Publications

This section features a selection of publications by members of the I-LanD Research Centre. The list is regularly updated to showcase the Centre’s ongoing contributions to linguistic, cultural and discourse studies. If you are a member and would like your publication to be included, please email all relevant details (including a description, publisher’s link, etc.) to iland@unior.it. Please note that submissions should be recent and relevant to the Centre’s research interests.

ALLIED - Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages in Educational Digital Settings

(vol. 1, n. 1, 2025)

Special Issue

Language Variation: Perspectives on Lexis and Phraseology

Bronwen Hughes

Margaret Rasulo

(eds)

Postcolonial Stylistics

Esterino Adami

Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age:

Culture, Knowledge, Expertise, Practices

Girolamo Tessuto

Stefania M. Maci

Michael J. Zerbe

(eds)

Escape the Classroom:

Gamifying ELT in Higher Education

Salvatore Ciancitto

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

(2024)

Special Issue

Identities and Diversity

in Audiovisual Products

Angela Zottola

Giorgia Riboni

Mark Nartey

(eds)

de genere - Journal of literary, postcolonial and gender studies

(n. 10, 2024)

Special Issue

The Discursive Construction of Contemporary Family Types

Giuseppe Balirano

Jai Mackenzie

Angela Zottola

(eds)

Existing World Englishes Models and Beyond:

Filling the 'Grey Area'

Lucia La Causa

Idee Cinematografiche Differenti 2:

Narrazioni, Pratiche, Rappresentazioni

Mauro Brondi

Annalisa Raffone

(eds)

Anglistica AION:

An Interdisciplinary Journal

(vol. 27, n. 2)

Special Issue

Language Unleashed:

The Anatomy of Hate Speech in Contemporary Discourse

Robert Lawson

Giuseppe Balirano

Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo

(eds)

RILA - Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Aplicata

(n.2-3, 2023)

Special Issue

Advances, Trends and Approaches in Language Teaching, Learning and Education in the Post-pandemic Era:

Theory and Practice

Giuseppe Balirano

Margaret Rasulo

(eds)

The Language(s) of Sustainability:

A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study Between ESP and Popularisation

Marina Niceforo

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women:

From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage

Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo

Cinema e Diversità:

Disability Studies, Sensorialità e Prospettive di Ricerca Integrata

Giuseppe Balirano

Marilena Parlati

(eds)

MediAzioni

(vol. 42, 2024)

Special Issue

Views of Well-Being in Academia:

Case Studies and Proposals

Cristina Pennarola

Federico Gaspari

Sole Alba Zollo

(eds)

The Taste of Sustainability:

A Corpus-Assisted Comparative ESP Analysis of Promotional Tasting Notes for Conventional and Alternative Wines

Francesco Nacchia

The Populist Leader: Self-Representational Strategies in Donald Trump and Matteo Salvini

Ester Di Silvestro

Identity Construction and Negotiation in Academic Discourse:

Investigating Disciplinary Identities

Antonio Fruttaldo

LGBTQ+ and Feminist Digital Activism:

A Linguistic Perspective

Angela Zottola

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

(2023)

Special Issue

Collaborative Media Accessibility:

Theory, Methodology and Practice

Elena Di Giovanni

Louise Fryer

Francesca Raffi

(eds)

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 2 (2022)

Special Issue

The Role of Language Typology on L2 Acquisition and Learning

Simona Anastasio

Patrizia Giuliano

(eds)

Multilingual Films:

A Portrayal of Language Contact on Screen

Giuseppe De Bonis

Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA:

A Discourse-Historical Analysis

Massimiliano Demata

Ageing Discourse in the News:

A Corpus-Assisted Study

Laura Tommaso

Giornalismo Algoritmico e Traduzione Automatica:

Una Valutazione della Traduzione Neurale

Maria Pia di Buono

Multimodality and Translanguaging in Video Interactions

Maria Grazia Sindoni

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation

Stefania M. Maci

Massimiliano Demata

Mark McGlashan

Philip Seargeant

(eds)

Beyond Standard English:

Variation and Change in Eastern England

Carmen Ciancia

Critical Discourse Studies

(2023)

Special Issue

Discourse, Intersectionality, Critique:

Theory, Methods and Practice

Eleonora Esposito

(ed.)

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 1 (2022)

Special Issue

The Emotional Valence of Innovation and Changes:

Discourses of Societal Transformation

Margaret Rasulo

Jan Engberg

(eds)

Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines:

Issues and Perspectives

Girolamo Tessuto

Richard Ashcroft

Vijay K. Bhatia

(eds)

Queering Sexual Health Translation Pedagogy

Piero Toto

Languaging Class:

Reflecting on the Linguistic Articulations of Structural Inequalities

Claudia Ortu

Francesco Bachis

(eds)

Master Narratives of Hate Speech:

A Multimodal Analysis

Margaret Rasulo

Conspiracy Theory Discourses

Massimiliano Demata

Virginia Zorzi

Angela Zottola

(eds)

Collaboration in Translation:

From Training to Platforms and Publishing

Giuseppe De Bonis

Mirella Agorni

(eds)

Argumentación y Persuasión:

Los Discursos an Lengua Española

Francesca De Cesare

(ed.)

Language in Place:

Stylistic Perspectives on Landscape, Place and Environment

Daniela Francesca Virdis

Elisabetta Zurru

Ernestine Lahey

(eds)

Telling Tales in Shakespeare's Drama:

A Pragma-Stylistic Approach to Lying

Aoife Beville

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 2 (2021)

Special Issue

Insights into Diversified Communication, Research and Education during COVID-19:

Changing Times

Siria Guzzo

Simon McGrath

Roxanne Holly Padley

(eds)

Multilingual Perspectives from Europe and Beyond on Language Policy and Practice

Bruna Di Sabato

Bronwen Hughes

(eds)

Languaging the Cityscapes:

Changing Linguistic Landscapes in Public Discourses

Giuliana Fiorentino

Antonio Fruttaldo

(eds)

Homing in on Hate:

Critical Discourse Studies of Hate Speech, Discrimination and Inequality in the Digital Age

Giuseppe Balirano

Bronwen Hughes

(eds)

Anglistica AION:

An Interdisciplinary Journal

(vol. 24, n. 1)

Special Issue

Re-defining Gender, Sexuality, and Discourse in the Global Rise of Right-wing Extremism

Giuseppe Balirano

Rodrigo Borba

(eds)

Idee Cinematografiche Differenti:

Il soggetto cinematografico come strumento di declinazione della diversità

Giuseppe Balirano

Mauro Brondi

Antonio Fruttaldo

(eds)

Lo políticamente correcto y la imagen social del periódico

María Lucía Carrillo Expósito

Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation:

A Critical Analysis of Political Discourse in the Caribbean

Eleonora Esposito

Transgender Identities in the Press:

A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis

Angela Zottola

BRIC by BRIC:

A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of CSR Reports by Energy Companies from Industrialised and Developing Countries

Maria Cristina Aiezza

The Context and Media

of Legal Discourse

Girolamo Tessuto

Vijay K. Bhatia

Ruth Breeze

Nicholas Brownlees

Martin Solly

(eds)

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 1 (2020)

Special Issue

Negotiation of L2 Identities in the Age of Transnational Mobility:

Enactment, Perception, Status, and Language Development

Annarita Magliacane

Anne Marie Devlin

Noriko Iwasaki

(eds)

Orientación Sexual, Identidad y Expresión de Género en el Lenguaje Jurídico Español

Marilicia Di Paolo

Social Media in Legal Practice

Vijay Bhatia

Girolamo Tessuto

(eds)

La traduzione audiovisiva e i suoi pubblici

Elena Di Giovanni 

The Language of Jokes

in the Digital Age:

Viral Humour

Delia Chiaro

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 2 (2019)

Special Issue

Translating and Interpreting Linguistic and Cultural Differences in a Migrant Era

Eleonora Federici

María del Rosario Martín Ruano

María del Carmen África Vidal Claramonte

(eds)

Naming, Identity and Tourism

Luisa Caiazzo

Richard Coates

Maoz Azaryahu

(eds)

English for Medicine:

A Discourse- and Genre-based Approach to Specialised Communication

Girolamo Tessuto

Traduire la criminalité:

Perspectives traductologiques et discursives

Giuditta Caliendo

Corinne Oster

(eds)

Genealogia dell'Alterità:

L'Africa e i documentari

coloniali portoghesi

Francesca De Rosa

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 1 (2019)

Special Issue

Constructing Institutional Identity: Issues and Perspectives

Girolamo Tessuto

Jan Engberg

(eds)

Adopción e Ideología:

Estrategias lingüístico-argumentativas en el discurso de la prensa franquista (1936-1959)

Sara Longobardi

"And this is my story":

A Linguistic Analysis of Migrant Discourse

Bronwen Hughes

Rethinking Community:

Discourse, Identity and

Citizenship in the European Union

Giuditta Caliendo

Dalla Zairja alla traduzione automatica:

Riflessioni sulla traduzione nell'era digitale

Johanna Monti

Populist Discourse:

Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics

Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio

Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro

Francesca De Cesare

(eds)

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 2 (2018)

Special Issue

Espaços de escrita, escritas do espaço:

as geografias literárias africanas de língua portuguesa em discussão

Livia Apa

Nazir Ahmed Can

(eds)

Informazione e creazione:

Cinque esperienze di confine nella Spagna contemporanea

Valeria Cavazzino

Food Across Cultures:

Linguistic Insights in Transcultural Tastes

Giuseppe Balirano

Siria Guzzo

(eds)

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 1 (2018)

Special Issue

Discursive Constructions of Migrants:

Verbal and Visual Images of the “Other”

Massimiliano Demata

Ljiljana Šaric

Andreja Vezovnik

(eds)

See Britain by Train:

A Diachronic Multimodal

Critical Discourse Analysis

of Tourist Railway Posters

Sole Alba Zollo

Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom:

Training the Doers

Marcella De Marco

Piero Toto

(eds)

The Evaluation of Risk in Institutional and Newspaper Discourse:

The Case of Climate Change and Migration

Katherine E. Russo

Translation Theory and Practice:

Cultural Differences in

Tourism and Advertising

Eleonora Federici

Miss Man?

Languaging Gendered Bodies

Giuseppe Balirano

Oriana Palusci

(eds)

Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean:

Current Concepts and Challenges

Eleonora Esposito

Carolina Pérez-Arredondo

José Manuel Ferreiro

(eds)

Stories That Matter:

A Socio-Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Narratives of Migration

Francesca Vigo

I-LanD Journal:

Identity, Language and Diversity No. 2 (2017)

Special Issue

Current Politics and the Printed Media: Discursive Tensions in the Age of Populism 3.0 / Prensa y Política: Tensiones Discursivas en la Era del Populismo 3.0

Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro

Francesca De Cesare

Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio

(eds)

Identity, Language and Diversity, between Walls and Bridges

Antonella Napolitano

Carolina Diglio

Fabio Perilli

(eds)

Indigenous Peoples in Canadian TV News:

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Mainstream and Indigenous News Discourses

Anna Mongibello

Populismo y Prensa:

La Construcción Discursiva de la Crisis Griega y del Brexit

Francesca De Cesare

I-LanD Journal

Identity, Language and Diversity

No. 1 (2017)

Special Issue

The Discursive Representation of Globalised Organised Crime: Crossing Borders of Languages and Cultures

Giuseppe Balirano

Giuditta Caliendo

Paul Sambre

(eds)

Love is in the H(Air):

A Discourse Analysis of Hair Product Advertising

Antonella Napolitano

Gardaí & Badfellas:

The Discursive Construction of Organised Crime in the Irish Media

Giuseppe Balirano

Masculinity and Representation:

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Approach to Male Identity Constructions

Giuseppe Balirano

Language First:

Analyzing Online Discourse

Margaret Rasulo

Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

Paul Baker

Giuseppe Balirano

(eds)

Languaging Diversity

(Vol. 1)

Identities, Genres, Discourses

Giuseppe Balirano

Maria Cristina Nisco

(eds)

Languaging Diversity

(Vol. 2)

Variationist Approaches and Identities

Siria Guzzo

David Britain

(eds)

Languaging Diversity

(Vol. 3)

Language(s) and Power

Elena Di Giovanni

Francesca Raffi

(eds)

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