Books by Maria Cristina Nisco
Balirano, Giuseppe / Nisco, Maria Cristina (eds) 2015. Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN: 9781443871228., 2015
Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses is a suggestive title for another book in th... more Languaging Diversity: Identities, Genres, Discourses is a suggestive title for another book in the field of linguistics, but what does it actually mean? By choosing to speak of Languaging Diversity and not just of difference, otherness, varieties, multiplicity, hybridity or alterity, the editors cover the whole range of meanings in the entire field of diversity. They do not wish to limit themselves by using such specific words with increasingly specialised connotations as Alterity or Other, but rather to allow an eclectic range of perspectives and issues to come to the fore. This volume brings together some of the manifold discourses emerging as bearers of the values of alterity, by exploring the thorny relationship between Language and Diversity. Drawing on the crucial assumption that speakers identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds, Languaging Diversity explores the wide theme of identity in discourse, an area of investigation which has become increasingly popular in recent years.
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in in G. Balirano e M.C. Nisco (eds) Languaging Diversity. Identities, Genres, Discourses, 16-31, 2015
The present paper will focus on the linguistic representations of the 2011 UK riots and some of t... more The present paper will focus on the linguistic representations of the 2011 UK riots and some of the participants involved, the rioters, as emerging from the British press. A corpus of newspaper articles was collected over a period of time ranging from August 1st to December 31st, 2011, from six British newspapers, i.e. The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and The Sun.
Previous studies on past riots in the UK in 1981 and 1985 were invariably characterised by a series of recurring features in the portrayal of the rioters, among them the identification of the rioters and offenders with ethnic minorities. The only existing literature on the subject highlighted the fact that press discourse tended to construe the rioters’ identity in ethnic and racial terms by locating them within binary oppositions contrasting Britons and immigrants, whites and coloured, us and them, hence the prevailing and generalised reference to ‘race riots’.
Starting from such investigation, our corpus-based discourse analysis (Baker 2006, Baker et al. 2008, Gabrielatos and Baker 2008, Morley and Bailey 2009) will focus on the way in which the main actors of the events, the rioters, are referred to in the corpus, showing both common trends in the reporting of the 2011 events and differences among the six newspapers as far as naming strategies and collocational choices are concerned. Findings will then be interpreted taking into account the general analysis of what happened according to sociological studies and in comparison/contrast with the traditional notion of race riots.
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Previous studies on past riots in the UK in 1981 and 1985 were invariably characterised by a series of recurring features in the portrayal of the rioters, among them the identification of the rioters and offenders with ethnic minorities. The only existing literature on the subject highlighted the fact that press discourse tended to construe the rioters’ identity in ethnic and racial terms by locating them within binary oppositions contrasting Britons and immigrants, whites and coloured, us and them, hence the prevailing and generalised reference to ‘race riots’.
Starting from such investigation, our corpus-based discourse analysis (Baker 2006, Baker et al. 2008, Gabrielatos and Baker 2008, Morley and Bailey 2009) will focus on the way in which the main actors of the events, the rioters, are referred to in the corpus, showing both common trends in the reporting of the 2011 events and differences among the six newspapers as far as naming strategies and collocational choices are concerned. Findings will then be interpreted taking into account the general analysis of what happened according to sociological studies and in comparison/contrast with the traditional notion of race riots.
Previous studies on past riots in the UK in 1981 and 1985 were invariably characterised by a series of recurring features in the portrayal of the rioters, among them the identification of the rioters and offenders with ethnic minorities. The only existing literature on the subject highlighted the fact that press discourse tended to construe the rioters’ identity in ethnic and racial terms by locating them within binary oppositions contrasting Britons and immigrants, whites and coloured, us and them, hence the prevailing and generalised reference to ‘race riots’.
Starting from such investigation, our corpus-based discourse analysis (Baker 2006, Baker et al. 2008, Gabrielatos and Baker 2008, Morley and Bailey 2009) will focus on the way in which the main actors of the events, the rioters, are referred to in the corpus, showing both common trends in the reporting of the 2011 events and differences among the six newspapers as far as naming strategies and collocational choices are concerned. Findings will then be interpreted taking into account the general analysis of what happened according to sociological studies and in comparison/contrast with the traditional notion of race riots.