- I received a PhD in English for Special Purposes (ESP) from the University of Naples Federico II. I am currently Tenu... moreI received a PhD in English for Special Purposes (ESP) from the University of Naples Federico II. I am currently Tenure-track Research Associate in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Macerata (Italy). My research interests lie in the intersections between different methodological approaches, such as Corpus Linguistics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, and Genre Analysis, among others. My research has mainly focused on media discourse – in particular, on digital media and news discourse.edit
The study presented in this book focuses on a corpus of papers published as part of the proceedings of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) International Conference in order to explore the ways in which specific linguistic resources... more
The study presented in this book focuses on a corpus of papers published as part of the proceedings of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) International Conference in order to explore the ways in which specific linguistic resources allow the mediation between the adherence to specific rules linked to the specialised language of Academic Discourse (more specifically, Academic Business English) and the discursive identity cues that are indicative of given forms of self-expression of the individual within disciplinary boundaries. In other words, the present corpus-based investigation focuses on tensions between the specialised community’s expectations for members to display proximity and adherence to given rules and conventions, and the individual scholars’ desire to claim their own agency and express their unique identity. Drawing on previous research on the expression of identity in academic genres (Bondi, 1999; Matsuda, 2002; De Montes et al., 2002; Garzone, 2004; Biber, 2006; Crawford Camiciottoli, 2007; Tessuto, 2008; Englander, 2009; Kirkup, 2010; Hyland, 2011, 2012a, 2012b; Olinger, 2011; Zareva, 2013; Flowerdew and Wang, 2015; Balirano and Rasulo, 2019), this study further investigates the interplay between linguistic resources, adherence to disciplinary rules, and individual self-expression. Specifically, by examining this corpus, the study aims to uncover how specific linguistic resources mediate the tension between adhering to the specialised language and conventions of Academic Discourse, particularly in the field of Business English, and the cues that indicate individual self-expression. In other words, the research delves into the complex dynamics between the expectations of the specialised community for members to conform to established rules and conventions, and the scholars’ desire to assert their agency and express their unique identities within their academic work.
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In recent years, journalistic practices have undergone a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the professional practice. The ever-growing development of new technologies and the ceaseless fluctuation of... more
In recent years, journalistic practices have undergone a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the professional practice. The ever-growing development of new technologies and the ceaseless fluctuation of social practices have challenged some of the traditional genres found in these professional contexts.
On the basis of these premises, this book investigates a particular genre found in the context of TV newscasts. The genre under investigation is that of news tickers (or crawlers), that is, the graphic elements that scroll at the bottom of the screen during newscasts. The book introduces readers to this under-researched genre through a year-long collection of the news tickers displayed on BBC World News. Thanks to a corpus-based genre analysis, the generic status of news tickers is better defined by highlighting the presence of given strategies of marketization. Additionally, this volume investigates if news tickers can be seen as a mixed (sub-)genre that interdiscursively combines traditional linguistic elements of headlines and lead paragraphs to achieve, from a (Critical) Genre Analysis point of view, a specific private intention in the context of the BBC.
On the basis of these premises, this book investigates a particular genre found in the context of TV newscasts. The genre under investigation is that of news tickers (or crawlers), that is, the graphic elements that scroll at the bottom of the screen during newscasts. The book introduces readers to this under-researched genre through a year-long collection of the news tickers displayed on BBC World News. Thanks to a corpus-based genre analysis, the generic status of news tickers is better defined by highlighting the presence of given strategies of marketization. Additionally, this volume investigates if news tickers can be seen as a mixed (sub-)genre that interdiscursively combines traditional linguistic elements of headlines and lead paragraphs to achieve, from a (Critical) Genre Analysis point of view, a specific private intention in the context of the BBC.
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Discourses in and about the city embody, narrate and portray its past, present and future, and the people living such a linguistic landscape. The city’s cultural, discursive and spatial contours, features and images are constantly... more
Discourses in and about the city embody, narrate and portray its past, present and future, and the people living such a linguistic landscape. The city’s cultural, discursive and spatial contours, features and images are constantly (re)imagined, (re)produced and (re)framed in private and public communication. This edited collection gathers together a series of interdisciplinary research about discourse(s) in the context of global cities, thus analysing and discussing the common or distinctive features of contemporary urban areas, seen as networks of spatial and symbolic nodal points and peripheral discursive ‘zones’. The chapters showcase a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches to investigate spaces from a dialogic perspective (i.e., as sites of negotiation and (re)mediation), thus offering a set of compelling models for future research in urban discourses.
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Grounded in the understanding that identity is a negotiated concept shaped by discourse and agreed upon by participants in a given social context (Benwell and Stokoe 2006), this investigation centres on the discursive construction of the... more
Grounded in the understanding that identity is a negotiated concept shaped by discourse and agreed upon by participants in a given social context (Benwell and Stokoe 2006), this investigation centres on the discursive construction of the notion of “traditional family”, and how it is contested and shaped through discourse. To achieve this aim, the study adopts a corpus-based approach (Baker 2006; McEnery et al. 2006; McEnery & Hardie 2012), analysing data collected from Twitter to interpret how “bondable” values (Zappavigna and Martin 2018; Balirano 2020) associated with the discursive online construction of the “traditional” are shared and reproduced in these online environments. Special attention is paid to the construction of digital landscapes for culture-specific communities of affective practice (Döveling et al. 2018), in order to understand how alignments and meanings are negotiated through SNSs practices (Zappavigna and Martin 2018). Through this analysis, the study identifies discursive loci that define the linguistic practices adopted by online communities in shaping the discourses around the “traditional family”. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of how discourse shapes and reinforces heteronormative values and the marginalisation of non-normative identities in society. The study also sheds light on the role of online environments in the construction and reproduction of discursive norms related to the “traditional family”.
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Contemporary research in the field of media and communication underlines the importance of ‘subcultures of consumption’ (Schouten/McAlexander 1995), ‘brand communities’ (Muniz/O’Guinn 2001), or ‘consumer tribes’ (Cova et al. 2007) in... more
Contemporary research in the field of media and communication underlines the importance of ‘subcultures of consumption’ (Schouten/McAlexander 1995), ‘brand communities’ (Muniz/O’Guinn 2001), or ‘consumer tribes’ (Cova et al. 2007) in addressing potential buyers. These studies additionally acknowledge that one of the most important and successful strategies adopted in selling specific products is represented by the creation in buyers of a desire for belonging that “may be satisfied through social interaction surrounding products or services” (Mardon et al. 2018: 1-2). Such feeling of belongingness is based on the discursive creation of ‘tribes’ whose members are bound together by “shared emotions, styles of life, new moral beliefs and consumption practices” (Cova/Cova 2001: 67). And nowadays, online platforms and social networking sites (SNSs) have increasingly provided digital ‘spaces’ where tribe members may construct and experience a collective identity which is conveyed predominantly via discursive cues and genre constraints that allow members to recognise themselves and be recognised as belonging to that community and, most notably in the case of consumption practices, in the products that are being sold to them. On the basis of this background, the present study wants to investigate the particular case of YouTube beauty gurus, an online consumer-centred community that focuses on beauty-related matters addressed via vlogs (García-Rapp 2017; Riboni 2020). In particular, the specific evaluative resources and generic constraints will be highlighted that define the contours of the linguistic practices adopted by the online beauty community embodied in the ‘emotion work’ (Hochschild 1983) that manages and regulates viewers’ feelings so as to enhance interpersonal relationships, resulting in ‘emotional labour’ (Hochschild 1983; Fuoli/Bednarek 2022), that is, the commodification of feelings of belongingness. Therefore, the ensuing investigation will examine the generic structure and discursive ‘tribe’ construction found in beauty product reviews uploaded by the most popular and influential beauty gurus on YouTube. In analysing such data, special attention will be paid to the construction of digital landscapes for culture-specific communities of affective practice in order to better understand how people forge alignments and negotiate meanings through digital practices (Zappavigna/Martin 2018).
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The following contribution focuses on a corpus-based linguistic analysis (Baker, 2006; McEnery & Hardie, 2012) of how the BBC World News uses its news tickers in order to promote itself and its ‘products’. More specifically, this... more
The following contribution focuses on a corpus-based linguistic analysis (Baker, 2006; McEnery & Hardie, 2012) of how the BBC World News uses its news tickers in order to promote itself and its ‘products’. More specifically, this contribution uses a newly developed framework of analysis in approaching the study of News Discourse. Originated within the field of Media Discourse analysis, the Discursive News Values Analysis approach (Bednarek, 2016a, 2016b; Bednarek & Caple, 2012b, 2014, 2017; Caple & Bednarek, 2016) investigates “how newsworthiness is construed and established through discourse” (Bednarek & Caple, 2012b, p. 104). In this way, a discursive perspective sees news values as a “quality of texts” (Caple & Bednarek, 2016, p. 13, emphasis in the original) rather than as something linked to the event reported itself. Their analysis can thus allow us to “systematically investigate how these values are constructed in the different types of textual material involved in the news process” (Bednarek & Caple 2012b, p. 104). Therefore, through the use of corpus linguistic methodologies, we can gain “first insights into a conventionalised repertoire of rhetoric of newsworthiness” (Bednarek & Caple, 2014, p. 14) in the case of corpora representative of specific media events or specific genres. In this way, the combination of Discursive News Values Analysis and corpus linguistic methodologies can be used to better define how news stories are reported in news tickers since, by underlining what is newsworthy for a particular news organisation, they can help researchers ‘sneak a peek’ into the professional practices at the very heart of the news production process.
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The following paper aims to investigate how the Great Smog of London was slowly constructed in the British press as a deviation phenomenon by analysing a corpus of news stories published in the week from December 5 to December 12, 1952.... more
The following paper aims to investigate how the Great Smog of London was slowly constructed in the British press as a deviation phenomenon by analysing a corpus of news stories published in the week from December 5 to December 12, 1952. Drawing upon the appraisal systems of attitude and engagement, this investigation examines how the British press shaped a deviancy amplification spiral, which led to the passing of the 1956 Clean Air Act by the UK Parliament. The Act itself will also be analysed to see how the power of the institution is linguistically expressed in legal terms when trying to assert control over environmental matters. In order to do this, a CDA-inspired environmental law analysis will be applied to the study of the Clean Air Act, so as to see how the legal language interacts with societal elites and laypeople, revealing essential tensions in the relationship between nature and society and lay bare the “discursive power struggles underlying environmental politics”.
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The following investigation analyses the way in which Gomorrah – The Series has been adapted for an international audience. In particular, some of the processes that have brought a local reality into a glocal context will be analysed,... more
The following investigation analyses the way in which Gomorrah – The Series has been adapted for an international audience. In particular, some of the processes that have brought a local reality into a glocal context will be analysed, focusing on how culture-bound elements are rendered in (re)translation. More specifically, the following study uses Corpus Linguistics methodologies in order to look at the specific linguistic patterns that can be highlighted in the construction through subtitling of a given representation of the reality in which the TV series is set and the characters are immersed. The following contribution, therefore, wants to investigate to what extent (in the subtitles) the translation into Italian of the Neapolitan script of Gomorrah – The Series and its (re)translation into English contribute to the transcultural remediation of the reality-construction process enacted in the translation of this AVT product. This will confirm some of the observations made in previous studies on other forms of the transmediation of the original exposé by Roberto Saviano (2006).
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The following research aims to focus on the legal steps taken by the international community in the definition and identification of climate-induced migration. As an international legal framework is still missing, given the challenges... more
The following research aims to focus on the legal steps taken by the international community in the definition and identification of climate-induced migration. As an international legal framework is still missing, given the challenges posited by local environmental changes that force human populations to be displaced, the decisions adopted by the Conference of the Parties (COP), which is the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are used to implement from a legal perspective what previous international laws and regulations lack, as is the case for climate-induced migrants. Therefore, a corpus collating the decisions adopted by the COP (spanning from COP3, which took place from 1 to 10 December, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, to COP23, which was held from 6 to 17 November, 2017 in Bonn, Germany) will be analysed by using Corpus Linguistics methodologies. The online corpus analysis platform Sketch Engine will be used to address the discursive construction of the environmental challenges discussed diachronically under the COP decisions. In this way, the following investigation will discuss the complex legal challenges associated with climate change-induced displacement under international law. Additionally, the paper also addresses terminological issues linked to the very definition of people who are forced to be displaced due to climate change-related problems. Therefore, a web-based corpus will be analysed to see how climate-induced migrants are defined and discursively constructed in the online environment.
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On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled on the Obergefell v. Hodges case that led to the recognition of same-sex marriage in all fifty States, declaring it a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. The event... more
On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled on the Obergefell v. Hodges case that led to the recognition of same-sex marriage in all fifty States, declaring it a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. The event received huge media coverage and soon became a major topic of animated discussions on digital media platforms. In this context, our investigation will focus on the cross-cultural representation of the main actors and events concerning the US Supreme Court ruling in leading US, UK and Italian online newspapers. In line with Bednarek and Caple’s (2012a, 2012b) approach to the analysis of media discourse, our analysis focuses on the discursive construction of newsworthiness (Bell 1991; Bednarek and Caple 2012a, 2012b, 2014, 2017; Caple and Bednarek 2016; Bednarek 2016a, 2016b) in the textual elements of the selected news stories. Our findings have confirmed Hall,Critcher, Jefferson, Clarke and Roberts’ (1978) claim on the cultural nature of news values, the analysis of which can be seen as a suitable instrument to draw a cultural ‘map’ of the social world. Indeed, our investigation has identified how different cultures tend to highlight different sets of news values in reporting a news story that has cross-culturally impacted on the different value systems of the countries represented in our corpus.
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The following contribution focuses on the identity characterisation of specific ‘voices’ in TV series using a corpus-based approach (Bednarek 2010, 2011) applied to the analysis of the characters of the Italian TV drama Gomorrah – The... more
The following contribution focuses on the identity characterisation of specific ‘voices’ in TV series using a corpus-based approach (Bednarek 2010, 2011) applied to the analysis of the characters of the Italian TV drama Gomorrah – The Series (Season 1). If “dialogue lines are explicitly designed to reveal characters” (Kozloff 2000: 44), analysing how they are cross-culturally translated into another language and reshaped in new formats can highlight given identity traits that producers want to underline about specific characters. In the case of Gomorrah, this is particularly interesting since the identities created for the TV series are intrinsically imbued with its local criminal organisation setting, and the processes of bringing the series across its local borders can reshape and enrich the way characters are presented in a new setting. Based on a previous pilot study (Fruttaldo 2015), the following contribution adopts a corpus-based approach (Baker 2006, 2014; McEnery et al. 2006; McEnery/Hardie 2012) to analyse the voices of the clan Savastano in the TV series. This allowed for highlighting specific differences in the way Don Pietro, Donna Imma and Gennaro Savastano use their linguistic resources to build, convey and construe the identity of a Camorra boss. The lexicogrammatical status of each character, underlined carrying out a keyword analysis of the original subtitles of the TV series and compared to the keyword analysis of the English subtitles, helped trace the linguistic profile of these dominant personas, unveiling some peculiar characteristics of these characters, which seem to be enhanced in the translation process, highlighting some of their concerns or personality traits (Culpeper 2014), or reshaping their entire identity.
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The following contribution will focus on a particular class of verbs, which in the literature has been defined as the class of the un-verbs. Nowadays, this class of verbs is in continuous evolution as more and more verbs can be preceded... more
The following contribution will focus on a particular class of verbs, which in the literature has been defined as the class of the un-verbs. Nowadays, this class of verbs is in continuous evolution as more and more verbs can be preceded by the prefix un- (Cordisco 2011; Zimmer et al. 2011). Therefore, through a corpus-based analysis (McEnery et al. 2006; McEnery and Hardie 2012), we will try to offer some generalisations on the semantic and pragmatic nature of this class of verbs. In order to achieve this purpose, our investigation focuses on the analysis of a corpus of the main sections of Facebook, Google+ and Myspace’s Help Centres. The corpus has been analysed through the online corpus analysis tool Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004; Kilgarriff et al. 2014), which has allowed us to investigate the specific occurrences of the un-verbs found in our corpus and draw given generalisations on their linguistic behaviour. We will open this contribution with a brief literature review of the various approaches to the phenomenon of the un-verbs. We will, then, move on to the methodology used in the corpus collection and analysis. The close study of the linguistic behaviour of the un-verbs found in our corpus has allowed us to draw three conditions for the creation of an un-verb, which will be introduced in the last sections of this study.
