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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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L. M. Crisafulli, S. Baieri, Carlotta Farese (eds) Imprinting Anglo- Italian Relations in The Liberal (Peter Lang)

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Imprinting Anglo- Italian Relations in The Liberal by Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Volume editor)Serena Baiesi (Volume editor) Carlotta Farese (Volume editor)  ©2023Edited Collection262 Pages   When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political project conceived by well-known and controversial figures (L. Hunt, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron, W. Hazlitt, and Mary Shelley). They were all members of the so-called “Pisan circle”, an Anglo-Italian community of liberal writers aspiring to cultural and social reform. Even though The Liberal was addressed to an English public, it was entirely conceived in Italy, a country which had become a symbolic as well as a geographical space, playing a crucial role in defining the journal’s aims and themes. This collection of essays examines the short and difficult life of the periodical, reassessing its cultural politics, its relationship to Italy, the controversial British reception, and its relevance to Romantic (and indeed contemporary) debates on Liberalism.

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CALL FOR PAPERSde genere – Rivista di studi letterari, postcoloniali e di genere

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***CALL FOR PAPERS***de genere – Rivista di studi letterari, postcoloniali e di genere Ecologie femministe e intersezionali nella letteratura e nella cultura visualeA cura di Giulia Fabbri (Sapienza Università di Roma) e Chiara Xausa (Università di Bologna) In un articolo del 2008 dal titolo Ecofeminism without Nature?, Stacy Alaimo scrive che le possibilità di collegare femminismi e ambientalismo sono molteplici. Sarebbe però un errore, aggiunge, presupporre che i femminismi siano intrinsecamente ambientalisti o orientati verso la giustizia multispecie, dal momento che non esiste un’alleanza naturale tra queste prospettive. Poiché la storica associazione tra donne e natura è stata a lungo considerata una delle radici principali della sottomissione femminile, parte del femminismo ha tentato di separare la categoria di donna dalla sfera della natura per avvicinarla a quella della cultura – la cosiddetta flight from nature, “fuga dalla natura” (Alaimo 2000) –, rinunciando a interpretare criticamente e a superare il dualismo cultura/natura. L’ecofemminismo muove proprio da queste dicotomie gerarchizzanti (cultura/natura ma anche umano/non-umano, uomo/donna e molte altre) in cui il temine normativo incarna l’universalità mentre i soggetti altri vengono subordinati al mondo del non valore, e invita a superare la visione dualistica della realtà e i valori di dominio, sfruttamento e disuguaglianza che questa porta con sé. A partire dalla sua prima teorizzazione nello scritto di Françoise d’Eaubonne del 1974, Le féminisme ou la mort, l’ecofemminismo si sviluppa come una corrente del femminismo esplicitamente ecologica, che sostiene l’esistenza di una intersezione strutturale tra il dominio patriarcale delle donne e la subordinazione della natura. Questo numero di de genere intende allargare lo sguardo oltre la connessione donne-natura, con l’obiettivo di evidenziare come il pensiero elaborato da soggettività marginalizzate sulla base delle identità di genere e dell’orientamento sessuale, della razza, della disabilità e di altre categorie possa offrire un contributo prezioso alle traiettorie di ricerca delle Environmental Humanities. Accogliamo quindi contributi che rispondano all’invito fatto da Stacy Alaimo nel suo libro più recente Exposed. Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (2016, tradotto in italiano nel 2024): creare nuove possibilità per rendere produttive e generative queste alleanze, tensioni e, a volte, contraddizioni ed estenderle oltre il territorio nel quale femminismi e ambientalismo sembrano sovrapporsi. Gli sviluppi teorici più recenti nell’ambito della riflessione sulle Environmental Humanities hanno messo in luce diverse intersezioni tra femminismi, teorie queer, giustizia climatica, questione animale e decolonialità, contribuendo a smantellare i rapporti su cui i sistemi di oppressione si reggono: si pensi, ad esempio, a Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation di Sunaura Taylor (2017), Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters di Aph Ko e Syl Ko (2018), Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire di Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands e Bruce Erickson (2010) e Queer Ecofeminism: From Binary Environmental Endeavours to Postgender Pursuits di Asmae Ourkiya (2023). Negli ultimi anni anche l’Italia ha assistito alla pubblicazione di importanti testi (italiani o tradotti) che propongono riflessioni sui sistemi di oppressione che coinvolgono in modo intersezionale tanto i soggetti umani quanto le molteplici alterità non umane – basti pensare, a titolo non esaustivo, ai volumi Per farla finita con la famiglia di Angela Balzano (2021), Cosa può un compost di Antonia Anna Ferrante (2022), Cospirazione animale di Marco Reggio (2022) e Animali si diventa di Federica Timeto (2024). Tali testi contribuiscono allo sviluppo nel contesto italiano di un dibattito e di una teorizzazione sulle articolazioni dell’Antropopatriarcato, in un momento storico, come quello attuale, in cui emerge in modo evidente come gli effetti della crisi ambientale hanno un impatto differenziato sulle diverse categorie di soggetti. Questo numero monografico intende mappare (in modo inevitabilmente parziale) le zone di interazione tra le teorie e le pratiche femministe intersezionali e le Environmental Humanities nella letteratura e nella cultura visuale di diversi contesti nazionali e/o attraverso una prospettiva comparata. Sia nella letteratura che nella cultura visuale, infatti, gli intrecci tra ecofemminismi e trasversalità delle lotte non sono ancora stati oggetto di analisi sistematiche. Siamo interessate quindi a contributi che analizzino le rappresentazioni culturali di tali intersezioni ponendo l’attenzione su differenti questioni (tra cui femminismo e postumano, ecofemminismo e intersezionalità, genere e cambiamento climatico, ecologie queer, questione animale) e attraverso diverse prospettive di analisi (tra cui studi post- e decoloniali, critical race theory, teoria queer, epistemologie indigene, disability studies). Una lista non esaustiva di possibili aree di indagine include: climate fiction/solarpunk/eco-fiction;teatro e arti performative;cinema, fotografia, televisione, webseriesarte, artivismo e pratiche estetiche Per proporre un contributo (articoli, interviste, interventi artistici) inviare un abstract di massimo 500 parole in italiano o in inglese e una breve biografia a degenere.journal@gmail.com e in CC a giulia.fabbri@uniroma1.it e chiara.xausa2@unibo.it. Per le linee guida per l’invio di una proposta ed altre informazioni controllate la nostra pagina con le linee guida. Consegna abstract: 30 settembre 2024Comunicazione articoli accettati: 15 ottobre 2024Consegna articoli: 15 febbraio 2025 Bibliografia Adams, Carol. 2020. Carne da macello. La politica sessuale della carne. Milano: Vanda, Milano. Alaimo, Stacey. 2008. “Ecofeminism Without Nature: Questioning the Relation Between Feminism and Evironmentalism”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 10 (3): 299-304. Alaimo, Stacey. 2016. Exposed. Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Balzano, Angela, Elisa Bosisio e Ilaria Santoemma, a cura di. 2022. Conchiglie, pinguini staminali. Verso futuri transpecie. Roma: DeriveApprodi. Balzano, Angela. 2021. Per farla finita con la famiglia. Dall’aborto alle parentele postumane. Milano: Meltemi. Barad, Karen. 2017. Performatività della natura. Pisa: ETS. Braidotti, Rosi. 2020. Il postumano (3 Voll.). Roma: DeriveApprodi. d’Eaubonne, Françoise. 1974. Le féminisme ou la mort, P. Horay. Demos, T.J. 2017. Against the Anthropocene. Visual Culture and the Environment Today. London: Sternberg Press. Ferrante, Antonia Anna. 2022. Cosa può un compost. Fare con le ecologie femministe e queer. Roma: Luca Sossella Editore. Fiskio, Janet, 2021. Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice. Poetics of Dissent and Repair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Guaraldo, Emiliano. 2022. “The Anthropocene and the Aesthetics of Planetary Abstraction”. In On the Interplay of Images. Imaginary and Imagination in Science Communication, a cura di Andreas Metzner-Szigeth, 163-178. Firenze: Olschki. Haraway, Donna. 2019. Chthulucene. Sopravvivere su un pianeta infetto. Roma: Nero. Ko,

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CfP “Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies” (E-ISSN: 2974-8933)

