Papers by Leonardo Grotti
Computational Humanities Research 2022, 2022
Good Omens is a collaborative novel written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Rising interest i... more Good Omens is a collaborative novel written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Rising interest in the book, amplified by the success of the recent screen adaptation, has aroused curiosity regarding its realization. We use Rolling Delta and Rolling Classify to detect stylistic signals from each author as these methods reveal authorial takeovers. The same techniques are applied to compare the screenplay of the show to the novel. The results indicate that Good Omens resembles Pratchett's work more closely. The screenplay is correctly attributed to Gaiman, its sole author, and the comparison reveals that Gaiman may have relied less on the source material over the course of the narrative arc.
La Nuova Giuridica - Florence Law Review, 2023
In a legal system that increasingly relies on scientific knowledge, expert witnesses have a criti... more In a legal system that increasingly relies on scientific knowledge, expert witnesses have a critical role in criminal courts. However, experts have often reported feeling unsatisfi ed with their testimony. Also, the attorneys' style of questioning was found to impact jurors' impression of expert witnesses. This article preoccupies itself with the transformation of experts' testimony in the Court of Assizes. More specifically, it looks at the interactions involving the expert witnesses in the 2005 hearings held for the murder of the Ministry of Justice's advisor Massimo D'Antona. The paper analyses how lawyers shape expert witnesses' testimony and how expert witnesses present their opinion on the stand. Through Conversation and Discourse Analysis, it shows what discursive tools lawyers and expert witnesses use to simultaneously manage multiple frames, presenting scientifi c opinions to other parties (i.e., the judges, the parties involved, and the lay judges) throughout the hearings.
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Papers by Leonardo Grotti