Sabina M. Perrino

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sabina M. Perrino plays a role.

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Chronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 4:2 (2022) v, 171 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semiotics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Storytelling in the Digital World

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

[Benjamins Current Topics, 104] 2019. v, 131 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics

Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges

Edited by Anna De Fina and Sabina M. Perrino

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 27:2 (2017) vi, 209 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies
This chapter describes how narratives can be useful analytical and methodological tools through a close analysis of two narrative excerpts that I collected in Senegal and Northern Italy. Both examples examine how certain interactional patterns, such as participant transposition and the… read more
Perrino, Sabina M. 2024 Chapter 12. Narrative inquiryLess Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics, Riazi, A. Mehdi (ed.), pp. 191–205 | Chapter
This chapter examines the key role that narratives have in human communication and engagement across cultures and as fertile analytical and methodological tools. Storytelling practices allow researchers to study speech participants’ visible and veiled interactional dynamics. Besides analyzing… read more
De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino 2022 Chronotopes and the COVID-19 pandemicChronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 98–109 | Introduction
In this introduction we discuss the centrality of the management and perception of space-time coordinates during the Covid-19 crisis and highlight some of the main themes that contributors develop in their articles. In particular, we analyze how contributors’ elaborations of the notion of… read more
Perrino, Sabina M. 2022 Chronotopes of war and dread in pandemic timesChronotopes and the COVID-19 Pandemic, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 242–263 | Article
During the first months of 2020, our everyday life suddenly changed when the novel Coronavirus started to infect humans at a very fast rate, causing serious respiratory and other diseases, death, and fear of the unknown. Local friends and family members shared traumatic stories, images, and… read more
Humans are prone to tell stories when they interact with each other. Knowing how many stories we tell in a day could be a difficult endeavor, especially because what counts as “a story” varies across disciplines and cultures. Narratives have always been primary modes in human communication and… read more
In recent years, there has been much discussion about the role of social media platforms in the reproduction of exclusionary rhetoric leveled against social “others” in far-right contexts across the globe. While scholars have examined the ideologies underpinning exclusionary discourses, few have… read more
De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino 2019 Introduction: Storytelling in the digital worldStorytelling in the Digital World, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction
Perrino, Sabina M. 2019 Recontextualizing racialized stories on YouTubeStorytelling in the Digital World, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 53–77 | Article
When stories (re)appear in YouTube videos, they are recontextualized not onlyby their titling and editing, but especially by chains of online comments. Thisarticle explores how a Northern Italian politician’s racialized story, which wasfirst recontextualized by a TV news reporter on a YouTube… read more
De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino 2017 Introduction: “Storytelling in the digital age”: New challengesStorytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 209–216 | Introduction
Kohler, Gregory and Sabina M. Perrino 2017 Narrating “Made in Italy”: Brand and responsibility in Italian corporationsNarrative Inquiry 27:1, pp. 187–207 | Article
In this article, we examine how executives in Italian family-owned firms use their corporations’ histories to associate particular moral discourses of cultural values, responsibility, and authenticity with the “Made in Italy” brand. These links render Made in Italy a national brand – a brand… read more
Perrino, Sabina M. 2017 Recontextualizing racialized stories on YouTubeStorytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 261–285 | Article
When stories (re)appear in YouTube videos, they are recontextualized not only by their titling and editing, but especially by chains of online comments. This article explores how a Northern Italian politician’s racialized story, which was first recontextualized by a TV news reporter on a YouTube… read more
Perrino, Sabina M. 2005 Participant transposition in Senegalese oral narrativeNarrative Inquiry 15:2, pp. 345–375 | Article
This article examines a Senegalese narrative practice in which speakers make co-present individuals into denoted characters in their stories, a process I refer to as “participant transposition.” I analyze participant transposition in illness narratives recorded in Dakar, Senegal, during phases of… read more