Failing faculties: a survey of language faculty publications at Italian universities

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Teachers straining Halliday: hot air balloons from Montebelluna - Review of Carol Taylor Torsello
January 20 2005: JUST Book Reviews
highlights exponential harm caused to language teachers and students through mindless indoctrination.

Thinning air: erudition perdition with reverse reference preference - Review of Enrico Giaccherini
October 27 2004: JUST Book Reviews
peers behind a mask of arid erudition to find little more than hot air.

Critical death compensation in detail - Review of Mario Curreli
September 17 2004: JUST Book Reviews
diagnoses a potential case of detail fixation syndrome.

Historic perversions: Shakespeare the Sicilian - Review of Paola Pugliatti
August 16 2004: JUST Book Reviews
takes a look at two different methods of perverting Shakespeare.

Assault on Aussie literature: Australian poetry desecration for Italians - Review of Pietro Spinucci
July 30 2004: JUST Book Reviews uncovers a misrepresentation of Australian literature that comes close to racism.

Magical mediocrity: bringing Bringhurst and literary scholarship into 'coterminous' disrepute - Review of Elsa Linguanti
April 30 2004: JUST Book Reviews depicts the unfortunate fate of a Canadian poet embroiled in an Italian academic pantomime.

Cloze encounters of the third-rate kind - Review of Stefania Nuccorini
March 23 2004: JUST Book Reviews learns how to gain a top senior post at an Italian university by adding fifty fill-in-the-blanks English exercises to an inferior introduction.

Parallel minds or inverted comma dropping and lifting? - Review of Francesco Binni & Mario Domenichelli
February 29 2004: JUST Book Reviews explores the perilous bounds between anthologising and original writing.

Thinly veiled fagging cant from Bergamo - Review of Maurizio Gotti
January 2 2004: JUST Book Reviews unearths a degenerate bookmaking recipe from a volume on the language of the underground.

Own goals in Italian EL word count fiasco - Review of John Morley
December 21 2003: JUST Book Reviews travels to Verona to hear an English linguistics lecture on the language of politics in British newspapers.

Intellectual impotence and the re-arrangement of information - Review of Riccardo Ambrosini
July 9 2003: JUST Book Reviews follows a linguist's vain attempt to say something original by re-arranging familiar factual data.

English linguistics for semiliterates - Review of Marcella Bertuccelli Papi
June 8 2003: JUST Book Reviews examines an English linguistics primer that seems set to do more harm than good to another year's intake of 300 EL students at Pisa's modern languages faculty.

Theatrical techniques for double vision - Review of Carla Dente Baschiera
June 3 2003: JUST Book Reviews invites readers to judge whether a thesis supervisor unlawfully appropriated part of a student's independent research and to consider possible implications.

Crucifying King Lear - Review of Francesco Gozzi
May 29 2003: JUST Book Reviews takes a dim view of an Italian Roman Catholic attempt to pervert Shakespeare.

Marked illusions and the corruption of English discourse - Review of Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi
May 5 2003: JUST Book Reviews reveals shocking standards in a book that continues to confuse EL students in Italy.

 

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