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Discourse analyst and certified translator. PhD from CenTras (University College London), specialization in literary translation (University of Venice) and degree with honours in Modern Languages (University of Bologna).
Member of the Scientific Committee of a research hub (University of Bologna) and member of the editorial board of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication (University of Toronto).
Research: multimodal discourse analysis (propaganda, nationalism, stereotyping).
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January 2016 - September 2019
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Considerando l’atteggiamento dei media ufficiali in merito all’immigrazione, qualcuno potrebbe riassumerlo così, parafrasando il titolo di un capitolo della Fattoria degli animali, «tutti i rifugiati sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri». Come vedremo nel capitolo, si delinea un vero e proprio paradosso per cui seppure i media siano i...
The aim of this volume is to identify, explore and compare expressions of populism in the Romance-speaking part of the world. The volume includes studies from different academic disciplines such as discourse analysis, cultural and media studies. Populist discourses are generally characterized by a deep polarization of positions and a disproportiona...
The Italian party Lega Nord (Northern League), now simply Lega, was founded and thrived for almost two decades thanks to a regionalist/independentist programme. Under the leadership of Matteo Salvini, however, it has progressively shifted towards a nationalist message; so much so that it obtained 34.2% of share in the 2019 European elections. Nonet...
This book adopts a multi-method multimodal approach to the study of online political communication, applying it to case studies from the United Kingdom, France, and Italy towards offering a portrait of the rapid ideological shifts in contemporary Western democracies.
The volume introduces an integrated framework combining Sentiment and Emotion Ana...
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of metho...
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of metho...
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of metho...
It took 11 people 4 years to finish the 333 pages of this book, but we got there in the end: “Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections” is now available as a hardcover or as an ebook.
https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.101
The book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the di...
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of metho...
http://www.mediazioni.sitlec.unibo.it/index.php/no-25-special-issue-2019/118-articoliarticles-no-25-2019/377-producing-the-self-and-the-other-stereotyping-and-nationalism-in-the-rhetoric-of-matteo-renzi.html
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plg/phil/2019/00000004/f0022018
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plg/phil/2019/00000004/f0022018
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The study investigates the discursive strategies that the Italian ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi used to construct a stereotypical representation of the nation in his institutional talks in English. It focuses on the discrepancies between Renzi’s claim to ra...
The article investigates how the Italian ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi produced a stereotypical view of Italy and the Italian national character to create shared background knowledge and construct
his audience as ideological subjects. Although his political campaigning focused on radical innovation, his rhetorical strategies, both verbal and nonve...