Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Varese n. 1 del 2016
9788857568232
2532-439X
Annual
Linguistica e Comunicazione
Double blind peer review
1. GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EDITORS
1.1. Editors should be accountable for what is published in their journal. This means they should:
1.1.1 strive to meet the needs of readers and authors;
1.1.2 strive to constantly improve their journal;
1.1.3 have processes in place to assure the quality of the material they publish;
1.1.4 promote freedom of expression;
1.1.5 preclude business needs from compromising intellectual and ethical standards;
1.1.6 always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
2. RELATIONS WITH READERS
2.1. Readers should be informed about the affiliated institution and who has funded research.
3.1. Editors’ decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based on the paper’s scientific relevance, originality and clarity, and the study’s validity and its relevance to the scopes of the journal.
3.2. Editors should not reverse decisions to accept submissions unless serious problems are identified with the submission.
3.3. New editors should not overturn decisions to publish submissions made by the previous editor unless serious problems are identified.
3.4. A description of peer review processes should be sent, and editors should be ready to justify any important deviation from the described processes.
3.5. Editors should publish guidance to authors on everything that is expected of them. This guidance should be regularly updated.
4. RELATIONS WITH REFEREES
4.1. Editors should provide guidance to reviewers on everything that is expected of them including the need to handle submitted documents in confidence.
4.2. Editors should require reviewers to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission.
4.3. Editors should have systems to ensure that peer reviewers’ identities are protected unless they use an open review system that is declared to authors and referees.
5. RELATIONS WITH EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS
5.1. Editors should provide new editorial board members with guidelines on everything that is expected of them and should keep existing members updated on new policies and developments.
6. RELATIONS WITH JOURNAL OWNERS AND PUBLISHERS
6.1. The relationship of editors to publishers and owners is often complex but should be based firmly on the principle of editorial independence.
6.2. Editors should make decisions on which articles to publish based on quality and suitability for the journal and without interference from the journal publisher.
7. EDITORIAL AND PEER REVIEW PROCESSES
7.1. Editors should strive to ensure that peer review at their journal is fair, unbiased and timely.
7.2. Editors should have systems to ensure that material submitted to their journal remains confidential while under review.
8. QUALITY ASSURANCE
8.1. Editors should take all reasonable steps to ensure the quality of the material they publish, recognizing that journals and sections within journals will have different aims and standards.
9. PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL DATA
9.1. Editors must obey laws on confidentiality in their own jurisdiction. Regardless of local statutes, however, they should always protect the confidentiality of individual information obtained in the course of research or professional interactions. It is therefore almost always necessary to obtain written informed consent for publication from people who might recognise themselves or be identified by others (e.g. from case reports or photographs). It may be possible to publish individual information without explicit consent if public interest considerations outweigh possible harms, it is impossible to obtain consent and a reasonable individual would be unlikely to object to publication.
10. DEALING WITH POSSIBLE MISCONDUCT
10.1. Editors have a duty to act if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them. This duty extends to both published and unpublished papers.
10.2. Editors should not simply reject papers that raise concerns about possible misconduct. They are ethically obliged to pursue alleged cases.
10.3. Editors should make all reasonable efforts to ensure that a proper investigation into alleged misconduct is conducted; if this does not happen, editors should make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEBATE ENCOURAGEMENT
11.1. Editors should be alert to intellectual property issues and work with their publisher to handle potential breaches of intellectual property laws and conventions.
11.2. Editors should encourage and be willing to consider cogent criticisms of work published in their journal.
11.3. Authors of criticised material should be given the opportunity to respond.
11.4. Studies reporting negative results should not be excluded.
12. COMMERCIAL POLICY
12.1. Journals should have policies and systems in place to ensure that commercial considerations do not affect editorial decisions (e.g. advertising departments should operate independently from editorial departments).
12.2. Editors should have declared policies on advertising in relation to the content of the journal and on processes for publishing sponsored supplements.
13. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
13.1. Editors should have systems for managing their own conflicts of interest as well as those of their staff, authors, reviewers and editorial board members.
13.2. Journals should have a declared process for handling submissions from the editors, employees or members of the editorial board to ensure unbiased review.
