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War in Travel Literature – Jeanne Dubino, Orkun Kocabıyık, Elisabetta Marino, Andrew Smyth (eds.)

Jeanne Dubino, Orkun Kocabıyık, Elisabetta Marino, Andrew Smyth (eds.) War in Travel Literature Cambridge Scholars, 2023, pp. 313. ISBN: 1-5275-0482-4 These twelve chapters show how war functions as a subject, theme, impetus—willing and not—and backdrop in travel writing. Literature about travel and war in tandem enables readers to rethink both categories. The forms of travel writing about war addressed in this collection, including cookbooks and military magazines along with nonfiction narrative and  memoir, reveal how heterogenous travel writing can be. To study travel in connection with war expands readers’ understanding of the multiple motivations instigating travellers’ journeys. War is about more than fighting on a battlefield; its reach is extensive, encompassing the spheres surrounding its battlefields and fronts. The many actors involved in any conflict attests to the ways war is absorbed into their worlds, permeates their thoughts and spurs their actions. Readers interested in travel literature from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the present day will find this volume to be of especial interest. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0482-0

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The Influence of English on Italian: Lexical and Cultural Features – Virginia Pulcini

Virginia Pulcini The Influence of English on Italian: Lexical and Cultural Features De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, pp. 285. ISBN: 9783110754957 Open Access The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of English-induced borrowings are presented on the basis of quantitative and qualitative information provided by Italian lexicographic sources and corpus-based evidence. Criteria of currency and frequency are discussed with reference to a multilingual project (GLAD – Global Anglicism Database), offering a contribution to loanword lexicography. The book is addressed to scholars and nonexperts interested in the input of English borrowings into Italian. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110755114/html?lang=en

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The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation – Stefania M. Maci, Massimiliano Demata, Mark McGlashan, Philip Seargeant (eds.)

Stefania M. Maci, Massimiliano Demata, Mark McGlashan, Philip Seargeant (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation Routledge, 2023, pp. 454. ISBN: 9781032124254 This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research into discourses of disinformation, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and “fake news”. Divided into two sections, it provides a detailed look at the methodological challenges and approaches for studying disinformation, along with a wide range of case studies covering everything from climate change denial to COVID-19 conspiracies. The studies address how discourses of disinformation are constructed and developed, what rhetorical and persuasive strategies they employ, how disinformation can be discerned from real news, and what steps we might take in order to create a more trustworthy news environment. Authored by leading experts from around the world, and showcasing the most up-to-date methodological approaches to the topic, the volume makes a significant contribution to current linguistic research on politics, and is an essential guide to the discourses of disinformation for advanced students and researchers of English language studies, linguistics, and media and communication studies. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003224495/routledge-handbook-discourse-disinformation-stefania-maci-massimiliano-demata-philip-seargeant-mark-mcglashan

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The Research-Practice Interface in English for Specific Purposes. Past, Present and Future – Ersilia Incelli, Renzo Mocini, Judith Turnbull (eds.)

Ersilia Incelli, Renzo Mocini, Judith Turnbull (eds.) The Research-Practice Interface in English for Specific Purposes. Past, Present and Future Cambridge Scholars, 2022, pp. 297. ISBN: 1-5275-8910-2 This volume, edited by Ersilia Incelli, Renzo Mocini and Judith Turnbull, is a Festschrift in honor of Professor Rita Salvi, acclaimed scholar of English and English linguistics in the Faculty of Economics at ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome for many years. The book, made up of fourteen chapters, stems from the work of scholars, researchers and colleagues who have been working with Professor Salvi throughout her long career. These numerous research projects have dealt with a wide range of topics revolving around English linguistics, from Global English to business discourse, from teaching and testing techniques to ESP and corpus linguistics. ESP represents the main focus of this book, including both theoretical and practical aspects connected to the teaching of specialized English. To be sure, in a globalized and hyperspecialized world, an English language course based merely on the four basic skills that mainly involves everyday language is simply not enough to prepare students to be proficient English users in their future professional lives. The pedagogical benefits of ESP expose students to real-life specific occupations and practices. Undoubtedly, the book proves to be a valuable tool for researchers and particularly for language teachers and educators in their key role as mediators between research and teaching. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8910-0

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Beyond Standard English. Variation and Change in Eastern England – Carmen Ciancia

Carmen Ciancia Beyond Standard English. Variation and Change in Eastern England Carocci, 2023, pp. 104. ISBN: 978-88-290-2028-7 When foreign learners of English take up an English course, they are commonly taught the standard form of the language. However, when they visit an English speaking country for the first time (e.g. the UK), they face difficulties in understanding the real English, mostly in terms of pronunciation differences. Why? This and many other questions are answered in this book, which explores the hidden mechanisms of how language works, the complex relationship between language and ideologies, and describes language as a social phenomenon by showing how societal structures affect the way people talk, particularly in Eastern England. Other topics covered include fieldwork and data analysis for students and researchers embarking on research projects in Sociolinguistics.

