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Prof.ssa Elisabetta Cecconi: Professore Associato di di Lingua Inglese (ANGL-01/C) presso la Scuola di Scienze Politiche  "Cesare Alfieri" e presso la Scuola Umanistica dell'Univeristà di Firenze.

Didattica

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

Titolare del corso di Lingua Inglese 2 (A-L) (M-Z) per il il Corso di Laurea in Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali

Titolare del corso di Lingua Inglese 3 per il Corso di laurea triennale in Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali

Titoli

27/01/2022: 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.

Ricerca

La sua attività di ricerca si concentra su tre campi di indagine: 1) il linguaggio del testo giornalistico del Seicento e Settecento Inglese e Americano 2) il linguaggio legale dei processi nel Seicento e nel Settecento Inglese 3) l'approccio lessicale nell'insegnamento della lingua 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 l'approccio lessicale nell'insegnamento 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

2024 "(Re)defining women's role for the promotion of well-being in the early 18th century: Evidence from letters to the editors in British and American weeklies (1720-1740)". CHINED IX, 23-24 May, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

2024 "Il bilinguismo nella prima infanzia: aspetti linguistici e pedagogici". Conferenza su invito tenuta per l'incontro su "Il Linguaggio dei Bambini: Bilonguismo nella Prima Infanzia", Scuola Infanzia, Lucca, Massa.

2023 "Framing Nature in a Corpus of 17th-Century English Pamphlets: The Settlement in Jamaica  (1655-1699)", CLAVIER 2023, 22-24 November, University of Milan.

2023 Co-organizzazione del panel: "The popularisation of antiquity in the long eighteenth-century periodical press (1670-1830) e presentazione del paper: The reporting of discoveries in Herculaneum and Pompeii in 18th-century English newspapers", XVI Congresso Internazionale di Studi sul XVIII Secolo (ISECS), Roma, 3-7 Luglio.

2022 "Criminality and Justice in 17th-century Murder Pamphlets. Referential and Predicational Strategies in the Representation of Social Actors". AIA 30. Catania, 15-17 Settembre

2022 "The shaping of nationalism in 18th century American newspapers related to the Revolution (1764-1783): A corpus-based analysis of possessive pronouns". 8th International Conference CHINED, Augsburg, 16-17 June.

2022 "Striving for reconciliation? An analysis of redressive facework in North American petitions to the king (1764-1775)". Giornata di Studi LILSI "Conflitto e Contrasto nelle Lingue e nelle Letterature", Università di Firenze, 27-28 Maggio.

2022 "The myth-making of the Glorious Revolution in Late Modern English news discourse (1770-1790)". 7th International Conference on later Modern English, Università di Catania, Ragusa 5-7 May.

2021 "The semantic change of happy and glorious after the English Revolution of 1688: A corpus-assisted discourse study". Clavier 2021 Conference, Università di Modena, 18-19 November

2021 "La costruzione del lessico in L2 nel bambino bilingue". Conferenza Internazionale su "l Bilinguismo nella prima infanzia: Aspetti linguistici e pedagogici", Università di Firenze, 12 Novembre.

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

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

Pubblicazioni

2024 "L'acquisizione del lessico in L2 in età prescolare: Lexical chunks e applicazioni didattiche" In Cardona, M., Cavallini, C. & M. De Iaco (eds.) Il Fattore Età nell'Apprendimento Lingusitico. Aracne: Roma

2023 News-Reporting and Ideology in 17th-Century English Murder Pamphlets. From Paratext to Text. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2023 "Crime and Trial Reporting". In Nicholas Brownlees The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press volume 1 (1640-1800). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 493-510.

2023 "Representation of social actors in 17th-century English murder pamphlets: A corpus-assisted discourse study (1600-1674)". In Romina Vergari, Giovanni Giri, Fernando Funari (eds) Agon. Dialogo e Conflitto nelle Lingue nelle Culture e nelle Letterature. Perugia: I Libri di Emil di Odoya, 44-73.

2023 "The changing semantics of "happy" and "glorious" after the English Revolution of 1688: a corpus-assisted discourse study", Mediazioni, 37, 78-99.

