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Introduction
2012
Gender and Sexuality. Rights, Language and Performativity
2012
The book engages critically with two main aspects of the socio-cultural construction of gender and sexuality. The first section of the volume, Sexual Rights, is socio-political, and includes both the problem of the recognition of rights for all individuals, especially LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer and intersexual) subjects, and the struggle to combat discrimination, that entails an analysis of and an opposition to homophobic discourses and actions. The second section of the volume, Media, Literature and Performativity, involves a theoretical elaboration of discursive and literary strategies that relate or can be applied to gendered and sexed identities. These two sphere…
OH Granma give me your guts. Search for the Self in Italian American Women Writers
2001
“Speaking in Terror: Femininity, Monstrosity and ‘Race’ in Early Modern Culture”
2002
The chapter examines how the intersecting vectors of gender and race contribute to the configuration of monstrosity in early modern drama and anatomy, and how this construction is simultaneously powerful and haunted by the fear of the 'other'.
Accessible stories within mediascapes. Voicing otherness in digital museums
2022
This article presents the first steps in the investigation of the potential for digital storytelling and digital museums to be used as instruments for access, as enablers of epistemic and poietic agency. Digital storytelling and migration museums are used as a case study to explore in what ways digital storytelling impacts meaning-making processes performed by migrants, allowing them to become active creators and disseminators of their own experiences. Through the combination of corpus linguistics, systemic functional linguistics, and lexical semantic analysis, an ad-hoc comparable corpus of migrant narratives in English and in Italian was cross-examined in order to scrutinise the conceptua…
Costruzioni identitarie e di genere. Il caso Caster Semenya
2019
Nel 2009 i media riportano di un caso sportivo che suscita scalpore a livello internazionale: Caster Mokgadi Semenya, atleta sudafricana, dopo aver vinto la medaglia d’oro negli 800 metri femminili ai Mondiali di atletica leggera di Berlino, viene accusata di essere un uomo. A partire da quell’anno, numerosi commenti, articoli e interviste si sono succeduti toccando una questione discussa nella letteratura sulle differenze di genere.
La ragazza nera alla ricerca di Dio
2020
The volume offers the Italian public a new translation of George Bernard Shaw's novella, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932), with its facing-page original. In the novella contemporary readers will find the innovative figuration of a young black woman who, along her personal search for God, deconstructs the false myths of the great religions and of European civilization with iconoclastic force, uncovering their contradictions with geopolitical far-sightedness.
Ardel Haefele-Thomas, Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2012
2014
The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mi/Disinformation and Hate Speech
2022
The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech” aims at analysing the languages of discourse of health communication, specifically health message design, addressing COVID-19 in both institutional and non-institutional media settings. The purpose of this special issue is to explore the “anti-languages” and counter-discourses endorsing (mis/dis-)information, and conspiracy theories which are in direct opposition to official discourses and challenge social and political hegemony. The discourse approach to health communication featured in the papers of this special issue will help understanding social responses to s…
Health Querying in the Digital Era. The Language of Health 2.0
2015
This book deals with the linguistic resources used in e-heath, in particular in the dialogue between specialists and e-patients as well as among users in e-forums. Traditional d/p exchanges have self-adapted to create new forms, and have evolved into a different product entirely. After establishing the area within the concept of e-health and the reasons why it is important to talk about this phenomenon, the book reports some analyses that show different aspects of these online exchanges. Starting from genre, linguistic features and dialogic markers, it continues on considerations on role postions and credibility as well as on legitimation of trust.