Anna Franca Plastina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Franca Plastina plays a role.
Articles
2022 Chapter 10. The discursive dynamics of personal experience narratives and medical advice in 18th-century British consultation letters: The case of Dr. William Cullen Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse, Hiltunen, Turo and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 229–250 | Chapter
Medical consulting by letter was a common practice in eighteenth-century Britain since physical examination was still far from being an established diagnostic tool. Despite what this epistolary practice testifies of the importance of illness narratives in historical medical discourse, scant… read more
2018 Chapter 6. Reframing as a persuasive device in public speech: Beyond globalized biodiversity Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Pelclová, Jana and Wei-lun Lu (eds.), pp. 127–148 | Chapter
This chapter shows how reframing operates as a persuasive device in public discourse to reorient the audience’s existing beliefs according to the speaker’s viewpoint. The study considers the empirical case of a public speech reframed by a socio-ecological expert to persuade her audience of… read more
2014 Diagnostic news delivery: A microanalysis of the use of shields Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts, Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari (eds.), pp. 183–200 | Article
This paper focuses on the issue of diagnostic news delivery by addressing the research questions of how doctors shield language when breaking bad news to patients and how shields are positioned within the sequential order of these interactions. Empirical research was conducted on a collected corpus… read more