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The essay contains an interview to Gerlinde Mautner (WU − Vienna University) and Alan Partington (University of Bologna) given during the 2016 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) International Conference.... more
The essay contains an interview to Gerlinde Mautner (WU − Vienna University) and Alan Partington (University of Bologna) given during the 2016 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) International Conference. The aim of the contribution is to critically discuss contemporary issues linked to the qualitative and quantitative approaches divide in linguistic research. These two notions are strickly connected and related to the broader category of the social imaginary since they are both a construct but also help shape academic research. Therefore, the following interview will tackle these issues in linguistic research and raise several questions concerning what both Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis are but also about the nature of language analysis itself and, more specifically, the role of quantitative and qualitative analyses in linguistics.
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Il seguente contributo esplora come il senso dell’umorismo sia realizzato da un punto di vista sociale, concentrandosi in particolar modo sul caso delle lesbiche. Mentre gli uomini gay sono spesso stereotipati come sempre pronti alla... more
Il seguente contributo esplora come il senso dell’umorismo sia realizzato da un punto di vista sociale, concentrandosi in particolar modo sul caso delle lesbiche. Mentre gli uomini gay sono spesso stereotipati come sempre pronti alla battuta e come espressione di un umorismo sempre esilarante, le donne lesbiche sono stereotipate in senso opposto, come creature fredde, poco divertenti e prive di senso dell’umorismo. Perché? Come si è sviluppato questo stereotipo? Le lesbiche sono davvero prive di senso dell’umorismo oppure le lesbiche, in realtà, ridono e fanno battute? Che tipo di conseguenze seguono dall’affermare che un intero gruppo di persone è privo di senso dell’umorismo?
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In the implementation of given EU directives, forms of resistance may originate, in particular, when given directives try to uniform the production of given goods. This was particularly the case of chocolate production, which has sparked... more
In the implementation of given EU directives, forms of resistance may originate, in particular, when given directives try to uniform the production of given goods. This was particularly the case of chocolate production, which has sparked over time furious reactions by EU member states, since the directives linked to its production clearly defined what should be considered ‘pure’ chocolate and, conversely, what should be defined as a poor imitation. Indeed, the controversial 1973 Directive 73/241/EEC, which expressly prohibited the use of any fat other than cocoa butter, created a double standard for those countries that used alternative fats or, as in the case of the UK, traditionally used higher quantities of milk in the production of chocolate and a cocoa content lower than the minimum authorised by the EEC directive. Thus, these countries were forced to market their products outside of their national borders as ‘chocolate-flavoured’, thus, subtly acknowledging the lower quality of their products when compared to ‘pure’ chocolate.
Thus, the aim of this contribution is to analyse the animated debate surrounding chocolate quality standards in the British press thanks to the analysis of a corpus of newspapers articles in a time-span that goes from 1994 to 2000, that is, the period during which the EU re-opened the debate over chocolate production standards and which brought to the Directive 2000/36/EC that introduced more flexibility in the manufacture of chocolate. The analysis will be carried out by using corpus linguistic methodologies (Baker, 2006, 2013; Baker et al., 2013) and, in particular, we will focus on the legitimation strategies (van Leeuwen, 2007, 2008) used to define product quality in the news stories under investigation.
Thus, the aim of this contribution is to analyse the animated debate surrounding chocolate quality standards in the British press thanks to the analysis of a corpus of newspapers articles in a time-span that goes from 1994 to 2000, that is, the period during which the EU re-opened the debate over chocolate production standards and which brought to the Directive 2000/36/EC that introduced more flexibility in the manufacture of chocolate. The analysis will be carried out by using corpus linguistic methodologies (Baker, 2006, 2013; Baker et al., 2013) and, in particular, we will focus on the legitimation strategies (van Leeuwen, 2007, 2008) used to define product quality in the news stories under investigation.
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This paper introduces some of the key topics of an ongoing PhD research project, focusing on a particular textual genre of TV newscasts, which was first displayed on the morning of 9/11. The genre under investigation is that of news... more
This paper introduces some of the key topics of an ongoing PhD research project, focusing on a particular textual genre of TV newscasts, which was first displayed on the morning of 9/11. The genre under investigation is that of news tickers, the string of texts that crawl in the lower third space of a TV screen on certain TV news channels and programmes, displaying a summary of the major news stories.
Through a corpus-based analysis, we will try to better understand which phenomena of hybridization can be identified in this genre (i.e., hybridization between TV and Web contents); and what kind of phenomena of colonization can be noticed (i.e., TV contents colonized by advertising discourse).
Through a corpus-based analysis, we will try to better understand which phenomena of hybridization can be identified in this genre (i.e., hybridization between TV and Web contents); and what kind of phenomena of colonization can be noticed (i.e., TV contents colonized by advertising discourse).
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The present study investigates how identity construction and representation in ELF contexts are enacted and conveyed in specific genres representative of given communities of practice. In line with previous research on issues of identity... more
The present study investigates how identity construction and representation in ELF contexts are enacted and conveyed in specific genres representative of given communities of practice. In line with previous research on issues of identity expression in academic genres, this investigation focuses on a corpus of papers published in the proceedings of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) International Conference in order to explore the way in which language mediates between the adherence to specific rules linked to the specialised language of Academic Discourse (more specifically, Business Academic English) and the expression of the inner world of a given individual. More precisely, the following corpus-based study focuses on the tension between the specialised community’s expectations for members to display proximity and adherence to given rules and conventions, and the individual scholars’ desire to claim their own agency and express their unique identity.
Research Interests: Evaluation, Corpus Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Discourse and Identity, English for Academic/Professional Purposes with a focus on English for International Business and Management., and 6 moreStance, Genre Analysis, Discourse and genre analysis, Evaluation, Stance, Appraisal, academic writing; business English, and Stance, stance taking, interaction in discourse
Discourses in and about the city embody, narrate and portray its past, present and future, and the people living such a linguistic landscape. The city’s cultural, discursive and spatial contours, features and images are constantly... more
Discourses in and about the city embody, narrate and portray its past, present and future, and the people living such a linguistic landscape. The city’s cultural, discursive and spatial contours, features and images are constantly (re)imagined, (re)produced and (re)framed in private and public communication. This edited collection gathers together a series of interdisciplinary research about discourse(s) in the context of global cities, thus analysing and discussing the common or distinctive features of contemporary urban areas, seen as networks of spatial and symbolic nodal points and peripheral discursive ‘zones’. The chapters showcase a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches to investigate spaces from a dialogic perspective (i.e., as sites of negotiation and (re)mediation), thus offering a set of compelling models for future research in urban discourses.
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Il seguente volume vuole essere un diario sotto forma di raccolta dei frutti dell’esperienza artistica e di formazione nata dalla convenzione stipulata fra il Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario I-LanD e la Società Italiana degli Autori... more
Il seguente volume vuole essere un diario sotto forma di raccolta dei frutti dell’esperienza artistica e di formazione nata dalla convenzione stipulata fra il Centro di Ricerca Interuniversitario I-LanD e la Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE) per la progettazione e lo sviluppo di Idee Cinematografiche Differenti, residenza artistica proposta dal Centro di Ricerca vincitrice del bando “Per Chi Crea”, finanziato dalla SIAE e il Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali.
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In line with Zappavigna and Martin’s (2018) discursive system of communing affiliation, the following study aims to interpret how values linked to the experience of being a young LGBTIQ+ individual are positioned as bondable in the... more
In line with Zappavigna and Martin’s (2018) discursive system of communing affiliation, the following study aims to interpret how values linked to the experience of being a young LGBTIQ+ individual are positioned as bondable in the ambient environment set out through the hashtag #GrowingUpGay. In particular, following Döveling et al. (2018), emotions are explored as a cultural practice in terms of affect, that is, as something online users display/perform rather than feel/have, thus constructing digital landscapes for culture-specific communities of affective practice. In doing so, homophobic discursive loci are highlighted in the way users represent the struggles they have jointly experienced and, therefore, it is possible to see how forms of homophobia and discrimination impact individuals’ lives.
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The following investigation examines the linguistic choices and communicative practices used in and by the Twitter account Scholarly Queen to perform and display queer academic identities. As platforms such as Twitter are increasingly... more
The following investigation examines the linguistic choices and communicative practices used in and by the Twitter account Scholarly Queen to perform and display queer academic identities. As platforms such as Twitter are increasingly being used to give a voice to specific communities of practice (Swales 1990, 2004; Wenger 1998), the language informing these Social Networking Systems becomes a means through which gender identities are performed (Papacharissi 2013). In a society which is basically structured on heteronormative and binary categories, creative text-internal and text-external resources take on a seminal role in constructing minority gender identities by allowing users to engage with creative practices as a way through which unrepresented identities and discourses come to be defined. The analysis can be positioned in the theoretical framework of Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (KhosraviNik and Zia 2014; KhosraviNik and Unger 2016; KhosraviNik 2017, 2018), while Multimodal Prosody (Balirano 2017a, 2017b) and ambient affiliation/identity (Zappavigna 2012, 2013) operate as the methodological tools. The former will be applied to analyse the numerous images discursively brought into play to perform this queer academic identity, while the latter will be employed to retrace the language connoting the representation of the 'in-group' in Scholarly Queen.
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The US Supreme Court ruling on the Obergefell v. Hodges case on June 26, 2015 led to the recognition of same-sex marriage in all fifty States, declaring it a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. The event received huge... more
The US Supreme Court ruling on the Obergefell v. Hodges case on June 26, 2015 led to the recognition of same-sex marriage in all fifty States, declaring it a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. The event received huge media coverage and gave rise to animated discussions on digital media platforms. In this context, if the fear of isolation due to spirals of silence (Noelle-Neumann 1974) is increasingly subdued thanks to the anonymity and ephemeral nature of the online environment, studying how users communicate on social media platforms can help researchers highlight how discourses on given minorities are linguistically conveyed in this fluid environment (Zappavigna 2012, 2013). Drawing on these observations, our investigation will focus on how the US Supreme Court ruling was framed by social media users. A corpus was collected of all Facebook comments related to the first news story reporting the event published online by leading US, UK and Italian newspapers. This Facebook user-generated corpus on marriage equality (FugMar) was then uploaded to the corpus analysis platform Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004, 2014) to analyse the discourses surrounding the event in a fluid and boundary-free environment such as that provided by new digital media in relation to news framing. The analysis of the news values (Fruttaldo and Venuti 2017; Venuti and Fruttaldo 2017), which discursively construe the event in the newspapers, and the way they have been, or have not been, picked up by social media users when they discursively respond to and construe the event, enable us to reflect on the relationship between an event, its news framing, and the echo the framing has on audiences through social media. Ultimately, given the cross-cultural nature of the corpus under investigation, the following contribution sets out to compare and contrast how users discursively construct the US Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage in the US, UK and Italy.
Research Interests: Digital Media, Corpus Linguistics, Social Networking Sites (SNS), Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), and 6 moreNews Values, News Discourse, Lgbt, Same-Sex Marriage Activism, Affective Equality, Newsworthiness, Marriage Equality, and Discursive Approach to News Values
The US Supreme Court ruling on the Obergefell v. Hodges case on June 26, 2015 led to the recognition of same-sex marriage in all fifty States, declaring it a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. The event received huge... more
The US Supreme Court ruling on the Obergefell v. Hodges case on June 26, 2015 led to the recognition of same-sex marriage in all fifty States, declaring it a constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment. The event received huge media coverage and gave rise to animated discussions on digital media platforms. In this context, if the fear of isolation due to spirals of silence (Noelle-Neumann, 1974) is increasingly subdued thanks to the anonymity and ephemeral nature of the online environment, studying how users communicate on social media platforms can help researchers highlight how discourses on given minorities are linguistically conveyed in this fluid environment (Zappavigna, 2012, 2013). Drawing on these observations, our investigation will focus on how the US Supreme Court ruling was framed by social media users. A corpus was collected of all Facebook comments related to the first news story reporting the event published online by leading US, UK and Italian newspapers. This Facebook user-generated corpus on marriage equality (FUGmar) was then uploaded to the corpus analysis platform Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al., 2004; Kilgarriff et al., 2014) to analyse the discourses surrounding the event in a fluid and boundary-free environment such as that provided by new digital media in relation to news framing. The analysis of the news values (Venuti & Fruttaldo, 2017; Fruttaldo & Venuti, 2018), which discursively construe the event in the newspapers, and the way they have been, or have not been, picked up by social media users when they discursively respond to and construe the event, enables us to reflect on the relationship between an event, its news framing, and the echo the framing has on audiences through social media. Ultimately, given the cross-cultural nature of the corpus under investigation, the following contribution sets out to compare and contrast how users discursively construct the US Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage in the US, UK and Italy.
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Culture has been traditionally seen as the by-product of a particular society in a clearly defined territory (Yengoyan 1986). However, the elusive concept of culture, seen as both a merging and dichotomising force, has been called into... more
Culture has been traditionally seen as the by-product of a particular society in a clearly defined territory (Yengoyan 1986). However, the elusive concept of culture, seen as both a merging and dichotomising force, has been called into question due to the increasing entanglement of contemporary societies (Welsch 1999). Indeed, territories can no longer be seen as containing cultures, since people move with their meanings, and meanings find ways of travelling and flourishing even when people stay in their territories (Hannerz 1996). The increasing development of communications systems (Hepp 2009) and economic interdependencies and dependencies plays an important role in challenging the traditional view of culture. Thus, the concept of transculturality can better characterise contemporary cultures and their ability to move beyond material and immaterial borders.
One of the ways through which cultural-specific phenomena cross borders and find a new life in a different environment is represented by forms of hybridisation (Bhatia 2004), seen as vehicles which can help popularise given genres. The hybridisation of broadcast news, for instance, has produced forms of docu-fictions, which can be placed in the blurred generic area of story-telling and news reporting, mixing together facts and fictions (Baym 2009). However, as vessels, these narrative hybrid forms bring together with them cultural-specific elements, which are difficult to re-enact in a new context. This is the case, for instance, of the TV series Gomorrah, which is based on the Italian novel Gomorra written in 2006 by the Neapolitan author Roberto Saviano.
As Saviano has repeatedly underlined (Caliendo 2012), most of the news stories linked to the Neapolitan Mafia, known as Camorra, stay local and remain largely unknown to most Italians. Further, as Cavaliere (2010) states, international books and movies generally focus on the Sicilian Mafia, while little has been written about the Camorra. Saviano’s exposé, first, and its popularised adaptations have shed light on the criminal activities of the Camorra and, while some elements of fiction are undeniably present in both the book and its adaptations, they succeeded in raising awareness on the problems linked to the Neapolitan context, something that journalism has failed to highlight from a national and an international point of view.
In order to achieve this, from a national point of view, the TV series, for instance, premiered in Italy with Italian subtitles, since the language of Gomorrah – The Series (from now on referred to as GTS) is a mix of both Italian and Neapolitan dialogues. While representing a third step in the translation of the original script, the UK subtitles of the TV series, on the other hand, have helped draw attention to the criminal activities plaguing Naples’ hinterland from an international point of view. However, since translation is central in the process of identity formation (Gentzler 2008), the aim of this contribution is to focus on the transcultural reception of the series. In particular, based on the concept of translation repercussion (Chesterman 2007), the proposed analysis will firstly focus on a particular aspect of the TV series, that is, how the producers of the series have created their target audience in the Italian and English versions of the DVD blurbs. Based on the work of Bednarek (2010, 2014), this preliminary analysis of the TV series will help us see how this specific type of advertising discourse construes its target audience. Since these texts “must take care to engage with what can be a diverse audience in an appropriate way” (Baker 2006: 50) by, for instance, “deciding what aspects [...] are foregrounded (or backgrounded) and what assumptions are made about the interests and lifestyles of the target audience” (Baker 2006: 50), the analysis of DVD blurbs can help us better understand what values are specifically constructed in discourse, thus, highlighting the type of universe that producers want to create when addressing their target audience. Additionally, since this type of persuasive discourse will eventually result in a financial exchange, language plays a fundamental role in the representation of the TV series as a whole and, thus, how it should be interpreted by its viewers.