La rivista attualmente è presente nell'elenco delle riviste scientifiche per l'area 10 dell'Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR) ai fini dell'Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale.
University of Milan
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
As the Western population becomes increasingly older, past
definitions and concepts of old age no longer apply. Words which once used to be neutral are nowadays felt to be at least unrepresentative, if not downright offensive, thus both the specialized and the lay community are looking for new terms that defy ageist practices to refer to a relatively new demographic group, the ‘young-old’, which collects people aged between 55 and 75, who are retired, relatively healthy,
and active. The paper aims at tracking the evolution over the last thirty years of the terms that refer to the oldest section of the population in the popular press, by analyzing a corpus of articles published by The New York Times and The Guardian between 1989 and 2018. The study follows the methodology of corpus-assisted discourse analysis, making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, with specific insights
into aging discourse studies. Although negative stereotypes still seem to be pervasive in media language, the analysis revealed how old age terminology has changed in the last few decades to accommodate to today’s older people and their wish to be referred to in more representative and respectful terms.
Keywords: ageing issues, older people, ageism, corpus linguistics,
critical discourse analysis
University of Molise
Many in the tourism industry have begun to realize the significance of the seniors travel market and have started to rethink their marketing strategies with the aim of sharpening their focus on this complex and multifaceted segment. This study investigates how creative strategies and advertising disclosures utilized by UK travel insurance providers
have changed in response to this demographic scenario and ‘active ageing’ rhetoric. In seeking to investigate the dominant constructions of mature travellers circulating in British insurance advertising communication, the paper aims to analyze the linguistic and discourse strategies adopted in the insurance firm Avanti campaigns by employing Discourse Analysis as its main approach in a longitudinal
perspective. To place the multimodal advertising samples presented throughout this article in their context, an overview of financial services advertising is also provided. After building a case for the uniqueness of financial advertising, a comprehensive literature review of the studies
related to the representation of older people in this specific sector will be given. The methodology adopted as well as the selection of data will also be described. The findings, then, will be discussed in the light of the relevant literature. Finally, conclusions will be presented along with guidelines for possible future research. Overall, the contribution offers
a linguistic lens for understanding ageing in the context of British consumerism and may be a useful reading for students and scholars of financial services marketing, policy makers and practitioners.
Keywords: ageing studies, longitudinal discourse analysis,
financial services advertising, tourism studies.
Università degli Studi di Milano
Although the phenomenon of senior tourism is relatively recent, it has become increasingly more widespread over the last few years. Elderly people in good health are not necessarily bound to lead a sedentary life as they are interested in exploring new destinations and meeting new people. Aside from the more official routes, other alternative
ways of being a traveller have recently emerged. One of them is the platform Couchsurfing.com, a social networking service that connects travellers and locals across the world. Albeit targeted at a younger audience, a community of elderly people is detectable. The goal of the present paper is that of profiling the average senior couchsurfer, unravelling the reasons why mature members choose to subscribe to this social network, and investigating the image they wish to convey when creating their accounts. The methods employed to extract and process information are based on NLP and text mining.
Keywords: senior tourism, Couchsurfing, NLP, data-driven
discourse analysis, word-frequency analysis.
