PRIN/Clavier Conference 2018 KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION, ETHICS AND IDEOLOGY IN SPECIALISED COMMUNICATION: LINGUISTIC AND DISCURSIVE PERSPECTIVES PRE-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS edited by Dermot Heaney, Giorgia Riboni and Emanuele Brambilla Champfleury- Lart & Science de la deue & vraye Proportion des Lettres Attiques (1529) PRIN/Clavier Conference 2018 KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION, ETHICS AND IDEOLOGY IN SPECIALISED COMMUNICATION: LINGUISTIC AND DISCURSIVE PERSPECTIVES PRE-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS edited by Dermot Heaney, Giorgia Riboni and Emanuele Brambilla Published with a grant from the Italian Ministry of the University and Research, project PRIN 2015 (nr.2015TJ8ZAS), and the Department of Humanities, Università IULM. © Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione Linguistica e di Studi Interculturali Piazza Indro Montanelli 1 - 20099 Sesto San Giovanni (MI) Tel. +390250321611 – Fax +390250321640 Università IULM Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche Via Carlo Bo 1 - 20143 Milano Tel. +3902891412674 November 2018 ISBN 978-88-940663-3-3 On cover: Geoffroy Tory de Bourges, Champfleury. Au quel est contenu l'Art & Science de la deue & vraye Proportion des Lettres Attiques, qu'on dit autrement Lettres Antiques, & vulgairement Lettres Romaines proportionnees selon le Corps & Visage humain. Lart & Science de la deue & vraye Proportion des Lettres Attiques (1529) TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD, Dermot Heaney, Giorgia Riboni, Emanuele Brambilla …………………………………...1 PLENARY LECTURES James Archibald ...………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Martin Reisigl …..…………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 Srikant Sarangi ……………………………………………………………………………………………. .7 PANELS Knowledge Dissemination: Continuity and Change in Discourse Strategies, Ideologies and Epistemologies Project Status Overview …………………………………………………………………………………... ..9 Rita Salvi …….…………………………………………………………………………………… ..9 Nicholas Brownlees …..…………………………………………………………………………... 10 Giuliana Elena Garzone ……….………………………………………………………………….. 10 Maurizio Gotti ………..…………………………………………………………………………... 11 Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli .………………………………………………………………….. 12 Marina Bondi ...…………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Ageing Issues, Ethics and Ideology: Discursive Reflections and Dissemination Strategies …………… 14 Giulia Rovelli ..…………………………………………………………………………………… 15 Stefania Maria Maci ….…………………………………………………………………………... 16 Laura Tommaso …………………………………………………………………………………... 17 Miriam Bait ….…………………………………………………………………………………… 19 Barbara Berti …………………………………...………………………………………………… 20 Annalisa Zanola …………………………………………………………………………………... 21 Sarah Bigi ………………………………………………………………………………………… 23 Simone Bacchini / Peter Simcock …….………………………………………………………….. 24 Alessandra Vicentini / Kim Grego / Daniel Russo ……..………………………………………… 26 INDIVIDUAL PAPERS Glenn Michael Alessi ……………………………………………………………………………………... 28 Elena Bekisheva / Tamara Rozhkova ……………………………………………………………………... 29 Salomi Boukala / Eirini Tountasaki …………………………………………………………………...….. 31 Emanuele Brambilla …………………………………………………………………………...………….. 32 Silvia Cacchiani …………………………………………………………………………………………… 33 i Luisa Caiazzo / Emilia Di Martino ……………………………………………………………………….. 35 Paola Catenaccio ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 36 Silvia Cavalieri / Giuliana Diani ………………………………………………………………………….. 37 Stefania Consonni ………………………………………………………………………………………… 39 Chiara Degano / Annalisa Sandrelli ………………………………………………………………………. 40 Laura Delaloye / Daniel Perrin / Marta Zampa / Gilles Merminod ………………………………………. 42 Sylvain Dieltjens / Priscilla Heynderickx ………………………………………………………………… 43 Roxanne Barbara Doerr …………………………………………………………………………………… 45 Fanny Domenec …………………………………………………………………………………………… 46 Silvia Ferreri ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 47 Sabrina Fusari ……………………………………………………………………………………………... 49 Fabrizio Gallai …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 51 Maria Cristina Gatti / Erika Darics ……………………………………………………………………….. 52 Marta Giallombardo ………………………………………………………………………………………. 54 Cinzia Giglioni ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 55 Walter Giordano …………………………………………………………………………………………... 56 Dermot Heaney …………………………………………………………………………………………… 57 Ersilia Incelli ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 59 Mara Logaldo ……………………………………………………………………………………………... 60 Stefania Maria Maci ………………………………………………………………………………………. 62 Marella Magris / Francesco Tosi ………………………………………………………………………….. 62 Elena Manca ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 64 Elisa Mattiello …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 65 Melanie Metzger / Danielle I. 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Hunt …………………………………………………………………….. 66 Denise Milizia / Cinzia Spinzi ……………………………………………………………………………. 