The second part of our investigation will focus on how the main characters linguistically construct themselves in the context of the Italian and English subtitles of the TV series. We have decided to focus specifically on the subtitles of the TV series since, in the English adaptation, GTS was not dubbed and, thus, in order to make the comparison between the original and its re-adaptation more productive, we have decided to avoid taking under consideration also the original script of the TV series, since this would have insulated given differences that were not strictly linked to the translation process but due to the different media. The analysis was carried out thanks to corpus linguistic methodologies and these have allowed us to see how the “individual linguistic thumbprint” (Culpeper 2014: 166) of each character in the source text was construed in the target text. As we will see, given characteristics of specific characters seem to be stereotyped in the target text, while others seem to highlight given peculiarities in the target texts that were not particularly underlined in the source texts, thus, offering the audience new personas in the translation of the original text.
One of the ways through which cultural-specific phenomena cross borders and find a new life in a different environment is represented by forms of hybridisation (Bhatia 2004), seen as vehicles which can help popularise given genres. The hybridisation of broadcast news, for instance, has produced forms of docu-fictions, which can be placed in the blurred generic area of story-telling and news reporting, mixing together facts and fictions (Baym 2009). However, as vessels, these narrative hybrid forms bring together with them cultural-specific elements, which are difficult to re-enact in a new context. This is the case, for instance, of the TV series Gomorrah, which is based on the Italian novel Gomorra written in 2006 by the Neapolitan author Roberto Saviano.
As Saviano has repeatedly underlined (Caliendo 2012), most of the news stories linked to the Neapolitan Mafia, known as Camorra, stay local and remain largely unknown to most Italians. Further, as Cavaliere (2010) states, international books and movies generally focus on the Sicilian Mafia, while little has been written about the Camorra. Saviano’s exposé, first, and its popularised adaptations have shed light on the criminal activities of the Camorra and, while some elements of fiction are undeniably present in both the book and its adaptations, they succeeded in raising awareness on the problems linked to the Neapolitan context, something that journalism has failed to highlight from a national and an international point of view.
In order to achieve this, from a national point of view, the TV series, for instance, premiered in Italy with Italian subtitles, since the language of Gomorrah – The Series (from now on referred to as GTS) is a mix of both Italian and Neapolitan dialogues. While representing a third step in the translation of the original script, the UK subtitles of the TV series, on the other hand, have helped draw attention to the criminal activities plaguing Naples’ hinterland from an international point of view. However, since translation is central in the process of identity formation (Gentzler 2008), the aim of this contribution is to focus on the transcultural reception of the series. In particular, based on the concept of translation repercussion (Chesterman 2007), the proposed analysis will firstly focus on a particular aspect of the TV series, that is, how the producers of the series have created their target audience in the Italian and English versions of the DVD blurbs. Based on the work of Bednarek (2010, 2014), this preliminary analysis of the TV series will help us see how this specific type of advertising discourse construes its target audience. Since these texts “must take care to engage with what can be a diverse audience in an appropriate way” (Baker 2006: 50) by, for instance, “deciding what aspects [...] are foregrounded (or backgrounded) and what assumptions are made about the interests and lifestyles of the target audience” (Baker 2006: 50), the analysis of DVD blurbs can help us better understand what values are specifically constructed in discourse, thus, highlighting the type of universe that producers want to create when addressing their target audience. Additionally, since this type of persuasive discourse will eventually result in a financial exchange, language plays a fundamental role in the representation of the TV series as a whole and, thus, how it should be interpreted by its viewers.
The second part of our investigation will focus on how the main characters linguistically construct themselves in the context of the Italian and English subtitles of the TV series. We have decided to focus specifically on the subtitles of the TV series since, in the English adaptation, GTS was not dubbed and, thus, in order to make the comparison between the original and its re-adaptation more productive, we have decided to avoid taking under consideration also the original script of the TV series, since this would have insulated given differences that were not strictly linked to the translation process but due to the different media. The analysis was carried out thanks to corpus linguistic methodologies and these have allowed us to see how the “individual linguistic thumbprint” (Culpeper 2014: 166) of each character in the source text was construed in the target text. As we will see, given characteristics of specific characters seem to be stereotyped in the target text, while others seem to highlight given peculiarities in the target texts that were not particularly underlined in the source texts, thus, offering the audience new personas in the translation of the original text.
Research Interests: Television Studies, Popular Culture, Stylistics, Corpus Linguistics, Media Discourse, and 10 moreCorpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Translation Studies, Language and Media Discourses, Television series, Gomorrah, TV Series, Television Characters, Television Discourse, Gomorra La Serie, and Gomorrah The Series
Social media platforms are increasingly becoming prevalent communicative practices through which identity is performed and displayed (Butler 1990, 2004). Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are, thus, used in order to give a voice to... more
Social media platforms are increasingly becoming prevalent communicative practices through which identity is performed and displayed (Butler 1990, 2004). Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are, thus, used in order to give a voice to specific communities of practice (Swales 1990, 2004; Wenger 1998). For instance, the case of Shit Academics Say (Hall 2015), firstly developed as a blog and slowly expanding on social media environments, has become a guide to humorously surviving the academic world. This has been achieved by performing online the typical hopes, frustrations, and daily experiences academics worldwide face. In doing so, the academic community may find a way to both see themselves represented and come together as an online community of practice.
The ‘social experiment’ carried out by Shit Academics Say was mimicked by other Facebook and Twitter accounts (e.g. Shit My Reviewers Say, Academic Pain), and this contribution focuses on one of these accounts inspired by this trend.
Grown out of the tradition established by the aforementioned social media accounts, our case study examines the recently created Twitter account Scholarly Queen (from now on referred to as SQ). As the description found on its page reads, SQ presents itself as giving a voice to «Humanities PhD with a focus on WTF did I get myself into with a subspecialty in HEEEEEY GIRL HEEEEY». The linguistic choices emerging from this very first description reveal the users the general treads that the account deals with, giving a voice to queer identity in Academia.
The case study presented here is investigated in the framework of social media discourse (Herring 2004; Androutsopoulos 2008; Zappavigna 2012, 2013). In particular, the notion of engagement systems on social media platforms will be used to retrace the representation of the in-group language employed by SQ in performing an academic gendered identity. This will allow us to see how «users of language perform their identity within uses of language» (Martin et al. 2013, p. 468). More specifically, this contribution will highlight, in the particular case of SQ, the way Twitter users perform relational identities as they enact discourse fellowships (Zappavigna 2013).
At the same time, due to the crucial role played by the numerous images discursively used to perform this queer academic identity, a recently developed theory of multimodal analysis will be applied to investigate the multimodal prosody (Balirano 2016) constructed in SQ.
References
Androutsopoulos, J. 2008. Potentials and Limitations of Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography. In J. Androutsopoulos and M. Beißwenger (Eds), Data and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis. Special Issue of Language@Internet 5. Available online at http://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2008/1610 (last accessed: September 28, 2016).
Balirano, G. 2016 (in press). Who’s afraid of Conchita Wurst? Drag Performers and the Construction of Multimodal Prosody. In M.G. Sindoni, J. Wildfeuer and K. O’Halloran (Eds), Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies. London/New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 1990. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York & London: Routledge.
Herring, S.C. 2004. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior. In S.A. Barab, R. Kling and J.H. Gray (Eds), Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 338–376.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Dwyer, P. and Cléirigh, C. 2013. Users in uses of language: Embodied identity in youth justice conferencing. Text and Talk 33: 467–496.
Swales, J.M. 1990. Genre Analysis. English in academic and research settings (13th ed., 2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, J.M. 2004. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zappavigna, M. 2012. Discourse of Twitter and social media: How we use language to create affiliation on the web. London & New York: Continuum.
Zappavigna, M. 2013. Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation. Discourse and Communication 8 (2): 209–228.
Websites
Hall, N. (November 2, 2015). @AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social Media Experiment. SAS Confidential. Retrieved online on June 15, 2016, from https://sasconfidential.com/2015/11/02/the-academicssay-experiment/ (last accessed: June 28, 2016).
The ‘social experiment’ carried out by Shit Academics Say was mimicked by other Facebook and Twitter accounts (e.g. Shit My Reviewers Say, Academic Pain), and this contribution focuses on one of these accounts inspired by this trend.
Grown out of the tradition established by the aforementioned social media accounts, our case study examines the recently created Twitter account Scholarly Queen (from now on referred to as SQ). As the description found on its page reads, SQ presents itself as giving a voice to «Humanities PhD with a focus on WTF did I get myself into with a subspecialty in HEEEEEY GIRL HEEEEY». The linguistic choices emerging from this very first description reveal the users the general treads that the account deals with, giving a voice to queer identity in Academia.
The case study presented here is investigated in the framework of social media discourse (Herring 2004; Androutsopoulos 2008; Zappavigna 2012, 2013). In particular, the notion of engagement systems on social media platforms will be used to retrace the representation of the in-group language employed by SQ in performing an academic gendered identity. This will allow us to see how «users of language perform their identity within uses of language» (Martin et al. 2013, p. 468). More specifically, this contribution will highlight, in the particular case of SQ, the way Twitter users perform relational identities as they enact discourse fellowships (Zappavigna 2013).
At the same time, due to the crucial role played by the numerous images discursively used to perform this queer academic identity, a recently developed theory of multimodal analysis will be applied to investigate the multimodal prosody (Balirano 2016) constructed in SQ.
References
Androutsopoulos, J. 2008. Potentials and Limitations of Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography. In J. Androutsopoulos and M. Beißwenger (Eds), Data and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis. Special Issue of Language@Internet 5. Available online at http://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2008/1610 (last accessed: September 28, 2016).
Balirano, G. 2016 (in press). Who’s afraid of Conchita Wurst? Drag Performers and the Construction of Multimodal Prosody. In M.G. Sindoni, J. Wildfeuer and K. O’Halloran (Eds), Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies. London/New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 1990. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York & London: Routledge.
Herring, S.C. 2004. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior. In S.A. Barab, R. Kling and J.H. Gray (Eds), Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 338–376.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Dwyer, P. and Cléirigh, C. 2013. Users in uses of language: Embodied identity in youth justice conferencing. Text and Talk 33: 467–496.
Swales, J.M. 1990. Genre Analysis. English in academic and research settings (13th ed., 2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, J.M. 2004. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zappavigna, M. 2012. Discourse of Twitter and social media: How we use language to create affiliation on the web. London & New York: Continuum.
Zappavigna, M. 2013. Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation. Discourse and Communication 8 (2): 209–228.
Websites
Hall, N. (November 2, 2015). @AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social Media Experiment. SAS Confidential. Retrieved online on June 15, 2016, from https://sasconfidential.com/2015/11/02/the-academicssay-experiment/ (last accessed: June 28, 2016).
Research Interests: Social Identity, Computer-Mediated Communication, Academic discourse, New Media, Social Network Analysis, e-research, Link analysis, Social Network Sites, Twitter, Facebook, Political Communication, Microblogging, and 3 moreQueer Theory and Queer Studies, Multimodal Prosody, and Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography
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Book of Abstracts of the 5th ESTIDIA Conference - Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations
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Book of Abstracts of the 6th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD 2016)
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Book of Abstracts of the International Conference "Words, Images and Ideology of Populism 3.0" (University of Naples "L'Orientale", February 23-24, 2018)
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As Mertz (1994, p. 441) argues, law can be seen as “the locus of a powerful act of linguistic appropriation, where the translation of everyday categories into legal language effects powerful changes”. In this sense, legal language plays a... more
As Mertz (1994, p. 441) argues, law can be seen as “the locus of a powerful act of linguistic appropriation, where the translation of everyday categories into legal language effects powerful changes”. In this sense, legal language plays a seminal role in disciplining and controlling human behaviours, since “[l]aw also serves as a means of exerting power and control” (Gellers, 2015, p. 3). Consequently, legal discourse also represents the solidification and response to specific social dynamics that are impossible to foresee, and designed to preserve social order.
In early December 1952, London was engulfed in a thick fog that lasted five days. The combination of humid, cold weather with the black smoke emitted from homes and industries created a deadly smog that killed, according to Wilkins (1954), almost 4,000 people during the weather environmental emergency and the following weeks. In the aftermath of what is referred to as the ‘Great Smog of London’, British officials approved several regulations to reduce the emission of black smoke and require industries to switch to cleaner-burning fuels. While not being the very first episode in contemporary history when air pollution was responsible for a spike in deaths (see, for instance, the case in the Meuse Valley in Belgium in 1930, and in Donora, Pa. in 1948), the Great Smog represents a turning point in environmental law history. Due to the ‘Clean Air Act’ of 1956, a milestone in the development of a legal framework to protect the environment, awareness was raised opening up the floor to a series of regulations that would address problems relating to pollution in urban contexts.
The ‘Clean Air Act’, however, was a response to the media construction of the events that had taken place in December 1952. Indeed, the media coverage of the Great Smog resulted in a deviance amplification effect (Cohen, 2002), framing the event in such a way that moral panic was an inevitable consequence (Hall et al., 1978). In line with the previous observations, the following contribution investigates how the Great Smog was slowly constructed in the British press as a deviation phenomenon by analysing a corpus of news stories published in the week from December 5, 1952, to December 12, 1952. Drawing upon the appraisal systems of attitude and engagement (Martin, 2000; Martin and White, 2005; Bednarek, 2006; Martin and Rose, 2007; Chen, 2014), this contribution examines how the British press has shaped a deviance amplification effect, which led to the passing of the of 1956’s Clean Air Act by the UK Parliament. The regulation itself will also be analysed to see how the power of the institution is linguistically expressed in legal terms in trying to assert control over environmental matters. In order to do this, a CDA-inspired environmental law analysis (Gellers, 2015) will be applied to the study of the Clean Air Act, so as to see how the legal language interacts with societal elites and laypeople, revealing essential tensions in the relationship between nature and society and lay bare the “discursive power struggles underlying environmental politics” (Hajer and Versteeg, 2005, p. 181).
References
Bednarek, Monika 2006. Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London & New York: Continuum.
Chen, Yumin 2014. Exploring the Attitudinal Variations in the Chinese English-language Press on the 2013 Air Pollution Incident. Discourse & Communication 8(4): 331349.
Cohen, Stanley 2002 [1972]. Folk Devils and Moral Panics (3rd edn.). London & New York: Routledge.
Gellers, Joshua C. 2015. Greening Critical Discourse Analysis: Applications to the Study of Environmental Law. Critical Discourse Studies 12(4): 482493.
Hajer, Maarten / Versteeg, Wytske 2005. A Decade of Discourse Analysis of Environmental Politics: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 7(3): 175184.
Hall, Stuart / Critcher, Chas / Jefferson, Tony / Clarke, John / Roberts, Brian 1978. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order. London: Macmillan.
Martin, James R. 2000. Beyond Exchange: Appraisal Systems in English. In Susan Hunston / Geoffrey Thompson (eds), Evaluation in Text: Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 142–175.
Martin, James R. / Rose, David 2007. Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause (2nd edn.). London: Continuum.
Martin, James R. / White, Peter R.R. 2005. The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mertz, Elizabeth 1994. Legal Language: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Social Power. Annual Review of Anthropology 23(1): 435–455.
Wilkins, E.T. 1954. Air Pollution and the London Fog of December 1952. Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute 74: 1–21.
