Jessica Jane Nocella
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jessica Jane Nocella plays a role.
Articles
2024 “So if you’re going fossil hunting, that’s where you should look”: Popularization for children in science museum websites Babel: Online-First Articles | Article
Whether directed at adults or children, popularization can be viewed as a process of “translating” and “recontextualizing” expert discourse for a lay audience. In fact, knowledge dissemination for children appears to entail an additional form of “translation,” given their limited background… read more
2023 Building trust in the transport sector during the pandemic: A cross-cultural analysis (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 309–335 | Article
This paper looks at cross-cultural variation in corporate communication over the pandemic, focusing on the language adopted by rail companies in the UK and Italy to enhance trust in safety and highlighting how they engage in communicative action with potential passengers and other online users.… read more
2023 Variations of polyphony in blogs: The case of the Slow Art Day blog Language and Dialogue 13:1, pp. 103–122 | Article
This paper looks at dialogicity in the Slow Art Day blog and focuses on the way the representation of participants encodes the complexity of the communicative action through a polyphony of textual voices. By focusing on posts from the pandemic years (2020 and 2021), and contrasting them with the… read more