http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18747 2026-06-01T17:25:03Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18882 Tytuł: Review of Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide by Christian Ilbury, Routledge, 2025, 222 pp., ISBN 9781032457499 Autorzy: Karczewski, Daniel 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18757 Tytuł: Aldo Leopold and us: Person deixis as a rhetorical strategy in Barbara Kingsolver’s introduction to A Sand County almanac Autorzy: Gallitelli, Eleonora Abstrakt: This paper focuses on the use of person deixis in the framing of a new edition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County almanac: And sketches here and there (1949). This celebrated non-fiction work, considered one of the most important books on ecology and environmentalism ever written, has been published in many editions in 15 languages, with more than two million copies printed. The recent 2020 OUP edition is particularly interesting from a pragmatic point of view, for the way it is targeted to a new generation of readers thanks to an introduction by the author Barbara Kingsolver. Here, deixis is effectively employed to overcome what Kingsolver calls the “full-metal culture war” between conservationists and conservatives. Her ecumenical use of several varieties of the “inclusive we” (Yule, 1996, p. 11) may be considered part of a strategic manoeuvring aimed to create “communion” (van Eemeren & Houtlosser, 1999, p. 485) between the two opposing parties, while at the same time averting a risk of cancellation that Kingsolver perceives in “the heat of modern culture wars”. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18756 Tytuł: To lose myself in the soul of the other that I am not: The process of becoming in Katherine Mansfield’s short stories Autorzy: Fortunato, Elisa Abstrakt: The history of the critical reception of the short fiction of the writer Katherine Mansfield can be divided into two main areas: studies that investigate her short stories in their multiple relationships with Modernism, and more recent analyses that focus on her (post)colonial roots as a New Zealander. The cultural, gendered and physical otherness in her short stories is the privileged subject of criticism. Conversely, what is almost completely forgotten by the critics is her concern for the nonhuman world. What is most striking is how the otherness that ontologically characterises her life and her stories is not only a line of separation but also traces a link between different worlds. The elements of the binary paradigms are always in relation to each other and they exist only through this relation. Seen from this perspective, her short stories show the links and pave the way not to separation but to unity. This essay aims to highlight the relevance that the act of writing has for Mansfield in her attempt to create a new subjectivity that embeds human and nonhuman in a process of autopoiesis. Instead of seeing the world and its inhabitants in terms of static structures, she focuses on the network of relationships between them. It is in her network of relationships that she depicts what can be seen as her posthumanism ante litteram. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18754 Tytuł: Depicting and tackling the waste problem: An (eco)stylistic study of Rob Greenfield’s “I wore all my trash for 30 days” TEDx Talk Autorzy: Floquet, Florence Abstrakt: This paper analyses the way the waste problem is depicted in Robin “Rob” Greenfield’s TEDx Talk “I wore all my trash for 30 days.” It first explains the chosen framework – critical stylistics and conceptual metaphor theory – to conduct the analysis. Secondly, it studies the staging of the talk and of the problem, as well as the nouns and verbs used to refer to, respectively, the problem and its origin. Then, it explores the metaphors used by the speaker to denounce consumerism as linked to the exponential production of trash. Finally, it analyses how solutions are mentioned, and how the individual is depicted as having a role to play in tackling and solving the problem. This study demonstrates that, for the speaker, the individual is accountable and must take responsibility for the problem humanity and the planet are facing: by acknowledging the waste problem and showing people the power in their hands, and encouraging them to act rather than wait for other actors to make a move, the discourse appears as a beneficial one having a potentially very positive impact on our vision of the trash problem and on its tackling. 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z