In early December 1952, London was engulfed in a thick fog that lasted five days. The combination of humid, cold weather with the black smoke emitted from homes and industries created a deadly smog that killed, according to Wilkins (1954), almost 4,000 people during the weather environmental emergency and the following weeks. In the aftermath of what is referred to as the ‘Great Smog of London’, British officials approved several regulations to reduce the emission of black smoke and require industries to switch to cleaner-burning fuels. While not being the very first episode in contemporary history when air pollution was responsible for a spike in deaths (see, for instance, the case in the Meuse Valley in Belgium in 1930, and in Donora, Pa. in 1948), the Great Smog represents a turning point in environmental law history. Due to the ‘Clean Air Act’ of 1956, a milestone in the development of a legal framework to protect the environment, awareness was raised opening up the floor to a series of regulations that would address problems relating to pollution in urban contexts.
The ‘Clean Air Act’, however, was a response to the media construction of the events that had taken place in December 1952. Indeed, the media coverage of the Great Smog resulted in a deviance amplification effect (Cohen, 2002), framing the event in such a way that moral panic was an inevitable consequence (Hall et al., 1978). In line with the previous observations, the following contribution investigates how the Great Smog was slowly constructed in the British press as a deviation phenomenon by analysing a corpus of news stories published in the week from December 5, 1952, to December 12, 1952. Drawing upon the appraisal systems of attitude and engagement (Martin, 2000; Martin and White, 2005; Bednarek, 2006; Martin and Rose, 2007; Chen, 2014), this contribution examines how the British press has shaped a deviance amplification effect, which led to the passing of the of 1956’s Clean Air Act by the UK Parliament. The regulation itself will also be analysed to see how the power of the institution is linguistically expressed in legal terms in trying to assert control over environmental matters. In order to do this, a CDA-inspired environmental law analysis (Gellers, 2015) will be applied to the study of the Clean Air Act, so as to see how the legal language interacts with societal elites and laypeople, revealing essential tensions in the relationship between nature and society and lay bare the “discursive power struggles underlying environmental politics” (Hajer and Versteeg, 2005, p. 181).
References
Bednarek, Monika 2006. Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus. London & New York: Continuum.
Chen, Yumin 2014. Exploring the Attitudinal Variations in the Chinese English-language Press on the 2013 Air Pollution Incident. Discourse & Communication 8(4): 331349.
Cohen, Stanley 2002 [1972]. Folk Devils and Moral Panics (3rd edn.). London & New York: Routledge.
Gellers, Joshua C. 2015. Greening Critical Discourse Analysis: Applications to the Study of Environmental Law. Critical Discourse Studies 12(4): 482493.
Hajer, Maarten / Versteeg, Wytske 2005. A Decade of Discourse Analysis of Environmental Politics: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 7(3): 175184.
Hall, Stuart / Critcher, Chas / Jefferson, Tony / Clarke, John / Roberts, Brian 1978. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order. London: Macmillan.
Martin, James R. 2000. Beyond Exchange: Appraisal Systems in English. In Susan Hunston / Geoffrey Thompson (eds), Evaluation in Text: Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 142–175.
Martin, James R. / Rose, David 2007. Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause (2nd edn.). London: Continuum.
Martin, James R. / White, Peter R.R. 2005. The Language of Evaluation: Appraisal in English. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mertz, Elizabeth 1994. Legal Language: Pragmatics, Poetics, and Social Power. Annual Review of Anthropology 23(1): 435–455.
Wilkins, E.T. 1954. Air Pollution and the London Fog of December 1952. Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute 74: 1–21.
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Journalistic practices are undergoing, in the last few years, a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the profession (Bivens 2014). Therefore, journalistic practices are constantly exploiting new forms of... more
Journalistic practices are undergoing, in the last few years, a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the profession (Bivens 2014). Therefore, journalistic practices are constantly exploiting new forms of genre-mixing (Bhatia 1993, 2004, 2017) in order to compete with new ways of delivering the news. This intensifying pressure on traditional media has given rise to a variety of mixed-generic forms, among which a relatively new genre of TV news broadcast, generally referred to as news tickers (or crawlers), can be highlighted.
This genre was initially adopted by various TV news channels and programmes in order to constantly deliver to viewers a summary of the major news stories or to alert viewers of particular breaking news. However, over the years, and given the increasing pressure on TV journalism to attract viewers, the genre of crawlers has been slowly appropriating certain generic conventions from other genres (Fruttaldo 2017). The hybrid nature of news tickers is, first and foremost, evidenced by the merging of two functions traditionally belonging to the journalistic genres of headlines and lead paragraphs (see Fruttaldo 2017). Indeed, news tickers must at the same time catch viewers’ attention and give viewers a point of view on the news story. However, these two functions coexist with a constellation of other communicative purposes.
One of these communicative purposes can be ascribed to what Meech (1999) defines as ‘brandcasting’, which refers to the vast array of corporate branding techniques that broadcasters use in order to project their brand identity. These branding techniques are highly frequent in news tickers, “due to the ticker’s location at the bottom of the screen, and its format, which does not interrupt programming” (Coffey and Clearly 2008, p. 896). Thus, thanks to a corpus-based linguistic analysis (Baker 2006; McEnery and Hardie 2012), this contribution focuses on how the BBC World News uses its news tickers in order to promote itself and its products, building a relationship of loyalty and projecting an image of trustworthiness to their audience. More specifically, this contribution uses a newly developed framework of analysis in approaching the study of News Discourse.
Developed within the field of Media Discourse analysis, the Discursive News Values Analysis approach (Bednarek 2016a, 2016b; Bednarek and Caple 2012b, 2014, 2017; Caple and Bednarek 2016) investigates “how newsworthiness is construed and established through discourse” (Bednarek and Caple 2012b, p. 104). In this way, a discursive perspective sees news values as a “quality of texts” (Caple and Bednarek 2016, p. 13, emphasis in the original), and their analysis can allow us to “systematically investigate how these values are constructed in the different types of textual material involved in the news process” (Bednarek and Caple 2012b, p. 104).
When dealing with large amount of data, corpus linguistic methodologies can therefore help us, as Bednarek and Caple (2014, 2017) and Potts, Bednarek and Caple (2015) point out. Indeed, through the use of corpus linguistic methodologies, we can gain “first insights into a conventionalised repertoire of rhetoric of newsworthiness” (Bednarek and Caple 2014, p. 14) in the case of corpora representative of specific media events or specific genres. If “every journalist and every editor will have a different interpretation of what is newsworthy” (Rau 2010, p. 15), corpus linguistic techniques can help researchers identify “what kind of discursive devices are repeatedly used […] to construct different news values” (Bednarek and Caple 2014, p. 16). Consequently, the analysis of news values can take us to the backstage of the news production process. In this way, the combination of Discursive News Values Analysis and corpus linguistic methodologies can be used to better define how news stories are reported in news tickers since, by underlining what is newsworthy for a particular news organisation, they can help researchers ‘sneak a peek’ into the professional practices at the very heart of the news production process.
References
Baker P. 2006, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, Continuum International Publishing Group, London and New York.
Bednarek M. 2016a, Voices and Values in the News: News Media Talk, News Values and Attribution, in “Discourse, Context & Media” 11, pp. 27–37.
Bednarek M. 2016b, Investigating Evaluation and News Values in News Items that are Shared via Social Media, in “Corpora” 11 [2], pp. 227–257. Available online at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/cor.2016.0093 (last accessed: July 26, 2017).
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2012a, News Discourse, Bloomsbury, London and New York.
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2012b, ‘Value Added’: Language, Image and News Values, in “Discourse, Context & Media” 1 [2], pp. 103–113.
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2014, Why do News Values Matter? Towards a New Methodological Framework for Analyzing News Discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond, in “Discourse & Society” 20 [10], pp. 1–24.
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2017, The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness, Oxford University Press, New York.
Bhatia V.K. 1993, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings, Longman, London.
Bhatia V.K. 2004, Worlds of Written Discourse: a Genre-Based View, Continuum International, London.
Bhatia V.K. 2017. Critical Genre Analysis: Investigating Interdiscursive Performance in Professional Practice, Routledge, London and New York.
Bivens R. 2014, Digital Currents: how Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Coffey A.J. and Cleary J. 2008, Valuing New Media Spaces: are Cable Network News Crawls Cross-Promotional Agents?, in “Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly” 85 [4], pp. 894912.
Caple H. and Bednarek M. 2016, Rethinking News Values: what a Discursive Approach can Tell us about the Construction of News Discourse and News Photography, in “Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism” 17 [4], pp. 435–455.
Fruttaldo A. 2017, News Discourse and Digital Currents: a Corpus-Based Genre Analysis of News Tickers, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Potts A., Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2015, How can computer-based methods help researchers to investigate news values in large datasets? A corpus linguistic study of the construction of newsworthiness in the reporting on Hurricane Katrina, in “Discourse & Communication” 9 [2], pp. 149–172.
Rau C. 2010, Dealing with the Media. A Handbook for Students, Activists, Community Groups and anyone who can’t Afford a Spin Doctor, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
This genre was initially adopted by various TV news channels and programmes in order to constantly deliver to viewers a summary of the major news stories or to alert viewers of particular breaking news. However, over the years, and given the increasing pressure on TV journalism to attract viewers, the genre of crawlers has been slowly appropriating certain generic conventions from other genres (Fruttaldo 2017). The hybrid nature of news tickers is, first and foremost, evidenced by the merging of two functions traditionally belonging to the journalistic genres of headlines and lead paragraphs (see Fruttaldo 2017). Indeed, news tickers must at the same time catch viewers’ attention and give viewers a point of view on the news story. However, these two functions coexist with a constellation of other communicative purposes.
One of these communicative purposes can be ascribed to what Meech (1999) defines as ‘brandcasting’, which refers to the vast array of corporate branding techniques that broadcasters use in order to project their brand identity. These branding techniques are highly frequent in news tickers, “due to the ticker’s location at the bottom of the screen, and its format, which does not interrupt programming” (Coffey and Clearly 2008, p. 896). Thus, thanks to a corpus-based linguistic analysis (Baker 2006; McEnery and Hardie 2012), this contribution focuses on how the BBC World News uses its news tickers in order to promote itself and its products, building a relationship of loyalty and projecting an image of trustworthiness to their audience. More specifically, this contribution uses a newly developed framework of analysis in approaching the study of News Discourse.
Developed within the field of Media Discourse analysis, the Discursive News Values Analysis approach (Bednarek 2016a, 2016b; Bednarek and Caple 2012b, 2014, 2017; Caple and Bednarek 2016) investigates “how newsworthiness is construed and established through discourse” (Bednarek and Caple 2012b, p. 104). In this way, a discursive perspective sees news values as a “quality of texts” (Caple and Bednarek 2016, p. 13, emphasis in the original), and their analysis can allow us to “systematically investigate how these values are constructed in the different types of textual material involved in the news process” (Bednarek and Caple 2012b, p. 104).
When dealing with large amount of data, corpus linguistic methodologies can therefore help us, as Bednarek and Caple (2014, 2017) and Potts, Bednarek and Caple (2015) point out. Indeed, through the use of corpus linguistic methodologies, we can gain “first insights into a conventionalised repertoire of rhetoric of newsworthiness” (Bednarek and Caple 2014, p. 14) in the case of corpora representative of specific media events or specific genres. If “every journalist and every editor will have a different interpretation of what is newsworthy” (Rau 2010, p. 15), corpus linguistic techniques can help researchers identify “what kind of discursive devices are repeatedly used […] to construct different news values” (Bednarek and Caple 2014, p. 16). Consequently, the analysis of news values can take us to the backstage of the news production process. In this way, the combination of Discursive News Values Analysis and corpus linguistic methodologies can be used to better define how news stories are reported in news tickers since, by underlining what is newsworthy for a particular news organisation, they can help researchers ‘sneak a peek’ into the professional practices at the very heart of the news production process.
References
Baker P. 2006, Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis, Continuum International Publishing Group, London and New York.
Bednarek M. 2016a, Voices and Values in the News: News Media Talk, News Values and Attribution, in “Discourse, Context & Media” 11, pp. 27–37.
Bednarek M. 2016b, Investigating Evaluation and News Values in News Items that are Shared via Social Media, in “Corpora” 11 [2], pp. 227–257. Available online at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/cor.2016.0093 (last accessed: July 26, 2017).
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2012a, News Discourse, Bloomsbury, London and New York.
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2012b, ‘Value Added’: Language, Image and News Values, in “Discourse, Context & Media” 1 [2], pp. 103–113.
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2014, Why do News Values Matter? Towards a New Methodological Framework for Analyzing News Discourse in Critical Discourse Analysis and beyond, in “Discourse & Society” 20 [10], pp. 1–24.
Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2017, The Discourse of News Values: How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness, Oxford University Press, New York.
Bhatia V.K. 1993, Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings, Longman, London.
Bhatia V.K. 2004, Worlds of Written Discourse: a Genre-Based View, Continuum International, London.
Bhatia V.K. 2017. Critical Genre Analysis: Investigating Interdiscursive Performance in Professional Practice, Routledge, London and New York.
Bivens R. 2014, Digital Currents: how Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
Coffey A.J. and Cleary J. 2008, Valuing New Media Spaces: are Cable Network News Crawls Cross-Promotional Agents?, in “Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly” 85 [4], pp. 894912.
Caple H. and Bednarek M. 2016, Rethinking News Values: what a Discursive Approach can Tell us about the Construction of News Discourse and News Photography, in “Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism” 17 [4], pp. 435–455.
Fruttaldo A. 2017, News Discourse and Digital Currents: a Corpus-Based Genre Analysis of News Tickers, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Potts A., Bednarek M. and Caple H. 2015, How can computer-based methods help researchers to investigate news values in large datasets? A corpus linguistic study of the construction of newsworthiness in the reporting on Hurricane Katrina, in “Discourse & Communication” 9 [2], pp. 149–172.
Rau C. 2010, Dealing with the Media. A Handbook for Students, Activists, Community Groups and anyone who can’t Afford a Spin Doctor, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Media Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Media Discourse, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, and 10 moreGenre Analysis, News Values, News Discourse, Newsworthiness, News Tickers, Crawlers (TV), Tv News Reporting and Writing, Critical Genre Analysis, Discursive Approach to News Values, and TV Newscasts
Social media platforms are increasingly becoming prevalent communicative practices through which identity is performed and displayed (Butler 1990, 2004). Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are, thus, used in order to give a voice to... more
Social media platforms are increasingly becoming prevalent communicative practices through which identity is performed and displayed (Butler 1990, 2004). Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are, thus, used in order to give a voice to specific communities of practice (Swales 1990, 2004; Wenger 1998). In these contexts, language becomes a means through which gender identities are performed, since “the performative nature of language can be understood as the way in which it allows us to be ‘certain kinds of people’ and engage in ‘certain kinds of activities’ through an ongoing series of cultural performances” (Jones 2015: 68). Creative text-internal and text-external resources take on a seminal role in constructing given gender identities, since in a society where heteronormative categories are the default way of structuring our society, creativity becomes a way through which unrepresented identities and discourses come to be defined.
Grown out of the tradition established by social media accounts such as Shit Academics Say (Hall 2015), our case study examines the recently created Twitter account Scholarly Queen. The linguistic choices emerging from the very first description of this account reveal the users the general treads that the account deals with, creatively giving a voice to queer identity in Academia. More precisely, humorously representing queen identity juxtaposed with the daily-life experiences in the academic world.
The case study presented here is investigated in the framework of social media discourse (Herring 2004; Androutsopoulos 2008; Zappavigna 2012, 2013). In particular, the notion of engagement systems on social media platforms will be used to retrace the representation of the in-group language employed by Scholarly Queen in performing an academic gendered identity. This will allow us to see how “users of language perform their identity within uses of language” (Martin et al. 2013: 468). More specifically, this contribution will highlight, in the particular case of Scholarly Queen, the way Twitter users perform relational identities as they enact discourse fellowships (Zappavigna 2013).
At the same time, due to the crucial role played by the numerous images discursively used to perform this queer academic identity, a recently developed theory of multimodal analysis will be applied to investigate the multimodal prosody (Balirano 2016) constructed in Scholarly Queen.