University of Bergamo
World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision published by the UN (2017) shows that the population aged over 60 is expected to double by 2050 and triple by 2100. Besides, the older population is growing faster than the younger population. Ageing is clearly becoming one of the most relevant social changes of our century with implications for
the social, labour and financial markets in relation to public
systems for healthcare, pensions and social protection for a growing older population. Although it has been demonstrated that, from a medical perspective, all over the world many people over 60 people
enjoy good health and lead active lives, ageing is associated
with mental decline and physical impairment (Kalache 1999), and identified as a life phase treated as undesirable and unpleasant. In other words, as claimed by Zeman and Geiger Zeman (2015), getting old is perceived as a process filled with taboos, fears, prejudices and stereotypes. The discourse of ageism as portrayed in popular entertainment seems to support and perpetrate these fears, prejudices and stereotypes (Gatling 2013). Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and with a corpus linguistics approach, this study will investigate whether ageist discourse thus represented in the movie industry has changed over time. As claimed by van Dijk (2013), CDA
investigation helps to uncover the implicit ideology in a text, with particular regard to the complexities of discourse production and comprehension. After investigating the issue of ageism in the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Open American National Corpus (ANC), we will compare the results thus found with those emerging from a linguistic (and multimodal) analysis of two movie scripts, Going in style (1979 and its 2017 remake), to see the extent to which,
if any, perceptions of ageing issues have been modified in the period between the 1979 and 2017 films. More specifically, in the first step of the analysis, we will focus on the detection of keywords (Scott 2012) in each script of the two movies, generated one against the other, to find
any differences over time. Secondly, these will be analysed in comparison with the BNC and the ANC: the concordance lists these keywords collocate with in the scripts and in the two corpora will be useful to see the differences, if any, in ageist discourse in both movies and in real world. In this way, it will be possible to detect where stereotypical and biased discourse lies. Finally, the scripts of the two movies will be run in USAS, the tag suite of WMatrix (Rayson
2008), in order to detect possible semantic domains used in
relation to ageism. The results seem to indicate a difference in the use of terms related to ageist issues when comparing the two keyword
scripts with the BNC and the ANC. Furthermore, both the USAS investigation and the socio-semiotic study seem to underline the fact that the language used in these movies reinforces existing ageist stereotypes in real world.
Keywords: ageism, discourse of discrimination, CDA, corpus
linguistics, keywords, semantic fields
University of Palermo
This study builds on previous research on ageing representation in relation to common assumptions and stereotypes (Schneider & Ingram 1993; Holladay & Coombs 2004, Kaid & Garner 2004), in order to provide an overview of the ways in which older adults have been
addressed and exploited in US political (i.e. electoral) campaigns. Considering campaign ads as multimodal texts, Kress & van Leeuwen’s social semiotic approach (2001) is used to examine how multimodal elements convey seniors’ images. In addition, this analysis draws on legitimation theory (van Leeuwen 2008) to analyse which legitimation tactic is employed to convey meanings through the voice of
elderly people. In this paper, a different perspective on the widespread
representation of older people in popular culture is offered and the implications related to how their new social image is addressed in media products are considered. By understanding how common assumptions and stereotypes about seniors are challenged in political campaigns, political actors and communicators would be in a better
position to tailor their message and eventually their intervention programmes as well as predict the response of the public.
Keywords: seniors, legitimation, political communication,
multimodal analysis, social constructions
University of Brescia
The elderly patient and his/her relatives have to deal with Informed Consent (IC) increasingly, as this is a mandatory legal requirement. When dealing with the elderly patient, the doctor must have some specialized knowledge together with a particularly strong psychological background, a holistic vision of illness along with a deep understanding
of the varied expressions of human discomfort and full consciousness of the criticality of information transmission for decision making.
Our study investigates the history of practices and strategies of knowledge transfer to non-specialized audiences in the field of health communication, looking at the implications of IC. The paper is aimed at assessing the effects of information delivery as a form of support
to the IC paper document: the level of the subjects’ understanding, satisfaction, willingness to participate, anxiety or any form of psychological distress is considered. We will sustain the argument that the third millennium practitioner is asked to support the elderly patient facing the IC issue: as a result, far from being a mere informant
and a scientist, he/she must be also a good communicator and an expert both in medical and ethical issues, as many cases of patient-doctor interactions in managing elderly patients demonstrates.
Keywords: Informed Consent, Informed Consent history,
health literacy, health communication, elderly patient
With reference to a specific, ongoing doctoral research project on the lived experience of vulnerability among older deafblind people (DBV), this paper aims to present and discuss some of the unique challenges, as well as opportunities, that investigators are likely to encounter when conducting research with older deafblind people, as well as other minority groups. These challenges and opportunities pertain to three
separate, yet interconnected, areas: the methodological, the ethical, and the linguistic. The article is in essence a reflective account; it also aims to offer practical advice – as well as points for reflection – to those who are conducting, or plan
to conduct, research involving similar cohorts. It concludes that preparedness and self-awareness are essential if we are to faithfully capture and faithfully transmit the voices of groups which are often unseen and unheard. Greater awareness of the communicative needs of deafblind people, especially in the area of pragmatics, will allow researchers to capture their lived experiences more faithfully.
Keywords: deafblindness, qualitative research, older people,
communication
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria