Franco Zappettini
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franco Zappettini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franco |
| FAMILY NAME | Zappettini |
| SIGNATURE | ZAPPETTINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7049-4454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda
This article provides a diachronic analysis of how Europhobic discourses (with particular reference to Brexit) have emerged, consolidated and normalised in the British public sphere (media, institutions and the networked public). Identifying a discursive chain of legitimacy articulated in three interrelated phases (pre-legitimation, institutionalisation and normalisation) this article suggests that the legacy of Brexit can be found in a normalisa…
The rhetoric of externalizing migration policies: The cases of British and Italian sovereignty by proxy
This paper conducts a Critical Discursive Analysis of the institutional rhetoric employed by the British and Italian Prime Ministers to legitimize their respective migration externalization policies – the Rwanda and Albania agreements. While both governments primarily rely on securitization and deterrence arguments that intertextually hark back to electoral promises, the British corpus appeals to an imagined post-Brexit British community, whereas…
Communication Strategies on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
While several studies have explored strategic communication in relation to military intervention, this study analyses communicative strategies in the context of military withdrawals and redeployments.We focus on the case study of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan to analyse which (and how) strategic narratives were discursively mobilised by the US administration on Twitter (now known as X) to seek public support and legitimacy for its…
Taking the left way out of Europe: Labour party’s strategic, ideological and ambivalent de/legitimation of Brexit
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 ‘European question’ historically debated inside Labour and on the polysemy of Brexit constructed by/reflected in such discourses. The analysis, conducted at lexic…
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration: (De)legitimising the EU’s project in times of crisis
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 legitimacy that European institutions and indeed the entire European project, have faced for the last decade and a half; crises that have been brought about…
The UK as victim and hero in the Sun’s coverage of the Brexit ‘humiliation’
This paper discusses how emotions were mobilised by the British tabloid press as discursive strategies of persuasion during the public debate on the implementation of Brexit. Using the case study of the Suns coverage of the alleged UKs humiliation at the Salzburg meeting (2018) during the Brexit negotiations, the analysis addresses the questions of how and through which linguistic means actors and events were framed discursively in such an articl…
Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda
This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from internationa…
Euroscepticism between Populism and Technocracy: The Case of Italian Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle
This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019). We focus on the Italian case as it is representative of a generalised shift in European public discourse towards an overt delegitimation of the European project and its re-imagination. In the Italian case, Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle, which were in a Government coalition for …
The mediatisation of Brexit: Actors, agendas and allegories
Based on: Charteris-Black JonathanMetaphors of Brexit: No Cherries on the Cake, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2019; xiv+337 pp.: £22.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-3-030-28767-2 \nRawlinson FrancisHow Press Propaganda Paved the Way to Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2020; xiv+364 pp.,: £24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-3-030-27764-2
Brexit As a Social and Political Crisis
The tabloidization of the Brexit campaign: Power to the (British) people
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 people in whose name Brexit was (de)legitimised were discursively constructed and mobilized. The argument put forward is that the legitimation of Brexit was…
European Identities in Discourse: A Transnational Citizens’ Perspective
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: From national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses : from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
The Brexit referendum: How trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic
This paper analyses the discourses produced on their websites by the two organisations that conducted the official ‘leave’ and ‘remain’ campaigns in the Brexit referendum. The analysis, which adopts the general orientation of the Discourse Historical Approach in CDS, is aimed at illuminating the main discursive strategies, argumentative schemes and key representations of Britain in/and Europe that sustained the ideological (de)legitimation of Bre…
Bottom-up Perspectives on Multilingual Ideologies in the EU: The Case of a Transnational NGO
This paper investigates the discursive construction of multilingualism in citizens’ discourses, aiming to fill a gap in the literature of European studies that has scarcely been concerned with language ideologies from bottom-up perspectives. In particular, we focus on the discourses of a transnational NGO to analyse how its members position themselves in relation to linguistic issues and to what extent (if so) they reproduce the EU’s multilingual…
Networked Identities: Changing representations of Europeanness
Transnational dynamics have significantly changed established notions of communities and belonging. Transnational perspectives however remain marginal in research on European identities which has typically conceptualised the latter as emerging from and relying on essential national referents. Drawing on data derived from members of a transnational organisation promoting civic participation in Europe, this paper challenges existing representations…
A badge of Europeanness: Shaping identity through the European Union’s institutional discourse on multilingualism