References
Androutsopoulos, J. 2008. Potentials and Limitations of Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography. In J. Androutsopoulos and M. Beißwenger (Eds), Data and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis. Special Issue of Language@Internet 5. Available online at http://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2008/1610 (last accessed: September 28, 2016).
Balirano, G. 2016 (in press). Whose afraid of Conchita Wurst? Drag performance and the construction of multimodal prosody. In O’Halloran (ed.). London & New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 1990. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York & London: Routledge.
Herring, S.C. 2004. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior. In S.A. Barab, R. Kling and J.H. Gray (Eds), Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 338–376.
Jones, R.H. 2015. Creativity and Discourse Analysis. In R.H. Jones (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity. London/New York: Routledge, 61–77.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Dwyer, P. and Cléirigh, C. 2013. Users in uses of language: Embodied identity in youth justice conferencing. Text and Talk 33: 467–496.
Swales, J.M. 1990. Genre Analysis. English in academic and research settings (13th ed., 2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, J.M. 2004. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zappavigna, M. 2012. Discourse of Twitter and social media: How we use language to create affiliation on the web. London & New York: Continuum.
Zappavigna, M. 2013. Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation. Discourse and Communication 8 (2): 209–228.
Websites
Hall, N. (November 2, 2015). @AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social Media Experiment. SAS Confidential. Retrieved online on June 15, 2016, from https://sasconfidential.com/2015/11/02/the-academicssay-experiment/ (last accessed: June 28, 2016).
ScholarlyWERK 2016. Scholarly Queen [Twitter account]. Available at https://twitter.com/ScholarlyWERK (last accessed: June 28, 2016).
Grown out of the tradition established by social media accounts such as Shit Academics Say (Hall 2015), our case study examines the recently created Twitter account Scholarly Queen. The linguistic choices emerging from the very first description of this account reveal the users the general treads that the account deals with, creatively giving a voice to queer identity in Academia. More precisely, humorously representing queen identity juxtaposed with the daily-life experiences in the academic world.
The case study presented here is investigated in the framework of social media discourse (Herring 2004; Androutsopoulos 2008; Zappavigna 2012, 2013). In particular, the notion of engagement systems on social media platforms will be used to retrace the representation of the in-group language employed by Scholarly Queen in performing an academic gendered identity. This will allow us to see how “users of language perform their identity within uses of language” (Martin et al. 2013: 468). More specifically, this contribution will highlight, in the particular case of Scholarly Queen, the way Twitter users perform relational identities as they enact discourse fellowships (Zappavigna 2013).
At the same time, due to the crucial role played by the numerous images discursively used to perform this queer academic identity, a recently developed theory of multimodal analysis will be applied to investigate the multimodal prosody (Balirano 2016) constructed in Scholarly Queen.
References
Androutsopoulos, J. 2008. Potentials and Limitations of Discourse-Centred Online Ethnography. In J. Androutsopoulos and M. Beißwenger (Eds), Data and Methods in Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis. Special Issue of Language@Internet 5. Available online at http://www.languageatinternet.org/articles/2008/1610 (last accessed: September 28, 2016).
Balirano, G. 2016 (in press). Whose afraid of Conchita Wurst? Drag performance and the construction of multimodal prosody. In O’Halloran (ed.). London & New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 1990. Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
Butler, J. 2004. Undoing Gender. New York & London: Routledge.
Herring, S.C. 2004. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior. In S.A. Barab, R. Kling and J.H. Gray (Eds), Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 338–376.
Jones, R.H. 2015. Creativity and Discourse Analysis. In R.H. Jones (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity. London/New York: Routledge, 61–77.
Martin, J.R., Zappavigna, M., Dwyer, P. and Cléirigh, C. 2013. Users in uses of language: Embodied identity in youth justice conferencing. Text and Talk 33: 467–496.
Swales, J.M. 1990. Genre Analysis. English in academic and research settings (13th ed., 2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swales, J.M. 2004. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zappavigna, M. 2012. Discourse of Twitter and social media: How we use language to create affiliation on the web. London & New York: Continuum.
Zappavigna, M. 2013. Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation. Discourse and Communication 8 (2): 209–228.
Websites
Hall, N. (November 2, 2015). @AcademicsSay: The Story Behind a Social Media Experiment. SAS Confidential. Retrieved online on June 15, 2016, from https://sasconfidential.com/2015/11/02/the-academicssay-experiment/ (last accessed: June 28, 2016).
ScholarlyWERK 2016. Scholarly Queen [Twitter account]. Available at https://twitter.com/ScholarlyWERK (last accessed: June 28, 2016).
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Queer Theory, Computer-Mediated Communication, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Twitter, and 9 moreAcademic discourse, Appraisal theory, New Media, Social Network Analysis, e-research, Link analysis, Social Network Sites, Twitter, Facebook, Political Communication, Microblogging, Social media, digital media, news, representation of conflict, journalism, popular television, and identity., social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS), Ambient Affiliation, Multimodal Prosody, and Ambient Identity
Fruttaldo, A. 2016. Othering TV fictional characters: A corpus stylistic approach to identity re-presentation of organised crime characters in Gomorrah – The Series. 6th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD 2016). University of Catania, 5–7 September, 2016.more
As TV series are increasingly becoming a global phenomenon thanks to the development of communications systems and multi-platform instruments of marketisation, the analysis of how given identities are re-presented in other cultures can... more
As TV series are increasingly becoming a global phenomenon thanks to the development of communications systems and multi-platform instruments of marketisation, the analysis of how given identities are re-presented in other cultures can help us understand “TV writers’ internalized beliefs which are transmitted through the created dialogue into a globalized community of TV viewers across the world” (Bednarek 2010: 63).
Thus, the following contribution focuses on identity characterisation in TV series using a corpus stylistic approach (Bednarek 2010, 2011) applied to the analysis of the characters of the Italian TV drama Gomorrah. If, as Kozloff (2000) argues, “dialogue lines are explicitly designed to reveal characters” (Kozloff 2000: 44), analysing how they are cross-culturally translated into another language and/or reshaped in new formats can highlight given identity traits that producers want to underline about given characters. In the specific case of Gomorrah, this is particularly interesting since the identities created for the TV series are intrinsically imbued with the local setting of the TV series. And the process of bringing the series across its local borders can reshape the way characters are presented in a new setting.
As Page remarks (in Kozloff 2000: 43), “[i]t is probably no exaggeration to say that the speech of any individual is as unique […] as his fingerprints”. In the same way, TV series characters portray themselves in certain ways through their dialogues, giving voice to specific preoccupations, feelings, concerns, interests, and so on. Thus, after using the Manhattan Distance (Baker 2014) in order to statistically measure the lexicogrammatical status of each character and revealing which of the many voices in the TV series were the most peculiar, by using a keyword analysis, we underlined in the original script of the TV series the linguistic profile of these dominant personas and compared it to the Italian and English subtitles. This procedure unveiled some peculiar characteristics of the characters presented in the TV series, enhancing some of their concerns or personality traits, or reshaping their entire identity.
Additionally, since TV series increasingly use social media platforms to encourage audience interaction and, at the same time, audience promotion of the media product, this contribution also focuses on the social media representation of Gomorrah by analysing a corpus of tweets focusing on the series. This has allowed us to see if the character identity construction in a social network environment was in line with the “linguistic thumbprint” (Culpeper 2001: 166) left behind by their dialogues and, more importantly, to see how the TV series was perceived by its audience.
References
Baker, P. 2014. Using corpora to analyze gender. London & New York: Bloomsbury.
Bednarek, M. 2010. The Language of Fictional Television. Drama and Identity. London & New York: Continuum.
Bednarek, M. 2011. The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study. In R. Piazza, M. Bednarek and F. Rossi (eds.) Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 185–204.
Bednarek, M. 2014. “An astonishing season of destiny!” Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series. In G. Thompson and L. Alba-Juez (eds.) Evaluation in context. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 197–220.
Bhatia, V.K. 2014 [2004]. Worlds of Written Discourse: A genre-based view. London: Continuum International.
Caliendo, G. 2012. Italy’s Other Mafia: A Journey into Cross-Cultural Translation. Translation and Interpreting Studies 7(2): 191–210.
Cavaliere, F. 2010. Gomorrah. Crime goes global, language stays local. European Journal of English Studies 14(2): 173–188.
Culpeper, J. 2001. Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts. London: Longman.
Kozloff, S. 2000. Overhearing Film Dialogue. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press.
Martin, J.R. and White, P.R.R. 2005. The Language of Evaluation. Appraisal in English. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Thus, the following contribution focuses on identity characterisation in TV series using a corpus stylistic approach (Bednarek 2010, 2011) applied to the analysis of the characters of the Italian TV drama Gomorrah. If, as Kozloff (2000) argues, “dialogue lines are explicitly designed to reveal characters” (Kozloff 2000: 44), analysing how they are cross-culturally translated into another language and/or reshaped in new formats can highlight given identity traits that producers want to underline about given characters. In the specific case of Gomorrah, this is particularly interesting since the identities created for the TV series are intrinsically imbued with the local setting of the TV series. And the process of bringing the series across its local borders can reshape the way characters are presented in a new setting.
As Page remarks (in Kozloff 2000: 43), “[i]t is probably no exaggeration to say that the speech of any individual is as unique […] as his fingerprints”. In the same way, TV series characters portray themselves in certain ways through their dialogues, giving voice to specific preoccupations, feelings, concerns, interests, and so on. Thus, after using the Manhattan Distance (Baker 2014) in order to statistically measure the lexicogrammatical status of each character and revealing which of the many voices in the TV series were the most peculiar, by using a keyword analysis, we underlined in the original script of the TV series the linguistic profile of these dominant personas and compared it to the Italian and English subtitles. This procedure unveiled some peculiar characteristics of the characters presented in the TV series, enhancing some of their concerns or personality traits, or reshaping their entire identity.
Additionally, since TV series increasingly use social media platforms to encourage audience interaction and, at the same time, audience promotion of the media product, this contribution also focuses on the social media representation of Gomorrah by analysing a corpus of tweets focusing on the series. This has allowed us to see if the character identity construction in a social network environment was in line with the “linguistic thumbprint” (Culpeper 2001: 166) left behind by their dialogues and, more importantly, to see how the TV series was perceived by its audience.
References
Baker, P. 2014. Using corpora to analyze gender. London & New York: Bloomsbury.
Bednarek, M. 2010. The Language of Fictional Television. Drama and Identity. London & New York: Continuum.
Bednarek, M. 2011. The stability of the televisual character: A corpus stylistic case study. In R. Piazza, M. Bednarek and F. Rossi (eds.) Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 185–204.
Bednarek, M. 2014. “An astonishing season of destiny!” Evaluation in blurbs used for advertising TV series. In G. Thompson and L. Alba-Juez (eds.) Evaluation in context. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 197–220.
Bhatia, V.K. 2014 [2004]. Worlds of Written Discourse: A genre-based view. London: Continuum International.
Caliendo, G. 2012. Italy’s Other Mafia: A Journey into Cross-Cultural Translation. Translation and Interpreting Studies 7(2): 191–210.
Cavaliere, F. 2010. Gomorrah. Crime goes global, language stays local. European Journal of English Studies 14(2): 173–188.
Culpeper, J. 2001. Language and Characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts. London: Longman.
Kozloff, S. 2000. Overhearing Film Dialogue. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press.
Martin, J.R. and White, P.R.R. 2005. The Language of Evaluation. Appraisal in English. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Culture has been traditionally seen as the by-product of a particular society in a clearly defined territory (Yengoyan 1986). However, the elusive concept of culture, seen as both a merging and dichotomising force, has been called into... more
Culture has been traditionally seen as the by-product of a particular society in a clearly defined territory (Yengoyan 1986). However, the elusive concept of culture, seen as both a merging and dichotomising force, has been called into question due to the increasing entanglement of contemporary societies (Welsch 1999). Indeed, territories can no longer be seen as containing cultures, since people move with their meanings, and meanings find ways of travelling and flourishing even when people stay in their territories (Hannerz 1996). The increasing development of communications systems (Hepp 2009) and economic interdependencies and dependencies play an important role in challenging the traditional view of culture. Thus, the concept of transculturality can better characterise contemporary cultures and their ability to move beyond material and immaterial borders.
One of the ways through which cultural-specific phenomena cross borders and find a new life in a different environment is represented by forms of hybridisation (Bhatia 2004), seen as vehicles which can help popularise given genres. The hybridisation of broadcast news, for instance, has produced forms of docu-fictions, which can be placed in the blurred generic area of story-telling and news reporting, mixing together facts and fictions (Baym 2009). However, as vessels, these narrative hybrid forms bring together with them cultural-specific elements, which are difficult to re-enact in a new context. This is the case, for instance, of the TV series Gomorrah, which is based on the Italian novel Gomorra written in 2006 by the Neapolitan author Roberto Saviano.
As Saviano has repeatedly underlined (Caliendo 2012), most of the news stories linked to the Neapolitan Mafia, known as Camorra, stay local and remain largely unknown to most Italians. Further, as Cavaliere (2010) states, international books and movies generally focus on the Sicilian Mafia, while little has been written about the Camorra. Saviano’s exposé, first, and its popularised adaptations have shed light on the criminal activities of the Camorra and, while some elements of fiction are undeniably present in both the book and its adaptations, they succeeded in raising awareness on the problems linked to the Neapolitan context, something that journalism has failed to highlight from a national and an international point of view.
In order to achieve this, from a national point of view, the TV series premiered in Italy with Italian subtitles, since the language of Gomorrah - The Series is a mix of both Italian and Neapolitan expressions. While representing a third step in the translation of the original script, the UK subtitles, on the other hand, helped draw attention to the criminal activities plaguing Naples’ hinterland from an international point of view. However, since translation is central in the process of identity formation (Gentzler 2008), the aim of this contribution is to focus on the transcultural reception of the series. In particular, based on the concept of translation repercussion (Chesterman 2007), the proposed analysis will focus on a particular aspect of the TV series, that is, how Don Pietro Savastano linguistically constructs himself as the clan boss. The linguistic and extralinguistic representation of this character is central to the series, since the ways he constructs himself are mimicked or contrasted by other characters. Thus, after highlighting the particular strategies used to create the identity of the clan boss in the source text, we will see how they are translated into English and see what happens when they are transposed into a transcultural environment.
One of the ways through which cultural-specific phenomena cross borders and find a new life in a different environment is represented by forms of hybridisation (Bhatia 2004), seen as vehicles which can help popularise given genres. The hybridisation of broadcast news, for instance, has produced forms of docu-fictions, which can be placed in the blurred generic area of story-telling and news reporting, mixing together facts and fictions (Baym 2009). However, as vessels, these narrative hybrid forms bring together with them cultural-specific elements, which are difficult to re-enact in a new context. This is the case, for instance, of the TV series Gomorrah, which is based on the Italian novel Gomorra written in 2006 by the Neapolitan author Roberto Saviano.
As Saviano has repeatedly underlined (Caliendo 2012), most of the news stories linked to the Neapolitan Mafia, known as Camorra, stay local and remain largely unknown to most Italians. Further, as Cavaliere (2010) states, international books and movies generally focus on the Sicilian Mafia, while little has been written about the Camorra. Saviano’s exposé, first, and its popularised adaptations have shed light on the criminal activities of the Camorra and, while some elements of fiction are undeniably present in both the book and its adaptations, they succeeded in raising awareness on the problems linked to the Neapolitan context, something that journalism has failed to highlight from a national and an international point of view.
In order to achieve this, from a national point of view, the TV series premiered in Italy with Italian subtitles, since the language of Gomorrah - The Series is a mix of both Italian and Neapolitan expressions. While representing a third step in the translation of the original script, the UK subtitles, on the other hand, helped draw attention to the criminal activities plaguing Naples’ hinterland from an international point of view. However, since translation is central in the process of identity formation (Gentzler 2008), the aim of this contribution is to focus on the transcultural reception of the series. In particular, based on the concept of translation repercussion (Chesterman 2007), the proposed analysis will focus on a particular aspect of the TV series, that is, how Don Pietro Savastano linguistically constructs himself as the clan boss. The linguistic and extralinguistic representation of this character is central to the series, since the ways he constructs himself are mimicked or contrasted by other characters. Thus, after highlighting the particular strategies used to create the identity of the clan boss in the source text, we will see how they are translated into English and see what happens when they are transposed into a transcultural environment.
