Keywords:
pandemic, discourse analysis, biomedical communication, health crisis, COVID-19
Synopsis
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented discursive prominence and has colonised many discourses, in distinct fields of knowledge, in social interactions and in all forms of communication. This volume examines pandemic discourse in Italy, Spain and England, with a focus on institutional and press communication, without neglecting the historical perspective. Through a linguistic-discursive approach in which quantitative analysis is combined with qualitative reflections, the volume retraces some of the stages of the communicative processes that accompanied the spread of the recent pandemic and intends to highlight some of the most relevant phenomena of today's increasingly varied and polyphonic communication space.
Chapters
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Introduzione
Maria Vittoria Calvi, Giovanna Mapelli
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La copertura informativa dell’espansione del coronavirus nei primi momenti della pandemia: strategie linguistiche e frame comunicativi nella stampa generalista spagnola
Andrés Ortega Garrido
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Le campagne di comunicazione istituzionale sul COVID-19 in Spagna
Laura Mariottini
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#YoMeVacuno: il discorso sui vaccini nei profili del governo spagnolo su Twitter
Ana Pano Alamán
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L’uso (improprio) del virgolettato nei titoli dei quotidiani: Il caso del vaccino AstraZeneca sulla stampa italiana e britannica
Carlotta Fiammenghi, Giuseppe Angelini
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Discorsi attorno alla morte assistita in epoca Covid: una prospettiva anglo-italiana
Serena Kim Grego
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… and every evening throwe water before yor dore». L’ultima peste del Cinquecento e i teatri di Londra
Paolo Caponi
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Author Biographies
Maria Vittoria Calvi, University of Milan, Italy
has a long experience in research and university teaching as full professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Milan, and is currently Corresponding Academician of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua. She has been President of the Italian Association of Hispanists (AISPI) (2013-2017) and editor-in Chief of the journal Cuadernos AISPI (2013-2021). She has authored over two hundred works in Spanish literature and linguistics, focusing particularly on contrastive linguistics between Spanish and Italian, the contact between these languages in migration contexts and Linguistic Landscapes, Discourse Analysis, and specialized discourse, with an emphasis on the language of tourism. Currently, she leads a project on “Biomedical Discourse and Communication in Multicultural Societies”. In the literary field, she has primarily focused on the autobiographical discourse in the works of Carmen Martín Gaite.
Giovanna Mapelli, University of Milan, Italy
is Associate Professor of Spanish Language, Linguistics and Translation at the University of Milan. She is the author of numerous studies on Spanish lingüística, with a special focus on specialised languages and, in particular, on medical discourse (“La recomendación en los blogs de pediatras españoles” 2023; “La representación discursiva de la menopausia y de la mujer en las redes sociales” 2023, El discurso de los pediatras en las redes sociales 2024) and tourism communication ("Guías de viaje 2. 0: Léxico y metadiscurso' 2016; ’Mecanismos lingüísticos de la persuasión en las redes sociales. Las cadenas hoteleras en Instagram' 2023). Another field of research is the journalistic language of football (“La creatividad del lenguaje periodístico del fútbol en el aula” 2024).
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