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Dott.ssa Elisabetta Cecconi: Ricercatore di Lingua Inglese (SSD: L-LIN/12) presso la Scuola di Scienze Politiche  "Cesare Alfieri" dell'Univeristà di Firenze.

Titolare del corso di Lingua Inglese per il Corso di Laurea triennale in Scienze Politiche.

Titoli

08/08/2014: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per Professore Associato. SSD: Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Inglese (L-LIN/12).

2005. Dottorato di Ricerca in Anglistica e Americanistica, Università di Firenze

2001. Laurea a pieni voti in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze.

Didattica (pregressa)

Dal 2007 al 2018: titolare del corso di Lingua Inglese (SSD: L-LIN/12) come professore a contratto nei corsi di laurea triennali (PROGEAS) e nel Master di I livello in Pubblicità Istituzionale, Comunicazione Multimediale e Creazione di Eventi, Università di Firenze.

Ricerca

La sua attività di ricerca si concentra su due principali campi di indagine: il linguaggio del testo giornalistico e il linguaggio legale dei processi nel Seicento e nel Settecento Inglese.

1) Per quanto riguarda il linguaggio della stampa, particolare interesse è rivolto alle modalità persuasive utilizzate per veicolare notizie in diverse tipologie di testo. Alcuni temi che sono stati analizzati nella ricerca pluriennale sono: strategie retoriche nella costruzione della propaganda politica nella stampa filo-monarchica e filo-parlamentare nel periodo della Guerra Civile (1642-1648); sensazionalismo, provvidenzialismo ed intertestualità nelle ballate, nei pamphlet e nei primi periodici del Seicento; il linguaggio della propaganda nella costruzione dell’ideologia coloniale (1584-1624); costruzione dell'identità nazionale Americana in un corpus di periodici americani dal 1764-1783; l’interesse della società inglese per le notizie e l’impatto delle notizie nella vita sociale attraverso l'analisi del Corpus of English Dialogues (1560-1760), forme di censura e autocensura nei periodici antigovernativi (1650-1800), . Queste ricerche hanno messo a fuoco le strategie macrotestuali e persuasive attraverso cui i giornalisti del Seicento e del Settecento veicolano notizie di natura politica, sociale e sensazionalistica, anticipando principi del giornalismo moderno. Nell’esaminare le fonti primarie a disposizione sono stati utilizzati diversi approcci metodologici che comprendono l’analisi (critica) del discorso, la pragmatica storica, l’analisi dei media e la linguistica dei corpora.

2) Nel campo del linguaggio dei processi, la ricerca si è concentrata sul conflitto verbale tra imputati e Corte nella chiamata in giudizio e sulle strategie di difesa nella fase dell'interrogatorio e del contro-interrogatorio. A tale scopo sono state applicate la teoria della cortesia/scortesia con le sue estensioni nell’ambito delle relazioni di faccia e potere e la teoria degli atti linguistici. L’interesse dei lettori nei confronti dei processi è testimoniato non solo dalle pubblicazioni degli atti dalla fine del Seicento, ma anche dalla crescente inclusione di reportage di processi nei giornali del Settecento. A questo proposito, oggetto di studio sono le modalità macrostrutturali e linguistiche attraverso cui il linguaggio legale entra nel discorso giornalistico e diventa popolare, destinato cioè ad un pubblico di lettori eterogeneo e non specializzato.

3) un terzo campo di indagine riguarda la didattica della lingua inglese. Si è occupata dell'uso dei corpora per l'insegnamento della Lingua Inglese per Scopi Specifici (ESP). Ha tenuto un ciclo di conferenze sul bilinguismo nella prima infanzia per gli educatori e i coordinatori degli asili nido della provincia di Firenze (Gennaio-Febbraio 2021) e fa parte del gruppo di lavoro dell'Università di Firenze all'interno dell'accordo di collaborazione interuniversitario con l'Istituto Scolastico Regionale per lo sviluppo del profilo professionale del docente di Scuola Superiore.

Partecipazione a convegni e conferenze (recenti) come relatrice

2019. "Collective Identities in the Early Modern English Pamphlets on the Colonization of Virginia (1594-1724)". CHER Conference, 24 October.

2019. "Populism in the English Civil War propaganda discourse. A corpus-based discourse analysis of Mercurius Britanicus". AIA Conference. Università di Padova, 5-7 Settembre.

2019. "Pro and anti-Strafford pamphlets: Propaganda discourse on the Eve of the English Civil War". 7th Edition of the Conference on Historical News Discourse. Università Pompeu Fabra, Barcellona, 22-24 Maggio.