Research Interests:
Journalistic practices are undergoing, in the last few years, a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the professional practice. In particular, Bivens (2014: 4) underlines that, in the specific case of TV... more
Journalistic practices are undergoing, in the last few years, a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the professional practice. In particular, Bivens (2014: 4) underlines that, in the specific case of TV news broadcasts, we can notice shifts within news organizations which include the increased demand for live coverage, a wider array of transmission platforms, and varying attempts at remodelling business strategies.
These shifts in the production and distribution of news have inevitable consequences on the genres found in this context, since genres “[…] are inherently dynamic, constantly […] changing over time in response to sociocognitive needs of individual users” (Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1995: 6). In this way, while responding to socially recognised communicative purposes, genres can also be manipulated to convey private intentions by exploiting given textual patterns.
Thus, the ultimate aim of genre analysis is becoming that of dynamically explaining the way expert members of professional communities manipulate generic conventions to achieve a variety of complex goals (Bhatia, 2004).
Given the ever-changing and competitive professional environment where journalistic practices operate, they are constantly exploiting new forms of hybridity and genre-mixing in order to compete with new ways of delivering the news. Quite interestingly, these phenomena are usually the result of what Cotter (2010: 61) defines as “modality bleeds”. Indeed, the ever-growing development of new technologies has made possible for genres generally associated with specific media to invade certain spaces that were previously unexplored. And, in the case of TV newscasts, this is most evident in the increasing inclusion of textual elements on the TV screen.
Starting from this observation, our investigation focuses on a particular genre found in the context of TV newscasts, that is, what is generally referred to as news tickers (or crawlers). This genre, which made its first appearance on 9/11 in order to deal with the enormous amount of information coming from the American news agencies, has been adopted by various TV news channels and programmes to constantly deliver to viewers a summary of the major news stories of the day or to alert viewers of particular breaking news stories. However, during the years and given the increasing pressure on TV journalism to allure viewers, TV news networks have found in news tickers a subtle way to market their products, thus, providing a new “space” where synergetic marketing strategies can flourish, “due to the ticker’s location at the bottom of the screen, and its format, which does not interrupt programming” (Coffey and Clearly 2009: 896).
Thus, the aim of our research is to find out what phenomena of hybridity and colonization can be highlighted in this genre.
The hybrid nature of news tickers is, first and foremost, proved by the merging of two functions traditionally belonging to the journalistic genres of headlines and lead paragraphs. Indeed, while headlines typically “function to frame the event, summarize the story and attract readers”, the lead paragraphs work on the information provided in the headline and “describe newsworthy aspects of the event (e.g. the who, the what, the where)” (Bednarek and Caple 2013: 96-97). News tickers, thus, must at the same time catch viewers’ attention and give viewers a point of view on the story. However, these two functions coexist with a constellation of other communicative purposes highlighted by structural patterns thanks to the use of the online corpus analysis tool Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004).
One of these communicative purposes can be ascribed to what Meech (1999) defines as brandcasting, which refers to the vast array of corporate branding techniques that broadcasters use in order to project their brand identity. These branding techniques are highly frequent in the News Tickers Corpus (NTC) and, while some of them may be classified as overt promotional agents (Clearly and Coffey 2008, 2011), others may be seen as subtly achieving the same purpose. In these cases, the authority of the BBC is used in order to legitimise the newsworthiness of the news stories found in the news ticker, subtly conveying a subconscious representation in the viewers’ mind of the BBC as a source of reliability and trustworthiness. Additionally, these clauses follow a quite strict textual colligation pattern (O’Donnell et al. 2012) in the textual organization of news tickers. Thus, these results highlight how relevant brandcasting is for a TV genre such as that of news tickers, which has found a compromise between its communicative function to inform its viewers/readers and to subtly promote its brand identity.
These shifts in the production and distribution of news have inevitable consequences on the genres found in this context, since genres “[…] are inherently dynamic, constantly […] changing over time in response to sociocognitive needs of individual users” (Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1995: 6). In this way, while responding to socially recognised communicative purposes, genres can also be manipulated to convey private intentions by exploiting given textual patterns.
Thus, the ultimate aim of genre analysis is becoming that of dynamically explaining the way expert members of professional communities manipulate generic conventions to achieve a variety of complex goals (Bhatia, 2004).
Given the ever-changing and competitive professional environment where journalistic practices operate, they are constantly exploiting new forms of hybridity and genre-mixing in order to compete with new ways of delivering the news. Quite interestingly, these phenomena are usually the result of what Cotter (2010: 61) defines as “modality bleeds”. Indeed, the ever-growing development of new technologies has made possible for genres generally associated with specific media to invade certain spaces that were previously unexplored. And, in the case of TV newscasts, this is most evident in the increasing inclusion of textual elements on the TV screen.
Starting from this observation, our investigation focuses on a particular genre found in the context of TV newscasts, that is, what is generally referred to as news tickers (or crawlers). This genre, which made its first appearance on 9/11 in order to deal with the enormous amount of information coming from the American news agencies, has been adopted by various TV news channels and programmes to constantly deliver to viewers a summary of the major news stories of the day or to alert viewers of particular breaking news stories. However, during the years and given the increasing pressure on TV journalism to allure viewers, TV news networks have found in news tickers a subtle way to market their products, thus, providing a new “space” where synergetic marketing strategies can flourish, “due to the ticker’s location at the bottom of the screen, and its format, which does not interrupt programming” (Coffey and Clearly 2009: 896).
Thus, the aim of our research is to find out what phenomena of hybridity and colonization can be highlighted in this genre.
The hybrid nature of news tickers is, first and foremost, proved by the merging of two functions traditionally belonging to the journalistic genres of headlines and lead paragraphs. Indeed, while headlines typically “function to frame the event, summarize the story and attract readers”, the lead paragraphs work on the information provided in the headline and “describe newsworthy aspects of the event (e.g. the who, the what, the where)” (Bednarek and Caple 2013: 96-97). News tickers, thus, must at the same time catch viewers’ attention and give viewers a point of view on the story. However, these two functions coexist with a constellation of other communicative purposes highlighted by structural patterns thanks to the use of the online corpus analysis tool Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004).
One of these communicative purposes can be ascribed to what Meech (1999) defines as brandcasting, which refers to the vast array of corporate branding techniques that broadcasters use in order to project their brand identity. These branding techniques are highly frequent in the News Tickers Corpus (NTC) and, while some of them may be classified as overt promotional agents (Clearly and Coffey 2008, 2011), others may be seen as subtly achieving the same purpose. In these cases, the authority of the BBC is used in order to legitimise the newsworthiness of the news stories found in the news ticker, subtly conveying a subconscious representation in the viewers’ mind of the BBC as a source of reliability and trustworthiness. Additionally, these clauses follow a quite strict textual colligation pattern (O’Donnell et al. 2012) in the textual organization of news tickers. Thus, these results highlight how relevant brandcasting is for a TV genre such as that of news tickers, which has found a compromise between its communicative function to inform its viewers/readers and to subtly promote its brand identity.
Research Interests:
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I-LanD Journal - Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
n.1/2023
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/iland) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by February 15, 2023 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of 15 possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for December 2023, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by March 15, 2023
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by April 30, 2023
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 30, 2023
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2023
- Submission of final manuscript: by the beginning of December 2023.
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 10, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to aspiring Guest Editors by March 1, 2023. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical-Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
Advisory Board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
The I-LanD Journal was included by the ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the Italian Register for Scientific Journals. It was also included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing and Norwegian Centre for Research Data operating on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
I-LanD Journal - Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
n.1/2023
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/iland) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by February 15, 2023 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of 15 possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for December 2023, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by March 15, 2023
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by April 30, 2023
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 30, 2023
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2023
- Submission of final manuscript: by the beginning of December 2023.
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 10, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to aspiring Guest Editors by March 1, 2023. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical-Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
Advisory Board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
The I-LanD Journal was included by the ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the Italian Register for Scientific Journals. It was also included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing and Norwegian Centre for Research Data operating on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
Research Interests:
[Apologies for cross-posting] I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal Open Call for Special Issue Proposals n.1-2/2022 The I-LanD Journal... more
[Apologies for cross-posting]
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
n.1-2/2022
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/iland) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by February 26, 2022 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of 15 possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for December 2022, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by March 21, 2022
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by April 22, 2022
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 16, 2022
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2022
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of November 2022.
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 10, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to aspiring Guest Editors by March 1, 2022. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical-Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
Advisory Board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
The I-LanD Journal was included by the ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the Italian Register for Scientific Journals. It was also included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing and Norwegian Centre for Research Data operating on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
n.1-2/2022
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/iland) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by February 26, 2022 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of 15 possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for December 2022, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by March 21, 2022
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by April 22, 2022
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 16, 2022
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2022
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of November 2022.
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 10, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to aspiring Guest Editors by March 1, 2022. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical-Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
Advisory Board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
The I-LanD Journal was included by the ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the Italian Register for Scientific Journals. It was also included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing and Norwegian Centre for Research Data operating on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
Research Interests:
[Apologies for cross-posting] I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal Open Call for Special Issue Proposals I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1/2021 The I-LanD Journal... more
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I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1/2021
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/iland) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 18th 2020 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of 15 possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for June 2021, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 10th 2020
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 20th 2020
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by March 21st 2021
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by April 18th 2021
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of May 2021
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 10, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to one of the two aspiring Guest Editors by July 30th 2020. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical- Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
The I-LanD Journal was included by the ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the Italian Register for Scientific Journals. It was also included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing and Norwegian Centre for Research Data operating on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1/2021
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/iland) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 18th 2020 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of 15 possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for June 2021, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 10th 2020
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 20th 2020
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by March 21st 2021
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by April 18th 2021
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of May 2021
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 10, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to one of the two aspiring Guest Editors by July 30th 2020. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical- Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
The I-LanD Journal was included by the ANVUR (the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) in the Italian Register for Scientific Journals. It was also included in the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing and Norwegian Centre for Research Data operating on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.
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I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1/2020
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/i-land) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 28, 2019 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of ten possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for June 2020, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 2, 2019;
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by November 10, 2019;
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by February 29, 2020;
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the end of March 2020;
- Submission of final manuscript: May 2020.
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 5 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to one of the two aspiring Guest Editors by August 10, 2019. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical-Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
Advisory board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1/2020
The I-LanD Journal (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/en/magazines/onlinemagazines/i-land) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 28, 2019 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two). To improve the Journal's geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors' countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of ten possible reviewers of the individual papers who will not be directly or indirectly involved in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The Special Issue is planned for June 2020, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 2, 2019;
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by November 10, 2019;
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by February 29, 2020;
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the end of March 2020;
- Submission of final manuscript: May 2020.
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 5 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all the members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals for a Special Issue and their decision will be communicated to one of the two aspiring Guest Editors by August 10, 2019. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed timeline and comply with the I-LanD Journal's editorial policy and ethical statement (https://www.loffredoeditore.com/images/book/Editorial-policyEthical-Statement.pdf).
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille, France)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy)
Advisory board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics/Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, and 15 moreCorpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Cross-Cultural Usage of Multimodality, Cross-cultural pragmatics, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Discourse Analysis; Genre and Language Patterns;rhetorical Communication, Discourse and genre analysis, Advertising, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality,visual Social Semiotics, New Media, Multimodality, Multiliteracies, and Multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal Open Call for Special Issue Proposals I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n. 1 - 2019 The I-LanD Journal... more
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n. 1 - 2019
The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-and-diversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 30, 2018 and contain:
• the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
• a working title;
• a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
• the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for June 2019, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 10, 2018
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 19, 2018
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by March 11, 2019
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by mid-April 2019
- Submission of final manuscript: by mid-May 2019
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
• suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
• overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
• theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
• methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
• completeness of the proposal;
• feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by August 16, 2018. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n. 1 - 2019
The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-and-diversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July 30, 2018 and contain:
• the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
• a working title;
• a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
• the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for June 2019, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by September 10, 2018
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 19, 2018
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by March 11, 2019
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by mid-April 2019
- Submission of final manuscript: by mid-May 2019
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
• suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
• overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
• theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
• methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
• completeness of the proposal;
• feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by August 16, 2018. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics/Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, and 18 moreCorpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Cross-Cultural Usage of Multimodality, Cross-cultural pragmatics, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Discourse Analysis; Genre and Language Patterns;rhetorical Communication, Discourse and genre analysis, Advertising, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality,visual Social Semiotics, New Media, Multimodality, Multiliteracies, Critical discourse analysis, cultural semiotics, multimodal discourse, syntax, and pragmatics, Multimodality, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Multimodality and Social semiotics education
Research Interests:
The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-anddiversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity... more
The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-anddiversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high-quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. In fulfilment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by January 20, 2018 and contain:
• the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
• a working title;
• a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
• the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for December 2018, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors
is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by February 16, 2018
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by March 18, 2018
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 2, 2018
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2018
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of November 2018
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
• suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
• overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
• theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
• methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
• completeness of the proposal;
• feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by January, 28th 2018. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by January 20, 2018 and contain:
• the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
• a working title;
• a 500-word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
• the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for December 2018, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors
is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by February 16, 2018
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by March 18, 2018
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by September 2, 2018
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the beginning of November 2018
- Submission of final manuscript: by the end of November 2018
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
• suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
• overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
• theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
• methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
• completeness of the proposal;
• feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by January, 28th 2018. Once a high-quality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics/Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, and 10 moreCorpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Cross-cultural pragmatics, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Discourse and genre analysis, and Discourse Analysis, Multimodality,visual Social Semiotics
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal Open Call for Special Issue Proposals I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1 - 2018 The I-LanD Journal... more
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1 - 2018
The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-anddiversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July, 15th 2017 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for June 2018, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by August 10th 2017
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 10th 2017
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by February 25th 2018
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the end of March 2018
- Submission of final manuscript: May 2018
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by August, 10th 2018. Once a highquality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Open Call for Special Issue Proposals
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity n.1 - 2018
The I-LanD Journal (http://iniziative-editoriali.it/shop/i-land-journal-identity-language-anddiversity/) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity in different discourses from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Through this Call for Special Issue the editorial team of the I-LanD Journal intends to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure.
Proposals for a Special Issue should have a unifying theme and reflect, at an international level, the work in a particular research area in which future investigation may be boosted by the publication of a set of excellent papers. Proposals for a Special Issue should be sent to the two Editors-in-Chief of the Journal (ilandjournal@unior.it) by July, 15th 2017 and contain:
- the name and e-mail address for communication of prospective Guest Editors (at least two); to improve the Journal’s geographical variety and internationalization, at least one of the Guest Editors’ countries of affiliation should be different from the others;
- a working title;
- a 500 word rationale clearly explaining the scope and significance of the proposed theme;
- the name of ten possible reviewers of the single papers who are not involved in any way in the preparation of the Special Issue.
The special issue is planned for June 2018, so the publication calendar for Guest Editors is the following:
- Publication of the call for papers by guest editors: by August 10th 2017
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: by October 10th 2017
- Submission of chapters to guest editors: by February 25th 2018
- Submission of proofs to contributors: by the end of March 2018
- Submission of final manuscript: May 2018
The length of individual papers is usually about 7-8,000 words, excluding references. The number of papers in a Special Issue is usually between 6 and 8, but could include more if justified.
The selection of the best proposal is the outcome of a collaborative evaluation by all members of the editorial team according to the following criteria:
- suitability of the topic for the I-LanD Journal;
- overall quality of the proposal: originality and contribution to the field;
- theoretical background of the rationale and individual papers;
- methodological adequacy of the individual papers;
- completeness of the proposal;
- feasibility of the plan for delivery.
