Davide PassaSapienza University of Rome | la sapienza · Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies
Davide Passa
PhD in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, CULTURES, LANGUAGE, AND TRANSLATION
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Introduction
PhD in Studies in English literatures, cultures, language and translation. Graduate teaching assistant at Sapienza University of Rome. Editorial Staff - Status Quaestionis (Sapienza University of Rome).
My research interests include Queer Studies, Sociolinguistics, (Audiovisual) Translation Studies, Corpus Linguistics.
Additional affiliations
November 2019 - present
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation
May 2020 - June 2021
Position
- Graduate Teaching Assistant - Cultore della materia (L-LIN/12: Lingua e traduzione inglese)
Education
November 2019 - October 2022
Field of study
- STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, CULTURES, LANGUAGE, AND TRANSLATION
Publications
Publications (14)
Despite being an animated sitcom, The Simpsons is a satire of contemporary American society and culture. This article intends to apply a queer perspective to Audiovisual Translation Studies, in line with what Flotow (2019) defined the third approach to gender-focused audiovisual translation, that is, the investigation of gay and queer source texts...
Eighty-one years after Pinocchio (1940), Walt Disney and Pixar are back with a new animated film set entirely in Italy, Luca (2021). It is a coming-of-age story based on a deep friendship between two sea monster boys and a human girl from Portorosso, an imaginary sea coastal town in the Cinque Terre (Liguria), in the nostalgic mid-1950s. This study...
Voice is one of the means through which fictional people are characterised in audiovisual products. Through their voice characters reveal their thoughts and personalities, including external and internal elements, such as their age, geographical and social origins, gender and sexuality, among others. The linguistic variety analysed in this article...
Reading is a drag term that refers to the common practice among drag queens of "confronting someone with witty and creative language that serves to cut or put someone down" (Jones 2007: 83). Linguistically, it can be considered a form of impoliteness aimed at attacking the addressee's positive self-image (Brown and Levinson 1987; Culpeper 1996 and...
This study, situated within the field of Language and Sexuality
Studies, investigates the characterisation of fictional gay men in
21st-century British drama. The research is based on a corpus of
61 plays, staged between 2000 and 2020, which collectively feature
187 gay male characters. The study employs methodological
triangulation to explore the...
RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009-ongoing) is an American reality programme launched by RuPaul Charles – arguably the most popular drag queen today – which has turned its contestants’ language from subcultural into mainstream. Netflix made the series available almost everywhere in the world, and social networks are flooded with references to the show. For t...
Drag queens epitomise gender fluidity, since they blur and parody the heteronormative male/female binarism. Their unconventional nature is reflected in the structure of their community, where they have created alternatives to the heteronormative family, which is historically based on heterosexual marriage and parenthood. Drag families are to be see...
Drag queens epitomise gender fluidity, where the heteronormative binarism male/female is blurred and parodied. Their unconventional nature is reflected in the structure of their community, where they have created alternatives to the heteronormative family, which is historically based on heterosexual marriage and parenthood. Drag families are to be...
RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009 – present) is an American reality television programme
launched by RuPaul Charles, which has turned drag queens into a mainstream
phenomenon. After briefly analysing the controversial figure of the drag queen
in the light of Judith Butler’s performative turn, as well as drag lingo following
Keith Harvey’s framework for iden...
This article seeks to investigate the linguistic, cultural and visual representation of Canadian characters in one of the most popular and "impolite" American animated sitcoms, South Park. References are made to Culpeper's model of impoliteness, Grice's Cooperative Principles, and the use of stereotyping as a means of characterisation in audiovisua...
Questions
Question (1)
I am analysing characters and characterisation in 21st century British drama and would like to know if there is a method I can use to categorise characters according to their social class. Should I take into account the way they speak (bear in mind that this is a written-text based study)? Should I consider their job? And what if their job is not specified? Does the way they speak necessarily determine their social class? Thank you very much!