 2019. "English and/vs Indians: Semantic variation and re-lexicalization in EME pamphlets on the Exploration, Settlement and Colonization of North America". Conference on English Historical Lexicography in the Digital Age: Focus on Social and Geographical Variation. Università di Bergamo, 11-13 Aprile 2019.

2019 "Pros and Cons of a Corpus-based Approach to ESP Teaching". International Conference on Teacher Professional Development for a CLIL-based Approach". Università di Firenze, 28 Febbraio 2019

2018. “British Colonial Ideology in the  Language of pamphlets on Virginia”. LADES: The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement. Firenze, 15-16 Febbraio 2018.

2017. “Trial Proceedings recast as News Discourse in 18th century British Newspapers”. CHINED VI, Sixth International Conference on Historical News Discourse. Sheffield, 21-23 Giugno 2018

 2016. “‘This is an age for news’: A corpus-based analysis of news-related words in the spoken discourse of Early Modern English Society”. International Conference on Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change. Helsinki, 10-11 Marzo 2016.

2015. “Shaping reality in English Civil War adversarial news discourse: a corpus-based lexical study of Religious and Parliamentarian Newsbooks and Broadsides”. CHINED V. Fifth International Conference
on Historical News Discourse. Porto, 11-13 Giugno 2015.

2015. “Religious lexis and propaganda in Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus: evidence from the FEEN Corpus”. Conference on News Pamphlets and Print in Early Modern Europe. Firenze, 27 Febbraio 2015

2014.“Religious lexis and political ideology in Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus: evidence from the FEEN Corpus”. CHINED IV. Fourth International Conference on historical News Discourse. Helsinki, 5-7 Giungo 2014.

2012.”Crime reports in 17th century news discourse: evidence from broadside ballads, occasional pamphlets and early newspapers”. CHINED III. International Conference on Historical News Discourse III. Rostock, 18-19 Maggio 2012

2011. “Defence strategies in 17th century courtroom discourse. Evidence from the Old Bailey Proceedings”. CLAVIER Conference, Tracking Language Change in Specialized and Professional Genres. Modena,24-26 Novembre 2011

2011. “Disagreement and relational work in 17th century didactic dialogues”. 15th National Conference on the History of English Language. Cagliari, 26-28 Maggio 2011.

2010.” Impoliteness and facework in the Bardell vs Pickwick trial in Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers”.
ESSE 2010, Torino, 24-28 Agosto 2010.

Pubblicazioni

2020 "Paratext and Ideology in 17th-century news genres. A comparative discourse analysis of paratextual elements in news broadside ballads and occasional news pamphlets". In Matti Peikola and Birte Boes (eds.) The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical Approaches to Paratext and Metadiscourse in English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 137-162.

2020 "British Colonial Ideology in the Language of Pamphlets on Virginia (1584-1624)" In Brownlees, N. (ed.) The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing.

2019 "Populism in English Civil War news discourse. A corpus-assisted study of Mercurius Britanicus". In MediAzioni, 24, 1-26.

2019 "The Popularisation of Trial Discourse in 18th-century Periodicals. A Corpus-based Study of the Old Bailey Trial Proceedings and newspaper trial reports". In Lingue e Linguaggi, 30, 65-85.

2018 “Shaping reality in English Civil War adversarial news discourse: A corpus-based lexical study of Royalist and Parliamentarian newsbooks and broadsides”. In Shaping Reality in News Reporting from Early Modern English to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, N. Brownlees, E. Freitas, S. Tuna and J. P. Sousa (eds.), 43-54. Formalpress, Puclicacoes e Marketing, LDA.

 2017 "This is an age for news": A corpus-based analysis of the word NEW(E)S in the spoken discourse of Early Modern English society (1560-1760). In Nordic Journal of English Studies 16(3): 60-83.

2017 “Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks. A corpus-based analysis of Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus”. In Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, M. Palander-Collin, M. Ratia and I. Taavitsainen (eds.), 40-60. Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

2015 “Comparing discourse construction in 17th century news genres: a case study of murder reports”. In Changing genre conventions in historical news discourse. Historical Sociolinguistics Series. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 163-190.

2012 "Disagreement and relational work in 17th century didactic dialogues". In Mazzon, G. and L. Fodde  (eds) Perspectives on Early English dialogue. Case studies in historical pragmatics. Milano: FrancoAngeli, 283-300.

2012 “Defence practice in the 18th and early 19th century courtroom discourse. Pickpocketing cases at the Old Bailey”. In US-China Foreign Language, vol. 10, 1587-1598.