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 Historical Approach ( Wodak 2001 ), the analysis focuses on a corpus of official speeches given by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism to ide…
The discursive construction of European identities. A multi-level approach to discourse and identity in the transforming European Union
This is a review of M. Krzyzanowski's The discursive construction of European identities. A multi-level approach to discourse and identity in the transforming European Union
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: From national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses : from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
The Brexit referendum: How trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic
This paper analyses the discourses produced on their websites by the two organisations that conducted the official ‘leave’ and ‘remain’ campaigns in the Brexit referendum. The analysis, which adopts the general orientation of the Discourse Historical Approach in CDS, is aimed at illuminating the main discursive strategies, argumentative schemes and key representations of Britain in/and Europe that sustained the ideological (de)legitimation of Bre…
Euroscepticism between Populism and Technocracy: The Case of Italian Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle
This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019). We focus on the Italian case as it is representative of a generalised shift in European public discourse towards an overt delegitimation of the European project and its re-imagination. In the Italian case, Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle, which were in a Government coalition for …
The tabloidization of the Brexit campaign: Power to the (British) people
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 people in whose name Brexit was (de)legitimised were discursively constructed and mobilized. The argument put forward is that the legitimation of Brexit was…
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration: (De)legitimising the EU’s project in times of crisis
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 legitimacy that European institutions and indeed the entire European project, have faced for the last decade and a half; crises that have been brought about…
Taking the left way out of Europe: Labour party’s strategic, ideological and ambivalent de/legitimation of Brexit
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 ‘European question’ historically debated inside Labour and on the polysemy of Brexit constructed by/reflected in such discourses. The analysis, conducted at lexic…
A badge of Europeanness: Shaping identity through the European Union’s institutional discourse on multilingualism
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 Historical Approach ( Wodak 2001 ), the analysis focuses on a corpus of official speeches given by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism to ide…
Communication Strategies on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
While several studies have explored strategic communication in relation to military intervention, this study analyses communicative strategies in the context of military withdrawals and redeployments.We focus on the case study of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan to analyse which (and how) strategic narratives were discursively mobilised by the US administration on Twitter (now known as X) to seek public support and legitimacy for its…
Networked Identities: Changing representations of Europeanness
Transnational dynamics have significantly changed established notions of communities and belonging. Transnational perspectives however remain marginal in research on European identities which has typically conceptualised the latter as emerging from and relying on essential national referents. Drawing on data derived from members of a transnational organisation promoting civic participation in Europe, this paper challenges existing representations…
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda
This article provides a diachronic analysis of how Europhobic discourses (with particular reference to Brexit) have emerged, consolidated and normalised in the British public sphere (media, institutions and the networked public). Identifying a discursive chain of legitimacy articulated in three interrelated phases (pre-legitimation, institutionalisation and normalisation) this article suggests that the legacy of Brexit can be found in a normalisa…
The mediatisation of Brexit: Actors, agendas and allegories
Based on: Charteris-Black JonathanMetaphors of Brexit: No Cherries on the Cake, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2019; xiv+337 pp.: £22.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-3-030-28767-2 \nRawlinson FrancisHow Press Propaganda Paved the Way to Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2020; xiv+364 pp.,: £24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-3-030-27764-2
Bottom-up Perspectives on Multilingual Ideologies in the EU: The Case of a Transnational NGO
This paper investigates the discursive construction of multilingualism in citizens’ discourses, aiming to fill a gap in the literature of European studies that has scarcely been concerned with language ideologies from bottom-up perspectives. In particular, we focus on the discourses of a transnational NGO to analyse how its members position themselves in relation to linguistic issues and to what extent (if so) they reproduce the EU’s multilingual…
The discursive construction of European identities. A multi-level approach to discourse and identity in the transforming European Union
This is a review of M. Krzyzanowski's The discursive construction of European identities. A multi-level approach to discourse and identity in the transforming European Union
Bottom-up Perspectives on Multilingual Ideologies in the EU: The Case of a Transnational NGO
This paper investigates the discursive construction of multilingualism in citizens’ discourses, aiming to fill a gap in the literature of European studies that has scarcely been concerned with language ideologies from bottom-up perspectives. In particular, we focus on the discourses of a transnational NGO to analyse how its members position themselves in relation to linguistic issues and to what extent (if so) they reproduce the EU’s multilingual…
Networked Identities: Changing representations of Europeanness
