This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheet... more This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheets and tabloids over the two-year period 2017-2018. The basic assumption is that news reports serve as an important channel for dissemination of knowledge about gene-editing and are likely to influence the public opinion on this technology by constructing news stories in an interpretative way. This study sets to examine how tabloids and broadsheets frame gene-editing and genetic researchers linguistically and discursively, focusing on the selective representation of claims and the imagery associated with applications and implications of gene-editing. The methodological framework adopted is that of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. WordSmith Tools 6.0 software is used for lexical analysis and text search. The results indicate a convergent tendency of tabloids and broadsheets to explain and categorise the technology in a careful way, with tabloids relying more often on the quotes and attributions of scientists, and a divergent tendency in the use of loaded imagery.
This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues o... more This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues of bioethics in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR"). The study aims at researching the linguistic strategies of knowledge production and entextualisation in 92 judgments of the ECtHR, focusing on the interaction between legal and bioethical term-related phraseological unitsi.e. multi-word terms and term-embedding collocations with a verbtheir structure and distributional patterns. Recurrent phraseological units are identified and analysed using methods of corpus linguistics and the theoretical framework of specialised phraseology. The study pursues general descriptive goals and aims at researching the balance and intersection between bioethically charged phraseology and legal phraseology. The main focus is placed on the analysis of typicality of patterning, expressed in terms of domain specificity, association score and log-likelihood.
This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court ... more This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR). By reconstructing the heteroglossic system of genres at the ECtHR, the study contributes to the limited literature on the Court’s discursive practices and genres. The analysis looks into the framing of the COVID-19 pandemic as a human rights violation and identifies preferred interpretation schemata across the participation framework of the cases considered using critical discourse analysis and framing. The findings identify a scaffolding of dialogical frames, where most applicants advanced politicized frame systems built on the core denial of the existence or seriousness of COVID-19, framing the governments’ actions or omissions as civil and political human rights violations. The Governments built on the general healthcare crisis framing, and counterframed societal limitations as agency stemming from a “health and safety first” frame. The Court refuted most of the politicized framing choices and accepted most healthcare-related frames, operating under the “exceptional and unforeseen circumstances” frame.
Biel, Łucja (University of Warsaw); Engberg, Jan (Aarhus University) ; tutor: G. Garzone ; coordi... more Biel, Łucja (University of Warsaw); Engberg, Jan (Aarhus University) ; tutor: G. Garzone ; coordinatore: G. Garzone
Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Language for Specific Purposes in the Era of Multilingualism and Technologies. Volume 4
This study overviews how national terms are added to the case-law of the European Court of Human ... more This study overviews how national terms are added to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. Contributing to previous literature on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) discourse which focussed on judgments, the study proposes a system of genres approach (Bazerman, 1994), analysing how system-bound elements (SBEs), i.e. those terms and phrases that need to maintain their national embedding, move across multiple procedural genres of the ECtHR (application, case communication, written pleadings, decision and judgment) in four cases against Ukraine, Latvia, Italy and Russia. Against the theoretical-methodological framework of discourse analysis, legal terminology and Legal Translation Studies, the analysis emphasises a critical role of case communications. Case communications recontextualise national elements in a supranational context, translate SBEs, and transform lay representation of applicants into legal discourse. The findings demonstrate how factual reconstruct...
Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)
This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court ... more This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR). By reconstructing the heteroglossic system of genres at the ECtHR, the study contributes to the limited literature on the Court’s discursive practices and genres. The analysis looks into the framing of the COVID-19 pandemic as a human rights violation and identifies preferred interpretation schemata across the participation framework of the cases considered using critical discourse analysis and framing. The findings identify a scaffolding of dialogical frames, where most applicants advanced politicized frame systems built on the core denial of the existence or seriousness of COVID-19, framing the governments’ actions or omissions as civil and political human rights violations. The Governments built on the general healthcare crisis framing, and counterframed societal limitations as agency stemming from a “health and safety first” frame. The Court refuted most ...
This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheet... more This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheets and tabloids over the two-year period 2017-2018. The basic assumption is that news reports serve as an important channel for dissemination of knowledge about gene-editing and are likely to influence the public opinion on this technology by constructing news stories in an interpretative way. This study sets to examine how tabloids and broadsheets frame gene-editing and genetic researchers linguistically and discursively, focusing on the selective representation of claims and the imagery associated with applications and implications of gene-editing. The methodological framework adopted is that of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. WordSmith Tools 6.0 software is used for lexical analysis and text search. The results indicate a convergent tendency of tabloids and broadsheets to explain and categorise the technology in a careful way, with tabloids relying more often on the quotes and attr...
This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues o... more This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues of bioethics in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR"). The study aims at researching the linguistic strategies of knowledge production and entextualisation in 92 judgments of the ECtHR, focusing on the interaction between legal and bioethical term-related phraseological unitsi.e. multi-word terms and term-embedding collocations with a verbtheir structure and distributional patterns. Recurrent phraseological units are identified and analysed using methods of corpus linguistics and the theoretical framework of specialised phraseology. The study pursues general descriptive goals and aims at researching the balance and intersection between bioethically charged phraseology and legal phraseology. The main focus is placed on the analysis of typicality of patterning, expressed in terms of domain specificity, association score and log-likelihood.