The Editors-in-Chief of the I-LanD Journal, together with a number of Advisory Board members selected according to the proposed topics, will examine all proposals and their decision will be communicated to the Guest Editors by August, 10th 2018. Once a highquality proposal has been selected from among those submitted, it will be the responsibility of the Guest Editors to proceed within the agreed time limit.
We are looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille)
Maria Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics/Pragmatics, Applied Linguistics, and 9 moreCorpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Cross-cultural pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Discourse and genre analysis, and Corpus-based discourse analysis
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal Call for papers for the special issue (1/2020) Negotiation of L2 Identities in the age of transnational mobility: Enactment, perception, status, and... more
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Call for papers for the special issue (1/2020)
Negotiation of L2 Identities in the age of transnational mobility: Enactment, perception, status, and language development
This special issue of the I-LanD Journal will focus on L2 identities in the age of transnational mobility. It will be edited by Annarita Magliacane (Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom), Anne Marie Devlin (University College Cork, Ireland) and Noriko Iwasaki (Nanzan University, Japan).
Submission of abstracts
Authors wishing to contribute to this issue are invited to send an abstract of their proposed article of not more than 300 words (excluding references) in MS Word format by 1st November 2019. Proposals should not contain the authors' name and academic/professional affiliation and should be accompanied by an email including such personal information and sent to: a.magliacane@ucc.ie; annaritamagliacane@gmail.com; amdevlin@ucc.ie; niwasaki@nanzan-u.ac.jp and ilandjournal@unior.it. Please put as subject line “I-LanD Special Issue 1/2020– abstract submission”.
Important dates
In order to publish this issue by June 2020, the most important dates to remember are as follows:
- Submission of abstracts: by November 1st, 2019
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: by November 10th, 2019
- Submission of chapters: by February 8th, 2020
- Submission of final manuscript: by May 2020
- Publication of special issue: June 2020
Description
In the current era, transnational mobility is a normative aspect of life for millions of people worldwide. Reasons for mobility are manifold. They include study, work, adventure, refuge and can be voluntary or involuntary. Transnational mobility is especially encouraged in the area of education with UNESCO estimating that more than 5 million higher-level students study abroad (“UIS Statistics,” n.d.). The internationalisation of education is actively supported by national and transnational organisations such as Erasmus+ (2014-2020) in Europe, the Institute of International Education in the US, and Science without Frontiers in Brazil; however, this represents a small proportion of those engaged in mobility. For example, within the EU just under 20 million people of working age live in an EU state other that of their citizenship (“EU citizens living in another Member State - statistical overview - Statistics Explained,” n.d.).
Hence, transnational mobility experiences are numerous, diverse and variegated, but are often underpinned by the common denominator of the need to conduct everyday life through a second or subsequent language and, in tandem, the struggle to negotiate an identity through another language and environment. However, despite this constellation of experiences, research has, in the main, focused on students of languages and their linguistic gains. This focus on institutionally sanctioned experiences of transnational mobility has resulted in the overlooking of the full range of rationales for mobility within the body of research. Such rationales, or status in the host community (Magliacane 2017; Barron 2019), play a crucial role in language and identity development because of the differential opportunities for second language (L2) contact and use that such status or rationales give rise to (Magliacane & Howard 2019: 74).
Notwithstanding under-representation in the realm of diversity of mobility experiences, the importance of the identity of the L2 user during mobility has been gaining traction in research in second language acquisition (Anya, 2017; Benson, Barkhuizen, Bodycott, & Brown, 2012; Block, 2006; Devlin, 2018; Iwasaki, 2018; Jackson, 2008; Kinginger, 2013; Mitchell, Tracy-Ventura, & McManus, 2015; Norton, 2000). It has been noted that learners’ access to the language is not just shaped by their desire and motivation for acquisition “but also by those of the others with whom they interact—people who may view learners as embodiments of identities shaped by gender, race, and social class” (Kinginger, 2004, p. 221). However, the imposition of essentialist identities is not always unidirectional as L2 users may likewise impose identities shaped by their perceptions of a range of identity issues on the residents of the mobility environment. Additionally, state policies and political climates can act as a barrier or a conduit to the negotiation of L2 identities.
With this in mind, the current special issue aims to broaden the range of transnational mobility contexts experienced by L2 users by looking beyond the experience of institutional learners while simultaneously illuminating multidirectional identity negotiation. Issues to be considered include but are not limited to: the linguistic enactment of identity, perceptions of identity enactment from the perspective of the user or of others; the impact of language policies on the possibilities to enact an identity, the shaping of L2 identities in differential political climates, the role of status and L2 identities in language development.
References
Anya, U. (2017). Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682280.
Barron, A. (2019). Pragmatic development and stay abroad. Journal of Pragmatics 146, 43–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.05.003.
Benson, P., Barkhuizen, G., Bodycott, P., & Brown, J. (2012). Study abroad and the development of second language identities. Applied Linguistics Review, 3(1), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2012-0008.
Block, D. (2006). Identity in applied linguistics. In T. Omoniyi & G. White (Eds.), Sociolinguistics of Identity (pp. 34–50). London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Devlin, A. M. (2018). Becoming me in the L2: Sociopragmatic development as an index of emerging core identity in a Study Abroad context. In A. Sanchez-Hernandez & A. Herraiz-Martinez (Eds.), Learning Second Language Pragmatics beyond Traditional contexts (pp. 253–285). Bern: Peter Lang.
EU citizens living in another Member State - statistical overview - Statistics Explained. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2019, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=EU_citizens_living_in_another_Member_State_-_statistical_overview.
Iwasaki, N. (2018). Changes in heritage language user’s perceived identities: Changes in linguistic repertoire in pre-study-abroad, during study-abroad and post-study-abroad. Japanese Language Education in Europe, 22, 205–209.
Jackson, J. (2008). Language, Identity and Study Abroad: sociocultural perspectives. London: Equinox.
Kinginger, C. (2004). Alice doesn’t live here anymore: foreign language learning and identity construction. In A. Pavlenko & A. Blackledge (Eds.) Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (pp. 219 – 242). Cleveden, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Kinginger, C. (2013). Identity and Language Learning in Study Abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 46, 339–358. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12037.
Magliacane, A. (2017). Sociopragmatic development in study abroad contexts: the role of learner status in the use of second language pragmatic markers. PhD Thesis, University of Naples Federico II/University College Cork.
Magliacane, A., & Howard, M. (2019). The role of learner status in the acquisition of pragmatic markers during study abroad: the use of ‘like’ in L2 English, Journal of Pragmatics 146, 72–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.01.026.
Mitchell, R., Tracy-Ventura, N., & McManus, K. (2015). Social Interaction, Identity and Language Learning during Residence Abroad. In R. Mitchell, N. Tracy-Ventura, & K. McManus, (Eds.)EUROSLA Monographs Series. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-194309000-00011.
Norton, B. (2000). Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change. Pearson Education. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=HxTHcWPi3r8C&pgis=1.
UIS Statistics. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2019, from http://data.uis.unesco.org/.
More about I-LanD Journal
Editors in chief:
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille) and M. Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
Advisory board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
The I-LanD Journal (http://www.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=15279&content_id_start=1&titolo=i-land-journal&parLingua=ENG) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
International Peer-Reviewed E-Journal
Call for papers for the special issue (1/2020)
Negotiation of L2 Identities in the age of transnational mobility: Enactment, perception, status, and language development
This special issue of the I-LanD Journal will focus on L2 identities in the age of transnational mobility. It will be edited by Annarita Magliacane (Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom), Anne Marie Devlin (University College Cork, Ireland) and Noriko Iwasaki (Nanzan University, Japan).
Submission of abstracts
Authors wishing to contribute to this issue are invited to send an abstract of their proposed article of not more than 300 words (excluding references) in MS Word format by 1st November 2019. Proposals should not contain the authors' name and academic/professional affiliation and should be accompanied by an email including such personal information and sent to: a.magliacane@ucc.ie; annaritamagliacane@gmail.com; amdevlin@ucc.ie; niwasaki@nanzan-u.ac.jp and ilandjournal@unior.it. Please put as subject line “I-LanD Special Issue 1/2020– abstract submission”.
Important dates
In order to publish this issue by June 2020, the most important dates to remember are as follows:
- Submission of abstracts: by November 1st, 2019
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: by November 10th, 2019
- Submission of chapters: by February 8th, 2020
- Submission of final manuscript: by May 2020
- Publication of special issue: June 2020
Description
In the current era, transnational mobility is a normative aspect of life for millions of people worldwide. Reasons for mobility are manifold. They include study, work, adventure, refuge and can be voluntary or involuntary. Transnational mobility is especially encouraged in the area of education with UNESCO estimating that more than 5 million higher-level students study abroad (“UIS Statistics,” n.d.). The internationalisation of education is actively supported by national and transnational organisations such as Erasmus+ (2014-2020) in Europe, the Institute of International Education in the US, and Science without Frontiers in Brazil; however, this represents a small proportion of those engaged in mobility. For example, within the EU just under 20 million people of working age live in an EU state other that of their citizenship (“EU citizens living in another Member State - statistical overview - Statistics Explained,” n.d.).
Hence, transnational mobility experiences are numerous, diverse and variegated, but are often underpinned by the common denominator of the need to conduct everyday life through a second or subsequent language and, in tandem, the struggle to negotiate an identity through another language and environment. However, despite this constellation of experiences, research has, in the main, focused on students of languages and their linguistic gains. This focus on institutionally sanctioned experiences of transnational mobility has resulted in the overlooking of the full range of rationales for mobility within the body of research. Such rationales, or status in the host community (Magliacane 2017; Barron 2019), play a crucial role in language and identity development because of the differential opportunities for second language (L2) contact and use that such status or rationales give rise to (Magliacane & Howard 2019: 74).
Notwithstanding under-representation in the realm of diversity of mobility experiences, the importance of the identity of the L2 user during mobility has been gaining traction in research in second language acquisition (Anya, 2017; Benson, Barkhuizen, Bodycott, & Brown, 2012; Block, 2006; Devlin, 2018; Iwasaki, 2018; Jackson, 2008; Kinginger, 2013; Mitchell, Tracy-Ventura, & McManus, 2015; Norton, 2000). It has been noted that learners’ access to the language is not just shaped by their desire and motivation for acquisition “but also by those of the others with whom they interact—people who may view learners as embodiments of identities shaped by gender, race, and social class” (Kinginger, 2004, p. 221). However, the imposition of essentialist identities is not always unidirectional as L2 users may likewise impose identities shaped by their perceptions of a range of identity issues on the residents of the mobility environment. Additionally, state policies and political climates can act as a barrier or a conduit to the negotiation of L2 identities.
With this in mind, the current special issue aims to broaden the range of transnational mobility contexts experienced by L2 users by looking beyond the experience of institutional learners while simultaneously illuminating multidirectional identity negotiation. Issues to be considered include but are not limited to: the linguistic enactment of identity, perceptions of identity enactment from the perspective of the user or of others; the impact of language policies on the possibilities to enact an identity, the shaping of L2 identities in differential political climates, the role of status and L2 identities in language development.
References
Anya, U. (2017). Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682280.
Barron, A. (2019). Pragmatic development and stay abroad. Journal of Pragmatics 146, 43–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.05.003.
Benson, P., Barkhuizen, G., Bodycott, P., & Brown, J. (2012). Study abroad and the development of second language identities. Applied Linguistics Review, 3(1), 173–193. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2012-0008.
Block, D. (2006). Identity in applied linguistics. In T. Omoniyi & G. White (Eds.), Sociolinguistics of Identity (pp. 34–50). London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
Devlin, A. M. (2018). Becoming me in the L2: Sociopragmatic development as an index of emerging core identity in a Study Abroad context. In A. Sanchez-Hernandez & A. Herraiz-Martinez (Eds.), Learning Second Language Pragmatics beyond Traditional contexts (pp. 253–285). Bern: Peter Lang.
EU citizens living in another Member State - statistical overview - Statistics Explained. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2019, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=EU_citizens_living_in_another_Member_State_-_statistical_overview.
Iwasaki, N. (2018). Changes in heritage language user’s perceived identities: Changes in linguistic repertoire in pre-study-abroad, during study-abroad and post-study-abroad. Japanese Language Education in Europe, 22, 205–209.
Jackson, J. (2008). Language, Identity and Study Abroad: sociocultural perspectives. London: Equinox.
Kinginger, C. (2004). Alice doesn’t live here anymore: foreign language learning and identity construction. In A. Pavlenko & A. Blackledge (Eds.) Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts (pp. 219 – 242). Cleveden, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Kinginger, C. (2013). Identity and Language Learning in Study Abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 46, 339–358. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12037.
Magliacane, A. (2017). Sociopragmatic development in study abroad contexts: the role of learner status in the use of second language pragmatic markers. PhD Thesis, University of Naples Federico II/University College Cork.
Magliacane, A., & Howard, M. (2019). The role of learner status in the acquisition of pragmatic markers during study abroad: the use of ‘like’ in L2 English, Journal of Pragmatics 146, 72–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.01.026.
Mitchell, R., Tracy-Ventura, N., & McManus, K. (2015). Social Interaction, Identity and Language Learning during Residence Abroad. In R. Mitchell, N. Tracy-Ventura, & K. McManus, (Eds.)EUROSLA Monographs Series. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-194309000-00011.
Norton, B. (2000). Identity and Language Learning: Gender, Ethnicity and Educational Change. Pearson Education. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=HxTHcWPi3r8C&pgis=1.
UIS Statistics. (n.d.). Retrieved July 23, 2019, from http://data.uis.unesco.org/.
More about I-LanD Journal
Editors in chief:
Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille) and M. Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope)
Advisory board:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
David Katan (University of Salento, Italy)
Don Kulick (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy)
Alan Scott Partington (University of Bologna, Italy)
Paul Sambre (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University, UK)
Vivien Schmidt (Boston University, USA)
Stef Slembrouck (Gent University, Belgium)
Marina Terkourafi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Girolamo Tessuto (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Johann Unger (Lancaster University, UK)
The I-LanD Journal (http://www.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=15279&content_id_start=1&titolo=i-land-journal&parLingua=ENG) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.
Research Interests:
International Conference 5th ESTIDIA Conference September 19-21, 2019 University of Naples ’L’Orientale’ (Naples, Italy) The 5th ESTIDIA International Conference will be organised together with the I-LanD Research Centre and hosted by... more
International Conference
5th ESTIDIA Conference
September 19-21, 2019
University of Naples ’L’Orientale’ (Naples, Italy)
The 5th ESTIDIA International Conference will be organised together with the I-LanD Research Centre and hosted by the University of Naples ’L’Orientale’ (Italy) from Thursday 19th September to Saturday 21st September 2019.
The overall theme of the conference is "Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations".
More info on the conference can be found on the conference website: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html
5th ESTIDIA Conference
September 19-21, 2019
University of Naples ’L’Orientale’ (Naples, Italy)
The 5th ESTIDIA International Conference will be organised together with the I-LanD Research Centre and hosted by the University of Naples ’L’Orientale’ (Italy) from Thursday 19th September to Saturday 21st September 2019.
The overall theme of the conference is "Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations".
More info on the conference can be found on the conference website: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/18780/3/5th-estidia-conference-hybrid-dialogues-transcending-binary-thinking-and-moving-away-from-societal-polarizations.html
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Pragmatics, Mediated Discourse Analysis, and 15 moreGender and Sexuality Studies, Corpus Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Intercultural Pragmatics, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Conversational Discourse Analysis and Identity, Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Discussion Forums, Media and Communication Studies, Pragmatics (Speech Acts, Conversation & Discourse Analysis), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus-based discourse analysis, and Communication and media Studies
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed Journal Call for papers for the special issue: “Translating and Interpreting Linguistic and Cultural Differences in a Migrant Era” The next... more
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed Journal
Call for papers for the special issue: “Translating and Interpreting Linguistic and Cultural Differences in a Migrant Era”
The next monographic issue of the I-LanD Journal will be centred on exploring the role which translation and interpreting play as activities which potentially foster the recognition or misrecognition of, amongst others, sexual, ethnic, racial and class differences in an era of great waves of migrations, and will be edited by Eleonora Federici (University L'Orientale, Naples), and Rosario Martín Ruano and África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca).
