Franco Zappettini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Franco Zappettini plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
Title
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis
Edited by Franco Zappettini and Samuel Bennett
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 (2022) v, 199 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2022 Taking the left way out of Europe: Labour party’s strategic, ideological and ambivalent de/legitimation of Brexit (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 320–343 | Article
This paper investigates how Brexit was de/legitimised by different Labour actors in a corpus of texts published after the referendum (2016–2020). It thus contributes an intra-party perspective to understanding discursive dynamics of European (dis)integration by building on the notorious… read more
2022 Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration: (De)legitimising the EU’s project in times of crisis (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 191–207 | Article
In this article we introduce our special issue of the Journal of Language & Politics on the (de)legitimisation of Europe. We start by outlining the rationale and research that led us to the special issue. In Section 2 we set out the contextual framing of the contributions, i.e., the crisis of… read more
2021 The tabloidization of the Brexit campaign: Power to the (British) people? Journal of Language and Politics 20:2, pp. 277–303 | Article
Consistent with a populist script, evoking the people has been a nodal point in the discursive unfolding of Brexit and its legitimation. This paper focuses on the mediatization of the Brexit referendum campaign in a corpus of online British tabloids to address the critical question of how the… read more
2014 ‘A badge of Europeanness’: Shaping identity through the European Union’s institutional discourse on multilingualism Journal of Language and Politics 13:3, pp. 375–402 | Article
This paper contributes to the advancement of the established body of literature on language and identity by ascertaining how discursive representations of multilingualism at an institutional level have interplayed with the construction and the definition of European identities. Using the Discourse… read more
2013 Review of Contesting Europe’s Eastern Rim Cultural Identities in Public Discourse by Ljiljana Saric, Andreas Musolff, Stefan Manz, and Ingrid Hudabiunigg Discourse and politics of migration in Italy: The production and reproduction of ethnic dominance and exclusion, Colombo, Monica (ed.), pp. 305–309 | Review