Maria Cristina Caimotto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3532045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Cristina Caimotto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Caimotto |
| SIGNATURE | CAIMOTTO M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7272-0275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mobility Justice
The climate crisis, migration and urbanization may appear as three separate crises, but under Sheller's paradigm of Mobility Justice, they become part of a coherent whole that should be tackled as a single, complex and interconnected predicament. This paper observes rhetorical strategies employed in texts about the climate crisis, about cycling advocacy and about the "climate lockdown" conspiracy theory, which developed in Oxford, UK, in 2023. Th…
Cycling is good’ but ‘cyclists are reckless’
Urban mobility choices and policies are not a common object of study for linguistics. These policies and choices actually generate forms of discrimination by creating reified identities of ‘drivers’ against ‘cyclists’ against ‘pedestrians’. Through the prism of ‘mobility justice’ this paper shows how detrimental discursive choices contribute to the normalisation of a mobility system which is highly discriminatory and a source of toxicity and dang…
Lifestyle Politics in Translation
This book investigates the role of translation processes in the shaping and re-shaping of ideological discourse and their impact on the actors involved in the translation process, focusing on institutional texts and their influence on lifestyle issues both public and personal. The volume employs a unique approach in its focus on "lifestyle politics," examining texts produced by political actors, such as international organizations and national go…
Corpus-based study of news translation
Recognizing that disciplinary confines often represent serious hurdles for translation scholars, this article offers a reflection on the boundaries of the subarea of news translation within the discipline of translation studies, focusing on its links with research that employs corpus-aided techniques, in particular critical discourse analysis and corpusassisted discourse studies. Reviewing a number of relevant studies and research projects that u…
Framing discourse on the environment, a critical discourse approach, by Richard J. Alexander
Framing discourse on the environment, a critical discourse approach by Richard J. Alexander, New York and London, Routledge, 2009, 239 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-99123-0 (hardbound), 978-0-415-88835-6 (pa
Translating Hitler's “Mein Kampf”
Cycling is good’ but ‘cyclists are reckless’
Urban mobility choices and policies are not a common object of study for linguistics. These policies and choices actually generate forms of discrimination by creating reified identities of ‘drivers’ against ‘cyclists’ against ‘pedestrians’. Through the prism of ‘mobility justice’ this paper shows how detrimental discursive choices contribute to the normalisation of a mobility system which is highly discriminatory and a source of toxicity and dang…
Translating Hitler's “Mein Kampf”
Framing discourse on the environment, a critical discourse approach, by Richard J. Alexander
Framing discourse on the environment, a critical discourse approach by Richard J. Alexander, New York and London, Routledge, 2009, 239 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-99123-0 (hardbound), 978-0-415-88835-6 (pa
Corpus-based study of news translation
Recognizing that disciplinary confines often represent serious hurdles for translation scholars, this article offers a reflection on the boundaries of the subarea of news translation within the discipline of translation studies, focusing on its links with research that employs corpus-aided techniques, in particular critical discourse analysis and corpusassisted discourse studies. Reviewing a number of relevant studies and research projects that u…
Lifestyle Politics in Translation
This book investigates the role of translation processes in the shaping and re-shaping of ideological discourse and their impact on the actors involved in the translation process, focusing on institutional texts and their influence on lifestyle issues both public and personal. The volume employs a unique approach in its focus on "lifestyle politics," examining texts produced by political actors, such as international organizations and national go…
Cycling is good’ but ‘cyclists are reckless’
Urban mobility choices and policies are not a common object of study for linguistics. These policies and choices actually generate forms of discrimination by creating reified identities of ‘drivers’ against ‘cyclists’ against ‘pedestrians’. Through the prism of ‘mobility justice’ this paper shows how detrimental discursive choices contribute to the normalisation of a mobility system which is highly discriminatory and a source of toxicity and dang…
Mobility Justice
The climate crisis, migration and urbanization may appear as three separate crises, but under Sheller's paradigm of Mobility Justice, they become part of a coherent whole that should be tackled as a single, complex and interconnected predicament. This paper observes rhetorical strategies employed in texts about the climate crisis, about cycling advocacy and about the "climate lockdown" conspiracy theory, which developed in Oxford, UK, in 2023. Th…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Ideology (2 works)