2012 “English for Event Creation: A Corpus-Based Approach to ESP”. In Borello, E. (ed.) Pubblicità Istituzionale, Comunicazione Multimediale e Creazione di Eventi. Edizioni dell’Orso: Alessandria, 117-132.

2012 The Language of Defendants in the 17th century English Courtroom. A socio-pragmatic analysis of the prisoners’ interactional role and representation. Peter Lang: Bern, 238 pp.

2011 “Power confrontation and verbal duelling in the arraignment section of XVII century trials”, in Impoliteness and facework across legal contexts – Special Edition of the Journal of Politeness Research, vol. 7, 101-121.

2010 “ ‘Old England of thy sins in time repent’: religious lexis and discourse in XVII century broadside ballads”, Rhesis. International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature. Linguistics and Philology 1.1: 5-22.

2010 “Witness narratives in seventeenth century trial proceedings: a case study of public discourse”, in The language of public and private communication in a historical perspective, a cura di Nicholas Brownlees, Gabriella Del Lungo e John Denton, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 245-262.

2009 “ ‘Ye Tories round the nation’: an analysis of markers of interactive-involved discourse in 17th century political broadside ballads”, The Nordic Journal of English Studies, 8 (3): 59-85.

2009 “ ‘To Let Him Have the Weight of My Tongue’: The I-Narrator’s Voice in ‘Cyclops’” in Joyce in Progress: Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference, a cura di F. Ruggieri, J. Mc Court ed E. Terrinoni, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 59-73.

2009  “Comparing seventeenth century news broadsides and occasional news pamphlets: interrelatedness in news reporting”, in Early Modern English News Discourse: Newspapers, pamphlets and scientific news discourse, a cura di Andreas H. Jucker. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 135-157.

2008: “Legal discourse and linguistic incongruities in Bardell vs Pickwick: an analysis of address and reference strategies in The Pickwick Papers trial scene”, Language and Literature, 17(3): 205-219.

2007:  “Who chose this face for me?” Joyce’s creation of secondary characters in Ulysses. Bern: Peter Lang. pp. 221.

2007:   “ ‘Jotting down on my cuff what she said’: The influence of Nora’s writing style on Joyce’s construction of Molly’s monologue”, in Hypermedia Joyce Studies, 8(1). Prague (http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v8/main/essays.php?essay=cecconi).  

2006:  “ ‘Whatdoyoucallhim?’: The naming system as a reflector of social DIS-UNION between Bloom and the Dubliners”, in Recent trends in Joyce’s Ulysses a cura di R.M. Bollettieri-Bosinelli, in mediAzioni, 2(1). Bologna: GEDIT, (http://www.mediazionionline.it/dossier/2006cecconi_ita.html).

2003: “ ‘Bliss’: un’analisi delle modalità di rappresentazione del pensiero e del discorso”, in Merope, XV, 39-40, 21-57.

Membro delle seguenti associazioni e gruppi di ricerca:

Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA) e European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)

SLIN (Storia della Lingua Inglese) Università di Catania

LIP (Language, Ideology and Power), Lancaster University

CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation in English), Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

CHINED (Conference on Historical News Discourse)

CHER (Corpora and Historical English Research Unit)

Analisi del discorso giornalistico e politico inglese e americano in chiave diacronica e sincronica.

Analisi linguistica e computazionale attraverso l'elaborazione e l'uso di corpora specialistici

Analisi socio-pragmatica degli atti dei processi in chiave sincronica e diacronica.

 Dr Elisabetta Cecconi. Researcher in English Language (L-LIN/12)

Qualifications

08/08/2014. National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor (L-LIN/12)

