Università della Svizzera italiana

Parental discourse and identity management in the talk of indigenous and migrant speakers

Xenitidou, Maria ; Greco Morasso, Sara

In: Discourse & society, 2014, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 100-121

This article integrates discursive psychology and argumentation studies to discuss the regularities identified in two sets of data – focus group discussions amongst indigenous Greeks residing in Central Northern Greece and interviews with non-indigenous women with children, resident in the greater London area. The initial regularity identified consisted of participants talking as parents...

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Sharing high growth across generations : pensions and demographic transition in China

Song, Zheng ; Storesletten, Kjetil ; Wang, Yikai ; Zilibotti, Fabrizio

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient isuues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension reforms, using a dynamic general equilibrium model that incorporates population dynamics and...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Tv senza frontiere : La storia di "Un'ora per voi" : 25 anni di televisione per i lavoratori italiani in Svizzera = Tv without borders : the history of “Un’ora per voi” : 25 Years of Television for italian workers in Switzerland

Gaggini Fontana, Matilde ; Richeri, Giuseppe (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM04.

This doctoral thesis aims to reconstruct, analyse and provide a historical contextualization of the TV broadcast “Un’ora per voi”, which was intended to promote the integration of Italian workers and their families in Switzerland, in the years between the early 1960’s and the late 1980’s. Within the framework of the research on the history of television, this thesis focuses on an...