Publications

The article aims at updating the vague status of the ‘ndrangheta in Flanders (Belgium), at crossroads between Italy and the Netherlands, by means of a critical reading of recent open sources in Italian and Dutch. We analyze Flemish media representations of the 'ndrangheta (2016-2020), describing how De Standaard, Flanders’ reference newspaper gradually evolved from a focus on an Italian-Calabrian criminal phenomenon towards a more global ...

The commemoration of victims of violenceStreet art, activists and their messages of positivityThe present article analyses how street art and activism intertwine in public spaces addressing wider audiences with messages of growing positivity. Via the comparative analysis of two cases revolving around the ‘no mafia’ sign on the outskirts of Palermo (Capaci) and the mural dedicated to Carlo Giuliani at the entrance of the Garbatella area within ...

This contribution describes the digital streaming interview about brass music at the interface between trumpet playing and multiple intersubjective relations. The cognitive linguistic notion of intersubjective construal is brought to a multimodal level, in line with the visual and acoustic affordances imposed by the digital interview, such as gaze directions and camera angles proper to the digital recording setting. Other constraints have to do ...

This paper examines the multimodal representation of civil resistance against Italian mafia (Cosa Nostra and ‘Ndrangheta) in two English video reportages. More specifically, the analysis describes interlocutive relations between social actors displayed not only in the criminal, but also in the civil and media spheres, and allows for a multimodal description of cohesion on the macro level in these media formats. The theoretical focus is on the ...

In this special issue, the guest editors bring together a selection of papers, which offer new insight into academic research on the representation of organised crime in different media outlets. This volume touches upon different criminal organisations and activities, taking into account genres and media where criminal actors and their public antagonists are discursively displayed. The guest editors’ original idea was to take explicitly into ...

This paper analyzes how an instructor in a trumpet master class exploits multimodal viewpoints while addressing sound in verbal and/or visuospatial terms in order to conceptualize the interpretation of a piece of music. We show how musical meaning emerges as both an abstract and locally situated, embodied discursive activity, in which speech is connected with metaphorical hand gestures and the material world. Multimodality of musical meaning ...