Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner
The study focuses on the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918/19, tracing the crisis coverage of two daily newspapers from two different countries, Austria and the United States, to reveal the general dynamics and manipulative potential of mediatized public discourse in times of crisis. The… read more
In this final chapter, we will answer our overall research questions, comparing findings across the various contexts investigated in the preceding chapters. In doing so, we will point out what voting motivations, aspects of national identities and ways of recontextualising original posts are… read more
This chapter aims to uncover possible motives of the French electorate to support the right-wing populist Rassemblement National (National Rally) in the 2019 elections to the European Parliament analysing public discourse on Twitter with a view to identity construction and recontextualisation.… read more
This article presents the longitudinal trilingual corpus of young learners of Italian, German and English called LEONIDE. The corpus consists of L1, L2 and L3 learner texts. L1 texts were written in two languages of schooling (i.e. Italian and German), L2 texts in two languages learned as second… read more
Heckles are an illegitimate, yet common way of commenting directly and immediately on what is being said at the lectern. However, (non-)verbal interjections can also be used to disconcert the speaker, thus scoring points within the parliamentary arena. In these cases, female delegates are often… read more