This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheet... more This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheets and tabloids over the two-year period 2017-2018. The basic assumption is that news reports serve as an important channel for dissemination of knowledge about gene-editing and are likely to influence the public opinion on this technology by constructing news stories in an interpretative way. This study sets to examine how tabloids and broadsheets frame gene-editing and genetic researchers linguistically and discursively, focusing on the selective representation of claims and the imagery associated with applications and implications of gene-editing. The methodological framework adopted is that of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. WordSmith Tools 6.0 software is used for lexical analysis and text search. The results indicate a convergent tendency of tabloids and broadsheets to explain and categorise the technology in a careful way, with tabloids relying more often on the quotes and attributions of scientists, and a divergent tendency in the use of loaded imagery.
This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues o... more This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues of bioethics in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR"). The study aims at researching the linguistic strategies of knowledge production and entextualisation in 92 judgments of the ECtHR, focusing on the interaction between legal and bioethical term-related phraseological unitsi.e. multi-word terms and term-embedding collocations with a verbtheir structure and distributional patterns. Recurrent phraseological units are identified and analysed using methods of corpus linguistics and the theoretical framework of specialised phraseology. The study pursues general descriptive goals and aims at researching the balance and intersection between bioethically charged phraseology and legal phraseology. The main focus is placed on the analysis of typicality of patterning, expressed in terms of domain specificity, association score and log-likelihood.
This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court ... more This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR). By reconstructing the heteroglossic system of genres at the ECtHR, the study contributes to the limited literature on the Court’s discursive practices and genres. The analysis looks into the framing of the COVID-19 pandemic as a human rights violation and identifies preferred interpretation schemata across the participation framework of the cases considered using critical discourse analysis and framing. The findings identify a scaffolding of dialogical frames, where most applicants advanced politicized frame systems built on the core denial of the existence or seriousness of COVID-19, framing the governments’ actions or omissions as civil and political human rights violations. The Governments built on the general healthcare crisis framing, and counterframed societal limitations as agency stemming from a “health and safety first” frame. The Court refuted most of the politicized framing choices and accepted most healthcare-related frames, operating under the “exceptional and unforeseen circumstances” frame.
Biel, Łucja (University of Warsaw); Engberg, Jan (Aarhus University) ; tutor: G. Garzone ; coordi... more Biel, Łucja (University of Warsaw); Engberg, Jan (Aarhus University) ; tutor: G. Garzone ; coordinatore: G. Garzone
Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Language for Specific Purposes in the Era of Multilingualism and Technologies. Volume 4
This study overviews how national terms are added to the case-law of the European Court of Human ... more This study overviews how national terms are added to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. Contributing to previous literature on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) discourse which focussed on judgments, the study proposes a system of genres approach (Bazerman, 1994), analysing how system-bound elements (SBEs), i.e. those terms and phrases that need to maintain their national embedding, move across multiple procedural genres of the ECtHR (application, case communication, written pleadings, decision and judgment) in four cases against Ukraine, Latvia, Italy and Russia. Against the theoretical-methodological framework of discourse analysis, legal terminology and Legal Translation Studies, the analysis emphasises a critical role of case communications. Case communications recontextualise national elements in a supranational context, translate SBEs, and transform lay representation of applicants into legal discourse. The findings demonstrate how factual reconstruct...
Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)
This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court ... more This study overviews how the COVID-19 pandemic is framed in five cases before the European Court of Human Rights (the ECtHR). By reconstructing the heteroglossic system of genres at the ECtHR, the study contributes to the limited literature on the Court’s discursive practices and genres. The analysis looks into the framing of the COVID-19 pandemic as a human rights violation and identifies preferred interpretation schemata across the participation framework of the cases considered using critical discourse analysis and framing. The findings identify a scaffolding of dialogical frames, where most applicants advanced politicized frame systems built on the core denial of the existence or seriousness of COVID-19, framing the governments’ actions or omissions as civil and political human rights violations. The Governments built on the general healthcare crisis framing, and counterframed societal limitations as agency stemming from a “health and safety first” frame. The Court refuted most ...
This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheet... more This paper investigates the popularised representations of gene-editing in the British broadsheets and tabloids over the two-year period 2017-2018. The basic assumption is that news reports serve as an important channel for dissemination of knowledge about gene-editing and are likely to influence the public opinion on this technology by constructing news stories in an interpretative way. This study sets to examine how tabloids and broadsheets frame gene-editing and genetic researchers linguistically and discursively, focusing on the selective representation of claims and the imagery associated with applications and implications of gene-editing. The methodological framework adopted is that of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. WordSmith Tools 6.0 software is used for lexical analysis and text search. The results indicate a convergent tendency of tabloids and broadsheets to explain and categorise the technology in a careful way, with tabloids relying more often on the quotes and attr...
This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues o... more This corpus-based study investigates linguistic practices and strategies of dealing with issues of bioethics in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR"). The study aims at researching the linguistic strategies of knowledge production and entextualisation in 92 judgments of the ECtHR, focusing on the interaction between legal and bioethical term-related phraseological unitsi.e. multi-word terms and term-embedding collocations with a verbtheir structure and distributional patterns. Recurrent phraseological units are identified and analysed using methods of corpus linguistics and the theoretical framework of specialised phraseology. The study pursues general descriptive goals and aims at researching the balance and intersection between bioethically charged phraseology and legal phraseology. The main focus is placed on the analysis of typicality of patterning, expressed in terms of domain specificity, association score and log-likelihood.
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