Department of Cultures, Politics and Society

Selected research products

Monografie

1. BORZA,, N., DEMATA, M., FILARDO-LLAMAS, L., GUSTAFSSON, A. W., KOLLER, V., KOPF, S., MIGLBAUER, M., REGGI, V., SARIC, L., SEILER BRYLLA, C., STOPFNER, M. (2023) Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  
2. DEMATA, M. (2022) Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical Analysis. London-New York: Routledge. ISBN: 9781032263687.
3. DEMATA, M. (2008) Representations of War and Terrorism. The Ideology and Language of George W. Bush, Modugno (BA): Edizioni Dal Sud. ISBN: 88-7553-049-1.

 

Curatele

1. MACI, S., DEMATA, M., McGLASHAN, M., SEARGEANT, P. (a cura di) (2023-in corso di stampa) The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation. London: Routledge.
2. DEMATA, M., ZORZI, V., ZOTTOLA, A. (a cura di) (2022) Conspiracy Theory Discourses. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 
3. DEMATA, M., WU, D. (a cura di) (2002) British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review. Bicentenary Essays, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 0-333-96349-0.

 

Numeri speciali di riviste

1. DEMATA, M., KNOBLOCK, N., ZUMMO, M. (a cura di) (2022) ““The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech”, numero monografico di Lingue e Linguaggi. Vol. 47, ISSN 2239-0367, e-ISSN 2239-0359.
2. DEMATA, M., MARIANO, M. (a cura di) (2020) “Euro-American Relations in the Age of Globalization”, numero monografico di De Europa.
3. DEMATA, M., LORENZETTI, M. I. (a cura di) (2020) “Populism and Its Languages", sezione speciale, Spring/Summer 2020, Iperstoria, vol, 15. ISSN: 2281-4582.
4. DEMATA M., SARIC, L., VEZOVNIK, A. (a cura di) (2018) “Discursive constructions of migrants: verbal and visual images of the “other””, numero monografico di I-LanD Journal, vol. 1/2018. ISSN: 2532-6368.
5. DEMATA M., HEANEY D. , HERRING S. (a cura di) (2018) “Language and Discourse in Social Media: New Challenges, New Approaches”, numero monografico di Altre Modernità. ISSN: 2035-7680.
6. DEMATA M., HUGHES W. (a cura di) (2006) “Italy and the Gothic”, numero monografico di Gothic Studies, vol. 8/1, Manchester, Manchester University Press.  ISSN: 1362-7937.

 

Capitoli in volume

1. DEMATA, M. (2023 - in corso di stampa) “The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation. The case of climate lockdowns.” In Cornelia Ilie (a cura di) Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-manipulation in Times of Crisis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2. DEMATA, M. (2023) “Scottish, British or European? The Brexit referendum and the negotiation of national identity by SNP supporters on Twitter”, in Borza, Demata et al., Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
3. DEMATA, M., ZUMMO, M. L. (2020) ““The war is over”. Militarizing the language and framing the Nation in post-Brexit discourse”, in G. Balirano, B. Hughes (a cura di) Homing in on Hate. Critical Discourse Studies of Hate Speech, Discrimination  and Inequality in the Digital Age. Napoli: Liguori Editore. pp. 169-186. ISBN 9788832193596.
4. DEMATA M. (2020) “Populism and nationalism in Jeremy Corbyn’s discourse.” In M. Kranert (a cura di) Discursive Approaches to Populism across Disciplines. The Return of Populists and the People. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 253-283. ISBN: 978-3-030-55038-7
5. DEMATA M. (2019) “Political Communication and Multimodality: the Facebook pages of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump”, in A. Cancellier, A. Barchiesi, M. Anquetil e A. Francesconi (a cura di) I linguaggi della comunicazione politica: tra globalizzazione e frontiere linguistiche, CLEUP, pp. 25-46. ISBN: 9788854950863.
6. DEMATA M. (2019) ““A great and beautiful wall”. Donald Trump’s populist discourse on immigration”, in A. Musolff (a cura di), Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration, Benjamins Current Topics 102, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 101-121. ISBN: 978-90-272-6239-4. DOI: 10.1075/bct.102.06dem.  Ristampa dell’articolo precedentemente pubblicato su Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict su ”Public Debates on Immigration”, a cura di Andreas Musolff, vol. 5:2, pp. 277-97. ISSN: 2213–1272. e-ISSN: 2213–1280.
7. DEMATA M. (2019) ““The State of our union is strong”. Metaphors of the nation in the State of the Union address.” In L. Saric e M. Stanojevic (a cura di) Metaphors, Nations and Discourse, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 201-223.  ISBN: 9789027202499.
8. DEMATA M. (2019) “The referendum delivered a clear message”. Jeremy Corbyn’s populist discourse”, in V. Koller, S. Kopf e M. Miglbauer (a cura di), Discourses of Brexit, Londra: Routledge, pp. 123-139. ISBN: 978-1-138-48554-9.
9. DEMATA M. (2015) “Portrait of a Nation and its Borders: British political parties and representation of territory in the 2014 European elections”, in C. Consiglio (a cura di) Ritratti, Lecce: Pensa Multimedia, pp. 113-126. ISBN: 978-88-6760-243-8.
10. DEMATA M. (2014) “English interferences in Italian journalism: the use of anglicisms in Il Fatto Quotidiano”, in D. Torretta (a cura di) Contacts. Studies in Intralinguistic, Interlinguistic and Intersemiotic Relationships, Bari, Edizioni dal Sud, pp. 137-157. ISBN: 978-88-7553-200
11. DEMATA M. (2013) “Translation and Revolution: The Case of Guglielmo Pepe's Relazione delle circostanze relative agli avvenimenti politici e militari in Napoli, nel 1820 e nel 1821”, in F. Dellarosa, A. Sportelli (a cura di), British Risorgimento, vol. II- Temperie politica e rappresentazioni simboliche, Napoli, Liguori, pp. 153-165.  ISBN: 9788820763213.
12. DEMATA M. (2009) “The Prince in England, or the English Prince? Negotiating Ideology in the Seventeenth-Century Translations of Machiavelli's The Prince”, in D. Torretta, M. Dossena, A. Sportelli (a cura di)  Forms of Migration/Migration of Forms, Bari, Progedit, pp. 338-351.  ISBN: 978-88-6194-057-4.  
13. DEMATA M. (2008) “Francis Jeffrey, the Edinburgh Review and National Theatre”, in L. M. Crisafulli e C. Pietropoli (a cura di) The Languages of Performance in British Romanticism, Berna, Peter Lang, pp. 71-81.  ISBN: 978-3-03911-097-1.
14. DEMATA M. (2004) “Byron, Turkey and the Orient”, in R. Cardwell, The Reception of Byron in Europe. Volume II: Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 2, pp. 439-452, Londra: Thoemmes, pp. 439-452.  ISBN: 0-8264-6844-6.
15. DEMATA M. (2003) “Discovering Eastern Horrors: Beckford, Maturin and the Discourse of Travel Literature”, in: A. Smith e W. Hughes (a cura di), Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 13-34.  ISBN: 0-333-98405-6.
16. DEMATA M. (2003) “L'identità nazionale in The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker di Tobias Smollett”, in E.  Siciliani (a cura di). Esperimenti di verità, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 59-75.  ISBN: 88-8232-235-1.
17. DEMATA M. (2003) “Helen Maria Williams”, in L. Crisafulli (a cura di) Antologia delle poetesse romantiche inglesi, Roma, Carocci, pp. 447-453.  ISBN: 97888443023806.
18. DEMATA M. (2003) “Joanna Baillie”, in L. Crisafulli (a cura di) Antologia delle poetesse romantiche inglesi, Roma, Carocci, pp. 411-417. ISBN: 97888443023806
19. DEMATA M. (2002) Il Linguaggio di Tony Blair e del New Labour. Saggio pubblicato separatamente. Bari: Edizioni dal Sud.
20. DEMATA M. (2002) John Dryden traduttore. Interpretazione e originalità. Saggio pubblicato per la serie Quaderni di Mandala, Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia, ISBN: 978-88-8232-no1.
21. DEMATA M. (2002) “Prejudiced Knowledge: Travel Literature in the Edinburgh Review”, in M. Demata, D. Wu (a cura di), British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review. Bicentenary Essays, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 82-101. ISBN: 0-333-96349-0.
22. DEMATA, M. e WU, D. (2002) “Introduction”, in M. Demata, D. Wu (a cura di), British Romanticism and the Edinburgh Review. Bicentenary Essays, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-12. ISBN: 0-333-96349-0.