Transnational dynamics have significantly changed established notions of communities and belonging. Transnational perspectives however remain marginal in research on European identities which has typically conceptualised the latter as emerging from and relying on essential national referents. Drawing on data derived from members of a transnational organisation promoting civic participation in Europe, this paper challenges existing representations…
A badge of Europeanness: Shaping identity through the European Union’s institutional discourse on multilingualism
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 Historical Approach ( Wodak 2001 ), the analysis focuses on a corpus of official speeches given by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism to ide…
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: From national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses : from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
The Brexit referendum: How trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic
This paper analyses the discourses produced on their websites by the two organisations that conducted the official ‘leave’ and ‘remain’ campaigns in the Brexit referendum. The analysis, which adopts the general orientation of the Discourse Historical Approach in CDS, is aimed at illuminating the main discursive strategies, argumentative schemes and key representations of Britain in/and Europe that sustained the ideological (de)legitimation of Bre…
European Identities in Discourse: A Transnational Citizens’ Perspective
The UK as victim and hero in the Sun’s coverage of the Brexit ‘humiliation’
This paper discusses how emotions were mobilised by the British tabloid press as discursive strategies of persuasion during the public debate on the implementation of Brexit. Using the case study of the Suns coverage of the alleged UKs humiliation at the Salzburg meeting (2018) during the Brexit negotiations, the analysis addresses the questions of how and through which linguistic means actors and events were framed discursively in such an articl…
Emotionalisation of contemporary media discourse: A research agenda
This special issue continues the discussion of the role of emotion in discourse (see Russian Journal of Linguistics 2015 (1) and 2018, 22 (1)) which, as testified by the burgeoning body of literature in the field, has become more prominent in different spheres and contexts of public life. This time we focus on emotionalisation of media discourse. We highlight the intensification of emotions in media and, showcasing contributions from internationa…
Euroscepticism between Populism and Technocracy: The Case of Italian Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle
This paper analyses the digital communication of Italian parties Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle during their campaigns for the European Parliament elections (January-May 2019). We focus on the Italian case as it is representative of a generalised shift in European public discourse towards an overt delegitimation of the European project and its re-imagination. In the Italian case, Lega and Movimento 5 Stelle, which were in a Government coalition for …
The mediatisation of Brexit: Actors, agendas and allegories
Based on: Charteris-Black JonathanMetaphors of Brexit: No Cherries on the Cake, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2019; xiv+337 pp.: £22.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-3-030-28767-2 \nRawlinson FrancisHow Press Propaganda Paved the Way to Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2020; xiv+364 pp.,: £24.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978-3-030-27764-2
Brexit As a Social and Political Crisis
The tabloidization of the Brexit campaign: Power to the (British) people
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 people in whose name Brexit was (de)legitimised were discursively constructed and mobilized. The argument put forward is that the legitimation of Brexit was…
Taking the left way out of Europe: Labour party’s strategic, ideological and ambivalent de/legitimation of Brexit
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 ‘European question’ historically debated inside Labour and on the polysemy of Brexit constructed by/reflected in such discourses. The analysis, conducted at lexic…
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration: (De)legitimising the EU’s project in times of crisis
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 legitimacy that European institutions and indeed the entire European project, have faced for the last decade and a half; crises that have been brought about…
Communication Strategies on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
While several studies have explored strategic communication in relation to military intervention, this study analyses communicative strategies in the context of military withdrawals and redeployments.We focus on the case study of the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan to analyse which (and how) strategic narratives were discursively mobilised by the US administration on Twitter (now known as X) to seek public support and legitimacy for its…
Europhobia as a trajectory to hate speech normalisation? A diachronic analysis of Brexit media propaganda
This article provides a diachronic analysis of how Europhobic discourses (with particular reference to Brexit) have emerged, consolidated and normalised in the British public sphere (media, institutions and the networked public). Identifying a discursive chain of legitimacy articulated in three interrelated phases (pre-legitimation, institutionalisation and normalisation) this article suggests that the legacy of Brexit can be found in a normalisa…
The rhetoric of externalizing migration policies: The cases of British and Italian sovereignty by proxy
This paper conducts a Critical Discursive Analysis of the institutional rhetoric employed by the British and Italian Prime Ministers to legitimize their respective migration externalization policies – the Rwanda and Albania agreements. While both governments primarily rely on securitization and deterrence arguments that intertextually hark back to electoral promises, the British corpus appeals to an imagined post-Brexit British community, whereas…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · European union (8 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (8 works) · Brexit (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political economy (7 works)