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Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions across Disciplines – Arianna Maiorani, C. Bruna Mancini (eds)

Arianna Maiorani, C. Bruna Mancini (eds) Space and Place as Human Coordinates: Rethinking Dimensions across Disciplines Cambridge Scholars, 2021, 1-5275-7462-8, 1-5275-9873-X This truly multidisciplinary book explores how culture-founding terms like ‘space’ and ‘place’ have been reconsidered, re-elaborated and how they have acquired new meanings through academic research that crosses the traditional borderline between the humanities and social sciences. All chapters explore from different perspectives how the notions of space and place are still modelling our sense of reality by investigating social and cultural phenomena of various types that evolved between the 20th and 21st centuries. The essays collected here provide evidence of the growing necessity of building bridges across disciplines to allow knowledge, in general, and academic work, in particular, to work towards new forms of epistemology. The book will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the areas of cultural studies, discourse analysis, multimodality, communication and media, linguistics, literary and film studies, anthropology and ethnography. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7462-5/

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Space(s) of the Fantastic. A 21st Century Manifesto – David Punter, C. Bruna Mancini (eds)

David Punter, C. Bruna Mancini (eds) Space(s) of the Fantastic. A 21st Century ManifestoRoutledge, 2021, ISBN Hardback: 9780367680282, ISBN Paperback: 9780367681692 This book provides a series of new addresses to the enduring problem of how to categorize the Fantastic. The approach taken is through the lens of spatiality; the Fantastic gives us new worlds, although of course these are refractions of worlds already in being. In place of ‘real’ spaces (whatever they might be), the Fantastic gives us imaginary spaces, although within those spaces historical and cultural conflicts are played out, albeit in forms that stretch our understanding of everyday location, and our usual interpretations of cause and effect. Many authors are addressed here, from a variety of different geographical and national traditions, thus demonstrating how the Fantastic – as a mode, a genre, a way of thinking, imagining and writing – continually traverses borders and boundaries. We hope to move the ongoing debate about the Fantastic forward in a scholarly as well as an engaging way. https://www.routledge.com/Spaces-of-the-Fantastic-A-21st-Century-Manifesto/Punter-Mancini/p/book/9780367681692#

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Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines: Issues and Perspectives – Girolamo Tessuto

Girolamo Tessuto, Richard Ashcroft, Vijay, K. Bhatia (eds.) Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines: Issues and Perspectives Cambridge Scholars, 2023, pp. 385. ISBN: 1-5275-9471-8 This volume provides a stage for an extensive exploration of the interface between medicine, law and other disciplines or professions. It offers the reader opportunities to understand how this integrative, interactive interdisciplinary process can be examined through the lenses of language, discourse, and communication. Grown out from the newly established CIRLaM (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Medicine) that builds upon extensive research done by CRILL (Centre for Research in Language and Law), contributions in this volume cover cross-wise issues raised by paradigmatic cases of bioethics and law, nursing ethics and law, pharmacy ethics and law, bioethics and religion, risk management and ethics, social inclusion and bioethics, and environmental ethics. This book is part of the Medical Discourse and Communication international, double-blind referred series (formerly Legal Discourse and Communication) – Editor-in Chief: G. Tessuto. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9471-5

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ESSE Conference – 26-30 August 2024

ESSE Conference European Society for the Study of English 2024 conference http://www.unil.ch/esse2024 The 2024 European Society for the Study of English conference will take place at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2024. Call for posters, seminar papers and doctoral symposium Posters should be devoted to research-in-progress and project presentations. The aim is to provide additional opportunities for feedback and personal contacts. At the conference, there will be a dedicated poster session, which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 6pm. Please send proposals of not more than 240 words to esse2024@unil.ch by 31 January 2024. Seminar papers Scholars wishing to present their paper in one of the seminars are invited to submit 250- word abstracts of their proposed presentations and a brief bio directly to the convenors of the respective seminars by 31 January 2024. The list of seminars can be found here: https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/calls-for-participation/call-forindividual-papers-and-posters/ Seminars consist of a varying number of academic papers and discussions. The length of papers should be 20 minutes with an added 10 minutes for discussion. As the number of slots for seminars is restricted for room reasons, the seminar convenors have some flexibility and may ask seminar participants for shortened papers in order to allow for more presentations in their seminars. Doctoral Symposium Call for participation at: https://wp.unil.ch/esse2024/calls-for-participation/callfor-the-doctoral-symposium/ KEY DATES 31 January 2024: Submissions of proposals for individual papers and posters 31 January 2024: Application to Doctoral Symposium 1 March 2024: Registration begins

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“Metamorphoses and Fluidity: Ever-Changing Shapes in the Stream of Time”

Title: “Metamorphoses and Fluidity: Ever-Changing Shapes in the Stream of Time” Dates: 7-8 May 2024 Place: Tor Vergata University of Rome Organising committee: TrAdE Group, Department of History, Humanities and Society, Tor Vergata University of Rome Please submit your proposals (max 200 words) to: segreteria.trade@gmail.com by 20 January 2024, and check the website https://gruppotrade-2019.uniroma2.it for full call for papers and other info. Prominent theoretical issues and practices in contemporary Western intellectual cultures have made metamorphosis a desirable area for scholarly study, as the topic is frequently juxtaposed or linked with something that is not only “other”. Metamorphosis, however, not only questions the distinctions between the subject and its “other” or between language and nonlanguage; it also raises issues of definition. As a result, many studies focused on the concept of metamorphosis emphasize epistemological and ontological issues pertaining to the subject’s interaction with the outside world and other people as well as the subject’s understanding of both the subject and the outside world. Another topic that has received much attention in recent studies is metamorphosis as a tropological issue, as it draws from a variety of trope categories, particularly metaphor and metonymy, and yet, as a representation of a startling and seemingly miraculous change, it is also capable of playing with the line between the literal and figurative. The fourth edition of the biannual conference organized by the Research Group TrAdE (Translation and Adaptation from/into English) seeks to explore how translation and adaptation deal with ever-changing literary and linguistic shapes in the stream of time. The transdisciplinary Conference shall be focused on (but not limited to): metamorphosis/fluidity in education and (social) media; in art(s), music, movies, and TV series; in language, literature, linguistics, and translation; metamorphosis/fluidity of style(s) and genre(s).

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