Articoli in riviste di Fascia A ANVUR

1. ANTOSA. S., DEMATA, M. (2021) “Get Covid Done: Discourses on the National Health Service (NHS) during Brexit and the Coronavirus Pandemic”, Textus vol. 34/2, 47-65.doi: 10.7370/101900
2. DEMATA, M. (2021) “Keeping the Threat Out. Trump’s Discourse, the Wall and the “Other””, Altre Modernità 27, 270-86. Special issue su Wall/walls Shapes and representations of the wall in languages, literatures and visual arts, a cura di Alessandra Goggio, Peggy Katelhön e Moira Paleari. doi: 10.13130/2035-7680/15601
3. DEMATA, M., CONOSCENTI, M., STAVRAKAKIS, Y. (2020) “Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian.” Iperstoria. Testi letterature linguaggi, 15, pp. 8-35. ISSN: 2281-4582.doi: 10.13136/2281-4582/2020.i15.686
4. DEMATA M. (2018) “Manipulation and partiality in Italian translations of foreign news about Italy: three case studies.” ESP Across Cultures, vol. 15, pp.27-39. ISSN: 1972-8247. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4475/900.
5. DEMATA M., HEANEY, D. HERRING, S.  (2018) “Language and Discourse in Social Media: New Challenges, New Approaches.” In M. Demata, D. Heaney, S. Herring (a cura di) “Language and Discourse in Social Media: New Challenges, New Approaches”, numero monografico di Altre Modernità, pp. I-X. ISSN: 2035-7680.
6. DEMATA M. (2018) ““I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter”. Donald Trump’s Populist Style on Twitter”, in numero monografico su “Aspects of political language in the age of "post-democracy" and beyond,” a cura di Emilia Di Martino e Luke Blaxill, Textus, vol. 31/1, pp. 67-90. ISSN: 1824-3967.
7. DEMATA, M. (2017)  “Representations of climate change refugees in the Guardian and in the New York Times”, in numero monografico su “The Representation of “Exceptional Migrants” in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration”, a cura di Katherine Russo e Ruth Wodak, Anglistica AION, vol. 21:2, pp. 23-35. ISSN: 2035-8504. doi: 10.19231/angl-aion.201722. 
8. DEMATA M. (2016) “Ideological and language polarization in online political discourse: the White House Facebook page”, Lingue e Linguaggi, vol. 17, pp. 83-100. ISSN 2239-0367, e-ISSN 2239-035.  http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/15461
9. DEMATA M. (2006) “Introduction: Italy and the Gothic”, Gothic Studies, vol. 8/1, pp. 1-8. ISSN: 1362-7937. 
10. DEMATA M. (2001) “The Drama of Publishing: A 'Lost' Epilogue to Maturin's Bertram?”, Gothic Studies, vol. 3, 170-180.  ISSN: 1362-7937. 
11. DEMATA M. (1999) “A Bibliography of Byron's Oriental Readings: Addenda and Corrections”, Notes and Queries, vol. 244, pp. 39-41.  ISSN: 0029-3970.
12. DEMATA M. (1997) “L'orrore di Melmoth the Wanderer tra realtà e pazzia”, La Questione Romantica, vol. 3/4, pp. 25-34. ISSN: 1125-0364.

Articoli in Riviste Scientifiche

1. DEMATA M. (2017) ““A great and beautiful wall”. Donald Trump’s populist discourse on immigration”, in numero monografico su ”Public Debates on Immigration”, a cura di Andreas Musolff, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, vol. 5:2, pp. 277-97. ISSN: 2213–1272. e-ISSN: 2213–1280.
2. DEMATA M. (2017) “The Language of Fear: Cybercrime and “the borderless realms of cyberspace” in British news”, I-Land Journal, vol. 1, pp. 126-44. ISSN: 2532-6368. DOI: 10.26379/1008.
3. DEMATA M. (2002) “Between the Stage and the Book: John Murray and the Publication of Drama”, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 96, pp. 257-278. ISSN: 0006-128X.
4. DEMATA M. (2001) “From Caledonia to Albania: Byron, Galt, and the Progress of the Eastern Savage”, Scottish Studies Review, vol. 2, pp. 61-76.  ISSN: 1475-7737.

 

Articoli in altre riviste

1. DEMATA, M. (2020) “Environmental Hazards and Migrations: a rejoinder and a plea for discourse  awareness.” JAm It! Journal of American Studies in Italy, no. 3 (maggio 2020), pp. 142-146. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/article/view/4497. ISSN: 2612-5641.
2. DEMATA M. (1998) ““A drama without the fiction”. Il carnevale di Byron come festa (s)mascherata”, Dismisura, vol. 118-119, pp. 40-43.  ISSN: 0393-571X.

