Discourse Processes between Reason and Emotion

Patrizia Anesa is a researcher in English Language and Translation at the University of Bergamo, Italy. She holds a PhD in English Studies, with a specialization in professional communication. Her research interests lie mostly in the area of specialised discourse, and in particular in the investigation of knowledge asymmetries in expert-lay communication. Aurora Fragonara is an adjunct lecturer in French Language and Linguistics at the University of Bergamo and the University of Milan, Italy. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the research centre CREM at the University of Lorraine, France. Her main research interests are French discourse analysis and enunciation theory, which she combines with cognitive linguistics, pragmatics and semiotics.

Chapter 1: Post-Disciplinary Approaches to Discourse Analysis.- Chapter 2: Defamatory Communication via Cognitive Space Dimensions Analysis: Pragma-Semantic Approach.- Chapter 3: Exploiting Irrational Evaluations: The Discursive Features of Scams across Genres.- Chapter 4: The Rhetoric of Resistance: Women Regaining Power through Language.- Chapter 5: The Discursive Representation of Violence in the Context of the Migration Crisis in Europe: A CDA Case Study on the Discursive Support of Non-Violence in the Media Reporting on the Chemnitz Events.- Chapter 6: Gender-Based Violence in Italian Local Newspapers: How Argument Structure Constructions Can Diminish a Perpetrator's Responsibility.- Chapter 7: The Ethos of the Spokesperson: A Populist Attempt to Exploit Empathic Connections.- Chapter 8: Of Emotion Terms and E-Implicatures: An Exploratory Study of the Explicit and Implicit Emotional Dimensions in A Corpus of Language Teachers' Newsletters.