Terminology, Ideology and Discourse
Edited by Katia Peruzzo and Paola Catenaccio
Special issue of Terminology 30:1 (2024) v, 158 pp.
Paola Catenaccio
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paola Catenaccio plays a role.
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2024 Chapter 5. Legitimation in contested industries: The role of argumentation Persuasion in Specialized Discourse: A multidisciplinary perspective, Degano, Chiara, Dora Renna and Francesca Santulli (eds.), pp. 111–133 | Chapter
In order to be permitted to carry out their operations, companies need to be perceived as legitimate. Legitimacy is awarded as a result of a deliberation process whereby the members of a society come to agree that a company’s operations can be considered beneficial (or at least not harmful) both… read more
2024 Introduction: Terminology, ideology and discourse Terminology, Ideology and Discourse, Peruzzo, Katia and Paola Catenaccio (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction
2022 Chapter 2. A corpus-driven exploration of conspiracy theorising as a discourse type: Lexical indicators of argumentative patterning Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Chapter
This chapter takes a view of conspiracy theorising as a discourse type and seeks to identify candidate linguistic features of such discourse in a corpus of books devoted to 9/11 conspiracy theories. Adopting a corpus-driven approach, the study identifies three discursive traits which appear… read more
2017 Chapter 9. Caught between profitability and responsibility: Arguing legitimacy in the pharmaceutical industry Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 197–228 | Chapter
This study investigates the discursive strategies of self-legitimation enacted by pharmaceutical companies during the 1998 drug-access crisis debate in South Africa, framing them within the context of the then emerging discourse of corporate social responsibility. The crisis erupted when… read more
2008 Press releases as a hybrid genre: Addressing the informative/promotional conundrum The discourse of news management, Jacobs, Geert and Henk Pander Maat (eds.), pp. 9–31 | Article
Press releases are short pieces of writing issued by companies or institutions to communicate newsworthy information to the journalist community on the one hand, and to the general public (indirectly through newspaper reporting, or, increasingly, directly by making press releases available on… read more