Francesca D’Errico
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca D’Errico plays a role.
Articles
2019 Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses: The underlying role of expressed anger and socio-cognitive processes Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:2, pp. 182–209 | Article
The present study aims to help better understand the cognitive and affective processes at work in ‘moral struggles’ concerning discussions about hosting immigrants. In particular, it will focus on the prosocial aspect of the debate on hosting of immigrants since previous studies have stressed… read more
2016 “Imagine” – Participative strategies of two online minorities within Italian context Journal of Language and Politics 15:6, pp. 688–709 | Article
Within the field of political psychology studies, the main goal of the present study is to investigate in depth the role played by two different forms – E-Tactics vs E-Movement – of social media activism on the quality of discourses and their possible level of acquired empowerment. Two Italian… read more
2014 Vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation. Cognitive and lexical aspects in English, Swedish, and Italian Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between, Cantarini, Sibilla, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss (eds.), pp. 265–284 | Article
This paper investigates the cognitive and semantic nature of vagueness, unspecificity, and approximation (vagueness related phenomena) by examining some of the linguistic expressions connected with these phenomena in English, Swedish and Italian. Certain mental states during discourse production… read more