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È attiva la Call for Papers per il terzo fascicolo della rivista “Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies” (E-ISSN: 2974-8933), consultabile all’indirizzo: https://ojs.cimedoc.uniba.it/index.php/cml/pages/view/callpapers La rivista, soggetta a revisione a doppio cieco, esplora le intersezioni tra ricerca, riflessione critica e sperimentazione didattica delle potenzialità applicative di strumenti e metodologie digitali nell’ambito della formazione linguistica, e privilegia un’ottica plurilingue. Essa si pone come luogo di confronto e dibattito secondo una cifra che è l’intersezione tra riflessione critica e sperimentazione applicativa, contaminazione tra tradizione e innovazione metodologica, con particolare riferimento alle potenzialità del digitale, in una prospettiva interdisciplinare e transmediale. Data di invio delle proposte corredate da abstract: 15 giugno 2024. Il fascicolo n. 3 (2025) uscirà nella primavera del 2025. Il secondo fascicolo (2024) è online e consultabile al link: https://ojs.cimedoc.uniba.it/index.php/cml/issue/view/185/showToc. Accanto alla sezione “Saggi – Essays”, il numero ripropone la sezione “Esperienze didattiche – Teaching practice” che presenta report di sperimentazioni didattiche innovative. Per maggiori informazioni: cml.journal@uniba.it

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CfP: BRNO Studies in English, Special Issue (proposed date, 2025) – Encounters with Water: An Ecolinguistic perspective

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BRNO Studies in English, Special Issue (proposed date, 2025) Encounters with Water: An Ecolinguistic perspective Environmental issues have seldom ranked higher in the agendas of public debate. The emergent research paradigm of Ecolinguistics (Fill and Mühlhäusler 2001, Fill and Penz 2018) represents the response to the crisis by ecologically-minded linguists, who may critique underlying socio-cognitive frameworks (Halliday 1990) or dominant anti-ecological narratives (Stibbe 2015). Within this framework, the topic of water occupies a place that is hard to define: though manifestly essential to the survival not just of the human species but to all life forms supported by the Earth, it somehow slips away from our attention. To most first worlders it represents a gift that may easily be taken for granted, while indigenous peoples may be only too aware of issues with access to it (Jackson 2018). Eco-awareness in contemporary social movements is frequently associated with the colour green – with plants, trees, flowers, forests – yet these features of the lifescape depend on the nourishing presence of water, its natural cycles and rhythms. Underlying Ecolinguistics are a range of philosophical and spiritual positions that have been characterised by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess (1973) as consisting in either ‘shallow’ or ‘deep’ ecological perspectives. In the context of water, the former would refer to social practices that aim to guarantee access to this essential resource for human purposes like drinking, bathing or washing clothes. Such aspects reflect the instrumental view of Nature that typifies our current relationship with water as a resource, primarily as something that has an instrumental value. Deep ecology values water in a more profound sense. Of course, it would value and ‘venerate’ all the ‘ways and forms of life’ (Naess 1973: 95-6) that are found in seas, lakes and rivers. But more, it would seek to nurture a complete, holistic and open-hearted awareness of water as a vital element in our biosphere, and a respect for what it has represented historically and continues to represent today. Both approaches could support Ecolinguistic enquiries: for example, one could emphasise the social value of water, view it as the locus of modern territorial struggles in a context of droughts that motivate human migration. Water may be seen as a token for conflicts between industries that require water to run their factories and local populations who would rather see city parks enriched by unpolluted wetland environments. Alternatively, we could look with the eyes of artists and ecologists at water, towards those who have found spiritual meanings and unfolding identities in their ‘encounters with water’, meanings that connect denizens of the modern world with the ancient, traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples (Gottlieb 2004), and with some of the environmental voices from western literary and cultural traditions. Possible research areas for contributions include, but are not limited to, the following: Contributions should be theoretically grounded in any recognised sub-field of modern linguistics (Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Linguistic Ethnography, Critical Discourse Studies, Corpus Linguistics, Multimodality, Argumentation theory, Sociolinguistics, Ecostylistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Narrative theory, etc.). We also welcome contributions from other research fields which use one or more of these methodologies, in the spirit of expanding the range of Ecolinguistics as a research paradigm. Important dates: Abstract submission: 30th June, notification of acceptance 31st July Submission of paper: 31st December 2024 EMAIL for contributions: encounterswithwater@gmail.com References Fill, Alwin, and Peter Mühlhäusler. 2001. The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology, and Environment. London: Continuum. Fill, Alwin, and Hermine Penz, eds. 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics. New York: Routledge. Gottlieb, Roger S., ed. 2004. This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. Halliday, M. A. K. 2010. On Language and Linguistics. London: Continuum. Jackson, Sue 2018. Indigenous peoples and water justice in a globalizing world. In Conca, K and Weinthal, E. (Eds). Oxford Handbook on Water Politics and Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Naess, Arne. 1973. The Shallow and the Deep, Long-range Ecology Movement. A Summary. Inquiry 16(1–4):95–100. Stibbe, Arran. 2015. Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Editors of the special issue: Douglas Mark Ponton dponton@unict.it University of Catania, Italy Cristina Arizzi, cristina.arizzi@unict.it University of Catania, Italy

