AIA INTERVIEWS SERIES January 2026 In this video of the AIA Interviews series, Carolina Celeste Granini speaks with Daniela Cesiri about her latest book, Communicating Food to Children: Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives. You can find Daniela Cesiri’s book here
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Gli studi shakespeariani sono in costante trasformazione. Metodologie di ricerca nuove, quali l’informatica umanistica, e la maggiore facilità di accesso a corpora testuali sempre più ampi hanno profondamente ridisegnato la nostra conoscenza dell’autore. Di qui la necessità di fornire uno strumento di studio aggiornato, che tenga conto delle più recenti acquisizioni relative alla ricostruzione dei testi, alla formazione del canone (con l’annessa questione dei collaborative plays), alla cronologia delle opere. Nel proporre una guida generale, il volume non rinuncia, tuttavia, a confrontarsi con una serie di problemi di carattere più specialistico. Un’ampia sezione ridiscute la vexata quaestio dei generi drammatici, analizzando il “comico” e il “tragico” alla luce delle diverse visioni del mondo ivi sottese. La sezione sulla poesia, a sua volta, rivisita le questioni relative alla cronologia dei Sonnets, e ai legami tra l’opera drammatica e l’opera poetica. Ad arricchire il quadro, il capitolo finale (attraverso un caso di studio su Edward III) riesamina il rapporto dell’autore con la pagina scritta, suggerendo che, oltre che per gli spettatori dell’epoca, Shakespeare scriveva anche per un pubblico di lettori sia presenti che futuri, rivelandosi, al contempo, uomo di teatro e uomo di lettere. Il risultato è un volume completo, di agile consultazione, che non si limita a fornire il necessario materiale informativo, ma offre altresì gli strumenti metodologici utili a cogliere, dall’interno, i fenomeni di volta in volta esplorati. Michele Stanco, Shakespeare: uomo di teatro, uomo di lettere, Roma, Carocci, 2025, 194 pp. Gli studi shakespeariani sono in costante trasformazione. Metodologie di ricerca nuove, quali l’informatica umanistica, e la maggiore facilità di accesso a corpora testuali sempre più ampi hanno profondamente ridisegnato la nostra conoscenza dell’autore. Di qui la necessità di fornire uno strumento di studio aggiornato, che tenga conto delle più recenti acquisizioni relative alla ricostruzione dei testi, alla formazione del canone (con l’annessa questione dei collaborative plays), alla cronologia delle opere. Nel proporre una guida generale, il volume non rinuncia, tuttavia, a confrontarsi con una serie di problemi di carattere più specialistico. Un’ampia sezione ridiscute la vexata quaestio dei generi drammatici, analizzando il “comico” e il “tragico” alla luce delle diverse visioni del mondo ivi sottese. La sezione sulla poesia, a sua volta, rivisita le questioni relative alla cronologia dei Sonnets, e ai legami tra l’opera drammatica e l’opera poetica. Ad arricchire il quadro, il capitolo finale (attraverso un caso di studio su Edward III) riesamina il rapporto dell’autore con la pagina scritta, suggerendo che, oltre che per gli spettatori dell’epoca, Shakespeare scriveva anche per un pubblico di lettori sia presenti che futuri, rivelandosi, al contempo, uomo di teatro e uomo di lettere. Il risultato è un volume completo, di agile consultazione, che non si limita a fornire il necessario materiale informativo, ma offre altresì gli strumenti metodologici utili a cogliere, dall’interno, i fenomeni di volta in volta esplorati.
In this video of the AIA Interviews series, Paolo D’Indinosante speaks with Silvia Pettini about her latest book, “The Translation of Realia and Irrealia in Game Localization: Culture-Specificity between Realism and Fictionality”, recipient of the AIA Junior Book Prize.
This volume deals with a crucial, but underestimated, dimension of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education, namely the students’ language experience and the improvement in English proficiency, the latter being one of the key motivating factors to opt for EMI. The mixed-method case study presented in this volume is a longitudinal investigation of the participants’ language progress, spanning over two academic years. Although English language outcomes are neither mentioned in the definitions of EMI nor in the courses’ syllabi, indeed, the EMI experience provides a large amount of language input for students, which is both assimilated consciously and partly as a result of incidental language learning. On reviewing previous literature on EMI, this book addresses some key questions such as the impact of EMI on the students’ English skills, the increase of proficiency while focused on subject-oriented activities and in particular whether English improvement is voluntary or incidental. The data retrieved from questionnaires and language tests administered to one-hundred medical students enrolled in an Italian university provide valuable insights into the language factor in EMI, which may be usefully exploited and extended to other higher educational contexts. Stefania Cicillini, The Language Factor in English-Medium Instruction (EMI). A Longitudinal Study of Students’ Language Gains, Roma, Carocci, pp. 208 ISBN: 9788829024292, Pp. 208
This book offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards’ use of Instagram and official websites. Drawing on Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, it examines how linguistic and visual resources are strategically deployed to construct idealized representations of destinations and evoke positive emotional responses. Through a multimodal analysis, the volume explores recurring linguistic patterns, the role of platform-specific dissemination, and how discourse constructs power dynamics between destinations and prospective tourists. By combining empirical methods with critical discourse and sociological perspectives, the book sheds light on how emotionally charged, consumer-oriented narratives may reinforce broader socioeconomic inequalities and contribute to unsustainable travel practices. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing debates on digital persuasion and literacy, media framing, and the ideological function of tourism communication, recommending approaches to integrate data-driven, highly persuasive strategies and eco-sensitive narratives. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in discourse analysis, digital communication, tourism studies, marketing, and linguistics, as well as professionals interested in the mechanisms behind strategic, promotional narratives and their potential impact on social and environmental sustainability. Elena Mattei, The Language of Persuasion on Instagram. A Systemic Functional Approach to Multimodal Tourism Discourse. Routledge ISBN 9781032937489 288 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age: Culture, Knowledge, Expertise, Practicesedited by G. Tessuto, S. M. Maci, M. J. Zerbe, Cambridge Scholars, June 2025 The rapid development of the Internet and social media platforms hastransformed the landscape of medical science communication where avariety of societal stakeholders, including the research academy,healthcare professionals, policymakers, and patients, increasingly turn tothe readily usable functionalities of online information and knowledgeplatforms. This transformation has had a significant impact on digitalcommunication within the medical academy and the healthcare sector asa whole. Opportunities are spawning an increasingly diverse digitalecosystem of less formal practices of medical scholarly communicationon web and social media platforms (research blogs, tweets, newspaperarticles, press interviews, ResearchGate, WikiPathways, info-graphicsand video-abstracts), making the scientific process more democratic andresponsive to societal needs and fostering ‘open’, rapid scientificcommunication between researchers, citizens, and other societal actors.This book brings together academics and practitioners from the area oflinguistics and other fields to critically discuss and rethink emergingtrends and variations in medical science communication models whereculture, knowledge, expertise, and identity are played out, contributing tothe discursive study of texts and genres that matter to internal and externalprocesses and practices of medical science communication This book is part of a series. View the full series, “Medical Discourse and Communication”, here. ISBN: 1-0364-4566-6 ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4566-9 Pages: 398 Cambridge Scholars Publishing https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-4566-9
In this video of the AIA Interviews series, Asia Battiloro sits down with Richard Ambrosini to discuss his latest book, La poesia inglese. Proposte di lettura dall’età dei Tudor a oggi Link to Richard Ambrosini’s book:
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https://www.routledge.com/Postcolonial-Stylistics/Adami/p/book/9781032740898 This accessible introduction to postcolonial stylistics looks at the shared aims of stylistics and postcolonial studies and illustrates how to apply the analytical and theoretical tools of stylistics to a selection of literary and non-literary texts from a range of English-speaking postcolonial contexts. Structured around the five keywords of Language, Identity, Belonging, History, and Ecology, the book: Comprehensive in its coverage and assuming no prior knowledge of the topics considered, the book adopts an interactive and activity-based approach to develop readers’ understanding of linguistic structures and forms through postcolonial texts. Offering a new interdisciplinary perspective, this is essential reading for students new to stylistics and postcolonial literature.
Can You Taste Sustainability? Based on the premise that the grandiloquent and frequently satirised language of wine tasting emerged from the globalising socio-economic dynamics of the 1970s, the aim of this volume is to investigate whether a recent market trend — namely, sustainable wine — has engendered an alternative wine-tasting discourse that aligns with the demands of environmentally conscious consumers.
This volume explores the language of sustainability through a critical analysis of discourse supported by corpus linguistics.