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• How Socialism is Built: Metaphor and Ideological Interpretation in Nicolae Ceaușescu's Interviews for the Italian Press

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  ANAMARIA GEBĂILĂ

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  Using the tridimensional model of metaphor in communication (Steen 2008) multidisciplinary perspective (Musloff 2012, Steen 2011) in which cognitive notions are accompanied by political discourse analysis principles, this analysis aims to qualitatively describe the metaphors in the interviews fot the Italian press released between 1971 and 1981 by Nicolae Ceaușescu, a period in which the Romanian President had a notable international position. We will study the shorthand notes and the translations in Italian of five interviews published by the Italian newspapers «l’Unità» (Boffa 1971 and 1973), «Il Popolo» (Pellegrini 1978 and 1981), and «Corriere della Sera» (Petta 1981).

• Insults, medical terminology and metaphorization in a corpus of Facebook comments: an investigation of some ableist slurs

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  Elena Pepponi

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  The aim of this article is to analyse a corpus of Facebook comments extracted by the public pages of Luigi Di Maio, Matteo Renzi and Matteo Salvini concerning the year 2018 (Orrù 2020). The analysis aims to focus on three Italian ableist slurs about cognitive impairment (cerebroleso, handicappato and ritardato) used as metaphors in online speech acts. Comments will be analysed with a multifaceted approach. The theoretical point of view will involve studies about insults as linguistic and pragmatic acts (Brown & Levinson 1987; Culpeper 1996; Alfonzetti 2017), slurs and hate speech (Bianchi 2021; Cepollaro 2020), ableism built by medical terminology (Gualdo & Telve 2011), and finally metaphor (Mortara Garavelli 1988). With these theoretical bases, inquiries will be conducted with a corpus-based methodology, focusing on metaphors and cluster, syntax, and pragmatics of the linguistic acts involving target words.