Given the thematic scope of this issue, contributions should adhere to any of the following broad research strands:
- Translating gender and sexualities;
- Translation and interpreting as cultural mediation;
- Translation and ideology;
- Translating and interpreting cultural differences in professional fields;
- Translation, adaptation and negotiation of gender and ethnic differences in TV series, cinema and the Web;
- Translation and representation of political and cultural differences in the press;
- Recognition and marginalisation of sexual, cultural and ethnic differences in translated texts;
- Ethics and pedagogy of translation.
Contributions are expected to be discursively inspired in their methodology, so that they may draw on any of the following approaches: Translation Studies, Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Narratology, Social Sciences and Media Studies, to name but a few.
Original contributions in English will be considered for publication in this issue.
Word-count of the abstract
- The length of each abstract is approximately 500 words, excluding references.
Word-count of the paper
- The length of individual papers is approximately 7,000-8,000 words, excluding references. The attachment should not contain the author’s name and affiliation but should be accompanied by an email including such personal information.
Contact and submission email
- efederici@unior.it, africa@usal.es, mrmr@usal.es, ilandjournal@unior.it
Deadlines
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: October 15, 2018.
- Notification of acceptance/rejection to prospective contributors: by October 30, 2018.
- Submission of individual chapters to guest editors: February 10, 2019.
Description
The role of translation and interpreting is crucial in the mediation of discourses and in the evolution of literary/linguistic/cultural representations of differences in various sociocultural contexts. A critical analysis of dominant models of translation and interpreting in the various professional fields and a reflection on the ethical implications of translation and interpreting are paramount for a rethinking of theories and practices of mediation, translation and interpreting in Western societies.
Aims
The aim of this monographic number is to offer a Translation and Interpreting Studies insight into the ethical challenges of translation and interpreting in an era of great waves of migrations through investigations on these activities as fields of recognition or mis-recognition of, amongst others, sexual, ethnic, racial and class differences. Through an interdisciplinary approach which draws on theories and practices from the fields of Translation Studies, Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Narratology, Social Sciences and Media Studies, this monographic issue aims at gathering substantial contributions capable of depicting and displaying major in-context examples of linguistic usage, cultural representations, stylistic, narrative and communicative frames, patterns and schemata in political, social, literary and cultural discourses, in the shaping or negotiation of which translation and interpreting play a major role.
International Peer-Reviewed Journal
Call for papers for the special issue: “Translating and Interpreting Linguistic and Cultural Differences in a Migrant Era”
The next monographic issue of the I-LanD Journal will be centred on exploring the role which translation and interpreting play as activities which potentially foster the recognition or misrecognition of, amongst others, sexual, ethnic, racial and class differences in an era of great waves of migrations, and will be edited by Eleonora Federici (University L'Orientale, Naples), and Rosario Martín Ruano and África Vidal Claramonte (University of Salamanca).
Given the thematic scope of this issue, contributions should adhere to any of the following broad research strands:
- Translating gender and sexualities;
- Translation and interpreting as cultural mediation;
- Translation and ideology;
- Translating and interpreting cultural differences in professional fields;
- Translation, adaptation and negotiation of gender and ethnic differences in TV series, cinema and the Web;
- Translation and representation of political and cultural differences in the press;
- Recognition and marginalisation of sexual, cultural and ethnic differences in translated texts;
- Ethics and pedagogy of translation.
Contributions are expected to be discursively inspired in their methodology, so that they may draw on any of the following approaches: Translation Studies, Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Narratology, Social Sciences and Media Studies, to name but a few.
Original contributions in English will be considered for publication in this issue.
Word-count of the abstract
- The length of each abstract is approximately 500 words, excluding references.
Word-count of the paper
- The length of individual papers is approximately 7,000-8,000 words, excluding references. The attachment should not contain the author’s name and affiliation but should be accompanied by an email including such personal information.
Contact and submission email
- efederici@unior.it, africa@usal.es, mrmr@usal.es, ilandjournal@unior.it
Deadlines
- Submission of abstracts to guest editors: October 15, 2018.
- Notification of acceptance/rejection to prospective contributors: by October 30, 2018.
- Submission of individual chapters to guest editors: February 10, 2019.
Description
The role of translation and interpreting is crucial in the mediation of discourses and in the evolution of literary/linguistic/cultural representations of differences in various sociocultural contexts. A critical analysis of dominant models of translation and interpreting in the various professional fields and a reflection on the ethical implications of translation and interpreting are paramount for a rethinking of theories and practices of mediation, translation and interpreting in Western societies.
Aims
The aim of this monographic number is to offer a Translation and Interpreting Studies insight into the ethical challenges of translation and interpreting in an era of great waves of migrations through investigations on these activities as fields of recognition or mis-recognition of, amongst others, sexual, ethnic, racial and class differences. Through an interdisciplinary approach which draws on theories and practices from the fields of Translation Studies, Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Narratology, Social Sciences and Media Studies, this monographic issue aims at gathering substantial contributions capable of depicting and displaying major in-context examples of linguistic usage, cultural representations, stylistic, narrative and communicative frames, patterns and schemata in political, social, literary and cultural discourses, in the shaping or negotiation of which translation and interpreting play a major role.
Research Interests:
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed Journal Call for Papers for the Special Issue (2019, n. 1): "Constructing Institutional Identity: Issues and Perspectives" This special issue of the... more
I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity
International Peer-Reviewed Journal
Call for Papers for the Special Issue (2019, n. 1): "Constructing Institutional Identity: Issues and Perspectives"
This special issue of the I-LanD Journal will focus on the linguistic and discursive constructions of institutional identity and will be co-edited by Girolamo Tessuto (Department of Law and Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy) and Jan Engberg (School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark). Authors wishing to contribute to this issue are invited to send an (English drafted) abstract of their proposed article of not more than 300 words (excluding references) in MS Word format to co-editors by 19 October 2018. Proposals should not contain author's name and academic/professional affiliation and should be accompanied by an email including such personal information and sent to: girolamo.tessuto@unicampania.it and je@cc.au.dk.
In order to meet editorial processes and publish this issue by June 2019, the most important dates to remember are as follows:
- Submission of abstracts: October 19, 2018;
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: November 16, 2018;
- Submission of chapters: March 11, 2019;
- Submission of proofs to contributors: mid-April 2019;
- Submission of final manuscript: mid-May 2019;
- Publication of special issue: June 2019.
Description
The concept of identity has been described in several different ways and been at the centre of lively debates across time and milieus. As a socially and historically constructed concept, identity has been increasingly dealt with as a feature that is actively accomplished in discourse, reflecting on the issues of power, value systems, and ideology that are inextricably linked to social and cultural identity, as well as on the extent to which the interaction between agency and social structure is defined by the context in which individuals find themselves. In our constantly changing world, different institutions (educational, business, legal, medical, media, etc.) of the modern day are now helping individuals 'to get things done' in identity-marking schemes, tying in with mechanisms of social life where institutional and complementary professional identities on their part are dynamically constructed, maintained and negotiated in discourse contexts of interpersonal communication.
In order to grasp such mechanisms, new conceptual perspectives and methodological approaches are required for the study of institutional identity as a matter of social interaction and (inter)culturally-mediated process. In this special issue, then, focus is on the ways in which different types of institutions transmit and (re)produce their own discourses through language use and guide the communication activities and practices to predictable outcomes, whilst also foregrounding the flow of social power relations, ideologies, and values embedded within them.
We therefore invite original papers that explore language through the processes and domains of institutional identity construction using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches which include, but are not limited to, discourse (textual) and (critical) discourse and genre analyses, conversation analysis, corpus-based discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography and communication analyses, multimodal discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, and translation. By presenting research from a variety of theories, data and methods, we aim to bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas and discuss the challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the field.
International Peer-Reviewed Journal
Call for Papers for the Special Issue (2019, n. 1): "Constructing Institutional Identity: Issues and Perspectives"
This special issue of the I-LanD Journal will focus on the linguistic and discursive constructions of institutional identity and will be co-edited by Girolamo Tessuto (Department of Law and Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy) and Jan Engberg (School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark). Authors wishing to contribute to this issue are invited to send an (English drafted) abstract of their proposed article of not more than 300 words (excluding references) in MS Word format to co-editors by 19 October 2018. Proposals should not contain author's name and academic/professional affiliation and should be accompanied by an email including such personal information and sent to: girolamo.tessuto@unicampania.it and je@cc.au.dk.
In order to meet editorial processes and publish this issue by June 2019, the most important dates to remember are as follows:
- Submission of abstracts: October 19, 2018;
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: November 16, 2018;
- Submission of chapters: March 11, 2019;
- Submission of proofs to contributors: mid-April 2019;
- Submission of final manuscript: mid-May 2019;
- Publication of special issue: June 2019.
Description
The concept of identity has been described in several different ways and been at the centre of lively debates across time and milieus. As a socially and historically constructed concept, identity has been increasingly dealt with as a feature that is actively accomplished in discourse, reflecting on the issues of power, value systems, and ideology that are inextricably linked to social and cultural identity, as well as on the extent to which the interaction between agency and social structure is defined by the context in which individuals find themselves. In our constantly changing world, different institutions (educational, business, legal, medical, media, etc.) of the modern day are now helping individuals 'to get things done' in identity-marking schemes, tying in with mechanisms of social life where institutional and complementary professional identities on their part are dynamically constructed, maintained and negotiated in discourse contexts of interpersonal communication.
In order to grasp such mechanisms, new conceptual perspectives and methodological approaches are required for the study of institutional identity as a matter of social interaction and (inter)culturally-mediated process. In this special issue, then, focus is on the ways in which different types of institutions transmit and (re)produce their own discourses through language use and guide the communication activities and practices to predictable outcomes, whilst also foregrounding the flow of social power relations, ideologies, and values embedded within them.
We therefore invite original papers that explore language through the processes and domains of institutional identity construction using a range of theoretical and methodological approaches which include, but are not limited to, discourse (textual) and (critical) discourse and genre analyses, conversation analysis, corpus-based discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography and communication analyses, multimodal discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, and translation. By presenting research from a variety of theories, data and methods, we aim to bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas and discuss the challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the field.
Research Interests:
Call for Papers: No. 2 - 2018 Chamada para artigos: ''Espaços de escrita, escritas do espaço: as geografias literárias africanas de língua portuguesa em discussão'' O próximo número monográfico da revista I-LanD Journal tem como tema... more
Call for Papers:
No. 2 - 2018
Chamada para artigos: ''Espaços de escrita, escritas do espaço: as geografias literárias africanas de língua portuguesa em discussão''
O próximo número monográfico da revista I-LanD Journal tem como tema ''Espaços de escrita, escritas do espaço: as geografias literárias africanas de língua portuguesa em discussão'', e é organizado por Nazir Can (UFRJ-Rio de Janeiro) e Livia Apa (Cesac, Unior-Nápoles).
Principais tópicos a abordar:
- Formas e funções do espaço nas literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa
- Relações entre ''lugares representados'' e ''lugares de enunciação''
- Cruzamentos entre literatura, geografia e outras linguagens
- Utopias, desilusões ou ''viradas epistemológicas'' que o espaço ajudou a criar nos imaginários africanos focalizados
- Contornos de renovação estética que foram inspirados ou projetados pela geografia no campo literário
As contribuições, mesmo tendo como base de análise as literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa, podem abrir-se a uma reflexão que tenha em conta o pensamento crítico produzido pelas ciências sociais e a contribuição das artes visuais.
Todos os textos devem ser redigidos em português.
Indicações para os resumos:
- Os resumos devem ter aproximadamente 500 palavras, referências bibliográficas excluídas.
Indicações para os artigos:
- Os artigos devem ter entre 7000 e 8000 palavras, referências bibliográficas excluídas. Os textos devem ser apresentados sem indicação do nome do autor e afiliação acadêmica e acompanhados por um e-mail onde constem as informações pessoais.
Contactos para a submissão dos artigos:
- liviaapagmail.com, nazircanngmail.com, ilandjournalunior.it
Prazos:
- Submissão dos resumos: 26 de julho.
- Notificação de aceitação: 5 de agosto
- Prazo de submissão: 6 de dezembro
Descrição:
O presente número do I-LanD Journal convida à reflexão sobre os pactos e os impactos do espaço nas literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa.
No. 2 - 2018
Chamada para artigos: ''Espaços de escrita, escritas do espaço: as geografias literárias africanas de língua portuguesa em discussão''
O próximo número monográfico da revista I-LanD Journal tem como tema ''Espaços de escrita, escritas do espaço: as geografias literárias africanas de língua portuguesa em discussão'', e é organizado por Nazir Can (UFRJ-Rio de Janeiro) e Livia Apa (Cesac, Unior-Nápoles).
Principais tópicos a abordar:
- Formas e funções do espaço nas literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa
- Relações entre ''lugares representados'' e ''lugares de enunciação''
- Cruzamentos entre literatura, geografia e outras linguagens
- Utopias, desilusões ou ''viradas epistemológicas'' que o espaço ajudou a criar nos imaginários africanos focalizados
- Contornos de renovação estética que foram inspirados ou projetados pela geografia no campo literário
As contribuições, mesmo tendo como base de análise as literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa, podem abrir-se a uma reflexão que tenha em conta o pensamento crítico produzido pelas ciências sociais e a contribuição das artes visuais.
Todos os textos devem ser redigidos em português.
Indicações para os resumos:
- Os resumos devem ter aproximadamente 500 palavras, referências bibliográficas excluídas.
Indicações para os artigos:
- Os artigos devem ter entre 7000 e 8000 palavras, referências bibliográficas excluídas. Os textos devem ser apresentados sem indicação do nome do autor e afiliação acadêmica e acompanhados por um e-mail onde constem as informações pessoais.
Contactos para a submissão dos artigos:
- liviaapagmail.com, nazircanngmail.com, ilandjournalunior.it
Prazos:
- Submissão dos resumos: 26 de julho.
- Notificação de aceitação: 5 de agosto
- Prazo de submissão: 6 de dezembro
Descrição:
O presente número do I-LanD Journal convida à reflexão sobre os pactos e os impactos do espaço nas literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa.
Research Interests:
Call for abstracts Languaging Diversity 2018 (University of Leuven, Antwerp [Belgium]): EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 May 2018 Dear colleagues, Due to several requests, we extended the deadline of the call for papers for the 5th International... more
Call for abstracts Languaging Diversity 2018 (University of Leuven, Antwerp [Belgium]):
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 May 2018
Dear colleagues,
Due to several requests, we extended the deadline of the call for papers for the 5th International Conference Languaging Diversity 2018 which will take place at the University of Leuven, Antwerp (Belgium) from Thu 27th September to Sat 29th September 2018. New deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2018.
Following the four successful events hosted by the Universities of Naples (2013), Catania (2014), Macerata (2016) and Cagliari (2017), where topics such as diversity, alterity, power and social class have been explored with reference to gender, ethnicity and culture, we bring the Languaging Diversity Conference series outside the boundaries of Italy. The theme of the conference this year is Discourse and Diversity in the Global City, with a focus on discourse and urban globalisation.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 May 2018
Dear colleagues,
Due to several requests, we extended the deadline of the call for papers for the 5th International Conference Languaging Diversity 2018 which will take place at the University of Leuven, Antwerp (Belgium) from Thu 27th September to Sat 29th September 2018. New deadline for abstract submission: 15 May 2018.
Following the four successful events hosted by the Universities of Naples (2013), Catania (2014), Macerata (2016) and Cagliari (2017), where topics such as diversity, alterity, power and social class have been explored with reference to gender, ethnicity and culture, we bring the Languaging Diversity Conference series outside the boundaries of Italy. The theme of the conference this year is Discourse and Diversity in the Global City, with a focus on discourse and urban globalisation.