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CfP: Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere – forthcoming general issue, volume XXIX (2024)

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Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely openaccess journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered in their interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary relationships with other cultural expressions.The 2024 issue invites proposals on literatures in English for the Anglophone section. Full articles, in English or Italian, should be comprised between 6000 and 10000 words, endnotes and bibliography included, according to the MLA style.An abstract of maximum 350 words in English and a short bionote should be sent by April 12, 2024 to Roberta Gefter Wondrich (gefter@units.it) and to the journal email address prospero@units.it.Contributors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts by April 30, 2024, and full articles will be due by September 10, 2024, to ensure publication after the peer-review process early in December 2024.For queries and further information about the journal policy, please contact the editor in chief, Roberta Gefter Wondrich at gefter@units.it and visit the website at:https://www.openstarts.units.it/communities/bddf575c-df32-432c-a03d-cba533e93af5

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CfP Lingue “Culture Mediazioni/Languages Cultures Mediation Journal”: “The Language of War: Lexicon, Metaphor, Discourse”

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Call for papers Lingue Culture Mediazioni/Languages Cultures Mediation Journal Vol 11 (2024) No 2: “The Language of War: Lexicon, Metaphor, Discourse” Issue nr. 2 vol. 11 (2024) will focus on the following theme: The Language of War: Lexicon, Metaphor, Discourse and will be edited by Dr. Anna Anselmo (Università di Ferrara). Professor Kim Grego (Università degli Studi di Milano) and Prof. Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia). Authors are cordially invited to submit an article of max. 6.500 words (equivalent to 20 pages of about 2.250 characters including spaces). If the text contains figures, these must be included in the standard 20-page length. From the home page you will have to follow the For Authors link.We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal policies, as well as the Submissions page and the Author Guidelines for information on the upload procedure. All submitted works considered suitable for publication will undergo an anonymous double-blind review process. Deadlines: Deadline for papers submission: June 10th, 2024Request for revision following peer review: by September 10th, 2024Final version due by October 10th, 2024Publication: by December 2024 Contacts: anna.anselmo@unife.it, kim.grego@unimi.it, A.Musolff@uea.ac.uk LCM-journal@ledonline.it, languagesculturesmediationdeib@gmail.com Rationale: This issue aims to offer critical insight into the construal (Fairclough 2003) of war in the discursive public sphere. War can be broadly conceptualised according to van der Dennen, as “a species of the genus of violence”; specifically, it is “collective, direct, manifest, personal, intentional, organised, institutionalised, sanctioned, and sometimes ritualised and regulated violence” (1981). More specifically, war is here intended both as “a flexible trope suitable for an allusion to any serious strife, struggle or campaign” (Dinstein 2018: 5), and as the archetypical “manifestation of international armed conflicts”, regulated by law (Dinstein 2018: 8). However, armed conflicts are not merely international, they can also be intra-national. Against this definitional backdrop, this issue aims to provide a diachronic perspective spanning the long nineteenth-century (from 1789 ca.), the twentieth century up until the present. The long nineteenth century was bracketed by two war events – the French wars, on the one hand, and the Great War, on the other. The twentieth century saw deadly wars, genocide and a rhizomatic multiplication of armed conflict (Deleuze and Guattari 2013) at national and supranational level. The twenty-first century has deterritorialized war (Deleuze and Guattari 2013) by framing several phenomena as war-like, including terrorism and public protest (Steuter and Willis 2008; Hodges 2011). Such scenarios call for a critical appreciation of the role of language use and language users in construing and interpreting war, and for insightful analyses at the level of lexicon and semantics, rhetoric (e.g. metaphor, euphemism) and discourse, conceived as “that part of social and political action that is linguistic” (Chilton 1987). Consequently, contributions may focus on how the Government, the media, political activists and intellectuals, and private individuals write about war. Genres of potential interest are political speeches, parliamentary proceedings, news articles and opinion pieces, political writings, social media, non-fiction, and private letters, among others. The methods employed are rooted in the field of applied linguistics, in particular the following perspectives are deemed relevant: The issue is intended to articulate select foci on discrete war events that may form a discursive constellation and contribute to identifying continuities and discontinuities in how war events were and are linguistically mediated and construed across users and genres. Keywords: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Terminology, Historical Lexicography, War, Conflict. Bibliography Blaxill, L. (2020). The War of Words: The Language of British Elections 1880-1914. Boydell & Brewer. Chilton, P. (1987). Metaphor, Euphemism and the Militarization of Language. Current Research on Peace and Violence, 10(1), 7–19. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40725053 Chilton, P. A. (Ed.). (1998). Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989 – 1991. Benjamins. Deleuze, G., Guattari, F., & Massumi, B. (2013). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Bloomsbury Academic. Dinstein, Y. (2018). War, Aggression, and Self-Defence, 6th Edition. Cambridge University Press. Fairclough, N. (2003). Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. Routledge. Hayes, N., & Hill, J. (Eds.). (1999). Millions Like Us?: British Culture in the Second World War (DGO-Digital original). Liverpool University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjdhc Heer, H. et al. (Eds.). (2008). The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation. Palgrave Macmillan. Hodges, A. (2011). The “War On Terror” Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality. Oxford University Press. Hodges, A. (2015). War Discourse. In K. Tracy, T. Sandel, & C. Ilie (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (1st ed., pp. 1–6). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi026 Jackson, R. (2005). Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics, and Counter-Terrorism. Manchester University Press. Kelly, M., Footitt, H. & Salama-Carr, M. (Eds.). (2019). The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan. Kennedy, C. (2013). Narratives of The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Military and Civilian Experience in Britain and Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan. Pratt, M. L. (2009). Harm’s Way: Language and the Contemporary Arts of War. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 124(5), 1515–1531. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.5.1515 Russell, G. (1995). The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics, and Society, 1793-1815. Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. Steuter, E., & Wills, D. (2008). At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War On Terror. Lexington Books. Thorne, S. (2006). The Language of War. Routledge. Walker, J., & Declercq, C. (Eds.). (2021). Multilingual Environments in the Great War. Bloomsbury Academic.