2005. PhD in English and American Studies, University of Florence

2001. Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Florence

 Previous teaching

2007-2018. Contract Professor of English Language, University of Florence

 Research

My research interests include news discourse and courtroom discourse in the Early Modern English period. Regarding news discourse, I am interested in the persuasive strategies adopted by the news-writer to recount the news event in different types of text. News broadside ballads, pamphlets and periodicals – called “newsbooks” – coexist in the 17^th century print market and help our understanding of the impact of ideologically-biased cheap print on the emerging public opinion. Some of the themes which have been analysed in the course of my research are: persuasive strategies in adversarial journalism in the period of the Civil War (1642-1648); sensationalism, providentialism and linguistic interrelatedness in 17^th century news broadside ballads, pamphlets and periodicals; the language of propaganda and the construction of the English Colonial ideology in a corpus-based analysis of pamphlets (1584-1624); people’s interest in the news and the impact of news on people’s everyday-life in a corpus-based analysis of Early Modern English dialogues(1560-1760). These studies have revealed the macro-textual and rhetorical strategies through which the Early Modern English press articulates an ideology of consensus which anticipates principles of modern-day journalism and propaganda. Regarding Early Modern English courtroom discourse, my research has focused on the verbal duelling between defendants and the Court and on the defence strategies adopted in the evidence phase of the trial. The methodologies used for analysis include politeness and impoliteness theories with their extension to the notion of (situated) power and relational work and speech act theory. In Civil War political trials for high treason, critical discourse analysis has been used to examine the way in which defendants were represented in politically-biased trial accounts. The readership’s interest in trial literature is documented not only by the publication of Trial Proceedings from the end of the 17^th century but also by the pervasive presence of trial discourse in 18^th century newspapers. In this respect, my research focuses on the macro-textual and linguistic strategies through which specialised legal discourse merges into news discourse and becomes ‘popular’, in the sense that it is addressed to a heterogeneous and non-specialised readership.

 Papers given at recent conferences

2019 "Collective Identities in the Early Modern English Pamphlets on the Colonization of Virginia (1584-1724)". CHER Conference, University of Florence, 24 October.

2019. "Populism in the English Civil War propaganda discourse. A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of Mercurius Britanicus". AIA Conference, University of Padua, 5-7 September

2019. "Pro and anti-Strafford pamphlets. Propaganda discourse on the Eve of the English Civil War". 7th edition of the Conference on Historical News Discourse. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 22-24 May.

2019. " 'English and/vs Indians': Semantic Variation and Re-Lexicalization in EModE Pamphlets on the Exploration, Settlement and Colonization of North America". Conference on "English Histortical Lexicography in the Digital Age: Focus on Social and Geographical Variation". University of Bergamo, 11-13 April 2019.

2019. "Pros and Cons of a Corpus-based Approach to ESP Teaching". International Conference on "Teacher Professional Development for a CLIL-based Approach". University of Florence, 28 February 2019

2018. "British Colonial Ideology in the Language of Pamphlets on Virginia". LADES: The Language of Discovery, Exploration and Settlement. Firenze, 15-16 February 2018.

2017.  "Trial Proceedings recast as news discourse in 18^th century British Newspapers”. CHINED VI, Sixth International Conference on Historical News Discourse. Sheffield, 21-23 June 2018

2016. “‘This is an age for news’: A corpus-based analysis of news-related words in the spoken discourse of Early Modern English Society”. International Conference on Historical Sociolinguistics and Socio-Cultural Change. Helsinki, 10-11 March 2016

2015. “Shaping reality in English Civil War adversarial news discourse: a corpus-based lexical study of Religious and Parliamentarian Newsbooks and Broadsides”. CHINED V. Fifth International Conference on Historical News Discourse. Porto, 11-13 June 2015.

2014. "Religious lexis and politcal ideology in Mercurius Aulicus and Mercurius Britanicus: evidence from the FEEN Corpus”. CHINED IV. Fourth International Conference on historical News Discourse. Helsinki, 5-7 June 2014.

2012. "Crime reports in 17th century news discourse: evidence from broadside ballads, occasional pamphlets and early newspapers”. CHINED III. International Conference on Historical News Discourse III. Rostock, 18-19 May 2012

2011. "Defence strategies in 17th century courtroom discourse. Evidence from the Old Bailey Proceedings. CLAVIER Conference Tracking Language Change in Specialized and Professional Genres. Modena, 24-26 November 2011

2011. “Disagreement and relational work in 17^th century didactic dialogues”. 15th National Conference on the History of English Language. Cagliari, 26-28 May 2011.

2010. "Impoliteness and face-work in the Bardell vs Pickwick trial in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers”. ESSE 2010, Torino, 24-28  August 2010.

 Publications

Please, see the list of publications in the Italian version of the CV

Membership

Member of AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) (AIA) and the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)

Member of CLAVIER (Corpus and Language Variation in English)

Member of CHINED (Conference on Historical News Discourse)

Member of SLIN (Storia della Lingua Inglese/History of English Language)

Member of LIP (Language, Ideology and Power)

Member of CHER (Corpora and Historical English Research Unit)

The language of the news in the UK and the US from a synchronic and diachronic perspective

The language of politics in the UK and the US (persuasive and argumentative strategies in political discourse) from a synchronic and diachronic perspective

Socio-pragmatic analysis of British and American courtroom discourse (trial proceedings) from a synchronic and diachronic perspective