinforced concrete slabs as well. The advantage of the SLA is to avoid the well known problems of convergence of typical non-linear analysis, by directly specifying a damage increment, in terms of reduction of stiffness and resistance in particular finite element, instead of load or displacement increasing on the whole structure . For the first time, particular attention has been paid to specific aspects of the slabs, like an accurate constraints modeling and sensitivity of the solution with respect to the mesh density. This detailed analysis with respect to the main parameters proofed a strong influence of the tensile fracture energy, mesh density and chosen model on the solution in terms of force-displacement diagram, distribution of the crack patterns and shear failure mode. The SLA showed a great potential, but it requires a further developments for what regards two aspects of modeling: load conditions (constant and proportional loads) and softening behaviour of brittle materials (like concrete) in the three-dimensional field, in order to widen its horizons in these new contexts of study.