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Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identity and Hybridity – Manuela D’Amore

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Manuela D’Amore Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain: Time, Transnational Identity and Hybridity Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 314. ISBN: 978-3-031-35437-3 This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain. They are mostly unknown to specialist and non-specialist readers, but deserve full recognition: they have recounted the history of the migrant community in the period 1880-1980, while creatively experimenting with hybrid forms of expression and blending words with visuals. Their focus on the horrors of the Second World War – especially on the tragedy of the Arandora Star (2nd July 1940) – offers clear evidence of their civil commitment.  Made up by 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse and drama, Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain will appeal to specialists in different areas of study. It discusses topical issues like migration and social integration, cultures and foods in transition, as well as plurilingualism. More importantly, it begins to fill the void left by a critical tradition which has only appreciated the northern American and Australian branches of Italian writing. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-35438-0

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Multimodality and Translanguaging in Video Interactions – Maria Grazia Sindoni

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Maria Grazia Sindoni Multimodality and Translanguaging in Video Interactions Cambridge University Press, Elements in Applied Linguistics, 2023, pp. 75. ISBN: 9781009286947 This Element presents and critically discusses video-mediated communication by combining theories and empirical methods of multimodal studies and translanguaging. Since Covid-19 gained momentum, video-based interactions have become more and more ingrained in private and public lives and to the point of being fully incorporated in a wide range of community practices in personal, work and educational environments. The meaning making of video communication results from the complex, situationally based and culturally influenced and interlaced components of different semiotic resources and practices. These include the use of speech, writing, translingual practices, gaze behaviour, proxemics and kinesics patterns, as well as forms of embodied interaction. The Element aims at unpacking these resources and at interpreting how they make meanings to improve and encourage active and responsible participation in the current digital scenarios. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/multimodality-and-translanguaging-in-video-interactions/7BA4AC0FD92A20DE089053E7B513392C

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

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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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