2022 "Striving for reconciliation? An analysis of redressive facework in North American petitions to the king (1764-1775). LEA, vol. 11, 199-223.

2021 "From 'British Subjects' to 'American People': Transformation of National Identities in a Corpus of American Newspapers (1764-1783)". Token 12. ISSN: 2299-5900

2021 "Propaganda Discourse in Context: Pro and Anti-Strafford Pamphlets on the Eve of the English Civil War". In N. Brownlees (ed.) The Role of Context in the Production and Reception of Historical News Discourse. Bern: Peter Lang, 21-44.

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.

Membro delle seguenti associazioni e gruppi di ricerca:

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

SISSD (Società Italiana di Studi sul XVIII Secolo)

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 sincronica e diacronica

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

Analisi socio-pragmatica del linguaggio di tribunali in chiave sincronica e diacronica.

 Prof. Elisabetta Cecconi. Associate Professor in English Language (ANGL 01/C)

Course of English Language in the School of Political Sciences "Cesare Alfieri", degree course in Political Sciences

Course of English Language 2 (A-L) (M-Z) School of Humanities, degree course in Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies.

Course of English Language 3 in the School of Humanities, degree course in Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies.

Qualifications

27/01/2022. 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

 Research

My research interests include 1) news discourse in 17th- and 18th- century Britain and America, 2) courtroom discourse in 17th-century and 18th-century England and 3) the lexical approach in the teaching of ESL and ESP. 

1) 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.

2) 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.

3) In the area of ESL and ESP I use general and specialized corpora for examining teaching/learning methodologies for students of High School and University. I also research on bilingualim in early childhood with a special focus on the lexical approach in the development of vocabulary for kids aged 3-6.

 Papers given at recent conferences

2024 "(Re)defining women's role for the promotion of well-being in the early 18th century. Evidence from letters to the editors in British and American weeklies (1720-1740)". CHINED IX, 23-24 May, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

2024 "Il bilinguismo nella prima infanzia: aspetti linguistici e pedadogici" [Bilingualism in early childhood: linguistic and didactic aspects], Lecture delivered for the Conference on "Il lingaggio dei bambini: Bilinguismo nella Prima Infanzia" [The language of children: Bilingualism in Early Childhood], Lucca and Massa.

2023 "Framing Nature in a Corpus if 17th-Century English Pamphlets: The Settlement in Jamaica (1655-1699)". CLAVIER 2023, 22-2 November, University of Milan. 

2023 Co-organization of the panel: "The popularisation of antiquity in the long eighteenth-century periodical press (1670-1830). Paper presented: "The reporting of discoveries in Herculaneum and Pompeii in 18th-century English newspapers", 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies" Conference on 18th-Century Studies (ISECS). Roma, 3-7 July.

2022 "Criminality and justice in 17th-century murder pamphlets. Referential and predicational strategies in the representation of social actors. AIA 30. Catania,  15-17 September.

2022 "The shaping of nationalism in 18th-century American newspapers related to the Revolution (1764-1783): A Corpus-based analysis of possessive pronouns. 8th International Conference CHINED, Augsburg, 16-17 June.

2022 "Striving for reconciliation? An analysis of redressive facework in North American petitions to the king (1764-1775). Giornata di Studi Lilsi, University of Florence, 27-28 May

2022 "The semantic change of happy and glorious after the English Revolution of 1688. A corpus-assisted discourse study". CLAVIER 2021, University of Modena, 18-19 November

2021 "The construction of English vocabulary in the bilingual baby". International Conference on Bilingualism in Early Childhood, Università di Firenze, 12 November 

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.

Research projects:

PRIN 20228JCCPN: Discourses and Contexts of Well-Being in the History of English 

ACADEMY 2022 ERASMUS+ PARTNERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE -  ERASMUS + TEACHER ACADEMIES (2023-2026): Teacher education for a future in flux (TEFF) 

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 SISSD (Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)

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 British and American press from a synchronic and diachronic perspective

 British and American 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