Recensioni in rivista

1. “Mark Parker, Literary Magazines and English Romanticism”, in Romanticism,  vol. 10 (2004), 126-129. ISSN: 1354-991X
2. “Arthur R. Cash (ed.) 'An Essay on Woman' by John Wilkes and Thomas Potter”, Notes and Queries, vol. 248 (2003), 241-242. ISSN: 0029-3970
3. “Brendan Dooley and Sabrina Baron (a cura di) The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe”, Notes and Queries, vol. 247(2002), 426-427. ISSN: 0029-3970
4. “E. J. Clery and Robert Miles (a cura di), Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820, Notes and Queries, vol. 246 (2001), 343-344. ISSN: 0029-3970
5. “Mary vs. Mary. Bicentenaries of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Itinerant International Conference. Bologna and Parma, 24-26 November 1997”, BARS Bulletin and Review, vol. 15 (1999), p. 6-7, ISSN: 0964-2447
6. “Paula M. Feldman (ed.), British Women Poets of the Romantic Era; Duncan Wu (ed.), Romantic Women Poets. An Anthology”, La Questione Romantica,  vol. 5 (1998), 243-245. ISSN: 1125-0364

 

Voci (in dizionario o enciclopedia)

1. “John Galt”, in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, vol. 1, p. 396-398, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.  ISBN: 1-57958-423-3
2. “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1830. vol. 1, p. 178-179, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.  ISBN: 1-57958-423-3
3. “Sheridan, Richard Brinsley”, in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760-1850. vol. 2, p. 1047-1048, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. ISBN: 1-57958-423-3
4. “Cleland, John”, in Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1690-1815, 2004. 
5. “Colman the Elder, George”, in Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1690-1815, 2004. 
6. “Holcroft, Thomas”, in Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1690-1815. 2004. 
7. “Steele, Richard”, in Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1690-1815. 2004. 
8.  “Young, Edward”, in Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1690-1815. 2004. 
9. “Howard, Thomas”, in Literature of Travel and Exploration. An Encyclopedia. vol. 2, 569-570, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.  ISBN: 1-57958-424-1
10. “Murray Handbooks”, in Literature of Travel and Exploration. An Encyclopedia. vol. 2, 830-831, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.  ISBN: 1-57958-424-1
11. “Society of Dilettanti”, in Literature of Travel and Exploration. An Encyclopedia. vol. 3, 1101-1103, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. ISBN: 1-57958-440-3
12. “Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley” in Encyclopedia of Life Writing, vol. 2,  610-612, London, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.  ISBN: 1-57958-232-X

Courses

• DISCOURSE STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH F-O (SCP0377)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
• LINGUA INGLESE (F-O) (SCP0135)
  Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

Research topics

• Discourse Analysis/Critical Discourse Analysis
• Political and news discourse
• Discourse and populism
• Discourses of Borders and Border Walls
• Conspiracy theories
• Computer-mediated communication
• Multimodality 
  
  

GRUPPI DI RICERCA

Rappresentante dell'Unità di Ricerca di Ateneo nel Consiglio Scientifico per il Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Dis-4Change-Studi sul Discorso Climatico e Ambientale (Dis-4Change: Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse).

Principal Investigator for the Grant for Internationalization "Experiments in Democracy. Refugee policy and innovation in democratic praxis and discourse" (2022-23). 

Membro del CIRM (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulle Metafore) (https://cirm.unige.it/)

Membro del Comitato Scientifico di “TO-Europe. Centro studi sull’Europa (TO-EU)”, presso il Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società, Università di Torino.

Affiliato al Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, Indiana University

INCARICHI DI RICERCA PRESSO UNIVERSITA' E CENTRI DI RICERCA ESTERI

Research Fellow, Collegium de Lyon (February-June 2023)
Visiting Professor/Lecturer, Sciences Po Bordeaux (January 2023)
Visiting Professor, Lady Davis Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (November 2022-January 2023) 
Visiting Professor,/Lecturer, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), OTH Regensburg (April-June 2022) 
Visiting Professor/Lecturer, Sciences Po Lyon (September-October 2021)
Visiting Professor, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), Universität des Saarlandes (July-September 2020)
Fulbright Visiting Professor, Indiana University (January-June 2014)

Activities in agenda

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Academic bodies

• Commissione Ricerca
• Consiglio di Dipartimento

Academic positions pro-tempore

Delegato del Direttore all'lnternazionalizzazione

Office hours

Riceverò student* e laureand* nel mio ufficio ogni lunedì alle ore 12:00, previo appuntamento tramite email (massimiliano.demata@unito.it).
Per chi è impossibilitat* a recarsi al campus, il ricevimento si svolgerà online tramite piattaforma WebEx previo appuntamento.