68 Vicent Montalt / Pilar Ezpeleta-Piorno …………………………………………………………………… 69 Jekaterina Nikitina ………………………………………………………………………………………… 70 Maria Cristina Paganoni …………………………………………………………………………………... 71 Katia Peruzzo ……………………………………………………………………………………………... 72 Franca Poppi / Cecilia Lazzeretti …………………………………………………………………………. 74 Chiara Prosperi Porta ……………………………………………………………………………………... 75 ii Giorgia Riboni …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 76 Mette Rudvin ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 78 Michele Sala ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 78 Francesca Santulli …………………………………………………………………………………...……. 79 Annalisa Sezzi …………………………………………………………………………..………………… 80 Federico Giulio Sicurella …………………………………………………………………………………. 81 Michela Sopranzi …………………………………………………………………………………...…….. 82 Girolamo Tessuto …………………………………………………………………………………………. 84 Judith Turnbull ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 85 Danni Yu / Yicong Yu ……………………………………………………………………………………. 87 Feifei Zhou ………………………………………………………………………………………………... 88 iii iv DERMOT HEANEY GIORGIA RIBONI EMANUELE BRAMBILLA FOREWORD Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives1 This volume collects the extended abstracts of the papers presented at the international conference Knowledge Dissemination, Ethics and Ideology in Specialised Communication: Linguistic and Discursive Perspectives, held in Milan on 29/30 November-1 December 2018. The Conference is organised within the framework of the PRIN Research Project “Knowledge Dissemination across Media in English: Continuity and Change in Discourse Strategies, Ideologies, and Epistemologies” financed by the Italian Ministry for University and Research in collaboration with the CLAVIER (Corpus and LAnguage Variation In English Research) inter-university research network. While the PRIN research programme in its entirety, involving the Universities of Milan (Università IULM and Università degli Studi), of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Bergamo, Florence, Pisa, and Rome “La Sapienza”, sets out to explore the practices and strategies of knowledge transfer and dissemination to various audiences in a range of different settings and a variety of genres from the viewpoint of linguistics and discourse analysis, the 2018 PRIN/CLAVIER conference focuses on the specific field investigation of the Milan research group, i.e. the ethical and ideological implications of knowledge dissemination (KD), and offers an opportunity for the discussion and exploration of the linguistic and discursive aspects involved. KD necessarily entails the transfer and the transformation of information, which, in turn, produce changes. Such changes represent a fascinating object of study and reflection, as they may be limited to the simple recontextualisation of knowledge (aimed at circulating it and tailoring it to suit specific audiences), but they may also presuppose some degree of tampering. Frequently, in the process of dissemination knowledge is deliberately altered so that it appears more interesting or attractive (e.g. in journalism) to the target public, and/or more aligned with the speaker’s/writer’s stance, preconceptions or expectations. A certain level of misrepresentation can also occur when texts convey more or less explicit ideological messages by presenting knowledge with a particular slant or bias. Outright manipulation and mystification of information may be less common, but still possible. These improper practices are not only restricted to specialised contexts but can be found, even more cogently, in popularising communication. Against this backdrop, the crucial role played by the discursive representation of ideologically and ethically relevant issues emerges clearly both in inter-specialist communication and in popular exposition (Clôitre/Shinn 1985). In particular, the ways in which ‘sensitive’ topics are rhetorically and discursively constructed, for instance in the life sciences (e.g. medicine, bioethics, biotechnology, genetics), in corporate, academic, military discourses etc., can have consequential repercussions on the moral, ideological, legal, economic, political, and religious domains. Ethical issues also emerge in research on specialised discourse. Issues may arise with regard to the potential intrusiveness of the observer in the process under scrutiny and to the validity of the data collected (cf., inter alii, Sykes 1978; Sassoli de Bianchi 2013). Problems are also entailed in the ways in which scholars’ expectations, beliefs or outlooks may possibly affect their choice of the objects of study, practices in data collection and selection, and, finally, the truthfulness and accuracy of phenomenon identification (cf., inter alii, Corben 1999; Chenail 2009). The PRIN/CLAVIER conference provides a forum where all these issues are dealt with and examined under the linguistic and discursive perspective, as well as from the point of view of translation