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New publication: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration – Critical and Creative Voices (1946-2016)

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edited by Nicoletta Vallorani, Simona Bertacco, William Boelhower Focusing on a significant 70-year period as a climactic phase of displacement, the book investigates the role of literature in producing new modes of representing and understanding migration in a global context. Globally felt and reported as a geographical, sociological, anthropological, and historical phenomenon, migration has produced an unprecedented corpus of literary narratives that demands to be approached through its own set of cross-disciplinary critical approaches. This Handbook explores tales of migration via a systematic study of the large corpus of Anglophone literary texts that have been written by migrant authors and/or on the topic of migration between 1946 and 2016-from the start of the United Nations International Migration Report to the first year in which the number of displaced people reached the level of the Second World War, marking a new phase in global migrations. Given the dominance of English as a world language, often used by writers who are not native speakers, the volume covers Anglophone writing, providing a substantially representative corpus that includes texts from or about Europe, Africa, North and Central America, and the South Asia and Pacific region. Starting from a critical approach that is inherently interdisciplinary, authors consider the notion of the border and how it has changed over time; show how traditional literary genres have morphed and hybridized to become suitable expressive tools for the new stories of migration; reflect on how the movement across borders and countries creates migrant identities that are not only linguistic but invests all aspects of one’s life and worldview; and includes authors’ voices (a small but representative group) to both justify and test the critical approaches proposed. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-handbook-of-anglophone-literature-and-migration-9798765103524

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Michele Stanco, Shakespeare: uomo di teatro, uomo di lettere, Roma, Carocci, 2025, 194 pp.

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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.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ContactZone “Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and Television Series”, edited by G. Balirano and O. Palusci

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We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of ContactZone (ISSN: 2723-8881), titled “Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and Television Series”, edited by Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L’Orientale) and Oriana Palusci. This special issue explores how science fiction films and television series stage non-normative embodiments – both terrestrial and astral – to challenge conventional narratives about gender, sexuality, ability, and monstrosity. Contributions are invited on the ways in which sci-fi narratives construct, critique, and celebrate bodies that resist classification, disturb comfort zones, and gesture toward new forms of being in the universe. Key Dates:– Abstracts (300 words) and bio-note (100 words) due: 30 October 2025– Notification of acceptance: 10 November 2025– Full papers due: 20 January 2026– Publication: May 2026 Full details are available in the attached Call for Papers. Please feel free to circulate this Call for Papers among colleagues and networks who might be interested.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: LEA (Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente) Special Issue on “Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange Between India and Europe, 1870-1947”

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LEA (Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente) is pleased to invite submissions for its forthcoming special issue: “Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange Between India and Europe, 1870-1947”Edited by Prof. Ujjwal Jana (University of Delhi, India) and Prof. Greta Perletti (University of Trento, Italy) Articles intended for publication (6,000-7,000 words in length), accompanied by an abstract (see stylesheet), should be submitted to the Guest Editors – Prof. Ujjwal Jana (ujana@english.du.ac.in) and Prof. Greta Perletti (greta.perletti@unitn.it) – by 8 June 2026. The complete Call for Papers is available here:https://journals.fupress.net/call-for-paper/transimperial-encounters-networks-of-cultural-and-literary-exchange-between-india-and-europe-1870-1947/

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New book: Stefania Cicillini, The Language Factor in English-Medium Instruction (EMI). A Longitudinal Study of Students’ Language Gains, Roma, Carocci, 2025

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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 

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New Book: Elena Mattei, The Language of Persuasion on Instagram. A Systemic Functional Approach to Multimodal Tourism Discourse, Routledge, 2025

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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

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New Publication: Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age: Culture, Knowledge, Expertise, Practices edited by G. Tessuto, S. M. Maci, M. J. Zerbe, Cambridge Scholars, 2025

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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

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The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

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Camilla Caporicci Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 480. ISBN: 9780192848833 Traditionally attributed to King Solomon, the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books, and played an essential role in the shaping of European spirituality and culture. Combining a sensual and deeply lyrical celebration of love with a well-established tradition of Christian allegorical interpretation, this text, crucial to both the Middle Ages and the early modern period, held a particular appeal for poets. The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric is the first systematic and wide-ranging investigation of the multifaceted use of the Song of Songs in Renaissance love lyric poetry, with specific attention to Italian, French, and, especially, English poetic production. At the same time, this investigation is embedded into a narrative that, comprising two initial chapters devoted to medieval poetry and to Francesco Petrarca, represents an unprecedented attempt to trace the role of the Song of Songs in the rise and development of the European love lyric, following its path – or rather, one of its paths – from the medieval origins of this tradition to the end of the sixteenth century. While the comparative standpoint characterizing this study fosters a deeper comprehension of the evolution of the European love lyric, its multidisciplinary approach, which considers the Song of Songs as the centre of a web of dynamics pertaining to the fields of literature, philosophy, theology, and religious and cultural history, contributes to the understanding of the thought and spirit of ages crucial to the shaping of European culture.

