Daniela Francesca Virdis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5132158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniela Francesca Virdis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniela Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Virdis |
| SIGNATURE | VIRDIS D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cagliari |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2819-3847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Biodiversity’ in Extinction Rebellion’s words
This article refers to the ecological rhetorical terms ‘marker word’ and ‘environet’ and to the ecolinguistic terms ‘beneficial discourse’ and ‘ecosophy’, and applies the stylistic theories of foregrounding, point of view, and metaphor to explore two diverse but complementary sets of linguistic data pertaining to the environet and containing the marker word ‘biodiversity’. The first set of data is realised by four definitions of the noun ‘biodive…
Environmental issues in the Victorian era
This article presents an ecostylistic analysis of the use of metaphor and framing in The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century , two lectures by the Victorian polymath John Ruskin. The metaphors and frames identified and examined here are those triggered by the two title words ‘storm’ and ‘cloud’. The overall purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the ‘storm-and-cloud’ metaphors and frames are beneficial discursive strategies urging us huma…
Ecological Stylistics
Language in Place
“She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”
This chapter analyses animal agency in a corpus of texts from the website of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, an English charity rehoming dogs and cats, more precisely from the cat rehoming gallery. The chapter firstly provides definitions of alternative discourse and of agency in the disciplines of human-animal studies and Hallidayan functional grammar. Secondly, the theoretical framework and methodology of functional grammar are applied to the corpu…
The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader …
Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
Eroticizing female and male bodies
In this article on Sub-Umbra, I firstly discuss the main features and themes of the discourse of pornography and sexuality in the nineteenth century and the linguistic characteristics typifying that discourse. Secondly, I analyze the excerpts from the novel describing female bodies and referring to female and male genitalia where the strategies of the discourse of pornography are more salient. What emerges from this linguistic investigation is th…
Ecological Stylistics
Eroticizing female and male bodies
In this article on Sub-Umbra, I firstly discuss the main features and themes of the discourse of pornography and sexuality in the nineteenth century and the linguistic characteristics typifying that discourse. Secondly, I analyze the excerpts from the novel describing female bodies and referring to female and male genitalia where the strategies of the discourse of pornography are more salient. What emerges from this linguistic investigation is th…
Eroticizing female and male bodies
In this article on Sub-Umbra, I firstly discuss the main features and themes of the discourse of pornography and sexuality in the nineteenth century and the linguistic characteristics typifying that discourse. Secondly, I analyze the excerpts from the novel describing female bodies and referring to female and male genitalia where the strategies of the discourse of pornography are more salient. What emerges from this linguistic investigation is th…
The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader …
Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
Language in Place
“She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”
This chapter analyses animal agency in a corpus of texts from the website of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, an English charity rehoming dogs and cats, more precisely from the cat rehoming gallery. The chapter firstly provides definitions of alternative discourse and of agency in the disciplines of human-animal studies and Hallidayan functional grammar. Secondly, the theoretical framework and methodology of functional grammar are applied to the corpu…
Environmental issues in the Victorian era
This article presents an ecostylistic analysis of the use of metaphor and framing in The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century , two lectures by the Victorian polymath John Ruskin. The metaphors and frames identified and examined here are those triggered by the two title words ‘storm’ and ‘cloud’. The overall purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the ‘storm-and-cloud’ metaphors and frames are beneficial discursive strategies urging us huma…
Ecological Stylistics
‘Biodiversity’ in Extinction Rebellion’s words
This article refers to the ecological rhetorical terms ‘marker word’ and ‘environet’ and to the ecolinguistic terms ‘beneficial discourse’ and ‘ecosophy’, and applies the stylistic theories of foregrounding, point of view, and metaphor to explore two diverse but complementary sets of linguistic data pertaining to the environet and containing the marker word ‘biodiversity’. The first set of data is realised by four definitions of the noun ‘biodive…
Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)