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CfP: Special issue on “The language of judges: exploring the discourse of separate opinions (Guest editors: Jekaterina Nikitina, University of MilanKatia Peruzzo, University of Trieste)

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Call for Papers – Special issue on “The language of judges: exploring the discourse of separate opinions“ Guest editors:Jekaterina Nikitina, University of MilanKatia Peruzzo, University of Trieste AbstractJudicial discourse has attracted its fair share of academic attention from a variety of perspectives, and yet, one of its most characteristic realizations remains somewhat understudied. Separate opinions, also known as votum separatum (Goźdź Roszkowski 2020: 381), are used by judges, at least in certain judicial systems, to convey their individual views on a legal case. Unlike the majority opinion, which represents the official decision of the court, a separate opinion provides standpoints of a single judge or a group of similar-minded judges that diverge from the majority opinion, of those judges “who lost their case in camera” (Bruinsma 2006: 360), and want to disagree, clarify or expand on a particular point. The discourse of separate opinions is a fascinating terrain for an exploration from a legal linguistics standpoint (Goźdź-Roszkowski 2020; McKeown 2021). It opens a window into the mechanisms of legal argumentation (Goźdź-Roszkowski 2024) and dialogical banter (Garzone 2016; Extebe 2020) between the majority and the minority. Since “dissident judges are not bound by the straightjacket of the majority judgment and its legal validity, [they can] […] express their opinions freely and follow their own convictions” (Bruinsma 2006: 360). Separate opinions are also pragmatically intriguing (Galdia 2022), as they must balance between some open confrontation and considerations of professional politeness (Kurzon 2001; Nikitina 2025, forthcoming) in their evaluative sections. At an international level, these opinions become curious instances of L2 legal rhetoric, as judges working in international courts must formulate their thoughts in the court’s official language(s), frequently different from their native ones. We invite proposals dealing with but not limited to the following perspectives on separate judicial opinions: Legal discourseLegal argumentationLegal genresDialogism and polyphony in legal discourseLegal drafting in L2 and legal translationCreativity in legal discourseLegal pragmaticsEvaluation and stance References Bruinsma, F. (2006). Les Opinions Séparées Des Juges à La Cour Européenne Des Droits de l’Homme. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 24 (2): 358–362. Etxabe, Julen. (2022). The Dialogical Language of Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal 59 (2): 429-515. Galdia, M. (2022) Foundations of pragmatic Legal Linguistics. Comparative Legilinguistics, 51: 241-278. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/cl.51.2022.11 Garzone, G. (2016). Polyphony and dialogism in legal discourse: Focus on syntactic negation”. In Constructing legal discourses and social practices: Issues and perspectives, edited by G. Tessuto et al., 2–27. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Goźdź-Roszkowski, S. (2020). Communicating dissent in judicial opinions: A comparative, genre-based analysis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, 33(2), 381–401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09711-y Goźdź-Roszkowski, S. (2024). Language and Legal Judgments. Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse. London-New York: Routledge. Kurzon, D (2001). The politeness of judges: American and English judicial behaviour. Journal of Pragmatics 33/1: 61–85. McKeown, J. (2021). A corpus-based examination of reflexive metadiscourse in majority and dissent opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Journal of Pragmatics, 186, 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.019 Nikitina, J. (2025, forthcoming). Separate opinions. In Nikitina J. Human Rights Discourse: Linguistics, Translation and Genre at the European Court of Human Rights. London-New York: Routledge. Important dates Abstracts: by January 30, 2025Acceptance/rejection: February 15, 2025Full papers: April 30, 2025Acceptance/rejection: June 15, 2025Publication: September 2025 Please note that starting in 2025, all publications will require the use of APA 7ed. formatting style. Please prepare your manuscripts strictly according to the instructions in the manual (see: Guidelines). Manuscripts not prepared according to the guidelines will be rejected. For details, please contact the volume editors.Please send all documents and requests to both jekaterina.nikitina@unimi.it and kperuzzo@units.it https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/announcement/view/653

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